Jevon Wright Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

★ In my current role, I am providing strategic direction and technology oversight to optimize software solutions and improved the performance of the existing application significantly. ★ Resolving major software design issues, by analyzing requirements and removing bulks of unnecessary code. ★ Presenting recommendations to clients, resulting in the implementation of the new design, followed by improved performance.★ Carrying out design, development, testing, and support software for mainframe applications using COBOL, DB2, CICS, and JCL.★ Facilitating updates in daily Agile Scrums and Kanban Board, ensuring to meet the Software Development Life Cycle guidelines.★ Ensuring technical solutions are designed for performance, reliability, scalability, maintainability, supportability, business continuity, and business agility while leveraging the industry’s best practices.★ Analyzing and developing technical specifications using business user stories; coding and documenting quality code using best practices, such as unit test and Integration, and troubleshooting production issues across the application.★ Ensuring test cases achieve expected results by partnering with QA in Regression, and QA Testing.★ Analyzing COBOL programs, creating business requirement documents, and developing “AS IS” process flow documents.★ Preparing and producing quarterly releases of software components using Waterfall as well as facilitating effective support on Agile Software development practices.

★ During this tenure, I created the business, technical, and detailed functional requirement documents; built design flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio, and efficiently designed User Interface modules for clients.★ Prepared technical requirements by performing reverse engineering on existing projects and drove effective client engagements to analyze Business and System processing requirements.★ Accomplished periodic System Development Life Cycle changes by updating documents, when necessary.★ Developed integration and system test use cases, facilitated meetings with clients to gather information for business requirements and developed as well as maintained an Action Item list to track project concerns and questions.★ Prepared preliminary timeline in conjunction with developers and consistently achieved team performance by mentoring Junior Business Analyst in understanding SDLC.★ Took ownership of the development deliverables, divided the deliverables into multiple tasks, and assigned them to team members; provided technical support for the development team and carried out regular code reviews.

★ As Technical Documentation Specialist, I developed and executed tracking plans for project management; tracked project progress by creating excel spreadsheets.★ Gathered information by researching construction turnover packages and performed data entry updates into Maximo database software.

★ Established PMO principles and developed Technical Specification Templates. Carried out maintenance on COBOL, CICS, and C++ programs for the Patient Accounting subsystem.★ Developed documentation for existing COB, CICS, and C++ programs and used SQL queries to create user-requested reports.★ Managed refactoring of the existing code to optimize code and improve the quality of the product and add new functionality to the product as per requirements.★ Efficiently managed entire day-to-day activities covering wide functional areas including designing and developing the workflow program, debugging, and troubleshooting the application.★ Managed guidance on the projects and their requirements to the clients over the technology, processes, and applications while updating them on the regular project-related developments.★ Performed weekly on-call duties, monitored system during software upgrades, and achieved smoothly running of the system by investigating operational problems.

★ Initially, as a Senior Program Analyst, I worked directly with end-user to maintain and enhance the disbursement/Financial reporting subsystem.★ Prepared functional, technical, and programmer specifications for a variety of claims processing subsystems.★ Developed system flow charts of the entire system and provided seamless support in Disaster and Recovery Exercises to achieve smooth flow of operations in compliance with SLAs.★ Documented daily, weekly, and monthly processing procedures, modified JCL procs and control members and carried out maintenance on COBOL, CICS, and DB2 programs.★ Tested changes and resolve operational problems; created Easytrieves to verify modifications were correct and made effective use of XPEDITER to debug operational problems.