Omar Harding, M.Sci. Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, New York

New York

• Successfully implementing and maintaining the 1099R, 1099M and W2s annual processes for over 140k members across multiple clients while closely collaborating with development staff on project plans towards fulfilling project needs.• Monitoring and managing arising production issues with the development team to enable analyses and documentation of solutions to emerging issues in a responsive manner, ensuring clear communication of functional specifications • Responsible for training senior management on developed products and solutions in addition to developing instructional training materials for end-users• Ensuring on-site application deployment success, testing script development and testing script execution in addition to composing and executing queries using PL / SQL and reports in MS Excel to provide clients with data when required• Liaise between development staff and the user community during development, testing and implementation stages and for modifications post go-live, ensuring on-demand on-site and remote support throughout• Supporting client application users both on-site and remotely through the provision of training, troubleshooting and problem-resolution milestones in meeting client requirements• Coordinating, deploying and testing of client application releases in addition to analyses and documentation of organizational pension, disbursements, eligibility and imaging requirements • Mapping requirements to IT solutions – GAP analysis• Facilitate development teams with implementation and configuration strategies

Bridgewater Nj

• Closely collaborated with the domain manager and the benefits service manager on clarifying requirements in addition to overseeing successful execution on assigned deployment activities• Provided service specific expertise for data, foundation and systems analysis towards creating comprehensive analysis specifications and incorporating recommended updates to analysis based on review findings• Performed cloning activities based on analysis specifications and build strategy in addition to designing test plans related to unit, integration, regression and acceptance; incorporating recommended updates based on review• Signing off analysis and test plans to programmers in North America and the technology delivery center for configuration and testing work• Mentoring and coaching North American and technology center programmers on configuration and testing work and defects, providing corrective feedback where required• Reviewing analysis and test plan documentation updates by programmers; evaluating the results of their test execution• Coordinating and monitoring the work of aligned programmers as well as communicating the team schedule and status to the benefits implementation manager for ongoing teams and the lead systems analyst for implementation teams• Supporting the production environment (defects and trends) while executing workflow and defect management including clean-up procedures for operations; developing and maintaining standard operating procedures for operations• Overseeing seamless transition to production by completing all technical documentation updates, production simulations and verifications on all new work, ensuring stability, LSA support and total one-time handoff to operations

Bridgewater Nj

• Setting up the technology platform for the client team’s administration system, ensuring thorough commenting of all coding with specific reference to complex mathematical formulas written by actuaries for pension plans• Developing and implementing detailed test plans for testing GUI and web development related to unit, integration, regression and acceptance; verifying that all test plan results match all expected results• Troubleshooting, debugging and resolving any expected results while comprehensively documenting all issues and resolutions and replicating and resolving errors occurring in production• Writing SQL queries in responding to client requests for mainframe database data retrieval as well as managing and solving production problems, maintaining the project database and monitoring data efficiency and integrity.

Master'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 3.7

Ba, Computer Science