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Manages a globally diverse team which includes full-time employees and off-shore contractors supporting long term high profile projects as well as monthly releases across multiple laboratory platforms.Responsibilities include monthly and long term project management, planning, resource allocation, test plan creation, work order analysis, functional test design,creation, execution and review, regression test scenario selection, testing results review, test summary approval and signoff on multiple laboratory systems for monthly releases and long term projects.Use of HP Quality Center testing and management tools for tracking status and quality of releases.Tracking enhancement and defect items in Remedy, Serena Business Mashups and Bugzilla.Weekly tracking and reporting of project status to upper management.Supervisory responsibilities as it relates to time management and yearly reviews.

Designed and developed COBOL programs on the Sperry 2200 Unisys mainframe in support of the specimen management processing on the laboratory system.Designed and created laboratory reports utilizing the DOC1 4.0 PDF generation tool.Provided 24x7 DOC1 production support of the laboratory result delivery application which existed in a UNIX environment.Developed and coded a COBOL/IBM/DB2 program on the IBM OS390 system to extract data for long term storage into MOBIUS for use with Document Direct.

Designed, developed training and implemented the requirements definition process within a collaborated international effort for the IBM Global Services organization which obtained SEI LEVEL III certification as a result of these efforts.Developed, designed, validated, coordinated integration testing, documented and implementated the Global Material Logistics system for Lucent Technologies as a contractor for IBM Global Services. Th system spanned across several platforms including Powerbuilder on a Windows based PC, C+, SQL Server on a Unix Server, and IBM DB2 Cobol on an IBM Mainframe.Wrote SQL scripts for automation within the testing environment.Designed and programmed IBM DB2 Cobol programs.Supervised onsite and offsite development resources in a globally diverse environment and provided daily status updates to national offsite upper management.

Senior Programmer Analyst on the IBM OS390 Mainframe responsible for maintaining third party accounts payable software package updates.-Designed and implemented the quality control database supporting the storage of QC data and analysis for the lab director.-Gathered the business requirements, designed, wrote, and provided integration testing for the COBOL/DB2 statistical reporting programs on the Quality Control Database.-Business analyst for the billing system writing and executing database queries to extract data for billing analysis.-Provided 24/7 production support acting as the DBA for the Specimen Archive DB2 database complex and supported the IBM BMC utilities, daily updates, and weekly re-org.

Direct supervision of six full-time programmer analysts as well as project management.-Attended weekly and monthly project status meetings for the purpose of reporting project status to upper management and served as the single point of contact for project scheduling and changes.-Assigned projects to developers and monitored progress to enforce projected deadlines.-Mitigated risks and assisted the developers with design and programming solutions to meet the business needs within the required time frame.-Successfully led multiple IT Lab Conversion teams related to new company acquisitions which involved several months of travel, IT business/computer/data analysis, 24/7 on site weekend implementations, on the spot programming solutions, and ad hoc testing and implementations.

Collaborated with cross-functional IT and lab management team in complete rewrite of the Roche Biomedical Laboratory medical reporting system.-Requirements analysis, design, coding, and alpha testing for COBOL modules on Unisys Mainframe.-Completed Unit, Functional, Integration, Stress, UAT, and End-to-End testing for all modules.-Created user documentation and provided on-site training.-Provided 24x7 post production deployment support.