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Scarsdale, Ny, Us

Scarsdale, Ny, Us

Reinsurance and data analyst expert at Sompo International.

Worked as Senior Consultant at major Insurance and Banks in the New York Area.

Responsible for the IT support of the company’s Reinsurance program. Managing and coordinating parties among the user community, IT staff and vendor personnel. Developed the interface between the enterprise database and the reinsurance system.Conducted weekly status calls and group meetings and provided status reports to upper management and detailed instructions for IT implementation; Document software issues for the vendors and assigning tasks for the support team. Prioritized tasks and assigned scheduled for implementation. Ensured the validity and quality of any solutions by IT staff.Managed the daily process of information and making sure all data is processed correctly. Gave directive to the production support staff and also the QA Teams and Audit Team. Developed reports to be used to validate data loaded. The reports were written using COGNOS. Developed the initial and daily load in the reinsurance application using SQL Server. The load was implemented in Informatica.Responsible for the company's Web Portal, including interfacing with the business support group and managing any new releases and updates as well as making sure the application is up-to-date on a daily basis. The system was written as a .NET application on top of SQL server. The underlying database design as a STAR schema and was using COGNOS for any reports. Managed various production and test environments. Coordinated any development work and acted as intermediary between user group and IT staff.Wrote the inbound and outbound interfaces between the enterprise data mart and the data mart of the web application. Wrote the security modules and major part of the UI. The UI was developed in Visual Studio.NET and C#. The reports were developed in COGNOS.

As a IT Consultant for the Bank's IT Support Team, was responsible for implementing Retail Banking CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application “Decision Engine” and “Bridge to Sales”. Technologies used included Oracle, DB2, UDB, MS-Access, MS-Excel, Visual Basic, Perl and COBOL.

Responsible for maintaining a Real-time Package Tracking System. Technologies used included C, C++, Microsoft Foundation Classes and Microsoft Installer.

Responsible for assessing potential clients systems and develop supporting material for proposals for code management. This involved managing teams both on-site and off-site as well as customer relations.

As a Tools Expert wrote instructions and tools to be used for code analysis. Technologies used included Perl, MS-Access & Visual Basic.

Developed the “Discovery document” detailing a description of legacy code, including Metrics Analysis, Function Point Analysis, Complexity Analysis, Performance Analysis, Redundant Code Analysis, etc. This document was used to estimate the cost of maintaining the code at the outsourcing facilityDesigned and developed a proprietary tool to analyze data and transform them into Relational Tables. Skills used involved logical data model design and data Normalization techniques. Tools employed included C, Prolog, and Visual Basic.

Automated the conversion of several systems from older to newer technology. Skills used in automating the task involved CLIST, REXX and Edit Macros.

Maintained an on line Cash Collection System. Technologies used included PL/1, DB2 and CICS.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Systems Analyst led the analysis, design, programming, and implementation of an on line Cash Flow/Asset Management System for Mortgage Backed Securities. Technologies included REXX, SQL/DS and COBOL.

Responsible for the design and implementation of a Dialog Manager System. The system provided a table-driven menu driven front-end based on user profiles. Technologies used involved CSP, PL/1 and DB2.