Took sabbatical due to family illness and estate co-executor duties from 2004-2006

• Programmed in COBOL II with CICS, Netron Cap, DB2 SQL, JCL and MQ Series in an IBM OS/390 mainframe environment, using the in-house Apollo system.
• Performed analysis of requirements for allowing back-dating of financial transactions.
• Performed analysis, coding and testing of software to perform the automated rebalancing of clients’ accounts to match their initial investment instructions; received individual and team awards for work performed.
• Performed analysis, coding and testing of software to support the introduction of the Morgan Stanley Stable Value Fund, including special requirements to allow partial contract terminations.
• Performed analysis and coding of software to support price increases for clients with limited holdings
• Participated in code walkthroughs and reviews as required.
• Provided off-hours support for Quality Control testing group.
• Responsible for occasional overnight support of batch processes.

• Programmed in COBOL II with CICS, DB2 SQL, JCL and MQ Series in an IBM OS/390 mainframe environment.
• Supervised a team of Programmers in the analysis, coding and testing of "CDSX Interlink", a project to improve CDS’ use of MQ Series and "ATON", a system, which allowed for account transfers of mutual funds between customers.
• Proposed and designed "Participant Merge" subsystem to allow for mergers between financial institutions; supervised a team of Programmers who wrote program specifications and code. Created program specifications and supervised the coding and testing. Provided support when needed.
• Liaised between Business Analysts and Programmers to modify NCS, a system used to pay entitlements to customers. Reviewed specifications and code written by other Programmers.
• Extrapolated Performance/Volume/Stress test data for CDSX using current Production data.
• Worked with a team of Systems Analysts and Programmer/Analysts to determine success or failure of Performance/Volume/Stress tests.
• Performed analysis, coding and testing for a variety of new development and maintenance projects including various in-house subsystems, Y2K and the conversion of QMF reports to COBOL and Focus.
• Planned implementation of many new development and maintenance projects, involving scheduling and co-ordination of human and technical resources.
• Created ad-hoc reports as required.
• Responsible for on-call support of the Entitlements Processing System and OTC Trade Correction system.

• Programmed in APS COBOL with JCL, CICS and DB2 SQL in an IBM mainframe environment.
• Project Leader, supervising a team of programmers for "Extended and Expired", a telemarketing project designed to increase the company’s income by $4,000,000 over two years by offering extensions and renewals of existing and expired maintenance agreements.
• Project Leader, supervising a team for the Parts and Service effort in successfully upgrading the Sears credit card to full ISO compliance.
• Project Leader, supervising the successful carrying out of system maintenance and enhancement; proposed and implemented a re-organization of the process by which system maintenance was performed.
• Created ad-hoc reports as required.
• Trained and supervised junior programmers and co-op students.
• Produced monthly group status reports for business partners.

Professional Courses:

Information Builders - Focus Basic Reporting
ABTCorporation - Applying Project Workbench
Compuware - QAHiperstation
Visual Client/Server Solutions - Transition To Powerbuilder
Visual Client/Server Solutions - Fasttrack To Powerbuilder
I.T. Quality Testing - internal Sears course
ViaSoft - Existing Systems Workbench (ESW)

George Brown College

2006-date

• Currently enrolled in Continuing Education courses: Introduction To C#, Internet Scripting Languages

• Courses in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics
• Electives in French, German, Physics, Remote Sensing, Biology and Drama
• During Co-op work terms, programmed in PL/1 on IBM mainframe (City of Toronto, Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations), Fortran on VAX (Department of Energy, Mines and Resources) and Fortran on Cray (Environment Canada); wrote papers on interpolation techniques and analysis of Arctic ice thickness from satellite data

• Board Member for the TCON Promotional Society, a non-profit corporation which raises money for charity
• Member of Toronto Historical Bowling Society
• Member of American Contract Bridge League and Kate Buckman Bridge Studio; current rank is Life Master