LOUIS RICHARDS
Attica,OH
Summary
An associate Senior programmer analyst and Specialist Developer (DB2 Mainframe Cobol) with 16 years experience at Morgan Stanley and 2+ years at BNY Mellon Corporation. Extensive MVS platform experience totals 20+ years across several corporations. Procurement Aerospace Contracts costing and blueprint reading experience total 11 years. Instrumental in conversion of client data resulting from Corporate Merger and Acquisition. Managed IPO recertification processes as related to client eligibility. Expert in DB2, SPUFI, COBOL, VSAM, JCL MVS/TSO,SAS and Easytrieve. Expert troubleshooter in nightly Batch ABEND support. Extensive use of spreadsheets and pivot tables for data analysis. Extensive use of SYNSORT and SORT utilities to organize data for reporting, VSAM loads, DB2 Inserts and loads, etc. Used debugging and statistical analysis tools at BNY Mellon including Freezeframes. Earlier background in Government Procurement Aerospace Systems as related to cost estimating.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President DB2 Mainframe Cobol Specialist
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Syracuse, NY
09.2016 - 01.2019
- Worked with a great team on all aspects of development in CDW Customer Data Warehouse and EPI Electronic Processing Interface systems.
- Performed MQ Performance monitoring.
- Reworked the Client Account Bulk load activation process.
- Performed fact finding on SWIFT messages to ensure they are received by clients and other inquiries about those messages as relates to trades and settlements.
- Reengineered the Annual Statements Process to a quarterly using fresh new tables and some ingenuity in separating Client position processing from Security Master database pricing and finally a module to calculate all. The process had flexibility to also include Adhoc reporting daily.
Associate - Senior Programmer Analyst
Morgan Stanley
New York City, New York
06.2000 - 03.2016
- Analyzed requirements and used systematic approaches to implement and document programming assignment tasks.
- Built service-oriented software and platforms using COBOL/DB2 JCL VSAM on the MVS Platform.
- Drove the decommission effort to a legacy document tracking system.
- Leading player working with management, clients, and other technology teams to ensure legacy and new code are consistent and creates relevant and meaningful business results without negative impact to existing business and technology infrastructure.
- Lead the legacy DB2 Document Tracking System decommission effort.
- Required removal of code from the system, freeing DB2 plans and massive coordination of DB2 bind card alteration with packlib members referencing legacy DTS.
- Instrumental player in processing Client document requirements and timely red flagging accounts that are out of compliance.
- Led the production of Client Document delinquency reporting which fed the report portal processes.
- Created meaningful spreadsheets of data and statistics related to legacy and new technology behavior on same requirements.
- Coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production testing.
- Mentored junior programmers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Streamlined software deployment processes, resulting in reduced downtime and faster release cycles.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and implement effective solutions.
- Designed and implemented robust testing frameworks to ensure high-quality deliverables in production environments.
- Conducted code reviews, promoting best practices and improving overall code quality across projects.
- Debugged and modified [Type] software components.
- Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality prior to release.
Programmer IV
Avis Rent A Car
Garden City, New York
01.1996 - 05.2000
- Converted a One way fee rates system from IMS to DB2.
- Coordinated with QA testers for end-to-end unit testing and post-production testing.
- Programmed in COBOL with underlying IMS database and supported applications.
- During the Corporate Merge and transition of AVIS and Cendant, socialized the Cendant COBOL Batch and CICS to Avis mainframe for technical support.
- Utilized various adhoc tools such as Easytrieve and SAS to produce speedy reports.
- Used mainframe expeditor software to assist in solving COBOL code issue.
Senior Programmer
United Parcel Service
Ramsey, New Jersey
03.1992 - 12.1995
- Came onboard as a Junior Programmer and went through a rigorous training program that familiarized the group with Expediter, Micro Focus Cobol and JCL /MVS TSO and CICS.
- Duties included processing rates and redesigning rates for New countries resulting from the breakaway republics of the former Soviet union.
- Supported mainframe batch COBOL and DB2 nightly.
- Developed an HR system to track employee population.
- Heavy Support of existing systems.
Senior Admin Cost Estimator - Procurement Materiel - Aerospace Defense Contracts
Defense Aerospace Industries
Deer Park, NY
07.1979 - 02.1991
- Procurement Contracts cost estimating for 2 DOD manufactures on Long Island.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Programming
Grumman Data Systems Institute
Woodbury, New York, Nassau01-1992
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Grambling State University
Grambling, Louisiana, Lincoln01-1979
Skills
- Team leadership
- Relationship building
- Decision-making
- Critical thinking
- Results-driven
Accomplishments
- 2016-2019 At BNY Mellon revamped an annual Statements process, which had been flagged as a major performance issue, into a better process producing more information and in 1/5th the processing time.
- 2011-2016 Last major Morgan Stanley project was to decommission a legacy Documents Transmittal System written in DB2 and action on by 2 CICS interfaces. The decommissioning involved removal of DB2 Entries in the CICS log file, freeing bind plans, removing packages from the packlist, etc.
- 2010-2011 Led a team which successfully designed, developed and implemented enhancements to transpose Client data from a major Wall Street Corporate merge with the Morgan Stanley platform. Programs written in DB2/COBOL to transpose and migrate data field names based on likeness in documents data.
- Instrumental point of contact in this significant platform migration and integration which translated and ingested account details for 30 million+ accounts from the Smith Barney Corporate merger.
- 2009-2016 Reengineered client document code storage and reporting in both DB2 and VSAM.
- 2006 - Created a systematic way to drastically reduce client mailings. New Account Welcome Kit process used windowing as well as identification of the client via EDB mainframe DB2 table information or information stored on VSAM files to create one mailing to Welcome the Client.
- 2009 - Created a new Account change of Address sub-system to track client address changes and report who made the change as part of a legal requirement. This was created on the Mainframe using JCL/ VSAM and DB2.
- 2003-2004 Successfully produced the Corporate IPO Recertification System using the Enterprise database. The was a mainframe Cobol/DB2 driven process. In 2010-2011 incorporated IPO processing data from Smith Barney onto the Morgan Stanley platform.
Timeline
Vice President DB2 Mainframe Cobol Specialist
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
09.2016 - 01.2019
Associate - Senior Programmer Analyst
Morgan Stanley
06.2000 - 03.2016
Programmer IV
Avis Rent A Car
01.1996 - 05.2000
Senior Programmer
United Parcel Service
03.1992 - 12.1995
Senior Admin Cost Estimator - Procurement Materiel - Aerospace Defense Contracts
Defense Aerospace Industries
07.1979 - 02.1991
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Grambling State University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Programming
Grumman Data Systems Institute