Cyrille P Valery

12336 Seward Street, Omaha NE 68154

cyrille_valery@yahoo.com

Summary

 

10 years of application development and design experience.

Java J2EE Web Services experience with Struts in the MVC architecture.

IBM Message Broker solutions design and development.

COBOL/JCL/DB2 Mainframe.

2 years Software Development Manager.

Computer skills

 

Languages

·     Proficient in: Java, J2EE, HttpServlets, JDBC, JSP, JavaScript, Ant scripts, CSS, XSLT, XSD, XML, HTML, IBM ESQL, COBOL/JCL, SQL, Trained in C++, C#.

Development

·     Struts Framework, IBM WebSphere RAD 6 and 7, IBM WebSphere MQ Series Messaging, Eclipse, Message Broker Toolkit 6, IBM Message Broker APIs’, JUnit, JText Connectors, XMLBeans, SVN, CVS, MVS TSO.

Software

·     Database: IBM DB2, Oracle

·     Platforms: Microsoft Windows®, IBM Mainframe environment, basic knowledge of UNIX.

Experience

 

First Data Corporation

1997-Present

 

Leader in electronic and credit card transaction processing. First Data possesses 40% of the domestic credit and debit card market and over 400 million cards on file. Promoted four times from entry level to Manager in three years based on both technical and managerial skills.

In 2002 resigned for 6 months to assist in the expansion of a family business.

 

Application Architect Java J2EE

03/2005-Present

·     Designed and coded several interface processes for Peace Software a Java J2EE solution for Utility companies using IBM WebSphere Message Broker as the middleware. Worked with MQ queues and web services, XML, XSLT, IBM Message Broker API’s, JText Connectors, JMS, and LDAP. Applied XMLBeans and worked with complex XML schemas.

·     Worked on the conversion of Hawaiian Electric Company, in particular a secure web service connection with the Experian credit agency to request credit scoring information on new customers.

·     Actively participated in the re-architecture of our Merchant Web interface. This application allows the merchants to access and modify their data on the mainframe using the EmerchantView website.

·     Worked on its rewrite from using CICS to JCA connectors into an MVC architecture using the Struts Framework and the LookupDispatchAction for the controller.

·     Applied and brought to the team my prior mainframe experience by researching program bugs on both the mainframe and the distributed side.

 

Application Architect COBOL/DB2

03/2003-03/2005

·     Enhanced and maintained for Citibank the GEAC AR Millennium Best invoicing system.

·     Identified and participated in performance tuning efforts significantly reducing the posting engine runtime.

·     Designed, coded, migrated and implemented several critical client conversion related projects. Including but not limited to Home Depot and Office Max.

·     Spearheaded and designed several recovery and test automation processes.

Software Development Manager

10/2000-09/2002

·     Directed workflow and managed a $1.5 million team of 12 to 30 IT professionals.

·     Dedicated to keep the team focused on the successful implementation of a multi-million dollar project, which involved the complete rewrite of the legacy credit card embossing system. The new software for client conversion was successfully implemented by the deadline. This re-architecture project was on the CEO’s top ten-priority project list. All other re-architecture projects were dependent on the successful implementation of this new product.

·     Received numerous accolades of appreciation, with several initiated by own staff.

·     Developed and implemented career management programs including employee appraisals and performance improvement plans.

·     Successfully led multiple teams through a number of challenging reorganizations.

·     Focused on quality assurance, resource management, strategic planning, driving change and cultivating best practices.

·     Built a results oriented technical team environment.

Senior Application Developer COBOL/DB2

08/1997-10/2000

·     Attained team DB2 tech lead status. Wrote new programs with embedded SQL. Designed, coded, migrated and implemented in 10 different environments a process to download, edit and upload to the new DB2 tables the address data for all 280 million accounts on file.

·     Participated with team managers, system analysts, and senior business analysts in estimating resource requirements, and project planning and scheduling for programming requests.

·     Mentored new programmers successfully. Read and interpreted design documents. Developed program logic flow and coding from written specifications. Checked results of coding, and of logic flow. Developed and executed unit tests. Executed system tests. Debugged difficult problems. Reviewed design documents, coding and unit test output from others

Education

 

Missouri State University

Springfield, Missouri

·     MBA, Management Information System emphasis

1997

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska

·     BS, Computer Information Systems Technology Advancement Program

2005

Missouri State University

Springfield, Missouri

·     BS, Management International Business

1995

 

 

Fluent in French, basic knowledge of Spanish

Chicago Marathon 2004, several Half-Marathons