Experience

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  Great-west healthcare

  Jan 1990 - Jan 2013

  Configuration management, test support analyst

  Applications Specialist/Config Mgnt Analyst Analyzed Programmer/Analysts’ Harvest Packages, Visual Studio, TFS, Computrak and Mainframe (BEN) Endevor packages for completeness and industry standards, then promoting packages into the acceptance and production environments. • Provided timely and effective communication with the programmers & developers/managers when there were problems with packages, in order to meet the weekly deadline for production deployments. • Played an integral part in migrated over Mainframe Applications and data to new data centers while re-building the test applications for new hardware and software standards. Transition was completed without adversely impacting business operations. • Analyzed existing programs/jobs/batch processes/file databases to ensure all aforementioned data was restored correctly or added as needed when missing.Test System Support Analyst – Employee Benefits Systems Responsible for analyzing Programmer/Analysts’ packages for JCL and PROC standards and for package standards/violations, then promoting the packages into the ACPT Test Regions.• Played an integral part in migrated over Mainframe Applications and data to new data centers while re-building the test applications for new hardware and software standards. Transition was completed without adversely impacting business operations. • Analyzed existing programs/jobs/batch processes/file databases to ensure all aforementioned data was restored correctly or added as needed when missing.• Worked closely with QA Testers to ensure their results were as expected. • Helped trouble-shoot testers test data when results were not as planned. Show less

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  Great-west life

  Dec 1990 - Jul 2013

  Applications software specialist (cm analyst)

  Responsible for analyzing Programmer/Analysts’ Harvest, Visual Studio, TFS and Mainframe Endevor packages for completeness and industry standards, then promoting packages into the production environments. This required timely and effective communication with the programmers/developers/managers when there are problems with packages, in order to meet the weekly deadline for production deployments. Was also responsible for the overall coordination of all Mainframe activity. Acted as Release Coordinator on several small-medium production implementations, which required facilitating status meetings and implementation meetings to ensure all moving pieces came together on time with minimal disruption or delay. Show less

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  Cigna insurance services

  Sept 2005 - Jul 2013

  Configuration management/applications specialist

  Applications Specialist/Config Mgnt Analyst Analyzed Programmer/Analysts’ Harvest Packages, Visual Studio, TFS, Computrak and Mainframe (BEN) Endevor packages for completeness and industry standards, then promoting packages into the acceptance and production environments.• Provided timely and effective communication with the programmers & developers/managers when there were problems with packages, in order to meet the weekly deadline for production deployments.• Acted as Release/Implementation Coordinator on several small-medium production implementations, which required facilitating status meetings and implementation meetings to ensure all moving pieces came together on time with minimal disruption or delay.• Provided on-call support on a rotating basis which required attending the weekly implementation meetings with CCB as well as coordinating that week’s scheduled implementations to ensure all tasks were covered by the SCM Team.• Set up numerous development projects and subprojects in the Harvest packaging & configuration management tool.• Played a key role in the conversion of Changeman configuration management tool to Endevor configuration management tool.QA Tester • Filled the Lead Tester role on a small project, which included coordinating and gathering updates from other QA testers and reporting progress to Project Manager.• Designed and created test data, test cases for several claims and provider software projects.• Documented testing results, and recorded defects in HP Quality Center for tracking purposes.• Provided weekly updates to Lead Tester for reporting purposes. Show less

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  Seeking next opportunity

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2013

  Business, test and release analyst

  Seeking an opportunity to use my prior experience as a Business Analyst, Test Analyst or Configuration/Release Analyst.