1. RAYMOND A. SOLOMON
2200 3rd
Avenue North, Apt. 3, St. Petersburg, FL 33713
Cell: 941.400.7649 ~ Raymond.A.Solomon@gmail.com
PERSONAL SUMMARY
Skilled professional with over 25 years’ experience in Information Technology with
specialization in the design, development, and support of complex business applications with
strong emphasis in COBOL/DB2. Consistent top performer, committed team player,
collaborating with other key analysts during multiple corporate merger integrations. Involved in
all aspects of the system development life cycle in an IBM mainframe environment. Positions
have included:
Application Development Application Support
Team Leadership Technical Documentation
System Design/Analysis Business Analysis
OBJECTIVE
Senior Programmer/Analyst position designing, writing, and implementing complex enterprise
business solutions.
PROFICIENCIES
Design, Code (write, maintain, and enhance), Test, and Implement programs/applications
in the IBM mainframe environment.
Gather requirements, create program specifications, create test plans, and write technical
specifications.
Perform troubleshooting, provide application and user support, serve as primary support for
production batch cycle.
Identify programming tasks and scope, resources, and time necessary to meet the
requirements of the project plan.
Assign work on varied development projects to staff; track progress and provide technical
oversight and consultation as needed.
Serve as liaison between business community and development support team.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: COBOL, SQL, JCL
Databases: DB2, VSAM, MS Access
Middleware: MQ series
Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Visio, CICS, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS
Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile
Other: SWIFT, Regulation Q
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JPMorgan Chase, New York City/Tampa 1987-2014
Liquidity Technology and International DDA Systems
2. - Lead P/A / Architect / SME - Liquidity Investment Technology 2002-2014
- Lead Programmer-Analyst - Liquidity Investment Technology 1998-2001
- Senior Programmer-Analyst / Technology Officer 1993-1997
- Programmer / Programmer-Analyst 1987-1992
Key Accomplishments:
Subject Matter Expert / Application Architect / Lead Programmer-Analyst (hands-on) for the
Liquidity Investment applications.
Designed, built and managed market leading multi-level, multi-entity, cross-border
investment and overdraft pooling systems for institutional, corporate, wholesale, and private
banking clients.
Received Business Requirement Documents (BRD) from business owners and operations
managers. Create Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), create use/test cases,
code, debug, unit test, pass to QA team.
Provided 24x7 on-call support for Investment and Overdraft applications.
Extract billing data elements and created interface files for Billing Systems.
Improved processing efficiencies by automating daily repayment of principal and interest on
overnight investments.
Automated processes to calculate and apply daily interest for DDA accounts.
Sent daily and monthly interfaces to Billing Systems with delta and replacement amounts.
Architected a comprehensive solution by collaborating with Product Management and
Operations to automate 25-month investment and compounded interest back-value
adjustment process for the overnight investment system resulting in increased client
satisfaction.
Teamed with operations to automate repayment of principal and calculation of interest,
effective yield, and spread for offshore investment system, significantly reducing expenses.
Worked with DBAs in design of online customer profile system.
Supported data center migrations; rerouted interfaces, enabling uninterrupted daily
processing.
Built “best-efforts” USG Money Market investment system for highly regulated insurance
clients, to maximize client investments and reduce bank exposure.
Led team that converted over 15,000 customers from predecessor banks’ products to
Global Liquidity product suite. Built interfaces to billing and profitability systems.
Led merger team during consolidation of 3 DDA systems with over 150,000 customers.
Created mapping matrices and conversion scripts.
Led team that designed and built the integration of customized multi-customer pooled
private-label capabilities into investment, overdraft, and DDA systems, leveraging existing
product strengths.
Ensured Y2K compliance in systems with intensive historical back-value processing.
Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS
EDUCATION
Certificate, Chubb Institute for Computer Technology, Parsippany, NJ 1986-1987
Columbia University - School of General Studies 1980-1982