Resume of Albert B. Cassius
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Albert B. Cassius
723 Red Lion Way
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
723 Red Lion Way
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Senior Business Analyst who can use Financial Services, SWIFT, Compliance and Payments expertise and hands-on experience working in technology groups of all sizes. Solid professional who mentors, motivates and drives complex projects to completion. Knowledgeable in Hardware Provisioning, Middleware, PMO, SDLC, SQL, Q/A, Waterfall and Agile concepts. Fluent in multiple languages to assist in global solutions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bank Of America / Tata Consulting Services – Jersey City, New Jersey March 2017 – Current
Senior Business Analyst – Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) – Sampling Solution
Bloomberg L. P. / Precision Global Consulting - New York, New York April 2016 – September 2016
Implementation Consultant / Quality Assurance Analyst – Web Services - SFTP
Lloyds Bank Group / SLS - New York, New York June 2015 – September 2015
Consultant - Senior Technical Specialist / Business Analyst – Q/A – UAT
Deutsche Bank / Tata Consulting Services / IDC Tech - Jersey City, New Jersey October 2014 – June 2015
Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst – Quality Assurance / UAT Remediation
McGraw-Hill / WIPRO / IT-Scient – East Windsor, New Jersey June 2014 – August 2014
Consultant – Project Manager – Data Center Infrastructure
Avada Software New Jersey February 2014 – March 2014
Consultant - Product Specialist / Business Analyst - Middleware
Citigroup Warren, New Jersey April 2005 – May 2012
VP, Senior Technology Specialist / Business Analyst – SWIFT
Deutsche Bank New York, New York February 2000 – January 2005
Technology Officer – Senior Developer – Money Transfer Customer Service
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Perrier / SOFT Inc., New York, New York
Consultant – Lead Programmer – Consumer Products
AXA / Equitable Insurance Co. New York, New York
Lead Programmer - Insurance
Kenspares Automotive Parts Edison, New Jersey
Consultant - Programmer - Automotive
Georgia-Pacific / AGS Information Services Norwalk, Conn.
Consultant - Group Leader - Consumer Products
Quantech Electronics Corp. Levittown, New York
Director of Data Processing
Republic National Bank New York, New York
Project Leader - Commercial Loans and Treasury
Cybernetics Resource Corporation Port Washington, New York
Group Leader
American Health Corporation – Division of Control Data Corporation New York, New York
Project Manager - Medical
Senior Business Analyst – Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) – Sampling Solution
- Evaluate different vendor proposals based on the following criteria:
- Controlled environment that is nimble, flexible and supports rapid speed to market development.
- Technical platform with the ability to ingest, profile, transform, and report off of disparate sources both structured and non-structured, as well as integration with other systems within EIT.
- User friendliness and openness to various sampling criteria.
- Document via BRD, user and functional requirements as well as use cases.
- Select vendor package for Proof of Concept implementation and success criteria.
- Promote Proof of Concept to production implementation.
- Prepare Implementation plan to migrate inventory of over 5000 samples to new platform.
Bloomberg L. P. / Precision Global Consulting - New York, New York April 2016 – September 2016
Implementation Consultant / Quality Assurance Analyst – Web Services - SFTP
- Migrate over 600 clients to new Web Services security certificates.
- Many clients used their Non-prod server to verify connectivity prior to cutover to production.
- Some clients only had Prod servers, so they would cutover and be verified during their green zone.
- SQL, SPLUNK and Excel were used to maintain track of the project.
- Migrate clients too new MQ based certificates.
- Migrate clients from FTP to SFTP and upgrade password strength.
Lloyds Bank Group / SLS - New York, New York June 2015 – September 2015
Consultant - Senior Technical Specialist / Business Analyst – Q/A – UAT
- Implement verification of Swift yearly update.
- Hands on Swift Alliance and Swift Gateway Administration on Windows Server 2008.
- AML - Actimize, FircoSoft OFAC Filter upgrades and verification. Support IBM Websphere and MQ upgrades.
- Analyze business functionality and document ways in which processes could be improved.
- Verify that User Acceptance Test Plan matches specifications of changes being made.
Deutsche Bank / Tata Consulting Services / IDC Tech - Jersey City, New Jersey October 2014 – June 2015
Consultant - Project Manager / Business Analyst – Quality Assurance / UAT Remediation
- Collect, Analyze and Identify technical gaps in test environments.
- Use SQL and Excel to document details from the Deutsche Bank Infrastructure Database.
- Hardware provisioning and budgeting were included in the project plans.
- Work with the IT teams, external interface providers to implement the book of work.
- Test environment availability of application and related upstream / downstream application.
- Teams included: Reference Data, Volcker Reporting and Collateral Management
- Coordinate with PMO/COO to update senior management with all project updates.
- Data provisioning optimization (data refresh, data subsetting, database testing).
- Capacity of test environment – UAT should match production configuration.
- Compliance to testing standards (Monitoring, MTS, access control and data security).
- Document project status using MS project and MS PowerPoint to report to PMO.
McGraw-Hill / WIPRO / IT-Scient – East Windsor, New Jersey June 2014 – August 2014
Consultant – Project Manager – Data Center Infrastructure
- Hands on scheduling and implementation of a DNS migration project with over 2000 end points.
- Verify that all new SFTP infrastructure correctly replaced all FTP interfaces.
- Define and implement scope, schedule, cost datacenter migration of windows, linux and VMware servers.
- Communicate with all stakeholders using MS Project and Google Docs.
- Work with clients, vendors and other stake holders to achieve successful completion of project
Avada Software New Jersey February 2014 – March 2014
Consultant - Product Specialist / Business Analyst - Middleware
- SME for Avada products including industry leader middleware application “Infrared 360”.
- Review and test new features including automation of test scenarios using Selenium.
- Work with customer and their Use Cases to verify QA and / or Production issues.
- Provide L2 customer support and their Use Cases to verify QA and / or Production issues.
Citigroup Warren, New Jersey April 2005 – May 2012
VP, Senior Technology Specialist / Business Analyst – SWIFT
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing a vendor based AIX / Oracle / MQ SWIFT interface that was used by all of Citigroup including Money Transfer and F/X with our member’s team. Real-Time processing handled over a million messages per day. Vendor supplied a Websphere based front-end that was used by operations and ad-hoc support. MT1XX and MT2XX Transactions went through AML process prior to transmission.
- Implement and verify migration of FTP to SFTP infrastructure.
- Responsible for entire project lifecycle including communicating with partners; requirements definition, business analysis, design,assigning staff to implement, QA testing, production deployment and to post-implementation reviews as per PMO guidelines using Planview. This included on-shore and off-shore resource allocation and budgeting. Also included VMS to AIX migration.
- Test plan were defined and analyzed to verify completeness to BRDs.
- Test cases and environments were setup.
- Initial system test were performed on the component level in Dev environment.
- Verify test results against test plan.
- Promote to UAT and verify downstream, parallel and throughput results.
- Produce month release plan (for management review) which documented the following:
- Actual changes.
- Documented results (including usage of HP Quality Center).
- Upstream / Downstream interfaces.
- Implementation procedures.
- Initial production verification.
- Signoff from upstream and downstream partners.
- Rollback instructions.
- Execute above plan to install change into Production.
- Perform business analysis with partners for all necessary changes to system.
- Provided 24 x 7 support, escalation and post-mortem analysis on an as needed basis.
- Participated in various Disaster Recovery scenarios and multiple data center migrations.
Deutsche Bank New York, New York February 2000 – January 2005
Technology Officer – Senior Developer – Money Transfer Customer Service
- Responsible for maintaining, enhancing an AIX based Money Transfer Customer Service System. Batch processing time shortened from 10 hours to 5 hours so that 2,500+ worldwide users could have earlier access. MQ subsystems were migrated several times.
- Data was processed from real-time feeds from Money Transfer, FED, CHIPS, SWIFT and TELEX and cross referenced, then extracted to UNIX for backend processing and VB front end.
- SQL was used for ad-hoc inquiries to backend database.
- System contained other subsystems for adjustments, compensations and fee billing.
- VMS and UNIX changes were constantly being made as we migrated to MQ subsystems.
- Participated in various Disaster Recovery scenarios including our actual recovery on 9/11.
- Maintained and enhanced Operator Run-book and other documentation and performed QA/UAT.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Perrier / SOFT Inc., New York, New York
Consultant – Lead Programmer – Consumer Products
- Responsible for maintaining, enhancing a VAX based Import System for Perrier.
- Responsible for new interface with an NT communication front end and Year 2000 Compliance.
- Performed Business Analysis of domestic and international partners.
- MS Project was used for documenting ongoing projects.
- Performed Business Analysis of domestic and international partners.
- System contained subsystems for Customer Maintenance, Order Entry and Reporting.
AXA / Equitable Insurance Co. New York, New York
Lead Programmer - Insurance
- Lead a team whose responsibilities included maintaining and enhancing a Small Pension System.
- System contained all necessary subsystems including: Client Maintenance, Participant Maintenance, Loan Maintenance, Unit Value Maintenance and Fixed Interest Maintenance, Commission Processing and all Batch processing.
- New specifications were gathered from business users.
- MS Project was used for project management and resource allocation.
- Responsible for new interface with a PC front end and dual VMS/RSTS back end processor.
Kenspares Automotive Parts Edison, New Jersey
Consultant - Programmer - Automotive
- Enhanced and maintained multi-location, multi-currency import / distribution system.
- Subsystems included: Inventory Management, Purchasing, Order Entry, Accounts Receivable, Sales Analysis and Cataloging.
- Responsibilities included all dibol software enhancements, hardware upgrades and system documentation.
Georgia-Pacific / AGS Information Services Norwalk, Conn.
Consultant - Group Leader - Consumer Products
- Responsible for a 5 person group in conversion of over 200 IBM data entry RPG and Keypunch to DIBOL.
- Responsibilities included design and development of skeleton programs, as well as scheduling, testing, user interface and training.
Quantech Electronics Corp. Levittown, New York
Director of Data Processing
- Responsible for all enhancements and operations of hardware and software for a complete financial (A/R, A/P & G/L) and Service Contract System for this electronics service company.
- System Included: scheduling, inquiry, soliciting and renewing contracts, and other detailed reporting.
- Responsible for purchasing hardware and software as the system and number of users grew.
- Acquired companies nationwide, assisted consultants working on IBM System 34/36/38 software.
Republic National Bank New York, New York
Project Leader - Commercial Loans and Treasury
- Responsible for 5 person group maintaining and enhancing a high volume multi-currency commercial loan & treasury system running on several DEC 11/70s under RSTS/E, using Basic Plus and Basic Plus 2 with RMS.
Cybernetics Resource Corporation Port Washington, New York
Group Leader
- Wrote specifications for upgrading a Quote and Cost module for a manufacturing sub-contractor.
- Designed a complete financial (A/R, A/P, G/L) system and a mailing list system for a mini-conglomerate.
American Health Corporation – Division of Control Data Corporation New York, New York
Project Manager - Medical
- Project Manager with total design and scheduling responsibility of a 5 person group implementing a Multi-Facility statewide New York company’s Medical Record Department and Scheduling.
- Wrote medical applications for a Multi-Phasic Health Center.
PLATFORMS
IBM, HP and SUN UNIX. HP Alpha, VAX and IBM AS/400.
BASIC, C, DIBOL, DBL, Synergy/DE, DATATRIEVE, DECFORMS, TDMS with CDD, RMS and RDB under VMS, UNIX; Visiual Basic, FORTRAN
and RPG on other systems; Assembly languages including DG, DEC and BAL
Windows, MS Project, Excel, Visio, SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, PC-DOS, Visual Basic, Sharepoint, PMO, SDLC, Planview, Remedy, Aperture, Geneos
Swift, Websphere, MQ, TCP/IP, SFTP, FTP, DECnet, SDLC, HP Quality Center, Test Director and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
BASIC, C, DIBOL, DBL, Synergy/DE, DATATRIEVE, DECFORMS, TDMS with CDD, RMS and RDB under VMS, UNIX; Visiual Basic, FORTRAN
and RPG on other systems; Assembly languages including DG, DEC and BAL
Windows, MS Project, Excel, Visio, SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, PC-DOS, Visual Basic, Sharepoint, PMO, SDLC, Planview, Remedy, Aperture, Geneos
Swift, Websphere, MQ, TCP/IP, SFTP, FTP, DECnet, SDLC, HP Quality Center, Test Director and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
College of the City of New York
Additional courses in Visual Basic, Solaris, C programming, SDLC and AML Concepts
College of the City of New York
Additional courses in Visual Basic, Solaris, C programming, SDLC and AML Concepts
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