Julius Valdes |
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| Professional Summary | |
28 years in
systems development with exceptional abilities as Project
Manager and Technician Consistent
success delivering large projects on time and within
budget Superior
technical skills, including COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO, IBM
Utilities, HTML Varied
application experience, including medical claims, banking,
credit cards Excellent
communication and presentation skills |
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| Accomplishments | |
| Consultant | May 1983 - present |
| Year 2000 Conversion (Client: Computer
Horizons Consulting - CHC) Developed standards for quality and timeliness of Year 2000 project, used MS Office software suite to track status. $4MM project on target. Developed program automating screen date changes for testing. Hospital Claims Processing (Client: Group Health Incorporated) Designed and programmed Service Benefit reports, extensive array of detail/summarized information. Reports allow client to meet requirements of major customer in a timely fashion. Membership Billing (Client: COSO Incorporated) Designed and programmed system for billing medical policyholders. Developed in 6 months. Technical Education (Client: COSO Incorporated) Developed Design and Code workshop for expedited development and reduced maintenance costs. Medical Claims Processing (Client: Neoterics Consulting) Managing 15-20 technicians, implemented claims processing system. Client revenues doubled, from reduced customization costs. 18 month project included maintenance of policyholder and claims data. |
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| Chase Manhattan Bank - Officer | June 1980 - April 1983 |
| Software Maintenance Change Control
Implemented procedures to manage system changes, increasing programmer productivity. Automated reports raised awareness of process and improved end-user satisfaction. Quality Assurance Led 7-9 analysts, developed procedures for testing of international banking software, including test beds with comprehensive transaction arrays, that resulted in error-free implementations. Electronic Funds Transfer Led 5-7 analysts, developed Disaster Recovery Plan. Two months later, plan used to respond to power outage and maintain processing capabilities. |
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| American Express Company - Manager | April 1976 - May 1980 |
| Credit Card Billing Managed IMS conversion, resulting in additional revenue of $22MM from new products. Credit Card Sales Systems Managed 3-5 programmers, recording of sales information and commission calculation. |
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| Pfizer - Programmer/Systems Analyst | January 1975 - March 1976 |
| Sales Systems Developed sales systems for a major drug company to report commissions. |
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| PMI - Programmer/Consultant | April 1973 - December 1974 |
| Various assignments as a consultant, throughout the NYC Metro area. | |
| Metropolitan Life Ins. - Systems Analyst | December 1971 - March 1973 |
| Systems conversion from Honeywell to IBM, including dividend and premium calculation. | |
| Personal | |
| Born March 19, 1948,
in Seville, Spain Fluent in
Spanish, some knowledge of French and German Bachelor’s
degree - Chemistry, Math and Physics |
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