COLIN PATTON

6435 Bridgecrest Dr.

Lithia, FL 33547

Cell 440.552.9524

Colin.Patton@me.com

PROFILE

A support/development professional with over twenty years experience. Well versed in design, implementation, testing and

analysis of solutions spanning multiple technologies and environments. A leader with a strong record of cost effective, right

sized solutions that are fully supportable in any production environment.

EXPERIENCE

LEAD APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

KEY BANK

CLEVELAND, OH

J2EE/Web/Distributed Systems

• Team lead and project management of code removal of calls to NonStop brokerage app form WebSphere based externally

facing internet banking offering, team of 6.

• Tech lead commercial credit portion of a migration from FICO credit scoring system to Equifax’s datalink service.

Provided enterprise architecture team a POC to capture response times for a webservice request/response and storage/retrieval

from filenet document storage.

• Tech & team lead on project migration of Commercial Credit application from websphere portal to websphere application

server. Provided original cost and risk benefit analysis for business case, team of seven.

• Consulted in the system design of the underwriting portion of the credit card insourcing project.

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Identified an unnecessary middleware link that had the potential to cause functionality outages. Designed a more appropriate

solution to allow the websphere application server to communicate with the lotus based downstream application

utilizing MQ

• Requirements analysis for vendor software upgrade, provided work (time and cost) estimates for project management

team for inclusion in business plan.

• Represented application development as a SME in a vendor product evaluation effort in support of the PCI (payment

card industry) project

• Developed, and executed disaster recovery plans for both business underwriting systems.

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Identified, designed and implemented various systems to mitigate risk of support outage by porting systems into a

managed corporate standard PVCS/PPG for WAS/WPS environment.

• Performed environment analysis, design, and implementation.

• Performed Performance Testing and Engineering of Web applications

• Network load scenarios utilizing Shunra. Identified a long standing branch issue with sat uplink during training.

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Initiated an effective KPI matrix for Performance testing.

Installed CA-LISA, as a POC, developed virtual services, rolled out the product on a KeyBank standard Linux deploy.

Met complete corporate security integration standards.

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Provided virtual service estimates for development teams and delivered services on schedule.

Tandem (NSK) Systems

• Lead on Analysis/Implementation/Testing of Java upgrade on NonStop platform from v1.1.6 (Java) to v1.4.1 (Java2)

• Lead for resolution of Cobol/MX HP software issues.

• Developed and modified Cobol & C code in support of decommission of brokerage software from the HP NonStop

platform.

• Developed migration methodology analysis and support for ITP webserver upgrade on HP NonStop platform.

2003-2014

• Developed SQL/MX Cobol85 servers to interact with Java servlets via pathway.

• Development of requester-server and batch programs in COBOL85.

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• Designed and instituted structured development, systems, QA, Production DR environment on one node – enabling

thorough development and testing of any code, including most systems software, through promotion of the various

environments.

Provided an analysis of security and made recommendations that were later adopted by midrange engineering department.

Provided

analysis of testing requirements and schedule for OS upgrades and migration from SQL/MX v1.8.5 to v2.1.

Installation and configuration of Car-Scott Escort I/O intercept software.

• Performed environment analysis, design, and implementation.

• SQL MP/MX environment configuration.

• Analysis and deployment of Pathway configuration changes for SQL & TMF.

• Dev/QV/QA DBA (SQL/MP/MX)

• Analysis and implementation of enscribe file conversion to SQL/MP.

• Developed Native mode compilation macros for NMCobol/NMC for department.

• Runtime library build and deployment

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Primecode source control administrator.

• Runtime library builds for CISC and native mode (RISC)

Leadership

• Managed offshore resources on multiple teams.

• Maintained Vendor management programs pertaining to applications in my portfolio. Performed site inspections.

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Provided ongoing training of team on our distributed environment, the technologies involved, contact procedures,

problem solving methodologies and analysis from conceptual to network layer, mainframe environment, the process

of designing a technology solution. The effort is to enable any team member to assume any role, task, or incident

without requiring additional resource.

• Team lead management & development in J2EE WAS/WPS/Unix environment. Support of 2 Business loan underwriting

systems, team of five.

• Team lead and project management of code removal of calls to NonStop brokerage app form WebSphere based externally

facing internet banking offering, team of 6.

• Tech lead commercial credit portion of a migration from FICO credit scoring system to Equifax’s datalink service.

Provided enterprise architecture team a POC to capture response times for a webservice request/response and storage/retrieval

from filenet document storage.

• Tech & team lead on project migration of Commercial Credit application from websphere portal to websphere application

server. Provided original cost and risk benefit analysis for business case, team of seven.

• Served as Applications/ Team manager for several high availability high grossing applications. Provided staff with

evaluations, guidance and mentoring.

• Developed, evaluated and provided training to NonStop developers.

• Managed yearly software vulnerability remediation resulting from findings of static and dynamic PASR (periodic application

security review) testing.

• Managed offshore staff augmentation resources for commercial underwriting credit card effort

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Instituted a mentor program to cross train technologies and business acumen to provide the organization better flexibility,

and broaden employees technical exposure.

Instructed and mentored developers in understanding interactions between datasets, SQL catalogs, Escort I/O intercept,

runtime library.

• Mentor developers in SQL query design and application testing and promotion.

• Mentor Production DBA in procedure.

• Created a training curriculum to assist mainframe development staff porting over to distributed testing.

• Managed STML for employees

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• Performed technical interviews and candidate evaluation for staff openings. Interacted with internal and external

technical recruitment to define staff requirements.

Provided strategic and operational direction for my applications and, at sr. management request, several others under

offshore control.

Instituted test plan peer reviews and testing retrospectives in order to meet continuous improvement guidelines. Instituted

an initiative to measure and track development and support performance.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

1997-2003

COPPERWELD CORPORATION

PITTSBURGH, PA

Tandem (NSK) Systems / EDI

• Team leader for EDI team of five

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24/7/365 Production support

• Development of requester-server and batch programs in COBOL85

• Receiving system design and development utilizing ASN and Barcode technology

• Designed and implemented a “closed loop” ASN reconciliation system

• Developed Material forecast generation system for delivery via EDI

• Development and maintenance of several VMI systems

• Development of document delivery system utilizing FTP

• Development of an email report delivery system utilizing Empower software.

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File conversion utilizing DTS on SQL server

• Messageway system maintenance

• Messageway system upgrades

• Edikit translator installation and trading partnership migration

• Pathway, Messaging and translator maintenance

• Tandem DBA for corporate sales unit of Information services

• EDI Trading partner support & maintenance.

• Development & maintenance of XWAY translator mappings.

• Deployment of EDI systems for newly acquired plants

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Provide EDI transition services for plants that were sold.

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

FUTURE ELECTRONIQUE

MONTREAL, QC

Tandem (NSK) Systems / EDI

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1993-1997

Production support of EDI systems

• Development and maintenance of Tandem COBOL 85 source code (batch and requester-server)

• EDI mapping

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Transaction testing with Trading Partners

• Y2K conversion of all existing EDI source, SQL Tables and Enscribe files.

• Tandem Enscribe to Tandem nonstop SQL conversion, validation and implementation.

EDUCATION

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science,

Summa Cum Laude

SKILLS

JAVA

J2EE

JS

Tandem/NSK (Guardian&OSS)

PERUSE

CSS

SOAP/REST

SOA (DataPower ESB)

CA-LISA (virtual Services)

JMS (MQ)

RAD/Eclipse

Websphere (WAS & WPS)

Hibernate

Spring

JSF/JSP/HTML

Portlets

HP Loadrunner

HP QTP

Shunra network performance testing

TRAINING

Management:

Effective supervisor training

Behavioral interviewing

Tandem (HP NonStop)

Open Systems Services NonStop Server Fundamentals

Open Systems Services Advanced Commands and Utilities

NonStop SQL/MP DataBase Management

NonStop SQL/MX DataBase Quickstart

NonStop SQL/MP programming

NonStop SQL/MX programming

NonStop Query design for performance

Native mode debugging and compiling

Java4 API programming for nonstop servers

Carr-Scott – Escort Installation and Management

Carr-Scott – Escort Advanced Data Mapping

Carr-Scott – AutoTMF Installation and Management

Testing/QA

Mercury QuickTest Pro (automated functionality testing)

Mercury LoadRunner (load testing)

Shunra network performance testing

Reporting:

Cognos frameworks

Cognos report Studio

ETL:

Ab Initio basics

IBM Mainframe:

DataBase concepts (Data modeling)

DB2 for OS/390 & z/OS

Programming with DB2

VSAM

Distributed (Web):

Java 1.4x/1.5/1.6

JPA

J2EE

WebServices

Spring

Hibernate

EJB

MQ

PATHWAY

INSPECT

NETBATCH

TMF

Nonstop SQL (MP/MX)

ENSCRIBE

COBOL85

SCOBOL

Binder/NLD/NOFT

ZOS

COBOLII

SCLM

TWS

DB2/VSAM

JCL

NDM (Connect:Direct)

COGNOS Studio

COGNOS Framework

MESSAGEWAY (Tandem)

XWAY Translator

PRIMECODE (RMS source control) EDIKIT Translator

SMARTCASE

SAFEGUARD

SQL MAGIC

ANSI X12

CARR-SCOTT ESCORT

ITP Web Server (Tomcat)

UN/EDIFACT

Subversion

CVS

PVCS