Christopher J. Butler

4 North Kingscroft Drive

Bear, Delaware 19701

    (302) 562-8782 / ChrisJButler2008@YAHOO.COM

                                                                           

SUMMARY

A results oriented, and motivated professional with experience in computer programming, analysis and project management.  Display strong sense of ownership to drive projects by using leadership and communication skills.  Provide quality and on time, cost efficient solutions by successfully working across platforms and organizational structures.  An organized planner and innovative thinker: that consistently pursues new challenges to stretch abilities, expand knowledge, and bring greater returns to the company.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SQL                             COBOL                       JCL                              Word

DTS Packages                          IMS DB/DC                 TSO/ISPF                     Excel               

BRIO                           DB2                             FILEAID                      Pivot Tables

Power Point                  Easytrieve                     ChangeMan                  Visio                

 

CAREER EXPERIENCE

American Express, Newark, Delaware                                                                                              2003 - 2009

            Senior Programmer Analyst                                                                                      

New Development                                                                                                      2008 - 2009

·         Lead analyst for streamlining the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) of Charge Card data resulting in the reduction of 15 production jobs and modified 16 others; saving $11,000 annually. 

·         Decommission Legacy Billing System feeds to multiple ETL processes; resulted in the reduction of 45 production jobs and modified 10 others jobs, saving $4,000 annually.

·         Created Design Specifications as needed. Coded, tested and implemented all program modifications.

 

Data Management                                                                                                      2006 – 2008

·         Streamlined the Extraction, Transformation and Loading of Membership Rewards data: reduced monthly production clock hours by forty percent (40%).

·         Analyst for all phase for the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the Monthly ETL production processing for Membership Rewards Tracking System including planning, design, analysis, coding, implementing, maintenance and balancing using IBM mainframe and data warehouse.

·         System Matter Expert (SME) for Membership Rewards for the department.

·         Resolved abends on mainframe and server for four major ETL processes. 

·         Created design specifications for system modification using system knowledge and business intelligence.

·         Developed numerous SQL Server queries to load, update or delete Data Warehouse Tables.

 

Custom Support                                                                                                          2003 - 2006

·         Designed, created and processed over 120 projects for Lending on Charge and Charge Card portfolios reports; used by Finance and Marketing Departments to drive American Express product development and business decisions.  These reports were created using my system knowledge and business intelligence to assist the user in developing the criteria for the reports desired.

·         Developed and processed numerous compliance projects accurately and efficiently using the mainframe and SQL Server.

·         Developed Legacy Lending on Charge Account Receivable Projection reporting system

 

Achievements

·         Recognitions: 3 Gold Rings of Reward from the Customer for outstanding service, 16 Shackleton Awards for team work and 32 Thank You Certificates from American Express Staff members.

·         Managed Lunch-N-Learn sessions and trained Finance SQL users on Membership Rewards datamart table elements and usage.

           

 

 

Megaforce (Consultant)           , Springfield, Illinois                                                                                2002 – 2003

            Senior Programmer Analyst                          

·         Assisted in developing State of Illinois compliance with Medicare mandated HIPPA implementation using IMS.

·         Maintained Hospital Billing programs for State of Illinois.

 

Ajilon (Consultant), Weston, Florida                                                                                           2000 - 2002

            Senior Application Development Specialist                                                              

·         Created mainframe portion of the first systematic event triggered e-mail project for Amex. This enhancement became the standard for sending e-mail servicing communications using IMS and DB2.

·         Franklin Award Outstanding Client Service in 2001.

 

            MODIS (Consultant), Weston, Florida                                                                                       1998 - 2000

            Senior Analyst              

·         Modified over 250 batch programs an associated JCL’s, and Proc’s for the Y2K project and COBOL 370 conversion for Account Receivables at American Express.

·         Converted programs in seven other AMEX systems to COBOL 370.

·         Served as Lead Analyst for successful Disaster Recovery preparation and test.

·         Assisted AR team members in production abends and related resolutions.

 

United Information Technology (Consultant), Hoover. Alabama                                              1997 – 1998

·         Responsible for assisting Quality Assurance test group in all facets of test a batch and online system. 

 

Computer Horizon Corporation (Consultant), Tampa, Florida                                                  1994 - 1997

·         Responsible for analyzing, coding, testing debugging, documenting and implementing enhancements in programs for IMS DB/DC online order transaction process and order, usage and billing system.

 

Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services State of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida       1990 – 1994

·         Managed a development team that assisted the State of Florida to convert the Public Assistance and Child Support Enforcement systems to a computerized system from a paper. 

·         Managed staff of 15

 

United States Air Force, Tyndall AFB, Panama City, Florida                                                    1985 – 1989

            Enhanced and optimize the radar image programs for air defense for US and Canada

           

            EDUCATION:

           

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Professional Management,                                                           1996

  Nova Southeastern University,                                                                                     Fort Lauderdale, Florida

           

            Associate Degree in Business Data Processing,                                                                          1980

              Berkshire Community College,                                                                                     Pittsfield, Massachusetts