Accomplished IT professional who managed and worked on advanced technology operations for leading financial organizations.

1. MICHAEL R. TIERNEY
Mobile: 516-241-7988
mrptierney@hotmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelrtierney
IT PROJECT LEADER ~ SENIOR PROGRAMMER / ANALYST
Driving Bottom-Line Success for Leading Financial Corporations
Managerial and Hands-on Expertise in
Critical Applications | Bulk Data and Transaction Processing | Data Reduction Solutions
Accomplished IT professional who manages advanced technology operations for leading financial organizations.
Mainframe storage management and data reduction expert: Initiated and managed numerous projects
expanding storage capacity, streamlining data and optimizing efficiency with minimal or no disruption to business
operations.
 Createddata conversion programfor major storageexpansionproject enablinggreaterefficiencywith minimal
disruption.
 Served as SME to accelerate mainframeprocessing timesbyup to 12 hourswith datareduction ofup to 50 GB.
 Enhancedcustomer experienceandcorporateimagebytakingthe initiativeto improvefinancial statement
presentation.
Management and Technical Strengths
 Mainframe Computer  Project Management & Methodologies Virtual Storage
 Data Storage and Processing  Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)  Data Reduction
 Business Systems Analysis  Troubleshooting/Testing / Resolution Quality Assurance
 High Availability & Scalability  Software Development & Management Communications
 Capacity Planning & Management  Technical Support / Technical Writing Conversions & Migrations
Technology Profile
Software / Tools: COBOL / COBOL II; MVS/JCL; TSO/ISPF; File-AID; Easytrieve; ChangeMan; IDMS; CICS;
Librarian; Abend-AID; Lotus Expeditor; VSAM; Endeavor; DB2
Hardware: IBM 3090; CMOS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS  Brentwood, NY, 2017-3/Present
The leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for the financial services industry.
Consultant Senior Programmer / Analyst
Part of team working on a statement redesign for one of Broadridge Financial Solutions largest clients.
All programming was done using COBOL unless otherwise noted.
Key contributions:
 Created report programs that generatedreportsto allow faster ways to check on client statement creation.
 Modifiedjcl and control cards per client request to stopfunctionsbeing performed.
 Created program to generatea report and set up a warning asthedatasets approached a set percentageof used
space. Created a procedure to use program and added to establishedjobs so that theexecution wouldalign with
themonth-endstatement creation.
 Changed programs according to specificationsto createnecessary filesfor use in statement creation.
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 Created a program to report on messages assignedto accountsand to summarize thenumber of
messages/accounts that werepresent with statements.
 Created the necessary jcl (job card and proc) to run theprogram and send out emailswith thesummary report
and load thedetail report to Ondemand system.
 Created a program to take a pipe delimitedfileand convert it to a filethat can be used as input to an Exstream
module for fully paid lending reporting on statements.
 Created necessary jcl (job card and proc) to run theprogramand send out an email for receipt of a pipe
delimitedfile.
All jcl was created according to existing systems specifications.
All programs and jcl are running on mainframebatch systems.
HSBC  Buffalo, NY, 2016-6/2017-2
One of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, has been connecting Americans to global
opportunities since 1865.
Consultant Senior Programmer / Analyst
Brought in to work on a system redesign of the debit/credit card mainframe batch systems.
Key contributions:
 Converted SAS programs to COBOL programs used for reporting on thedebit/credit card activity.Worked on
existing COBOL batch programs to bring up to new user specifications. VerifiedJCL changesfor conversion to
TWS platform.
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS  Brentwood, NY, 2015-9/2015-12
The leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for the financial services industry.
Consultant Senior Programmer / Analyst
Charged with building system to run 1099 statement trial runs for client and creating jobs necessary to load 1042S
statementsto a Quality Assurance system for client inspection.Also implemented changesto programs to accommodate
necessary file changes for Regulatory changes.
Key contributions:
 1099Statement TrialRun System: As senior programmer analyst created a system to create 1099
statements and load them to an online system to allow clients to inspect them for any possible display
errors. This will allow clients to request changes prior to the creation of 1099 statements for distribution to
individual accounts.
 Developed effective trial run system that increased efficiency whileminimizing operational impact.
 1042S Statement Enhancements and QA Online Storage loads : Implemented changes to the 1042S
batch program to create input file to Exstream module that accommodated the regulatory changes for 2016.
Created necessary jobs to load files onto QA online system for client inspection and approval.
MORGAN STANLEY  New York, NY, 1998-6/2015
$37B American multinational financial services corporation.
Associate Senior Programmer / Analyst
Charged with oversight and maintenance of mainframe systems feeding Teradata tables that support financial statement
creation,with simultaneousoversight of90 jobs and >100 programs. In managerial and hands-on rolesexecuted necessary
modifications; researched and ran inquiries against Teradata tables to troubleshoot and fix identified issues.
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Mainframe systems were COBOL programs, syncsort statements, and some easytrieve.
Key contributions:
 Core Data Storage SystemExpansion: Served as Project Lead to direct storage system expansion project
with maximum efficiency and minimal downtime.
 Developed effective data conversion program in COBOL that increased efficiency while minimizing
operational impact.
 Statement Formatting Enhancement: Enhanced customer experience and organizational success by
improving financial statement design and delivery.
Analyzed, identified, and configured mainframe system to optimize statement content and formatting.
 Mainframe to DistributedSystemMigration: Playedkeyrole as SME on teamthat convertedfrommainframe
to distributedcomputing system.
 Acceleratedtransaction processingtimesbyup to 12 hourswith datareduction ofup to 50 GB.
 Check Payee Maintenance System: Developedautomated system to capture,update, andupload payee data
enteredpost- closing dateandapply it to followingmonth’sstatement. Programsto collect andupdatedatawere
COBOL, fileswereuploaded to a Teradatatablefor use in thedistributedsystem.
 OverallCycle Time and Data Reduction: Coordinated with team members to streamline system operations
and increase efficiency.
 Configuredbatch window to allow jobs to start and end earlier.
 Eliminatedredundant recordsand accelerated processing time66% on a critical jobby inserting sorts.
 Resolved a SOC7 error by reconfiguring numeric fields in a syncsort parameter set.
 IT Security & AssetManagement: Establishedsecurityprofilesto defineproduction access levelsfor individual
programmers, including setting upfinal profilesfor TechnologyAsset Inventorytracking systems.
New systems improved securityand efficiencyby matching employee to task and eliminating redundancy.
 File Management: Created VSAM file index for reporting foreign currency positions on statements.
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Served in prior role as Project Lead Senior Analyst for Publisher’s Clearing House in Port Washington, NY.
EDUCATION
Majored in Accounting
Pace University  New York, NY