Wendy Z.

IT Specialist

Avon Lake, OH, United States

Details

Education: The Ohio State University

1989 : 1993

Experience: 2022 : Present

DFAS

IT Cybersecurity Specialist

2021 : 2022

DFAS

IT Specialist

Mainframe Application Developer, Tester & ScrumMaster responsible for leading, supporting and enhancing 9+ stores applications.

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Tech Lead for Sovos’ Sales/Use Tax System (Taxware) and GeoTax mainframe final sales tax calculation processing for all Macy's and Bloomingdale's online orders as well as shipped sales from all 600+ stores.

• SME and Tech Lead for Pitney Bowes’ Code-1 mainframe address standardization processing used by multiple applications within Macy's.Manually tested application and tested new common service using Swagger UI

• Certified ScrumMaster for Stores Operations and Development teams.

• Support Gift Registry application used in 600+ stores by 700+ store colleagues. Responsible for analysis, DB2 and Stored Procedure changes as well as basic UI and Java services code changes using git, Sublime and Eclipse. In 2019, Registry business contributed 74 million in sales with 87K registries. Tested gift web app UI and service changes via manual testing, postman and SOAP UI.

• Tech lead and tester to convert Mainframe legacy BIN range processing to new Java Spring Batch process using new WorldPay BIN file for all Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores Point of Sale processing.

• Support Micros Restaurant back end processing to post restaurant sales to mainframe Register Processing system.

• Completed Java Fundamentals training.

2018 : 2020

Macy's

Lead Software Engineer

• Tech Lead for EMV Merchant project. Responsible for analysis to authorize EMV chip cards for all Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores. Worked with business partners to complete project requirements and led team in tech specs, coding and testing.

• Developed a high level design to convert to ISO 8583 authorization format. Led team in coding, testing and deployment.

• Analyzed, coded, and tested changes for new credit statement process.

• Dev Lead for implementation of contactless card and Google Wallet authorizations.

2011 : 2018

Macy's

Senior Analyst

• Dev Lead for project to automate the removal of out dated credit accounts. Developed and tested criteria for purging accounts.

• Re-designed, coded and implemented a flexible settlement process to pull sales and send 3rd party settlement information to acquirer to ensure daily settlement timelines were met

• Completed analysis, specs, coding and testing for several projects using COBOL, CICS, Datacom and JCL.

2008 : 2011

Macy's Systems and Technology

Programmer Analyst II

Company: DFAS

Years of Experience: 24

Skills agile methodologies, Analytical Skills, Application Development, Batch Processing, BIN, business analysis, cobol, COBOL II, EMV, Fileaid, IBM DB2, ibm mainframe, integration, jcl, JIRA, leadership, Mainframe, oracle sql developer, Postman API, Programming, Project Management, requirements analysis, requirements gathering, Sales & Use Tax, Scrum, scrum master, SoapUI, Software Development, software development life cycle (sdlc), software project management, SQL, Stored Procedures, System Testing, Tax, Team Leadership, testing, TSO, visio, sdlc, Software Project, java, hp application lifecycle management, csm

About Mainframe Software Developer and Certified ScrumMaster with over 20 years of professional experience analyzing, designing and implementing critical applications. Strong written and oral communication skills with excellent leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.