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Executive Vice President and Chief Retail Operations Officer

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• 13 years experience as application programmer/systems analyst for life and health insurance company. Responsibilities included system design and analysis and program coding, testing, installation and maintenance of both batch and IMS online applications. • 9 years experience as Systems Analyst and Associate Systems Programmer, responsible for installation and maintenance of many mainframe developer tools. Worked on installation, maintenance, implementation, training and administration of ISPW, an ISPF based change and configuration management tool. Additional duties in the Systems Programming area, included serving as a member of the corporate Application Programmer Help Desk, providing assistance to the company's Application Programming community. • 1 year experience as Senior Systems Analyst in Data Warehousing area. Responsibilities include gathering data from application areas in the company and loading it to common tables in Teradata databases. • 10 years experience as Systems Analyst in Mainframe Developer Support Services area. In this position, my duties include serving on on-call rotation with responsibility for level 1 and some level 2 mainframe application developer problems and questions, liaison between application developers and operation/system programming staff and temporary assignments as project leader/member on various application initiatives, including conversion from OS/VS COBOL to COBOL for MVS project and CA-Easytrieve Plus conversion project. During my time in both Systems Programming and Mainframe Developer Support Services I have gained considerable knowledge of RACF and its role in protecting corporate data from improper access. I have worked extensively with resources in both Security Architecture and Information Security to assist in maintaining the RACF rules that govern access to the ISPW product and the files it controls.Specialties: I have over 15 years experience adminstrating, supporting and customizing ISPW, an ISPF-based change and configuration management tool.