David C. Swain

(708) 445-7568

1162 S. Cuyler Ave.

Oak Park, IL 60304

dswain100@yahoo.com

Professional

Profile

17 years of experience as an IT Services professional

Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Senior Developer for Enterprise level Financial Accounting

System (COBOL/JCL/CICS) -

current Workday HCM/Payroll

System (Cloud hosted)

maintenance and integrations

designer/builder – current

ITIL Foundations

Certification Java programming

certification, Oakton

Community College Career Computer

Program Certified, DePaul University

Focus programming

certification, Information Builders,

Inc.

Requirements determination and enterprise level applications systems design and analysis, 17 years experience

COBOL and COBOL II programming, 17 years experience

JCL programming, 17 years experience CICS programming, 17 years experience MVS and z/OS mainframe operating

systems, 17 years experience Databases: Currently using Oracle SQL

Developer; Currently using Oracle Business Objects; IBM DB2 training

Enterprise level production environment

support, 17 years experience Worked for 3 years as an information

analyst (consultant) for EDS (Electronic

Data Systems). Experience working on many software

platforms, from PCs to mainframes, determining business and technical requirements, designing, building,

testing, deploying, and maintaining various types of software applications.

Experienced in all stages of SLC and familiar with various approaches to software application development and

maintenance (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) Experience working in IT consulting.

Proven ability in rapid and independent learning of new systems, applications, languages and methodologies.

Excel in outside-the-box thinking

Professional

Accomplishments

Analysis and programming Analyze, develop and maintain large scale, complex integrations

between a Cloud based HCM/Payroll system and current financial, HR and payroll systems. Integrated systems across multiple University divisions (e.g., Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences

[including Medical Center], etc.)

Coordinated, for several years, the annual fiscal year-end close for a major university’s accounting system of record. This role involved coordinating with numerous financial services staff across the

university, and keeping several complex systems (debit and capital asset management, accounts payable, payroll, budget, etc.) in sync and

reconciled throughout the close. The results pass annual internal and external audits, and become the basis of the university’s annual financial statement.

Rewrote the integration and coordinated the testing between the university’s alumni development (gift receiving) system and the

accounting system of record. Analyzed and resolved complex problems in capital assets depreciation

calculations for a major research university. The results pass annual

external audits. Lead the redesign and deployment of a capital assets management

system’s fiscal year-end processing into a production environment at a major research university.

Lead the development of a software system that allows users to submit

batches of accounting transactions via Excel spreadsheets to be automatically loaded into an enterprise level accounting system of

record. This system has been running continuously in a major research university for the past 14 years.

Worked with business clients to determine the requirements, then

analyzed and coded a process to automatically reverse suspense account transactions from the hospital feeds to the university’s

accounting system. Automated complex error checking in tuition payment transactions

generated from web receipts.

Mentored other programmers/analysts in IT support for an enterprise level financial accounting system, and for other application software

support.

Award Recipient of The University of Chicago IT Services Excellence Award: “This award is given annually to IT Staff that have gone above and beyond, and had a

broad impact on IT Services, the University of Chicago, or nationally.” – Award

notification (August, 2015).

Education Ph.D.

The University of Chicago Chicago, IL December 16, 1994