1. 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.)

2.  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