ROBINSON YU CASTRO

Al Malaz , Ar Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

+966 592544933
;
+63917 8428402

castrorobinson@yahoo.com ; castrorobinson@hotmail.com
SUMMARY

Mr. Robinson Castro has 11 years of solid experience in the IT industry having both business and
technical related roles.
He designed and developed several programs in COBOL, DB2 and SYBASE for clients in the
industry of Banking/Finance, Health Care and ERP Supply Chain.
He has working knowledge in Cobol II, DB2, SYBASE, MVS/OS390, VSAM, JCL, SPUFI,
Platinum, XPEDITER, Endeavor, Changeman and CM Synergy.
He has working experience in design, development, unit testing and implementation of SQL
Stored Procedures, SQL Triggers and other SQL scripts.
He was also involved in analyzing technical support operations and delivering product support
and customer case analysis reports.
He has extensive exposure of the software development life cycle and was involved and exposed
in almost all the phase of SDLC from gathering client requirements, database design,
development, testing and product support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Applications:
Languages:
Tools:
Databases:

Banking Channel Payment

Banking Customer Information
COBOL
JCL
SPUFI
Platinum
DB2
SYBASE
VSAM

Mail order Healthcare

ERP Supply Chain
UNIX scripts
DELPHI
File-Aid
CM Synergy
WinSQL PL/SQL
Interbase

TRAININGS
Total Quality Management (September 2013)

Bank Immunization Security (June 2012)

ATS Advance JCL (November 2006)

ATS IMS Programming (August 2006)

ATS COBOL Programming (August 2005)

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Computer Applications,
De La Salle College of Saint Benilde (October 2001)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Company: SAMBA Financial Group

April 2012 Present
Position Title: Senior Analyst Consultant
Client: SAMBA (formerly CITIBANK K.S.A.)
Description: Development and Support of existing Channel Payment system
Role:
applied code fixes on valid issues raised by clients while observing the service level
agreement for different priority tickets
conducted code peer reviews, unit test, system test and UAT test on impacted
modules
developed enhancements on existing Samba Payable applications
provided support to Corporate banking operations (e.g. Payment Reconciliation)
Project: SANCTION REPAIR QUEUE (4 months)
Introduce repair queue for Sanction matches during SARIE (local interbank)
transactions where Samba Phone Banking will work on the alert and make the transaction to
proceed.
Project: Initial Public Offering Direct Upload (2 months)
Introduce direct upload in IPO system where users can upload and process IPO
subscriptions via file base on 3 rd party Floatation manager. This will remove the need for
other subscription entry tools.
Project: SARIE Reconciliation Report (1 month)
The aim of the project is to help with SARIE (Inter-bank) payment reconciliation.
Environment: Unix/Script environment. For reporting and deliverables MS Word and MS
Excel were used.
Company: Headstrong Philippines
March 2011 April 2012
Position Title: Senior Consultant
Client: CVS Caremark (Mail Order and Operations Datamart)
Description: Part of the Mail order and Operations Datamart team
Role:
analyzed high level design documents and created detailed designed documents
based on high level design ; produced test plan/test scripts
developed Cobol codes, JCL DB2 and PL/SQL using WinSQL
ensured deliverables and documents adheres to clients standard and CMMI Level 3
processes
Environment: MVS/OS390, COBOL, DB2, JCL, IBM Debug Tool, Changeman, PL/SQL,
SDSF, and other Mainframe Utilities. For reporting and deliverables MS Word and MS
Excel were used.

Company: Lawson PSSC

September 2007 February 2011
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer
Client: Lawson Supply Chain System (Procurement)
Description: Development and support of existing Lawson Supply Chain system
Role:
applied code fixes on valid issues raised by clients while observing the service level
agreement for different priority tickets
conducted code peer reviews, unit testing and regression testing on impacted
modules
developed enhancements on existing procurement applications
Environment: Lawson Unix environment. For reporting and deliverables MS Word and MS
Excel were used.
Company: Accenture Philippines
April 2005 August 2007
Position Title: Software Engineer
Client: Barclays Bank UK
Description: Enterprise System and Data Services Customer Information System
Role:
analyzed high level design documents and created detailed designed documents
based on high level design
developed Cobol codes based on detailed design documents
produced test plan/test scripts
ensured deliverables and documents adheres to clients standard and CMMI Level 5
processes
Environment: MVS/OS390, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Xpediter, Endeavor, SQL, SDSF, REXX
and other Mainframe Utilities.
Company: Cognigent Inc.
March, 2003 - April, 2005
Position Title: Software Engineer
Description: Solutions provider for small and mid-sized Philippine Comapanies
Role:
Coordinate and gather system requirements from clients and do high level design
Created database using Interbase 6
Code modules based on high level design using DELPHI then doing component
testing and system testing
Install and support client on Payroll and Time keeping System
Project: Payroll and Time Keeping System (2 years)
This is a generic payroll and time keeping system developed from scratch to serve
mid-size companies here in the Philippines.
Environment: Windows 97, DELPHI 6, Interbase, Reportsmith.