Eric Somer, CSPO, CSM

Banking Technology | Mainframe Integration & Development | IT Application Leadership & Management | Agile Delivery

Park City, Utah, United States

About

Leading Banking and Financial Application Roadmap Delivery through Collaboration, Agile Methodologies, and Industry Leading Best Practices. I enjoy driving solutions to exceed expectations and delight the customer through a "Blue Sky" vision coupled with Agile "Get it Done" delivery. Creating a business and technical environment of delivery, possibility, and continuous business evolution. My stakeholders can always speak to “What was delivered, what is next, and where we are headed” SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS: Leadership: • Business Application Roadmap • Customer Relations • RFP Selection • Vendor Management • Application Crisis Management Business Process Expertise: • Core Banking Modernization • Collection / Recovery / Bankruptcy / Probate • New Account and Dispute Case Management • BPM / Document Management • SOX / TCPA / CFPB Risk Mitigation • FICO Debt Manager / Documentum / HP Xtreme Integration • TATA BaNCS / Dragon Fly UOB Technical / Project Expertise: • Enterprise Application Road-Mapping • Software Center of Excellence • DB2 / MQ / Oracle / My-SQL / COBOL / VSAM / IBM IDz • Master Data Management (MDM) • Agile - Scrum / SAFe • Use Case / User Story • PDP / Waterfall

Experience

  • Consultant Mainframe Lead Architect Programmer at Central Bank
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    - Integrate TCS BaNCS Java Services using Swagger Rest APIs via CICS JSON Parsing. Skills: DB2, BMC Workbench, CICS, COBOL

  • Consultant Mainframe Lead Architect Programmer at America First Credit Union
    Sep 2024 - Mar 2025 · 7 mos

    Consultant Mainframe Lead Architect Programmer - Data Normalization - Split out multiple Customer attributes across Databases - Data Modernization - Sync Data between VSAM, DB2, and Oracle - Successfully installed multiple production releases with no issues. Skills: IBM Eclipse IDz · DB2 · COBOL · SQL · CICS · Toad · Debug

  • Consultant Mainframe Lead Architect Programmer at Zions Bancorporation
    Dec 2019 - Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    - Architected Treasury Banking Systems integration for a Core Banking Modernization Platform in support of 10 billion dollar deposit portfolio. Technical Lead Architect and Developer for the complete development life cycle. Provided Advanced Design, Functionality, and Stability of interfaces while meeting or exceeding all business and technical requirements in migration from TriSyn to TCS BaNCS software. - Integrated TCS Consultancy Services BaNCS application to NextGen, Purity, Fiserv's Data Exchange, and Dragon Fly's Universal Online Banker (UOB) Cash Management platforms. - Built Health Check/ Data Integrity process to ensure Core Banking data issues were not allowed to cascade into interfaced applications. - Built SLA solution that leverages an MQ distributed to Mainframe Pub/Sub to deliver EOD Financials an hour earlier in line with Key Client expectations. Created multi-data source implementation that allows application redundancy. - Established Doman-based correlation tables for mapping between applications to enhance application functionality and speed of delivery. - Added advanced logging to critical processes which has ensured application stability and rapid application issue resolution. - Successfully installed major production releases in April 2023 and April 2024 with over 100 objects with no significant issues.

  • Discover Financial Services (11 yrs 1 mo)
    • SR. Consultant Application Architect
      2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

      - Developed and executed on Enterprise Technology and Functional Road Maps for Card and Bank Collections Systems; encompassing Technology and Data Structures across Customer Contact, Dialer Integration, Vendor Management, TCPA and ECOA Compliance, Payment Programs, and Event Driven Queuing processes. - Mapped & Migrated Student Loan Portfolios into the Enterprise Banking Collection platform. Completed Data migration and validation. - Delivered all team releases using Agile Scrum Increments. Partnered with CSPO to define Agile MPI and CBA analysis to produce high-value monthly releases and lowered delivery by 4 months.

    • Senior IT Manager | Consultant: Enterprise Architect - Recovery
      2013 - 2016 · 3 yrs

      - Forged Strong Client Vendor Relationship with # 1 Debt Collection and Recovery Software Provider. - Spearheaded Vendor User Forum Discussions framing future enhancements and critical capabilities for large enterprises. Collaboratively resolved scalability challenges. - Reduced Missed SLAs from 30% in 4th QTR 2013 to 1% by 2nd QTY 2014 by tuning ETLs, SQL and DB structures.

    • Senior Information Technology Manager
      2007 - 2013 · 6 yrs

      Created and Implemented Technical Roadmaps for Field Solutions, Disputes, Recovery and Collection Applications Early Adopter and Implementor of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Amazon Web Service (AWS), Hadoop, and Gradle. (Card Inventory / Embossing) • Revitalized team and faltering application after compromised rewrite by resetting business' expectations and priorities. Repaired business trust with regular, high-quality releases. (Cardmember Disputes) • Member of RFP Selection & POC Team for Case Management BPM software. Pega Systems CRM vs IBM Lombardi. (Cardmember Disputes) • Created Center of Excellence Program for Industry Leading Document Management Product. Established Enterprise best practices and mentoring program. (Documentum) • Implemented outsourced development and support model for 150+ field and headquarters RAD applications built using Java, Cold Fusion, Oracle, and My-SQL. (Enterprise RAD Applications) • Pioneered Internship Program for Utah IT successfully recruiting half a dozen high-quality candidates. Technical Training: AWS, GIT, Spring boot, Java

  • Application Architect at Morgan Stanley
    1997 - 2007 · 10 yrs

    Led the Development, Integration and Stability of Credit Card Recovery and Collection Applications for Mastercard and Discover Card products. Applications: Recovery (Recovery Management System) | Collections Training: DB2 | CICS