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Professional Summary:

  • 12 years of experience in IBM Mainframe applications and 2 years of experience in VB/ORACLE.
  • Extensive experience with analyzing, designing, development, maintenance, enhancement, testing and Production support.
  • Experience in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC from initial requirements through analysis, design, development and management of successful software applications and implementation of production as well.
  • Extensive programming in OS/390, Z/OS, Visualage COBOL, UNIX, PL/SQL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX, IDMS, Betrieve , CICS, SQL.
  • Extensive use of TSO, FILEAID, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, QMF, TSO/ISPF, IBM UTILITIES, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, FTP,TCP/IP,PL/1, EZYTRIEVE, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, ABEND AID, GENTRAN,INTERTEST, CA7, CA11 , BMC LOAD , BMC UNLOAD, CONNECT DIRECT, NDM,RDZ
  • Experience in middleware MQ SERIES messaging system.
  • Experience in IDMS
  • Expertise in using MQ Series to connect/disconnect programs from a queue manager, open/close connections with queue manager and to put/get the messages on queues and message queuing.
  • Extensively worked with SQL PERFORMANCE TUNING, DB2 BIND and DB2 EXPLAIN.
  • Extensive domain knowledge in the diversified fields of Insurance, Automotive,

Banking sectors.

  • Expertise in Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing, creating different Test cases, Documentation, Plans and different Reports.
  • Having an attitude of willing to learn, accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results at the said duration by constantly motivating the concerned teams to provide the best solutions to the clients.
  • Ability to take and give directions, instructions and provide assistance through completion of tasks.
  • Posses good interpersonal skills keen understanding of fundamental business processes and shall be able to determine existing and future information needs of any large multi location organization.

Technical Skills:

  • Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, PENTIUM PC
  • Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX, WINDOWS- 98/XP
  • Languages: COBOL, Assembler programming,SQL, PL/SQL, SAS, JCL/PROC, REXX
  • Databases: DB2, IMS DB, IDMS,VSAM, ORACLE, Betrieve
  • TP Monitor: CICS, IMS DC
  • Middleware: MQ SERIES
  • Tools Utilities: VISION PLUS, PUPS, OMEGAMON, VSAM, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, SDF2, FILE-AID, INTERTEST, NDM, ABEND-AID, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF TSO/E, SYNCSORT, BMC UTILITIES,GENTRAN
  • IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, FILEAID FOR DB2, FILEAID FOR IMS DB, BLOCK DIAGRAMS, FLOW CHARTS
  • Desktop Tools: MSOFFICE, MS ACCESS, MS EXCEL, MS PROJECT, MS VISIO, LOTUS NOTES
  • Reporting Tools: EZYTRIEVE

Professional Experience:

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, MQ Series,Java, Business objects and Cognos, Debugger Tool, Endeavor

Description:

  • Confidential DB2 database. Web Pages are coded in Java and run on a UNIX platform. Data can be accessed using Business Objects and Cognos.
  • rebuild of the commercial Default Database CDD is due to Business requirements and automation which are need now.

Responsibilities:

  • Coding the new CICS programs as per the business requirement document.
  • Updating Technical design document, Front end specification and Function design documents as per the assigned programs.
  • Modifying the CICS programs as per the new requirements which are mentioned in BRD.
  • Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
  • Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
  • Executing Test cases in CDWA Development Region and CDWB System Test region .
  • Create and maintain JCL's and Control Cards in Test environment.
  • Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
  • Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
  • Working on Batch programs as well.
  • Writing new conversion programs and loading and unloading data from existing tables to new tables.
  • Attending weekly status calls with offshore and status calls with client.

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential

Technologies: Windows NT and 2008, Visual Age COBOL, REXX, Betrieve Database, Changeman, Debugger Tool

Description:

Confidential is an on-line, real-time system which provides the mechanism to administer individual insurance. A system comprised of on-line screens, Confidential provides for entry of information dealing with all aspects of a client and his or her business with the insurance company. In addition, accounting ledgers are updated and all necessary reports are produced in scheduled batch processing runs.

Responsibilities:

  • Work on the IT work requests and heat tickets which are assigned through the ITWR and Heat system.
  • Analyzing IT work requests and providing estimates to each of the work request.
  • Working on RFC's every month for Production release.
  • Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
  • Write, test and debug the COBOL/REX/CICS programs.
  • Writing unit test scripts and documenting the unit test results.
  • Uploading all the test results to Quality Center.
  • Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
  • Worked on Region Refresh activity.
  • Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
  • Executing Test cycles in all 9 regions of CAPSIL application as a part of migration project activity.
  • Create and maintain REXX and Control Cards in Test environment.
  • Used Changeman for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
  • Creation of changeman package and promoting to different environments like Dev/model/support regions.
  • Converting online modules to batch modules to support Capsil application.
  • Preparation of program/Job documentation at technical and functional levels.
  • Coordinating with the teams such as Support team for access related issues, Server team for data restoration from backups etc.
  • Coordination with offshore Team and point of contact for offshore team.
  • Setting up weekly status calls with offshore and attending status calls with client.
  • Experience in offshore/onshore model.

Team Leader

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Java, HTML, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, CA-7, XPEDITOR, Change man

Description:

Confidential Management System application is developed for the Marketing and Sales division of Ford Motor Company. The Government Fleet Sales group is a small group that handles the vehicle ordering process for the US Government and all of its agencies.

Responsibilities:

  • Analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and deployment of mainframe projects for FOMS.
  • Involve in full life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.
  • Resolve ongoing issues or defects.
  • Analyze and study the business requirements.
  • Create technical design documents and functional specification documents for the FOMS project.
  • Participate in Peer Review meetings and Status meetings with team.
  • Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces.
  • Deliver the changed components along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
  • Involved in support of Jobs being changed and developed as a release process.
  • Prepare a System document explaining the detail of changes done in the system.
  • Involve in increasing the performance of System by solving the existing bugs.
  • Writing New Jobs and new programs to extract the data from IMS and DB2 databases.
  • Writing new jobs to load data into mainframe flat files.
  • Done a couple of enhancements on increasing field lengths and retrieving data from history tables.

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, DC , SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-7, XPEDITOR, OMEGAMON

Description:

Confidential system was designed to allow users to make enquiries about feature releasing and code mapping and to request and to provide an explanation of many functions and options available to the user when working with GEMSL.

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in kick off meeting with Business user to understand the requirement and frame the business rules.
  • Do Initial analysis and provide high-level estimate.
  • Discuss the possible deployment date with other team and start work accordingly.
  • Delegate some request to offshore team with initial analysis. For these requests, clarify any queries of offshore team, follow up to complete technical specification, coding, unit testing and Integration testing.
  • Complete detail analysis for high priority work and prepare Technical specification document.
  • Invite business analyst, tester and any other programmer to participate in technical specification inspection meeting.
  • Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces and complete coding, unit testing and Integration testing for request.
  • Participate in Peer review with Quality control team. Give them all necessary instruction regarding the changes.
  • Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
  • Apart from regular business need, try to fix any critical problem in production.
  • Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
  • Prepare Root- cause-Analysis document.
  • Submitted proposal in setting up the change management process for business rules.
  • Update E-Knowledge repository with any new business rule, processing change etc.

Sr.Software Engineer

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, DC , SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON

Description:

Confidential usage. This system is based on the concept of assigning the codes to represent features.MSL provides a central electronic library for product definition data for FORD and Jaguar vehicles manufactured in European Plants and may also include some data for vehicles sold in Europe but sourced outside of Europe and European engineered vehicles manufactured in FAP markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze the existing system and the specifications provided by the client.
  • Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
  • Wrote and tested COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs.
  • Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
  • Documenting the test results in unit test results.
  • Create and maintain JCL, Proc's and Control Cards in Test environment.
  • Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
  • Used IDCAMS for performing various operations on VSAM data sets
  • Worked with Version control using Change man.
  • Used change man for creation, checkout, modification, compiling, Auditing, freezing and promoting the packages to production level.

Sr.Software Engineer 06

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON

Description:

Confidential control and Reorder system is a corporate European system which embraces all aspects of the administration and control of non-production material. An online link to SNOOPIE System Non Production online order processing in Europe allows order and parts data to be processed.

Responsibilities:

  • Monitor the batch flows and remedy tool for the job abends.
  • Resolve job abends in a timely manner by coordinating with application support person.
  • Re-run/force completes the jobs as application support person instructions.
  • Coordination with operation support teams for the scheduling changes in Job Trac.
  • Modification, creating new JCL's according to requirement of the projects.
  • Create and maintain JCL, PROCS, and Control Cards.
  • Coordination with operation support teams for defining the job requirements and triggers in CA- Job Trac.
  • Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
  • Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
  • Experience in offshore/onshore model.
  • Enhancements did as per the new requirements.
  • Created COBOL/DB2 new Procs and JCL's and done unit testing for the new module.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE

Description:

Confidential is a system which supports for several insurance plans as Life, Accident Health, Marian,Travel,Property ,Energy ,Contingency, Constructions Financial Services. are the benefits of Accident health AH .Self,family,self insured parents and family insured parents are the options on VAG.It includes the benefits AD,DM include paralysis,PTD,Educational benefits, Family transportation,modification of house/vehicle and remains for subscriber,spouse,2 children Insured Parents.

Responsibilities:

  • Monitor the batch flows and resolve the job abends in a timely manner.
  • Participated in deployment activities for moving the code to production.
  • Production support for various Batch systems.
  • Posting of the job requirements and restart the jobs as rerun instructions.
  • Retrieving the COBOL programs from production using Endevor.
  • Fix the JCL/Job abends in production .
  • Run the RUNSTATS jobs every month in different DB2 regions.
  • Create and run adhoc reports using QMF/Spufi.
  • Define the jobs requirements and triggers in CA-7.
  • Define the jobs in CA-7 and schedule the jobs in CA-7.
  • Modification, creating new JCL's according to the requirements of the project.
  • Modified existing programs using COBOL as per the requirement.
  • Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records.
  • Involved in writing the stored procedures using COBOL and DB2.
  • Moving the modified programs, Proc's to production after testing has been completed.
  • Wrote the new and tested COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs.
  • Modified COBOL/DB2/CICS existing programs
  • Documenting the unit test results.

Confidential

Project Name: Transaction Information Control system

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON, VSAM, IMS DB

Description:

In Transaction Information Control System, we are dealing with General module. The General module consists of Users maintenance, Transactions maintenance and Cash transfer transactions. Reports like Cash Payments and receipt registers are generated in this module. Clearing module deals with capturing inward and outward cheques, posting of clearing transactions, maintaining return cheques information and sends the cheques to service branch. Reports like inward and outward clearing registers, inward and outward return cheques are generated in this module.

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in analysis of the system to understand the existing functionality.
  • Created a business Use Cases.
  • Documentations of Requirement and Design.
  • Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
  • Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
  • Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
  • Assisted in setting up the change management process for business rules.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, IDMS, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON, VSAM.

Description:

Confidential ,is aimed to computerizing all the activities of Confidential: Modules of the system include Registration of new Business,Nature of Business And concerned branches/godowns/factories, modification of existing Registered details, deletion of Registered details Etc.,handling Monthly wise returns, providing certificates, Summary Reports for every Month, detailed Reports of all the information.

Responsibilities:

  • Created a business Use Cases.
  • Documentations of Requirement and Design.
  • Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
  • Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
  • Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document

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