Executive Summary

• An astute professional with over 15 years of experience in multiple platforms and different environments in the banking and IT industry.
• A Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer with hands on experience in application development. CAMS I Hogan Platform on both Issuer and Acquirer with Hierarchy database.
• CICS environment and CIS Hogan platform and Relational Database. Data Warehouse environment with Star schema database.
• A COBOL, DB2, Hogan programmer who has worked on Support and Maintenance, Project as well as Small Enhancement.
• Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
• Extensive experience in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Expertise in supporting Business and resolving their queries end to end in banking domain.
• An expert on a few core banking products and their interfaces.
• Experience in High Level Design, Detailed Design, Build, Testing and Support to Project Implementation
• Development activities in Mainframe Technology PL/1, COBOL, DB2, JCL .
• Including General Ledger, financial account transaction posting and the rules thereof.
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Expertise in using scheduling tool CA-7.
• Excellent knowledge of both Batch and Online Systems running on Mainframes.
• Extensively used debugging tools such as XPEDITOR.
• Expertise in delivering schemes compliance deployment.
• Worked on multiple projects at the same time, and delivered the projects as scheduled.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Worked on all phases of the project development life cycle right from Feasibility Study to Post-Implementation support.
• Experienced on Agile and Waterfall Methodology.
• The core banking product feeds, conversion to the Datawarehouse.
• Have worked with data extraction, migration, conversion, transformation and loading.
• Excellent facilitator who worked with the project team, support team, business users and change management team while on a cross functional team.
• Have facilitated software change hand-over from Project to Support, facilitated the update of the manuals through incident trends and business procedure changes.
• Log problem reports using incident trends and facilitate the requirement with business.
• Assist the technical team in building up the test plan and system testing.
• Leads and guides juniors technically to accelerate skills development.
• Plan, Budget and Manage mini-Projects.
• A quick learner with most of the technical tools introduced as hands-on experience.

Core Competencies

• Systems Analysis
• Systems Design
• COBOL Programming
• SDLC
• DB2
• JCL
• Systems Support and Development
• Testing
• Systems Feasibility Studies
• z/OS

Technical Skills

• UNIX Fundamentals
• Programming in C
• UNIX Administration
• CICS Application Programming
• SOA Fundamentals
• Data Stage ETL tool
• Test Director Test Administrating tool
• Expeditor Testing Tool
• DB2 and SQL Application Programming
• COBOL Programming
• Assembly

Work Experience

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As part of the integrating efforts, had extensive meetings with both the Business and Users teams to gather requirements.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements functional specifications.
• Conduct JAD to review the business document with a team of business end users, application developers and technical analysts.
• Preparation of TS Technical Specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch Online programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Developing or writing new complex COBOL programs using DB2 database.
• Analyzing and modifying existing complex code.
• Writing SQL queries using with COBOL/DB2 programming.
• Development of the new batch and online programs using z/OS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM and CICS.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and implementation of required changes.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Perform Peer Group review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Allocation and resolution of defects encountered during UAT and SIT phase
• Log Defect Log for testing defects identified and track till it is closed.
• Prepare implementation plan and communicate business with downtime of the system and impact if we have any.
• Obtaining client sign-off for implementations by giving demo on new functions.
• Comparing the test results before performing the test and after performing the test.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.
• Implementation and Post implementation support.
• Problem Resolution
• JCL and Scheduling COBOL and or DB2 and CONTROL-M scheduler
• JCL - at take-on or data manipulation
• Problem resolution and documentation. Standby on COBOL and DB2
• Produce System Maintenance Specification from the Detail Requirements
• Specification
• Do Subsystem testing and integration testing documents
• Plan the change deployment
• Administer task allocation
• Feedback business users on progress
• Plan priority and assist with the technical solution
• Review Project Related Technical Documents
• High Level Design
• Systems Maintenance Specification
• Systems Test Cases
• Deployment plan

Confidential

Sr. Mainframes Developer/Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking of trouble tickets and resolution of escalated support incidents.
• Answers technical support queries and implements fixes for application problems.
• Coordinates with customers to resolve technical support issues.
• Discussion with client in ticket prioritization.
• Participating in business weekly calls and demo on the incident fixes for having approval for deployment.
• Guiding team in issue resolution.
• Reviewing the business analysis Impact documents for all incidents raised in production.
• Responsible for Review the incident fixes.
• Working on critical issues and provide the solution in less turnaround time.
• Responsible for Participating in crisis calls and provide immediate solution.
• Responsible for review of implementation plans and suggest required changes in plan as per system impact.
• Responsible for review of all release upgrade implementations in Production.
• Participate in the implementation walkthroughs with the release teams.
• Responsible for Compliance Bank card associations implementations.
• Documented job flows and schedules using Visio and made changes to reduce the run time.
• Preparation of weekly status report.
• Responsible for coming-up with performance tuning and cost saving ideas to improve the performance of batch and to add value to client.

Problem Resolution

• Fix system errors COBOL DB2/VSAM/CICS
• Data mapping - DITTO / FILEAID / TSO Utilities and SPUFI
• JCL and Scheduling COBOL and or DB2 and CONTROL-M scheduler
• JCL - at take-on or data manipulation
• CICS Online programs maintenance
• Assembly program changes

Problem resolution and documentation

• Document incident trends
• Consult with business users to update training manual
• Suggest system changes

Manage incidents resolution

• Assign incidents reported to team members
• Follow up and follow through with the clients and technical team

Mentor juniors graduates to accelerate skills development

• Administer the hand-over of developed software from project to support teams

Manage Small Enhancements

• Draw Impact Assessment document from the Requirements Specification
• Produce System Maintenance Specification from the Detail Requirements Specification
• Do Subsystem testing and integration testing documents
• Plan the change deployment
• Administer task allocation
• Feedback business users on progress
• Plan priority and assist with the technical solution

Review Project Related Technical Documents

• High Level Design
• Systems Maintenance Specification
• Systems Test Cases
• Deployment plan

Confidential

Data Warehouse Division

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Assist in System Designs and Implementation
• Assist in Database Designs and Implementation
• Problem Resolution during quality assurance testing
• Fix system errors during system testing
• DB2 Queries and Data Extraction for our internal users during testing
• User quires and reports
• Write DB2 COBOL programs on a Dimensional Database Environment
• Plan and execute Microsoft Tasks during Projects using EPM
• Use JCL and Easytrieve for extraction of data from source systems and loading of DB2 tables on the Data ware house multi-schema.
• Regular participation in meeting or conferences with the team or the business team.
• Was involved in DB2 Version 8 to Version 9 and PL/1 to Enterprise PLI version migration projects.
• Have resolved various critical user queries and problem tickets within agreed SLA.
• Have worked on various business critical revenue impacting releases.