EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Over Twelve Years of Experience in Information Technology including 10 years of Experience in Mainframes and 1 1/2 years in Systems Analysis in Ab Initio.
• Experience in Insurance and Financial Securities domains participating in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle including Analysis, Design, Build, Testing, Implementation Maintenance
• Extensively involved in Development, Maintenance Support on Mainframe Applications in COBOL, DB2, IMS/DB, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Telon Easytrieve.
• Good expertise in various tools on Mainframe including QMF, SPUFI, Table Editor, File-Aid, File-Manager, Startool, Expeditor, Intertest, DFSORT, ELIPS, SCLM, OPC, ESP, CA-7 and MS-Visio.
• Participated in Analysis, Design phases and preparing Functional Specifications, High Level Design and Low Level Design Documents.
• Expertise in Coding new programs/ jobs and modifying existing programs/ jobs using COBOL, DB2, CICS, TELON, JCL, VSAM.
• Participated in preparing and reviewing Test Plans and Testing for Unit Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Supported User Acceptance Testing.
• Reviewing all deliverables like High Level and Low Level Design Documents, participating in Code and Testing Reviews and coordinating between the team and business users for resolution of queries.
• Coordinating for QC Testing and resolving any issues during all phases of SDLC.
• Participated in preparing and reviewing SOX documentation, implementation and post implementation support.
• Expertise in Production support and maintenance of applications.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and in teams.
• Worked on Systems Analysis of Applications in Ab Initio, Unix and Oracle.
• Documenting Applications by preparing Data Flow Diagrams in MS Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems MVS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS, UNIX, Ab Initio GDE
• Languages COBOL, JCL, VS COBOL II
• Databases DB2, IMS/DB, VSAM, Oracle
• Online CICS
• ETL Tools Ab Initio
• Tools Utilities Telon, Easytrieve, QMF, SPUFI, Table Editor, Platinum, DB2I, File-Aid, File-Manager, Startool, Expeditor, Intertest, DFSORT, ELIPS, SCLM, OPC, ESP, CA-7, UNIX Shell Scripts, SQL, PL/SQL, XCOM, NDM, FTP, MS-Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Lead

Encompass Claims ACT Maintenance Production Support

Encompass provides personal insurance primarily to mass affluent consumers who seek the advice of an independent insurance agent. The core functionality of Encompass ACT Application is to allow Encompass Insurance claim handlers in the regional claims offices the ability to perform financials related claims processing. ACT currently handles Personal Auto PA and Personal Non-Auto/Property PN claims for Allstate Encompass . Being a financial system it is also responsible for providing financial information to various internal and external applications. It also sends the data to downstream applications for financial accounting and statutory reporting applications.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the list of Work Intake requests for getting them slotted in future releases and submitting estimates for the requests.
• Participating in Analysis and Design discussions for the slotted projects.
• Reviewing all deliverables like Design Documents and Technical Analysis Documents and coordinating between the team and business users for resolution of queries.
• Participating in Code Reviews and Testing Reviews.
• Coordinating for QC Testing and resolving any issues during all phases of SDLC.
• Reviewing SOX documentation and participating in Implementation.
• Providing support for Daily Batch cycles and resolving any ab-ends that may occur during the cycles.
• Root Cause Analysis for incidents and problem tickets.
• Participating in audits for SOX Compliance.
• Reporting status on all work requests for ongoing releases and support activities

Environment: z/OS, VS COBOL II, DB2, IMS/DB, CICS, QMF, File-Aid, SCLM, VSAM, ESP, SPUFI, DFSORT

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Enterprise Shared Services ESS - Production Support

Confidential has a collection of many Applications used in the clients' Insurance business. iMAX is one of the ESS applications and it gathers and processes Premium, Claims, Sales and Expense data from all the sources and creates the input for the purposes of Statistical Analysis and External and Internal Reporting and accounting. MAX Preprocessor on Mainframe is an upstream for iMAX, which receives data from Fields Systems. MAX Preprocessor formats the data and then sends it to iMAX landing zone. .iMAX extracts, translates and loads data to Mainframe for the downstream applications for further processing. Then the data is sent to Financial Data Warehouse, SAP and other datawarehouses and statutory reporting and accounting applications. Current project is to provide support and maintenance of the MAX preprocessor application. This project involves support and maintenance of the Mainframe jobs that receive the data from Field Systems and format the data before passing to the UNIX Landing Zone. Current project also involves analysis of root causes of suspensed data in iMAX application. This requires analysis of the data as well the Ab Initio graphs.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Mainframe jobs that receive the incoming feeds and send to iMAX Landing zone.
• Participating in Impact Analysis for enhancement requests.
• Participating in the preparation and reviewing the High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Modification of COBOL Programs that pre-format the data before sending to iMAX.
• Reviewing Unit testing, Integration Testing and supporting QC Testing
• Implementation of changes and providing Support
• To track the suspended data field wise and identifying the invalid values passed to iMAX.
• Transmitting the production files in test region which have error records or suspensed records using UNIX Shell Scripts.
• Collect the data dumps from input and output of the graphs and analyze the data and code and identify the issue as data issue or an issue with code, which requires code changes.
• Analyzing and resolving any issues in formatting the files received on Mainframe from Field Systems.
• Supporting the XCOM Transmissions from Mainframe to UNIX Landing zone.
• Raising problem / incident tickets for analysis and shipping the corrected code to Production

Environment: z/OS, JCL, COBOL, XCOM, DFSORT, ESP, SCLM, Ab Initio GDE 3.1, Co Op System, UNIX, ORACLE 11g, SQL, Shell Scripts,

Confidential

Project Lead

Confidential has a collection of many Applications used in the clients' Insurance business for Financial Accounting and Statutory Reporting. iMAX gathers Premium, Claims, Sales and Expense data from all the sources and creates the input for the purposes of Statistical Analysis and External and Internal Reporting. MAX Preprocessor on Mainframe is an upstream for iMAX, which receives data from Fields Systems. Month End Close process is a critical process in ESS and iMAX in particular, which closes the books of business for current month and opens the books for the next month. It creates the critical inputs used for decision making and statutory reporting. Current project is to provide support and maintenance of the MAX preprocessor application that formats the data and sends data to iMAX landing zone. This project also involves supporting the Month End Close process in MAX Preprocessor and iMAX.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Mainframe jobs that receive the incoming feeds and send to iMAX Landing zone.
• Participating in Impact Analysis for enhancement requests.
• Participating in the preparation and reviewing the High Level and Low Level design documents
• Modification of COBOL Programs that pre-format the data before sending to iMAX.
• Reviewing Unit testing, Integration Testing and supporting QC Testing
• Implementation of changes and providing Support
• Extracting data from Hartford files received on Mainframe and supporting the Hartford process.
• Providing support for iMAX and MAX Pre-processor Weekly and Monthly Batch cycles and resolving any issues that may occur during the cycles
• Verification and validation of data feed before releasing the same to downstream applications for processing
• Coordinating the iMAX and MAX Pre-processor Monthly Support activities
• Preparing and publishing the Month-End Close timelines every month
• Tracking of Incident and Problem Management tickets and closure of Incident Tickets
• Preparing the SOX documentation for any changes to be shipped to Production
• Validation of Change Orders for SOX Compliance for Small Projects, Incident tickets Problem tickets

Environment: IBM ES-9000, MVS/ESA, JCL, COBOL, Startool, DFSORT, SCLM, ESP, XCOM

Confidential

Project Lead

Confidential has a collection of many Applications used in the clients' Reinsurance business. Current project involves Production Support as well as Maintenance. This project covers many applications like ARES, NEMO, SCEPTOR, RPMS, M609, and Schedule-F which interface with one another and some other external applications. Current project includes providing support for Daily and Monthly batch cycles as well as Online screens. Support activities include resolving any Problem tickets along with minor enhancements and service requests.

Responsibilities:

• Providing support for Daily and Monthly Batch cycles and resolving any ab-ends that may occur during the cycles.
• Root Cause Analysis for each of the cycle problems, problem tickets called USD tickets.
• Following up with permanent fixes wherever applicable for all the USD tickets
• Preparing Initial Analysis documents and Impact Analysis documents for enhancement requests
• Preparing estimates for enhancement requests duration of which might vary from few weeks to few months
• Using Syntel's proprietary tool EQuiP for capturing the metrics and analysis of metrics for improving the processes
• Reviewing all the deliverables, for each of the activities like analysis, coding, Testing and implementation
• Resolving any issues during all the SDLC activities while working on service requests and enhancements
• Reviewing the SOX Documentation prepared by the team to maintain SOX compliance
• Preparing and maintaining various checklists used in performing various tasks
• Working on various ad-hoc requests like restoring test regions with a specific day's data for facilitating testing and simulation of Production issues
• Coordinating with offshore on various tasks offshore is working for resolution of queries and issues
• Report the status of activities on daily, weekly and monthly basis

Environment: IBM ES-9000, MVS/ESA, VS COBOL II, DB2, IMS/DB, Easytrieve, CICS, QMF, File-Aid, Startool, Smarttest, SCLM

Confidential

Project Lead

Confidential is a reporting Application, which comprises many subsystems like Closing, Claim Cycle Premium Cycle, CMIS, and Mariner iMAX. These subsystems use CA Easytrieve Plus reporting tool for creating various reports. It has been decided that this reporting tool needs to be replaced by IBM's Migration Utility. Easytrieve programs in all the above mentioned subsystems are to be converted to use IBM's MU in place of Easytrieve. Any incompatibility issues need to be fixed by either using the various Easytran options provided by IBM's MU or by making changes to the programs. All the reports / files created by the programs after conversion should match the reports created in Production.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing an approach document for the conversion of programs and JCLs.
• Training the team to use IBM's MU and resolving any queries and issues
• Resolving any incompatibility issues after conversion by making necessary coding changes
• Coordinating with Onsite for any Application related issues and incompatibility issues
• Using Syntel's proprietary tool EQuiP for capturing the metrics
• Reviewing all the deliverables, code changes, Test results
• Resolving any issues during testing and creating test data for facilitating testing
• Reviewing the SOX Documentation prepared by the team to maintain SOX compliance
• Preparing and maintaining the Production move checklists.
• Installation into Production and production support for all the converted applications

Environment: IBM ES-9000, MVS/ESA, VS COBOL II, Easytrieve, IBM's MU, DB2, QMF, Startool, Smarttest, Toolbox

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

File Delivery System

Confidential is an application for the Commercial Cards Division within CIB Tech group of Citigroup, New York. Citigroup's many customers, both Government and Corporate clients, use Commercial Cards to pay for their employees' business expenses. These customers exchange confidential financial information thru batch files. These files will be formatted and transmitted by different means like NDM, VAN mailbox, FTP etc. All the incoming and outgoing files will be encrypted and decrypted before and after the transmission. This project involves setting up of new transmissions for their old and ever-growing list of new clients.

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of new transmissions for their old as well as new customers
• Maintaining and supporting existing transmissions for their clients and vendors
• Coordinating with their Clients' programmers thru' Solution Engineers and gathering the specifications for the file transmissions
• Modifying COBOL programs and testing files for requisite format so as to be sent to their Vendors for re-formatting and further processing

Environment: MVS/ESA, JCL, VSAM, COBOL II, UNIX, OPC scheduler, Changeman, MVS Utilities, FTP, NDM, VAN

Confidential

Programmer

Confidential is a Mutual Fund Company in Confidential It has subsystems like Share Holder System, DCPA etc. Shareholder System is an application that maintains the information related to its investors, dealers and brokers. Daily transactions, both financial and demographic, originate from Putnam Shareholder System online Screens and thru Web Applications. Apart from these sources daily transactions also come from various external agencies like Brokers, Dealers, Fund Serv, NSCC and Banks. This project involves Development of minor applications within SHS and 24 x 7 Production support of batch Nightly Cycles and Putnam Shareholder System online screens.

Responsibilities:

• Providing 24 x 7 support for the Batch Nightly cycles and Onlines in four regions namely Production, Acceptance and Development and Training and resolving any problems
• Fixing data problems arising in Production, resolving any balance issues in various Reports arising due to both invalid business transactions and program problems.
• Coded and modified Batch and Online programs using CICS, DB2, COBOL II and Telon and conducted Unit testing, System Testing and supported User Acceptance Testing.
• Modified the existing Online and Batch programs for improving Performance.
• Created new NDM and FTP jobs and modified existing FTP jobs for transmitting data from Putnam Investments to NSCC, Brokers, Dealers, Banks etc. and vice-versa
• Analyzing the problems for which temporary fixes are given during batch cycles and followed up for permanent resolution of any issues.
• Coordinating with end users and various project teams for resolving implementation problems
• Analyzing business scenarios resolving them into functional specifications and later into program specifications
• Processing the turnovers of various project teams into system test region and configuration management using SCLM.
• Participated in Annual Processes which involves interacting with users, gathering requirements, preparing program specifications, coding COBOL II, DB2, Telon programs Unit and Acceptance Testing, Implementation.
• Coded Unix Shell Scripts and tested and Implemented for some Autosys jobs which do the data encryption and decryption for the data coming in to and going out of Putnam Investments.

Environment: MVS/ESA, Telon, DB2 V7, CICS, JCL, VSAM, VS COBOL II, UNIX, File-Aid, File Manager, Xpediter, OPC scheduler, SCLM, SPUFI, Platinum, Table Editor, ORACLE 7.3, SQL Plus, PL/SQL, MVS Utilities, FTP, NDM

Confidential

Programmer

Advisor Central

Data from DB2 database needs to be extracted, formatted and files need to be created which are used to populate the data cache at Advisor Central. COBOL DB2 programs are coded to extract and format the data based on certain conditions. Advisor Central web site accesses this database to display the information on need basis. These files are Fund Detail, Rep Detail, Account Summary, Account Detail, and History Detail. These files contain the information related to the activity happening at account level, dealer level, dealer and branch office and representative levels. It also gives the information related to the mutual funds and their daily prices.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed technical requirements and prepared Program Specifications.
• Coded COBOL DB2 programs to extract and format the data
• Conducted Unit Testing and System Testing and supported User Acceptance Testing.
• Modified existing COBOL DB2 Batch programs as per Business requirements.
• Developed JCLs to setup the new Batch Jobs and scheduled the same on OPC scheduler
• Created new FTP jobs for transmitting data from Putnam Investments to Advisor Central
• Participated in code walk-throughs and testing reviews.
• Implemented quality processes and documented the work in prescribed formats.

Environment: MVS, Telon, DB2 V7, JCL, VS COBOL II, File-Aid, File Manager, OPC scheduler, SCLM configuration Management tool, SPUFI, Platinum, Table Editor, IBM Utilities, Intertest, Smarttest

Confidential

Programmer

Acceptance Development Cycle Support

Putnam Investments has subsystems like Share Holder System, DCPA etc. All the transactions entered through online during the day in the Development and Training and System Testing regions are processed by running batch jobs. These jobs are collectively known as Acceptance, Development and Training Nightly cycles. On a fortnightly basis the data in the development region will be refreshed by the data in the acceptance region.

Responsibilities:

• Running the D T Nightly cycles on a daily basis.
• Refreshing the Test region data with the data from Acceptance region for Share Holder System.
• Coordinating with offshore teams for resolving any problems in the newly turned over programs.
• Reporting the status to the managers on a daily basis.
• Maintaining the Data Integrity in test and training regions.
• Coordinating with Production Control and other groups for resolving any problems that may occur in these regions
• Developed new COBOL, DB2 Batch programs and set up JCLs for new batch jobs
• Modified Existing COBOL, DB2 Batch programs and COBOL, CICS, DB2 programs.
• Conducted Unit testing, System Testing and supported User Acceptance Testing.
• Modified and Tuned existing COBOL, CICS and DB2 Online Programs for improving efficiency.
• Developed JCLs to setup new Batch Jobs and scheduling the same on OPC scheduler.

Environment: MVS, Telon, DB2 V6, CICS, JCL, VS COBOL II, File-Aid, CA-7, SPUFI, Platinum, SQL Plus, IBM Utilities, Intertest, Smarttest

Confidential

Programmer

CAPS Rewrite

Putnam uses Corporate Automated Payment System CAPS for electronic payments of SIP, SWP and DDP. Around the year 2000, CAPS application gave several problems and caused a lot of inconvenience to both ISD and business teams. Putnam has decided to develop a new DB2 based subsystem which addresses Putnam's needs, and export all the relevant data from CAPS to new DB2 tables. Also the scope includes modifying existing programs to use new DB2 tables

Responsibilities:

• Developed and modified COBOL DB2 Batch programs
• Conducted Unit testing, System Testing and supported User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in code reviews and testing reviews.
• Documented the Test results and review findings in prescribed templates.

Environment: MVS, Telon, DB2 V6, CICS, JCL, VS COBOL II, File-Aid, CA-7, SPUFI, Platinum, SQL Plus, IBM Utilities, Intertest, Smarttest