SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a customer oriented hard working dynamic person and highly experienced IT professional with proven track record. He is proficient in all aspect of IT for design, development, enhancement, support, Quality Assurance and managing of business applications using varied software/languages and database like COBOL, PL/I, EAZYTRIEVE, FOCUS, JCL, ADABAS/Natural, DB2, IMS, ISPF/PDF, TSO, FILEAID, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITER, CICS, SQL, QMF, CONTROL - M, CA/7, DCL, ACMS, TDMS, DECFORM, BASIC, INFOMIX-4GL, VB, MS SQL Server and MS- Office management tools, in different Operating systems like MVS, z/OS, VMS, UNIX, LINUX, Windows 2000/9x/NT/XP, and DOS.
• Through understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Very good knowledge of different business segments or verticals like Health Care, Banking and Finance, Transportation, Hotel chain and Manufacturing.
• Working and managing experience in both Development/Maintenance and Quality Assurance team.
• A leader as well as a team player contributing to the overall success of the organizational goals and objectives by following the quality processes and standards defined.
• Always working towards the goal to deliver on time and within budget.
• Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Conducted the different walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent travel meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the clients organization.
• Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Adept in providing Analytical Support to key business Applications /solutions
• Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies, and I was involved in various phases of the SDLS, like Requirements gathering, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing and implementation of the projects.
• Acted as liaison between management and development team for Requirements and QA.
• Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.
• Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management
• Rich experience in translating Business requirements to understandable IT systems requirements and Implementing CMMi Methods & Procedures across the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: z/OS, MVS, VMS, UNIX, LINUX, Windows 2000/9x/NT/XP, and DOS

Languages: ENTERPRISE COBOL, COBOL II, PL/I, EAZYTRIEVE, JCL, FOCUS, ISPF/PDF, TSO, FILE-AID, CICS, DCL, ACMS, DECFORMS, SCREENGEN, BASIC, INFOMIX-4GLScripts: JCL, DCL, Unix Shells

Database Connectivity: ODBC

Databases: ADABAS/Natural, DB2, IMS DB-DC, Oracle RDB 7.2, INFORMIX, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0, Oracle 6, MS-Access, Fox Pro, Dbase

Configuration Tools: Endevor, Changeman, CMS, SCC

Testing/Debugging /Tools/Utilities: Xpediter, VMS-COBOL Debugging utility, FILEAID, SPUFI, SQL, QMF, CONTROL-M, CA/7

File Transfer: FTP/SFTP

Domain Knowledge: Health Care, Transportation, Banking, Hotel chain and manufacturing

Legacy Systems: IMB Mainframes, VAX, ALPHA, Itanium, UNIX Servers on HP Systems

Documentation: Ms Office, Visio, IBM-Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, Mercury Test Director

Quality Standard: CMMi (Level- 5), ISO 9000/2001.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Mainframe Architect

Environment: IBM- Mainframe, z/OS, Enterprise COBOL, PL/I, IMS DB/DC, DB2, VSAM, CICS, PDS Files, JCL, FILEAID, SQL, QMF, CONTROL-M, FTP/SFTP.

• The projects are implemented using the Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Interacted with Client/Business users for requirement gathering and analysis and Quality Assurance.
• I have designed the new Database and the application design/re-design to match with the existing system. Alos worked with the development and testing of the new application
• Conducted design review and walkthrough with Business partners and stake holders
• Conducted and took part in the meetings, telephonic-conferences with Business and tech-team of client.
• Team Management for Development and timely delivery.
• Onshore and Offshore coordination for development and timely delivery.
• Allocation of work to onshore and offshore development team
• Provided technical support to development team as needed.
• Coding/Development and Code review, unit testing
• Preparation and review of Test Plan and Test case documents.
• Coordination with the testing team for defect management and fixing any open defect
• Maintained required project related information.
• Supporting the System and Integration testing, UAT and Implementation, helping testing/business team in the UAT, documenting the test results and defects, coordinating with the development team for the defect fix, Supporting the implementation activities with an end to end testing.
• Coding, unit testing for fixing the open defects raised by the UAT team
• Creation of the system document and user manual
• Provided support for the production implementation of newly developed codes
• Adhering to the norms and process defined for Standards and Quality.

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Sr. Programmer - IT and Development Technical Lead

Environment: VAX-VMS, ALPHA, Itanium, Open VMS, VAX COBOL, DCL, ScreenGen, ACMS, Oracle-DRB and RMS Files.

• The projects were implemented using the Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Interacted with Client/Business users for requirement gathering and analysis and Quality Assurance.
• Status reporting to the management and client.
• Conducted and took part in the meetings, telephonic-conferences with Business and tech-team of client.
• Project and team Management for QA and Development teams.
• Onshore and Offshore coordination.
• Allocation of work to the team members.
• Provided technical support to Team as needed.
• Conducted Project oriented Training on QA.
• Review of Test Plan and Test case documents.
• Maintained required project related information and matrices.
• Supporting the system testing, integration testing, UAT and Implementation by creating the test plan and test data using the used cases, helping business team in the UAT, documenting the test results and defects, coordinating with the development team for the defect fix, Supporting the implementation activities with an end to end testing.
• Coding, unit testing for fixing the open defects raised by the UAT team
• Provided support for the production implementation of newly developed codes
• Creation of the system document and user manual
• Adhering to the norms and process defined for Standards and Quality.

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Sr. Programmer - IT and Development Technical Lead

Environment: VAX-VMS, VAX-ALPHA, Itanium, Open VMS, VAX COBOL, DCL, ACMS, TDMS, Decform, Oracle-RDB, IBM-Mainframe. z/Os, COBOL, PL/I, ADABAS/Natural, VSAM, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, UNIX, Flat files, RMS-Files

• Interacted with Client/ Business users.
• Reported to the management and client.
• Took part in the meetings, telephonic-conferences with Client/business and different project teams
• Project and team Management.
• Onshore and Offshore coordination.
• Allocated of work to Team Members.
• Provided technical support to Team Members.
• Conducted Project oriented technical Training.
• Maintained required project related information.
• Coding, unit testing for fixing the open defects raised by the UAT team
• Provided support for the production implementation of newly developed codes
• Creation of the system document and user manual
• Adhered to the norms and process defined for Standards and Quality.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Sr. Programmer - IT and Development Technical Lead

Environment: HP-UX, Informix-DB, Informix-4GL, Unix Shell, C, ESQL, and Pentium Server.

• Interacted with Client/ Business users.
• Reported to the management and client.
• Took part in the meeting, telephonic-conferences with Client.
• Projected and team Management.
• Allocated of work to Team Members.
• Provided technical support to Team Members.
• Conducted Project oriented technical Training.
• Maintained required project related information.
• Supported the system testing, integration testing, UAT and Implementation by creating the test plan and test data using the used cases, helping user in the UAT, documenting the test results and defects, coordinating with the development team for the defect fix, Supporting the implementation activities with an end to end testing.
• Coding, unit testing for fixing the open defects raised by the UAT team
• Provided support for the production implementation of newly developed codes
• Creation of the system document and user manual
• Adhered to the norms and process defined for Standards and Quality

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr. Programmer - IT and Development Technical Lead

Environment: MVS, COBOL, EASYTRIVE, PL/I, IBM / 3090, ES-9000, ISPF/PDF, TSO, FILE-AID, QMF, Endevor, Xpediter, JCL, CICS, ADABAS/Natural, DB2, VSAM.

• Prepared Project Plans.
• Prepared of BFS, LDS, DDS.
• Reviewed the change requests made by customer.
• Maintained application and technical support Manuals.
• Interacted with Client.
• Reported to the superior.
• Projected and team Management.
• Allocated of work to Teams.
• Provided technical support to Team Members.
• Conducted Project oriented technical Training.
• Maintained required project related information/documentation.
• Coding, unit testing for fixing the open defects raised by the UAT team
• Provided support for the production implementation of newly developed codes
• Creation of the system document and user manual
• Adhered to the norms and process defined for ISO standard.