PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10 years and 2 months of experience in Information Technology on IBM mainframes encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Extensive Mainframe experience in languages and tools like COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS, CICS, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF.
• Experienced in Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies.
• Proficient in all facets of SDLC, including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing and deployment.
• Possess strong coding skills with proven ability to understand business problems and apply technology to formulate workable solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills, quick learner, motivator and team player.
• Extremely well organized with ability to multitask and prioritize workload.
• Extensive experience with projects on mainframe platform in banking, finance and insurance industries.
• Received client appreciations and awards for cost savings and demand management activities.
• Versatile experience as onsite coordinator in resource handling, team mentoring, task estimation - scheduling - tracking.
• Worked on projects involving Enhancement of existing mainframe system to support new business functionality
• Development of new mainframe application system to support near real-time processing of transactions
• Conversion of data from external system to in-house system
• Upgrade of legacy file system to DB2 and stored procedures
• Production support activities like issue analysis and abended job handling
• Batch optimization and performance improvement of existing mainframe system
• Migration of legacy system and IMS/CICS screen to JAVA/WEB services

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Mainframes ZOS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMSDB/DC, MQ, JAVA - IMS Connect, OTMA

Tools: File-Aid, SPUFI, BMCADM, ChangeMan, Infoman, Managenow, Servicenow, STROBE, Connect Direct NDM, JOBTRAC, Control-M, TWS, DeltaIMS, Eclipse, IMS Explorer, HP, Quality Center, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodology, Clarity, SFT, FTP, SBM, DataPower, IBM utilities,Easytrieve, MS- office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Lead COBOL Developer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Responsibilities:

• Providing solutions to business and technical requirements
• Understand new insurance business concept and adapt to demanding time schedules coupled with positive user interaction and excellent team spirit
• Responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements by following SDLC 2.0
• Interaction with business/users as part of requirement gathering and due diligence
• Follow SDLC 2.0 process and guidelines to prepare documentation during each phase of SDLC
• Perform project level work and time effort estimations
• Interact with front end applications to come up with a high level design
• Thoroughly understand the Requirements and develop detailed design
• Create system flowcharts using Visio
• Create changeman package and develop code in mainframe technologies - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS
• Use IBM utilities as appropriate while creating jobs to utilize CPU efficiently
• Perform thorough unit testing and document test results
• Maintain high team morale, mentor new team members and bring them to speed in creating deliverables
• Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence and report same to reporting manager
• Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager
• Attend Review and status meeting with all stakes holders of the project
• Conduct lead reviews and provide feedback. Provide accurate and detailed weekly task reports
• Interact with interfacing teams to complete SIT, UAT and regression testing of whole system
• Install code into production and perform functional validation
• Provide warranty support after implementation of code in production

Confidential, Arizona/Florida

Technical Lead Developer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB-DC, MQ, IMS Connect, ODBM, OTMA

Responsibilities:

• Discuss with business team on clarification of requirements and prioritizing the enhancements
• Perform impact analysis and prepare estimations and milestone dates
• Responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements
• Follow SDLC 2.0 process and guidelines to prepare documentation during each phase of SDLC
• Coordinate the End to End Amex project activities
• Interact with front end applications to come up with a high level design
• Thoroughly understand the Requirements and develop detailed design
• Develop code in mainframe technologies and perform unit testing
• Coordinate with offshore team and work with them to create the deliverables with high quality
• Review of all Artifacts before Delivery to Client
• Create tools using REXX to migrate code to other development mainframe test regions
• Work with QA team to perform SIT, UAT and regression testing
• Responsible for both pre implementation and post implementation process paper work of the code install
• Attend checkpoint calls and technical, business conference calls all through the implementation activity
• Conduct Scheduling of New Jobs by defining the dependencies
• For COBOL, DB2 long running programs do performance tuning by making required changes to COBOL program or DB2 SQL queries
• Monitor production jobs and responsible for resolving abends within the SLA. Create temporary code fixes and work towards providing permanent fixes
• Coordinate with different application Oncall persons and Support groups for resolving the issue.

Confidential, North America

Mainframe Developer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS

Responsibilities:

• Analyze BRD ( Business Requirement Document)
• Preparing Detail Design document by referring to High level design
• Develop code in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and get the code reviewed from technical leads.
• Perform unit testing and update results in Test result repository.
• Involved in activities like defect casual analysis to ensure the adherence of the project procedures.
• Schedule new jobs in production
• Prepare changeman package for install
• Attend review call with clients and onsite team and get approvals to install code.
• Create change request and do paper work to promote code to production
• Handle many ad-hoc tasks like generating reports that are EOD deliveries.
• Effectively participated in team activities.
• Played an important role as the editor of monthly Newsletter circulated among the team
• Additional role as learning Coordinator of the team to organize various events to improve the communication and interpersonal skills of team members