Mainframe Architect Resume Wilmington, DE - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Having 13+ years IT experience, performed multiple roles as Application architect, Technical lead, Team lead, Data analyst and Developer.
Worked with multiple clients Confidential, United Air, Continental Air, Confidential, Discover and FIS.
Extensive hands - on experience in planning and leading in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, architecture, construction, testing, deployment, production support.
Practiced waterfall and agile project management practices..
Having experience as a Technical Project Lead in Designing, Developing and Testing Mainframe Applications.
Having extensive understanding of the Airline business processes and Applications.
Good working experience in COBOL, IMS DB/DC, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and MF-COBOL and posses strong logical skills in Programming.
Gained extensive experience in finding root causes and troubleshooting complex production issues in Cobol-IMS and Cobol - DB2 programs.
Exceptional interpersonal communicator who effectively interacts with customer and all levels of management.
Good working experience in Production support and 24/7 support applications.
Recently played a T shape role of technical BA, QA and scrum master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: File-Aid, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, CMAN, CA-7, SAR, JIIRA & HP-ALM

Operating systems: Z/Os

Industries: Retail, logistics Supply chain, banking, Credit Card and AIRLINES.

Languages: COBOL, SQL, XML, JCL, CICS

Databases: DB2, IMS-DB, Oracle, NOSQL, DB2 stored procs

OLTP and Integration: CICS, MQ series

Operating systems: Z/Os

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Mainframe Architect

Responsibilities:

Participated in requirement discussions (Business, functional and system) and estimated the Customer effort.
Having extensive understanding of the Airline business processes and Applications.
Gained extensive experience in finding root causes and troubleshooting complex production issues in Cobol-IMS and COBOL - DB2 programs.
Involved in Analysis and Design activities.
Prepare High Level Design, Code, and Test and promoted the code to QA Environment.
QA support and Confidential Support.
Participated in Release Review and Release Support Activities.
Co-ordinated for end to end testing with partners and different stakeholders.
Practiced agile methodologies and Interacted with various stakeholders and establish effective communication and approval mechanism.

Confidential

Team Leader & Programmer

Responsibilities:

Environment: IMS DB / DC, COBOL and JCL.

Confidential

Team lead & Programmer

Responsibilities:

Analysis and troubleshooting of complex Cobol code to understand the business logic, which helped in resolving production support issues.
Developing tools for the automation of complicated as well as repetitive tasks to avoid human errors and to improve quality.
Involved in Preparation of Detail Design Document
Requirements clarification with clients.
Involved in Oncall production support activities.
Solving the production abends within the given time frame and documenting the Production problems.
Preparation of Root Cause Analysis documents which were critical in nature - involved co-ordination with multiple external teams as well as analysis and extensive research of production issues.

Environment: IBM S/390, COBOL, IMS-DB, IMS-DC and JCL.

Confidential, Chicago

Programmer

Responsibilities:

Study of Functional design Document provided by DFS.
Impact analysis, Design, Coding, Reviewing, Testing
Involved in Preparation of Detail Design Document
Requirements clarification with clients.
Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Involved in Oncall production support activities.
Solving the production abends within the given time frame and documenting the Production problem.
Reviewing programs for QA.
Developing tools for the automation of complicated as well as repetitive tasks to avoid human errors and to improve quality.

Environment: IBM S/390, COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

Environment: IBM S/390, MF-COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest MF Revolve and MF Mainframe Express.