SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in IBM Mainframe applications and 2 years of experience in VB/ORACLE.
• Extensive experience with analyzing, designing, development, maintenance, enhancement, testing and Production support.
• Experience in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from initial requirements through analysis, design, development and management of successful software applications and implementation of production as well.
• Extensive programming in OS/390, Z/OS, Visualage COBOL, UNIX, PL/SQL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX, IDMS, Betrieve, CICS, SQL.
• Extensive use of TSO, FILEAID, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, QMF, TSO/ISPF, IBM UTILITIES, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, Tivoli Scheduler,FTP,TCP/IP,PL/1, EZYTRIEVE, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, ABEND AID, GENTRAN,INTERTEST, CA7, CA11, BMC LOAD, BMC UNLOAD, CONNECT DIRECT, NDM,RDZ
• Experience in middleware MQ SERIES messaging system.
• Experience in IDMS
• Expertise in using MQ Series to connect/disconnect programs from a queue manager, open/close connections with queue manager and to put/get the messages on queues and message queuing.
• Extensively worked with SQL PERFORMANCE TUNING, DB2 BIND and DB2 EXPLAIN.
• Extensive domain knowledge in the diversified fields of Insurance, Automotive,
• Expertise in Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing, creating different Test cases, Documentation, Plans and different Reports.
• Having an attitude of willing to learn, accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results at the said duration by constantly motivating the concerned teams to provide the best solutions to the clients.
• Ability to take and give directions, instructions and provide assistance through completion of tasks.
• Posses good interpersonal skills keen understanding of fundamental business processes and shall be able to determine existing and future information needs of any large multi location organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, PENTIUM PC

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX, WINDOWS - 98/XP

Languages: COBOL, Assembler programming,SQL, PL/SQL, SAS, JCL/PROC, REXX

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, IDMS,VSAM, ORACLE, Betrieve

TP Monitor: CICS, IMS DC

Middleware: MQ SERIES

Tools: VISION PLUS, PUPS, OMEGAMON, VSAM, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, SDF2, FILE-AID, INTERTEST, NDM, ABEND-AID, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF TSO/E, SYNCSORT, BMC UTILITIES,GENTRAN IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, FILEAID FOR DB2, FILEAID FOR IMS DB, BLOCK DIAGRAMS, FLOW CHARTS

Desktop Tools: MSOFFICE, MS ACCESS, MS EXCEL, MS PROJECT, MS VISIO, LOTUS NOTES

Reporting Tools: EZYTRIEVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

• Coding new COBOL/DB2 programs as per the business requirement document.
• Updating Technical design document, Front end specification and Function design documents as per the assigned programs.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cases in CDWA (Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and Control Cards in Test environment and also creation of production JCL’s as well
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Attending weekly status calls with offshore and status calls with client.

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

• Coding the new CICS programs as per the business requirement document.
• Updating Technical design document, Front end specification and Function design documents as per the assigned programs.
• Modifying the CICS programs as per the new requirements which are mentioned in BRD.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cases in CDWA(Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Working on Batch programs as well.
• Writing new conversion programs and loading and unloading data from existing tables to new tables.
• Attending weekly status calls with offshore and status calls with client.

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential,Des Moines, IA

• Work on the IT work requests and heat tickets which are assigned through the ITWR and Heat system.
• Analyzing IT work requests and providing estimates to each of the work request.
• Working on RFC’s every month for Production release.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
• Write, test and debug the COBOL/REX/CICS programs.
• Used to FTP the output files to downstream systems
• Writing unit test scripts and documenting the unit test results.
• Uploading all the test results to Quality Center.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Worked on Region Refresh activity.
• Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cycles in all 9 regions of CAPSIL application as a part of migration project activity.
• Create and maintain REXX and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Used Changeman for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of changeman package and promoting to different environments like Dev/model/support regions.
• Converting online modules to batch modules to support Capsil application.
• Preparation of program/Job documentation at technical and functional levels.
• Coordinating with the teams such as Support team for access related issues, Server team for data restoration from backups etc.
• Coordination with offshore Team and point of contact for offshore team.
• Setting up weekly status calls with offshore and attending status calls with client.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Java, HTML, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, CA-7, XPEDITOR, Change man

• Analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and deployment of mainframe projects for FOMS.
• Involve in full life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Resolve ongoing issues or defects.
• Analyze and study the business requirements.
• Create technical design documents and functional specification documents for the FOMS project.
• Participate in Peer Review meetings and Status meetings with team.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces.
• Deliver the changed components along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Involved in support of Jobs being changed and developed as a release process.
• Prepare a System document explaining the detail of changes done in the system.
• Involve in increasing the performance of System by solving the existing bugs.
• Writing New Jobs and new programs to extract the data from IMS and DB2 databases.
• Writing new jobs to load data into mainframe flat files.
• Done a couple of enhancements on increasing field lengths and retrieving data from history tables.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS (DB, DC), SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-7, XPEDITOR, OMEGAMON

• Participate in kick off meeting with Business user to understand the requirement and frame the business rules.
• Do Initial analysis and provide high-level estimate.
• Discuss the possible deployment date with other team and start work accordingly.
• Delegate some request to offshore team with initial analysis. For these requests, clarify any queries of offshore team, follow up to complete technical specification, coding, unit testing and Integration testing.
• Complete detail analysis for high priority work and prepare Technical specification document.
• Invite business analyst, tester and any other programmer to participate in technical specification inspection meeting.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces and complete coding, unit testing and Integration testing for request.
• Participate in Peer review with Quality control team. Give them all necessary instruction regarding the changes.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Apart from regular business need, try to fix any critical problem in production.
• Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
• Prepare Root- cause-Analysis document.
• Submitted proposal in setting up the change management process for business rules.
• Update E-Knowledge repository with any new business rule, processing change etc.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS (DB, DC), SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON

• Analyze the existing system and the specifications provided by the client.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
• Wrote and tested COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs.
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Documenting the test results in unit test results.
• Create and maintain JCL, Proc’s and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
• Used IDCAMS for performing various operations on VSAM data sets
• Worked with Version control using Change man.
• Used change man for creation, checkout, modification, compiling, Auditing, freezing and promoting the packages to production level.

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON

• Monitor the batch flows and remedy tool for the job abends.
• Resolve job abends in a timely manner by coordinating with application support person.
• Re-run/force completes the jobs as application support person instructions.
• Coordination with operation support teams for the scheduling changes in Job Trac.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to requirement of the projects.
• Create and maintain JCL, PROCS, and Control Cards.
• Coordination with operation support teams for defining the job requirements and triggers in CA- Job Trac.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.
• Enhancements did as per the new requirements.
• Created COBOL/DB2 new Procs and JCL’s and done unit testing for the new module.

Sr.Software Engineer

Confidential

• Monitor the batch flows and resolve the job abends in a timely manner.
• Participated in deployment activities for moving the code to production.
• Production support for various Batch systems.
• Posting of the job requirements and restart the jobs as rerun instructions.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to the requirements of the project.
• Define the jobs in CA-7 and schedule the jobs in CA-7.
• Define the jobs requirements and triggers in CA-7.
• Create and run adhoc reports using QMF/Spufi.
• Run the RUNSTATS jobs every month in different DB2 regions.
• Fix the JCL/Job abends in production .
• Retrieving the MF COBOL programs from production using Endevor.
• Modified existing programs using COBOL as per the requirement.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records.
• Involved in writing the stored procedures using COBOL and DB2.
• Moving the modified programs, Proc’s to production after testing has been completed.
• Wrote the new and tested MF COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs.
• Modified MF COBOL/DB2/CICS existing programs
• Documenting the unit test results.

Sr.software Engineer

Confidential

• Involved in analysis of the system to understand the existing functionality.
• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
• Developed and maintained a batch system for Trading management order records.This system was responsible for daily creation of order feed which was send for evaluation and processing.
• Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Assisted in setting up the change management process for business rules.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Technologies: OS/390, TSO, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, PUPS, CA-JOB TRAC, XPEDITOR, IDMS, EASYRETRIEVE, OMEGAMON, VSAM.

• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
• Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document