SUMMARY:

• Skilled Professional 10 plus years of experience in IT Development, Production Support, and Maintenance Projects related to Banking, Insurance and Utility domain using IBM Mainframe technologies such as MVS, JCL, VSAM, COBOL, CICS, IDMS, Assembler and DB2 & IBM utilities for clients that include Travelers insurance, Confidential & Confidential and Liberty
• Excellent record of delivering simultaneous large - scale, mission-critical projects on time and within budget.
• Strong functional and domain knowledge in different Credit Card applications Property and Liability insurance and Electrical and gas utilities sector.
• Strong project management skills in managing cross-functional teams and adopt best practices during system and process implementation.
• Level-headed decision maker with strong analytical skills and execute and manage projects with high customer satisfaction
• Good understanding of Software Development life cycle (like Waterfall, Agile methodologies).
• Expertise in overseeing technology/process improvement initiatives aligning to business goals which produced million dollar cost savings and reduction in manual work.
• Hands on experience in version control tools like Changeman, Endevor, job scheduling applications like OPC, CA7, INFOMAN and Continuity of Business test in mainframes environment.
• Hands on experience on COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS,CICS Web services, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, FTP, Intertest, File Aid, SDSF, $AVRS, CA7, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL
• Strong Process capabilities of Quality process such as CMM level 5, PCMM, Six Sigma.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Business and Operations for Development & Enhancement projects
• Involved in design review, code review, system tuning, adhoc activities
• Involved in status reports preparation and metrics generation for higher management
• Leading development and testing work like Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.
• Coordinating in developing test scenarios, test cases for User Acceptance testing (UAT) and cross check the Test results to ensure that these programs are in accordance to requirement.
• Reviewing the Code developed by other team members and ensuring that these programs and jobs are in accordance to coding standards.
• Co-ordination with the upstream and down systems.
• Provide Implementation Support and Post-Implementation Support.
• Analyze the system for further enhancements and discuss the same with the Team and Stakeholders to arrive at complete requirement which will help improve the process or provide Add-on features.
• Prepared Coding Standard checklist, QA checklist, Implementation checklist and process documents
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on Technical and Functional topics to team members.
• Onshore-offshore co-ordination, daily tracking and resolving technical issues, deployment planning.

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS,CICS Web services, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, FTP, Intertest, File Aid, SDSF, $AVRS, CA7, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL

Confidential, Berlin, CT

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Business and Operations for Development & Enhancement projects
• Interaction with Collection system team and Business
• Project Lead for 11 members offshore & 5 member onsite Development & production support team
• Involved in design review, code review, system tuning, adhoc activities
• Involved in status reports preparation and metrics generation for higher management
• Leading development and testing work like Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.
• Coordinating in developing test scenarios, test cases for User Acceptance testing (UAT) and cross check the Test results to ensure that these programs are in accordance to requirement.
• Reviewing the Code developed by other team members and ensuring that these programs and jobs are in accordance to coding standards.
• Co-ordination with the upstream and down systems.
• Provide Implementation Support and Post-Implementation Support.
• Analyze the system for further enhancements and discuss the same with the Team and Stakeholders to arrive at complete requirement which will help improve the process or provide Add-on features.
• Prepared Coding Standard checklist, QA checklist, Implementation checklist and process documents
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on Technical and Functional topics to team members.
• Onshore-offshore co-ordination, leading team, daily tracking and resolving technical issues, deployment planning.

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS,CICS Web services, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, FTP, Intertest, File Aid, SDSF, $AVRS, CA7, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Business & Transaction services for maintenance projects & production support
• Interaction with Marketing team, Business, Legal and Transaction services for Marketing Campaigns
• On call Manager for Severity 1 & 2 tickets.
• Involved in design review, code review, system tuning, production support fix, adhoc activities, proposals & cost savings process improvements
• Involved in business plan, root cause analysis, status reports preparation, SLA management and metrics generation for higher management
• Involved in resource on boarding & off boarding

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 CICS, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, NDM, Intertest, File Aid, SAR, IOF, OPC, Table base, Stream weaver, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL

Confidential

Senior Developer, Technical Leader

Responsibilities:

• Handled a 4-member team in offshore
• Gathered requirements interacting with Business and Users
• Prepared detail design
• Worked on Construction, Unit Testing, SIT, and User acceptance testing
• Involved in design review, code review & defect prevention activities
• Mentored Team members for technical & system problems
• Interaction with release management & QA for Project Implementation in Production
• Involved in Production Support

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 CICS, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, NDM, Intertest, File Aid, SAR, IOF, OPC, Table base, Stream weaver, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional Specifications analysis
• Prepared detail design, test cases, test plan & test data
• Worked on Construction, Unit Testing, SIT, and User acceptance test
• Involved in design review, code review & defect prevention activities
• Mentored Team members for technical & system problems
• Interaction with release management & QA for Project Implementation in Production

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 CICS, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, NDM, Intertest, File Aid, SAR, IOF, OPC, Table base, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on detailed impact analysis of requirements by interacting with various teams
• Prepared detail design, test cases, test plan & test data
• Worked on Construction, Unit Testing, SIT, and User acceptance test
• Interaction with QA team for Project Implementation in Production
• Documentation of new system enhancements

Technology & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, CICS, TSO/ISPF, Xpeditor, NDM, FTP, Intertest, File Aid, SDSF, CA7, APC, IBM Utilities like Sync sort, IDCAMS, ICETOOL