EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Currently working as a Project Lead in Confidential Technologies Limited.
• Have more then 8 years of experience in Mainframe Technologies with expertise in COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, CICS and IMS.
• Have more than 4 years of onsite experience.
• Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirement gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Experience in maintenance assignments, involving minor enhancements and production support.
• Have always exhibited excellent analytical skills and continuous learning ability.
• Strong experience in Banking and Financial Services domain.
• Executed multiple projects for US Financial Services companies like Citi and Confidential .
• Good experience with relational databases and also supported in ETL process
• Experience in analyzing the entire system (backend and front - end systems).
• Good team player who works well with people at all levels and excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cobol
• PL1
• JCL
• DB2 and Stored Procedures
• IMS Db
• VSAM
• CICS
• Confidential
• Sort and other Utilities
• Changeman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TN

Responsibilities:

• Production support owner for SBL and Mortgage area and also other core banking area.
• Making sure that production environment is up, running the Data and environment are available to users and client all the time.
• Coordinate and support with offshore to track and monitor the failures of production issues.
• Find the root cause of issue and failure, fix them or involve respective team and coordinate with them until issue is resolved.
• Incident may need to have bug fixing or data corrections or one time correction by Ops team.
• Responsible for tracking and closing incidents in timely manner by creating problem record(PR).
• Service Request(SR) is another key aspect in support, my responsibility is to classify the prioritization and the SR ticket, assign them to offshore and work on the request which need immediate attention.
• Responsible for communicating with business user/requestor incase of clarification on the request and pass the information to my team.
• Responsible for tracking and closing the SR with in defined SLA, engage resources and fill the gap wherever necessary.
• Create the KM (knowledge base) for newly occurred service request, incident and maintain existing KM up to date for future reference.
• Support the development team on their implementation, get the knowledge transfer for newly introduced functionality and document them in KM (knowledge base).
• Support event handling such as migration, isolation test, mainframe upgrade and DB2 upgrades. Communicate to management upon completion of checkout at the end of event.
• Prepare monthly and weekly status reports and present to management.
• Responsible for handover to L3/development team for any Minor or major enhancement on discovery of defects or bugs.
• Responsible for monitoring the inbound and outbound transmissions with external vendors and to follow up with proper escalation mechanism for the work to be done.

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Collect the task list(Change Requests - CR) provided by L2, Business and Dev team.
• Conduct regular meetings with the application owner to prioritize the collected tasks.
• Classify the tasks and assign them to offshore based on the priority and criticality.
• Responsible for progress on every single changes at each stages of life cycle.
• Inform the changes to offshore and support them from gathering requirements to implement the changes.
• Responsible for emergency change that are implemented due to production failure.
• Having good communication with the business users and L2 on clarifications and quality delivery.
• Coordinating with development team during SIT and UAT for the new project implementation .
• Setups the Environment for QA’s and coordinates in testing.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements
• Created test cases to test and recorded the results for new/enhanced request.
• Ensure approvals are obtained on time and follow up if required.
• Prepared Confidential tool to automate user request which reduces the user intervention.
• Support batch job schedule and monitoring the error events and resolving them.
• Contributed in Project Requirement Analysis meetings with the clients.
• Coordinated with the team during production moves and supported.
• Coordinated with the testing team for QA testing.
• Break fixes or restart instruction for the production issues and escalate the issue to next level if necessary.

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, DB2, JCL, Changeman, Startool, MQ and OPC)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Taken care of project stale pricing which involves the complete impact analysis on the system and as well as with downstream.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, and Implementation.
• Prepared TSD for the new programs and implement the changes with the existing programs.
• The new program which involves complex SQL and process flow are completely tested and reported/resolved the issue as and when required.
• Involved in the testing which involves CICS and MQs.
• Developed utilities like Expander, copier and Viewer using Confidential which was useful to entire development tool.
• Setup the Environments for QA’s and coordinates in testing.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system
• Tracking the progress of activities and attending status meetings.
• Performing detailed turnover of all activities performed.
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to new team members.

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, DB2, JCL, MQ, VSAM, changeman, File-Aid, CA7)

Confidential, Chicago

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Catered frequent changes to data feeds to the database with different formats needed to new format and process.
• Responsible for getting the new requirement form the client and defining the process.
• Owner from the mainframe unit from data collection to loading the database.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Analyzed the entire data collection process and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
• Prepared the HLD and LLDs for all the functional requirements.
• Worked on Production Fixes.
• Monitoring and following with vendors for the data for batch cycle.
• Coordinated with the Client teams during the production moves.
• Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Setups the Environments for QA’s and coordinate in testing.
• Coordinated with the front end teams in regression testing the Applications.

Environment: Mainframe (PL/1, COBOL, DB2, ChangeMan, GUTS, File-Aid)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• All projects were related to migration from PL1 + IMS DB to COBOL + DB2 environment.
• Contributed in the new project AGS - The federal govt introduced a new church tax, as financial institution Citi has obliged to collect tax from the customers.
• Conversion module owner of the modules such as ALS (Advanced Loan System), RM (Customer Data) and RIA (collections) on the reconciliation process.
• Have worked in decommissioning of migrated application in job schedulers CA7.
• Have written many Adhoc programs, JCLs which access the DB2 tables and IMS database programs for reporting purpose.
• Had taken complete responsibility on communicating and getting clarification from client and ITO (EBS Developers) for mismatches on conversion process.
• Created new programs and adhoc job like unloads, IMS unload job for backup on decommissioning of application.
• Attained wide knowledge in sort, Icetool and comparex according to the client request to report on Adhoc basis.

Environment: Mainframe (PL1, IMS DB, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Expeditor, Endeavor, File-Aid, Confidential and Utility programs)