SUMMARY:

• Development in IBM Mainframe.
• Development in COBOL.
• Development in CA - GEN/CoolGen tool.
• Production Support, Incident Management, Problem Management.
• Practice and facilitate Agile, Dev-ops, Kan-ban methodology for project implementation.
• Execute Disaster Recovery exercise.
• Legacy Modernization and Reverse Engineering.
• Excellent Communication and Client interaction skill, anticipating client need and providing solution.

TECHNICAL AND LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS:

• Worked extensively in JCL, DB2, VSAM,COBOL, Easytrieve, SORT, Cool gen (CA-Gen).
• Experienced in Agile, Dev-ops, Kan-ban, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Outstanding technical expertise and excellent analytical skills.
• Quick grasping power and zeal for learning new things.
• Experienced in Critical Operation and support and Dev-Ops.
• Flexible in working in shift including weekends and holidays.
• Flawless client management and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills summed up with good professional speaking abilities as well written skill with a nice way of representation.
• Driven by new challenges and adept at adapting to any cultural and business environments.
• Skillful at analyzing the organization's requirements and identifying loop holes.(Provided 150k $ of savings in terms of Mainframe job execution CPU usage and storage cost).
• Currently handling a team of 11 team members.
• Worked on preparation of yearly work-load metrics and proposal of team structure and continuously helping Leadership and company yielding the revenue.
• Continuously understanding the complexity of system and suggest for addition of new resources based on need.
• Document maintainer, First level of contact for Master Service Agreement Compliance team for Monthly Audit Report, Billing, SOX reporting.
• Awarded Confidential Celebrating excellence Award in for outstanding performance in 2010.
• Awarded Confidential Most valuable Player award in 2015.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Z/OS, WINDOWS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, C, Easytrive, REXX, CLIST, CoolGen

Databases: VSAM,DB2

Tools: Change-man (Version Controlling), SORT, FileAid, OMVS (Unix Shell),MQ, SFT, NDM, XCOM.

Database: IBM Data Studio, SPUFI,BMC Catalog Manager, IDAA

Scheduling Tool: CA-JOBTRAC, Control-M

Ticket Monitoring and other Tracking Tool: Service-now, Manage now,IBM Clear Quest, HP QC for defect Tracking,Info-man,Rally

Debugging Tool: Expeditor, DTF

Other: Micro-focus Relativity Modernization Workbench Manage-IT

Subsystems: CICS, TSO

Domain Knowledge: Banking & Capital Market, Credit Card, Payments, Fraud-Risk and Financial Crime Prevention, Anti money laundering, Compliance, Freight and Logistics, Transportation Services, Pricing and Rating, Health-Care.

Java/Other Languages: Java Basic, Spring Basic,Hibernate Basic, Python

Web: HTML,CSS,Bootstrap,Javascript,ReactJS,Redux,REST,SOAPUI

DB: MySQL, Mongo-DB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology: Mainframe, Java, .NET

Responsibilities:

• Follow Agile methodology and practice for executing and implementing the project.
• Attend program increment, Requirement gathering and envisioning calls with client.
• Involving into Requirement Analysis and Estimation Preparation Activity.
• Coding Using COBOL, JCL, DB2,VSAM.
• Coding of Cobol-DB2 External Stored Procedure, which are being invoked by online system to fetch data from back end DB2 databases.
• Schedule Design and Coding of Job execution, adding the Predecessor and Successor Dependency by Control-M tool.
• Modifying Existing JCL to support the modifications in Current Batch Programs.
• Preparing and executing the test scripts.
• Unit testing the Code.
• Involving into Peer Review.
• Conducting code walk through(Show and Tell meeting) with the client and fulfilling client’s additional requirements on code level.
• Involving into System Integration testing and Performance testing.
• Logging the test details & defects on quality center.
• Responsible for code implementation and installation.
• Provide warranty support for the recent sprint releases.
• Conducting Knowledge Transfer to the new comers in Team.
• Preparing Knowledge Sharing document, All in one Trackers,Run-book for future reference.

Production Support/Operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 24*7 Monitor and Accepting and Triaging Support tickets.
• Provide night shift based on project need.
• Join the Bridge Call with other application for High severity business tickets for which there are huge customer and financial impact, and restore the issue within SLA.
• Resolving job abend and make system Up and Running.
• Root Cause Analysis for the frequently occurring job abend.
• Root Cause analysis of the issue raised by business team and provide resolution .
• Provide the permanent fix for the ticket or provide suggestion if it requires Code-fix or data-fix as a part of Kanban story.
• Providing Cost saving ideas/Demand Management ideas which could improve performance of the process and reduce Cost of the running application,such as reducing cpu utilization, storage cost reduction.
• Creation of automated tools using REXX/CLIST to reduce manual effort.
• Preparing data extraction Report based on Client Request by Running High Complex SQL Query.
• Monitoring the System Upgrade emails from Infra team, and take p reventive action for any upcoming outages (e.g. Holding batch Jobs) and join the post implementation validation call to confirm system stability or any issue.
• Coordinating with security team who install security patches to fix the vulnerabilities and do application validation once activity is completed.
• Executing annual Disaster Recovery excercise.
• All application must always have non-expired DR plan. Team responsibility is to prepare and maintain of Disaster Recovery plan and make sure the plan won't expire.
• All team must update the DR Exercise and Test Cases and get it approved by Leadership and DR Team.
• On the day of actual Disaster Recovery exercise, Team will execute the DR Test Cases which is mainly running the Batch jobs in Mirror system and compare the output with Primary system and make sure both are same. Get the DR Exercise result approved by all stake holders and DR Team within SLA.
• Leading a Team of 11 team member onshore + offshore
• Pursuing the role of a Defect Preventer in Team.
• Creation of Client Presentation and Report for Weekly, Bi Weekly and Monthly
• Working as a Configuration Controller of the team.
• Anchoring the Intra Team project quality audits.
• Anchoring the Defect Prevention and Brain Storming Meeting.

Confidential

Technology: Mainframe, Cool-Gen

Responsibilities:

• Coding Using COBOL, DB2.
• Coding using Cool-Gen tool.
• Involved into Requirement Analysis and Estimation Preparation Activity.
• Involved into Preparation of Technical Design Diagram.
• Designing of New Interfaces with CA-Gen to support new amendment in P&R application.
• Preparation of New JCL to Run Newly created Batch Programs.
• Modifying Existing JCL to support the modifications in Current Batch Programs.
• Preparing and executing the test scripts.
• Unit testing the Code.
• Involved into System Integration testing and Performance testing.
• Involved into Production Support activities, Solved Support tickets within the SLA Norms.
• Involved into on call support and Production Job Monitoring activity.
• Involved into Peer Review.
• Involved into Knowledge Transfer activity for the new comers in Team.
• Preparing Knowledge Sharing document on Pricing & Rating area and Developing Assets which would be reused in Project for future purpose.

Confidential

Technology: Mainframe

Tool: Used: Micro focus Relativity Modernization Workbench

Operating System: Windows

Responsibilities:

• Involved into Analysis of COBOL Batch Programs, Cobol-CICS Online Programs and extracted the Business Rule implemented inside the Program.
• Involved to make the Reverse Engineering process successful and completed the Requirement Gathering part of SDLC.