SUMMARY:

• Over 15+ years of experience in the IBM MAINFRAME (z/OS)
• Conversant with all Phases of Project Life Cycle including software quality standards and configuration management and change management.
• Worked extensively in development, conversion, maintenance and enhancement projects.
• Extensive experience with COBOL, BULL COBOL (Used in HVX OS), META COBOL, JCL, DB2, CA DATACOM, CICS &VSAM.
• Have designed DB2 database tables and have worked along with DBAs to create and alter DB2 tables.
• Mass loading & unloading of DB2 tables done using DSNUTILB utility.
• Executed queries using QMF, SPUFI and DB2i utilities.
• Analysed DB2 SQL performances using STROBE and EXPLAIN tools, and suggested areas of reduction in MIPS/CPU usage. Used FREEZEFRAME, OMEGAMON and CA INSIGHT tools, for capturing and analysing the performance, of batch and online system.
• Experienced in Performance tuning, Query Optimization and starting & stopping of database (To resolve check pending status).
• Worked extensively in COBOL DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Proficient with INTERTEST, TRACEMASTER, XPEDITOR and VIASOFT debugging tools.
• Have debugged both Online and batch programs using these tools.
• JCLs were created and submitted to DELETE/DEFINE VSAM files using IDCAMS utility. VERIFY was run against VSAM files to close files which were not closed properly during batch cycle run.
• Extensive experience with IBM OPTIM tool for doing Data Archival (Extract, Restore and Purge) and Data Masking (Extract, Convert, Load or Insert/Update).
• Worked extensively with IBM Websphere MQ to GET data from external system using MQGET and PUT data into remote queue using MQPUT commands.
• Browsed data present in MQ using MAINVIEW (MAINV) tool , Websphere MQ tool and through MQBROWSE command in COBOL program.
• Extensively used REXX/CLIST for creating panels.
• Created Web services (Web Service Call and Callable Web Service) using GT Ivory Studio .
• Copying of files from production to development using NDM tool, TSO CMD command & DOS FTP command .
• Hands on experience in debugging code using ABENDAID, CICS dump & Batch dump
• Mainframe version control tools such as ENDEAVOR and CHANGEMAN (CMAN) have been extensively used.
• Hands on experience with job schedulers like ESP, OPCT and Control - M for retrieving information about job schedules, job predecessor and job successor.
• Effective leadership skills with good written and verbal communication, presentation skills with a focused result oriented approach. Possess strong work ethic and team spirit. Self-motivated and highly committed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS NT, 95, 98, z/OS (OS/390), HVS

LANGUAGES: COBOL, BULL COBOL, META COBOL, JCL, CICS, TCL (Terminal Control Language), PL/I

DATABASE: IMS DB/DC, DB2, CA DATACOM, MS ACCESS, ORACLE

TOOLS: CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, ISPF, TSO, EJES, JSF, QMF, COMPAREX, REXX, CLIST, ESP (Job schedulers), SYNCSORT, EJES, IDCAMS, ABENDAID, FILEAID, INSYNC, XPEDITOR, IBM OPTIM, CA INSIGHT, FREEZE FRAME, OMEGAMON, EXPLAIN, WEBSHPERE MQ, MICROSOFT VISIO, MICROSOFT POWER POINT, BMCDB2, GT Ivory Studio

FRONT END: JAVA, BMSMAP, DOT NET Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Attend Daily Scrum Stand up meeting to gather requirement, new updates and provide status of the Task completed/In progress Task
• Update the status of the Task and effort in TFS (Team Foundation Server) tool
• Design the process flows and program flow for each use case in FRS (Functional Requirement Specification)
• Developed new batch and online modules using COBOL, DB2, CA DB2 (Datacom), VSAM, JCL & CICS
• Created GT Web Services (both Web service call and Callable Web service) to access Mainframe online CICS screens using GT Ivory Studio. Web services are consumed by BizTalk (Middle ware) to access Mainframe data and send to Front End (.NET)
• Test Web Services using GT Ivory Tool and validate the results generated with Mainframe CICS screens
• Analyze META COBOL programs with CA Datacom statements, and document equivalent DB2 SQL query
• Understand the existing Agency system written in Bull Cobol and TCL (Terminal Control Language) , and document the specification and requirements out of the program
• Skip the Trip files generated by COBOL using JCL, are sent to BizTalk application using FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• Debugging the batch and online CICS modules using INTERTEST tool
• Promote and deliver components to System test
• Support System test team & User acceptance team
• Monitoring CICS for online abends and Batch Spool for Batch abends in PROD & two Test regions
• Preparing daily status report at the end of day

Confidential, Miami, FL

Mainframe Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attend meeting to gather requirements from Business users
• Convert Business requirement into Technical specification document
• Prepare High level and Low level design document
• Set up meeting with Technical Leads to review the HLD & LLD , and get sign off
• Point of contact for Offshore. Delegate task and review the deliverable from Offshore
• Organize and attend daily call with Offshore to coordinate their daily work
• Collaborate with the Business Analysts and Testing teams to develop overall test strategy
• Create New Online and Batch modules using COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL
• Modified existing Batch and Online programs to align to business requirements
• Deploy changes in System test & Production through ENDEVOR
• Support System test team & User acceptance team
• Attend Go/No Go meeting with Prod release team and Technical and Management team
• Deploy changes into Production
• Support Post Production

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in impact analysis of components using VSAM files
• Design the process flows and program flow for each impacted component
• Identification of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies during design stage
• Coding Batch and Online component to in corporate 24*7 logic
• Debugging the batch and online CICS modules using TRACEMASTER tool
• Capturing and monitoring performance of DB2 queries, batch jobs and CICS transaction using SYSView, EXPLAIN and CICS tools
• Peer review code change
• Support System test team & User acceptance team

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Attend meeting with Business Analyst to gather requirements
• Design the process flows for each Functional specification
• Prepare High level design and low level design for the impacted components
• Define the Mainline logical flow for batch and Online CICS components
• Identification of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies during design stage
• Developed new batch and Online modules using COBOL, DB2, JCL & CICS
• Developed new program to read data present in UTF-8 format from MQ and convert into EBCDIC format for further processing in Mainframe
• Used Websphere MQ tool to Trigger On and Off MQs, Post data to MQ using datasets, browse the content of MQ.
• Debugging the batch and online CICS modules
• Peer review code change
• Promote and deliver components to System test and Production
• Support Production implementation
• Monitoring and support of the solution after post-implementation

Confidential, New York City, NY

Mainframe Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Align the understanding between business analysts and technical team
• Design the process flows and program flow for each use case in FRS
• Designed and developed IBM OPTIM Data archival and Data masking solution for 35 Operational tables.
• Define the Mainline logical flow for batch and Online CICS components
• Monitoring and support of the solution after post-implementation
• Data Archival & Data Masking using IBM OPTIM
• Querying (SQL) IBM OPTIM files to retrieve the archived data
• Data Conversion - Migration of clients from TAS to GTM. Involved designing, creating and testing new batch programs
• Identification of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies during design stage
• Providing requirements to define CICS Transactions and Message queues (Local and Remote queues)
• Used Websphere MQ tool to Trigger On and Off MQs, Post data to MQ using datasets, browse the content of MQ.
• Worked on COBOL DB2 Stored procedures.
• Debugging the batch and online CICS modules using TRACEMASTER tool
• Creation of panels using REXX/CLIST , executing OPTIM Jobs through REXX panel
• Capturing and monitoring performance of DB2 queries, batch jobs and CICS transaction using CA INSIGHT, FREEZE FRAME & OMEGAMON tools.