SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application software in Mainframe platform.
• Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
• Perform code and design reviews
• Perform unit testing and System testing
• Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for issues
• Participates as a developer in team environment
• Build ProgramsJCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
• Participate pre and post deployment activates
• Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test plan
• Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.
• Tracking all the production related incidents via ESP and working directly with client to provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,FILE - AID, TSO/ISPF,CA7,ESP (Scheduler) tool, CHANGEMAN,RACF,SPUFI,IBM UTILITIES, Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Good domain knowledge of theTelecom
• Responsible for creating and deleting user id’s.
• Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Developed expertise in client interaction.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills
• Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint(Charts,tables,graphs),Visio(Flowcharts)
• Strong commitment towards quality, experience in Agile and waterfall methodologies while ensuring compliance to coding standards and review process

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL

Databases: DB2,VSAM,SQL Server 2000,UNIX HP

Application web servers: Web logic 7.1, Jboss

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA Windows 98/2000/XP/2003

Business Process Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes

Tools: & Technologies: ESP(Job scheduler), CICS, FILE-AID,FILEZILLA,MFT INFOMAN, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, ABEND-AID, XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boise, ID

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• ESP job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding
• Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling
• Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
• Escalation of Technical issues within EPAS as appropriate
• Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing regardless of platform.
• Abend resolution and job restarts
• Automated inserting and mail scheduling
• Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.
• Coordinate ad-hoc mailings
• Vendor mail
• Automated mail
• Mail Support Services
• Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software Releases:
• Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (cataloged procedures)
• Create Documentation and run instructions
• Develop and implement Automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

Confidential, Saint Louis,MO

Responsibilities:

• Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
• Perform code and design reviews
• Perform unit testing and System testing
• Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for issues
• Participates as a developer in team environment
• Build Programs JCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
• Participate pre and post deployment activates
• Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test plan
• ESP job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding
• Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling
• Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
• Escalation of Technical issues within EPAS as appropriate
• Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing regardless of platform.
• Abend resolution and job restarts
• Automated inserting and mail scheduling
• Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.
• Coordinate ad-hoc mailings
• Vendor mail
• Automated mail
• Mail Support Services
• Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software Releases:
• Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (cataloged procedures)
• Create Documentation and run instructions
• Develop and implement Automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.
• Modified and tested COBOL and CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests of business departments.
• Take new scheduling requests from programmers, set up CA-7 job definition, schedules, triggers and requirements.
• Monitor and ABEND resolution of MVS CA-7/CA-11 batch processing.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Extensive coding using COBOL, JCL and VSAMs.
• Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.
• Gathering Signoffs from Business.
• Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the team. (Both offshore and onsite) Confidential the end of the schedule.
• Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, CICS, CA-7, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN