SUMMARY

• Customer focused process oriented, experienced Senior Software Engineer with proven track record of over 10 years of IT experience in software development, maintenance and production support projects.
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation using IBM Mainframes technologies.
• Highly motivated IT professional with 10 years of proven experience in development, testing, maintenance, performance tuning of Mainframe
• Rich exposure in Media & Information services and Retail Domains
• Experience in leading multiple teams, scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project
• Proven skills in system analysis and gathering / defining client business
• Cross - functional expertise, encompassing Technical Analysis and Specifications, Data Analysis, Design, Quality Assurance and Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Experience in documenting the business requirements and converting business requirements to Functional specifications.
• Worked in Water fall as well to Agile Methodologies.
• Expertise in project planning and scheduling using project management tools (Service Now, Service Desk)
• Extensive experience in working as onsite-offshore model supporting 24x7 applications.
• Proficient in Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2, Endevor, File-Aid, Insync, MQ, CICS, VSAM, ISPF, QMF, Online and Batch Expeditor, SORT, FTP, Stored Procedure, Move-it, Data stage, Platinum, Spufi
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the development process.
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as part of the team and independently
• Expertise in Process flow reviews and Requirements definitions and implementation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language & Technologies: COBOL, MVS/JCL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve

Operating Systems: MVS, Z/OS, Windows

Data Bases: DB2

Development Tools: File Aid, Insync, REXX, SORT, MQ, MoveIT, FTP, SFTP

DB Tools: Spufi, Platinum

Engineering Methods: Agile Methodology, Waterfall Model

Version Control Systems: Endevor

Debugging Tools: Expeditor, IBM Debug

Scheduler: CA7, IBM Debug, Opswise

Business Domain: Media & Information Services, Retail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, WI

Senior Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Responsible for walk through the Business Requirement documents with customer during the end user review, maintain versions and take the user sign-off on the documents and changes
• Deliver high quality code deliverables and supports peers in quality checks such that design requirements are met
• Prepare test data, lead testing activities for functional, Integration and User Acceptance testing and managed integration testing with multiple vendors
• Perform root cause analysis of any issues that arise post-implementation and work on solutions related to issue fixing
• Conduct impact analysis of issues logged, prioritize and ensure that production support is provided as per the committed SLAs
• Perform high and low level technical design, provide pseudo codes, and implement the prototype and conduct design reviews
• Support client interfacing activities and help create the relevant reports in a timely manner
• Provide 24/7 production support for Order entry system, Finance and Direct marketing teams, including business critical jobs
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for various repetitive problems and provided suggestions for speedy problem resolution Key stakeholder in Enhancement/CRs Estimation, Tasking and Design discussions
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions

Environment: IBM mainframes, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, FILE-AID, SPUFI, Endevor, XPEDITOR, Data Stage, Move-it.

Confidential, FL

Technical lead/senior programmer/project manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior COBOL Developer/Tech Lead/ Project Manager and played a pivotal role in anchoring the Offshore/Onshore development
• Played a key role in Requirements Gathering, Detail Design, Development and Production Support
• Mentoring the team and coordinating with external stake holders for smooth execution of the project
• Conducting the code reviews to ensure COBOL coding standards are followed by the team
• Interacting with external users and business team to resolve critical issues in deployment and production
• Proactively suggesting any improvements, use of new technologies to improve the productivity
• Tracking the status, bottom line responsibility of the delivery and resolving the issues in a timely manner
• Key stakeholder in Enhancement/CRs Estimation, Tasking and Design discussions
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions
• Responsible for Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of medium size enhancements and releases to the existing and new applications
• Performing System and Integration Test
• Participated and documented the requirement gathering sessions and analyzed the impact of the changes.
• Analyze the requirements, design and implementation of business applications, middleware, database etc.; study the impact of software/application changes; and ensure that all system components are designed and tuned to acceptable levels of performance and resource utilization
• Serve as a technical expert, resolving critical and complex application performance issues. Identify and drive optimization changes in the application design to improve customer experience for business-critical IT applications
• Develop, maintain, recommend, documents and support tools and backend utilities to perform performance and capacity planning management
• Preparing Estimation, Impact Analysis, Business-Technical Requirement, Technical Design, Test Plan Results, System Testing and Release Pack documents as result of analysis, coding, testing and implementation
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for various repetitive problems and provided suggestions for speedy problem resolution
• Coordinated Set up activities in UAT and Production Environment of all the modules
• Prepared the weekly status and monthly SLA reports for the top level management
• Part of the campus recruitment team for TCS
• Generate and submit invoice for Offshore and onshore teams

Environment: IBM mainframes, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Insync, SPUFI, Endevor, IBM Debug, FTP, SFTP.