SUMMARY

• Mainframe Professional holding a Master’s degree with 8 Years of professional information technology experiences with major involvement into: Analysis, Design, Development/Coding, Testing, Maintenance (Enhancements and ChangeRequests) and Documentation of business application systems.
• Team player with strong technical skills in COBOL, JCL, DB2, MVS and VSAM programming.
• Has good working experience in the MVS utilities and tools such as TSO/ISPF, XPEDITOR, VSCOBOLII, DB2, SCLM, QMF, FILEAID, DB2UTILITIES, FTP, SPUFI, IDCAMS, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL - M and DB2 PLATINUM.
• Excellent knowledge of Batch Systems running on Mainframes.
• Experienced in monitoring the jobs running on a Mainframe application system.
• Involved in gathering requirements, analysing requirements and creating a perfect project plan.
• Well acquainted with System Analysis, Design, Documenting, Programming, Testing and support, all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Involved in writing procedures, SQLs and queries using QMF/SPUFI, Stored procedures and programs using DB2 which utilized multi table queries, nested inner/outer joins and unions.
• Experience in working with and coordinating with customer for offshore projects.
• Experience in managing a team of members and responsible for reporting project status and progress.
• Implemented large-scale, release and enhancement projects as lead analyst.
• Supported maintenance of several applications in handling of user requests, system enhancements, front-end and back-end interface modifications and production installation.
• Adhering to the quality standards of both client and employer.
• Proven to be very effective in working in large teams and varied work environment.
• Strong Programming, Analytical, Communication, Documentation and leadership skills.
• Experienced in analysis of application development making recommendations to enhance system performance.
• Keen to learn new concepts and new technologies and quick adaptability with team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS, Windows-NT, Windows98, Windows2000, XP

Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX

DBMS: DB2

Tools: SCLM, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF/PDF, TSO/ISPF, DCLGEN, SUPER-C, VSAM, MS-OFFICE, MS-EXCEL, REXX, VISIO.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago IL

Lead Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Act as the point of contact for interacting with the client in order to discuss and resolve queries related to requirements, project status, resource allocation etc.
• Project level responsibility of providing work packages to the onsite and offshore team members, monitoring work progress and ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Identify any project risks and issues and resolve them in a timely manner.
• Assist the Client project manager in estimation of efforts and working out the resource plan.
• Creation of Project Plan, Traceability Matrix for the project.
• Arranging periodic Status calls and act as a Single point of contact for client managers.
• Designing the Workflow structure and creation of corresponding documents.
• Attend meetings to gather business requirements, assimilating them and breaking them into functional components.
• Participate in Data Assessment, finding data sources, data elements definitions, data source flow, hierarchy diagram, logical data model and physical data model, with the help of architects and DBA’s (Database administrators).
• Create detailed functional specifications and coordinating with Offsite development teams to come up with scalable design specifications.
• Responsible for setting up the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment, preparing the UAT testing documents and attending/resolving any issues that arise during UAT.
• Plan and execute rollout into Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing and Production environments.
• Serve as a contact for implementation and postproduction support activities.
• Periodic code/peer reviews to improve the quality of deliverables.
• Monitoring one time (Full) and weekly scheduled (Incremental) production batch loads.
• Document as per required CMM Standards.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IBM File Manager, UNIX, Power builder, ReXXVSAM.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Requirements and prepare estimates for Automatic Claim Adjudication System (ACAS) application.
• Participates in design and analysis sessions.
• Prepare the System Design Specification document.
• Prepare the Requirement traceability matrix.
• Coordinate within the project team or service teams, which include planning and coordination of project resources, execution of development activities, and testing
• Review offshore deliverables (Pseudo Code Reviews, Code Reviews and Test Reviews) and make required changes before delivering to the project core team.
• Attending Conference calls with the Offshore to clarify the issues
• Conduct reviews to ensure that the standards are strictly adhered to and deliver the software products with zero defects.
• Debugging the online code using XPEDITOR in fixing the bugs.
• Communicate with offshore to give technical updates, review offshore activities and resolve technical queries
• Provide support to Quality Assurance team and to fix all the errors/bugs encountered during system/integration testing.
• Prepare the implementation plan.
• Provide post implementation support and fix post production defects.
• Responsible for migrating components into Production. Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures and Metrics Collection related to the project.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IBM File Manager, ENDEVOR

Confidential, Chicago IL

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Discuss with Business Analysts for the requirements provided by the clients.
• Participates in design and analysis sessions.
• Prepare the System Design Specification document.
• Coordinate within the project team or service teams, which include planning and coordination of project resources, execution of development activities, and testing.
• Communicate with offshore to give technical updates, review offshore activities and resolve technical queries.
• Review offshore deliverables (Pseudo Code Reviews, Code Reviews and Test Reviews) and make required changes before delivering to the project core team.
• Attending Conference calls with the Offshore to clarify the issues.
• Reviews code to find causes of errors and revises programs.
• Debugging the online code using XPEDITOR in fixing the bugs.
• Performs unit tests and corrects errors detected.
• Loading data into DB2 tables and using SPUFI, QMF for testing.
• Used the TSO utilities for managing files and tables.
• Verified the database extensively using SQL queries.
• Modifying and running the BATCH jobs for generating user specific reports.
• Helping the client in preparing System test data and system testing.
• Responsible for uploading components into Production. Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures and Metrics Collection related to the project.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IBM File Manager, UNIX, Power builder, ReXXVSAM.

Confidential

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Enhancement of the existing programs according to the client new requirements.
• Preparation of Test cases and unit test the jobs and modules.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan for effective testing of the Work Products.
• Coding of the necessary modules to meet the Technical Requirements.
• Unit testing of the modules to meet the business requirements.
• Deliver all work assigned within the committed project schedules.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IBM File Manager