SUMMARY

• 16+ years of experience in various roles as Manager, Solution Architect, Data Architect, System analyst, project manager with hands on experience.
• Good in depth knowledge in all aspects of all the SDLC and Agile phases in projects, Estimation of project, Requirement gathering, Analysis, Designing, Project planning, Resource planning, Work allocation etc with exceptional abilities in Development, Testing, Implementation, Migration ( from Mainframe to other systems), Rehosting, Mainframe modernization, Documentation, Production support and Maintenance.
• Demonstrated strong Program Management, Client relationship, Strategy planning and Transition.
• Hands - on executive, passionate about utilizing technology to improve business results
• Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations with stakeholders
• Very Well experienced in IBM mainframe computer systems using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS and TSO/ISPF.
• Well experienced in release management tools UDeploy and providing/implement the automation solutions to customer.
• Good experience in architecting and developing large data movement between systems, developing data analytics.
• Good experience in developing dashboards for senior level management to report overall progress of the project, designing reports for senior management to take important business decisions based on data. Good experience managing Offshore and Onsite communication and management.
• Areas of excellence & strength include Program Creation/Modifications, System Enhancements, Analysis, Coding, loading, Conversions & Migrations, 24 x 7 Production support, System Deployment, Process Improvements, Client Relations, Application Lifecycle, Troubleshooting, Process Reengineering, Team Leadership.
• Trained on SAP ABAP, SAP SD, AWS CLOUD

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, Ezetrieve, REXX, UNIX

Platforms: Windows 9X/ 2000/XP/7/8, zOS, MVS/ESA

Database: DB2 V8.1/V10, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 , IMS DB/DC RDBMS concepts, CA IDMS, Teradata, SQL server

Utilities: DF SORT, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities for DB2, NDM/FTP, VSAM

Tools: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, FileAid, PDS MAN, CA7, Xpeditor, SAR, SDSF, JCLPREP, Endevor, ChangeMan, Expeditor, Abend-Aid, Mainframe Express, IBM Debug tool, HP Quality Center, IBM Datastudio, Jira, MS project, Jenkins, GITHUB, UDeploy, CONTROL-M, BMC utilities, Database utilities, FTP, IDCAMS, FILE AID, Xpeditor,, DB2-File Aid, QMF, SPUFI, JIRA, Tivoli, AWS cloud. Cloud AWS, Mainframe Devops tools Microservices Legacy Modernization/Migration tools, Micro focus, ADDI,TOPAZ, BI tool Ticketing Tools (Service Now, Remedy, Service manager etc.) Database tools.

ETL Tools: IBM - Datastage 8.5/ MS SQL Server SSIS/DTS packages

DB Tools: File-Aid for DB2,ORACLE SQL, PLAT, BMC, QMF, TOAD

Methodologies: Agile, waterfall, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Mainframe consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring & drive application development team, backlog, AFS application issues/risks, root cause investigation & determination and resolution function, quality assurance, Identification of support requirements from customers.
• Identify the business requirements and translate into system specs & technical specs.
• Brainstorm the operational & procedural problems and come up with recommendations to resolve/improve business functionality.
• Taking care of daily production application requests along with maintenance requests.
• Created COBOL-DB2 (Micro focus Cobol), modules, insert/update or delete from DB, JCLs to execute the modules.
• And taking care of design, coding, and testing for the requirements.
• Based on customer requests fetch the loan system data and send it to the US bank.
• Extensively used BMC and to do EXPLAINS on stored proc queries to understand the access path and optimized the queries accordingly.
• Used File-Aid for DB2, QMF and SPUFI for accessing the DB2 database. Created DCLGENs and used them in COBOL modules.
• Conducted design and code reviews across project teams to help identify opportunities for improvement.
• Tuned few complex queries to improve performance. Mentored team of developers in analysis, design, coding and trouble shooting.

Confidential

Mainframe consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined enterprise strategy, standards and leading practices associated with all aspects of capabilities.
• Managed and improved the build infrastructure for software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts, continuous integration infrastructure, and deployment tools.
• Monitoring Application teams, design, root cause investigation & determination and resolution function, quality assurance, Identification of support requirements from customers.
• Mainframe modernization of applications from existing platform and technology stack to new Cloud native architecture.
• Work on multiple technology stack while working on migration projects.
• Converting the mainframe code to Java, convert mainframe code to MDM tool, database migration from DB2 to Oracle.
• Design the Microservices systems with Java at the targeted environment while migrating from mainframe platform.
• Applying the Micro services concepts and patterns to the solution in order to promote maintainability, reusability, scalability, performance and security.
• Develop and maintain design, existing and future architect solutions, options, and innovation plans.
• Hands-on on automation proposal,cloud implementation of the Devops solutions. Working on establishing CI/CD pipeline to deliver fast and efficiently.
• Contribute and providing recommendations on scope and design required to implement customer requirements.
• Work with teams, SME to understand functional requirements and cross functional teams to architect, design, develop, and implement the solutions.
• Analyse current issues, existing systems and taking care of impact analysis to identify areas for improvement and integration.
• Analyse the business requirements and creates the technical design, process documentation and create an application roadmap.
• Create reports defining project progress and process improvement documents.
• Knowledge of RESTful API, Dockers & Kubernetes

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of project requirements, Estimation, Design and Development.
• Worked on development application projects, application production support 24*7 and recommended & implemented new features and processes to business executives.
• Contributed to change management process.
• Taking care of L1,L2 and L3 type requests along with maintenance requests which includes the mainframe technologies, UNIX, Microfocus cobol and Microfocus suit tools
• Mainframe migration & rehosting on Micro focus environment - providing the system and database assessment, building solutions for code migration, testing, implementation and support of new environment. Prepared Disaster and application recovery plans.
• In rehosting project, we converted Mainframe code to Micro focus Cobol code. Database migration from DB2 to SQL server.
• Lead the project team including requirements gathering, enterprise analysis, estimates, module designing, test support, and implementation.
• Worked closely with the stakeholders and IT leaders to understand the current scenario of customer operations and thereby involving delivering technology and solutions.
• Taking care of Production implementation setting once code is approved in test region.
• Mentored team of developers in analysis, design, coding and trouble shooting.
• Business process analysis and Improvement.
• Worked on technical roadmaps, design, application diagrams and innovation plans.
• Conducted design and code reviews across project teams to help identify opportunities for improvement. Tuned few complex queries to improve performance.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirements gathering, Impact analysis, Project estimation, scheduling and tracking the deliverables.
• Designed the database for the application. Created logical and Physical data-model
• Coded native stored procedures to support our application UI to interact with DB2 database. Translated all the requirements into SP Calls and designed the application.
• Used IBM Datastudio extensively to develop, test and deploy the native stored procedures.
• Extensively used BMC and IBM Datastudio to do EXPLAINS on stored proc queries to understand the access path and optimized the queries accordingly.
• Used File-Aid for DB2, QMF and SPUFI for accessing the DB2 database. Created DCLGENs and used them in COBOL modules.
• Used Endevor tool to maintain the COBOL/CICS modules, JCLs, parms and procs and for promoting the same to higher environments.
• Used NDM and FTP has file transfer protocols between mainframe LPARs and between mainframe and midrange servers respectively.
• Used CA-7 as the scheduler tool for all the batch flows inside the application.