SUMMARY

• 15 Years of IT experience as Sr. Programmer Analyst/Team Leader/System’s Analyst working for Confidential plus 6 Years of IT experience as a Consultant/Developer. Worked in Development, Maintenance, Testing, Support of IBM Mainframe Systems applicaions for Medical Insurance and Financial Brockerage companies.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) in both Agile and Waterfall models - Requirements Gathering, Functional gap analysis, Construction, Unit Testing, and Support to various Testing techniques - Integration, Quality Assurance (QA) Test, User Acceptance (UAT) Test, Regression Test, and Production support.
• Functional responsibilities: Requirements gathering, functional gap analysis, application design, writing training guides, training end users, and production support.
• Technical (Technical lead, Analyst, Developer) activities: Interfacing with users, identifying functional and technical gaps, estimating work, designing custom solutions, and programming, leading developers, scheduling, producing documentation, and providing production support.
• Business Analyst responsibilities: Communicate with business to discuss requirements, write business requirement, write technical response, define IT solutions, coordinate development effort with team, Provide test data and test case to support testing, Communicate project stakeholders, support to deploy and deliver the final product to the business.
• Performed multiple roles during my career including Senior Programmer/Analyst/ Consultant. Specialized in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, SQL, JCL and MVS. Hands on experience working on tools like Expeditor, Intertest,Endeavor, Change Man, File-Aid,Platinum, FTP, NDM, HTML, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF/TSO etc.
• Excellent Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new Tools & Software quickly and competently as required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Z/OS (IBM Mainframe),TSO/ISPF, OS/390, MVS/ESA, Windows

Programming Languages: JCL, COBOL, CICS, PL/SQL, CICS, EasyTrieve

Version Control Tools: Endeavor, Changeman

File Management and DB Tools: Fileaid, SPUFI,QMF,BMC, Platinum

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, Intertest

Other Tools and utilities: TSO/ISPF QMF, SDSF, IBM utilities, CA7

Database: DB2, VSAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Contractor/Application Programmer V

Responsibilities:

• Development of Sheltered Harbour data repository and disaster recovery system. Sheltered Harbour represents a way to store client’s financial data coming from all major financial institutions like City, Confidential, Goldman Sachs, Confidential in a safe repository preventing the single institution from collapse in case of the disaster, such as cyber-attack or financial crash. As a part of a Agile team, provided technical expertise and analysis and creating extracts to pass data from several Mainframe systems such MICS(Merrill Inventory Control System) for Failing Obligations, as GTR (Global Trades Repository) for Clearing and Pending Dividends. Developed a process which included new programs and Job streams to extract and pass data from Databases to SH Servers using HASH, ZIP and Encryption techniques. The Project was completed ahead of time and successfully implemented.
• Developed an automation process for ML Pro Database for Archiving and Dummying DB2 tables (a stream of yearly jobs). Project was successfully completed and scheduled to be implemented in 3 steps. First 2 steps are implemented in the end of 2017 and the last step slated to be implemented in January of 2018.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL 5, CICS, DB2,IMS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, Endevor, IBM File Manager, IBM Testing Tool.

Confidential

Contractor/System’s Analyst Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Support, development, maintenance and enhancement of PPO Medical Claims system. Responsible for updating and supporting Provider contracting pricing Maintenance PPMs as well as applying new logic based to accommodate new Business requirements and applying new rules for Healthcare reform laws.
• Provided periodical system wide Rate updates and maintained Provider Network pricing.
• Involved in all aspects of Maintenance Projects by following the software development life cycle starting from Planning, Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Integration and Test, Deployment and Evaluation.
• Independently analysed and resolved large, complex, high-risk production problems.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and provide alternative designs for permanent resolution of the problems.
• Provided QA and BA teams with comprehensive data scope spreadsheet reports with detailed analysis.
• Responsible for planning, work allocation and on time delivery of deliverables.
• Providing IT Solutions for the business requirements.
• Provide 24x7 batch/online support within the agreed SLA’s

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus, CICS, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File manager, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, Expeditor.

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst/Team Leader/System’s Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the maintenance and enhancement to PPO Medical Claims systems.
• Participated in many various vital Confidential company projects throughout PPO system, to name a few:
• 1 . PT/OT Modality adding additional Batch processing Jobs, Procs and Control Cards for new files and updating Mass adjustment and Network Access processing for these files.
• Network Reconfiguration. Adding pricing logic and rates for a new CBP2 network.
• 3. Autism Mandate. Expanding TOP conversion table grid and updating file structure and conversion logic for the Rates/Provider contracting files.
• 4. Multiple modifiers phase I and II online and batch part allowing second modifier to be switched applying new pricing rules.
• 5. TIN/Provider Contracting files to create online processing to allowing BTS to set new contracting rules for Provider pricing logic without opening new request for IT services.
• 6. Created rate file load automated processing for Qualcare, RJ Health, HIAA/Fair Health, RBRVS/Medicare rates and maintaining the integrity by adding ad hoc processes to apply most recent business rules.
• 7. Created automation processing for uploading new rates into multiple Fee Schedule Files from PC text files and feeding back the rate load spreadsheet reports back to the server.
• 8. Created online CICS maintenance for more than 30 Rate files and tables.
• 9. Maintained rate and contract file data integrity and handled all requests for mass updates.
• 10. Produced Rates/History/Contact file download process for Siebel, Data Warehouse and ARU systems for MCS, Hospital and Dental systems.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and provide alternative designs for permanent resolution of the problems.
• Provided QA and BA teams with comprehensive data scope spreadsheet reports with detailed analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently an taking charge of the complex tasks an demonstrated being a leader during all aspects of the project; from the inception thru the implementation and later supporting it.
• Providing IT Solutions for the mew business requirements.
• Provide 24x7 batch/online support within the agreed SLA’s

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus, CICS, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File manager, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, Expeditor.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contractor/Mainframe Developer /Programmer Aanalyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsiblefor design,Performed testing, development, implementation, production support and user interface for the Managed Assets Consulting Services - wrap-free investment management program to offer a full range of consulting services including access to professional investment managers and mutual funds for clients and financial advisors.
• Played a key role in design, development and maintanance of Portfolio Performance Measurement System and Comprehensive Perfomance monitor systems that provided detail graphs and charts of prfomance across multiple accounts, Investment Results, Asset Allocation, Composite Setup, Capital Gains (Loses), and Income Summary for the vareous periods of time. This System allowed to establish composite-component account link by entering and correcting performance history.
• Redesigned Monthly Performance Snapshot document to be produced using CSF PDF driver.
• Supported back-end CICS as well as overnight Batch process. Involved in the investigation of various production issues, performed root cause analysis, issue simulation.

Environment: MVS/ESA, TSO, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, Xpediter, File-Aid, SPUFI, Changeman, QMF, SDSF.