Mainframe Developer Resume

SUMMARY

Highly motivated, dedicated and passionate professional with extensive IT experience.
Provide strategic leadership in design and implementation of new systems, ensuring integration across departments.
Recognized as an effective problem solver with strong communication and organizational skills.
Areas of Expertise include:
Payroll | Banking | Financial Systems System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) | Agile Methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Z/OS, UNIX, CICS, IBM MQ, OS/400, Windows 2010, Windows NT

Languages: COBOL, SAS, C, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java

RDBMS: DB2, SQL/DS, ORACLE, IMS DB

Other Database: VSAM

Technologies: XML, SOA, MQSeries, Connect Direct, FTP

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, OOAD, TDD

Development Tools: JCL, Endeavor, SCLM, CTRL - M, JOBTRAC, CA7, Fault Analyzer, TSO/ISPF, INSYNC, FILEAID, File Manager, DFSORT, IDCAMS, ICETOOLS, Debug Tool, Rational Application Developer (RAD), AFP (PAPYRUS)

Project Management: Microsoft Project, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Implemented to add new mortgage insurer “Canada Guaranty” for CSL
Coding, Unit testing including test case preparation to add Canada Guaranty using COBOL, DB2 & IMS DB
Coordinate with QA’s in SIT & PAT testing environment.
Produced Deal Cancellation Report on a daily basis & sent to respective department
Produced quarterly Attestation report for CSL access
Setup jobs to unload from CSL tables & convert to CSV file for TBSM (Treasury and Balance Sheet Management) Securitization Project
Participated Re-designing RESL PL
Used Confluence/Jira as a project tracking tool.
Tools used for development & testing were COBOL, SAS, DB2, JCL & IMS DB, Endeavor, CA7, FTP

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Made changes / enhancements to host application, meeting end-user requirements performing following tasks;
Detailed analysis, design, coding, Unit testing including preparing test cases
Assisted QA’s for BAT testing
Used COBOL, DB2, MQ Series & Connect Direct
Work as release coordinator
Implemented Work Force Now project on-time & within budget
Detailed analysis, design, coding, Unit testing including preparing test cases
Used COBOL, DB2, MQ Series & Connect Direct, IBM Web Services
Implemented Cross-Partner Banking to automate distribution of funds from an alternate bank if any problems were detected during transmission from the primary bank using COBOL, DB2 & Connect Direct.
Automated Finance department’s billing system for collecting service changes from clients, minimizing manual work and improving efficiencies.
Assisted business partners and product owners with refining end-user business requirements.
Took the initiative to automate batch processes as tools, increasing productivity by eliminating manual work by mainframe operators.
Provided production support for host applications on a rotational basis, helping resolve issues during processing.
Worked as Scrum Master for 1 year & performed following tasks;
Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meeting
Utilized Rally as a project tracking tool for Agile methodology

SENIOR ANALYST / PROGRAMMER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Delivered cost-effective migration of major financial systems (Payroll, Financial Accounting, Budget, and Inventory) from IBM S/390 mainframe to AS/400 in 2 months; Pentasoft (India) had quoted a 7-month completion time at a cost of U$40K.
Designed and implemented a payroll system for international employees that saved $U5K/month; this payroll was previously outsourced to a US company. Was rewarded with a salary increase for efforts on this project.
Performed Coding, Unit testing using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, CLP

ANALYST PROGRAMMER, COMPUTER DIVISION

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Automated the reconciliation process of inter-branch transactions of bank, after automation unreconciled transactions were reduced by 90% and the manpower of Reconciliation Department were reduced from
Automated and enhanced the Payroll, Provident Fund and HR Management Systems, after automation the manpower of Accounts Department and Human Resources departments were reduced from 65 to 12 and respectively
Performed successful migration of inter-branch reconciliation system of bank from mainframe to RS/6000
Automated the Currency Exchange Rate System
Automated the Government Transaction Reporting System for quick and accuracy in reporting to Central Bank to avoid fines for delayed and complaints from Central Bank using COBOL on IBM Mainframe
Customized SAFE II banking software as per banks specification using CSF and IMS
Performed Coding, Unit testing using C, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, JCL, CSP

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