SUMMARY

• 9+ Years of professional experience in full life cycle system development involving analysis, design, development, testing, documentation, implementation, maintenance & production support of application software in Mainframe platform.
• Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.
• Tracking all the production related incidents and working directly with client to provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.
• Extensive knowledge and experience inCOBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,IMS, ASSEMBLER,EASYTRIEVE,FILEMANAGER,FILE - AID,TSO/ISPF,SAR,CONTROL-M, CONTROL-D,AMMO Reports, CHANGEMAN,SPUFI,QMF,IBM UTILITIES,FTP.
• Good Knowledge and expertise in Banking & Financial Applications, Auto Financing and knowledge in Capital markets. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs)to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments
• Having good Experience in Data base Programming - development of stored procedures cursors, function and triggers.
• Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Strong experience in writing SQL queries.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts, technologies, and tools and to analyze and implement it in applications.
• Proficient in performing various roles and functions including Team Member, Team lead, system analyst, design, development, system integration, and unit testing.
• Results oriented, Team Player with good Analytical, technical and interpersonal skills. Highly personable and capable of working with business partners and customers.
• Strong team leadership and execution skills, co-ordinate with many team owners to achieve the target goal. Advanced analytical abilities, proficient in solving problems and implementing solutions under tight deadlines.
• Innovative, hands-on leader with rigorous software development experience and knowledge of industry technologies and trends.
• Project delivery of various sizes,performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator attending the project review meetings with Clientsgathering requirements, preparingHigh Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Hands on experience creating tables and stored procedures.
• Undergone trainingin Time Management, Project action Planning, Cross culture, interacting with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Self-motivated, highlycommitted to responsibilities andability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: OS/390 MVS, Z/OS Windows 7, Windows XP.

Hardware: IBM Mainframe OS390, FTP.

Language: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Assembler, JCL, IMS DC/DB, Easytrieve

Tools: /Technologies: VSAM, ISPF, SDSF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File Manager, Start Tool, CHANGEMAN, IBM UTILITIES, IDI Abend Aid, File Aid, FTP, SFTP, DTCN, ADM, CONTROL-M, CONTROL-D,QMF,Endevor,SAR, AMMO Reports, XPEDITER.

Databases: DB2 9

Business Process Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes

Methodologies: Software Engineering (SDLC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Developer

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Coding, Technical support, and Testing and Quality assurance.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Preparation of Technical Specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Development of the new batch programs usingCOBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS DB/DC and inquiry of online screens for Data validation.
• Active participation in functional Design/Detail Design Review Meetings.
• Documented problems, discovery, and fixed solution steps.
• Debugging and making corrections to the Application program using IBM Debug tools.
• Used ENDEVOR to migrate the modules to Test/QA Environment.
• Use QMF (SQL complex queries) to query the database.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test/QA Environment by the team during SIT, UAT & Regression Testing.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, QMF, SPUFI, IBM UTILITIES, XPEDITER.

Technical Leader

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Coding, Technical support, and Testing and Quality assurance.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Preparation of Technical Specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Development of the new batch and online programs usingCOBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS DB/DC and INQUIRY.
• Provided production support for Legacy Host application batch processing system during day time as well as afterhours & week end on call support. Have strong job ABEND resolution skills.
• Involved in batch job repair, restore, and fault correction.
• Documented problems, discovery, and fixed solution steps.
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Used OPC to schedule production Jobs.
• Use QMF (SQL complex queries) to query the database.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Carried out Regression testing where planned changes going to production were routed.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,IMS DB/DC, TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, QMF, IBM UTILITIES, SAR, OPC/ESA.

Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Coding, Technical support, and Testing and Quality assurance.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Conduct JAD to review the business document with a team of business end users and technical analysts.
• Preparation of Technical Specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.
• Development of the new batch and online programs usingCOBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM and INQUIRY.
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Used Control-M scheduling to schedule production Jobs.
• Creatingbind strategiesandrunning bindjobs
• Use SPUFI (SQL complex queries) to query the database.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle and all documents are version controlled and maintained.
• Carried out Regression testing where planned changes going to production were routed.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Involved in yearly Disaster Recovery plan activities and bring up the system from DRS Backups.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM,TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, ABEND-AID, FILE-MANAGER, SPUFI, IBM UTILITIES, ADM.

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.
• Analyzing the functional and Detailed Design specification.
• Design and development of programs and jobs usingJCL, COBOL, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, CICS.
• Actively involved in learning the application
• Reviewing the programs for QA.
• System testing of programs.
• Use DTCN Tool to debugging online programs issues.
• Handling Ad-Hoc requests.
• Define new scheduling request in Control-M, triggers and dependency on every implementation.
• Involved in High level and Low-level design and implement Code re-factors changes.
• Used CHANGEMAN to create, stage and deploy COBOL Packages in to production site.
• Tracking work in progress and attended status meetings.
• Provide the technical assistance to the team for solving abends.
• Debugging the production issues and involved in Production support and Release support.
• Involved in mapping of system fields with new product field definitions.
• Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle and all documents are version controlled and maintained.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, ASSEMBLER,TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, ABEND-AID, FILE-MANAGER, START TOOL, IBM UTILITIES, FTP, DTCN.

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development/enhancement of applications usingJCL, VSAM, COBOL, and Assembler.
• Follow coding standards and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL and Assembler.
• Unit and System testing of programs.
• Debugging of the programs.
• Handling Ad-hoc requests.
• Coordinating with various teams as and when required.
• Attending team meetings and status reporting.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ASSEMBLER,TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, START TOOL, IBM UTILITIES, VPARS, TPF.