SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of experience in Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 &DB2 UDB, IMS(DB/DC), MQ, VSAM, SQL, TSO/ISPF, and mainframe tools like File-AID, File-AID RDX, Xpeditor,Platinum,Easytrieve, TELON,SPUFI, QMF, NDM, SDSF,CA7,ESP etc. 
• Worked extensively in all Project Life Cycle phases like Business requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Configuration management, UAT and Implementation support 
• Expertise in DB2 Store procedures.
• Good working knowledge of MQ and CICS
• Good working knowledge of CA-TELON and File AID-RDX
• Good working knowledge of scheduling tools like CA-7 and ESP.
• Expertise in using configuration management and Scheduling tools like DCCS, Endeavor
• Expertise in Debugging tool Xpeditor for both online and batch 
• Worked for Onsite / Offshore Model and expert at handling multiple projects simultaneously 
• 3+ yrs of Automotive, and 3 years of Banking and Financial Industry experience 
• Expertise in doing Performance Tuning to Programs 
• Experience in Production on-call support  
• Expertise in setting up testing environments, defining, creating, documenting, verifying and executing test cases, test scenarios and Test plans. 
• Successfully implemented critical Mainframe projects for Automotive and Banking Clients. 
• Excellent analytical, de-bugging skills and documentation skills.
• Quick learner and keen observer, determining external & internal customer needs and well versed in internal & external relationship building. Good team worker and like to be part of a team, which always tries to explore out of box. 
• Knowledge of PL/SQL and Informatica 

TECHNCAL SKILLS :

Languages: COBOL II, JCL, Easytrive,DB2 Stored procedures, SQL, HTML, XML, Knowledge on REXX and CLIST 

Database: DB2, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS), IMS,

DB/DC System: CICS, IMS, Middleware (MQ) 

Tools & Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, ENDEVOR, SDSF, File-AID, File-Manager, Xpediter, Easytrive, CA-7, Abend-AID, IBM Debug tool, MQ, FTP, IDCAMS, NDM, IDCAMS,ESP, CA7  

Hardware: IBM Mainframe (IBM ES/9000 & IBM 3090, IBM 3270), FIS Mainframe, HP Mainframe 

Operating System: MVS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS, MS-DOS, Windows 98/2K/XP/NT/Vista. 

UML Designing Tools: MS Visio 2000 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Mainframe Lead

• Involved in gathering requirements, analyzing, design, coding and testing the modules using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM. 
• Prepared High Level and Low-level design and shared the requirements. 
• Responsible for unit testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support. 
• Worked as on-call primary support. 
• Extensively worked on COBOL, CICS, JCL, and DB2 for development of programs. 
• Debugged CICS programs using Xpeditor. 
• Used DCCS (Data control central system) as the version control tool. 
• Used DFSORT and FILEAID, Platinum, QMF, Xpeditor tools. 
• Performed Regression Testing on the application. 
• Write Ad-hoc queries (SPUFI and QMF) for solving production problems and for reporting purpose.
• Identified Performance tuning areas in the application and saved MIPS
• Deploying the changes to production environment and provided support for 1 month. 
• Reviewing the work done by other team members and offshore.   

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, SQL, MQ, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, MVS, Xpediter, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, FTP, Abend-AID, IBM 3270, MS Office 2003.

Confidential, MI

Mainframe Developer

• Involved in gathering requirements, analyzing, coding and testing the modules using COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2 and VSAM. 
• Prepared low lever designs based on the high level designs and shared with offshore team for the development. 
• Responsible for unit testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support. 
• Worked 24*7 as on-call primary support. 
• Off-shore team co-ordination 
• Developed batch programs and enhanced online IMS DC programs 
• Implemented the Core business functionalities.
• Created JCLs/PROCs as per the requirement. 
• Extensively changed COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs for enhancements and coded new programs for development. 
• Used Endevor as the version controller.
• Used QMF for reporting purpose.
• Participated in the project calls, QA and code review meetings. 
• Prepare the Status report and maintain configuration register. 
• Prepared Unit / Integration test plan, test data for every programs changed. 
• Performed Regression Testing on the application. 
• Reviewing the work done by other team members and offshore. 
• Worked on DB2 UDB environment and also on stored procedures.
• Worked on ETL process and created many stored procedures for data transformation.
• Worked with ESSBASE consultants and developed the business logics in an optimized way.

Environment: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, JCL, SQL, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, MVS, Xpediter, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, FTP, Abend-AID, IBM 3270, MS Office 2003.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

• Involved in gathering requirements, analyzing, coding and testing the modules using COBOL and VSAM.
• Prepared High Level and Low-level design and shared the requirements with offshore. 
• Provide estimates for the resource allocation, planning and scheduling. 
• Responsible for unit testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support. 
• Off-shore team co-ordination.
• Reviewing the work done by other team members and offshore. 
• Created JCL and PROCs as per the requirement. 
• Extensively changed COBOL, programs for enhancements and coded new programs for development.
• Debugged COBOL programs using Xpeditor. 
• Used ENDEVOR as the version control tool. 
• Participated in the weekly project calls.
• Prepare the Status report and maintain configuration register. 
• Prepared Unit / Integration test plan, test data for every programs changed.
• Performed Regression Testing on the application. 
• Identified Performance tuning areas in the application and improved the system performance.
• Production Deployments and provide support for the same. 

Environment: COBOL, ASSEMBLER, JCL, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, MVS, Xpediter, File-AID, FTP, Abend-AID, IBM 3270, MS Office 2003.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Mapping Business requirements to Technical requirements.
• Performing major enhancements and Handle Reviews.
• Primary on call for Production support of the full RAM application.
• Release coordinator for the monthly production release activities.
• Handling the QA and UA cycles.
• Performing Regular Maintenance tasks, Business Adhoc and Interacting with Client.

ENVIRONMENT: OS/390 (Operating System), COBOL, DB2, JCL, TELON, VSAM, Endeavor, Xpediter, File-aid, QMF, RDX, CA-7, GTAM

Confidential

• Main involvement in Code construction and testing of programs.
• Working on Clear quest tickets (Business Needs).
• Supporting activities in production and testing.
• Maintaining the weekly batch processes in QA environment.
• Worked as a Primary and secondary on call person for the Production support.
• Analyze and fix the production Abends and Problems
• Run Daily, Monthly QA Cycles for the systems
• Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing

Environment: OS/390 (Operating System) COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS