Experience

Subject matter expert and lead Programmer with8 years of experience in Mainframe Technology with Annuity, Life Insurance, Finance applications and Healthcare domain. Possesses strong analytical and communication skills. Technical proficiencies include:

OPERATING SYSTEMS
MVS, OS/2, Z/OS, MPE/iX, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows 7, OS-X
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
JCL, COBOL, CICS, REXX, Easytrieve 
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
CICS for MVS/ESA, TPSCREEN
UTILITIES/TOOLS
TSO, ISPF, Micro Focus Express, CMS, EXPEDITOR, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, OPC, PLATINUM
RDBMS/DBMS
DB2, VSAM, TPFILES, Microsoft Access.

Confidential (2012-Present), Charleston, WV, USA (Programmer Analyst)
PROJECT: Rapids
Client: Deloitte Consulting, State of West Virginia
Responsibilities:

• Make enhancement in various subsystems of RAPID system to assist West Virginia State Government’s welfare program (DHHR), which includes SNAP, MMIS, LIEAP, SCA, CHIP etc. assistantship for needy family and individual starting from application review, eligibility check, benefit payments, recovery to client scheduling, client notice letter and report generation.
• Take part in meeting with client, gather requirement, prepare functional specification, technical specification, approach document.
• Research on complex problems, done analysis, debugging and provide efficient and accurate solutions in timely manner.
• Align and maintain correct version of code at the time of check out and program modification.
• As a lead developer, design algorithm, code critical and complex requirements, prepare proper documentation.
• Prepare Unit test cases, regression test cases and perform unit testing, regression testing in both test, integration environment and UAT environment.
• Maintenance and tuning of performance of existing RAPID system’s COBOL, JCL, CICS online screens and DB2 database system.
• Give oncall support for mainframe batch cycle and online CICS screen issues.
• Done elevation of fully tested code to test, UAT and production region, take part in release elevation, monitor batch cycle performance.
• Work on different production work-orders and provide solution to client in quick turn around time.
• Prepare documents and design using Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel.
• Use Microsoft outlook for email communication.
• Use sort utility to format various reports and extracts.
• Use Micro Focus Express to compile, run and debug COBOL-DB2-CICS program.
• Use Platinum to run DB2 query for test and analysis purpose.

Confidential (2008 – 2012), Lincoln, Ne, USA (Software development advisor)
PROJECT: Lifesys Maintenance, Legacy enhancement 
Client: Legacy, Old Mutual, Erie, AND PHOENIX
Responsibilities:

• Redesigned and made major enhancement in Lifesys system by adding multiple strategy bucketed product functionality using COBOL, JCL, online screens and file database system.
• As a subject matter expert took part in meeting with client, gather requirement, prepare functional specification, technical specification, approach document.
• Research on complex problems, done analysis, debugging and provide efficient and accurate solutions in timely manner.
• Aligned and maintained correct version of code at the time of check out and program modification.
• As a lead developer, design algorithm, code critical and complex requirements, prepare proper documentation.
• Prepared Unit test cases, regression test cases and perform unit testing, regression testing in both test and production environment.
• As a team lead helped business analysts, programmer in understanding requirements, review code, give feedback, and coordinate offshore-onshore work.
• Helped testers in understanding of system requirements and enhancement.
• Maintenance and tuning of performance of existing Lifesys system COBOL, JCL, online screens and file database system.
• Gave training to team members about Bonus processing, Financial Transactions processing for EIA, Universal Life policies, Retro processing, New business Processing, Report requester processing, Ruleset functionality, Control files, Policy Accounting, General Ledger accounting, Cost Basis Calculation, TAX reporting, Federal and State withholding, Automatic Workflow, Group Bill, Policy maintenance, Claim Processing, Central repository, Annual Statement, Policy Valuation extract, Policy Exhibit extract, Reinsurance Extract.
• Gave oncall support for mainframe batch cycle and online screen issues.
• Done elevation of fully tested code to test and production region, take part in release elevation, monitor batch cycle performance.
• Worked on different production work-orders and provide solution to client in quick turn around time.
• Prepared documents using Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel.
• Used Microsoft outlook for email communication.
• Used Microsoft Visio to prepare various training material.
• Used sort utility to format various reports and extracts.
• Generated report using Easytrieve.

Confidential (2007 – 2008), 
PROJECT: Tag vector enhancement, NHP 
Client: NHP, TAG
Responsibilities:

• Took part in TAG vector enhancement project to add a new product ‘VECTOR’ to give flexibility of existing Lifesys system for variable annuity product.Changed and converted code using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, TPFILE, TPSCREEN .
• Prepared program specifications, done analysis, code, unit and regression testing.
• Neighborhood Health Partnership is a project on Healthcare which mainly deals with a product called ‘AMISYS’. As part of AMISYS team worked in HP30000 environment with following tools suprtool, QUIZ, QTP, QDESIGN, QUICK, QEDIT.
• Ran report and verified data in online screens.
• Prepare documents using Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel.
• Use Microsoft outlook for email communication.
• Use sort utility to format various reports and extracts.

Confidential (SEP 2006- Jan 2007), KOLKATA,India (Associate system engineer)
PROJECT: IBM Global Account
Client: ibm
Responsibilities:

• Took part in requirement gathering and prepared technical specification documents for the project to calculate broker’s commission across the globe under IGA account.
• Ran report using SPUFI in DB2 database to verify results and logic of the code.
• Ran various queries using SQL according to the requirements/
• Designed screens, done analysis, coding, prepared unit and regression test cases and ran unit and regression testing using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
• Wrote macros using REXX programming language.
• Provide oncall support in batch cycle and online screen problems.
• Schedule jobs in test region using OPC to run mini production cycle for performance testing.
• Debugged code using EXPEDITOR, used CHANGEMAN for version control of COBOL code and made modification.
• Used FILEAID for file browsing and file compare.
• Prepared documents using Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel.
• Used Lotus Notes for email communication.
• Used sort utility to format various reports and extracts.
• Confidential (2005- SEP 2006), KOLKATA,INDIA (Programmer Analyst)

PROJECT: MetLife sbr, traveler’s integration phASE 1AND 2.
Client: MetLife, USA.
Responsibilities:

• Took part in requirement gathering, prepared technical specification documents, done coding.
• SBR mainly deals with the Special Business Resource (who pay the premium more than 1 million in a year for LIFE Insurance).The project involved maintenance of the existing applications system, and also adding new modules as per the changes in business requirements using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
• Ran SQL queries in QMF in DB2 database to verify various results and perform analysis.
• Performed QA testing, lead QA team.
• Prepared unit and regression test cases and performed unit and regression testing.
• Debugged code using EXPEDITOR, used CHANGEMAN for version control of COBOL code and made modification.
• The VRPS Traveler’s Integration Project is a conversion project, where large scale data are being moved over from Traveler’s (A new company that MetLife has recently purchased) to MetLife’s VRPS System (Vantage Repetitive Payout System) that deals with Payouts of the Annuities, for MetLife.
• Took part in data migration and enhancement activities to customize ‘VANTAGE’ code.
• Used FILEAID for file browsing and file compare.
• Prepared documents using Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel.
• Used Microsoft Outlook for email communication.
• Used sort utility to format various reports and extracts

Education

B.E in Information Technology, , Confidential College

Professional Training and Continuing Education

1) Completed LOMA certifications on ACS, ALMI, AAPA