Summary

IT Mainframe Professional having 8 years of experience in domain knowledge in banking credit cards and various stages of Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) that includes Requirement Analysis, System study, Program & Application Design, Program & Application Development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), System Maintenance, System Support, System Documentation along with Re-engineering. Have Demonstrated ability in leading teams and timely execution of projects. Experience in Customer management & decision management systems such as PROBE & TRIAD and Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) like Blaze Advisor Rule engine. Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly & utilize the same in a productive manner. Core competencies and transferable skills include:

• Hands on experience in Cards domain.
• Functional knowledge of Visionplus various sub-systems like CMS & VMx.
• Experience in Business As usual (BAU) requests.
• High expertise with Mainframe Full development lifecycle.
• Knowledge in development support and environment build.
• Worked as Onsite Coordinator for a GE Money UK project in Leeds, UK
• Experience of leading teams and Client interactions
• Good Understanding and experience in Software development life cycle.
• Competence in analysis of functionalities and preparation of High level design, functional and technical specifications, Development, Testing analysis, Test strategy and Test scripts.
• Expertise in batch running.
• Experience of running in non-production vision plus batches end to end for GE Money UK region and GE-AUS
• Worked VMX MLI’s Development project(XML,CICS)
• Experience in Customer management & decision management systems such as PROBE & TRIAD and Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) like Blaze Advisor Rule engine.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframe Skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, VSAM, File aid, Changeman, OPC, Control – M, DB2.
Operating systems: MVS, Windows 2000 professional
Tools & Applications: Connect: Direct, Mercury quality centre, Blaze Advisor

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Confidential Oct 2009- Till date
• Confidential Since April. 2009 - Oct 2009
• Confidential Since March. 2004 - Mar2009

ACADEMIC PROFILE

• Master of Computer Applications
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

PROJECT FOCUS

1.Current Project: Confidential
Period:Jan 2010-Till date
Position: Senior system Analyst 
Location: Singapore
Environment: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, File-aid…)
Project Overview: 
Confidential decided to move its Card business from PRIME to Visionplus and as part of this conversion project We are working for different Geographic’s. 
Job Profile

• Create Mapping documents from PRIME to Visionplus
• Writing Functional specification documents for New Enhancements
• Writing Technical specification documents ,Coding and Testing

2 Production support(BAU): Confidential
Period: Oct 2009 – Jan 2010
Position: Production support Analyst
Client: Lloyds TSD
Location: Singapore
Environment: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Easytrieve, Endevor, File-aid…)
Worked as Production support analyst in Confidential and supporting for different clients in EMEA region. 
Job Profile

• Resolving Day to Day production issues
• Working on Adhoc requests
• Working on small enhancements
• Supporting UAT defects

3.. Confidential
Period:April 2009 – Oct 2009
Position: Mainframe Vision plus Triad Consultant.
Client: Macys, First Data, Absa, Yapi Credit
Location: Fico (Fair Isaac) -India
Environment: IBM Mainframes – Blaze Rule Engine, PCTMS,COBOL,JCL,VSAM
Project Overview: 
Confidential’s Decision Management solutions combine trusted advice, world-class analytics and innovative applications to give organizations the power to automate, improve and connect decisions across their business. Currently Working on TRIAD Implementation where responsibilities includes developing Business Rules (Strategies) by using Blaze advisor rule engine , PCTMS settings as per clients requirements
Job Profile

• Developing Business Rules (Strategies) by using Blaze advisor rule engine
• PCTMS settings as per client requirements.
• Was even involved in resolving many customers’ issues.
• Involved in testing the strategies in Mainframes

4. Confidential 
Period: Feb 2008 to March 2009.
Position: Mainframe Visionplus Consultant 
Client: GE Money AUS.
Location: Capgemini Hyd.
Environment: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, Easytrieve, File-aid, Control-M)
Project Overview: 
Confidential wants to implement the latest version of the Probe Gen3 interface to Vision PLUS 8.23 as part of Project Penguin Day II. This will enable the business to improve their portfolio management and streamline some of the existing credit line management processes currently done by Marketing and Risk at the backend. Probe Gen3 software is a portfolio management system designed to assist clients in reducing losses, increasing revenues, and taking advantage of promotional opportunities for existing revolving and fixed term credit accounts. Probe Gen3 can also offer some improvement on managing collection strategy.
The Probe Gen3 software has two components - the PC component and the mainframe component. The PC component allows the users to setup strategies. The mainframe component executes the strategies.

Job Profile

• To be as an offshore Team Leader/Single Point of Contact to co-ordinate with client and offshore team.
• Preparation of Functional specifications
• Was Involved in Wring Technical specifications
• Preparation of High level Test strategy and test scripts.
• Preparation of Changeman patches to retrofit the code into current system.
• Enhancing the changes in Batch and Online COBOL CICS programs as well as in corresponding JCLS and PROCS.
• Preparation of One-time programs and One-time jobs for conversion of files and their unit testing.
• Uploading New strategies
• Running Integration and System testing batches.
• Preparation of Implementation plan, and support in implementation.
• Post implementation production support for 4 weeks

5. Confidential 
Period: June 2007 - Jan 2008
Position: Mainframe Consultant
Client: GE Money AUS.
Location: Capgemini Hyd.
Environment: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, File-aid, Control-M…),Vision Plus.
Project Overview: 
Project Penguin, aimed to launch a Dual card for one of Confidential biggest store partners. This was the first card product that was launched by GE Australia with Visa as the interchange partner, and this was also the first card product to be launched using Vision PLUS 8.23 as the backend platform. All of Confidential’s earlier products were on Vision PLUS 2.56 and with MasterCard as the interchange partner. As this Conversion Project from V2.56 to V8.23, basically we have developed one control FILE which will be used to remove hard codes, means now it’s parameterized.

Job Profile: Same as the first project.

• Impact Analysis.
• File conversions.
• Copy Book changes, Access routine changes.
• Existing programs Changes
• Coding newPrograms and screens.
• Remove all hard coding in the programs and read AZCT control file.
• Testing.

6. Confidential 
Period: April 2006 to May 2007
Position: Mainframe Consultant
Client: GE Money UK
Environment: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, Easytrieve, File-aid, OPCT),Vision Plus
Project Overview: 
As a team lead, was involved in client interaction, development support, delivery and SME support for Vision Plus. This project aims at providing the development support to various GCF UK clients. There are 29 regions in the development environment which require support for various activities such as the region build data refresh, batch runs, project enhancements / implementation, region management activities

Job Profile

• Worked as Onsite team coordinator for this project. Which involves Prioritizing and Scheduling the batches(UAT)
• Batch loading and monitoring the Batches
• Involved in managing the offshore team
• Interaction with the clients for requirement gathering and delivery
• Involved in prioritizing the batches based on the different factors such as complexity of the project and deadlines…
• Region Management and Co-ordination with various development teams
• Worked extensively on process improvements. Identified gaps in processes and streamlined processes by preparing process maps.(Visio documents) detailing each step of all the activities performed by DST
• Used Mercury quality centre for all communications with different development teams. Such as defect raising, closing, and defect assignments