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System Architect / Senior Program Analyst Resume

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Career Objective:

To associate with an organization which progresses dynamically and gives me a chance to update my knowledge and enhance my skills in the state-of-the-art technologies and be a part of the team that excels in work towards the growth of the organization and gives me a satisfaction thereof.

Career summary:

  • Around 10 years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Support of Mainframe Hosted Applications Systems.
  • Full and strong exposure to complete Software Development Life Cycle projects right from Scope DefinitionRequirement StudyEstimationsAnalysisDesignCodingTesting,Customer DemonstrationImplementation, Project Management and Knowledge transfer activities.
  • Enhancements and evaluation of Banking & Financial, Retail and Logistics Applications.
  • Expertise in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS, IDMS, VSAM, REXX, Easytrieve Plus, SQL.
  • Expertise in SPUFI, QMF and FILEAID as testing tools and for data manipulation and data cleansing.
  • Proficient in different Mainframe utilities and Tools like MQ Series, File-Aid for DB2 and VSAM files, XPEDITOR, ENDEAVOR, ABEND-AID, SYNCSORT, BMC, PLATINUM, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, IEBCOPY, IRXJCL, IKJEFT01 and FTP.
  • Involved in System Appreciation and requirement gathering.
  • Strong working knowledge in DB2, ORACLE and Stored Procedures
  • 9 years experience with Onsite/Offshore model.
  • Served as primary contact for Production monitoring and support of batch jobs using CA7.
  • Have vast knowledge of Quality Processes and Defect Prevention methods. Executed projects at CMM5 and CMMI level.
  • Very strong Communication skills, Problem solving skills and work ethics.
  • Excellent experience in interaction with Business users.

Key Competencies:

  • Excellent Software Lifecycle Management skills strengthened by practical experience at client locations and offshore locations
  • Time management, quality orientation and integrity
  • Connecting with customers, assessing their needs and recommending solutions
  • Adoptability to new technologies and domains
  • Record of progression to assignments of increasing complexity, authority and responsibility
  • Excellent record of people managing and development planning skills

Education:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science & Systems Engineering

Technical Skills:

Hardware

IBM Z/900

Operating Systems

OS/390, VM/CMS, MVS/ESA, MS-DOS 6.0, MS-WIN9x, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS XP

Languages

COBOL, CICS, ADSO, JCL, Easytrieve Plus, REXX, C, SQL, PL/SQL, VB

Databases

DB2, ORACLE, IDMS, IMS and MS ACCESS 2000.

File Organizations

VSAM, PS, PDS and GDG

Tools & Utilities

TSO/ISPF, MQ Series, File-Aid for VSAM Datasets and DB2, BMC, PLATINUM, TOAD, SAR,XPEDITOR, Intertest, SELCOPY, ADSALIVE, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, LU 6.2, CA-7, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, CLIST, MS Project, MS Visio, Visual Source Safe and Revolve 2000

Professional Experience:

Confidential, DallasTX Sep, 2008 to Till date
System Architect / Senior Program Analyst

Project: Canada CHIP & PIN This project involves the implementation of CHIP Credit cards for Bank of America (MBNA, Canada) in Canada. These Chip cards provide enhanced security and ease of access to the cardholders. This project involves the discovery, Design, Development, testing and deployment of CHIP cards for Bank Of America, Canada Customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Requirement gathering from Business partners and translate into software needs
  • Design the application by interacting with other Bank of America applications.
  • Preparing high Level and Low-level design documents.
  • Development and testing
  • Manage Onsite and Offshore Bank of America team.
  • Support for System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
  • Responsible for maintaining different Bank of America Card Services application for day to day activities.

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, PL/SQL, DB2, ORACLE, IMS, VSAM, MVS, MQ Series, Easytrieve, LU6.2, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, REXX, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, TOAD, SAR, XPEDITOR, Intertest, MSOffice, MS Project, MS Visio, ENDEVOR/CHANGEMAN, CA-7.

Confidential, MilwaukeeWIJan 2008 to Sep 2008
System Architect / Senior Program Analyst

Project: Decoupled Debit card implementation

This project involves the discovery, Design, Development, testing and deployment of Decoupled debit card process for one of the financial institute. 
The objective of this project is to allow the financial institute to offer a Virtual Debit card product that will enable customers to access funds from checking accounts at any institution through ACH in order to increase their market share and provide added value to their customer base. 
Responsibilities:

  • Requirement gathering from Business
  • Design the application by interacting with other Banking applications / Vendors.
  • Preparing high Level and Low-level design documents.
  • Development and testing
  • Support for System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
  • Project Management

Project: Consumer Alerts
This project involves the discovery and design of Consumer alerts for various financial institutions.

The Objective of this project is to allow the financial institute to send an E-mail notification to an E-mail account or text message notification to a mobile communication device notifying a cardholder of significant events regarding their card or card usage. These notifications are sent based on the events like Add funds, Remove funds, Low-Balance alerts, Periodic balance, Balance Inquiry and Zero or Negative balance. These events can happen either on real time or based on the customer request.

Environment:
COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS, MVS, MQ Series, INSYNC, TSO, SAR, BMC, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, XPEDITOR, MSOffice, MS Project, ENDEVOR, CA-7.

Confidential, DallasTX Jan, 2007 to Jan, 2008
System Architect / Senior Program Analyst

Project: Implementation of Bank of America E-Commerce application This project involves the discovery, Design, Development, testing and deployment of different E-Commerce related applications to their Credit Card System

E-Statements:
This functionality provides ability to Online Banking users to Suppress paper Statements. Whenever User select Paper Suppression or Paper Suppression reverse process from Online Banking, the information is maintained in mainframe systems. On every billing cycle, if a customer is enrolled for Online banking, then it automatically sends E-mail notification to the customers on the availability of Electronic statements.
E-Bill: 
Confidential Credit Card Customers has the ability to enroll for Checkfree system. If the user is enrolled for Checkfree, the information is passed to CID (Corporate Integrated Database) where this information is updated at the appropriate places. Whenever Lost/Stolen or Re-issue of the Credit card happens, the information is sent to Checkfree.
E-Alerts:
Online Banking Customers has the ability to select different alerts (Credit Card Payment Due, Limit threshold, Bad account credit etc). When the user selects any of these alerts, the system will automatically send E-mail to the users whenever these alerts have been generated for the account.
Responsibilities:

  • Requirement gathering from Business partners and translate into software needs
  • Design the application by interacting with other Bank of America applications.
  • Preparing high Level and Low-level design documents.
  • Development and testing
  • Manage Onsite and Offshore Bank of America team.
  • Support for System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
  • Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, PL/SQL, DB2, ORACLE, IMS, VSAM, MVS, MQ Series, Easytrieve, LU6.2, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, REXX, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, TOAD, SAR, XPEDITOR, Intertest, MSOffice, MS Project, MS Visio, ENDEVOR/CHANGEMAN, CA-7.

Confidential, DallasTX Apr, 2006 to Dec, 2006
System Architect / Senior Program Analyst

Project: Bank of America / MBNA Card Services Conversion This project involves the discovery, Design, Development, testing and deployment of Bank of America Credit card accounts to MBNA IS System

This project deals with the conversion of all the Bank of America Credit card accounts residing on TSYS to MBNA IS System. 
Responsibilities:

  • System Appreciation.
  • Requirement gathering from Business partners and translate into software needs
  • Design the application by interacting with other Bank of America applications.
  • Preparing high Level and Low-level design documents.
  • Development and testing
  • Support for System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
  • Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, PL/SQL, DB2, ORACLE, IMS, VSAM, MVS, MQ Series, Easytrieve, LU6.2, SYNCSORT, REXX, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, TOAD, SAR, XPEDITOR, Intertest, MSOffice, MS Project, MS Visio, ENDEVOR/CHANGEMAN, CA-7.

ConfidentialNorwalkCT Feb, 2005 to Mar 2006
System Architect / Project Lead

CONFIDENTIAL International Ltd is one of the leading Express and Logistics Forwarding Company in the world which operates more than 220 countries in the world. LOGISAIR is CONFIDENTIAL’s Global Freight forwarding application for Air and Ground logistics. This application caters from Freight Pickup to final delivery to the Customers. This application also includes Customer, Contract, Billing and accounting modules. The application runs on IBM Mainframe under VM and MVS environments. Project: This project involves the discovery, Design, Development, testing and deployment of all VM components to OS/390 MVS environment.

This project is based on the premise that the elimination of VM will enable significant batch automation, higher levels of System performance and will reduce a layer of complexity from an altogether too complex environment. CONFIDENTIAL will benefit from a more standardized and feature-rich environment. Moving to a single operating system will also enable CONFIDENTIAL to realize significant cost savings in Software costs and specialized personnel to support VM environment.
Responsibilities:

System Appreciation – Understanding the whole system.
  • Analysis of existing VM and MVS Architecture
  • Requirement gathering from Business partners and translate into software needs
  • Design the application in MVS environment
  • Development and testing which includes preparation of Analysis and Design documents.
  • Involved in tuning the database to increase the overall Performance.
  • Re-write the COBOL/IDMS Programs in COBOL/DB2 to increase the overall performance of the system.
  • Involved in Production implementation by assisting in CA-7/CA-11 scheduling and supporting the environment.
  • Involved in Deployment of Web as well Mainframe Output Management content, MOBIUS.
  • Assisted Support and Training Group in preparing Handover documents to Business Users.
  • Involved in User Acceptance Testing.
  • Assisted CONFIDENTIAL to execute the project at CMM5 level.
  • Served as part time QA analyst.
  • Developed re-usable REXX codes to automate the process in the project.
  • Mentoring the team
  • Coordination with Offsite team
  • Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2, IDMS16.0, VSAM, VM, MVS, Easytrieve, SELCOPY, SYNCSORT, FTP, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, QMF, MSOffice, MS Project, ENDEVOR, REVOLVE2000.

CONFIDENTIALScottsdaleAZ Aug, 2004 to Jan 2005
Senior Programmer Analyst

CONFIDENTIAL International Ltd is one of the leading Express and Logistics Forwarding Company in the world which operates more than 220 countries in the world. LOGISAIR is CONFIDENTIAL’s Global Freight forwarding application for Air and Ground logistics. This application caters from Freight Pickup to final delivery to the Customers. This application also includes Customer, Contract, Billing and accounting modules. The application runs on IBM Mainframe under VM and MVS environments. Project: This project involves the maintenance and development of LOGISAIR application.

Responsibilities:

System Appreciation – Understanding the whole system.
  • Requirement gathering from Business partners across the globe and translate into software needs
  • Development and testing which includes preparation of Analysis, Design documents and test scripts.
  • Involved in tuning the database to increase the overall Performance.
  • Re-write the COBOL/IDMS Programs in COBOL/DB2 to increase the overall performance of the system.
  • Troubleshoot data problems.
  • Performed the role of Production support.
  • Executed the project in CMM5 Level.
  • Coordinate with Offsite team to resolve the issues.
  • Attending the service calls and executing them.
  • Mentoring the team
Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, ADSO, JCL, REXX, DB2, IDMS16.0, VSAM, VM, MVS, Easytrieve, SELCOPY, SYNCSORT, FTP, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, ADSALIVE, QMF, MSOffice, MS Project, ENDEVOR.

CONFIDENTIAL May, 2003 to Aug 2004
Senior Programmer Analyst

CONFIDENTIAL International Ltd is one of the leading Express and Logistics Forwarding Company in the world which operates more than 220 countries in the world. LOGISAIR is CONFIDENTIAL’s Global Freight forwarding application for Air and Ground logistics. This application caters from Freight Pickup to final delivery to the Customers. This application also includes Customer, Contract, Billing and accounting modules. The application runs on IBM Mainframe under VM and MVS environments.

Enterprise Accounting System (EAS) is the Operational Accounting System for LOGISAIR application. This System processes the operational data for accounting purpose such as Invoicing, making Cash payments, updating various Ledgers, Processing Inter Company Transactions. The overall accounting information is fed to CONFIDENTIAL financial systems.

Project: This project deals with System Appreciation of LOGISAIR and EAS applications along with Development and Maintenance.

Responsibilities:

System Appreciation – Understanding the whole system.
  • Knowledge transfer from all the groups in CONFIDENTIAL.
  • Requirement gathering from Business partners across the globe and translate into software needs
  • Development and testing which includes preparation of Analysis, Design documents and test scripts.
  • Involved in tuning the database to increase the overall Performance.
  • Re-write the COBOL/IDMS Programs in COBOL/DB2 to increase the overall performance of the system.
  • Troubleshoot data problems.
  • Performed the role of Production support.
  • Executed the project in CMM5 Level.
  • Coordinate with Offsite team to resolve the issues.
  • Mentoring the team
Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, JCL, REXX, ASSEMBLER, DB2, IDMS14.1, VSAM, VM, MVS, Easytrieve, SELCOPY, SYNCSORT, FTP, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, QMF, MSOffice, MS Project, ENDEVOR.

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