CAREER SUMMARY

• More than 12+ years of award winning IT experience with specialization in Brokerage Firm, Credit Card, Finance, Automobile, Insurance ,Utility, Billing & Settlement, Insurance & Sales Reporting Systems.
• Experienced on a variety of platforms & projects involving latest technologies to legacy Systems in the entire Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) including Project Leading, Database Design, Architecting, Analysis, Change Management process, Coding, Testing, Production Implementation, Maintenance, Documentation, Performance Tuning , Production Support & on calls involved fixing system related issues, & abends.
• Provided performance related statistics and ways for saving costs to the executive management enabling customer with critical information to make effective strategic business decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, Leader ship skills & Ability to work collaboratively, delegate tasks, Resource management, workload balancing, meet Project Milestones, Knowledge Transfer and sharing. Experience with Onsite-Offshore Project Co-ordination.
• Received performance awards and laurels from clients JP Morgan Chase, Discover Credit Cards & Ford Motors.

Technical Summary

Languages : CICS, COBOL, JCL, C, SQL, VSAM, SCL, GSAM, IMS DB, PL/SQL.

Database : DB2, QMF, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, File-aid, TSO, Quick job, Expeditor, CA-
& Tools Intertest, CA-7 Scheduler, OPC, Panvalet, Changeman, OMEGAMON, FTP, IOF,
SDSF, Syncsort, DB2 Stored Procedures, RMDS, Mobius, SDSF, Connect Direct,
DB2 Platinum Utilities, UNIX, Dump Master, ORACLE.

OS : Windows NT/2000/Me, XP, Vista, MVS/ESA, OS/2 and MS-DOS,MS Office,

Hardware : IBM Mainframe (ES9000/3090), IBM RS6000.

Professional Experience

Confidential, NJ, USA - Consultant : Feb 2004 to date

Environment : IBM 9000, MVS/ESA, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Xpeditor, Control M,
Changeman, Insync, Syncsort, Star Tool, DB2, Platinum, Utilities, SPUFI, IOF,
SDSF, ISPF/TSO, DB2 Stored Procedures, Dumpmaster, ORACLE, PL/SQL.

• Fixed Income Commission: Leading the efforts to maintain, develop Fixed Income system providing the necessary fixed income analysis & produce summary reports by Sales Persons Commissions, financial products & customers. Architecting the Derivatives product conversion project and successfully implemented it for 5+ years of historical data for firm. Worked on archival and fall back plans for instrument product Conversion project.
• RISK Management:Provide support and maintain the Exposure system which calculates the firm’s exposure and cushions for positions held using the street prices from vendors. Design programs and stored procedures for reports at accounts, portfolio, profit centers and security levels for the front-end. Redesigned the data base and also enhanced the development approach to save 30% of system cost.
• Registered Representative Inquiry System: Developed & maintained the system for the firms registered representative details and designed DB2 Stored procedures for exchanges, exams and states reporting for the RRs.

Role : Project Lead & Developer

• Working as a Project Lead, Developer and manage multiple projects.
• Involved in Analysis and developing Specifications, Detailed Technical Design Documents for systems, complex programs and routines according tothe requirements.
• Participated and provided value-able inputs in Requirements, Use case, Design, Coding, Testing , Test Plan, Test Cases and Deployment Plan walkthroughs.
• Participated in Risk Sessions, Identified and mitigated project risks for Production Installs, Disaster Recovery, conversion and migration projects.
• Mentor the team, co-ordinate & work with the offshore team. Manage work load, distribute to team players, provide technical and managerial assistance needed in important design discussions and production issues.
• Project Planning, Schedules, work allotment, target dates, & resource management.
• Coordinated system, integration, performance and user acceptance testing with Quality Services and regression team.
• Ensure Project follows the SDM methodology. Streamline the coding & document standards

Confidential, IL, USA - Confidential, : Mar 2000 - Jan 2004

Environment : IBM 9000, MVS/ESA, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Xpeditor, OPC ,Scheduler,
Endevor, File Aid, Quick Job, Syncsort, Connect Direct, DB2 Platinum Utilities,
QMF, SPUFI, Lotus Notes, Unix, IOF, SDSF, BAL/Assembler, ISPF/TSO.

• Merchant Settlement & Support: Develop & maintain the system providing timely and accurate monetary settlement and reporting to Discover Card Merchants. It includes both paying merchants for submitted transactions and charging merchant discounts and other various fees. All this starts from receiving or capturing monetary transactions from Merchant Vendors, Banks, Transaction Processors, doing edits at bank / batch/ transaction level to validate the transactions and then gather the data together to pay the merchant thorough ACH/PEP+ Banking systems.
• Merchant Reporting and Maintenance:Develop & maintain the system which collects the necessary data from settlement systems on daily/monthly basis to create and send the Merchants the necessary Daily or Monthly Activity Reports. Maintain the necessary Merchant Settlement and Reporting Profiles and also involved in the Project Design and development for IVR and PHP (Personal Home Page) for merchants using CICS DAPS and DB2.

Role : System Analyst

• Created Detailed Technical Design Documents for all changes and/or flow charts.
• Involved in Analysis and developing Specifications for various complex programs and routines according tothe requirements.
• Participated and provided value-able inputs in Requirements, Use case, Design, Code, Test Plan, Test Cases and Deployment Plan walkthroughs.
• Participated in Risk Sessions, Identified and mitigated project risks.
• Mentor and co-ordinate work with the team and Offshore Support team.
• Worked on Project Planning, Schedules, work allotment, target dates, and resources deployment.
• System, integration, performance & user acceptance testing with Quality Services.
• Part of Awards & Recognition board to identify/reward high performers.
• Work with IBM, AT& T Vendors & Merchants for the process setups for files and profiles.