Professional Summary

• 9 years of Software development experience in diversified fields of Application software development, maintenance, and testing of mainframes Related Applications.
• Got good exposure to Application Software Development, System Support, and Maintenance on Legacy Systems and acquired good knowledge of Insurance Applications.
• Has been working on PMSC insurance product for about 7 yrs and have good work experience on most of the PMS applications.
• Excellent domain knowledge on Property, Casualty, Commercial and Health care insurance.
• Worked extensively in COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, DB2, MQ Series, SAS, REXX and VSAM, SQL.
• Worked extensively on stored procedures.
• Worked on configuration management Changeman and Endeavor.
• Extensively worked with tools like REVOLVE, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR, File-Master, Control - M and Abend-Aid.
• Trained new associates joining the Project on Application knowledge and project procedures.
• Good Analytical, managerial and communication skills with accent on constructive team work. Good team player. Good Team lead.
• Experienced with 24*7 system support in production, test and all development regions.
• Good team player as a team lead with offshore component too.
• With 7 yrs of work experience in CMM Level 5 Company like Satyam, is more conversant with CMM quality procedures

Education

Technical Skills Hardware

IBM 3090, IBM PC

MVS, TSO/ISPF, Windows

OS/VS COBOL, COBOL II, MVS COBOL, JCL, Macro Level Programming (GENEDITS in PMSC software), SAS, CICS, MQ Series Programming , WORK 10, C, HTML, SQL.

VSAM, DB2, MS Access, IBM DB, ADABAS

COMPAREX, Super-C, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR,ENDEVOR, MF Revolve, SYNCSORT, INTERTEST, Abend-Aid, BTS ( Batch terminal support), SPUFI , PANVALET, TESTDIRECTOR, Control M.

Insurance, Property Casualty and Commercial , Health care

Changeman ( Certified ) , ENDEVOR

Testing methodologies, MS Office, Microsoft project & Visio

Confidential,

Duration

(06/2008) Till date

Environment
(With skill versions)
BATCH & ONLINE

Software

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Natural, MQ Series, CICS.
Database: VSAM, DB2, ADABAS.
Tools: FILEAID, Super- C, COMPAREX,ENDEVOR XPEDITER, Service Center, Test Director
O/s: MVS.

Hardware

Contribution:
As a system/Programmer Analyst, is responsible for

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients and documenting the same in BSD(Business solution design).
• Document interdependencies across the modules using HLD
• Estimations
• Develop Technical Design document based on requirements specified in BSD.
• Preparation of technical approach documents
• Design and Development
• Testing - unit testing & integration testing
• Responsible for defect fixing and documenting root causes in Test Director.
• Post-production support.
• Handling production incidents/tickets.
• Developed one-time reports/Adhoc reports as and when needed to pull information in specified format , specific conditions.

Confidential,

WellPoint, USA.

Duration

(09/2007) (06/2008)

Environment
(With skill versions)
BATCH & ONLINE

Software

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SAS.
Database: VSAM.
Tools: FILEAID, Super- C, COMPAREX,ENDEVOR INTERTEST, Service Center,
O/s: MVS.

Hardware

Contribution:

Played a vital role as an onsite coordinator and team lead. Worked on Commingle to set up new accounts and update existing accounts.

Apart from onsite coordinator also did development in system enhancements. Worked intensively on COBOL/JCL/VSAM/SAS/ENDEVOR/FILEAID. Worked on open enrollment programming from analysis, coding, testing, review to implementation. Commingle analysis, coding, testing, implementation are completely done by me. In LDUES project initial analysis is completed by me system wise and depending upon impact changes are suggested.

24*7 production support and mail box monitoring for National Mainframe support. This mail box is a shared mailed box which is monitored by the IT team where are questions, problem and updates for all National accounts for Nasco are sent.

Good knowledge on claims, Enrollments and Commingle. Worked on Conexis, this is a claims process. Conexis sends enrollment file to WellPoint and we process the same and send claims for those enrollments to them.

Worked on LDUES project as a system analyst/onsite coordinator which is Lines, Dollars, Units Expansion Strategy. Where complete claims system is changed to accept and process Facility claims. It’s a 4000hrs project which I am leading from IT department with 10 team members.

Confidential,USA.

Duration

(07/2006) (09/2007)

Environment
(With skill versions)
BATCH & ONLINE

Software

Languages: COBOL, CICS, DB2 programming, MQ series programming and JCL.
Database: VSAM, DB2.
Tools: FILEAID, Super- C, COMPAREX, INTERTEST
O/s: MVS.

Hardware

Role: One point contact for all 5.3 related analysis, design, coding, testing and Implementation. Production support for Wescom PL 5.3 changes (Primary Contact).
Wescom releases are done once in a month either for a rate revision or for a new state going to be automated on web. Played an important role on bug fixes and defects resolution for rate revisions. For bug fixes analysis, coding, testing and implementation was completed by me.
Worked intensively on COBOL/DB2/VSAM/JCL/MQ/INTERTEST/FILEAID. Any product implementation analysis was completed first and accordingly code changes, testing and implementation were completed.
Worked on Dynamic storage allocation project where changes were done to program to dynamically allocate storage instead of constant storage.

Member of the B board which is a committee for looking into any new data added to the policy information and validates it to verify if other systems are impacted.

Confidential,

Duration

(07/2006) (09/2007)

Environment
(With skill versions)
BATCH & ONLINE

Software

Languages: COBOL, CICS and JCL.
Database: VSAM.
Tools: FILEMASTER, Super- C, COMPAREX, INTERTEST.
O/s: MVS.

Role: One point contact for all mainframe related activities for the project, which includes analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation. Defects resolution and bug fixing of issues which are Mainframe related.
Provide 24*7 on call production support.
Loss Run application related mainframe activities were handled by me. We need to provide the loss information on a policy for previous five years. Any issues related to loss runs were handled by me.
Worked on project where CICS program read DB2 table using stored procedure and got data for processing policy. VIN master table was read using VIN number on policy to get Symbol which played a major role in setting rate to calculate premium.

For bug fixes analysis, coding, testing and implementation was completed by me.
Worked intensively on COBOL/VSAM/JCL/INTERTEST/FILEMASTER. Any product implementation analysis was completed by me and accordingly code changes, testing and implementation were completed.

Confidential,

Duration

(12/2005) (07/2006)

Environment
(With skill versions)
BATCH & ONLINE

Software

Languages: COBOL, CICS and JCL.
Database: VSAM.
Tools: FILEMASTER, Super- C, COMPAREX, INTERTEST.
O/s: MVS.

Role: One point contact and Onsite coordinator for Month-end and NPR related activities. As a team lead took care of Month-end system impact analysis, business requirements and execution of the project with offshore component and onsite resources. Genedit (Macro level programming) was completed by me. Good exposure with Home and Auto related business.

Apart from onsite coordinator also did development in system enhancements. Worked intensively on COBOL/JCL/VSAM/CICS/FILEMASTER/COMPAREX/INTERTEST. Initial analysis was completed on individual systems like Monthend, 5.3 systems to see the impact and changes were distributed between me and offshore. Worked on all phase from analysis, coding, testing, reviews and implementation.

Adhoc reporting was done as per business/actuarial needs to pull information from PIF.