Summary of Qualifications

Sr. Mainframe Developer adept at developing solutions that meet end-user requirements and minimize development costs
Over twenty years of experience working with COBOL
Around six years of experience working with CICS and fifteen years of experience working with JCL
Over eight years of experience working with DB2
Strong SQL skills with around eight years of working experience
Proven success in implementing new techniques and acquiring skills required to improve quality and reliability of products 
Logical, open minded and team oriented, known of working well with others, drawing out ideas, collaborating to identify multiple solutions and determining the most effective way to provide a solution. Speak read and write with fluency in English 
Organized, self-motivated with the demonstrated ability to handle complex responsibilities in a demanding work environment 
Worked with clients on various projects, including: Pharmacy Benefits Management System, Cell Phone Billing System, Electricity Billing System, Order Processing System, Accounts & Finance System, Line Loss System & New Application Procedure System 
Experienced performing full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) activities in IBM Mainframe, Client/Server, and DEC-VAX environments

05/08 to 02/09 Senior Programmer 
Confidential
Confidential

Worked as a Senior Programmer for Express Scripts (Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) Company), the company works for health insurers and employers, including DOD, which hire ESRX to manage prescription drug benefit plans for their members and employees 
Worked on VAX-Alpha COBOL based Home Delivery System (HDS)
Analyzed, developed and modified existing system, created test case and testing
Created interactive data entry DEC-FORMs
Worked on COBOL, DEC-FORMs, OPEN-VMS, RMS, CMS, MMS, DCL including RTL_Routine, FTP, TPU, DEBUGGER and DATATRIEVE (DTR) along with Java2, Java Swing, JSP, Microsoft office 2007 Prof (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access)

Worked as a Senior Programmer in a financial company which provides administration for variable annuities and a number of Insurance Companies like Allianz, Genworth, AIG
Worked on a Premium Processing System based on SQL, PL/SQL, (ORACLE 9i database) and COBOL with CICS and DB2 in IBM Mainframe environment
Main duties were development, break fixing, testing, code walk through of COBOL programs, development/modification of SQL quires (DDL, DML), PL/SQL procedures, functions, triggers and cursors, creation of tables and views for testing, developing/modifying JCL procedures and DB2 stored procedures, cursors
Worked on, MVS Z/OS, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IDCAMS, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, Xpediter, Lotus Notes, TOAD and VSS

11/02 to 09/07 Senior Programmer Analyst 
Contracting Services

Confidentia

Worked as a Senior Programmer/Analyst in a leading company on UNIX and IBM COBOL based Cellular Phone Billing application and customer information system (CIS) in clients/server and Mainframe environment
Responsibilities were analysis, technical spec design, development / programming, testing, data review, code walk troughs and creation of test cases
Worked on development & modifications of COBOL with CICS and DB2 programs including reports & data entry programs
Worked on Unix Korn Shell Scripting (K-shell) and also developed / modified JCL procedures
Provided Production Support 24 X 7 to resolved day-by-day issues
Performed analysis, break fixing, enchantments unit testing, and code walk troughs
Provided assistance to QA during unit and system testing
Also worked as a team member on migration project of cell phone billing from COBOL to Oracle
Wrote flat file extract programs and control file (ctl) scripts to load the data into tables through Oracle loader
Worked on SQL (DDL, DML) developed / modified queries to insert / update and extract the table’s data
Created / modified tables, index, sequence and views
Worked on PL/SQL, wrote procedures, functions triggers and cursors also developed / modified DB2 cursors, stored procedures, UNIX (AIX), UNIX (SCO_SERVER) and developed/modified Korn-shell scripts to automate the system
Worked on MVS/ESA, OS/390, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL, DB2, JAVA2, J2EE TOMCAT, VSAM, IDCAMS FILE-AID APPLIX, STARTEAM, TEL-NET, VI, TEXT-PAD, TOAD, SMART FTP

09/99 to 11/02 Programmer 
Confidential

• Reynolds & Reynolds Project

As programmer worked on Order Processing System (OPS)
Provided production support and resolved day-to-day user problems
Worked on VAX-COBOL, and CORVISION database
Made all programming changes / break fixing
Heavily involved with users to gather requirements
Performed analysis and design
Developed various COBOL programs, created test cases and participated in code walk troughs
Made changes in screens, menus and reports
Also wrote various reporting programs for OPS (Order Processing System); on-line/batch coding in DEC/VAX, OPEN-VMS, RMS, DCL, TPU environment
Wrote and modified command procedures (DCL)

10/95 to 09/99 Programmer 
Confidential

Participated in design and development of program modules and test plans for batch and online functions of major electricity applications and customer information system (CIS)
Worked as a Programmer with the conversion team on Oracle 7 database to convert the COBOL based accounting application
Developed data entry forms and reports
Worked on DEVLOPER-2000 Oracle Forms (4.5), Oracle Reports (3.5), and wrote packages, procedures, functions, database & forms trigger and Cursors
Created/modified tables, views and index
Also used embedded SQL in COBOL programs for extraction of data from flat files
Created UNIX Korn-Shell scripts which executed the stored procedures and then established ftp connection to a remote computer to place the results for business users
Optimized queries through application
Worked with SQL*Loader, Involved in conversion process of accounting system from IBM COBOL to Oracle 7
Transferred the data from a legacy COBOL application flat files to Oracle tables
Involved in designing databases applying standard normalization methods and designing indexes to optimize query efficiency
Developed procedures to govern database modifications to ensure data integrity
Worked as COBOL and RPG Programmer and made changes in electrical billing system
Provided 24/7 production support to different sites
Interfaced with users and management at five electricity companies
Ensured that the requirement of each site maintained the demands and met the needs of each individual site
Developed / modified DB2 stored procedures and cursors to automate the system, worked on MVS, JCL, CICS, COBOL, DB2, and VSAM
Worked on New Application Procedure System and provided support to COBOL based application
Wrote data entry programs and made break fixing and enhancements
Worked on MVS, JCL, CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM
Designed technical documentation and created test cases

Skills/Technologies

Languages- COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA2, J2EE (Servlet & JSP), JAVA Swing, RPG

Databases- Oracle, DB2, Corvision, MS Access, FoxPro, Clipper, Dbase III Plus

Tools- TSO/ISPF, JCL, QMF, SPUFI, CICS, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, VSAM, KORN-SHELL (K- SHELL), PHP, C-SHELL, VI, ECLIPSE, TEXT-PAD, STARTEAM, TEL-NET, TOAD, ORACLE FORMS , ORACLE REPORTS, ORACLE LOADER SUPORT MAGIC, STARTEAM, APPLIX, Eclipse, JDBC MS-OFFICE (Outlook, Excel, Word)

Operating Systems- MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, DOS/VSE, SSP, UNIX (AIX), UNIX (SCO_SERVER), OPEN-VMS, Windows NT, Windows 2003, Tomcat Windows(Professional)/XP/98/95/3.1, MS-DOS, PC-DOS

Hardware- IBM SYS/390, SYS/3090, SYS/370, SYS4331, SYS/4381, SYS/36 , IBM 7026-6MI, VAX-ALPHA , IBM Compatible PCs, Client/Server

Education/Training

Master of Science in Mathematics