PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Release / Build Management, Project & Delivery Management, Project planning, Change Management - Release Planning, Risk Analysis & Contingency Planning, Defect Management - Continuous Process Improvement, Full Life cycle Implementation, Mainframe Process Automation - Mainframe Cobol Development, Hadoop Big Data Development, JIRA Administration
• An exceptional leader of IT project and delivery management programs for over 12 years with geographically distributed teams with practical approach to accomplish business objectives, deliver quality improvements and bottom line savings.
• Hands on experience in process oriented Release Management across various domains. Planned, coordinated and deployed multiple releases for clients in maintenance and development projects. Experience in Release Planning, monitoring and control, defect management, reporting of results & reviews of deliverables.
• Insightful experience in IT Project & Delivery Management including project scoping, estimation, planning, execution, Schedule Management, Budget Management, risk management, finalization of technical / functional specifications, resource administration & optimization and quality management.
• Experience in designing and implementing automation frameworks for Mainframe processes. Experience in Test Management, Designed Test Strategy & proposals, effort estimations, requirement reviews, Defect Tracking and co-ordination.
• Knowledge on the Hadoop ecosystem and Hadoop big data development.
• Knowledge in domains: Banking, Health Care, Insurance and Retail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Change Management Tools: BMC Remedy, Service Now, SharePoint, JIRA

Configuration and Build tools: SVN, Endevor, Jenkins

Database: IBM Mainframe DB2, Mid-Tier UDB, Oracle, Cataloguing, Stored procedures.

Languages: Cobol, Core Java, SQL, C, JCL, REXX, CLIST, HPS, VB script, JQL

Other Tools: MS Outlook, MQ, VSAM, CICS, Excel, PPT, Word, Visio, HP QC, MPP, Webex, GoToAssist, IBM Smart Cloud meetings, JIRA, Jenkins, Gerrit, GIT, ANT, Plutora, Sharepoint, Fuse, Informatica, SVN

Operating systems: z/OS, Windows x, Ubuntu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Release/ Deployment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planning and managing monthly releases/deployments of Projects as per the State requirement. Working with Build, Test, BA teams in getting the release plan information and other documentation prior to the release
• Responsible for identifying and implementing the process improvements to make the SDLC process smoother
• Analyze the existing build and deploy scripts and provide suggestions to address the loop holes and to optimize the performance.
• Responsible for the planning, control and implementation of project changes to various environments like Dev, Test, UAT, DC, TFP and PROD
• Provide competing technology solutions for the architect teams to solve business needs.
• For various Network/Engineering related issues identified by QA teams, tickets are created with possible technology solutions and assigned to the external teams for further analysis and implementation
• Assist SIT/UAT teams during the performance testing planning and execution on TFP environment.
• Work with DIS team to assess and request for any additional SAN storage required for various environments during the SDLC.
• Act as SPOC for all environment/infrastructure/hardware related issues and provide solutions that suits business needs.
• Publish weekly report to Technical & Architecture review board and manage all the issues identified
• Design and implement custom workflows, fields, permission schemes, post functions, etc.
• Build filters, custom dashboards, and reports.
• Manage user permissions to projects
• Actively develop and improve JIRA skill set by keeping aware of JIRA industry trends, tools, and techniques

Environment: Win x, Linux/Unix, Java, Curam, WAS, Fuse, Informatica, DB2, Sharepoint, JIRA, Jenkins, SVN, Mainframe - MMIS, SAN Storage and Network security

Confidential

Digital Release /Build Manager Hyderabad, IND

Responsibilities:

• Planning and managing monthly releases of Projects as per the client requirement. Working with Build, QA, Technical architecture teams in getting the release plan information and other documentation prior to the release.
• Work with Product owner and other leadership team to plan out the release and work on the change documentation for all production changes. Work with external teams to make sure we have the required resources for production deployments. Work with Dev and support teams to ensure cloud hosted applications are up and running without any disruptions in the environments.
• Create the consolidated release implementation plan, walkthrough with wider audience and get their signoff for the content and deployment support. Validates the artifacts that are checked in version control and build management software for their correctness.
• Work with QA teams to procure test signoff before the implementation. Raised CRQs on ServiceNow for the Production deployment and work follow the change management process like getting the changes moved to next status and procuring the required approvals and signoffs from various teams.
• For various Network/Engineering related issues identified by QA teams, incidents are crated on ServiceNow and assigned to the external teams for further analysis and resolution.
• Participate in GO-NO GO meetings and co-ordinate the implementation on the weekend. Presents the releases to Change advisory board for their approval by explaining the changes and their criticality, risk and mitigation plans.
• Execute the releases on the planned days by working with vendor teams. Capture the release metrics and submit them to the leadership team on a timely basis. Work closely with onshore Release Management team and ensure the daily handshake takes place and no tasks are missed from the radar.

Environment: Win x, ATG, OpenAPI, Java, Oracle DB, GIT, ANT, Jenkins, SVN, Nexus, IBM Mainframe.

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan all release dates, builds out project milestones, evaluates dependencies, and schedules work in releases to meet organizational quality goals. Participate with a team of technical staff and managers to understand systems Release & Configuration.
• Management responsibilities needed in large & complex development projects and ensure successful working of the application in all environments for all users at all times with controlled outages.
• Create the Master Release Plan and communicates the deployment plan to all stakeholders including business customers, IT executives and application teams and agree the outages during the weekly deployments.
• Manage the quality gates for change freezes for the impacted applications during year end and critical time frames. Conduct Release Status meetings, CAB discussions for CR approval, and the Go/No-go calls with Stakeholders.
• Engage with Business partners to understand the business roadmap, and collaborates on lessons learned activities, and produces monthly scorecards on release activity.
• Ensure proper release notes, deployment guides are published by Dev teams for the implementation team to refer on the implementation day.
• Manage, reviews and prioritizes all Projects according to release management processes, policies and procedures. Create the Master Release Plan and communicates the deployment plan to all stakeholders including business customers, IT executives and application teams and agree the outages during the weekly deployments.
• Responsible to conduct PIR (Post Implementation review) for all the releases for continuous improvement of the release process.

Environment: Win x, Linux, .Net, Java, UDB DB2, Oracle, Mainframe JCL, Cobol, DB2, Syncsort, HP QC, Xpeditor, BMC Remedy, SVN, AbInitio

Confidential

Mainframe Sr. Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Attended project kick off meeting and business case walk through meetings with Clients. Gathered business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents. Created High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Worked along with Development, QA and Environment teams to make sure the enhanced code is moved seamlessly thru Dev till Production environments.
• Developed applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM. Create technical design documents, impacted component list, Analysis, Coding and Unit testing. Quality co-ordinator of the team; generating metrics, timesheet compliance activity.
• Preparation of analysis documents, Test case documents and release related documents. Created different DB2 load/unload JCLs in batch for adhoc requests. Identified issues and risks incurred during analysis, design and development work. Used XPEDITOR tool in identify the problems.
• Work with the DBA in creation of new tables and also in doing the performance tuning.
• Significant contributions in automation strategist role to complement the migration process using REXX language. Consistently maintained team morale and retention within the teams.
• Helped the team on any technical challenges. Reviewed Codes written, Test Cases and test results. Generate weekly reports and send them to management team.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, CTRL M, Expeditor, Visio, CICS, Windows x, Mainframe z/OS, DB2.

Confidential

Mainframe Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Cobol code changes as per Client’s Requirement. Developed an automation tool using JCL, COBOL, and VSAM to validate multiple layout client files based on Client’s Requirement.
• Involved in code changes as per Client’s Requirement. Capturing test data requirements and coordinating the same with data migration team. Involved in writing and executing the Test Plans for the QA testing carried out. Review of Test cases and Test Results.
• Peer reviewed the Test Cases and Test Results.
• Monitored the Eligibility team incident queue, analysed the incidents and based on the functional impact assign the incidents to right teams to work on it and performed the required testing and provided QA signoff. Wrote and executed Test Plans as part of QA testing.
• Generate weekly reports and send them to the project lead.
• Developed an Auto validation tool to validate the client file based on Client’s Requirement using JCL, COBOL, and VSAM.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, CTRL M, Expeditor, Visio, CICS, Windows x, Mainframe z/OS, DB2.