EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application Developer with 12+ years of hands on experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support. Developed programs which deal with MQ’s. Experience working on developing DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Ability to multi - task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Excellent strengths are my interpersonal skills by working in well diverse business settings.
• Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team Member, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Programmer and Software Consultant.
• Received the “Best Team”, “On the spot”, “Best Auditor” award. The highest recognitions in TCS.
• Excellent Team building, Project management, Analytical, Interpersonal and Communication skills.
• Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, InterTest, Endevor, BMC, DB2, IBM Utilities and CA-7.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator attending the project review meetings with Clients gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Excellent working knowledge in DB2.
• Hands on experience creating tables and stored procedures.
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Able to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Undergone training in Confidential Management, Project action Planning, ASCENT - Project Management, Cross culture, interacting with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: IBM Mainframe: MVS/ESA-Version 5.2.2, VS COBOL-II, IBM MQ Series 5.3. SQL, JCL, Ezytreive, REXX, CICS V4.1.0, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, Assembler, COOL: GEN

Hardware: IBM Mainframe S390, Windows

Tools: Endeavor, Panvalet, File Aid, Xpeditor, In sync, platinum, Intertest-Online, QMF,REXX, Clist, Gaurdien, Easytrieve, Toad, VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2, SPUFI, Platinum tool for DB2, ALM and RTC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer / Technical Lead

Responsibility:

• Analysis of Business and technical requirements.
• Preparation of High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Translation of business requirements from business users and bureau needs into software requirement specifications.
• Conduct peer-reviews and lead reviews and provide feedback
• Performing program construction for new requirements and program modification for problem fixes.
• Assigning the tasks to appropriate team members.
• Plan, estimate and monitor the requirements and activities of the team
• Implement defect preventive measures in all the tasks received and code delivered to the client.
• Responsible for quality analysis of the deliverable.
• Responsible for meeting project deadlines on tasks received from on site.
• Preparation of metrics, Recovery report and update client on weekly basis.
• Prepare monthly Confidential reports and status reports and update client on monthly basis.

Technical Skills: Extensively used IBM 30XX, SQL, DB/2, MVS JCL, SDLC, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL, DB2, IMS, Ezytrieve, JCL, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, UNIX Scripts

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer / Technical Lead

Responsibility:

• Analysis of Business and technical requirements.
• Preparation of High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Translation of business requirements from business users and bureau needs into software requirement specifications.
• Conduct peer-reviews and lead reviews and provide feedback
• Performing program construction for new requirements and program modification for problem fixes.
• Assigning the tasks to appropriate team members.
• Plan, estimate and monitor the requirements and activities of the team
• Implement defect preventive measures in all the tasks received and code delivered to the client.
• Responsible for quality analysis of the deliverable.
• Responsible for meeting project deadlines on tasks received from on site.
• Responsible for grooming new resources
• Preparation of metrics, Recovery report and update client on weekly basis.
• Prepare monthly Confidential reports and status reports and update client on monthly basis.
• Building knowledge base of Claims applications, procedures, identifying areas for improvements and implementing the same.

Technical Skills Extensively used IBM 30XX, SQL, DB/2, MVS JCL, SDLC, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL, DB2, IMS, Ezytrieve, JCL, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer / Technical Lead

Responsibility:

• As an Onshore Project lead, coordinated with all team members (offshore, onshore) and responsible for the complete deliverable.
• Coordinate with AXA Tech and deploy the changes in production on weekly basis.
• Estimation and approach preparation for each and every task.
• Implement defect preventive measures in all the tasks received and code delivered to the client.
• Responsible for quality analysis of the deliverable and without schedule slippage
• Responsible for grooming new resources
• Preparation of metrics, Recovery report and update client on weekly basis.
• Prepare monthly Confidential reports and status reports and update client on monthly basis.
• Monitor the production support activities and guide the team on technical activities (Permanent fixes, Value additions, Documentation etc.) to meet the deadlines.
• Implement defect preventive measures on all the tasks received.
• Daily meetings with offshore to track the status on discretionary activities and production batch
• Weekly meetings with the customers and daily one on one with customer manager

Technical Skills Extensively used IBM 30XX, SQL, DB/2, MVS JCL, SDLC, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL, DB2, IMS, Ezytrieve, JCL, Rexx, Clist, CICS, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities and debugging tool - Xpeditor, Datastage, PL/SQL

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibility:

• Co-ordinate with all team members and plan for the tasks received from onsite and assign the tasks to appropriate team members.
• Preparation of metrics, Recovery report and update client on weekly basis.
• Preparing monthly Confidential reports and status reports and update client on monthly basis.
• Monitor the production support activities and guide the team on technical activities (Permanent fixes, Documentation etc.) to meet the deadlines.
• Analyzing the Requirements obtained from the client
• Implementing the required changes in the System, Testing the incorporated changes for the new requirements and its existing functionality.
• Interaction with Onsite counterparts to discuss the status on various tasks.
• Implementing defect preventive measures on all the tasks received.
• Responsible for quality analysis of the deliverables.
• Analysis of Business and technical requirements and the impact to interface and other support application.
• Preparing High Level Design and Low Level design documents.
• Reviewing Code specification for the requirements.
• Performing program construction for new requirements and program modification for problem fixes.
• Preparing System test plan to ensure all the business logic's are implemented.
• Retrofitting with existing Code and Performing regression testing to ensure the existing system is not disturbed.
• Conducting peer-reviews and lead reviews and provide feedback

Technical Skills Extensively used IBM 30XX, SQL, DB/2, MVS JCL, SDLC, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL, DB2, IMS, Ezytrieve, JCL, Rexx, Clist, CICS, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities and debugging tool - Intertest, Datastage, PL/SQL, Assembler, CICS

Confidential

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibility:

• Develop new programs based on data extract specifications developed by business analysts and users.
• Enhance existing programs to accommodate modified or new business functions.
• Create High Level and Detailed design document as per business and functional requirements.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit testing, Code and Unit Test Plan (UTP) Preparation and Review for new work requests.
• Worked in co-ordination with, on-site team and offshore team.
• Maintaining application and technical support and documentation.
• Communicate directly with the client for analysis and implementation of problem logs.
• Make new entries or modify existing entries in CICS system tables for resource definition.
• Write new/modify JCL’s, PROCS. Write new/modify code as per design using languages like JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS and database calls to DB2 and/or IMS DB databases.
• Providing support whenever any production job fails. This requires analyzing the job and finding out the problem and giving solutions within 60 minutes.

Technical Skills: Extensively used IBM 30XX, SQL, DB/2, MVS JCL, SDLC, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, COBOL,DB2, IMS, Ezytrieve, JCL, Rexx, Clist, CICS, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities