SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Information Technology professional having successfully designed, developed, implemented and supported IT projects/applications in domain of Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics & Healthcare.
• Provided consultancy to client business critical applications.
• Acquired in depth technical & business knowledge in field of work and endeavored for continuous improvement.
• Expertise with IBM Mainframe, mid - level & client server in application design, development, enterprise wide, cross platform SOA application integration, Sysplexing and building Proof of Concept.
• Established Scrum Teams.
• Performed SEI CMM level 5 & ISO standards quality processes for great customer experience.
• Strategic thinking and thought leadership and constantly motivated team members to identify and improve process efficiency.

SKILL:

• IBM zOS Mainframe (Jcl, Cobol, Db2, IMS & CICS, FileAid, Strobe, Platinum)
• XML / JSON
• Windows / MS Office Suite
• MS Project & Clarity
• Oracle
• Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra, Scala & Spark
• R Programming
• Visio
• Jira & Rally
• Teradata
• Git
• Java
• PHP
• Javascript
• MySql

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Currently working in planning & developing the strategy for migrating Provider system from Legacy to a newer Prime kernelled platform.
• The goal is to consolidate three different distributed Provider system along with other interfacing applications into one Prime platform for increased processing efficiency and cost benefits.
• Action requires study, document and design, develop, test and finalize execution plan for all four subsystems within Provider involving architecture, inventory, migrating live data, testing and fine tuning plan to achieve steady state on new Prime with minimal downtime and impact on business resumption.
• Coordinating with various groups & teams like infrastructure, storage management, interacting application owners, testing team to refine the Implementation or Release Management Plan, which would act as a cookbook on the day of migration.
• Earlier onsite coordinator for Claim Processing system.
• Facilitated with gap analysis, creating action plan, design, develop and implementation of solution.
• Worked CS90 New York Large Group application merger to Confidential system.
• Deployed solution for their High $ Claim Monitoring, Recycle of Claim for missing information, Tracking Multiple Copay on a day and more.
• Published reports for data insights for monitoring past solutions deployed and identification of future improvements and feature prioritization.
• Developed and deployed solution for Self Correcting Accums where members make a Product to Product(P2P) transfers in a retroactive manner requiring their benefits to be recalculated with the new business rules.
• In parallel helped with resolving RTC’s and Defect Triage for Parallel Testing and End-2-End Testing.
• Additionally involved with Anthems in transition of their methodologies from traditional waterfall to Agile process as I was involved in AOR for setting up Agile teams in claim Adjudication Automation initiative.
• Interacted with C-suite & other vendor users in coaching and rendering expertise for setting up three different scrum teams and acting as their scrum master.
• Mentored Product Owners in envisioning their Epics, User Stories for at least 5 sprints and help prioritize in Release planning.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate E2E execution for PMO and stakeholders.
• Improved delivery, quality, and standard’s adherence by removing impediment in project success.
• Mentored product owners and development teams in adapting and transition to Agile methodologies with Sprint Planning, Retrospective & Releases.
• Manage concurrent projects with budget expenses over $5 million annually. Direct liaise with Business user.
• Enhanced the team progress reporting for greater visibility to which enabled quicker project funding.
• Managed to bring product owner from several business units together to prioritize user stories into MVP helping a faster ROI.

Confidential, Torrance CA

Technology Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• The massive NAPO system is hosted on mainframe zOS system consists of 1800 Cobol programs, 293 DB2 tables, 37 IMS databases, 400 plus JCL batch jobs, CICS online screens, communication interfaces & SAS reports. It also interfaces with other platforms like AS400 for warehouse support and Visual Age web front for dealer communication.
• Activity includes interacting with various stake holders for understanding and proposing enhancement to the zOS application, perform JCL, Cobol & SAS program analysis, coding, testing, and report problems and solutions, involved with all phases of SDLC i.e. requirements gathering, analysis, technical design, data modeling, ETL, code development, scheduling, deploy, support of application, issue resolution and performance testing & tuning.
• Successfully completed a design and deployment for incorporating Buy-Sell Dealership changes for closed, changed and new dealers and re-routing existing order supplies accordingly using Cobol & DB2.
• Pending design approval for introducing partitioned DB2 table for better response time on their zOS mainframe.
• Pending approval for redesigning their replenishment matrix for better logistics and reduction in operation cost.

Confidential, Atlanta Georgia

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Extensive use of various technologies e.g. zOS Mainframe involving Cobol, JCL, JOBTRAC, Control-M, $avrs, Cobol, DB2, VSAM, Datacom, CICS Transaction server, CA Platinum products, midrange like Unix, Teradata, Oracle, PL/SQL
• & MQ. Activity included all phases of SDLC i.e. requirements gathering, analysis, technical design, data modelingETL, code development, scheduling, deploy, support of application, issue resolution and performance testing & tuning and develop Proof of Concept.
• Re-faced, Reservation and Delivery System (RDS) for Big Ticket sale from CICS green screen tendering, reservation and delivery system to n-tier technology having .Net front end served through mainframe backend via CICS TS also interfacing the Smart Point of Sale system. Resulted in having a modern GUI front end enhancing end user experience.
• Re-hosted, Pricing at Location Level, from legacy VSAM to partitioned DB2 relational database. In the process developed the largest transactional DB2 tables at Confidential having 468 partitions, 5 billion rows and 1.30TB size. Application helped individual store POS to access most current price on the day of sale. Activities included identification, planning, architectural design and conceptual, logical & physical database design in DB2 & Teradata, data extraction transformation and load, application modernization to use new databases.
• Unit, integration and performance testing also done with new databases. Several dry runs performed to see stability and build end user confidence. Detailed Hour-by-hour planning with fallback planning was done for rollout to production and all stakeholders communicated on cutoff date to new application. Window for final roll out to production done on a non-busy long weekend.
• Enabled the Enroute phase of Availability to Sell (ATS)/OMNI channel for store level, stock transfer tracking & monitoring involving SOA architecture on CICS TS. Resulted in accurate inventory status for fulfillment.
• Seamlessly attained consolidation of regional division into one MyMacy’s, this required changes to DB2 database, COBOL & JCL batch application, CICS OLTP, processes and more.
• Solved a DB2 table partitioning by date issue based on IBM’s white papers.
• Enhanced application by redesigning & restructuring programs and operation flow in Logistics to reduce CPU & run time, resulting in cost savings of $1,000,000 in two year period. For online CICS programs adapted a unique TSQ method to avoid repeated query of DB2 or Oracle tables.
• Built generic ABEND and XML parser routines in COBOL, for standardization, its reusability, it helped reduce lines of coding and development time in cross platform integration projects using XML and MQ/SOAP.
• Created unique design with available IBM i-o COBOL routines to produce correct output data names that would route the file to correct divisional processes, which helped avoid major overhaul of application.
• Created Proof of Concept for use of Materialized Views and Temporal tables in DB2 applications.
• Created Proof of Concept to change hand held Scanners from Telnet to open system WSDL architecture.