SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Seasoned mainframe programmer and analyst with 16 year’s experience of developing, implementing and supporting a diverse array of systems for retail, banking, investment, telecom and manufacturingindustries
• Results driven programmer and architect having created programs generating millions in revenue and saving thousands of person-hours annually
• Dedicated professional with a proven track record of virtually flawless work across hundreds of systems in a variety of environments
• Outstanding motivator and builder of teams. Works well in both team environments and individual assignments
• Established leader and subject matter expert recognized by management as company “guru” on quality assurance, and several specific programs

• New Application Development

· Quality Improvement

· QA Test Plan Design/Implementation

· Process Improvement/Reengineering

· System Troubleshooting

· System analysis/Design/Coding/Testing

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Hardware : IBM ES/9121, ES/9672, IBM 3090, AS/400
Operating Systems : MVS-OS/390, OS/2-Warp, OS/400, UNIX, Linux,
Windows 2000/XP/NT/98/95/3.X, DOS6.X
Application Software : COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, REXX, Easytrieve, SAS
IMS DB/DC, PL/I, TOTAL, Coolgen, CL/400, Brio, RPG/400,
Linc- Unisys, Java/J2EE, XML, Visual Basic, Fortran77,
VB.NET/C#, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 7.0
Special Products : MQSeries, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF, JCL, DB2 Platinum, Inter test,
Smart test, Expeditor, Ellipse, Change man, Endevor, SDF II,
File Aid, Sync sort, Gamma,Telon,Microfocus Cobol, FTP,NDM,
Rational Rose
Other Software : MS-Word, MS-Project, MS-Access, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (In Reverse Chronological Order)

Company: Confidential,Boston

Project Name : Self Clearing Solutions (SCS)
Location : Fidelity Investments, Boston
Platform : IBM Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, JCL, REXX
and Easy trieve)
Title : Technical Manager –Software Engineer till Jan 09, Senior
Consultant since March 09
Duration : Dec 2005 to Dec 2009

Description : Confidential,a business unit of Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company of the US and a leading provider of financial services. FBC serves retail and institutional brokerage customers, as well as retail mutual fund clients. I was part of technology group (IPGT) of FBC and worked on SCS (self clearing Solutions) project. The total budget for this project was approx. $71.2 Million and it involved cloning most of brokerage systems to offer self clearing services to other non Fidelity companies. The successful implementation of this project will help Fidelity Investments to become market leader in the self-clearing services and generate long-term high revenues.

Role and Contribution:

• System analysis, designing and development activities
• Unit testing, System testing, creating/running the hyperstation script for CICS online
• Built automated tool in REXX, Cobol, PL/I and Easy trieve to reduce the development time and cost
• Designed the new DB2 tables
• Code changes in 153 various mainframe applications in Fidelity Brokerage systems
• Defined the exempted subsystems for SCS
• Co-coordinated with different application groups in defining/maintaining the SCS standard and facilitate the testing
• Mentored and coached team members
• Conducted status meeting and status reporting.
• Coordinated effectively with module leads in assigning the tasks and monitoring it’s progress
• Managed multiple tasks and meet the deadlines

Project Name : FBC Queue works
Location : Fidelity Investments, Boston
Platform : IBM Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, JCL, REXX
and Easy trieve)
Title : Technical Manager – Software Engineer
Duration : Nov 2002 to Dec 2005

Description : FBC queue works involve various new developments, enhancements, maintenance, conversion and migration of existing Fidelity Brokerage Company’s (FBC) mainframe applications. The queue works varies from 15 person days to 90 person days.

Role and Contribution:

• System analysis, designing, development activities and Implementations
• Unit testing, System testing, creating/running the hyperstation script for CICS online
• Conversion of VSAM files to DB2 tables across various Fidelity Brokerage mainframe systems
• Developed new online and batch programs
• Performance optimization of various online and batch programs
• Migration of non Fidelity accounts to Fidelity accounts
• Managed multiple tasks and meet the deadlines

Company: Confidential,Boston (USA)
Application: Purchase order

Confidential,is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the world, operating seven divisions -- T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and A.J. Wright in the United States as well as Winners and HomeSense in Canada and T.K. Maxx in Europe. I supported the Information Technology group of TJX and worked for the Divisional Purchase Order Upgrade Project. The Objective of this project was to do conversion of software from TJ Maxx division to Winners, HomeScene and A.J.Wright. Also Homegoods software was converted to TK Maxx division.

Location: Confidential,Boston (USA)
Title : Project Leader
Duration: February 2002 to till Nov 2002
Platform: IBM Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, JCL, REXX and
Easy trieve)

Role and Contribution:

• System analysis
• Creating the system requirement specification and design document
• Coding and unit testing

Company: Confidential,US
Application: Order Control System-Special Services (OCS-SS)

About the Application :
OCS-SS is a network ordering system that accepts AT&T user input relating to High-End orders evaluates the content of the input and passes it on to provisioning and billing systems further downstream. An order is high end if it comes from a major business such as GE or a Government organization. These orders generally specify individual circuit connection and specific services that will be available to the customer to that circuit. The orders reflect physical components and locations, logical connections and relationships and complicated business agreements.
The OCS-SS system provides the sales centers and marketing delivery centers with on-line interacting system capability to enter, validate, store and distribute universal service orders (UCO`s) for AT&T special services.
OCS-SS is the main entry point into the interstate (IS) provisioning and billing systems that supports customize voice and data circuits and systems.
The OCS-SS process is an on-line, text based interactive CICS system. The user is presented with a series of screens representing the different segments of an order- Identification, Control, Billing, Service & Equipment and Remarks. Each screen needs to be filled in which data before the user can go another screen.

Location: Confidential,Herndon, VA
Title : Senior System Analyst
Duration: March 2000 to Jan 2002
Platform: IBM Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, JCL, REXX and
Easy trieve)

Role and Contribution:

• Creating the system requirement and design document
• Creating the test plan and test cases
• System Analysis, Coding, unit testing and Integration testing
• Mentor and coach the team members
• Allocate the tasks to team members
• Provide the production support

Company: Confidential,USA

Project Name : Salesman Code Enhancement Project
Location : Confidential,Bangalore.
Platform : IBM Mainframe (CICS-COBOL-DB2)
Duration : Oct 1999 to March 2000
Team size : 5

Description : Objective of this project was to enhance the registered Rep ID of Montgomery Securities. Previously it was defined as ‘3’ numeric, which was changed to ‘3’ alpha numeric so that the number of registered rep was increased from 999 to 46656.

Role : Impact analysis, coding, testing and implementation support

Company: Confidential,USA

Location : Confidential,Bangalore.
Platform : IBM Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL)
Duration : Oct 1999 to December 1999
Team size : 10

Description : Confidential,conversion for Confidential,USA
This project aims at identifying the date fields in the database which do not carry the century along with the year and modifying them to accommodate the century by adding a two digit century field for all such date fields. Also, all the related programs will be modified to recognize, populate and make use of these newly added century fields in their calculations.

Role : Coding and unit testing

About the Project:
The Material Management Information Project as a part of JIS-Jamshedpur Integrated System of Tata Steel was under taken to computerize the entire gamut of Material Management function including indenting, ordering, stocks transaction & inventory Management, bill payment & accounting, stock accounting, vendor & commodity management on the IBM ES9121 Mainframe in a MVS/CICS/DB2 Environment. The project had a life span of 6.5 years starting in Feb`91, having moved to maintenance support group in Aug`97 with a total of 1300 man months of effort going into the software life cycle. It accounts for 30% of the total processing load with a user base of 274 & installed base of 106 terminals.

Software Environment : CICS, VS-COBOL-II, DB2
Duration : June 1990 to Jan 1993 and July 1996 to Oct 1999
Role and Contribution : Analysis, LLD, preparation of UTP, Coding and unit testing

Bachelor of Engineering

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

IBM certified specialist for DB2 and RPG AS/400
Brainbench certified specialist for COBOL and CICS
MCSD certification for Visual Basic