SUMMARY:

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer, with 10+ 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.
• Experience working in the domain of Financial and Banking 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, online CICS tools, SOLA (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture) templates.
• 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 “SMART, STRECH and SPEED” awards. The highest recognition in SYNTEL ORGANISATION.
• Received G1 Rating for the initiative for successfully launching New Product to customers with no defects or issues in production.
• Received Accolades from Client Directors, Program managers, Scrum Masters for various initiatives.
• Excellent Team building, Project management, Analytical, Interpersonal and Communication skills.
• Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF,DB2, CICS, MQ Series, JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, Interest, Endeavor, BMC, DB2, IBM Utilities, Insync, Mainframe Express and CA-7, SPUFI, File-Aid, Change man, JOBTRAC, Control-M, APPTUNE, Insync, Service now, Manage Now, Mainframe Express, Smart TS, IBM Debug tool, Jira Board, Rally.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Extensive experience working with Financial and Banking applications.
• Worked primarily in the domain of banking applications for American Express Company, Plantation application dealing with Core Credit Card application Capturing, Processing, and Decision and maintaining statements, reporting / data maintenance. Conversion projects dealing with systems within American Express / third party Vendors outside the bank.
• Hands on experience creating COBOL online programs.
• Designed and Developed Reports using QMF, SPUFI.
• Experience designing UI using MFS .
• Experience in sending and receiving files to various third party vendors by secure file transfer connections (NDM/XCOM/FTP).
• Completed the physical design by utilizing UML Use Cases.
• 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.
• Experience in attending and conducting JAR & SAR Review Sessions for various initiatives.
• Have Good knowledge on the Bank Administration Institute formats (BAI Formats).
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Able to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Update QMS (Quality Management System) documents like Project initiation, Project action plan, Detailed Requirements Specifications, Impact Analysis, File Specifications, System Run Chart (flow chart), Data Base Requirements, Program Specifications, Operation Manual, Program Development, Coding, Unit Test Plan, System Test plan, Inter System Test plan, Implementation plan and Post implementation check.
• Undergone training in Time Management, Project action Planning, Cross culture, interacting with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• Worked in CMM Level 5 Organization.
• Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.
• Experience working on Escheatment’s, Sending emails and papers mails for Clients for Various services with different templates.
• Independent liaising with clients during requirement gathering & design.
• Experience in helping in teams in migrations activities from mainframe system to other technologies.
• Experience in decommission old platforms and migrate to new platforms.
• Knowledge in PEGA PRPC functionality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL.UI MFS

Databases: IMS DC, IMS DB, DB2

Modelling Tools: MS Visio Professional

Defect/Bug Tracking: Quality Center

Reporting Tools: QMF, SPUFI

IDE: Visual Studio 2015/2012/2010/2008/2005

Platform: IBM Mainframe 360

Tools / Technologies : VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2, QMF, SPUFI, File AID, Endeavor, Xpeditor, BMC, Platinum tool for DB2

Standards & Trends: Agile Practice, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Architecture

Office Productivity: MS Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Access/Visio, MS Outlook, Rally and Jira Board.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Malvern PA

Mainframe Developer

• Analysis, design and developing, deploying and maintenance of software systems .Build out server instances and clusters in highly available and fault tolerant environment.
• Deploy code to all environments and develop automation scripts. Perform root cause and system log analysis to find the issues in applications working with team members. Working on multiple initiatives outside the scope of the day-day activities.
• Supporting and development of functional requirement and system design to ensure that they meet defined business and project objectives.
• Collaborates with management, business units and IT department to determine the website’s purpose and functions, requirements and long term strategy. Provide support for environment maintenance, Problem management and incident resolution.
• Conduct peer code reviews to ensure use of coding best practices and to verify correct implementation of requirements.

Technologies: IBM Mainframe, CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, Change man, Endeavor, File-aid, Mainframe Express, Expeditor, Rex, MQ’s, Jira Board, Insync, IBM Product Manager, Smart TS, Mainframe Express.

ConfidentiaL, Malvern PA

Mainframe Developer

• Analysis, design and developing, deploying and maintenance of software systems .Build out server instances and clusters in highly available and fault tolerant environment.
• Deploy code to all environments and develop automation scripts. Perform root cause and system log analysis to find the issues in applications working with team members. Working on multiple initiatives outside the scope of the day-day activities.
• Supporting and development of functional requirement and system design to ensure that they meet defined business and project objectives.
• Collaborates with management, business units and IT department to determine the website’s purpose and functions, requirements and long term strategy. Provide support for environment maintenance, Problem management and incident resolution.
• Conduct peer code reviews to ensure use of coding best practices and to verify correct implementation of requirements.

Technologies: IBM Mainframe, CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, Change man, Endeavor, File-aid, Mainframe Express, Expeditor, Rex, MQ’s, Jira Board, Insync, IBM Product Manager, Smart TS, Mainframe Express, BMC utilities .

Confidential, FL

Sr. Software Developer

• Responsible for developing and delivering high-quality software in an Agile/Scrum based environment while ensuring that work Asher’s to company/industry best practices.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining multiple initiatives and new product launches and back-end new real-time services using different IBM technologies like COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, DB2 etc.
• Responsible for coding front-end Screens using MFS technology.
• Experience with Integrating with front-end UI pages using XML
• Worked with Database Admin in DB2, IMS Table Schemas, Stored Procedures, and Experience with Quality Center to track and manage Requirements, Tasks and Bugs.
• Experience with deployment procedure utilizing Jenkins to build/deploy.
• Collaborate with the business and team members to define and analyze requirements for enhancements.
• Interacting with Clients and understand the requirements and feasibility of implementing the changes required.
• Responsible for data element mapping documents.
• Created detailed program specifications.
• Created on-line and batch program modules.
• Created customized programs designed to profile current and potential customers.
• Managed IT portion of credit card solicitation to ensure accuracy and timeliness by collaborating with internal departments and third party vendors.

Technologies: IBM Mainframe, CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, Change man, Endeavor, File-aid, Mainframe Express, Expeditor, Rex, MQ’s, Rally, BMC utilities, Insync.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Responsible for designing, developing and integrating the application with various mainframe technologies.
• Worked on stored procedures, functions and views for the related business scenarios.
• Track and manage bugs and requirements with issue tracking software.
• Used Change man, Service now to build and deploy.
• Created COBOL stored procedures for updates to the database.
• Created data element mapping documents.
• Created detailed program specifications.
• Created on-line and batch program modules.
• Created customized programs designed to profile current and potential customers.
• Managed IT portion of credit card solicitation to ensure accuracy and timeliness by collaborating with internal departments and third party vendors.

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, MQ transactions, SPUFI, File-Aid, CHANGEMAN, JOBTRAC, Control-M, APPTUNE, Service now, Manage Now, IBM Debug tool, Rally, Insync, BMC utilities