SUMMARY:

• Mainframe Developer with 13 years of experience providing project leaderships; systems analysis, software development, implementation, support.
• Excels at completing projects that meet both corporate goals and customer expectations; improving productivity and workflow; enhancing and maintaining critical business processes and systems.
• A hands - on, detail-oriented who works well individually as well as with cross-functional business and technical teams.
• Experienced with both on-site and offshore systems development and implementation.
• Offers exceptional business/technical problem solving and programming skills along with extensive knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and IT best practices.
• Enhanced the existing mainframe’s COBOL/CICS/DB2 system; managed application development and enhancement activities to support business processes and operations.
• Implemented DB2 stored procedures to support data access and maintenance of application.
• Performed troubleshooting on best programming practices.
• Provided proof of concept on migration project.
• Wrote program specifications, created test plans, performed system testing, systems analysis, development, implementation and support.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Business and Technical Analysis Process Improvement Quality Control Research DR Requirements Gathering Documentation Resource Management Performance Management and Enhancement Maintenance and Support
• Mainframe Environment, CICS, DB2 (Stored Procedures, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, DB2 Utilities, Optimization tools), IMS(DB,DC), MQ Series,Betrieve database, REXX, JCL, SORT, VSAM,MVS, EXPEDITER, ENDEVOR/CHANGEMAN, Omegamon,SAS,Microsoft Office and various migration tools.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coded new COBOL/DB2 stored procs, updating Technical design document, Front end specification and function design document. Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination with offshore team operation support team as well. Executing test cases in CDWA (Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and control cards in Test environment and also creation of production JCL’s as well.
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components. Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Attending weekly status calls with offshore and status calls with client. Expert in providing production support documentation and analysis, strong knowledge on mainframe applications.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coded new COBOL/DB2 stored procs, updating Technical design document, Front end specification and function design document. Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination with offshore team operation support team as well. Executing test cases in CDWA (Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and control cards in Test environment and also creation of production JCL’s as well.
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components. Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Attending weekly status calls with offshore and status calls with client. Expert in providing production support documentation and analysis, strong knowledge on mainframe applications.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work on the IT work requests and heat tickets which are assigned through the ITWR and Heat system.
• Analyzing IT work requests and providing estimates to each of the work request.
• Working on RFC’s every month for Production release.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
• Write, test and debug the COBOL/REX/CICS programs.
• Used to FTP the output files to downstream systems
• Writing unit test scripts and documenting the unit test results.
• Uploading all the test results to Quality Center.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Worked on Region Refresh activity.
• Coordination with offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cycles in all 9 regions of CAPSIL application as a part of migration project activity.
• Create and maintain REXX and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Used Changeman for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of changeman package and promoting to different environments like Dev/model/support regions.
• Converting online modules to batch modules to support Capsil application.
• Preparation of program/Job documentation at technical and functional levels.
• Coordinating with the teams such as Support team for access related issues, Server team for data restoration from backups etc.
• Coordination with offshore Team and point of contact for offshore team.
• Setting up weekly status calls with offshore and attending status calls with client.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and deployment of mainframe projects for Confidential .
• Involve in full life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Resolve ongoing issues or defects.
• Analyze and study the business requirements.
• Create technical design documents and functional specification documents for the Confidential project.
• Participate in Peer Review meetings and Status meetings with team.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces.
• Deliver the changed components along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Involved in support of Jobs being changed and developed as a release process.
• Prepare a System document explaining the detail of changes done in the system.
• Involve in increasing the performance of System by solving the existing bugs.
• Writing New Jobs and new programs to extract the data from IMS and DB2 databases.
• Writing new jobs to load data into mainframe flat files.
• Done a couple of enhancements on increasing field lengths and retrieving data from history tables.
• Reviewed and enhanced documentation for troubleshooting and resolution procedures for all levels of support

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in kick off meeting with Business user to understand the requirement and frame the business rules.
• Do Initial analysis and provide high-level estimate.
• Discuss the possible deployment date with other team and start work accordingly.
• Delegate some request to offshore team with initial analysis. For these requests, clarify any queries of offshore team, follow up to complete technical specification, coding, unit testing and Integration testing.
• Complete detail analysis for high priority work and prepare Technical specification document.
• Invite business analyst, tester and any other programmer to participate in technical specification inspection meeting.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces and complete coding, unit testing and Integration testing for request.
• Participate in Peer review with Quality control team. Give them all necessary instruction regarding the changes.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Apart from regular business need, try to fix any critical problem in production.
• Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
• Prepare Root- cause-Analysis document.
• Submitted proposal in setting up the change management process for business rules.
• Update E-Knowledge repository with any new business rule, processing change etc.

Confidential

Sr.Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• MSL provides a central electronic library for product definition data for FORD and Jaguar vehicles manufactured in European Plants and may also include some data for vehicles sold in Europe but sourced outside of Europe and European engineered vehicles manufactured in FAP markets.
• Analyze the existing system and the specifications provided by the client.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per the technical specifications.
• Wrote and tested COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs.
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Documenting the test results in unit test results.
• Create and maintain JCL, Proc’s and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
• Used IDCAMS for performing various operations on VSAM data sets
• Worked with Version control using Change man.
• Used change man for creation, checkout, modification, compiling, Auditing, freezing and promoting the packages to production level.

Confidential

Sr.Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the batch flows and remedy tool for the job abends.
• Resolve job abends in a timely manner by coordinating with application support person.
• Re-run/force completes the jobs as application support person instructions.
• Coordination with operation support teams for the scheduling changes in Job Trac.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to requirement of the projects.
• Create and maintain JCL, PROCS, and Control Cards.
• Coordination with operation support teams for defining the job requirements and triggers in CA- Job Trac.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.
• Enhancements did as per the new requirements.
• Created COBOL/DB2 new Procs and JCL’s and done unit testing for the new module.

Confidential

Sr.Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the batch flows and resolve the job abends in a timely manner.
• Participated in deployment activities for moving the code to production.
• Production support for various Batch systems.
• Posting of the job requirements and restart the jobs as rerun instructions.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to the requirements of the project.
• Define the jobs in CA-7 and schedule the jobs in CA-7.
• Define the jobs requirements and triggers in CA-7.
• Create and run adhoc reports using QMF/Spufi.
• Run the RUNSTATS jobs every month in different DB2 regions.
• Fix the JCL/Job abends in production .
• Retrieving the MF COBOL programs from production using Endevor.
• Modified existing programs using COBOL as per the requirement.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit the records.
• Involved in writing the stored procedures using COBOL and DB2.
• Moving the modified programs, Proc’s to production after testing has been completed.
• Wrote the new and tested MF COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs.
• Modified MF COBOL/DB2/CICS existing programs
• Documenting the unit test results.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of the system to understand the existing functionality.
• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
• Developed and maintained a batch system for Trading management order records.This system was responsible for daily creation of order feed which was send for evaluation and processing.
• Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Assisted in setting up the change management process for business rules.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact with existing System. The new programs will process the files from other system based on the rules defined by the Business.
• Designing the business component to interact with third party application.
• Deliver the changed component along with supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document