SUMMARY:

• I have 14 years of experience in Software industry as Technical Lead in analysing, design, research, development, production support and maintenance of several Mainframe applications.
• Maintained Project environment included COBOL, DB2, IMS, SQL, JCL, CICS and TERADATA.
• Expertise in interacting with Business Analysts, Managers, Developers, Testers and End Users.
• Excellent in organizing and planning of the development schedule based on Agile / Waterfall / Iterative methodologies and to create a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.
• Excellent Communication, interpersonal skills and ability to work in a Cross functional team, facilitated with a high level of collaboration among, team members, cross - streams in a team-oriented and rapidly changing work and business environment.
• Provided technical leadership, business on various projects and resolved technical issues.
• I transform data that drives business value to the client. I thrive in environments with changing priorities and still maintain project schedule, budget and quality.
• I enjoy collaborating with businesses to analyse and interpret needs, translate those needs in to solutions and implement project results in to production.
• Experience in creating Functional Design Specifications and Technical Design Specifications.
• Handled Unit, Functional, System Integration and Regression testing, supported for UAT and Production Install.
• Have experience working in three different countries - India, Mexico & USA.

EXPERTISE:

• Project Quality Management
• Cost Management
• Stakeholder Management
• AGILE
• Waterfall
• Technical Leadership
• Team Leadership & Development
• Technical Documentation
• Performance Analysis
• Software development lifecycle
• System Analysis & Design
• Process Improvement
• Problem identification & Resolution

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

IBM Mainframe: Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, Teradata, CICS, Easytrieve, REXX, CICS WEB service and XML interfaces.

Tools: TSO/ISPF, QMF, FILE-Master, FILE Manager, SPUFI, Platinum-DB2, Intertest, Xpeditor, DF-SORT, Endevor, INFOMAN, Teradata SQL Assistant and CA Mainframe Application Tuner.

Domain Expertise: Retail, Telecom, Insurance, Banking & Financial services (Banking & Credit Card Processing) & Healthcare (Pharmacy Benefit Management).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, BENTONVILLE, AR

Lead Mainframe Developer - Agile

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysing the existing process and did feasibility study with the proposed requirement.
• Analysed the Logistic data in IMS DB and created document with equivalent OMS - DB2 field mapping.
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Prepared Functional Requirement and Technical System Design for the project.
• Developed Mainframe modules with CICS, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, DB2, XML and WEB Service interface.
• Worked with JAVA team to create an XML contract document for JAVA web service launched from Mainframe Modules.
• Involved in Discussion with Confidential SMEs and Business Analyst to understand the Business purpose of each fields in IMS and convert it in to OMS DB2 columns.
• Managed Tracking and monitoring project status activities, co-coordinating the weekly status report and updated status in daily Scrum call.
• Helped entire team in process improvement and ensure quality in deliverables.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Lead Mainframe Developer - Agile

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysing the existing impacted system and did feasibility study with the proposed Resiliency requirement
• Defined Project deliverables and technical requirements for four major Mainframe applications: Authorization, Statements, ODS & NONMON.
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Prepared Functional Requirement and Technical System Design for the project.
• Developed Mainframe modules with CICS, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, DB2 and Easytrieve.
• Developed project delivery processes: Code verification, Quality inspection, Delivery Audit and Implementation verification and enforced the same in all the teams.
• Managed the issue logs with help of service desk & coordinated the Post Implementation Review meetings.
• Managed the Project tracker for all Mainframe applications for this Resiliency program.
• Created many of innovative processes to improve the Quality of project deliveries.
• Lead a team for Mainframe Release install coordination through INFOMAN plan watch.

Confidential, BENTONVILLE, AR

Lead Mainframe Developer - Agile

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysing the existing Mainframe Jobs processing HOBUS DB2 database and did feasibility study to mitigate all Mainframe components to access CASENDRA data.
• Defined Project deliverables and technical requirements for four Mainframe HOBUS applications.
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Prepared Functional Requirement and Technical System Design for the project.
• Developed Mainframe modules with COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and Easytrieve.
• Developed project delivery processes: Code verification, Quality inspection, Delivery Audit and Implementation verification and enforced the same in all the teams.
• Managed the issue logs with help of service desk & coordinated the Post Implementation Review meetings.
• Managed the Project tracker for all Mainframe applications for this program.
• Created many of innovative processes to improve the Quality of project deliveries.
• Lead a Mainframe AGILE team and attended Daily SCRUM calls.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Mainframe Performance Tuning Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis and data collection of high CPU consuming Mainframe modules.
• Managed the Performance tuning tracker for all Mainframe modules.
• Conducted meetings with respective application team to understand the criticality of the module in the system and evaluate the possibility of optimization.
• Analysed using CA Mainframe Application Tuner, developed and tested the tuning changes and compared the MIPS savings with the existing Production execution.
• Managed the implementation of the identified profitable tuning changes.
• Coordinated with Application team, Testing team, Operation and support teams to successfully install the tuning changes.
• Successfully installed tuned Mainframe modules, which optimized many ESI systems and saved lot of MIPS for ESI.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with onshore leads to get the clarity in the requirements and managed the allocation of work in offshore.
• Created High-level technical and low-level technical design documents and conducted review meetings with onshore and Client’s SME.
• Developed new mainframe modules in COBOL and also developed Mainframe jobs to execute Teradata queries with utilities like BTEQ, MLOAD, FATSEXPORT and FASTLOAD to extract claims data for reports.
• Created proper testcase documents and implementation verification documents.
• Involved in peer reviews and Quality inspection to ensure defect free deliveries.
• Coordinated with other Applications and other technology teams for proper integration of changes and to avoid negative impact of any changes on other ESI systems.

Confidential

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played Nearshore coordinator for this project from Mexico for 10 months.
• Coordinated with onshore and offshore to get the clarity in the requirements and managed the allocation of work in offshore.
• Developed High level design by analysing the business requirements involved in requirement gathering meeting with clients along with onshore leads.
• Developed new mainframe modules and done many enhancements in the existing modules.
• Created proper testcase documents and implementation verification documents.
• Involved in peer reviews and Quality inspection to ensure defect free deliveries.
• Coordinated with other Applications and other technology teams for proper integration of changes and to avoid negative impact of any changes on other NT Mainframe systems.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in major Mainframe development projects and maintenance projects.
• Involved in all SDLC phases and received much appreciations from leads and project managers on the work I have done in projects.
• Followed all project delivery processes in development, testing and install phases of the projects.
• Involved in development of mainframe components with JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM and CICS.
• Created many REXX and other tools to automate the development and validation of mainframe projects.
• Appreciated by all Managers as a good team worker and dedicated hard working developer.
• Created test case documents, Low level designs and Implementation verification plans.