CAREER OVERVIEW:

Mainframe Senior Analyst Programmer with 12 years of IT experience (9 Year’s of experience in Confidential and 3 year’s of experience in Confidential ) in mainframe development and Support.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Mainframe Application Programmer with 12 years of experience in developing, maintaining, supervising and supporting mainframe legacy applications.
• Developed transactions which uses front end UI(JAVA, .Net) and backend mainframe transactions, to re - use and retain core logic in legacy while giving user a modern UI.
• Extensive experience in design, coding testing and implementing in COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2 and VSAM.
• Good grasp on MPP/BMP, Batch and Online System of Mainframe.
• Extensive experience in analysis, design, development, unit testing, UAT and deployment cycles of mainframe development.
• Experience in proposing solution for business requirement and driving project from scratch to support the requirement.
• Performed pivotal roles to improve the efficiency of the mainframe team as well as the business operations.
• Tuned DB2 queries used by web front end which improved the response time considerably.
• Got appreciation from client for the same.
• Worked on POC for UI modernization of legacy application.
• Working directly with business users and understanding their requirements from the new system.
• Represented business flows, using Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) using MS Visio for Automotive and Manufacturing Application for use post implementation of project.
• Handling deployment coordination activities between different team i.e business and other technical deployment teams to take care of our project deployments which includes web, mainframe and database components.
• Excellent Inter-personal skills and a quick learner. Ability to get along with the team well, and can handle client issues at all stages of the development process.
• Have managed project through all phases right from Requirement analysis, design, coding, System testing, UAT along with customer communication.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to build professional relationships with peers and superiors, and work comfortably with both business and technical professionals.
• Domain expertise in Automotive, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
• Experience in Agile as well as Waterfall model of SDLC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skill set: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, EDI, Easytrieve, SQL.

Database/File Systems: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, MQ.

Tools: /Utilities: MS-Access, BALSAMIQ, Panvalet, IBM-Debugger, IBM-Data Studio, SPUFI, DCLGEN, DFSORT, TSO, REMEDY, Platinum.

Business Modeling: MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland

Mainframe Senior Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with web team and created online mainframe programs (transactions), which would be called via .NET and Java front end.
• Create Test cases, Unit testing and design specifications for mainframe online and batch programs (transactions) using IMS DB, COBOL and DB2.
• Project Estimations, Create and maintain Project related documents.
• Customer deliveries, Cross technical and Cross module s.
• Team Building activities, SLA Reporting and Meetings with Customer.
• Offshore and Onsite co-ordination and facilitation to the entire team to develop new interfaces as per technical specification and handling the deliveries without any defects.
• Interaction with clients to understand processes/requirement from business perspective.
• Worked on a multiple projects CBN (Create Build New orders), VQP (Virtual processing Quotes), MBU (mass backlog updates), PWL (Pricing worklist), IQM(Interface Quote management), NWS(New Order status) for Confidential (Freightliner/Thomas Build buses/ western star) on enhancing the current system. Web enabled many transactions for different .net and Java Applications. Working on core applications like new Order processing, sales Concessions.
• Wrote mainframe batch programs to nightly data processing.
• Suggested few other performance improvement ideas, which greatly helped improving the system experience.
• New Transactions/Modify IMS transactions to meet UI needs. These transactions is being called by .NET UI, JAVA Applications.
• Meeting with business users and understanding their requirement.
• Analyze mainframe existing process and create technical specification for offshore team.
• Created table definition for the projects as per the requirement.

Confidential

Mainframe Senior Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Medicare CI- Development Project consist of Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, CA Panvalet, CA Platinum, Abend aid, File aid, Easytieve).
• Worked in Agile Methodology. Responsible for Analysis, Design and daily updates in standup meetings.
• Involved in meetings with Client to collect requirements and Preparation of understanding document.
• Worked on high level design, low level design of the new requirements.
• Preparation of job flow, program flow of the existing system.
• Preparation of project status report.
• Involved in peer review of code and unit test results, SIT, UAT Phases.
• Logged defects in the SQUIDS ( Confidential Tool for defects logging).
• Worked in Development, Maintenance and Support, Responsible for picking up Incident/Problem/Change order tickets from Service desk and getting them resolved.
• Automated various manual Processes to generate reports for Business.
• Worked with front end application team to tune the performance.
• Resolved incidents/ tickets and provided RCA.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Onshore-offshore model(SDLC).
• Coordination of three developers at Offshore.
• Requirements collection with the coordination of onsite coordinator.
• Review team development work.
• Involved managing the whole project deliveries from offshore, create monthly reports and handle quality audits.
• Worked on Enhancement and Development programs of insurance Modules.
• Handled production issues, Support Request, Job Monitoring, Analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that each deliverable source codes adhere to the client supplied standards.
• Prepared test cases to test all the functionality as expected.
• Unit Test the programs based on the test cases prepared.