Career Objective: 

• Develop my skills as a Software Professional and excel in the field of Information Technology keeping a balance between the Legacy Systems and the Newer technology.
• Keenly follow the new processes & Methodology to achieve the higher quality goals.
• Steadily transform my knowledge from Technology oriented into Business/ Domain oriented
• Focus on Delivering Quality Products by contributing in a bigger way for the growth of the organization & thereby myself.
• Looking forward for a motivating and challenging job is software development as a Mainframe Project Leader.

Experience Summary :

Having more than Ten years hands on experience in Mainframe Applications with emphasis on COBOL, DB2,VSAM,CICS, JCL, COOL:Gen & over all IT experience of 11+ years.

• Worked as Mainframe developer for Confidential from July 2001 to July 2002.
• Worked as Java developer for Confidential from September 2000 to April 2002.

Academic Details:

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) 
B.Sc., (Computer Science)

Certifications:

• Quality Auditor certification from KPMG.
• CSTM (Certified Software Test Manager)
• Completion of Preparation for PMP certificate.
• In house training for ITIL @ Value Source Technologies.

Functional Areas & Skill Set:

Application/Functional areas worked on

BFS, Telecom, Management, Insurance, Sales & Subscription.

Types of projects worked on

Development, Maintenance/Enhancement, Migration & 
Production Support, Legacy Integration.

Environments worked on

Mainframe - MVS/ESA, VM/ESA, Z/OS

Environments exposed to

Windows NT/XP/7/Vista & MS- DOS

Languages/Tools worked on

Java, VB, COBOL, CA-EARL,VSAM, CICS, JCL, DB/2, IMS-DB, File-Aid, Changeman, SPUFI, DCLGEN, COOL:Gen(6.0 & 6.5), CE-ACCESS, GuardlEN, TWS, CA-7, HP Service/Quality centre

Languages/Tools exposed to

C, C++, CBD-UML, Share Point, HTML, DHTML, Visual Basic, FoxPro, D-Base.

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of hands on experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Documentation and Testing using Mainframe Applications.
• Working as Project Lead with strong skills in Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2/SQL & VSAM.
• Experience in coding Cobol DB2 batch programs, Stored Procedures and other Mainframe tools.
• Good experience in requirements gathering and interacting iteratively with the clients & end users.
• Played significant role in various phases of project life cycle such as Business requirements analysis, Functional & Technical Design, Coding, Testing, Production Support and Implementation.
• Good experience in Unit/Integration testing and involvement in Accept. Testing/Quality Assurance.
• Process oriented with high emphasis on Documentations and Reviews during the project life cycle.
• Modified numerable JCL/Procedures and Programs for real run time improvement (production).
• Experience in analysing real time performance improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and great desire to execute challenging projects.
• Good interpersonal skills and strong analytical & problem solving skills.
• Good Knowledge of Process Improvement Models - CMMI
• Expertise in Project Management processes and Quality Management processes.
• Member of PMO council.
• Experience inPerformance Appraisal, Goal Setting , Periodic Monitoring and Feedback for Team.
• Experience in Function Point (FP) estimation methodology (Undergone training in IBM).

Project Experience : (in reverse chronological order)

Project # : 1
Project Name : Data Ware House - BOS Savings/BOS Credits & BOS Payments
Project Type : Maintenance & Enhancement 
Organization : Confidential
Client : Confidential
Duration : January 2011 to Till date
Size : 26
Role : Project Leader (Band-3)/Associate Project Manager.
Environment : Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, JSS, VSAM, File-Aid, DB2, TWS, MEGA (design tool), Visio, 
Changeman, ClearCase (versioning tool), HP Service/Quality Centre

Description: Confidential is a financial service company, which provides solutions to retail/private banking, insurance and asset management. In the home market, CONFIDENTIAL is one of top-3 bank and the third largest provider of insurance employing more than 50,000 staff & serving 12 million customers in Belgium, Central Europe and Poland and has a market Cap of more than 25 billion Euros. Value source focuses on offshore software development services for financial and e-business domain and has strong domain expertise in the banking, financial services and insurance industries.

BOS Savings domain comprises of information pertaining to Current accounts, Saving accounts and Securities that are pledged against any sort of credit. It’s an intermediate layer built between the Sources & Targets where the source files are validated & pushed to Data Marts (different targets) via connect direct. Frequency of file processing is – Daily/weekly/ Monthly & Yearly.

• Sources are CONFIDENTIAL Branches & Subsidiaries.
• Targets are Risk/Markets.

The different processing steps involves here are:-

• Upload – data from various sources.
• Validation – Independent of source.
• Transformations – staging to main tables
• Transformations – main to output tables
• Extractions & uploads – additional attributes
• Extractions / reporting – output files

The different files used here are ACA (Current Account), ASA (Savings Account) & ASP (Credit Security Account)
BOS Payment domain comprises of information pertaining to Cash/Card & Intervention system.

The Cash system is a system that handles everything concerning physical money. This system is situated within the domain Payments. Within this domain, domestic and cross-border payments, current and savings accounts, cash management, cards, cash and intervention are managed. The system ‘Cash’ covers all the cash handling for EURO and International currencies. EURO can be ordered or returned in both notes and coins; for International currencies only notes are allowed. Cash interfaces significantly with the dispatch system, which handles the orders and returns of cash in the different branches.

Sources are Head Office & Bank Branches
Target is G4 sub system.

The Intervention system is a system that handles everything which can’t be handled by the parent system. This system is also situated within the domain Payments. Whenever something goes wrong or can’t be handled by a system, it will be derived to the intervention system. Here the intervention system interacts with various sources and provides solution on how to proceed. This is not an independent system having its own functionality instead helps other systems on complex situations.

Sources are Head Office & Bank Branches
Target is G4 sub system.

Responsibilities: As a Project Leader, my role involved in the following

• Preparation of Project Charter (based on the RFP) & getting it approved from client
• Project planning, Tracking & Reporting to the stakeholders (PM, Client & PGO’s).
• Preparation of Pre & Post implementation plan (micro level planning).
• Co-ordinate closely with the DBA for Database management.
• Management and Co-ordination with the development team at Onsite/Offshore
• Guided the offshore team during various phases of the project life cycle.
• Review of Feasibility study for new enhancement (by discussing with client).
• Preparation of Impact analysis & Estimation.
• Review of Design documents (both Technical/Global).
• Review & support the offshore for the testing.
• Support client during SIT (System Integration Testing)/UAT (User Accept. Testing).
• Release Management & deployment in Acceptance & Production pillar.
• Supporting for DRF-Upd (Data refresh in Acceptance).
• Prepare Weekly status reports and share it with the client.
• Prepare Monthly status report & share with senior management & CONFIDENTIAL business.
• Daily updation of Work Status Report & sharing with Manager & Senior manager.
• Participating in review meetings (both weekly/monthly & adhoc basis).
• Prepared QMR (Quality Met.), PMR (Monthly Met.) - shared with client & PMO
• Ensuring cost-effective support.
• In case of any issue raised in the status report, share with the management at offshore and work closely with the onsite coordinator to resolve the same.
• Acting as QAT (Quality Assurance Auditor).
• Periodically monitoring risk (with contingency & mitigation plan)
• Streamlining of Production jobs for improving efficiency and performance.
• Co-ordinating/contrubuting to Training department.

Project # : 2
Project Name : Synergy Insurance System (SIS) - Claims processing system
Project Type : Development/Support & Guarantee
Organization : Confidential
Client : Confidential
Duration : October 2009 to December 2010
Size : 15
Role : Project Leader
Environment : OS/390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Visio (design tool), CICS, File-Aid, TWS
Changeman & HP-Service/Quality Centre

Description: SIS claims provides rules-based, end-to-end claims processing that enables the insurers to improve quality and efficiency of claims handling, reduce claims and IT costs, and improve visibility and transparency into the claims organization. This system manages the entire claims process, from initiation to settlement. The main objective of this system includes the improvements in the existing system and introducing some new lines of Business and new process. Some of the new business lines are Fire & property Damage, General liability, TPL & Cargo, Person assistance, Marine, Aviation, co-insurance, Re-insurance, Co-habitation, fast claim handling, Expert report and etc.

This entire application involves more than impacted 12 subsystems (Claim handling, Claim handler, Claim event, Circumstances, Claim event involvements, Claim case, Loss, Costs, Reserves, Indemnity, Settlement, Payment) 

Responsibilities: As a Project Leader, my role involved in the following

• Project planning, Tracking & Reporting to the stakeholders (PM, Client & PGO).
• Preparation of Pre & Post implementation plan.
• Co-ordinate closely with the DBA for Database management.
• Management and Co-ordination with the development team at Onsite/Offshore
• Guided the offshore team during various phases of the project life cycle.
• Review of Feasibility study (by discussing with client)
• Preparation of Impact analysis.
• Review of Design documents (both Technical/Global).
• Review & support the offshore for the testing.
• Support Client in SIT (System Integration Testing)/UAT (User Accept. Testing).
• Release Management & deployment in Acceptance & Production pillar.
• Supporting for DRF-Upd (Data refresh in Acceptance).
• Prepare weekly status reports & Monthly status report and share it with the client.

• Daily updation of Work Status Report & sharing with Manager & Senior manager.
• In case of any issue raised in the status report, share with the management at offshore and work closely with the onsite coordinator to resolve the same.

Project # : 3
Project Name : Card System (Unit of BOS Payment System)
Organization : Confidential
Project Type : Maintenance & Enhancement
Client : Confidential
Duration : December 2008 to September 2009
Size : 10
Role : Project Leader
Environment : OS/390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, MEGA (design tool), 3270 Transaction Screen, TWS
File-Aid, Changeman & HP-Service Centre

Description: The Cards system is a system that deals with all the process related to the management of both Debit and Credit cards (Requesting, Renewal, Blocking, Cancelling, Cost charging etc) and not the transactions involved in cards. This system deals with Debit cards (BC/MC: Belgian debit card scheme, Proton: Electronic purse - low value payments, Maestro: European card scheme)/Credit cards (Charge cards or Classic cards - Pay at the end of every month, Revolving credit cards - Pay in multiple installments)/Fuel cards (VAB Petrol cards), Gift cards. This system is situated within the domain Payments. Cards interfaces significantly with some external parties such as ATOS or Banksys (Cards issuing service provider), Oberthur (Cards personalization company), Cetelem (Issuer of revolving credit cards), Sinsys: Partner in processing of credit cards (no direct interfacing), Serverside: Provides services for managing photos on the card, VAB: Group partner for issuing of petrol cards (Subsidiary of CONFIDENTIAL), Swing: External partner for issuing of prepaid gift cards.

Responsibilities: As a Project Leader, my role involved in the following

• RFP & Project charter updating.
• Impact analysis and Estimation.
• Global Technical Design (GTD)
• Detailed Technical Design (DTD).
• Peer Code review & Unit Test review for the impacted module.
• On-site Client co-ordination and Teleconferences
• Status reporting (Internal & External) – Weekly/Monthly
• SLA Compliance under control for the defects/incidents.
• Supporting for UAT with the client in Production environment.
• Plan & prepare for Release co-ordination & documentation.
• Co-ordinating with the Interfacing dependencies during release activation.
• Supporting for DRF-Upd (Data refresh in Acceptance).
• Internal KT & Training.

Project # : 4
Project Name : Corporate Credit Risk (CCR)
Project Type : Development/Support & Guarantee
Organization : Confidential
Client : Confidential
Duration : October 2007 to November 2008
Size :14
Role : Team Leader
Environment : OS/390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, MEGA (design tool), TWS 
Changeman & HP-Service Centre

Description: Corporate Credit Risk system is used to calculate the risk and profit on a certain loan applied by a corporate borrower. The loan application is processed by this system and their respective risk and profit is calculated and delivered to an output system called CRIMS (credit risk information management system)

Following systems are involved in CCR processing

• LE4 (CCR online)
• OCC Database
• LE5 (Portfolio Batch & Group structure report)
• DK6 (Risk Calculation Engine)

Based on the frequency of reports requested by business there are two types of Batch Applications used to generate the report.

• Portfolio (Report generated for all groups irrespective of the request)
• Group Report (Report generated on request basis)

Responsibilities: As a Team Leader, my role involved in the following

• Preparation of Impact Analysis.
• Preparation of Detailed Technical Design (DTD).
• Preparation of Test plans & Test cases.
• Support for Code reviews & Test reviews.
• On-site Client co-ordination and Teleconferences.
• Plan & prepare for Release co-ordination & documentation.
• Acquire approvals & sign-offs from stakeholders for Production Release.
• Proactively analyzing the recurring technical issues & provide permanent fix.

Project # : 5
Project Name : BOS Credits. 
Project Type : Maintenance & Enhancement
Organization : Confidential
Client : CONFIDENTIAL 
Duration : August 2005 to January 2007
Size : 13
Role : Team Leader
Environment : OS/390, COBOL, JCL, JSS, VSAM, File-Aid, DB2, SPUFI, TWS, 
MEGA (design tool), Changeman, ClearCase (versioning tool), 
HP Service Centre

Description: Credits domain pertains to Individual & Commercial credits. It’s an intermediate layer built between the Sources & Targets in order to validate all the credits transactions.

• Sources are CONFIDENTIAL outlets & POS.
• Targets are Risk & Private Display (local copy).

On receiving the data from the respective source systems, they are processed & transferred to the targets via Connect Direct. Frequency of file processing is – Daily/weekly & Monthly.
The different processing steps involves here are Validation, Delta Generation (validate only the modified data), Data enrichment, Merging, Synchronization, DB2 loading. The different files used for processing here are CRA (Credit Agreement), CRF (Credit Facility), CFO (Credit Outstanding), DDA ( Drawdown Agreement) & DDO ( Drawdown outstanding) 
The supporting departments which use the files from Private display are Approvals, Reminder letters, RKO, KPS (Credit Portfolio System)

Responsibilities: As a Team Leader, my role involved in the following

• Acquire knowledge from CONFIDENTIAL & transfer to juniors.
• Designing, coding & testing for new/old development.
• On-site Client co-ordination and Teleconferences.
• Release co-ordination & documentation.
• Analyzing the technical problem & providing work around solution.
• Incident handling & permanent bug fixing.