SUMMARY

• 14 years of experience in development and maintenance of projects in IBM Mainframe Environment.
• Have good domain knowledge in Utility Customer Information Systems and Credit card billing.
• Strong industry experience in complete project life cycle: Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Planning, Development, Implementation using both Waterfall & Agile Methodologies.
• Working experience in Agile methodology practicing scrum
• Experienced to work in a CI/CD environment
• Strong industry experience of utility Customer Information System - CIS. Worked on CIS-2 applications for utility clients APS & FPL.
• Strong experience with COBOL, DB2, IMS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, CICS Web-Services, REXX, XPEDITOR/Debug Tool, FILEAID/File Manager, QMF, ChangeMan/Endevor, MVS/z-OS.
• Strong experience with Requirement Analysis, Coding, Code review, testing and implementing using the requirement document.
• Strong, effective decision-making and multi-tasking skills across multiple projects
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Flexible and adaptable to meet the changing priorities.
• Contribute in Project Requirement Analysis meetings with the business.
• Highly motivated team player and team leader with good problem-solving and analytical skills. Capable of quickly learning and adapting to new technology and environment.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment and interface with developers, project managers and production support groups in multiple time zones.
• Strong customer relationship skills.
• Experience in handling difficult and/or escalated situations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Languages: COBOL, ReXX, JCL
• RDBMS: DB2, MS - SQL Server 2005/2008, IMS.
• Web Technologies: SOAP tool for unit testing and Debugging Web Services, CICS Web Services
• Enterprise Services: EAI, MQ series, Web-services, EAI, Oracle Fusion, ETL
• IBM utilities: CTRL-M scheduling, TWS, FTP, JCL, File-aid/file manager, ChangeMan/Endevor, File Manager/File Aid, Xpeditor/Debug tool for Batch/online, SPUFI, Omegamon, On Demand
• Configuration Tools: Changeman/Endevor
• Emulators: Mochasoft, BMC, Bluezone
• Operating systems: Windows 8/ 7/Vista/XP/2003 server, MVS OS/390, zOS.
• Project Management/Agile Tools: HP Quality Center, IBM Rational tool (RTC & RQM), JIRA, Qmetry 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Mainframe Programmer

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, CICS web services, SOAPUI, FTP, Z/OS, JAVA, JIRA & Qmetry

Responsibilities:

• Interact directly with Client for the Requirement analysis and involved in the technical implementation discussions
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints
• Responsible for contributing to the project architecture. Documenting the mainframe architecture & design document and maintaining the same throughout the project
• Bring value to the application & enterprise by designing object oriented re-usable components and implementing Mainframe web-services
• Documenting the message model for the web service interactions between Mainframe & EAI and other distributed applications
• Workings in Agile framework - Daily standups, create/update Stories and breakdown work into tasks. Track stories & tasks in JIRA
• Plan and Lead the integration testing between Mainframe and distributed applications
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Working in a CI/CD mode to constantly show progress to management
• Design & code CICS web service programs
• Organize and participate in technical design walkthrough meetings and peer reviews for the work product
• Ensure JIRA is kept updated with task activities and follow up on dependencies & impediments till they are resolved
• Mentoring - Monitoring and assisting the team members in any of their technical queries

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, CICS web services, SOAPUI, FTP, Z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Interact directly with Client for the Requirement analysis and involved in the technical implementation discussions
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints
• Set realistic expectations with the business and IT teams.
• Plan and Lead the integration testing between CIS and other application systems involved in the data migration process - Power Delivery, Metering, Routing, Meter reading etc.
• Responsible for analyzing the data of approx. 40k customer data to be migrated and working with the data (addresses/meters/power delivery) to improve it and reduce the exception rate.
• Identify conversion processes and other manual processes in the conversion process that can be automated - as a result we built many re-usable components.
• Design end to end reconciliation reports
• Responsible for bringing down the end to end conversion time from 1 week to 2 days.
• Planned and executed 3 Mock conversion runs involving all stakeholders.
• Workings in Agile framework - Daily standups, create/update Stories and breakdown work into tasks. Track stories & tasks in rational suite (RTC)
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Organize and participate in technical design walkthrough meetings and peer reviews for the work product
• Ensure RTC is kept updated with task activities and follow up on dependencies & impediments till they are resolved
• Mentoring - Monitoring and assisting the team members in any of their technical queries

Confidential

Project Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, CICS web services, SOAPUI, FTP, Z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Interact directly with Client for the Requirement analysis and involved in the technical implementation discussions
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints
• Responsible for contributing to the project architecture. Documenting the mainframe architecture & design document and maintaining the same throughout the project
• Bring value to the application & enterprise by designing object oriented re-usable components and implementing Mainframe web-services
• Documenting the message model for the web service interactions between Mainframe & EAI and other distributed applications
• Workings in Agile framework – Daily standups, create/update Stories and breakdown work into tasks. Track stories & tasks in rational suite (RTC)
• Plan and Lead the integration testing between Mainframe and distributed applications
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Design & code CICS web service programs
• Organize and participate in technical design walkthrough meetings and peer reviews for the work product
• Ensure RTC is kept updated with task activities and follow up on dependencies & impediments till they are resolved
• Mentoring – Monitoring and assisting the team members in any of their technical queries

Confidential

MF Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, EAI, JAVA, Streamserve, IBM Unica

Responsibilities:

• Working as a SPOC for the development and maintenance on the projects such as e-mail Enrollment, Single Sign On for emails; Payment Confirmation emails, Non Delivery Receipts, Print processing & reconciliation.
• Interact directly with Client for the Requirement analysis and involved in the technical implementation discussions.
• Understanding the CIS2 application programs and gain knowledge of the current billing/payment processes, to draw a parallel process that will send out email bills to the customers billed the same day.
• Responsible for the design of the application. Prepare & maintain architectural design document & system documentation.
• Overall responsibility of successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints.
• Scheduling/allocating/monitoring work to a 5-member offshore team.
• Lead the integration testing between the various technical teams involved like ETL, EAI, MS Exchange Server, JAVA, MF and Streamserve.
• Analyzing the system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Review code before migrating to SIT/UAT/PROD environments
• Plan and Lead the integration testing between Mainframe and IBM Unica
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Organize and participate in technical design walkthrough meetings and peer reviews for the work product
• Ensure HP-QC is kept updated for each defect found in the project and follow up till it is fixed and moved to Production.

Confidential

MF Team Lead

Environment: DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, ReXX, VB, MQ series

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SPOC between the offshore development team, Client Application team and other vendor teams.
• Interact and follow-up with other Technical teams for data conversion and testing the application at different stages of the conversion project.
• Planning Dress rehearsals and mock implementations.
• Automated the Data conversion scripts using ReXX and JCL.
• Analyzing various programs to understand the flow of data in the system.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Played a key role in implementing the different applications to Production.
• Interact with DBA for DB design approvals and creation/modification requests.
• Prepared detailed Implementation plan, which was highly appreciated by each application manager.
• Prepared detailed Application Hand-of documents, which proved to be extremely useful to Support team for these Legacy applications.