SUMMARY

• Highly seasoned and experienced Mainframe Lead Developer with exceptional skills in all areas of software construction and programming. Adept at troubleshooting and ensuring quality control at every stage of management process. Able to function independently or as part of a team.
• Excellent strengths are my interpersonal skills by working in well diverse business settings. Experience in handling projects in various roles such as Team member, Module Lead, Application Developer, Mainframe Technical Lead.
• Excellent Team building, Project management, Analytical, Interpersonal and Communication skills .
• Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, InterTest, Endevor, DB2, IBM Utilities, and CA - 7.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Extensive experience working with Financial and Banking applications.
• Worked primarily in the domain of banking applications for Confidential ( Treasury Management: application dealing with Core Customer reporting / data transmissions outside systems and data maintenance and migration. ), Morgan Stanley ( Conversion projects dealing with systems within Morgan Stanley Bank / systems outside the bank - Morgan Stanley merger with Smith Barney Bank).
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator attending the project review meetings with Clients gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Excellent working knowledge in DB2.
• Hands on experience creating tables and stored procedures.
• Have Good knowledge on the Bank Administration Institute formats (BAI Formats).
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Able to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Update QMS (Quality Management System) documents like Project initiation, Project action plan, Detailed Requirements Specifications, Impact Analysis, File Specifications, System Run Chart (flow chart), Data Base Requirements, Program Specifications, Operation Manual, Program Development, Coding, Unit Test Plan, System Test plan, Inter System Test plan, Implementation plan and Post implementation check.
• Undergone training in Time Management, Project action Planning, Cross culture, interacting with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• Worked in CMM Level 5 Organization.
• Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.
• Proactively involved in enhancement works to fix recurring issues as well as design new procedures to improve system performance.
• Excellent documentation skills to keep the knowledge repository updated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: OS 390, Z/OS, Windows.

Software Products: VS - COBOL II, JCL, Eztreive, CICS V4.2, CA7, TSO/ISPF, IBM utilities, MQ Series 7.0. SQL.

Database Technologies: DB2 9.

Tools: /Technologies: VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, QMF, DCLGEN, ChangeMan, File AID for DB2, File AID, Systemware for Reports, Endevor, Xpeditor, InterTest, CA7, TWS, TOM, INFOX, FTP.

Other: Service Now, Quality Center.

Domain Expertise: Banking Applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• The project involved supporting the Confidential application to ensure proper functioning of the design.
• It involved production support for day-to-day system operations including data loading using process chains, correcting data load failures along with fixing root cause of load failures.
• Worked on various project releases as per project plan and developed highly optimal solutions to business requirements.
• Handling user tickets generated through Service Center and round the clock production support monitoring. Never missed the company SLA for highly significant banking processes.
• Interacting with business users to understand the issues in application and resolve them as per business needs.
• Implemented optimal production fixes in short span of times in existing applications to avoid the greater impacts to business.
• Maintained and created documentation for all the Support Activities.
• Also involved in fail-over, fail-back activities for mainframe datacenter migrations.

Confidential

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• The project involved creation and support of Money Movement Cash flow system, with focus on applications pertaining to issuing various types of money transfers(ACH, Wire, Internal transfers), approvals processes such as OFAC, On Demand reporting for end users.
• As part of this project also developed and maintained batch/online systems, stored procedures for various business processes such as SOD, EOD, database updates, various application reporting programs etc.
• Worked with end-users to assess requirements and create feasible solutions.
• Developed and managed daily transmissions of customer data such as account transfers, cash transfers, checks to business partners, email notifications, alerts etc through FTP.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• The project involved the bringing in existing customers of Smith Barney on the same platform of Morgan Stanley. There was large data migration involved and multiple systems were impacted.
• The project involved working out the impact analysis and preparing a project plan to carry this data migration with minimal impact to the system.
• Data migration and other changes were carried out successfully with minimal impact. This was very well known large merger project which received numerous accolades for swift implementation.
• CheckWriter is a current day issuing and reporting service.
• The Check History reporting service allows you to inquire on the status of checks issued on any reconciled demand deposit account.
• Depending on how your account is setup, you can have 30, 60, or 90 days of history information available with this service.
• Created reporting programs which eliminated erroneous and redundant issuance of various types of checks.