SUMMARY:

• A dynamic and goal - oriented Mainframe Tech Lead with total 8 plus years of experience and 2 plus years of Lead experience in extensive development, maintenance and support and offshore-onshore model .
• Have a strong experience in software design, analysis and development, maintenance, testing and troubleshooting on IBM Mainframes.
• Good experience in end-to-end design, documenting high level specs, development and unit testing.
• Good knowledge on Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS VSAM; IBM DEBUGGER for debugging.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing Co-ordination between onsite and offshore.
• Strong programming, debugging skills, highly efficient resolving problems and making decisions on complex customer issues within tight timeframes.
• Good Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new Tools & Software quickly as required.
• Strong technical and analytical skills, problem solving, communication and work ethics.
• Experience in domains of Banking & finance, Securities, Property and Health Insurance .
• Sound knowledge in CMM level processes and other quality/audit control processes.
• Certified by Confidential in Banking 100, Banking 200, Insurance 101 and Unified Competency Framework 1.1(Mainframes).
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments on schedule either independently or as part of a team.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Z/OS (IBM Mainframe),MVS

Languages: COBOL, JCL

File Management Tools: VSAM, File-aid

Debugging Tools: IBM DEBUGGER

Other Tools and utilities: IBM utilities, Platinum Utility (DB2)

Database: DB2, IMS .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, GA

Mainframe Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Meet with stakeholders to understand the requirements.
• Coordinate knowledge sharing sessions and gather requirements. Prepare understanding documents and get it reviewed by stakeholders.
• Attend project kick off meeting and business case walk through meetings.
• Gather business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents.
• Review High Level and Low Level design documents and get it signed off from stakeholders.
• Review various COBOL programs for SVI
• Preparation of status report on daily basis to report the progress of all the projects and resource allocation/utilization in Status calls.
• Involved in testing the code performance during the migration process.
• Worked with clients on establishing migration process with IT.
• Actively involved in standby production support during implementations.
• Coordinating testing with QA/UAT Team
• Handling Offshore onshore coordination and handover meetings on a daily basis

Environment and Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IBM Utilities, MS-office, Z/OS, CICS, Platinum Utility.

Confidential, High Point, NC

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Meet with client architecture team to understand the existing legacy system.
• Coordinate knowledge sharing sessions and gather requirements. Prepare understanding documents and get it reviewed by stakeholders.
• Perform estimation of work after understanding requirements for the entire SDLC process.
• Attend project kick off meeting and business case walk through meetings.
• Gather business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents.
• Create High Level and Low Level design documents and get it signed off from stakeholders.
• Developed various COBOL programs for Batch processing
• Preparation of status report on daily basis to report the progress of all the projects and resource allocation/utilization in Status calls.
• Designed and maintain architecture of the application including migration to other platforms from legacy platforms.
• Actively involved in process improvements session with clients and business directors and Product Managers.
• Involved in testing the code performance during the migration process.
• Worked with clients on establishing migration process with IT.
• Actively involved in standby production support during implementations.
• Coordinating testing with QA/UAT Team
• Build Mainframe Batch Cycle - Automation framework built.

Environment and Tools: COBOL, JCL, File-aid, DB2, VSAM, IBM Utilities, MVS Tools, MS-office, Z/OS

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Requirements analysis, Estimation, Design, Development, and testing phases of the SDLC life cycle.
• Attend project kick off meeting and business case walk through meetings.
• Gather business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents.
• Create High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Developed various COBOL programs for Batch processing
• Preparation of status report on weekly basis to report the progress of all the projects and resource allocation/utilization.
• Designed and maintain architecture of the application including migration to other platforms from legacy platforms.
• Works directly with end user and with Business analysts for requirement gathering and provided technical responses.
• Actively involved in process improvements session with clients and business directors and Product Managers.
• Involved in testing the code performance during various upgrades.
• Worked with clients on establishing migration process with IT solutions for Health Exchange readiness and ACA.
• Actively involved in standby production support.
• Coordinating testing with QA/UAT Team

Environment and Tools: COBOL, JCL, File-aid, IMSDB & DC, SYNCSORT, DB2, VSAM, SQL, IBM Utilities, MVS Tools, MS-office, Z/OS

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in multiple projects spanning across different end customers.
• Analyzed the existing system to come up with design/technical solutions.
• Played a key role in suggesting and implementing process improvements.
• Suggested and implemented Job documentation process for all the ongoing jobs, to have both document in shared drive and Mainframe system for systematic execution of jobs.
• Ensured the proper documentation (like high/low level design, test plan, test scripts, project overview document, etc) is created for all SDLC phases for the projects.
• Performed the Code walkthrough and Unit test scripts review for all the projects and also ensured that review is done for all the deliverables.
• Guided the team with technical and design challenges.
• Tracked all the statuses of the projects, conducted team meetings and provided Status to Application Manager.
• Performed Gap Analysis and Space Estimation for the projects.
• Ensured Documentation and Reusable Tools creation for the application with the team.
• Identified and communicated project issues / risks to higher management.
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions with business users and came up with Data Specification documents.
• Developed and documented high level conceptual data process designs for review by data analysts for writing codes and test plans.
• Provided development effort estimates based on available preliminary business requirements of projects.
• Reviewed data specifications and physical data models to write COBOL codes.
• Documented the results of unit testing prior to hand off code to the Quality Assurance department.
• Followed the software development life cycle and adhere to coding standards and best practices in the department.
• Participated in UAT with business users and addressed all user questions.
• Architecting solutions by creating re-usable COBOL programs.
• Conducted s and best practices sessions periodically for new team members
• Ensured that the development abides by Governance guidelines.
• Meeting the Development standards of Confidential
• Coordinated with the offshore development team members.

Environment and Tools: COBOL, JCL, IMS, IBM-MVS, Z/OS, File-aid

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Regular interaction with the Business Analyst and technology managers for requirement gathering of projects.
• Analysis of client provided design documents to develop High level and low-level designs to proceed with development.
• Developing new COBOL batch or online programs based on the requirement and designs documents.
• Modify and enhance the existing programs as per the requirements and the given Technical design document within the given time lines.
• Preparation of Test cases and carrying out Unit Testing, System Integration and Regression Testing and documenting the Unit test results by following Quality procedures.
• Building the knowledge repository document with the solutions for each and every batch abend for future or for the enhancements that have been done
• Root Cause Analysis for production issues and suggested/implemented their solutions.
• Played a key role in optimizing production application processes to resolve development loop holes resulting to production issues.
• Regular meetings with Business Analysts and calls with clients to discuss the work progress and issues.
• Conducting Code walkthrough/review via meeting and presentations of proposed implementation.
• Successful implementations of multiple Change Requests for the application without a single defect.
• Interaction with source system teams in understanding their system.
• Single point of Contact for any development and support related
• Maintained a zero count of incidents from the initial level of 20-25 incidents per week by enhancing and changing existing code.
• Suggested and implemented process improvements and performance tuning in COBOL.

Environment and Tools : COBOL, JCL, DB2, IBM-MVS, Z/OS

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the School Authorities
• Designed and developed the entire employee repository.
• Testing - Unit testing.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• Checking whether all the functionalities are met or not
• Ensured Proper coordination amongst Team members.
• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions from SMEs
• Coordinated sessions for Understanding business requirements.
• Had the responsibility for Estimation, design and development of various modules.
• Instrumental in designing the assigned module and Screen flow.
• Was responsible for Bug fixing and maintenance of the product.
• Developing new functionality, support for the existing product.
• Collecting information from individual staff/teachers and making data entries for sample testing

Environment and Tools : Java 1.5, jsp 2.0, Windows