Senior Associate for the Mainframe Resume Wilmington, DE - Hire IT People

CAREER SUMMARY:

A total of 10 years of experience in Developing, Maintaining and implementing software solutions in financial services.
Experienced in working, leading all stages of systems development effort including requirements and business analysis, design, build, data migration, testing, implementation and support.
Experienced in multiple areas of Credit Card application like Authorizations, Posting, Rewards processing, Conversions and De conversions.
Working with/managing offshore application development teams to accomplish project objectives.
Quality Assurance and Testing related activities.

OTHER SKILLS:

Experience in executing Maintenance and development projects.
Experience in Project Transition and 24/7 onsite - offsite work model.
Strong communication and customer facing skills.
Experience in Maintaining the Quality of the code with thorough testing.
Organized and detail-oriented.
Can work independently as well as part of large teams.
Develop and maintain effective partnerships with Business and software developers.
Performing multi task activities to achieve the project deliverables.
Providing production support / resolving abends for the applications round the clock.
Identify opportunities to fine-tune queries and optimize applications to improve the System performance.
Experienced with Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Identified several OPEX items and Cost Savings opportunities.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Platforms: IBM mainframes

Software: COBOL, CICS, MQ SERIES, JCL, IMS, DB2, VSAM, IBM Mainframe utilities.

Tools: FILE - AID, QMF, SPUFI, CHANGE MAN, EXPEDITOR, Word, Excel, VisioPower point, Abend-Aid, File Manager, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, CA7, ENDEVORSAVERS etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior Associate for the Mainframe

Responsibilities:

Created High Level Design documents and Technical Specification documents.
Worked with DBA’s to create a plan to perform pre-load of DB2 tables.
Coding and testing of Batch modules using COBOL, DB2, IMS, and JCL etc.
Worked with MDES and CDW to create NDM setup to receive historical auths.
Fixing the applications programs for optimal performance with fine tuning the queries.
Monitoring CA7 schedules in all regions.

Environment: DB2, JCL, COBOL, Change man, CA7, SYNCSORT, File aid.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed DB2 adhocs to perform one time load of payments into DB2 table.
Coding and testing of Batch modules using COBOL, DB2, IMS, and JCL etc.
Worked with Tandem to provide the files and MDES/CDW to create NDM setup.
Development of Purge Process for DB2 tables to run weekly.

Environment: DB2, IMS, JCL, COBOL, Change man, Expeditor, CA7, SYNCSORT, File aid.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Creating the High Level Design documents and Technical Specification Documents.
Coding and testing of Batch and Online modules using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, MQ Series, JCL etc.
Development of Purge Process for DB2 tables to run weekly.
Monitoring the CA7 schedules in JETS environment and testing the functionality to avoid major P1 issues.

Environment: CICS,DB2,IMS,JCL,COBOL,SPUFI,VSAM, Change man,CA7, SYNCSORT.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Coding and testing of Batch modules for Key file build using COBOL, IMS etc.
Using the Key file extract the data from various IMS databases to GSAM files.
Develop and Execute IMS and flat file 400 reports for balancing.
Implement multiple Mock runs to be sent to buyer.
Develop IMS adhocs to execute after the file cut off.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, EXPEDITOR, FILE-AID, SYNCSORT.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Attended Roadmap sessions conducted by TSYS.
Reviewed the IMS segment mapping from TSYS to C3.
Estimation of efforts needed to implement the business changes/requirements.

Environment: IMS, JCL, COBOL, FILE-AID, VSAM, EXPEDITOR, CA7, SYNCSORT.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyzing the documents and developing code and JCL’s for Strip and Load process. This is majorly used to strip data from Production, UATV and Q environments, convert the client number and scratch some sensitive data and load into T region for testing.
Worked on creating 2 new environment regions having the same job flow and files as in UATV for testing Conversion projects.
Involved in Insourcing of JPMC portfolio from TSYS.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, FILE-AID, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CA7EXPEDITOR, ABEND-AID.

Confidential, Columbus, Georgia

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

As a team member in the Decision Risk/Real Time Authorizations group, responsible for the development and delivery of thoroughly tested software applications based on business requirements and/or program specifications within client required schedules.
Worked extensively, and closely, with Credit Bureaus, to ensure integrity of all credit score updates.
Performed Card Guard Setups and BIN ADDS for various TS2 platform clients.
Participated in Six Sigma process improvement projects.

Software/Tools Utilized: VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, COBOL II, ASSEMBLER, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, FILE MANAGER.

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