SUMMARY

• A dynamic and goal - oriented Sr Mainframe Tech Lead / Consultant with 12 years of experience. I have worked in extensive development, maintenance, support, legacy modernization projects specializing in an environment building Insurance, Securities, and Retail & Logistics, Manufacturing applications.
• An experienced, motivated and goal oriented team player coupled with solid work ethics effective communication and problem solving skills.
• Good Programming Knowledge on COBOL, JCL, SQL, IMS-DB, CICS, VSAM, DB2, EASYTRIEVE etc.
• Well versed with the concepts like Pointers, DB2 tables, Data warehousing, IMS screen concepts.
• Good Knowledge on Mainframe tools like XPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, FILE-AID, ENDEAVOUR, ISPW etc.
• Good experience in Development, Maintenance and Support & Testing of applications in Mainframe projects.
• Also have good knowledge on Core Java, springs, Web Services (AWS), Big Data, and Hadoop.
• Well versed in using Software development methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile Methodology and Scrum, Waterfall Methodology software development processes.
• Have good knowledge and experience in the Insurance, Securities & Logistics domain.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology: IBM Mainframes, Web Applications, ETL.

Operating Systems: Z/OS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, PL/1, Assembler, SAS, WebSphere, Core Java.

Databases: DB2, IMS-DB, DATA WAREHOUSING, DATACOM

File System: VSAM File, KSDS, ESDS, Flat file.

Tools: SPUFI, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN, ISPW, Vision PLUS and MFE

Messaging Technologies: MQ Series, MIIG.

Screens: IMS Screens, CICS Screens, Front end Web Applications.

Additional Skills: Oracle 11g Enterprise Manager (EM), Good knowledge on Big Data and Amazon Web Services - AWS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Mainframe Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled live meetings with the clients & customers for business requirement specifications.
• Involved in the impact analysis as per the requirement document and prepared the detail design specification document during the vehicle parts application modernization of legacy mainframe.
• Responsible for Development, Implementation and Testing of the complete business solutions using Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS & Web/ETL technologies.
• Worked on developing the business specs in vehicle engineering bill of materials and change over, automotive/truck manufacturing, vehicle parts catalog.
• Responsible for managing teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
• Preparing the test summary document, test plan, writing test scenarios to meet clients business needs, executing the test scripts & capturing the results, uploading the test cases to JIRA.
• Worked on SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Manage and deliver components of client engagements that identify, design, and implement technology and creative business solutions for large companies.
• Mentored a team of 5 people and guided them in terms of technical and functional aspects of the analysis, application development, testing etc.

Technology: -- COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL, CICS, Web applications, JSON request/response etc.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled live meetings with the clients & customers for business requirement specifications.
• Worked in the Vendor management - authoring contract documents including statements of work (SOW) and service level exhibits.
• Running the status meetings to discuss the critical issues, resolutions and get the status from the project point of view, meeting deadlines etc.
• Involved in conceptual understanding of the business requirement document.
• Involved in the impact analysis as per the requirement document and prepared the detail design specification document.
• Responsible for Development, Implementation and Testing of the complete business solution using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS etc.
• Used COBOL, DB2, and SQL extensively to develop the Client distribution application, develop screens and interact with CICS transactions.
• Developed several IMS screens, worked on MFS (Message Format Service) to present the data to the users.
• Familiar with the data stage and ETL process.
• Worked on SQL query optimization and performance tuning.
• Worked on JIRA for test management and defect tracking.
• Mentored a team of 7 people and guided them in terms of technical and functional aspects of the application development.

Technology: -- COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL, CICS and IMS-DB, Stored Procedures, Web applications.

Sr.Programmer Analyst / Tech Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This project mainly involved in Legacy Modernization. The legacy Mainframe application is migrated to new technologies like SAP, Java etc.
• My role was to understand the existing Legacy Mainframe application business functionality and help the other teams to implement the same.
• As a part of it we scheduled live meetings with the clients & customers for business requirement specifications.
• Involved in conceptual understanding of the business requirement document.
• Involved in the impact analysis as per the requirement document and prepared the detail design specification document.
• Interacted with the users at Hub to understand the client business & process in a better way.
• Handled 4 major applications for the Client which deals with Hub, Sort & Transportation of all the ground fleet of Confidential .
• Used COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS-DB etc. to work on truck operating system.
• Worked on one of the critical application which deals with Truck Operations & Maintenance System across the globe as a part of development project.
• Worked on the migration project of Freight Billing application which is a critical part of Confidential business operations.
• Responsible for Development, Implementation and testing of the complete business solution during migration of the legacy Mainframe systems to the front end Java app.
• Mentoring offshore team (size of 10) and successfully completed the KT process.
• Adapted Agile Methodology from specification, Analysis, Design, System integration, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance.

Technology: -- COBOL, JCL, DB2 and IMS-DB.