Mainframe consultant Resume CHICAGO - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Expertise in implementing, enhancing and supporting the mainframe system for 10 years in Healthcare, Banking, Retail and Telecom sectors, which includes 1.3 years of Onsite experience (USA).
Have performed various roles like Module Lead, onsite coordinator, Technical Lead, Senior developer in technical aspects and also handled resources management for the project.
During the tenure have got hands on exposure in the project methodologies Agile (SCRUM) and waterfall methodology.
Major contribution in handling process improvement and automation activities in the engaged projects.
Served as a single point of contact/responsibility for building and executing the code changes created/modified for all the service requests.
Customer appreciation on reduced and optimizing times for long running jobs.
As part performance improvement activity improved CPU usage by fine tuning the queries and programs.
Continuous improvement to eliminate the production job abends.
Developed a module to eliminate the critical business user s manual effort for comparing different types of reports to manage their inventory.
Created technical reusable components for the organization.
Provide extended support to the organization by training the freshers in COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM and project relevant tools.

COMPETENCY:

Expertise in programing skills, analytical techniques, troubleshooting and problem solving.
Expertise in process improvement.
Handle the resource more effectively.
Good in Customer - centric.
Mentor and guide the resources.
Eager to learn new process and technology

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, Java, CICS

Database: DB2, VSAM, SQL, ADABASE, IMS

Tools: Insync, File-Aid, Control-M, CA-7, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, HPQC, SharePoint, MQ series, FTP, SFTP, File master, NDM

Project methodology: Waterfall, Agile Methodology

ALM Tool: HPQC, Snow

EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe consultant

Confidential, CHICAGO

Responsibilities:

As part of the process improvement activities, developing an automation tool to eliminate the manual process.
Worked with customer to gather the new requirements and functional needs.
Analyzed and the optimize solution to improve the performance of long running jobs.
Co-ordinate with the team to implement the proposed solutions.
Conducted peer review for the new functionality and changes.
Ensured all the required artifacts are created and approved by stakeholders on time.
Performance improvement of the existing production jobs.
Idea enabler to fix the issue of the lead critical components.
Provided end to end support for all the implementation activities and Supported production applications.

Module lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed and enhanced the modules related to finance and HR payroll applications.
Worked with the customer to gather new requirements and functional needs.
Responsible for writing technical design documents.
Responsible for assisting team to develop the code and testing.
Review the code changes done by the team.
Involved in Implementation tasks and provided help for design/ coding for service requests handled by team and reviewing the same before migration.
Extended supported to the team to overcome their technical impediments.
Developed knowledge-based repository for production abends and issues as part of process improvement.

Senior software developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided support for the project team to prepare estimation and schedule.
Developed and enhanced and tested the existing modules to convert ADABASE to DB2.
Supported to implement the major modules.
Prepared Test Plan and performed the testing before implementation.
Involved in package creation and production implementation tasks.
Involved in project release and production implementation verification and support.
Prepared project handover document and provided transition about implemented project to Production support team.

Program analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible to understand the requirement in terms of the areas that need to be analyzed to improve the performance.
Identified the critical jobs that need to be tested to evaluate the performance.
Identified the upstream and downstream dependencies of the critical jobs.
Tested the identified jobs and reported the issue.

Software developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible to analysis and understand the requirements and develop/ enhance the functionality.
Prepared Unit Test Plan, Unit test cases for the implemented codes.
Handled relevant technical communication with Onsite team.
Involved in project release and production implementation verification and support.
Responsible to create the knowledge repository for production support team.