SUMMARY

• An organized, detail - oriented and conscientious self-starter experienced mainframe developer with 7.5 years of industry experience which includes healthcare, insurance, financial and credit card industry. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, organizational, time and quality management skills. Able to work effectively with clients, IT management, and staff personnel. Experience in working and managing agile SCRUM team.
• Extensive technical experience in developing Mainframe z/OS applications using COBOL II, DB2, SPUFI, QMF JCL, SQL, CICS, VSAM, DFSORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR.
• Worked for prominent clients include Confidential, Confidential and Confidential .
• Highly Process oriented, skilled, motivated team player, outstanding organizational skills and excellent email etiquettes, communication and Inter-personal skills.
• Expertise in full project life cycle development for implementation and integration.
• Supported daily BAU and production support activities.
• Excellent Technical and Communication Skills.
• Polished leadership skills with ability to motivate teams to increase productivity.
• Deep understanding of technology with focus on delivering business solutions.
• Extensive experience as a Developer, Tester, and Technical Lead.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new Technologies within short notice and deliver as per the project demands.
• Acted as a servant leader to influence team member to seek and embrace incremental change that increases team performance.
• Teaching and coaching application developers to adopt Continuous Delivery practices such as Test-Driven Development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: z/OS, MVS (mainframes), Windows, Mac OS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, DB2, REXX, HOGAN (Banking system), CAMS II, SPS, Easytrieve

Version Control: Endevor

Databases: DB2, VSAM, SQL Servers, PL/SQL

Tools: /Utilities: TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, File Manager, Change Man, CA7, Expediter, Abend-Aid, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Other Technical skills: Basic Java, Basic C++, HTML5, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, Node JS, Ruby, SQL Server, MySQL

Industry Experience: Finance/Banking (Card Operations), Insurance and HealthCare (Claims, Benefits)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Naperville, IL

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing part or all of the technical solution to the client, in accordance with an agreed technical design.
• Level 1 / Level 2 mainframe production support activities.
• Provides technical leadership on specific integration activities that are part of an engagement.
• Too initiative of automating multiple processes so as to make it more efficient and productive.
• Promote a culture of experimentation and innovations.

Confidential

Software Product Developer (Mainframes)

Responsibilities:

• Level 1 / Level 2 mainframe production support while implementation and post implementation for application code and system maintenance releases.
• Team lead of Confidential ’s Continuous Integration team (team-size of 10). Team is involved in change management, implementation planning and release management for moving codes from development to production environment.
• Single point of contact for Production Support activities.
• Collaborated and assisted Confidential management for setting up a team for client location in Pune India.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of Batch and Online COBOL programs DB2 and VSAM

Confidential

Software Product Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on authorization of token generated while a transaction is done by the customer. Authorization is backbone of card industry and this was the first-time Confidential was using it using a phone.
• Designed and developed screens for on the fees waiver at the backend for MDES project. It is a very critical screen which require interfacing with 3 systems used in Confidential . After approval from each system fee is waived.
• Assist in defining application development project plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation of Confidential Digital Enablement Service (MDES) to enable mobile devices for financial transaction. MDES was used in ApplePay
• Created an automation maintenance tool using REXX to help Business Analysts to process various operations on card themselves without interaction and help of engineers.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of Batch COBOL programs using, DB2, and VSAM
• Created and modified test and production JCLs/Procs/Parms as per the requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed data reporting system for client Confidential that would produce targeted analysis report to enable managers at various hierarchy to do analysis and manage their portfolio efficiently.
• Participate in technical design and code change reviews & provide effective feedback
• Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to business requirements.
• Development/Maintenance of existing and new functionality.
• Extensive experience in developing Batch & Online programs using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL
• Experienced in creating new Job’s, PROC’s and PARM’s for new and modified programs
• Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and actively used tools like QMF, SPUFI, DB2 FILE-AID.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed business analysis activities for healthcare and insurance client Confidential (a fortune 500 company).
• Led business requirement gathering, impact analysis, development and testing impacts of the migration of WHO ICD code from ICD 9 to ICD 10 on client Confidential ’s system.
• Hands-on experience developing test cases and test plans.
• Knowledge in analysis and design, coding, testing and debugging programs.