SUMMARY

• 12+ years of experience in IBM Mainframe applications and 2 years of experience in VB/ORACLE.
• Extensive experience wif analyzing, designing, development, maintenance, enhancement, testing and Production support.
• Experience in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from initial requirements through analysis, design, development and management of successful software applications and implementation of production as well.
• Extensive programming in OS/390, Z/OS, Visualage COBOL, UNIX, PL/SQL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX, Betrieve, CICS, SQL.
• Extensive use of TSO, FILEAID, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, QMF, TSO/ISPF, IBM UTILITIES, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN,FTP,TCP/IP, EZYTRIEVE, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, ABEND AID,CA7, CA11
• Extensively worked wif SQL PERFORMANCE TUNING, DB2 BIND and DB2 EXPLAIN.
• Extensive domain knowledge in teh diversified fields of Insurance, Automotive, Banking sectors.
• Expertise in Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing, creating different Test cases, Documentation, Plans and different Reports.
• Having an attitude of willing to learn, accept teh challenging environment and confidence in delivering teh results at teh said duration by constantly motivating teh concerned teams to provide teh best solutions to teh clients.
• Ability to take and give directions, instructions and provide assistance through completion of tasks.
• Posses good interpersonal skills keen understanding of fundamental business processes and shall be able to determine existing and future information needs of any large multi location organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, PENTIUM PC

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX, WINDOWS - 98/XP

Languages: COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, SAS, JCL/PROC, REXX

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, ORACLE, Betrieve

TP Monitor: CICS, IMS DC

Middleware: MQ SERIES

Tools: & Utilities: VISION PLUS, PUPS, OMEGAMON, VSAM, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, SDF2, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF TSO/E, SYNCSORTIEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, FILEAID FOR DB2, FILEAID FOR IMS DB, BLOCK DIAGRAMS, FLOW CHARTS

Desktop Tools: MSOFFICE, MS ACCESS, MS EXCEL, MS PROJECT, MS VISIO, LOTUS NOTES

Reporting Tools: EZYTRIEVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Mainframe Consultant

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Coding new COBOL/DB2 programs as per teh business requirement document.
• Updating Technical design document, Front end specification and Function design documents as per teh assigned programs.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination wif offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cases in CDWA (Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and Control Cards in Test environment and also creation of production JCL’s as well
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Attending weekly status calls wif offshore and status calls wif client.

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Coding teh new CICS programs as per teh business requirement document.
• Updating Technical design document, Front end specification and Function design documents as per teh assigned programs.
• Modifying teh CICS programs as per teh new requirements which are mentioned in BRD.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Coordination wif offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cases in CDWA(Development Region) and CDWB (System Test region).
• Create and maintain JCL’s and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Used Endeavor for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of Endeavor package and promoting to different environments like Dev/SIT/UAT regions.
• Working on Batch programs as well.
• Writing new conversion programs and loading and unloading data from existing tables to new tables.
• Attending weekly status calls wif offshore and status calls wif client.

Sr.Mainframe Consultant

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Work on teh IT work requests and heat tickets which are assigned through teh ITWR and Heat system.
• Analyzing IT work requests and providing estimates to each of teh work request.
• Working on RFC’s every month for Production release.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per teh technical specifications.
• Write, test and debug teh COBOL/REX/CICS programs.
• Used to FTP teh output files to downstream systems
• Writing unit test scripts and documenting teh unit test results.
• Uploading all teh test results to Quality Center.
• Creation and reviews of unit test plan and unit test results.
• Worked on Region Refresh activity.
• Coordination wif offshore team and operation support teams as well.
• Executing Test cycles in all 9 regions of CAPSIL application as a part of migration project activity.
• Create and maintain REXX and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Used Changeman for retrieving, adding, updating and deleting components.
• Creation of changeman package and promoting to different environments like Dev/model/support regions.
• Converting online modules to batch modules to support Capsil application.
• Preparation of program/Job documentation at technical and functional levels.
• Coordinating wif teh teams such as Support team for access related issues, Server team for data restoration from backups etc.
• Coordination wif offshore Team and point of contact for offshore team.
• Setting up weekly status calls wif offshore and attending status calls wif client.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and deployment of mainframe projects for FOMS.
• Involve in full life cycle of teh software design process including requirements definition, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Resolve ongoing issues or defects.
• Analyze and study teh business requirements.
• Create technical design documents and functional specification documents for teh FOMS project.
• Participate in Peer Review meetings and Status meetings wif team.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for teh interfaces.
• Deliver teh changed components along wif supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Involved in support of Jobs being changed and developed as a release process.
• Prepare a System document explaining teh detail of changes done in teh system.
• Involve in increasing teh performance of System by solving teh existing bugs.
• Writing New Jobs and new programs to extract teh data from IMS and DB2 databases.
• Writing new jobs to load data into mainframe flat files.
• Done a couple of enhancements on increasing field lengths and retrieving data from history tables.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participate in kick off meeting wif Business user to understand teh requirement and frame teh business rules.
• Do Initial analysis and provide high-level estimate.
• Discuss teh possible deployment date wif other team and start work accordingly.
• Delegate some request to offshore team wif initial analysis. For these requests, clarify any queries of offshore team, follow up to complete technical specification, coding, unit testing and Integration testing.
• Complete detail analysis for high priority work and prepare Technical specification document.
• Invite business analyst, tester and any other programmer to participate in technical specification inspection meeting.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for teh interfaces and complete coding, unit testing and Integration testing for request.
• Participate in Peer review wif Quality control team. Give them all necessary instruction regarding teh changes.
• Deliver teh changed component along wif supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Apart from regular business need, try to fix any critical problem in production.
• Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
• Prepare Root- cause-Analysis document.
• Submitted proposal in setting up teh change management process for business rules.
• Update E-Knowledge repository wif any new business rule, processing change etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze teh existing system and teh specifications provided by teh client.
• Coding and testing of new programs as per teh technical specifications.
• Wrote and tested COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs.
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Documenting teh test results in unit test results.
• Create and maintain JCL, Proc’s and Control Cards in Test environment.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit teh records
• Used IDCAMS for performing various operations on VSAM data sets
• Worked wif Version control using Change man.
• Used change man for creation, checkout, modification, compiling, Auditing, freezing and promoting teh packages to production level.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitor teh batch flows and remedy tool for teh job abends.
• Resolve job abends in a timely manner by coordinating wif application support person.
• Re-run/force completes teh jobs as application support person instructions.
• Coordination wif operation support teams for teh scheduling changes in Job Trac.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to requirement of teh projects.
• Create and maintain JCL, PROCS, and Control Cards.
• Coordination wif operation support teams for defining teh job requirements and triggers in CA- Job Trac.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit teh records
• Executing various SQL queries using SPUFI/QMF.
• Experience in offshore/onshore model.
• Enhancements did as per teh new requirements.
• Created COBOL/DB2 new Procs and JCL’s and done unit testing for teh new module.

Sr.Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitor teh batch flows and resolve teh job abends in a timely manner.
• Participated in deployment activities for moving teh code to production.
• Production support for various Batch systems.
• Posting of teh job requirements and restart teh jobs as rerun instructions.
• Modification, creating new JCL’s according to teh requirements of teh project.
• Define teh jobs in CA-7 and schedule teh jobs in CA-7.
• Define teh jobs requirements and triggers in CA-7.
• Create and run adhoc reports using QMF/Spufi.
• Run teh RUNSTATS jobs every month in different DB2 regions.
• Fix teh JCL/Job abends in production .
• Retrieving teh MF COBOL programs from production using Endevor.
• Modified existing programs using COBOL as per teh requirement.
• Extensively used Sync sort in data retrieval, to sort records, and to include/omit teh records.
• Involved in writing teh stored procedures using COBOL and DB2.
• Moving teh modified programs, Proc’s to production after testing TEMPhas been completed.
• Wrote teh new and tested MF COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs.
• Modified MF COBOL/DB2/CICS existing programs
• Documenting teh unit test results.

Sr.software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of teh system to understand teh existing functionality.
• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact wif existing System. Teh new programs will process teh files from other system based on teh rules defined by teh Business.
• Developed and maintained a batch system for Trading management order records.dis system was responsible for daily creation of order feed which was send for evaluation and processing.
• Designing teh business component to interact wif third party application.
• Deliver teh changed component along wif supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document.
• Assisted in setting up teh change management process for business rules.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created a business Use Cases.
• Documentations of Requirement and Design.
• Development of new programs to interact wif existing System. Teh new programs will process teh files from other system based on teh rules defined by teh Business.
• Designing teh business component to interact wif third party application.
• Deliver teh changed component along wif supporting documents like production checklist, interface worksheet and process flow document