SUMMARY

• Senior Mainframe Developer and Technical Lead wif 8 plus years of hands on experience in various IT technologies in which 5 years are at on - site, interacting wif business users & IT executives.
• TEMPEffectively led, mentored, managed multiple priorities for development teams while meeting scope, schedule, process & quality goals.
• Designed and developed technical solution from business requirements.
• For five years, led & mentored technical teams in an onsite-offshore model.
• Provided design, development and operations service to Back Office Applications, Revenue and Financial management, Reporting systems, Customer records, Sales & Marketing and Travel/ Hospitality.
• Identified business pain areas and designed/implemented process improvements dat are easy to maintain and reuse.
• Implemented re-engineered solutions dat improve efficiency of complex systems and achieve cost/effort savings.
• Architected solutions to migrate/integrate business critical medium scale Legacy mainframe application.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements and creating functional specifications, use cases, data models, business processes, test plans, rollout plans and training manuals.
• Developed business continuity plan, disaster recovery procedures for mainframe applications
• Completed Brain Bench Certifications in Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS and REXX.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) expertise
• Managed technical teams wif at least 14 members for low to high effort projects.
• Followed Agile or Waterfall processes.
• Collect business requirements from end users and business partners.
• Define test plan and test requirements.
• Develop both high level and low level design.
• Create unit, integration, system and functional test cases.
• Develop code and performed unit, integration, system & functional testing.
• Assist business partners to develop User Acceptance Test cases and during UAT.
• Prepare implementation task list and assigned tasks to appropriate teams.
• Coordinate implementation dat involved multiple team and vendors.
• Monitor application after implementation and received proper acceptance from stake holders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS, Z/OS, Windows

Programming Languages: COBOL, VB, REXX, CLIST, EASYTRIEVE

IBM Technologies: DB2 (RDBMS), JCL, VSAM, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, MQ, ISPF, TSO, INFOPAC, OMEGAMON, Main View, QMF, SPUFI, DB2Connect, SMZ, TWS, SCLM, FTP, Changeman, IBM Utilities, SELCOPY, RDZ and RTC, ICETOOL, Stored Procedures

Vendor products: JIRA, ABEND-AID, File Aid, PKZIP, XPEDITER, CA7, ENDEVOR, Telon

Microsoft Products: MS Office, MS Access, MS Projects, VISIO

Project Management tools: CA Clarity PPM, Workbench

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Technical Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Work wif different project stakeholders and business to formulate business vision and process requirements for different projects.
• Develop programs, test cases and test results and review them before releasing teh code changes into UAT.
• Coordinate implementation of approved programs and architectural changes.
• Maintain and monitor legacy batch systems and make sure teh timely execution and completion of job streams.
• Define project plans, schedules and create work breakdown structures.
• Define project baselines and tracking project progress.
• Report project statuses as needed and determine and take corrective actions.
• Collaborate wif business liaisons and IT stake holders to understand vision and identify areas of improvements and challenges.
• Propose new ideas and prepare POCs (proof of concept).
• Create RFPs (Request for Proposal) and SOWs (Statement of Work).
• Manages projects, resource allocation and timesheets using CA Clarity PPM tools.

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and break down technical and architectural complexities of various requests and determine benefit/cost for projects.
• Design and development of programs, screens, jobs and transactions.
• Documentation of user and training manuals for teh end users.
• Review and testing of teh deliverables, support User Acceptance and End User testing.
• Management of all project related documentation for SOX compliance and Ensure compliance to all PCI/PII and Security procedures.
• Implementation and Post Implementation Support.
• Production support activities including monitoring batch cycles and fix any abends.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze teh functional and detailed design specification.
• Facilitate requirements sessions and help teh developers team to get in touch wif right users and business people.
• Create High Level Design documents (HLD) and Low Level Design Document (LLD) or Project Definition Document (PDD).
• Review programs, test cases and test results before releasing teh code changes into UAT.
• Help teh team to write down user acceptance test cases and act as a contact between user groups and testing teams during UAT.
• Create and maintain system/business documents.
• Compile lessons learnt and conduct noledge sharing sessions wif teams.
• Help teh customer in modernization and migration of legacy mainframe systems.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work wif PMO group to understand teh constantly changing business priorities and re-plan/ reshuffle projects and resources.
• Coordinating activities across different organizational functions and setting team direction.
• Create policies and procedures to support teh achievement of project objectives.
• Determine teh organizational structure of project team and identify roles and positions and staff project positions.
• Develop positive working relationships wif client managers and understand/ manage their expectations.
• Documentation of user and training manuals for teh end users.
• Management of all project related documentation for SOX compliance
• Ensure compliance to all PCI/PII and Security procedures
• Do performance appraisals and provide necessary feedbacks.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of programs, screens, jobs and transactions.
• Preparation of comprehensive unit and system test cases
• Conduct Unit testing, System testing and documentation of test results
• Conduct regression and performance testing to ensure defect free efficient deliverables.
• Defect documentation and reporting.
• Implementation and Post Implementation Support.