SUMMARY:

• Having 13+ years of experience in Application Development & Enhancement, Production Support and Leadership skill with Mainframe Technology which includes - COBOL, Assembler, JCL and VSAM.
• Currently associated with NIIT Technologies as a Life70 Consultant.
• Good consulting, facilitating, and leadership skills ability for effective delivery, systematic documentation, onsite/offshore model project execution, onsite/offshore model production support activities.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. Also experience in managing onsite and offshore teams.
• Have worked extensively with Business users for Requirements gathering, designing, and presenting final functionality/deliveries to clients and have worked closely with offshore teams for accomplishing projects with stringent deadlines.
• Well organized and goal oriented with experience in project estimation, project planning and managing Projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements
• Very good knowledge of the Life Insurance domain covering every phase of the policy life cycle.
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
• Comprehensive understanding of project management life cycle experience in various stages of software development life cycle (SDLC), includes requirement analysis, design, development, testing.
• Have worked on CSC Products with 6 years’ experience on Life70, Cyberlife and 4 years of experience on Vantage One and applied knowledge of the Life Insurance domain covering every phase of the policy life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Language/Frameworks: Mainframe - Assembler, Cobol, Easytrieve, JCL, SAS, VSAM, DB2, Linux Mainframe, TPF,MVS, IBM OS/390, LINUX

Tools: TSO/ISPF, Changeman, Endevor, CA-Easytrieve, Syncsort, Microsoft Project Management tool (MPP)-MS Project, TSO, ISPF, Xpeditor, Fileaid, Endevor, LEGS

Process: Agile Methodology (Scrum), Waterfall, Root Cause Analysis, Lean Configuration Management, Incident Management

Domain Knowledge: Life Insurance, Banking and Finance

Products: TPF, LIFECOMM, LIFE70, CYBERLIFE & VANTAGE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully initiating Life70 Project and Maintenance Support, Knowledge transfer and setup.
• Project Initiation, planning, estimate the proposed work in terms of effort, schedule, cost and resources.
• Requirement gathering and feasibility study.
• Team formation and Project Structuring.
• Manage the planning, tracking and reporting of project.
• Monitor & review engineering activities such as design, coding, verification & validation.
• Working as Mainframe Developer on enhancements and Production Support for Life70 Application.
• Working closely with Business and Product Owner to analyse the requirements and estimation
• Analyze the existing COBOL/Assembler Programs & Jobs
• Understand the business logic and Prepare Analysis and design document representing it in review meeting with Client.
• Prepare implementation plan and Support in implementing the change in production.
• Working in Agile (Scrum) methods to deliver user stories in three week’s duration. Using Version One tool for tasking and planning of each iteration.
• Responsible for planning and tasking of user stories for each iteration and allocate work to team members. Also attending daily scrum and provide team’s update.
• Smooth Transition of Production Support and other Day2 activities for Life70 Application.
• Achieved customer satisfaction and faith which is leading to renewal of 2nd Contract Term.
• Successful deliveries of various enhancements from Day 2 Team using Agile methodology.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, Life70, Agile Méthodologies and Project Management

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of new Projects plan with estimation and defined requirements.
• Estimation, designing and testing of existing requirement.
• Preparation of Senior Management Review documents and Metrics such as task list, Process cop, Release plan. Prepare Bi-weekly, Monthly report for client
• Analyze the existing COBOL/Assembler Programs & Jobs.
• Understand the business logic & prepare the functional data flow design document.
• Performing Unit Testing and preparing Unit Test Cases and Test Results document.
• Support in System testing and UAT testing.
• Prepare implementation plan and Support in implementing the change in production.
• Successfully Implemented Fund Expansion Project.
• Successful implementation of Archival Project
• Managing deliveries and support activities from Production Support and handling of critical situations leading to Client Satisfaction.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, Vantage One

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading 5 team members and managing work for them on a daily basis
• Analyzing the requirements and doing estimation.
• Responsible to complete the peer and lead review of each task.
• Analyze the technical design documents and complete coding and testing.
• Responsible to follow change management process for all development work assigned and adhere to the process.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, Cyberlife, Xpeditor and FILE AID.

Confidential

Mainframe developer and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Development as a mainframe programmer
• Code development using Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM
• Creating, estimate, design and test documents
• Review of developed code and documents
• Preparing and giving presentations to the client
• Preparing reports for Senior Management Review.
• Acting as a Mentor for the new associates.
• Coordinating Status and test implementation meetings at Onsite.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, Quick Job, TSO, LEGS, FILE AID, Xpeditor

Confidential

Application Developer and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coding using Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM & CICS
• Unit Testing and post implementation support
• Project development meeting

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, Quick Job, TSO, LEGS, FILE AID, Xpeditor