SUMMARY

• A team player who can provide team members wif the vision of project objectives and requirements, motivate and inspire team members.
• An IT professional wif TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE in Mainframe Technologies (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS).
• Experience in business analysis, system application development, maintenance and support.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Domain experience in insurance and retail industry.
• Havethe ability to build strong relationships wif all stakeholders and to turn proposals into reality.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Managing team while assisting them in resolving technical challenges.
• Interaction wif business users for requirement clarification and resolution of problem reported.
• Resolution of incidents reported by application users
• Track, consolidate metrics and SLAs Reporting.
• Demand forecasting and Management.
• Responsible for Change and Operational Management in the project.
• Responsible for Risk/Issue Management and Stakeholders Management.
• Good understanding of customer requirements and managing customer expectations in providing solutions to the same.
• Ability to understand the client's requirement and provide them wif independent professional advice and guidance
• Actively participating in specification, design, testing and deployment of projects.
• Responsible for preparing, validating monthly reports, working closely wif functional data owners and making sure of accurate and timely availability of metrics.
• Documents existing metrics, business processes including their inputs and outputs as required.
• Provides information, documentation as well as process training in conjunction wif process improvements.
• Review deliverables from development team, work wif the test team to make sure dat the final delivered solution was wat was originally requested.
• Ability to provide leadership, motivation and strategic direction to a multifaceted team.
• Team player, strong attention to detail, ability to work wif staff at all levels wifin an organization.
• Ability to achieve results in very high pressure environments.
• Preparing progress reports for delivery and program managers.
• Able to sell the benefits of projects to their target audiences.
• Good analytical and development skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: ZOS, OS 390, Windows XP/Vista/7

Languages: Assembler, Cobol, VB

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IDMS, MS - Access

Version Control: CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR

Scheduler: CONTROL-M

Tools: /Utilities: MS Office, Control - M, File-AID, JCL/Proc, Xpediter, Control - D, CICS, Selcopy, Abend-Aid, Assyst, Ezyedit, Quikjob, Quality Center

Software Engineering Methodologies: Spiral & Waterfall Model of Software Development, Agile Model

Functional Areas: Insurance, Banking, Finance, Retail

Key Skills: Project Planning, Eliciting Requirements, Resource Planning, Client Relations, Providing Maintenance and Support to Applications, Managing Teams, Communication and Co-ordination

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Lead & Architect

Responsibilities:

• The current project involves identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Understanding the business process and building relationships wif business stakeholders.
• Responsible for eliciting requirements and being a single point of contact between the customer and team members.
• Preparing design documentation, coding new modules, attending client review meetings, end-to-end testing and deployment for various applications.
• Lead Team for Resolution of incidents reported by application users.
• Implementing development and testing strategies.
• Presenting weekly status report to directors, client managers & program managers.
• Preparing data metrics on an account & application level and providing the same to the directors and program managers.
• Maintaining Statement Of Work (SOW) for the entire engagement, preparing amendments, following up wif stake holders.
• Reviewing developments and enhancements, attending client review meetings and resolving critical issues.
• Working closely wif onsite and offshore team members and ensuring the productivity of offshore team members.
• Monitoring of applications.
• Helping in resolution of critical issues and tickets on mainframe and Microsoft technologies where business noledge is critical.
• Providing solutions from an architectural standpoint.

Environment: /Software: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Visual Basic, MS - Office etc.

Confidential, Naperville IL

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring of application.
• Resolving escalated issues by interacting wif team members and client counterparts.
• Identifying and managing project risks.
• Coordinating, prioritizing work allocation among team members
• Preparing design and overseeing documentation and coding of new modules.
• Preparing data metrics on account level and presenting to senior management.
• Preparing weekly status reports and attending client review meetings.
• Coordinating solution analysis and change management activities.
• Resolving escalated issues by interacting wif team members and client counterparts.
• Coordinating, prioritizing work allocation among team members and ensuring completion of assigned tasks by team members wifin time.
• Conducting peer review.

Environment: /Software: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI.

Confidential, Greensboro, IL

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements management and communication.
• Co-coordinating application testing and project implementations.
• Preparing design and overseeing documentation and coding new modules, end-to - end testing and deployment.
• Attending client review meetings.
• Co-ordinating solution analysis and change management activities.
• Monitoring of application.
• Resolving escalated issues by interacting wif team members and client counterparts.
• Coordinating, prioritizing work allocation among team members.
• Conducting peer review and providing feedback.
• Remove technical challenges.
• Involved in all support activities after the deployment and correct issues if any wifin the warranty period.
• Constantly looking for ways to increase the team’s productivity by eliminating the waste.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IDMS etc

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understand and document business requirement.
• Planning and designing of various modules to provide TEMPeffective business solution.
• Coding modules to cater to major changes required in existing functionality for calculation of bonus and meet finance data requirements and supporting existing pension products.
• Testing and deployment of various modules developed.
• Ensured TEMPeffective onsite-offshore co-ordination throughout the course of dis project.
• Preparation of SMTDs (System Maintenance Technical Documents) to used as reference documents and noledge sharing activities.
• Providing on-call support in out of office hours.
• Acquiring domain noledge of insurance industry and pension products.

Environment: /Software: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Assembler, etc.