SUMMARY

• Have 9+ years of experience in Mainframe (COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IDMS), Project Management and Project Delivery Practices.
• Proficient in Leading & Coordinating end to end Implementation of Medium - Large Scale Projects.
• Well versed wif Client Engagement, Stakeholder Management & Team collaboration for successful and satisfactory delivery. Have been involved in all stages of the deliverables wif customer centered focus of Mainframe projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Mainframe Application Developer

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and/or reengineer highly complex application components and integrate software packages, programs, and reusable components residing on the mainframe using COBOL, JCL, MVS DB2, CICS, MQ, ISPF, VSAM, Syncsort, DF SORT, Xpediter, easytrieve and Changeman.
• Develop design documents and design the scope of the new solution to be implemented, working on developing the module at code level and moving them into production.
• Understanding the business requirements and translating them into technical requirements and design documents.
• Perform initial Spikes and create sample prototype information collected from the requirement analysis phase and assign it to the team in teams of User Stories and Sprints for coding and unit testing
• Implement ideas about application improvement and performance improvement which reduced the running time of existing jobs and automated the manual activities of current system.
• Utilizing in-depth noledge of functional and technical expertise in various technologies and experience to deliver solutions.
• Conduct code review and unit test case review and perform the integration and QA (Quality Assurance) testing wif multiple teams and users until production deployment for defect free delivery.
• Coordinate wif project managers and QA teams to ensure the quality and defect free delivery.
• Interact wif the client and SMEs to implement a newly developed module into production.
• Provide 24/7 support to the team and users, drive all the support related activities by coordinating wif the client’s team, ensure SLAs (Service Level Agreements) are followed and in place for all the trouble tickets, and actively monitor SEV1 and SEV2 issues.

Sr Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working closely wif Development Team and End Users to produce quality deliverable
• Take part in meeting wif client, gather requirement, and prepare functional specification, technical specification, approach document.
• Analyze and develop application components and integrate software packages, programs, and reusable components residing on the mainframe using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, CICS, ISPF, VSAM, Syncsort, DFSORT, Xpediter, easytrieve and Endevor.
• Research on complex problems, done analysis, debugging and provide efficient and accurate solutions in timely manner
• Managing delivery of multiple projects simultaneous system development projects from design through to release
• Define delivery phases of projects including activities, sub-activities, and milestones. Ensure these are documented and used as basis for project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting
• Work closely wif relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across multiple applications for successful implementation and integration testing.
• Served as technical lead for existing applications, including development, QA, staging and production Installation
• Requirement gathering from business users and translate into formal requirement to implement new business functionalities in the Hertz fleet system. Also provide High level and detail level estimate for the same.
• Serve as focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues wif other teams
• Prepare and perform Unit test, regression test, unit test and integration test in multiple environments.
• Done elevation of fully tested code to test, UAT and production region, take part in release elevation, monitor batch cycle performance
• Maintenance and tuning of performance of existing applications using Mainframe technologies
• Performed First-level of On-Call support for Batch process and given solution to Sev1 & Sev2 ticket

Sr System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Take part in meeting wif onshore leads, gather requirement, and prepare functional specification, technical specification, approach document.
• Research on complex problems, done analysis, debugging and provide efficient and accurate solutions in timely manner
• Develop application components as per design document provided by onshore and client using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, CICS, ISPF, VSAM, Syncsort, DFSORT, Xpediter, easytrieve and Endevor.
• Managing delivery of multiple projects simultaneous system development projects from design through to Release.
• Define delivery phases of projects including activities, sub-activities, and milestones. Ensure these are documented and used as basis for project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting
• Work closely wif relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across multiple applications for successful implementation and integration testing.Implemented ideas about application improvement and performance improvement.
• Prepare and perform Unit test, regression test, unit test and integration test in multiple environments.
• Performed First-level of On-Call support for Batch process and given solution to Sev1 & Sev2 ticket during offshore day time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Change Management / Endevor (9 years)
• CICS (6 years)
• Cobol (9 years)
• coding (9 years)
• Testing Mainframe Development (9 years)
• DB2 (9 years)
• IDMS / ADSO (7 years)
• VSAM (9 years)
• Agile (3 years)
• Requirements Gathering (9 years)
• Waterfall
• Cobol, JCL, CICS, DB2, IDMS, VSAM and z/OS
• Spufi, SQL
• Stored Procedure
• CICS
• Syncsort & DFSORT
• TraceMaster
• Easytrieve