OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a Senior IT techno - functional consulting and leadership position enabling deliver top-class IT solutions for business needs.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

With more than 25 years in the information technology industry, I have a wide variety of experience in Project & team management, design, development, analysis, maintenance, documenting, testing, and implementation of business application software. Successfully managed and lead IT solutions development and implementations. Strong experience of onsite-onshore software delivery model. Lots of experience with production support, user support & user management. I have a track record in consulting, requirement analysis, designing, developing, testing, integrating, and implementing novel end-to-end Business solutions, aligned with critical business requirements, under stringent deadlines, for ace business corporations. My functional expertise includes Supply chain, Logistics, Logical Stock, Inventory Control, Replenishment, Import/Export, Health Insurance, Mortgage Insurance, Voice Billing, Claims, Credit/Debit, Rental/Retail, Finance, Grocery, Merchandising, Distribution, Order Processing, and Manufacturing.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

PM Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, Stars, Clarity, Clearcase and ManageNow

Languages: VS-COBOL-II, DC-COBOL, COBOL/370, CULPRIT, JCL, PROC, PARMS, SQLEASYTRIEVE, PRO*C, C, FORTRAN, PASCAL, C++, BASIC, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL

Databases: DB-2, IDMS, ORACLE 11g and 19c, MS SQL SERVER, INGRES 5.0, and ACCESS

Software: ADS/O, CICS, VSAM, FileAid, FileManager, DB/DC, Clist, Rexx, Xpediter, Debugger, SPUFI, QMFPelican, Endeavor, MAPC, ADSA, OLQ, DMLO, IDD, BizTalk 2000, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, NDM

Hardware: IBM 3090, IBM PC & Clones, Magnum Mini.

O.S.: Z/OS 2.3, MVS/XA, OS/390, UNIX, DOS, and Windows

Other Software: BMC Remedy, BMC Control-M, X-Matters, Smart-IT, Mobius, TPS, NFM, Clarity, ClearCase, TivoliX-Matters, Control-M, PageCenterX, DBASE-III PLUS, Test Director 7.0, Software Artistry

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe IT Solutions Lead/SME

Platform: IBM/3090, z/OS, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Easytrieve, IDMS/R, ADSO, COBOL II, DC Cobol, APC, Expeditor, Abend-aid, WebSphere MQ, Xpediter, Oracle 11g & 19c and CA7

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Impact assessment for conversion of all the Genworth Mainframe applications from Oracle 11g to 19c including CICS to Oracle Adapter and TNS filename changes. Designed and implemented the Impact Analysis strategy and developed a methodology to enhance analysis productivity.
• Worked to understand the criticality of applications and gathered information on System, Environment, Code impact, etc. to produce a High-level Impact Assessment Report to determine Testing efforts to mainframe-based applications.
• Created Test scripts and Test Jobs for Development, QA, and Production environment for Pre and Post-implementation smoke Testing. Monitored every environment migration process and resolved all pre and post-implementation issues.
• As a Solution lead, created Technical Design Documentation from Business Requirement for Delegated One Workout and Auto Upload Workout processes to implement COVID-19 related changes that allowed Genworth authorized services to decide most retention workouts.
• My task involved analyzing the current process, requirement refinement through JAD sessions with impacted application’s functional analysts & key users, TSD creation, Estimation, Code changes, Testing, and coordination of all project phases until successful implementation of the project.

Confidential

Team member and Team Lead

Platform: IBM/3090, MVS/XA, IDMS/R, ADSO, COBOL II, DC Cobol, VSAM, JCL, DB2, Panvalet, Expeditor, Abend-aid, Messaging, Xpediter, and ESP

Responsibilities:

• I managed an Onsite team of five resources.
• Mainframe Applications Project comprises of following five functional domains each containing multiple applications: Merchandising, Distribution, Finance & Accounting, Store Operations, and Human Resources.
• In this Onsite Maintenance & support model, my work includes Account Management, Team Management, Project management, Workload management, Work request & incident management, Service Level management, user support, system support, Production support, Estimation, Quality management, and Executive reporting.
• Consistently achieved all Service level goals of Wegmans Mainframe Manage maintenance contact. Reduced team’s on-call hours and increased value-added work. Achieved the highest customer satisfaction for Mainframe teamwork and its management.
• Provided 27x7 On-call support for Wegman’s 60+ Mainframe applications. Worked on more than 175 Star request (Applications Enhancement Requests) to support Wegman’s day-to-day business and business requested changes. My work involved requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation, and maintenance of Wegman’s Mainframe applications.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant (Team Lead & Project Coordinator)

Platform: IBM/3090, MVS/XA, IDMS/R, ADSO, CICS, DB2, JCL, COBOL II, Easytrieve, Endeavor, VSAM, Xpediter, and File Manager

Responsibilities:

• I managed the Onsite and offsite team. Supply Chain comprises of following applications: Logical Stock, Physical Flow Optimization, Import/Export Processing, Process Flow, and Replenishment.
• In the Onsite-offshore Maintenance model, my work includes user support, system support, systems maintenance, its enhancement, SLA monitoring, workload management, work prioritization, domain budget management, and coordination of the Onsite & offshore team.
• I managed 4 onsite and 12 offshore resources.
• Along with the Team management & System support, I also did onsite-offshore project management of key projects and releases of supply chain domain including cross-domain projects.
• I successfully developed and implemented this large-scale Intercontinental project to optimize the flow of Michelin tires import into North America.
• My task involved analyzing the current process, requirement refinement through JAD sessions with impacted application’s functional analysts & key users, SRS creation, Estimation, and coordination of all project phases with the offshore team until successful implementation of the project.
• Completed the project (5000+ hours) on time and within budget.
• Got customer appreciation as the most valuable player of the project.
• I did a Feasibility Study of this project along with System Architect and Business Project Leader.
• Utilizes offshore resources for analysis.
• My task involves analyzing the current process and propose an IS solution through the creation of SRS (Software requirement Specifications). Requirement refinements through JAD sessions with architect, key users, business & impacted application support personals.
• Worked as an Onsite Co-ordinator of the above two core applications of Confidential and Support domain. In the Onsite-offshore Maintenance model, my work included user support, system support, its enhancement, and maintenance coordination with the offshore team. I handled eight offshore resources. My work also includes issue resolution, QC review, PDEF creation, and training.
• Along with System Maintenance, I handled Account Improvement Processing (AIP) and Workload processing of Confidential at Michelin.

Confidential

Consultant/Sr. System Analyst

Platform: IBM/3090, MVS/XA, IDMS/R, COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE, JCL

Responsibilities:

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• As a Project Leader, I was involved in inventory building, Analysis, Conversion, and Testing of 6 different reporting systems of Michelin, UK.
• Successfully developed and implemented Conversion methodology for easy Easytrieve conversion, also developed several conversion utilities for the same.
• As a Developer and QA, I was involved in BizTalk Map Designing, Testing, and its Quality assurance. It also involved the creation of Channel and Port for the above maps and their testing.
• I was involved in Quality Control of Fulfillment modules developed in Jet forms design to extract XML data using XSLT code to generate electronic forms.
• Designed and implemented less error-prone Jet forms design technique to design IFD from PDF or scanned forms.
• My tasks involved Unit Test plan review, Code review, Unit Test Results review, Defect capturing, reporting & prevention to ensure high-quality deliverables expected from an ISO9000 and CMM level 5 company.
• Worked on Impact assessment for conversion of 37-applications of Unitrin from OS/VS COBOL to OS/390 COBOL.
• Designed and implemented the Impact Analysis strategy and developed “Clists” to enhance analysis productivity.
• Worked to understand the criticality of applications and gathered information on System, Environment, Code impact, etc to produce a High-level Impact Assessment Report to determine conversion efforts to mainframe-based applications.
• Worked on High-level Estimation, Conversion strategy, Time frame, and Pricing.
• Developed various new modules and modified the existing modules.
• Devised the 24x7 production support for the System. Optimized system processes, Adhoc Queries & Reports.
• Maintained Replenishment, EIS and PVT Pull sub-systems. Worked on rentals, sales, purchase orders, inventory of rental & sell-thru items and Adhoc reporting.
• Planned and executed all the Year-end processing. Worked extensively with Easytrieve to generate user reports & extracts.