SUMMARY

• Nine Years of experience in the IT industry.
• Extensive knowledge and experience inCOBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, DB2, VSAM, FILE - AID, TSO/ISPF, CA7 (Scheduler), CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, IBM UTILITIES.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs)to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Developed expertise in client interaction.
• Stronganalytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planningskills
• Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint(Charts,tables,graphs),Visio(Flowcharts)
• Well versed and experience in Design and Development of applications using Mainframe Technologies including COBOL, CICS and VSAM….in diverse environments.
• Well versed and experience in Design and Development of applications using ETL Tools Datastage in diverse environments. .
• Experience in DB2 DB Database and various programming languages.
• Exposure to Dimensional Data modellingthat includes,star schema and snowflake schema.
• Good understanding of views, Synonyms, Indexes, Joins and Sub-Queries. Extensively used Cursors.
• Good knowledge in Analysis and Design of existing or new banking business requirements
• Possess good troubleshooting and debugging skills. Flexible to adapt new environment and hardworking.
• Self-motivated individual with strong interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Have a proven capacity to work on an existing and new code base, to grasp it faster and build on the same.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/XP, IBM zOS, OS390, UNIX

Languages/ Technologies: IBM Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, CICS and VSAM)

ETL Tools: (IBM Information Server V8.5, Informatica Power Center 9.5.1)

Database/ Database Tools: DB2, Oracle, MS Excel

Special Software/ Tools: HP Quality Center, SSH Tectia.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Lead Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas
• Provide support for enhancing and maintaining existing applications
• Coordinate with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes
• Offer assistance for troubleshooting current Mainframe environment
• Integrate system on allocated software projects
• Review designs for custom application and execute features and functions
• Coordinate with varied systems and integration infrastructure
• Perform designing, coding, testing, debugging and documenting application development process

Environment: IBM Mainframes ZOS 390, JCL, COBOL, DB2 V8 and VSAM.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Module Lead - Senior Technical Analyst (Mainframe Developer)

Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into technical requirements (technical analysis) to ensure all Systems support and conform to business specifications
• Created High level & low level design documents Build Plan and Code Construction under the defined Architecture
• Created project schedule and work break-up specification
• Analyze the System at Unit, Integration and System Test Level and checking the completion of the analysis using TCS tool TCA (Test Coverage Analyzer).
• Unit testing and verification by TCA
• Coordinated project deliverables from offshore development team
• Conduct weekly status meeting and technical training sessions
• Provided production support for initiative releases
• Estimation, planning and scheduling for new Initiatives
• Delegate the tasks from functional and technical perspectives.
• Training and mentoring of the team members based on the requirements and Developing appropriate strategies for the implementation of the project.
• Onsite and offshore team management and Liaising/ Interacting with offshore and Onsite Management for resolving issues
• Tracking tasks for their timely completion and Reviewing deliverables
• Perform program construction / modification due to problem fixes and other enhancements.
• Reporting status to the client
• Identifying priorities in consultation with the client and changing the schedule
• Develop and maintain Process Assets for client using the knowledge acquired in working with the Process Assets Library (PAL)
• Collect various process and product metrics in the project and update in IRIS
• Escalation of issues/concerns

Environment: IBM Mainframes ZOS 390, JCL, COBOL, DB2 V8 and VSAM.

Confidential

Team Member and Project Lead (Mainframe Developer)

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Low level design document as per the High level design
• Review program specifications for enhancements
• Developing the Code for enhancement
• Participation in UNIT, System Integration testing
• Create or Modify new programs and components.
• Prepare unit test plan and test data
• Schedule Jobs
• Perform bug fix
• Support QA, CIT, SIT and test environments
• Design and execute testing approaches
• Ensured the quality of the deliverables made using IQMS
• Use IPMS for all project management related quality activities

Environment: IBM Mainframes ZOS 390, JCL, COBOL, DB2 V8 and VSAM.

Confidential

Team Member and Project Lead (Mainframe Developer)

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Low level design document as per the High level design
• Review program specifications for enhancements
• Developing the Code for enhancement
• Participation in UNIT, System Integration testing
• Create or Modify new programs and components.
• Prepare unit test plan and test data
• Schedule Jobs
• Perform bug fix
• Support QA, CIT, SIT and test environments
• Design and execute testing approaches
• Ensured the quality of the deliverables made using IQMS
• Use IPMS for all project management related quality activities

Environment: IBM Mainframes ZOS 390, JCL, COBOL, DB2 V8 and VSAM.

Confidential

Module Lead - Senior Technical Analyst (Application Database Administrator)

Responsibilities:

• Backing up and restoring databases
• Controlling andmonitoring user access to the database
• Monitoring andoptimizing the performance of the database
• Planning forbackup and recovery of database information
• Maintainingarchived data
• Generating various reports by querying from database as per need
• Modifying the database structure, as necessary, from information given by application developers
• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring.

Environment: DB2 V8 for ZOS 390, Mainframe, JCL, COBOL, CICS and VSAM.