SUMMARY

• 9+ years of experience in development and maintenance of projects in IBM Mainframe Environment.
• Have good domain knowledge in Utility Customer Information Systems and Credit card billing.
• Strong industry experience in complete project life cycle: Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Planning, Development, Implementation and currently working as a Mainframe Team Lead.
• Direct interaction and hands - on Onsite working experience with different clients across USA in the domains such as: Energy & Utilities, Banking & Finance.
• Strong experience with COBOL, DB2, IMS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, XPEDITOR, FILEAID, File Manager, QMF, ChangeMan, MVS/z-OS.
• Strong experience with Requirement Analysis, Coding, Code review, testing and implementing using the requirement document.
• Strong, effective decision-making and multi-tasking skills across multiple projects
• Proven ability to work with virtual resources
• Flexible and adaptable to meet the changing priorities.
• Contribute in Project Requirement Analysis meetings with the clients.
• Managing Remedy tickets, scheduling and tracking it to closure
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Highly motivated team player and team leader with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Capable of quickly learning and adapting to new technology and environment.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment and interface with developers, project managers and production support groups in multiple time zones.
• Strong customer relationship skills.
• Experience in handling difficult and/or escalated situations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, ReXX, JCL

RDBMS: MS-SQL Server 2005/2008, DB2, IMS.

Operating systems: Windows 8/ 7/Vista/XP/2003 server, MVS OS/390, zOS.

IBM utilities: CTRL-M scheduling, TWS, FTP, JCL, File-aid/file manager, Changeman, File Manager/File Aid, Debug tool for batch and online, SPUFI

Configuration Tools: VSS, Changeman

Other Tools: CITRIX, Quality Center, Bluezone, Mochasoft, Lotus Notes

Enterprise Services: EAI, MQ series

Networking Tools: MQ Series, EAI.

Web Technologies: Used SOAP for unit testing and Debugging

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Florida

MF Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as a SPOC for the development and maintenance on the projects such as e-mail Enrollment, Single Sign On for emails; Payment Confirmation emails, Non Delivery Receipts, Print processing & reconciliation.
• Overall responsibility of successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).
• Interact directly with Client for the Requirement analysis and involved in the technical implementation discussions.
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints.
• Scheduling/allocating/monitoring work to a 5 member offshoreteam.
• Lead the integration testing between the various technical teams involved like ETL, EAI, MS Exchange Server, JAVA, MF and StreamServe.
• Analyzing the system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
• Handled new enhancements to send out Payment Confirmation emails for other payment channels like cash, Checkfree, Western union, IVR, OPAL etc.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Organize and participate in technical design walkthrough meetings and peer reviews for the work product
• Ensure HP-QC is kept updated for each defect found in the project and follow up till it is fixed and moved to Production.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS, EAI, JAVA, StreamServe

Confidential

MF Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SPOC between the offshore development team and the SME from the different applications to bridge the gap in application knowledge sharing.
• Interact with Business Process Analysts, External Vendors to understand the software requirements and assess feasibility of design within time constraints.
• Exemplified analytical skills in problem identifying, solving, and reviewing the code and unit test results.
• Played a key role in implementing the different applications to Production.
• Interact with DBA for DB design approvals and creation/modification requests.
• Analyzing various programs to understand the flow of data in the system.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Automated scripts to prepare the IMS data to ready to load to DB2 tables.
• Prepared detailed Implementation plan, which was highly appreciated by each application manager for the level of details and perfect execution.
• Prepared detailed Application Hand-of documents, which proved to be extremely useful to Support team for these Legacy applications.
• Mentoring - Monitoring and assisting the team members in any of their technical queries

Environment: IMS DB, DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, ReXX

Confidential

MF Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SPOC between the offshore development team, Client Application team and other vendor teams.
• Interact and follow-up with other Technical teams for data conversion and testing the application at different stages of the conversion project.
• Planning Dress rehearsals and mock implementations.
• Automated the Data conversion scripts using ReXX and JCL.
• Analyzing various programs to understand the flow of data in the system.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Played a key role in implementing the different applications to Production.
• Interact with DBA for DB design approvals and creation/modification requests.
• Prepared detailed Implementation plan, which was highly appreciated by each application manager.
• Prepared detailed Application Hand-of documents, which proved to be extremely useful to Support team for these Legacy applications.

Environment: DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, ReXX, VB, MQ series

Confidential, Arizona

MF Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SPOC for the development and enhancement of the application from Offshore.
• Responsible for team comprising of 6 .net developers and 1 Mainframe developer.
• Lead the integration testing between the .Net and MF Team at Offshore.
• Create and maintain the technical design and unit test plan documents.
• Responsible for defect tracking and fixing.
• Prepare technical specification document for the change request being implemented
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Prepare application for System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Co-ordinate with Onsite for Implementation activities.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, TSO, VSAM & DB2, .Net, EAI

Confidential

MF Developer

Responsibilities:

• Was the Single Point of Contact from Offshore working on the MF development.
• Create and maintain the technical design and unit test plan documents.
• Responsible for defect tracking and fixing.
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Prepare MF programs for System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Co-ordinate with Onsite for Implementation activities.
• Also worked on

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, TSO, VSAM & DB2

Confidential, Virginia

MF Developer

Responsibilities:

• Was a SPOC for the development and enhancement of the MF application programs from Offshore.
• Create and maintain the technical design and unit test plan documents.
• Perform coding and unit testing of COBOL-DB2/CICS programs for batch/online environment
• Perform Impact analysis of Production issues. Document them and propose solutions.
• Provide support during system/regression testing
• Co-ordinate with Onsite for Implementation activities.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, TSO, VSAM & DB2