SUMMARY

• 9+ years of Experience in the Information Technology Industry. Worked on all phases of Software development life cycle including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
• Experienced in developing applications using COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM,CLIST, PANVALET, IMS, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, FILE - AID,DCCS version control tool, Fault Analyzer, Performance Analyzer, SDSF, PANVALET, CA7 Scheduler, QMF, SPUFI, IBM DEBUG TOOL, FILE MANAGER, SAVRS, INFOX-E.
• Have extensively involved in the development of new programs and enhancement the existing programs.
• Good experience in preparing Requirement Analysis, Functional Specification, Design document and Program Specification.
• Good experience in all phases of systems life cycle Development, Testing (Unit test, System test, Integration Testing and Regression Testing) and Pre Production support.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and inter personal skills, given an opportunity willing to work in a challenging and cross platform environments.
• Providing 24/7 technical support to Production environments.
• Experience in performance tuning, and monitoring skills.
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, programming and presentation skills.
• Strong experience with Requirement Analysis, Coding, testing and implementing using the requirement document.
• Experience in Business requirement analysis, managing customer expectations.
• Experience in coding and tuning mainframe DB2 applications, coding stored procedures.
• Capable team player who works well with people at all levels.
• Monitoring work among the team and being responsible for successful delivery of the entire project/sub-projects.
• Energetic and self-motivated team player. Proven ability to work in both independent and team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical skill set: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, SQL, CICS, REXX, CLIST, Stored procedures, Sync sort and VSAM, IBM utilities (IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, and IEFBR14.)

Special software’s: DCCS version control tool, SDSF, PANVALET, CA7 Scheduler, QMF, SPUFI, IBM DEBUG TOOL, FILE MANAGER, SAVRS, INFOX-E, DRM Options, Fault Analyzer, Performance Analyzer, Lotus Notes, CA7, SeRV CQ, WIN SQL, MS Office, Visio and Clear Quest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AUBURN HILLS, MI

Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the Business requirement walk thru with Business users and Business Analysts.
• Create technical specification and conduct technical walk thru with Business area.
• Coordination with offshore technical team by interaction through conference calls, mails and Net Meeting
• Coordination with offshore to validate and clarify requirements for design/development work at offshore.
• Reviewing the changes done by offshore.
• Analyzing and fixing any critical bugs raised by users.
• Monitoring incidents, work on critical and urgent tickets raised by helpdesk.
• Coordinating with Client SME for any unresolved job abends and fixing it with proper documentation.
• Ensuring the quality of outputs to the client by following the client standards.
• Implementing Quality Standards as per IQMS standards. This system provides guidelines for the conduct of every project and the means for monitoring it. It integrates the various internal processes and intends to provide a process approach for project execution.
• Performing Project Management activities using the IPMS tool which is helpful in managing the project planning particularly for calculating the Estimates for New enhancements Activities that about to come from Client.
• Technical and functional assistance on queries related to the architecture of the applications and providing necessary solutions.
• Function Point (FP) Analysis, determining the efforts/estimates for a project/enhancement independent of the technology used. Conducting FP analysis on different projects in various sub-portfolios.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,MQ series, VSAM,SQL, Sync sort, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, FTP, File Manager, NDM, QMF, DCCS version control tool, SDSF, PANVALET, CA7 Scheduler, QMF, SPUFI, IBM DEBUG TOOL, FILE MANAGER, SAVRS, INFOX-E, DRM Options, Lotus Notes, MS Office, Visio and Clear Quest.

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussions with onsite team about the Requirements.
• Coding the requirements and subsequent unit testing, system testing and implementation.
• Analysis the requirements from the client.
• Preparation of low level and high level design documents.
• Programming in COBOL, JCL using design specifications.
• Post implementation and support of the project.
• Issue fixes of existing applications under service level agreements.
• Mainframe systems analysis for issue resolution.
• Ensured that batch jobs ran on time as per the schedule without any delay affecting the business.
• Monitored special critical processes during the week, month, quarter and year-end cycles.
• Worked on COBOL-II, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS to restructure the programs, Modularization.
• Coordinating with Client SME for any unresolved job abends and fixing it with proper documentation.
• Performed coding, testing and implemented the restart checkpoint logic into around 30 COBOL-II, DB2 components.
• Ensuring the quality of outputs to the client by following the client standards.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,MQ series, VSAM, SQL, IMS, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, FTP, File Manager, IMS, QMF, CA7, Lotus notes, DCCS Version Control, Fault Analyzer and Performance Analyzer.

Confidential

Application Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Experience in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Analysis the requirements from the client.
• Converting Business Requirements into Functional specifications and Technical Specifications documents.
• Preparing user documentation for hands on training for end user community.
• Discussions with onsite team about the Requirements.
• Individually and involved as a team player to complete the many enhancement projects.
• Coding the requirements and subsequent unit testing, system testing and implementation.
• Issue fixes of existing applications under service level agreements.
• Post implementation support.
• Mainframe systems analysis for issue resolution.
• Preparation of low level and high level design documents.
• Programming in COBOL, JCL using design specifications.
• Post implementation and support of the project.
• Setting up the JCL for production.
• Got the “Spot light recognition” from the client

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,MQ series, VSAM,, SQL, Sync sort, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, FTP, File Manager, NDM, Fault Analyzer, Performance Analyzer, QMF, CA7, Lotus notes, DCCS Version Control.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis the requirements from the client.
• Discussions with onsite team about the Requirements.
• Worked on COBOL-II, JCL, DB2, CICS to restructure the programs, Modularization.
• Preparation of low level and high level design documents.
• Programming in COBOL, JCL using design specifications.
• Post implementation and support of the project.
• Worked on IMS, restart checkpoint logic.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,MQ series, VSAM,, SQL, Sync sort, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, FTP, File Manager, QMF, CA7.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured that batch jobs ran on time as per the schedule without any delay affecting the business.
• Performed timely execution of one time RFS (request for service) request on web based tool.
• Performed maintenance work for weekly, monthly and yearly processing.
• Interact with onsite personnel to analyze and implement requests.
• Monitored special critical processes during the week, month, quarter and year-end cycles.
• Assisted in the reporting work which was normally done on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Worked with application support teams to resolve abends.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,VSAM, SQL, Sync sort, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, FTP, File Manager, CA7.