SUMMARY:

• Lead Developer with 8 years of experience in Mainframe Development, support, testing and Maintenance.
• Experience in multiple domains such as wealth management and Financial Services.
• Outstanding Technical and Analytical skills, with extensive knowledge and 8 years hands - on in languages such as COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve using structured programming techniques and IBM Mainframe Systems.
• Extensive hands on experience and knowledge in DB2, DB2 Stored procedures and expertise in SQL queries.
• Having good knowledge in Guidewire Policy center product.
• Extensively involved in activities like Requirement Analysis, High level and Low level design, Coding, Unit Testing, System testing, Regression testing, QA Support, Implementation and Production Support.
• Extensively involved in giving ideas for optimizing the existing projects in terms of Technology Infrastructure cost and CPU processing time.
• Onsite and offshore team management, task assignment to subordinates and their progress monitoring. Experienced in working with Onsite-Offshore model and led a team of 5 members in few projects.
• Worked as a Technical lead and Test Lead for many projects and have experience in leading & mentoring the Juniors/New comers.
• Worked extensively on Production Support priority 1, 2 and 3 issues and also coming up with the root cause analysis.
• Actively participated in client calls during emergency situations like Severity 1 production issues.
• Working knowledge withCMM Level 5SDLC processes andWaterfallSDLC methodology and Agile Methodology.
• Effectively coordinating with the upstream and downstream applications during technical outages.
• Quick Learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• A good team player, result oriented, self-motivated and able to work with minimal guidance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Eztrieve

DBMS: DB2, VSAM, SQL, DB2 Stored Procedures

Technologies: Mainframes

Programming Tools: SPUFI, QMF, MQ, File-AID, DFSORT, NDM, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Visio

Performance Analysis: Application Performance Analyser (APA)

Debugging Tools: Intertest, Smarttest, HP Quality center, Guidewire Policy center.

Version Management Tool: ChangeMan

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows 7/XP/2000/98

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, OH

Mainframe Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the PUL business requirements and business needs for the Policy center application.
• Completed BRAINBENCH E-3 level s in COBOL, JCL, and VSAM.
• Understanding the business requirement.
• Involved in Development/Coding of the requirements.
• Involved in preparation of Unit Test Plans.
• Perform Reviews and Analysis of Client supplied change requirement.
• Coordinating with offshore.

Environment: COBOL, Guidewire Policy Center - Mainframe modules

Confidential, NY

Mainframe Developer/Onshore Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussions with Source and Target application IT Teams in understanding the overall requirements.
• Designed main control program that performs core collection functionality as per detailed design using E/COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TABLEBASE, DB2 etc.
• Coded COBOL/DB2 control program that retrieves data from Origin & Destination programs and perform necessary validations
• Coordinate across Advisory applications in meeting the objectives.
• Involved in designing and development of Data conversion process on the Target application system.
• Validation and Testing of Data mapping from Source to Target.
• Analysis and Validation of Business data received from Source to Target.
• Executing the Data conversion and Reconciliation reports.
• Implementation the process in Production and Support in case of Abends/Issues.
• Preparation of Quarterly SWOT Analysis for the Team, Project and People Management.

Confidential, NY

Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Development and Maintenance of “Managed Accounts Advisory Products” - which is used by FAs to manage the client portfolio, perform rebalancing, Buy/Sell stocks etc.
• Offshore Lead and Coordination for the team of 14 members.
• Review and Analysis of Client supplied SMA change requirement across all advisory products.
• Preparation and Maintenance of the Queries and Assumptions documents for the received requirement.
• Involved in Development/Coding of the requirements.
• Involved in preparation of Unit Test Plans.
• Involved in Unit testing of the Changes and preparation of Unit Test results document and debugging in case of any Abend(s).
• Review of all Offshore Deliveries (Test Results document and the Coding) using the standard checklist to maintain the Firm Standards.
• Involved in preparation and maintenance of Review logs for Monthly Metrics.
• Involved in QA regions Monitoring and Batch Support.
• Preparing and Maintenance of QA Abend logs.
• Application/System Induction for New Team members.
• Involved in conducting the requested Domain for the Team members.
• Preparation of Quarterly SWOT Analysis for the Team, Project and People Management.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Stored procedures, JCL, Changeman, QMF, File-Aid, Fault Analyzer, VSAM, ISPFMVS, SPUFI, QMF, Quality Centre, TOM, and Tivoli Work Scheduler

Confidential, Merrill Lynch, NJ

Sr. Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in different phases of SDLC i.e. analysis, design, testing and creation of respective documents during an enhancement project.
• Providing round the clock support for production support related activities.
• Creation of High level and Low level design documents as per the business requirements.
• Coding many Cobol and DB2 programs as per the low level design documents.
• Creation of test cases as part of enhancement rollouts.
• Involved in Unit level and Integration level testing.
• Involvement in rollout activities i.e. deployment of the packages.
• Creating effective Procedures for generating the ability to reuse the existing code effectively.
• Implemented the IMS checkpoint routines wherever required to enhance the processing capability of millions of customer’s account information stored in the databases.
• Testing the entire Daily job flow in the test environment in the event of critical production issues.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Changeman, QMF, Eztrieve, File-Aid, TWS, Service Now, REXX, and IBM AMS.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participating in user requirement sessions to gather business requirements.
• Involved in Development, Integration and Testing of application modules.
• Developed DB2 Query optimization techniques for faster processing and retrieval of data.
• Adopted efficient scheduling of high cost utility jobs running in Jobtrac through control-M scheduling.
• Developed stored procedures and triggers with DB2 and optimized the database updates.
• Implemented consistent summarization of data using a file based approach with the aid of powerful sort cards.
• Involved in active communication with the business and AMEX technology client for the decommissioning of unwanted, temporary and old datasets.
• Reduced the Technology infrastructure costs by moving the archaic data from disks to tapes using IEBGEBER utility.
• Handled the upstream file’s data cautiously through effective GDG creations using IDCAMS utility.
• Optimized the DB2 table design by dropping the partitions in the least frequently accessed tables using file based approach.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Changeman, QMF, Eztrieve, File-Aid, Jobtrac, effective SORT cards, REXX, and IBM AMS.