SUMMARY

• 6+ years of Information Technology experience including Project Management, Systems and Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, Change Management and Programming.
• Hands - on experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Integration, Testing, production implementation and Subsequent support.
• Provided both production and development support for several Banking Telecom and Manufacturing applications.
• Having 6+ years of experience in banking domain.
• Developing requirements (business, functional and testing) for software development.
• Data mapping and process flow analysis experience.
• Database analysis, design & maintenance experience.
• Extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable enterprise applications using Mainframe technologies like DB2,STORED PROCEDURES,COBOL,JCL,VSAM,CICS,IMS-DB and IMS-DC.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like CHGAMAN,PANVALENT,XPEDIDITER,JOB-TRAC, CA7,FILEAID,QMF,SPUFI,DCLGEN,NDM,XCOM,TSOBMCADM,INFOMEN,CONTROL-M,TTTS and ENDEAVOR.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of Queries, indexing to improve Performance and have the ability to code and implement complex business rules in SQL and Stored Procedures.
• Expertise in writing Database Objects such as Tables, User Defined Data Types, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Functions, and Cursors.
• Expertise in writing large/complex queries using SQL.
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time.
• Good knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and the scrum process.
• Strong Project/technical leadership skills in the areas of mainframe applications and their maintenance projects.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Strong experience and co-ordination skills to lead onsite-offshore teams throughout all phases of development life cycle.
• Excellent communication skills, good organizational abilities, good leadership qualities and excellent problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframes: IBM Mainframe Z/OS, OS/390,AS400 and MVS/ESA

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, CORE JAVA

Access Method: VSAM

Database: DB2,IMS-DB,Stored procedures

Mainframe Tools: TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, JOBTRACK, CA-7, FILEAID, SDSF, XREF, UTILITIES,REFORMAT,COMPARE

Version Control Tools: CHANGEMAN

Office Tools: MS-Word, Visio, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook, WordPerfect and MS-PowerPoint

Certifications: DB2 UDB version 8.1 family fundamentals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support during integration testing for projects as well as documenting the installation and support processes for environments.
• Frequently met with business user to gather requirements, heavy documentation of technical and functional specifications, code and test programs while following SDLC.
• Implemented program changes, prepared systems documentation and status reports as requested to development manager.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and designs in support of application development.
• Promote best design and coding practices and provided technical guidance.
• Actioned for Business Queries and Solving the Incidents and follow the SLA as agreed.
• Involved in Decommissioning of jobs.
• Involved in preparing Data Mapping documents.
• Scheduling the jobs on JOBTRAC.
• Monitoring the Jobs through JOB-TRAC and on call support for abended jobs.
• Created a high level/detail level system designs specifications.
• Coordinated with the front end teams in regression testing the Applications.
• Documented the flow of Application programs.
• Worked on request requiring table changes in DB2.
• Performed impact analysis and prepared Impact document.
• Development of code as per the requirement.
• Development of COBOL and Db2 stored procedures as per the requirement.
• Testing of Stored procedures using DST.
• Implementing changes in the production.
• Participating in signoffs and deployment process.
• Strong development skills in COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IMS-DB, Stored Procedures and ISPF.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Stored Procedure, Spufi, NDM, XCom, TSOBMCADM, Infoman, Manage now, DST and Changeman

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with business clients, support the application and implement the process as per specifications provided.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, SAS, CICS in batch and online mode.
• Modified CICS screens to add new fields as part for Functional currency.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Preparing technical design and technical requirement documents.
• Developing the code as per the requirement.
• Perform Impact analysis and prepare impact document.
• Perform Unit testing.
• Participating in signoff's and deployment process.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Participated in project discussions and weekly status meetings of the project proceedings with the onsite team.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Prepared the HLD and LLDs for all the functional requirements.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Worked on requests aimed at updating various DB2

Environment: JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Expeditor, Endeavor and File-Aid.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Executed reorganization, diagnostics, and maintenance for various DB2 issues.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, SAS, CICS in batch and online mode.
• Modified CICS screens to add new fields as part for Functional currency.
• Created documents concerning technical specifications, product design, and implementations.
• Worked in the logging report from the scratch and completed in short time frame.
• Co-ordinated with business team on user acceptance testing.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, TraceM, Endevor, WSF.

Confidential 

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, SAS, CICS in batch & online mode.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.
• Created Adhoc Program in short time frame from the scratch and executed successfully.
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Offered help to team to solve their issues and defects.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI