SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in the areas of Application Software Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance in the areas of Mainframe.
• Have domain knowledge in Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Health insurance
• Expertise in mainframe environment with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Datacom, SQL, Oracle, SAS, EZTRIEVE, JES2, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, MQ and IBM Data Facility Storage Management System
• Expertise in Configuration Management tools like SharePoint, CHANGEMAN and ENDEVOR
• Expertise doing ETL on mainframe using COBOL using data from DB2, Oracle
• Expertise in BMC, SPUFI, QMF, STAR TOOL, FAD, SOA QA, COMPAREX, DFSORT, ICETOOL, Fault Analyzer, File manager and FILE - AID as testing tools and for data manipulation and Data cleansing
• Analyzed Assembler programs and part of the maintenance support
• Extensively worked on production support projects
• Extensive knowledge on ESP and CA scheduler tools
• Involved in data modeling activities to create new DB2 database for one of the core applications in Schwab. This involves creating Normalized tables to improve performance on Mainframes
• Extensively involved in doing the activities like Requirement Analysis, High level and low level design, Coding, Unit Testing, QA Support, Implementation, Estimation, and Progress monitoring
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, self-learning abilities and able to prioritize and complete multiple tasks
• Extensively worked on Deployment groups for code migration to multiple environments
• Has strong ability to build productive relationships with peers, management, and clients using strong communications, organizational and planning skills
• Excellent analytical, programming, written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Z/OS, OS/390, MVS, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, UNIX

Languages: COBOL, COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SQL, Assembler, DB2 procedural language, SAS

Mainframe Tools: TSO/ISPF, Change-Man, ENDEVOR, Startool, File-AID, File Manager, EXPEDITER, EZYTRIEVE, REXX, SAS, BMC, SPUFI, DCLGEN, STORED PROCEDURES, COMPAREX, JEM, JCK, XREF, SAR, TEST BASE, SDSF, MF Utilities, DFSORT, ICETOOL, COBOL, FTP, IDCAMS, SYNC SORT, MQ Series, NDM, CONNECT DIRECT, NAS, JES2, IBM Data Facility Storage Management System doing system level utilities

Scheduling Tools: CA-ESP, CA-Scheduler, Autosys

Database Utilities: DB2 Load/ Unload, BMC Load/ Unload, Image Copy, APP TUNE, EXPLAIN PLAN

Version Control Tools: CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, VSS

Databases: DB2 V9, Datacom, IMS, IDMS

Modeling tools: MS Visio 2013

Other tools: Remedy 7.x, Clear Quest, Clear Case, DOC1, Dialogue, IBM MQ Series, Share Point, MS Office 2010, MS Project Management

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/XP, Linux, UNIX, Sun Solaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Mainframes Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with other interface teams to gather business/functional requirements
• Participated in high level business requirement discussions
• Created data flow diagrams to understand different systems and their dependencies
• Gather requirements analyzed and put into technical design documents
• Responsible for all development and maintenance of Mainframe batch and online applications and provided production support(24x7) for the entire Schwab Billing application
• Involved in developing the technical documents from functional specs
• Involved in debugging of the code using debugging tools like expediter etc.
• Working closely with QA team in data set up and providing testing support during testing phase
• Worked on DB2 V9 to V10 migration
• Extensive hands on experience in installation/deployment of Mainframe application changes
• Worked on other projects such as Retail Suppression in CRT, AS Suppression in CRT, Ezcase Removal in Letters.
• Experience as CA admin (responsibilites include navigate the DB2 catalog and understand the impact of a change and all the related objects that may be impacted by the change. This may require the need to unload data, drop and recreate objects, reload data, re-apply any associated security authorization, repair dependent applications, backup data and recover data).
• Experience in CICS screens development and maintenance.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SDSF, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, CA, CCF, CICS

Confidential, Denver, CO

Mainframes Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering from business owners and understanding the specifications.
• Design and development of software using mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMS etc.
• Involved in all phases of software development including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance activities
• Extensively used the tools like FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, RACF, OPCT, SAS, Change-man, CA Panvalet and PDSMAN
• Extensively used tools like XPEDITER to debug the existing code for troubleshoots.
• Created test transactions and run tests to find errors and confirmed program meets specifications.
• Provided support for Quality Assurance Testing include batch runs and resolving issues
• Worked on Data modeling of new DB2 tables and retire existing Datacom tables
• Experience as CA admin (responsibilites include navigate the DB2 catalog and understand the impact of a change and all the related objects that may be impacted by the change. This may require the need to unload data, drop and recreate objects, reload data, re-apply any associated security authorization, repair dependent applications, backup data and recover data).
• Experience in CICS screens development and maintenance.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SDSF, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, CA, CCF, CICS

Confidential, Hartford, CT 

Mainframes Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, conducting and directing the analysis efforts for various IT Applications such as PeopleSoft HR/Payroll (PSHR), Integrated Financial Information System (iFin), and Electronic Document Management System (EDMS/DM5).
• Authoring As-Is/To-Be Models, and Business Requirement documents for various projects using best Software Engineering approaches.
• Maintaining project plan updates, while keeping upper management notified by any changes to scope, schedule, or budget.
• Conducting weekly status checks with project management team to discuss project status and possible gaps and risks.
• Experience with the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User stories, Release Break down, Sprint Review and Story Boards.
• Authoring the requirement document utilizing best UML, Unifies Model Language, and software engineering practices to create the necessary Sequence Diagrams and functional specifications.
• Utilized business, technology and application domain subject matter expertise to identify impact of changes to cross-functional areas resulting in a more effective specification, minimized project risk, and efficient execution.
• Working as a liaison between business users, testers and application development team so that all teams understand business needs and take them into consideration.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SDSF, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Mainframes Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, conducting and directing the analysis efforts for various IT Applications such as PeopleSoft HR/Payroll (PSHR), Integrated Financial Information System (iFin), and Electronic Document Management System (EDMS/DM5).
• Authoring As-Is/To-Be Models, and Business Requirement documents for various projects using best Software Engineering approaches.
• Maintaining project plan updates, while keeping upper management notified by any changes to scope, schedule, or budget.
• Conducting weekly status checks with project management team to discuss project status and possible gaps and risks.
• Experience with the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User stories, Release Break down, Sprint Review and Story Boards.
• Conducting meetings with various stakeholders to identify the needs and risks associated with each project.
• Involved in cross-functional teams, developing new ways to boost efficiency and delivering results in a fast changing environment to achieve project goals.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SDSF, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL

Confidential, Hartford, CT 

Mainframes Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, conducting and directing the analysis efforts for various IT Applications such as PeopleSoft HR/Payroll (PSHR), Integrated Financial Information System (iFin), and Electronic Document Management System (EDMS/DM5).
• Authoring As-Is/To-Be Models, and Business Requirement documents for various projects using best Software Engineering approaches.
• Maintaining project plan updates, while keeping upper management notified by any changes to scope, schedule, or budget.
• Conducting weekly status checks with project management team to discuss project status and possible gaps and risks.
• Experience with the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User stories, Release Break down, Sprint Review and Story Boards.
• Conducting meetings with various stakeholders to identify the needs and risks associated with each project.
• Performing detailed analysis of new features/enhancements in response to business policy changes, conducting impact analysis and specifying functional and data changes required to meet new business requirements.
• Utilized business, technology and application domain subject matter expertise to identify impact of changes to cross-functional areas resulting in a more effective specification, minimized project risk, and efficient execution.
• Involved in cross-functional teams, developing new ways to boost efficiency and delivering results in a fast changing environment to achieve project goals.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SDSF, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL