SUMMARY

• Having 9 years technical experience in Development, Maintenance and Testing and Production support on IBM Mainframe applications in different roles
• Currently working for Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota as Mainframe Programmer Analyst
• Worked for Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio as Mainframe Tech Lead
• Worked for Confidential, India as mainframe programmer
• Good experience in Insurance and Banking Domains
• Good Knowledge of Mainframe Technology, databases and understanding of system development life cycle.
• Experience in handling multiple projects at same time and achieving the milestones successfully.
• Skilled at analyzing, optimizing and documenting existing systems and developing, testing and evaluating applications for the following proven data processing techniques and processes.
• Extensive experience with OS/MVS, OS/390, z/OS, TSO/ ISPF, COBOL, Assembler, CICS, BMS, JCL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, IMS DB, DB2 Utilities, IDCAMS utilities, Xpeditor,TraceMaster, Changeman, Endevor, SCLM, FileAid, Insync, TWS, CA7,Dump Master, Abendaid, TSQs, TDQs, NDM Connect Direct
• Very good experience with Sync Sort, DF Sort, ICETOOL, SAS, Rexx, Eztrieve and MQ series.
• Very good knowledge and experience in CICS API with distributed environments.
• Good experience in DB2 stored procedures.
• Extensive experience in statement formatting tools like CSF, Transformer and Dilogue
• Experience with various file formats such as Flat File, NACHA, BAI and Lockbox BAI.
• Experience in Payment Processing applications like EDI, ACH, and Lockbox.
• Experience with communication protocols such as Connect Direct, WBFT, FTP, VPN and NDM, SAFE - T.
• Experience includes entire Project life cycle, Diagnosis and Resolving problems in Applications, Testing, and Documentation.
• Expert in quickly identifying problem areas, testing, debugging and documenting errors to avoid future occurrences minimizing down time.
• Extensive experience in helping Line of Business (LOB) in resolving functional issues with the systems.
• Good Knowledge on 1099R, 1099MISC, W2, 1099DIV and 1042S yearly and correction tax forms and tapes which are being mailed to clients and submitted to IRS.
• Experience as a quality coordinator to make sure the team follows the quality process in entire project life cycle.
• Extensive experience in Change Management, Problem Management, Incident Management Process and Knowledge management process.
• Extensive experience in Disaster Recovery Process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent management and leadership abilities, organized and hard working.
• Have a good deal of understanding about the ISO and CMM level standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS, OS/390, Z/OS, Windows XP, NT,2000

Programming Languages: COBOL, REXX, SAS, JCL, CICS, BMS, CSF, Transformer, Dialogue and concepts of Java, C and C++, PL/SQL, SQL,Stored Procedures

Databases: DB2, VSAM, and concepts of Oracle

IBM Utilities: DFSort, Synsort, ICETOOL, Eztrieve, SAS

IBM Tools: Changeman, Endevor, SCLM, Expeditor, Trace Master, File Aid, Insync, Dump Master, CA7, TWS, SPUFI and QMF

Other Tools: Service Center, Service Manager, SharePoint, Application Suite, Mainframe and Windows FTP process, MQ series, Pac2000

Functional Skills: Insurance and Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involve in the analysis, design, preparation of the functional specifications documents and detail design documents, development of new programs and Enhancement to existing system using detailed design documents, conducting Peer reviews.
• Develop, coordinate and implement plans to test business and functional processes during system development.
• Development involves coding new or changing Cobol/VSAM/CICS programs for custom Connexion online changes, Cobol/DB2 programs to extract customer data from DB2 warehouse in required formats
• Working with many non mainframe interface applications those run on Unix, Windows environments
• Working on pre and post processing of different file formats such as Flat File, NACHA, BAI and Lockbox BAI.
• Working on multiple projects simultaneously with different teams from different locations start from requirement gathering until implementation.
• Working on production defects and implementing emergency fixes to meet customer SLA
• Track the status of projects and defects in SharePoint
• Share knowledge to the team on projects those are being implemented in team meetings.
• Writing business and functional specifications according to client requests
• Discussing and escalating the project issues requiring attention as and when requires.

Environment: z/OS 1.6, Cobol, Assembler, CICS, REXX, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, Connect:Direct (NDM), Vector Connexion and SNDM, Endevor, Fileaid, CA7, SPUFI, Savers, Pac2000, IBM Utilities, DB2 Utilities, AXICIS, Eztrieve, SDLC / OTE PM Methodology and MS Project, Sharepoint, DCM, Microsoft Visio, MS Outlook, MS Lync

Confidential, Cleveland

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on daily EDI technical activities between Key Bank and Trading Partners.
• Attend the meeting with trading partners for the new EDI setups and responsible for answering EDI related questionnaire.
• Work with offshore team for new EDI transmission setups for trading partners, which in turns work with internal Confidential applications like ARM, LockBox, RPM, ACH e.t.c..
• Work on applying new service packs from vendor to Confidential Vector Connexion system.
• Responsible for all supplier/vendor support (outbound 820,821,823,824,997 and inbound 810, 811, 820,828,997)
• Responsible for implementing of new setups and make sure clients are notified.
• Work with EDI LOB and update all the EDI transmissions requests are accomplished as per SLA
• Responsible for creation of jobs required for communicating with our VANS and trading partners via AS2, PGP, and NDM.
• Responsible for 24/7 production support which includes Transmission issues, nightly batch issues to make sure SLA is met.
• Participate in Confidential Disaster Recovery test for EDI application and make sure the test goes smooth.
• Interacting with the Clients to understand the system & plan for the same to match for time bound quality response. Interacting with the team on day to day basis to meet the deadlines

Environment: MVS, VS COBOL II, DB2, JCL, Proc, Fileaid, Insync, VSAM, DFSort, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF/PDF, SDSF, Mobious, CA7, TWS (Tiwoli Work Station), CICS, Endevor, Peregrine, IBM Tivoli Vector: Connexion, SUPEREYE, EDISIM Analyzer, EDISIM Document Builder, EDISIM Standards, Editor, EDISIM Test Data Generator and SCLM.

Confidential, Cleveland

Technical Lead/Onsite coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SME and Technical lead to the system.
• Helped LOB resolving functional and issues with the system.
• Complete responsible for the three major upgrades in a year, involves new functionality, changes to state withholding tables and access controls.
• Worked with LOB manager to prioritize the projects and update them on SharePoint backlog repository.
• Worked closely with LOB to understand the functional requirements for each project and guide them with better solutions.
• Supporting LOB for tax reporting requests like generating tax forms and tapes.
• Provide estimation and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for further approval on project.
• Work as 24x7 Primary Production Support that involves analysis and resolution severity issues within SLA
• Regularly update the SharePoint to track all the actives like projects, defects, production issues e.t.c. in the application up to date.
• Complete responsible for any adhoc requests and break fix.
• Co-ordination of work to offshore and responsible for reviewing any deliverables like technical specification document, test case document, code e.t.c.
• Responsible for managing the efforts between offshore and onsite.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery Testing to the application that happens twice in a year.

Environment: z/OS, Cobol, REXX, SAS, BMS, CICS with MQs TSQs and TDQs, JCL, VSAM, Visual Basic, Java, RAD 6.0, ECI, DB2, SCLM, Insync, Eztrieve,Tracemaster, Dump Master, TWS, QMF, App Suite, Service Manager 7.0

Confidential, Cleveland

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team lead and individually handle the projects with team.
• Responsible for analyzing the new requirements, estimation, design document and test cases Coding, Unit Testing, running batch cycles and provide the testing output to onsite coordinator.
• Worked on adhoc requests break fix and production issues.
• Worked with Rendering and Mobious teams for Project/Production related issues.
• Involved in Code and Document review for other team members.
• Helped team members to resolving any issues with CSF and Transformer coding.
• Trained the new team members on CSF and Transformer tools.
• Worked as quality coordinator to make sure all the documentation is in place for the different projects.

Environment: OS/390, Cobol, CSF, Transformer, Dilogue, Jcl, VSAM, Expeditor, Endevor, File-Aid, DMO, App Suite,Service Center 4.2, CA7

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Mostly involved in all enhancement projects and worked with onsite team to get the requirements.
• Developed multiple online screens, online & batch programs.
• Debugging the online programs and batch programs.
• Prepared of all test cases based on design documents and execute them.
• Coordinate with other teams for integration testing.
• Responsible for internal code review.
• Involved in functional training.

Environment: OS/MVS, Cobol, CICS, BMS, JCL, DB2, Expeditor, Changeman, File-Aid