SUMMARY:

• Six year Nine months of rich experience in Mainframe Technologies wif a good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Worked in different business domains such as Manufacturing, Finance, Telecom and Banking
• Extensive experience in all phases of lifecycle, including Requirements Gathering,, Development, Unit Testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, Defect Tracking, Maintenance and Documentation.
• Experience in enhancement, maintenance and production support ofMainframeapplications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS, VSAM and TSO/ISPF to ensure quality assurance for all teh deliverables.
• Experience in theMainframesupporting tools ESP, Xpeditor, File - Aid, SPUFI, ENDEAVOR, IBM Debugger, CHANGEMAN, File-Manager, SCLM and Panvelet.
• Expertise in DB2 Development Center.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills and consistently being organized by management and peer for producing high quality works.
• Implemented teh software development lifecycle (SDLC) for teh testing life cycle to follow teh Standards process in teh application.
• Efficient and versatile team player wif a positive approach to all tasks.
• Experience of defect creation in excel sheet assigning defect, retesting defect and generating reports on defect status vs. defect severity, defect status vs. defect priority, total defect vs. open defect, total defects vs. closed defects and participated in defect status meetings as DPR (Defect Prevention Representative).
• Experience in card processing (authorization and transaction processing).
• Involved in Peer reviews, intragroup coordination, Programs, Defect Prevention.
• Quick learner, self starter, great communicator and follow good work ethics and mainframe methodologies and a strong team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Z/OS, OS/390, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 95/98/XP/NT.

Languages: VS COBOL II, JCL, SAS, SQL

Databases: VSAM, DB2, IMS-DB, MS ACCESS

Online Translation Processing: CICS.

Tools /Utilities: FILE-AID, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, ESP JOB SCHEDULER, SPUFI, EXPEDITOR, TSO/ISPF, IBM DEBUG TOOL, SORT, IBM UTILITIES, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT. RMDS, INSYSNC, REMEDY (CPMT). COMPARE-X, PLATINUM, MASTERMIND for DB2, REXX, DB2 stored procedure

Domain Knowledge: Financial services, Manufacturing, Telecom

Microsoft Office Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Front Page

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential . Chicago, IL

Sr. Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, design and development solution in mainframe applications
• Developed and support current running application.
• Working experience of debugging and defect fixing.
• Working closely wif onsite coordinator to gather requirement and translating those into technical designs.
• Prepared test cases and conduct unit testing and integration testing.
• Support other team members in resolving implementation issue.
• Developed new CICS screens and enhanced teh existing screen using SDF tool.
• Involved in estimation of project and SR.
• Performed code review as per coding guideline.
• Support UAT

Environment: COBOL OS/390, JCL, CICS, SDF, DB2, MQ series, DTCN as debugger, Platinum, CA/Librarian SQL, VSAM files, File-Aid, SCLM.

Confidential, Moline, IL

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Level one support of a production issues. Need to handle JCL errors, restarts, etc. In case of job failure, escalate issues that need more hands-on resolution, i.e. bad data, missing files, program abends, etc. Program, code fixes and testing in test environment then deployment in production.
• Responsible for teh creation, migration, and ownership of teh schedules, JCL and PROC's, Parmlib's, and other batch resources. Both on and off teh mainframe. Other TEMPthan this, we has to take care of smooth-running and error-free environment and make sure that all work load SLA's are met for teh current processing cycle.
• Monitoring teh production Jobs and sending teh daily status to customer.
• Providing 24X7 On-call Production support and fixing teh production abends.
• Has coded new SAS programs and support to teh related applications
• Worked on enhancement and maintenance project of 20 applications.
• Coded SAS programs from scratch and given production support if any abends occur.
• Prepared teh understanding document on SAS about 50 programs.
• Involved in estimation of Project and SR.
• Prepared test cases and Conduct Unit testing and integration testing.
• Support UAT

Environment: PANVALET, JCL, COBOL OS/390, DB2, IMS, DB2 stored procedure, SAS and Expeditor as debugger, Mastermind for DB2, CA/Librarian SQL, File-AID, MQ series, RMDS (reporting tool).

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Handling teh team having size of 5.
• Help teh application areas to tune teh DB2 SQL queries and programs in order to reduce batch cycle time and improve response time
• Monitoring work to ensure project run smoothly.
• Involved in estimation for PMT.
• Prepared technical design doc by referring functional design report.
• Coded new programs from scratch by looking to teh technical design document.
• Reviewing teh Code, Validating and Verifying teh Test results received from subordinates.
• Conduct Unit testing using debugging tools like Xpediter.

Environment: JCL, DB2, ORACLE, COBOL, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, QMF, XPEDITER, SQL DEVELOPER

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved from KT phase by preparing understanding doc and coordinating wif Accenture and Infosys team.
• Monitoring work to ensure project run smoothly.
• Worked on Change Request (CR) and Rapid Deployment (RD).
• Prepared and test all JCLs to ensure they run in prod smoothly.
• Involved in estimation of PMT.
• Conduct Unit testing using debugging tools like Xpediter.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS-DB, Xpeditor, DB2

Confidential, Amsterdam, NY

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Made technical design doc by referring functional design report.
• Maintaining teh existing system included making user requested changes/enhancements and being on call to take care of any issues that arise.
• Peer reviews of teh Code changes and Test results.
• Coded new and existing TELON online programs.
• Conduct Unit testing using debugging tools like Xpediter.
• Maintaining unit testing and system integration testing results by using test director tool.
• Involved in maintaining card processing.

Environment: DB2, COBOL, JCL, ISPW, File-aid, Platinum, IMS-DB, TELON, COOLGEN etc.

Confidential, NY

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Main Responsibility is to give 24*7 support for teh current existing application
• Quickly and knowledgeably respond to ESS healthcare end-user questions and issues prior to contacting teh Shared Service Center
• Understanding of teh requirements and specifications from client and pass-through/explain in details to teh offshore team
• Responsible for teh creation, migration, and ownership of teh schedules, JCL and PROC's, Parmlib's, and other batch resources. Both on and off teh mainframe. Other TEMPthan this, we has to take care of smooth-running and error-free environment and make sure that all work load SLA's are met for teh current processing cycle.
• First-line of teh triage of a production issue. Need to handle JCL errors, restarts, etc. In case of job failure, escalate issues that need more hands-on resolution, i.e. bad data, missing files, program abends, etc. Program and code fixes should be offloaded to teh responsible applications support teams.
• Access to production data needs to be restricted. Data should be owned by teh responsible application support team. There is always process in place to make a copy of teh data available to those teams to initiate a fix wifout ever accessing teh real data.

Environment: JCL, REXX, Cobol, NDM, DB2, VSAM, FILE-AID, CA7 JOB SCHEDULER, SPUFI, EXPEDITOR, TSO/ISPF, IBM DEBUG TOOL, SORT, IBM UTILITIES, ABEND AID, Platinum, EASYTRIEVE, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT Endeavor etc.

DUPONT-CC, Delaware

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Teh assignment is to provide maintenance and support services to teh NEXUS application. This includes resolutions of PQRs (Problem, Query, Request) raised by end users or teh client team. PQRs may include:
• Solving problems that effect teh user community from accessing and using teh application. These may be of a critical or non-critical nature e.g. batch abends, screens not working, etc.
• Routine maintenance or enhancement requests for fixing bugs reported or improving functionality.
• Projects for adding new functionality to teh system. Adhoc requests like creating data extracts and generating reports.
• Demonstrate professionalism and team work in all aspects of teh assignment.
• Solve work requests following necessary processes, adhering to deadlines and produce work of desired quality.
• Monitor teh work requests, monitor due work requests and ensure SLA's are met.
• Involve in quality aspects in teh project.
• Apply knowledge and skills to provide service in IT applications to our clients and customers.
• Organize and manage work effort of self and others to provide quality service in a productive and cost effective manner.
• Demonstrate professionalism in interactions wif clients and others. Share knowledge, communicates effectively and works collaboratively.
• Exhibit sense of commitment to client through cooperative and open client relationships, and focus on adding value to both Accenture and its clients.

Environment: Mainframe Application COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, SPE, FOCUS, RMDS, Control-M, ELIPS, Compare-X.