SUMMARY:

• 20+ years’ experience on IBM Mainframe and other Technologies in multiple phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Application Architect, Mainframe Architect, Support, Analysis, Development, Coding, Testing including requirements gathering, systems analysis and design, programming, relational queries, system maintenance and customer support.
• Creative, hardworking and team player with good written and verbal communication and strong focus on end user needs.
• Performance Management, Creative/Innovative, Impact & Influence, Leading Others, Team and Relationship Building, Teamwork & Partnering.

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential, JACKSONVILLE, FL

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on retiring IMS databases which are not used in couple of years or data is out dated, coordinating with Business Partners, Internal team, offshore team and communicating all requirement and Business issues with Business Partners.
• The other departments explored include Car Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Waybilling, Rail Applications, UMLER, Purchase Orders, Workforce Management Technology (Payroll), Revenue Management System.
• Made lots of changes as part of New Development and existing system enhancements which includes Requirement gathering, Coding, Testing, debugging, creating test plans, test scripts, UAT testing, following SOX standards and Implementing in Production.
• Work with Business partners directly to get requirements and make technical docs, specs and changes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System design, enhancements to COBOL/CICS/JCL/IMS/DB2/SAS/MQ programs.
• Use Quality Center to track the tickets worked on development and implementation using SERENA CHANGEMAN.
• Worked on DB2 stored procedures, TOAD. Knowledge of JAVA/WEBSPHERE.
• Worked on EDI file parsing and processing.
• Used Sterling as processing files for secure transmissions.
• Coding and Testing PL1 programs and converting them to COBOL for transformation to JAVA.
• Analyze and define business solutions of large systems scope and complexity. Prepare detailed specifications for large complex projects and design solutions for complex business problems
• Document test cases, expected test results, test data requirements, and collaborate with testing teams and business partners to resolve testing problem. Documentation was produced in MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS PowerPoint, in which WINDOWS XP/7 was the Operating System
• Code, debug, test and support utilities, tools, and frameworks to support the application development process.
• Used SAS to compare data between 2 files for matched and unmatched.
• ICETOOL, SYNCSORT, DFSORT tools to fix files and update any data.
• Experience in adhering to SOX documentation standards
• Making suggestions to Business Partners for easy accessibility of data.
• Provide leadership and technical direction to team members and monitor the deliverables of the technical team.

Environment: IBM - 3090, TSO/ISPF, JCL/PROC’s, COBOL MVS, COBOL II, PL1, CICS, SAS, VSAM/SEQ, IMS/DB, IMS BMP/MPP, MQ, PSB, QMF, SPUFI, CA7, File Aid, FTP, FOCUS, ICETOOL, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, TOAD, QUALITY CENTER, FILE MANAGER, CHANGEMAN, IBM DEBUG, GTB (CICS MAPS), QUALITY CENTER and all other Mainframe Technologies..

Confidential, MICHIGAN .

Senior Systems Analyst (Team Lead)

Environment: IBM-3090, TSO/ISPF, JCL/PROC’s, COBOL MVS, COBOL II, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, FOCUS, CLIST, SAS, VSAM/SEQ, IMS/DB/DC, IMS BMP/MPP, DB2/SQL, MQ series, UDB, TERADATA, SAS, SPUFI, CA7, File Aid, Expeditor, Endeavor, Cross Tabs, FTP, Endevor, Sync Sort.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as MAINFRAME LEAD DEVELOPER in above projects and team involved 5 people.
• Enhancements to COBOL/FOCUS/TERADATA/JCL/VSAM/DB2/IMS DB/DC/IMS BMP,MQ Series programs
• Translation of the user requirements to the technical specifications
• The analysis was done and documentation was produced in VISIO 5.0, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS PowerPoint, MS Access in which WINDOWS XP was the Operating System
• Provided Mainframe Application development support using COBOL II, CICS, TELON, SPUFI, DB2, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, ASSEMBLER, UDB File Aid and JCL in both Batch and Online.
• Developed COBOL-FOCUS, SAS, DB2-IMS-VSAM-TERADATA programs to get data from interfacing systems
• Used EASYTRIEVE to file fixes, comparison of files for matched and unmatched, data conversion.
• ICETOOL, CLIST and REXX was used to fix files and generate temporary codes.
• Experience in adhering to SOX documentation standards
• Creating Tickets for Abends and fixing the problems immediately
• Preparing amendment specifications and unit test records for the changes
• Making changes to online, batch programs and copy cobs as per user requirements
• Coding, Testing, creating test plans, test scripts, UAT testing and Implementing in Production of all Mainframe NEW and Existing Applications.
• Testing is done for Online programs using Expeditor, CEDF and Trace commands. Batch programs using Expeditor.
• Creating a Cardlibs and Proclibs for JCL’s and Implementation is done in CA7.scheduler.
• Handle promotions of programs to different environments using CHANGEMAN/Endeavor
• Creating new copybooks and SSA’s, Participated in Code walkthroughs.
• Compilation and Change Management Configuration By using Endevor
• Incorporating changes in JCLs if required.
• Writing the test cases and test plans based on specs.
• Preparing Installation Document.
• Investigated on user reported problems, modified existing process to resolve critical problems
• Implementing the programs and getting acceptance from the user.

Confidential, INDIANA

Associate Consultant (Team Lead)

Environment: IBM-3090, TSO/ISPF, JCL/PROC’s, COBOL MVS, COBOL II, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, VSAM/SEQ, IMS/DB/DC, IMS BMP, DB2/SQL, MQ series, UDB, SAS, SPUFI, CA7, File Aid, Expeditor, Endeavor, FTP, Endevor, Sync Sort.

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to COBOL/CICS/TELON/MQ Series/VSAM/DB2/IMS DB/DC/IMS BMP programs
• Translation of the user requirements to the technical specifications
• The analysis was done and documentation was produced in VISIO 5.0, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS PowerPoint, MS Access in which WINDOWS XP was the Operating System
• Provided Mainframe Application support using COBOL II, CICS, TELON, SPUFI, DB2, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, UDB File Aid and JCL in both Batch and Online.
• Developed COBOL-TELON-CICS-IMS DB, MQ series, SAS, DB2 programs to get data from interfacing systems
• Used EASYTRIEVE to file fixes, comparison of files for matched and unmatched, data conversion.
• ICETOOL, CLIST and REXX was used to fix files and generate temporary codes.
• STORED PROCEDURES for JAVA, J2EE and ORACLE applications.
• Preparing amendment specifications and unit test records for the changes
• Making changes to online, batch programs and copy cobs as per user requirements
• Coding, Testing, creating test plans, test scripts, UAT testing and Implementing in Production of all Mainframe NEW and Existing Applications.
• Testing is done for Online programs using Expeditor, CEDF and Trace commands. Batch programs using Expeditor
• Creating a Cardlibs and Proclibs for JCL’s and Implementation is done in CA7.scheduler.
• Handle promotions of programs to different environments using Endeavor
• Creating new copybooks and SSA’s.
• Participated in Code walkthroughs.
• Compilation and Change Management Configuration By using Endevor
• Putting One Stops for all the RELEASE and Off Release to Production.
• Assisting in creating two new database segments to store new information and their history. One at the Group level, one at the Member contract Level.
• Requesting DBA to add new segments to Group database and Contract database.
• Requesting DBA to create New DB2 tables.
• Incorporating changes in JCLs if required.
• Writing the test cases and test plans based on specs.
• Preparing Installation Document.
• Investigated on user reported problems, modified existing process to resolve critical problems
• Implementing the programs and getting acceptance from the user.

Confidential, MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Senior Programmer Analyst

Environment: IBM-3090, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL MVS, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM/KSDS, IMS/DB/DC, IMS BMP, SQL, CA7, File-Aid/MVS, File-Aid/DB2, Expediter, QMF, MS OFFICE, Sync Sort, CHANGEMAN, EASYTRIEVE, MQ SERIES, UNIX, EDI, GENTRAN

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of dollar transactions programs are done for COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS DB .
• The temporary test data is used to prepare in VSAM to check the data validations.
• The analysis was done and documentation was produced in VISIO 5.0, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS PowerPoint, MS Access in which WINDOWS XP was the Operating System
• Enhancements to COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS DB/MQ SERIES, SAS, EASYTRIEVE programs
• Used EASYTRIEVE to file fixes, comparison of files for matched and unmatched, data conversion.
• Translation of the user requirements to the technical specifications
• Interfaces with EDI and GENTRAN/ANSI X-12 systems.
• Interface between MAINFRAME and UNIX system for FTP data (transferring), loading.
• Providing technical assistance whenever possible during project development
• Writing the Batch Programs to run Adhoc jobs to delete or update database or files to correct wrong data keyed in by the user.
• Handle promotions of programs to different environments using Endeavor
• Coding JCL’s to run Adhoc jobs.
• Converted old COBOL-IMS DB programs to COBOL DB2 from interfacing systems
• Coding, Testing, creating test plans, test scripts, UAT testing and Implementing in Production of all Mainframe NEW and Existing Applications.
• Testing is done for Online programs using Expeditor, CEDF and Trace commands. Batch programs using Expeditor
• Participated code and bug review meetings
• Compilation and Change Management Configuration By using Endevor.
• Creating Change Management tickets for Implementing in Production.
• Implementing the programs and JCL’s in CA7 getting acceptance from the user
• Incorporating changes in JCL’s if required
• Handled day-to-day user requests by developing SQL queries.
• Making the changes to Online and Batch programs as per user requirements
• Investigated on user reported problems, modified existing process to resolve critical problems
• Extract and upload DB2/VSAM data from production environment to test environment
• Use File-Aid to browse/edit data for DB2 and VSAM
• Writing programs to generate reports using EASYTRIEVE PLUS
• Developed COBOL-IMS DB programs to get data from interfacing systems
• Writing the test cases and test plans based on specs.
• Review the existing and new COBOL code
• Designed and modified the screens using SDFII