SUMMARY

• More TEMPthan 15 years of experience in mainframe computer programming. Has been involved in coding, testing, maintaining, debugging, analysis and enhancement of programs/applications.
• Overall 17 years of experience in Confidential wif Confidential domain certification.
• Has 5+ yrs of experience in Application Analysis, Technical Design, Development, Implementation, Performance tuning, unit testing, SIT support, UAT support and all stages of Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of software applications using Mainframe technologies.
• Extensive production support and Development experience in Mainframe Environment using COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, VSAM and DB2.
• Extensive experience wif DB2 version 8/9, IDMS and knowledge of Stored Procedures.
• Experience of CICS and application dat use MQ, Websphere Message broker, Container and web service interface thru WSDL and IBM ODM service.
• Expertise in using IBM tools like IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, and SYNCSORT.
• Experience in IBM TOPAZ workbench product and ISPW for devOPS pipeline implementation.
• Experience using BRE tools for Exit Legacy projects.
• Experience in using SONAR scanner tool of SONARQUEBE.
• Expertise in using performance optimization tools strobe and IBM detector.
• Expertise in using File - AID, Xpeditor, IBM Debugger, SPUFI, QMF, SAR, SDSF, DMLO, OLQ and CULPRIT.
• Extensive experience using various Relational and Network databases including DB2 and IDMS.
• Knowledge of Hierarchal database IMS.
• Experience in Application development using Waterfall methodologies.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology.
• Experience in designing test plans, test cases and design documents.
• Provided 24/7 production support to Mainframe system, which includes support during night batch run, providing temporary fix to JCL’s during batch abends to avoid delay.
• 10 Yrs experience of working in Application production Support and maintenance projects.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills and used them in gathering requirements by interacting wif the Client.
• ExcellentAnalytical, BusinessandProblemsolving, wif ability to interact wif individuals at all levels.
• Creative self-starter capable of establishing positive and productive working relationships in internal and external team environments.
• Experience in working in a deadline driven environment.
• Experience of Configuration Management and Release/Build management activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM ZOS/390,MVS/ESA, Windows, JES/2/3 and MS-DOS

Languages: COBOL, CICS,JCL, EASYTRIEVE,PL/SQL, SQL,ADSO

Access Method: VSAM

Database: DB2, Oracle 10g, IDMS, Microsoft Access & SQL

OLTP: TOPAZ, SONARQUEBE,WSDL, WEBSPHERE MQ and ODM

Scheduler: CA - 7,UCC7, $universe

Tools: Expeditor, File-Aid, abend-aid, Panavalet, SPUFI, QMF, Smartest, ISPF/TSO and Endevor

Utilities: IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, SUPERC, FTP, ICETOOL, OLQ and CULPRIT.

Other Languages: C#, WebAPI, Entity Framwork, LINQ, HTML, JavaScript and SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Senior Lead Programmer

Responsibilities:

• A member of CIS (Development) team.
• Doing development since last 6 years and involved in SDLC phases such as requirement gathering, preparation of high level and low level specification, coding and unit testing, code review, SIT and UAT Support, production deployment, release management and warranty support.
• Coding, testing and maintaining COBOL, CICS, JCL, Easytrieve and DB2 programs.
• Using TOPAZ, ODM, WEBSPHERE MQ, and ODM.
• Working wif web service SOAP interface services such as WSDL and web service studio.
• Used tool like detector and strobe for performance optimization.
• Preparing Detailed design and Specification documents for business requirements.
• Conducting reviews on Detailed designs, UTPs and UTRs along wif client
• Conducting reviews on Systems Function Application Designs, Detailed designs along wif client.
• Coding and development as per the Detailed design.
• Setting up SIT and UAT test data
• Providing direction to web and testing team whenever requires.
• Perform defect analysis and provide fix during SIT/UAT.
• Implementation of devOPS pipeline for mainframe COBOL components.
• Use of BRE tool to generate inventory, program flow charting, test cases determination for moving system into dotNet platform.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer/Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• A member of Mainframe Production Support Team.
• Monitored Production jobs run.
• Promoted programs, copybooks, procedures etc.
• Enhancement of application as per requirement
• Provided temporary solution of batch or online abend
• Provided permanent solution of batch or online abend
• Optimization and performance improvement of application
• Eliminating manual activities by providing automated solution
• Installation of patches received from third party vendor into test, QA and production

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer/Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on migration and shutdown of application.
• Was primary responsible for time phased migration and shutdown of application.
• Primary involved and responsible for deciding approach for project.
• Did impact analysis of application and coordinated shutdown wif external interfaces.
• Was primary responsible for design and implementation of application to make historical records available for audit and legal purpose
• Was primary responsible for design and implementation of application to provide different kind of reporting facilities
• Provided production support till application is completely shutdown
• Did shutdown of application wif no impact on third party or external application.
• Migrated data related to enrollment, policy etc. from hierarchical database IDMS to relational DB2 database
• Coded program to extract data from IDMS database and converted into DB2 load format

Confidential

Production Support

Responsibilities:

• A member of Production Support Team for Administration, Claim processing and Agent data processing system.
• Maintenance, enhancements and production support altogether managed as per agreed SLA.
• Resolved tickets by analyzing COBOL, COBOL/DB2 programs and updating DB2/IDMS tables.
• Monitored JCL jobs run.
• Used SPUFI, IDMS and DB2 access.
• Created relevant documentation employing Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Notepad.
• Coded program for enhancement of application or for adhoc request using COBOL, DB2, IDMS, Easytrieve, JCL and VSAM.