SUMMARY

• Senior Programmer/Lead with 18+ years in IT and over 16 years of experience in IBM Mainframe Tools and Technologies.
• Specialized in Automation, Production support, Performance, onsite - offshore model and delivery of projects various sizes and complexity.
• Expertise working on Health Care Billing, Commercial and Personal Insurance Policy Systems.
• Experience working with Business Users, Product Analysts and Subject Matter Experts for requirements.
• Expertise in building applications with COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, XML, MQSeries, Web Service and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats like HL7 v3 XML, ACCORD AL3 XML, X12.
• Expertise customizing XML schemas and parsing large XML messages in COBOL CICS/BATCH environments. Expertise to create high, low level designs, flow diagrams of new or existing functionality, test environments, test cases and perform peer reviews.
• Provide technical support, managed and mentored projects to completion in a fast paced time sensitive and onsite-offshore environments.
• Provide support and perform testing of software upgrades/updates on mainframe until production implementation.
• Created knowledge repository, reports to management and system documentation.
• Possess a quick learning curve towards any new technology or platform
• Well acquainted to agile methodology in Software Development Life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL 6.2, JCL, Java 2.0, JSP, JDBC, J2EE, J2ME, XML, SOAPWeb Service Definition Language (WSDL)

OLTP: CICS, WebCICS, IMS DC

App/Web Servers: Weblogic 8.0, Websphere 5.0iPlanet 6.0, Jakarta Tomcat 3.2.3

Databases: IMS DB, TERADATA, DB2 UDB V8.1

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, OS/390, Z/OS (1.2 - 1.11)

Tools: & Utilities: VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, PROJCL, Endevor, CHANGEMAN, Xpeditor, INSYNC, INFOMAN, File-AID, QMF, SPUFI, PDM, $AVRS, FTP, EDI, MANTIS, Quick Edit, Crossplex2.0, TrackRecord, MQ Visual Browse, Altova XMLSpy Toolkit, MQSeries, Symphonia Toolkit, BookSmart, File Manager, Mainview, ASG SMART TEST IBM Debug Tool, Control-M, OPC Scheduler

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norristown, PA

Technical Lead, Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Provide Demos to Business Users, Subject Matter Experts, Production Support of New/Modified Flow
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for automation projects using XML, MQSeries, CICS and COBOL Batch
• Created flow diagrams and knowledge documents of new or modified functional flows
• Customized HL7 v3 schema as needed to Confidential Billing System
• Used HL7 v3 schema to build COBOL XML parser and generate acknowledgement messages.
• Developed COBOL MQSeries, CICS modules for various projects in Confidential Billing System
• Developed COBOL BATCH modules to load master setup data in production as adhoc requests
• Performed unit, integration, User Acceptance testing and Web Service testing using Eclipse tool
• Performed design, code, version control reviews for projects
• Optimized code for performance improvements in Confidential Billing System
• Well acquainted working on projects using Agile Methodology
• Create implementation plan, back out plan and submit service requests to CGI or Production Support
• Scheduled new or modified existing jobs in Control-M scheduler
• Provided training to resources on areas of expertise in Confidential Billing System

Environment: TSO/ISPF, JCL, Enterprise COBOL 6.2, Z/OS, XML, CICS, Endeavor, VSAM, MQSeries, Web Services, Control-M, Clarity, $AVRS, IBM File Manager, Mainview, IBM Debug Tool, Eclipse, MQ Visual Browse, Altova XMLSpy Toolkit and Agile Methodology

Confidential, Harleysville, PA

System Analyst, Project Lead, Onsite-Offshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Provided maintenance, support, Onsite-Offshore coordination for Commercial and Personal Lines Systems
• Interacted with Business and Product teams for requirements gathering
• Resolved Customer queries, provided work arounds, solutions to production problems
• Planned and prioritized projects, defects with effort estimations for monthly releases
• Managed and mentored a team of off-shore development resources with the size of 10 to 12
• Interacted with Workers Compensation Bureaus to report policy data electronically and receive approval
• Analyze and resolve Bureau criticisms on Workers Compensation policy data submitted
• Interact with vendor (AMS) for Commercial Lines Audit processing
• Interact with states for electronic submission of DMV, PICs, POCs and Unit Statistical data
• Worked with vendor (rocket systems) to resolve critical problems identified in testing Crossplex 2.0 upgrade to LCE 5.1
• Create flow charts for migrating from mainframe to server using Java, .NET, BookSmart and Informatica
• Create flow charts to automate Personal Lines renewal conversion from legacy to Duck Creek
• Conducted walkthrough sessions on Personal Lines renewal conversion work flow
• Developed modules for Commercial and Personal policy conversion to AQS and Duck Creek systems
• Developed Personal Lines legacy field mappings to ACCORD AL3 format for renewal conversion.
• Interact with BookSmart vendor to create new fields required in ACCORD AL3 for renewal conversion
• Project Status reporting to Senior management on Commercial and Personal Lines Policy Admin Systems
• Analyze, build and provide reports to Business, Senior Management on Commercial and Personal legacy data.
• Resolve technical problems across Harleysville mainframe applications
• Create implementation plan and documentation for monthly releases
• Performed analysis of code for Optimization
• Created application specific checkpoint documents during mainframe move
• Seed policies into test environments for Commercial and Personal Lines renewal conversion testing
• Created modules to fix critical production problems
• Proactively identify and fix problems in all Commercial and Personal Lines applications
• Created knowledge repository to train new team members

Environment: TSO/ISPF, JCL, DB2, Enterprise COBOL 4.2, Z/OS 1.11, XML, INSYNC, CICS, WebCICS, SmartTest, OPC Scheduler, Quick Edit, PDM, Track Record, Microsoft TFS, Endeavor, VSAM, HNET Crossplex 2.0, HTML, JavaScript, EDI, FTP-Pro, PERL, Web Services, ACCORD AL3, BookSmart