SUMMARY

• 10 years’ experience in building, designing & maintaining application - design for Mainframe IBM system.
• Experienced programmer with outstanding technical & analytical skills, with extensive knowledge of application development and support in COBOL,IMS, JCL, MQ Series, CICS, DB2, DMSII, REXX & SAS
• Strong domain experience in Banking, industries.
• Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, deployment & release upgrades.
• Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation.
• Experience includes IBM Mainframe programming using MF COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC, TSO, MVS, VM and Z/OS.
• Worked extensively on the Software tools like CHANGEMAN, XPEDITER, IMS, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, FILE-AID for DB2, FIL-AID for IMS, File Manager for IMS, IMF.
• Expert in COBOL IMS coding to retrieving and manipulating IMS database (Hierarchical database) and in FILE-AID IMS.
• Expert in automation in mainframe using REXX and ISPF EDIT MACROS.
• Expert in creating reports using SAS programming knowledge in mainframe.
• Expert in batch monitoring using CA7 scheduling tool.
• Good knowledge in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like QMF, SPUFI, DB2 AND FILE-AID. Good knowledge in coding DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Sound knowledge in using IBM utilities, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL & IEBGENER.
• Responsible for uploading and downloading the files through FTP between different systems and transferring the files between different regions using NDM.
• Extensive experience in usage MS-Visio to create functional flow diagrams.
• Performed Unit, Integration and System testing, captured the test results and participated in reviews to ensure quality of changes. Fixed the defects discovered in testing.
• Quick learner with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, and team management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with clients, management and staff members.
• Extensive knowledge on Software Development methodologies and worked on Water fall methodologies.
• Monitoring the nightly batch cycles and getting the abend jobs run by using various abend resolution processes in time and providing the necessary files needed.
• Reviewed and provided input to training materials. Served as a subject matter expert.
• Experience working in a high-pressure, dynamic, and fast paced environment, with the ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Exceptionally proven analytical, coding, dump reading and debugging skills
• Proficient in both application development and Production support batch and online activities.
• Talented communicator & presenter, able to build working relationships with wide range of coworkers in team environment.
• Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, IMS, MVS/JCL/PROCS, SAS, CICS, MQ/Series, REXX, ISPF edit Macros, EZT

Tools: & Utilities: Eztrieve, File-aid/File Manager, Abend-aid, SyncSort, QC, Unisys, Dump-master Xpeditor, ENDEVOR, IBM debugger, QMF, SPUFI, Serena TSO/ISPF,IMF,MQS, CA-7.

Methodologies: Software Development Life cycle experience

File Transfer: FTP, NDM

Databases/File Structures: IMS DB, DB2, DMSII, VSAM, SQL.

Environment: TSO Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Flowood, MS

Lead System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functionality of the application.
• Analysis the system based on the work order and providing the effective solution.
• Prepared program specifications
• Study existing processes to ensure consistency and integrity with new design.
• Prepare test scripts for Unit testing and execute all scripts.
• Prepare test results document
• Support testing team in terms of any design/requirement questions
• Resolve any defects or in corporate any changes required by business.
• Responsible to monitor performance of mainframe jobs and fine tune jobs.
• Solving / Tracking the defects till moving to Production
• Coded programs and modified existed programs as per specification requirements in COBOL using, VSAM files and Flat files
• Developing COBOL - DB2, CICS programs as per specification based on the business need.
• Worked on conversion project - IMS DB, DB2.
• Developing customer information screen using IMS DC interacting IMS DB.
• Maintaining the data for audit purposes.
• Developed new stored procs to extract data from DB2 tables
• Responsible for writing and execution of test plans, test cases based on the business requirement of the application. Provide the test plans to team members to perform system level testing
• Performed the review, and implementation into the production following the change control process
• Review of the specifications, test cases and test packs developed by other team members
• Change man used to maintain and promote elements to test environment

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, DMSII, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Abend-AID, File-AID, Change Man, SPUFI,QMF,IMF,MQS, File manager, Rexx, SAS, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Quality Center.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Lead Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functionality of the application.
• Prepared program specifications
• Documented business and technical requirements and functional specifications using Waterfall SDLC methodology.
• Study existing processes to ensure consistency and integrity with new design.
• Design processes as per business needs. Create MS Visio to represent design in diagrams.
• Prepare test scripts for Unit testing and execute all scripts.
• Prepare test results document
• Support testing team in terms of any design/requirement questions
• Resolve any defects or in corporate any changes required by business.
• Responsible to monitor performance of mainframe jobs and fine tune jobs.
• Solving / Tracking the defects till moving to Production
• Effective monitoring the batch using CA7 as the customer impact is high on SLA time.
• Coded programs and modified existed programs as per specification requirements in COBOL using, VSAM files and Flat files
• Customer statement reports generation using SAS and EZT.
• Adhoc customer statement reports generation using Rexx.
• Provided extended support for reporting application WBS-MIS reporting system residing on VM (NOMAD).
• Responsible for writing and execution of test plans, test cases based on the business requirement of the application. Provide the test plans to team members to perform system level testing
• Responsible for testing and debugging using Abend-Aid
• Performed the review, and implementation into the production following the change control process
• Review of the specifications, test cases and test packs developed by other team members
• Change man used to maintain and promote elements to test environment
• Maintaining the data for audit purposes.

Environment: COBOL,IMS DB, DB2, CICS, VSAM, DMSII, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Abend-AID, File-AID, Change Man, SPUFI,QMF,IMF,MQS, File manager, Rexx, SAS, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Quality Center.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functionality of the application.
• Prepared program specifications.
• Documented business and technical requirements and functional specifications using Waterfall SDLC methodology.
• Study existing processes to ensure consistency and integrity with new design.
• Design processes as per business needs.
• Create MS Visio to represent design in diagrams.
• Prepare test scripts for Unit testing and execute all scripts.
• Prepare test results document.
• Support testing team in terms of any design/requirement questions.
• Resolve any defects or in corporate any changes required by business.
• Responsible to monitor performance of mainframe jobs and fine tune jobs.
• Solving / Tracking the defects till moving to Production
• Developed new stored procs to extract data from DB2 tables
• Coded programs and modified existed programs as per specification requirements in COBOL in DB2, VSAM files and Flat files.
• SQL tuning for effective path to fetch the data from DB2 table.
• Proposed the tuning of DB2 tables structure.
• Coded stored procedure to fetch the customer check details to retrieve their check images.
• Attending ADHOC requests, audit requests and break fixes.
• Responsible for writing and execution of test plans, test cases based on the business requirement of the application. Provide the test plans to team members to perform system level testing
• Performed the review, and implementation into the production following the change control process
• Review of the specifications, test cases and test packs developed by other team members
• Change man used to maintain and promote elements to test environment
• Maintaining the data for audit purposes.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, SQL, Abend-AID, File-AID, SPUFI, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, REXX and CLIST.