SUMMARY

• 18+ years of IT industry experience in Analysis, Design and Development, Maintenance, testing, implementation & production support of software applications on Mainframe platform
• Have extensive knowledge and working experience on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Agile Software Development Life Cycle
• Experienced in Finance, Health - care & Insurance Sectors (including Financial Compliance - AML & OFAC regulations, SOX)
• Worked for Global Clients like Confidential (USA), Merrill Lynch (USA), Confidential (Turkey), Prudential Insurance (USA), Confidential (Singapore)
• Have expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS
• Involved in migration of various projects from Onshore to Offshore and responsible for making those applications in Steady State and getting the Signoff from the Customers after the Migration. Involved in various activities during the migration like Cross Training, Knowledge Transfer, Parallel Performance, Independent Performance etc
• Worked with various customers & third party Vendors, directly and responsible for all kinds of coordination activities and timely delivery of projects
• Experience in providing 24/7 Production Support for mainframe applications
• Experience in Release Management
• Actively participated in client calls during emergency situations like Severity 1 production issues.
• Have experience in gathering and understanding the requirements from the client.
• Involved extensively in training, knowledge transfer sessions to new employees and subordinates to cater to technical and functional requirements of the application.
• Have immense ability to build productive relationships with peers, management, and clients applying strong Communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Good debugging and diagnostic skills in batch/Online processing.
• Also experienced as Project Manager/ Lead at offshore for a US based PBM Client
• Responsible for all Client Delivery and Quality Standards
• Managing 48 member team across 3 locations (USA, India & Philippines)
• People Management responsibilities for the 48 Direct Reportees
• Responsible for the training/development of all Direct Reportees

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Eztrieve

DBMS: DB2, VSAM, SQL, DB2 Stored Procedures

Technologies: Mainframes

Programming Tools: SPUFI, QMF, MQ, File-AID, DFSORT, NDM, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Visio

Debugging Tools: Intertest, Smarttest

Version Management Tool: ChangeMan, Endeavor

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows 7/XP/2000/98

Certifications: Agile methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Lead Developer

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Changeman, QMF, File-Aid, DB2 & SQL

Responsibilities:

• Discussions with Business & BAs to get requirements with respect to the ESI Billing system
• Requirement analysis & understanding to arrive at project implementation deadlines, testing & user sign-off processes to be followed.
• Discussions & involvement of Data modelling team, application DBAs to arrive at an optimal solution for changes involving DB2 tables
• Plan for the change implementation, notification to various support teams, attend DB2 & pre-prod gate reviews and follow all Capital One internal compliance processes
• Co-ordination with various team to set expectations so as to meet deadlines.
• Perform coding, unit testing, code reviews and discussions with offshore on a regular basis
• Plan & execute change implementations on stipulated implementation windows, verify & validate changes post implementation and provide warranty support
• Coordinating with the upstream and downstream applications during technical outages

Mainframe Lead Developer

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Changeman, QMF, File-Aid, DB2 & SQL

Responsibilities:

• Provide 24/7 support for the application and batch processings.
• Provide support to various systems interfacing with IMAC Co-ordination of testing for COMPASS conversion Provide on-going support for integrating systems.
• Manage / Co-ordinate the off-shore support team.

Team Lead / Tech Lead / Onsite Co-ordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage onsite / offshore support team Provide 24/7 support for the application and batch processings.
• Provide support to various systems within ML, to integrate with RLSU Co-ordination of testing for systems integrating with RLSU.
• Provide on-going support for integrating systems. Manage / Co-ordinate the off-shore support team.

Team Lead

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Changeman, QMF, File-Aid, DB2 & SQL

Responsibilities:

• Based on the requests (enhancements & change) submitted by the user, the programs to be changed are studied and the changes to be the done are documented, using Lotus Notes Changing those affected programs, according to the specifications. Coding online programs using CICS/DB2 and CICS/VSAM and batch programs using COBOL II/DB2, COBOL II/VSAM and SAS. Testing of these programs in the testing environment.
• This testing involves preparation of test JCLs (for batch), preparing test data and loading data to tables or files. Provide assistance during User testing.

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Based on the change requests submitted by the user, the programs to be changed are studied and the changes to be the done are documented, in the form of AMENDMENT SPECIFICATIONS, using WordPerfect. Changing those affected programs, according to the specifications.
• Coding online programs using CICS/DB2 and CICS/VSAM and batch programs using COBOL II/DB2, COBOL II/VSAM and SAS. Testing of these programs in the testing environment.