SUMMARY

• Self motivated Mainframe Programmer with 8.11 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Specialist in Automation of tasks using Excel VBA, VB Script, IBM SORT and REXX.
• Over 8 years of experience in gathering requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, reviewing, implementation and support the applications in Mainframe Technology.
• Extensive Experience on Mainframe related skills such as COBOL, SAS, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2, VSAM, IBM SORT, ADS Plus and Mainframe tools such as CHANGEMAN, IBM IFA, ABEND AID, XPEDITOR, FILE - AID, FILE MANAGER, SPUFI, JOBTRAC and QMF.
• Excellent business knowledge in US Healthcare industry and Federal laws like HIPAA.
• Handled several successful projects in Mainframe using complete SDLC and Agile Scrum methodology.
• Managed geographically segregated teams and played important roles such as Programmer, Application Delivery Lead and Technical Lead.
• Expert in Technical Mentoring and sharing knowledge to the team members and other resources in the project.
• Worked with release management and operations teams to deploy the code.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work individually or part of a team and good learner to adapt new technologies that improve the business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: MVS, TSO, ISPF, IBM OS/390, Z/OS, WINDOWS, UNIX

Languages: COBOL, SAS, ADS Plus, Easytrieve, SQL, DB2 Stored Procs, PL/SQL and FOCUS

Databases: IMS-DB, DB2, VSAM, ETL Pocess and SQL for DB2

Front ends/OLTP: CICS, ADS Plus

Methodology: Waterfall (SDLC) and Agile Scrum.

Ticketing tools: Remedy 5.5, ITSM 7.6

Tools: / Utilities: ISPF/TSO, IBM Utilities, SORT, IDCAMS, SPUFI, QMF, IBM MQ, FILE-AID, File Manager, JobTrac, DADS, Finalist, SAR, JCL Tools, ABEND-AID, GUIDEWIRE Studio 8.0 (Policy Center, Billing Center, Claim Center), MS Office Products (MS Access, MS Excel etc), NDM, FTP, CHANGEMAN, Mainframe Host, XPEDITOR, EDI, HIPPA, HL7, PHI and IBM DT.

Exposure / Acquaintance: PL/1, UNIX Scripting, PL/SQL, CSS, HTML, GOSU, JAVA, XML, VB/Java Script, VB 6, Batch Script, Tandem, EDI 834 & 837, HP ALM and MS Excel Macros (VBA)

Domain Exprience: US Healthcare and Automobile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Senior Developer / Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Strong experience with Requirement Analysis, Coding, testing and implementing using the requirement document.
• Experience in analyzing the entire system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, SAS, SORT and VSAM.
• Preparing Technical Specification Document, Interface Document, High Level Design Document, and detailed Design document to the newly developed or enhanced programs.
• Responsible for receiving the requirements from the clients and allocate these tasks to the clients with the proper technical ideas to proceed with the requirements.
• Responsible for reviewing the tasks before it delivered to business.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Coordinated with the testing other team for QA testing and Ascertaining quality standards.
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Analyze and prepare solutions to the enhancement of WERS DB2 application.

Environment: MVS, TSO, Mainframe Host, Agile Scrum, PUPS, QMF, SPUFI, MOBIUS, COBOL, IMS, JCL, DB2, ETL, SQL, FOCUS, SAS, DB2 Stored Procs and SORT

Confidential

Senior Developer / Application Lead

Responsibilities:

• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, ADS Plus, FOCUS, SAS, REXX and VSAM.
• Responsible for all the deliveries made by the RMS offshore team.
• Strong experience with Requirement Analysis, Coding, testing and implementing using the requirement document.
• Preparing Technical Specification Document, Interface Document, High Level Design Document, and detailed Design document to the developed or enhanced programs.
• Experience in analyzing the entire system that receives HL7 data via EDI and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
• Ability to write some common macros that are useful across multiple applications (Like reading SYSPARM and count number of observations in a dataset etc.).
• Automated eFTP tool created using Visual Basic to download the multiple files from Mainframe host.
• Responsible for receiving the requirements from the clients and allocate these tasks to the clients with the proper technical ideas to proceed with the requirements.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Managing Remedy tickets, scheduling and tracking it to closure.
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Providing the solutions to the daily/weekly abended jobs and resolving the incidents and SRs escalated by the primary support team.
• Analyze and prepare solutions to the enhancement of RMS application.
• Providing technical and functional knowledge to team members.
• Interacting with the third party interface partners, KP clients and business users over phone, same time or WebEx to resolve the issues.
• Interacting with onsite coordinator for issues and queries in the application.
• Contacting the Application Users who resides in USA and fixing their queries by contacting over phone.
• Responsible to fix the production abends within the SLA, contact Operations team to restart problem jobs, contact onsite on-call person in case of critical job failures, closing incident tickets with description of fix.

Environment: MVS, TSO, Mainframe Host, MQ, COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, ETL, DB2 Stored Procedures, ADS Plus, FOCUS, Finalist, HIPPA, HL7, Assembler, SAS, VSAM, JCL, NDM, FTP, Visual Basic (VB6) and SORT

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, FOCUS, SAS and VSAM.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and meet the deadlines as and when required.
• Contributed in Project Requirement Analysis meetings with the onsite team.
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Application production support and customer support by 24/7.
• Do root cause analysis (RCA) on production abends and provide the permanent resolution for the ABEND.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Managing Remedy tickets, scheduling and tracking it to closure
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time and Ascertaining quality standards.
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.

Environment: MVS, TSO, Mainframe Host, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, FOCUS, SAS, NDM, FTP and SORT