SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience in Analysis, technical design, development, integration, testing and project management of Mainframe Hosted Application Systems in NTT Data Inc.
• Expertise in all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in mainframes OS/390, Z/OS platforms.
• Experience in developing applications involving COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS - DB, STORED PROCEDURES, VSAM and TOAD.
• Excellent knowledge in File Manager, TSO, ChangeMan, SPUFI, CA-7 Scheduler, CA Librarian, HP Quality center, FTP, Clear Quest, Abend aid, Syncsort, MS-office, MS-Outlook, Sharepoint & Microsoft Office
• Experience in various Disaster Recovery Testing & Validation.
• Proficient in implementing & altering the IMS DB Table (PSB changes) during the Mainframe outage session along with the program changes.
• Effective in cross-functional & global environments to manage multiple tasks & assignments concurrently.
• Sound knowledge in XCOM, SFTP, Natural Mainframe, EntireX.
• Worked on MQ series message queuing interface technology for integrating open source web interface with the Mainframes backend and Online CICS systems.
• Extensive experience in production support of Batch & Online systems on IBM Mainframe (24*7).
• Vast experience in handling Mainframe Testing (Quality Analysis) while developing new processes.
• Proficient in OMVS, TCPIP, JES, HSM, SMS, SCLM, RTC Entries, CICS, InfoPrint, IBM Mainframe Debugger, ISPF utilities.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing co-ordination between onsite and offshore teams & involved in Week end Deployment of Mainframe Programs and Packages during Mainframe outages.
• Expertise in obtaining the project requirements from user, writing system specifications, translating user requirements into technical specifications, preparation of requirements documents, formulating the requirements into design specifications and tracking project progress.
• Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from Requirement analysis to Maintenance.
• Good Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new tools & software quickly as required.
• Knowledge in handling the RACF ID’s for employer for mainframe security purpose.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills contributing to timely completion of project deliverables well ahead of schedule.
• High degree of positive attitude and a superior ability to work well with others.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: OS/390, OS/MVS, Z/OS (IBM Mainframe), Windows 2000/XP

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IBM MQ, REXX, Entire X.

Version Control Tools: CHANGEMAN, Endevor

File Management Tools: File Manager, File Aid

DB Tools: SPUFI

Debugging Tools: IBM DEBUG

Utility Transactions: JobScan, Vanguard, Strobe, SFTP, CECI, CEMT.

Other Tools and utilities: Abend-aid, Syncsort, TSO/ISPF QMF, SDSF, IBM utilities, HP Quality Center, Infopoint, OMVS, TCPIP, JES, HSM, SMS, SCLM, RTC, CICS, InfoPrint, Debug, ISPF.

Database: DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB, ADABAS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr.Mainframe Developer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Development of New Programs using CICS, Batch, Online Cobol programs.
• Involved in capacity planning/Demand Management. Responsible for status reports/preparation of delivery metrics to customer.
• Understanding and capturing project requirements by working with business and doing Feasibility analysis.
• Working with business to determine the project scope and involved in project discussions across groups.
• Analyzed, designed, developed & tested activities inCobol, CICS, DB2,IMS,JCL, ADABAS, EntireX.
• Reviewed the code for coding standards from ChangeMan and quality checks during development phase. Responsible for code delivery of each project.
• Involved in creating our own test region for modeling the user acceptance testing scenarios.
• Onsite support during implementation window.
• Responsible for component creation, packaging, migration from dev, UAT and PROD implementation.
• Involved in production support and resolving trouble tickets after implementation of the project.
• Implemented JCL using CA-7 Scheduler.
• Hands on Experience in Creating PCB, PSB & implementing those PSB changes during the weekend Mainframe outage. Worked on creating new Cobol program using IMS DB.
• Preparing the release coverage and implementation timelines for the project.
• Preparing the productivity metrics after implementation.
• Working on estimate variances after project implementation and ensuring documentation of the project activities.
• Accountable and responsible for NTT Data project delivery. End-to-End ownership of projects for NTT Data.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, MVS TSO, CICS, File Manager, IMS DB, DB2 stored procedure, SOAP UI, Web services, MQ Series, Temporary storage Queue, IBM Debugger, ChangeMan, JCL, ADABAS, ARC BATCH process, EntireX.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr. Mainframe Developer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Had been leading a project team of 5 onshore associates at Client location and 10 associates in offshore location for the past 3+ years.
• Understand Business requirements and preparing the Technical High level and Low level design documents.
• Involvement in capacity planning/Demand Management. Responsible for status reports/preparation of delivery metrics to customer.
• Understanding and capturing project requirements by working with business and doing Feasibility analysis.
• Worked with business to determine the project scope and involved in project discussions across groups.
• Analyzing the code for the changes and preparing estimations, high level and detailed design, batch and online programming subprograms and COPYLIBS, DB2 stored procedures, establish dependencies, implement and provided post production support.
• Hands on Experience in creating PCB, PSB & implementing those PSB changes during the weekend Mainframe outage. Worked on creating new Cobol program using IMS DB.
• Reviewed the design documents prepared by team.
• Reviewed the code for coding standards from ChangeMan/Panvalet and quality checks during development phase. Responsible for code delivery of each project.
• Involved in creating our own test region for modeling the user acceptance testing scenarios.
• Monitored jobs in CA-7 and responsible for timely delivery of defect fixes and batch abend fixes for user acceptance testing.
• Monitored abends in abend aid and responsible for providing appropriate fixes.
• Onsite support during implementation window.
• Responsible for component creation, packaging, migration from dev, UAT and PROD implementation.
• Involved in production support and resolving trouble tickets after implementation of the project.
• Worked on estimate variances after project implementation and ensuring documentation of the project activities.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, ChangeMan, File Manager, DB2 Store Procedures, IMS-DB, Abend AID, Syncsort, SFTP, JobScan, Vanguard, Strobe.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and developed new programs in COBOL and CICS, modified existing programs as per requirement.
• Managed the artifact versions through Configuration Management tool- ChangeMan
• Created/modified BLD (Business Logic Diagrams) in VISIO as per business requirements.
• Segregated existing batch processes into sub-processes for faster and clean processing.
• Created Stored Procedures in COBOL-DB2 to link the new Web Interface with the Mainframe programs executing at the backend.
• Involved in creation of new CICS transactions and entering the transaction entries in C.A.T.S/CICS tables.
• Worked on Various Sorts using JCL Jobs.
• Monitored jobs and applications in CA-7 scheduler.
• Fixed batch abends and online abends, Involved in test region support.
• Performed the Code walkthrough and Unit test scripts review for all the projects and also ensured that review is done for all the deliverables.
• Ensured that proper documentation (like high/low level design, BLD, test plan, test scripts, project overview document, etc) is created for all SDLC phases for the projects.
• Tracked all the statuses of the projects, conducted team meetings and provided status to Application Manager.
• Identified and communicated project issues / risks to higher management.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, ChangeMan, File Manager, Abend aid, IMS-DB.