PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Having around 9 years of work experience in Information Technology Industry, worked as Analyst, Sr.developer, and Onsite Coordinator.
• Conversant with full life cycle of Software Development including Requirement Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Maintenance, Support and Documentation.
• Experience in Maintenance and Development/Enhancement of Application Systems in IBM Mainframe environment using VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, IMS-DB and TSO-ISPF.
• Good experience with MicroFocus-COBOL and MicroFocus NETEXPRESS (2.0 & 4.0) which is a COBOL environment development tool, can integrate with other distributed systems.
• Highly motivated, Positive attitude, Commited to meeting deadlines, Willingness to work with a team oriented environment.
• Hands on experience and Extensive domain knowledge on diversified fields of Health Care, Financial/Banking, Retail Sales, Tax Services and Automative.
• Worked extensively with tools like File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, X-Peditor, Intertest, Abend-Aid andGood experience with ENDEVOR,CHANGEMAN, LIBRARIAN for configuration and version management.
• Sound knowledge in using GDG’s and IBM utilities,SYNCSORT, IEBGENER,IEBCOPY,IDCAMS, IEBCOMPR, IEFBR14.
• Strong experience with COBOL application programming and creating datasets, GDG’s, JCL’s control cards, PROC’s, copybooks, and VSAM files concerned with the project.
• Strong experience in relational database DB2 & expert in COBOL-DB2 application programming with exposure to DB2 Utilities. Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like SPUFI, QMF and DB2 FILE-AID.
• Extensive knowledge on using Embedded SQL and various Locking mechanisms for efficient data handling in DB2. Worked thoroughly in DB2 maintenance, Used Load and Unload jobs, Check Pending, Image copy, Reorg, Runstats jobs.
• Strong experience in developing on line transaction screens using CICS and CICS-COBOL application programming. Excellent skills in both CICS Macro level and Command level programming for online application development and system support.
• Good experience with hierarchical database IMS-DB and the tool File-Aid for IMS (IMS-XPERT). Good skills in COBOL-IMS (DL/I) programming.
• Good experience with Balancing and Reconciliation tools: ACR/Summary, ACR/Detail, and Insight in Mainframe and UNIX Environment.
• Good experience with ORACLE (SQL, PL/SQL), & UNIX.Good knowledge in DataWareHousing tools like Informatica(ETL tool) and Business Objects(Reporting tool). Good understanding of Datawarehouse concepts..
• Having good knowledge on Production Control and support roles. Provided ongoing application support and 24 hour production support, which includes system maintenance, retrofitting of fixes, enhancements and Analysis & resolution of online and batch abends.
• Participated in Issue tracking and Issue reporting using Issue tracking tools. Involved in QA and overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project in IBM Mainframe project environment.
• Provided technical support and co-ordinateed with colleagues and business partners on testing of applications developedand processes as and when required.
• Good at Client Liaison, experienced in executing Onsite–Offshore project execution models, Proficient in document management, able to prioritize and complete multiple tasks.
• Having strong technical skills, good problem research, trouble shooting and resolution skills.
• Confident possession of communication skills besides adaptability and quick learning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operationg Systems:OS/390, Z/OS, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, HP-UX, AIXLanguages:COBOL, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, MF-COBOL, JAVA, SQL, Shell scriptingDatabases:DB2, IMS-DB, ORACLETools/Other Software:CICS/ESA, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, FILE-AID, FILE-MASTER, FILE-AID for IMS (IMS-XPERT), FILE-AID for DB2, DB2 BMC Utilities, SYNCSORT, COMPARE-X, CA-1, ABEND-AID, X-PEDITOR, INTERTEST, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, MQ-Series, FTP, NDM, ACR/Summary, ACR/Detail, Infogix Insight, SDF II, Zeke, CA-7, Control-m GUI, Control-m enterprise manager, Microfocus-NETEXPRESS 2.0 and 4.0, Visual Source Safe (VSS),MicroFocus ISAM File Management,PFE32, DFU, Windiff, Windows Grep, MS-Visio, MS-Office, Lotus Notes, Toad, Putty, SecureFX, Secure CRT, WinSCP, Erwin, Informatica PowerCenter-7.1.3, Business Objects-XI, Cognos report net & 8BI, and HP OpenView Service desk 4.5, SQL Navigator, TeamPrise Foundation Server (TFS), HP-Reflection, ClearQuest, Appworx

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project: Facing Fill Rate Improvement – PARTS Jan’ 2011 to Present
Client: Confidential, Torrance, CA 
Sr.Developer / AnalystConfidential is a global company, has strong presence in U.S. Confidential has been a major contributor to the U.S economy for 50 years. More than 100,000 workers are employed at authorized Honda automobile, motorcycle and power-equipment dealerships in the United States. Facing Fill Rate is one of the development projects for PARTS Applications System. The main goal of this project is to improve the Filling rate of respective Parts at Facing Part-Centers across U.S.

Responsibilities:

• Handled the delivery schedules and maintained them in time. Taking care of the deliverables in strict adherence to the quality methods and getting them delivered in time.
• Gathering requirements from user meetings and Creating Analysis & Design documents.
• Analysing the GUI screens and designing respective Host modules.
• As part of design, preparing flow charts, design documents and writing Specs.
• Producing estimates for work packages.
• Coding, Writing Test cases and Unit Testing.
• Coding Host programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS and MQ-Series.
• Providing support to Web Team, as data is passed to Web through MQ.
• Coding using XML-Copybooks to send data to Webin XML-Format.
• Providing Support to QA team.
• Debugging the programs using X-Peditor.
• Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing.
• Designing fixes to errors in existing functionality and producing test plans.
• Interacting with Business personnel team and other Analysts for clarification of work details.
• Updating status of programs, Logging, tracking the Issues in Inventory List.
• Providing status reports on assignments to the upper Management.

Environment: MVS, Z/OS, COBOL/370, VS-COBOL-II, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, MQ-Series, X-peditor, File-Aid for DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI, CA-Librarian, DB2 Utility, Abend-Aid, TSO/ISPF, Front End (.Net), XML.

Project: CNET Product Development Oct’ 2009 to Jan’ 2011
Client: Confidential, Fountain Valley, CA 
Onsite Coordinator / Sr.DeveloperConfidential is a business services company that grows every year by helping the customers to maximize their human, financial and technology resources and lower their costs. Confidential offers a comprehensive range of innovative solutions, from human resources and benefits to work-life and health and productivity services. Ceridian Tax Services provides Tax Filing and Compliance solutions which includes collecting and remitting funds for payroll taxes, filing applicable returns (Federal and State).

Responsibilities:

• Handled the delivery schedules and maintained them in time. Taking care of the deliverables in strict adherence to the quality methods and getting them delivered in time
• Analysis of Work Request’s.
• Designing enhancements for new and existing functionality.
• Producing estimates for work requests.
• Gathering requirements from user meetings and Creating Analysis & Design documents.
• OffShore Coordination and Providing technical assistance to the team in day-to-day work and assisting offshore team in executing tasks.
• Analysis, Development and Providing Support to QA team.
• Conducting UAT meetings with Business Users and getting sign-off on the WorkPackages to move to production. Walkthrough of QA results with Users.
• Providing support for Hot Issues during Quarter End and Year End runs.
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Coding for developing Cover page for Quarterly Tax statements.
• Coding for generating XML returns, Paper returns and electronic files (CSV file)
• Coding using MF-COBOL, UNIX, and SQL.
• Coding using VS-COBOL-II, JCL, and DB2.
• Designing fixes to errors in existing functionality and producing test plans.
• Interacting with Business personnel team for clarification of work details.
• Logging, tracking the Issues in ClearQuest.
• Providing status reports on assignments to the Customer and upper Management.

Environment: MF-COBOL, MicroFocus-Server Express 4.0, HP-UX (UNIX), Oracle 10g (SQL, PL/SQL), SQL Navigator, XML, ClearQuest, TeamPrise Foundation Server (TFS), AppWorx, WinSCP, MS-Office, Windows-XP/2000- Professional, MVS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid.

Project: NAIC/MAR Complaince Project Aug’ 2008 to Sep‘ 2009
Client: Confidential, Chicago, IL (HCSC) 
Sr. DeveloperConfidential is the largest customer owned health insurer in the united states and fourth largest overall and it operates through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, NewMexico, Oklahoma and Texas, of and several subsidiaries to offer a variety health and life insurance products and related services to employers and individuals.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing
• Gathered requirements and prepared Customer Requirements Specification (CRS) and System Requirements Specification (SRS) and Overall Test and Review Plan (OTP) as per HCSC standards
• Preparation and review of Unit Test plan (UTP) & test Cases and System test plan (STP) & test cases
• Coding using COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2
• Developed and enhanced the programs as per the new business requirements for BlueGateWay
• Creating packages for each environment in Endevor (dev, cycle, pre-prod, prod) and managing elements in package andAssisting IT interface teams with control development
• Executing Unit test cases and System test cases and resolving issues and defects
• Implementation of Automated Controls with ACR products
• Logical Design and Development of ACR automated controls
• Physical Design and Construction of ACR automated controls and Testing of dashboard interface
• Co-ordinator between ORACLE DBA, Websphere Admin and UNIX Admin for deploying the products Insight-for-Mainframe and ACR-for-UNIX.
• Created necessary libraries, datasets, GDG’s, control cards, JCL’s, PROC’s, copybooks, VSAM files concerned with the project
• Used the utilities like SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and IDCAMS
• Developed the FTP jobs on Mainframe to transfer the Mainframe reports to AIX Server and developed and scheduled jobs on AIX-Server using crontab scheduler to further load them into application
• Involved in production monitoring of the jobs on Mainframe using Zeke scheduler
• Transferred the mainframe files from production to test environment through NDM jobs
• Logging, tracking the Issues and Defects and Maintenance of Issues/Defects Log
• Created RFC’s, and Service Calls through HP OpenView Service desk client
• Prepared deployment check list, production implementation check list and on-call list
• Involved in weekly check point meetings with the supporting teams: ACR, LDAP, MVS, Open Systems, Oracle and Websphere
• Provided weekly Status updates to Supervisor/Manager and Weekly status meetings
• Interacted with Technical and Business personnel team of Vendor for clarification of deployment instcructions

Environment: MVS,Z/OS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, SORT, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SQL, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, DB2,Utilities, Zeke, File-Master, Intertest, Endevor, FTP, NDM, MS-DOS, ACR/Summary 3.4 & 3.5, ACR/Detail 3.4 & 3.5, Microfocus-ISAM files, Insight 5.2, Oracle 10g, AIX 5.3, Putty, WinSCP, Secure- FX,Secure-CRT, Lotus Notes 6.5, Websphere Admin Console, HP OpenView Service Desk 4.5

Project: Mercury
Client: Confidential Feb’ 2006 to Jul’ 2008
Sr. Mainframe DeveloperThe theme of the project is to implement a new distribution network for a leading UK retails chain dealing in electrical goods.Between May and September 2004 DSG undertook an end to end review of the UK Electricals supply chain. This work shaped a four-pronged strategy: a). Manage inventory and product life-cycle more rigorously, b).Expand home delivery proposition, c).Improve distribution operation efficiencies, by centralising the distribution inventories to 2-3 hub locations. The last initiative resulted in the Mercury Project to redesign the UK Electricals, (Currys and Dixons) physical supply chain. This involved the detailed analysis and definition of the various Network design alternatives and concluded that the business should migrate to a more centralised network.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.
• Provided Full Life Cycle Analysis Design, Development, Maintenance enhancements & Support for new or existing modules.
• Coding using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2.
• Enhancements and Maintenance to the project modules involving COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2.
• Loading and Unloading DB2 Tables, RUNSTATS, REORG.
• Involved in extensive code reviews for the programs developed by the offshore team.
• Providing technical assistance to the team.
• Bug fixing in the existing system.
• Estimation\'s of the Work packages.
• Design, Development, Coding, Testing, Reviews and Support.
• Preparation of application and technical documentation of enhancements & new functionality.
• Involved in QA reviews of Programs, Preparation and Review of Unit Test Cases.
• Providing support after applications have gone into production.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• Interacting with UK team for clarification of work details.
• Analysis and resolution of online and batch abends.
• Error resolution using the tool ABEND-AID.
• Browsing data sets and viewing copybooks layout using File-Aid and interactive debugging using X-Peditor.
• Creating necessary libraries, datasets, GDG’s, control cards, JCL’s, PROC’s, copybooks, VSAM files concerned with the applications.
• Submitting jobs for Extraction of Data from Database.
• Worked on utilities like SORT, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEHPROGM, IDCAMS etc…
• Following the whole SDLC process for standard compliances.
• Getting the SQA process done before the final delivery.

Environment: MVS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, SORT, VSAM, CICS, DB2, DB2-Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, Endevor, X-peditor, CA-7, SDF-II, SYNCSORT, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, QMF


rFrame – Basel II
Client: Confidential Apr’ 2005 to Feb’ 2006
COBOL Developer r-Frame is a Logica’s banking product used for banks across U.K and Northern Ireland. It’s a Regulatory reporting system for BOE and CBI. Regulatory Reporting System to aid the submission of financial information to the regulator, with a full audit trail or how data is allocated and when the user amends data. The system was originally designed as a standalone application, importing low/medium (10,000/500,000 records) volumes of data, on user request, recent enhancements have made it possible to automate the system to a greater degree but no way near that which is now possible with enhanced rFRAME.
From 2008, financial institutions will be required to monitor and report their capital requirements under new rules, known as Basel II. These rules will be enacted as EU legislation. The rFRAME product set is implementing these rules in the UK and Ireland.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of RFC’s.
• Designing enhancements for new and existing functionality.
• Producing estimates for work packages.
• Coding and performing unit testing.
• Coding using MicroFocus-COBOL in MicroFocus-NetExpress environment for bug fixing, adding functionality and conversion programs for updating data in index files.
• Coding using MF-COBOL for implementing Basel-II functionality.
• Coding for Credit Risk module, Counterparty & Settlement Risk and Operational Risk
• Calculating Exposure, RWP, RWA and Capital Requirement for Credit risk depending on the Credit risk approach (IRB approach or Standardized approach)
• Designing fixes to errors in existing functionality and producing test plans.
• QA’ing of work packages.
• Providing support for helpdesk issues.
• Assisting in building releases of rFrame.
• Conducting system and regression testing in Stand-alone and Client-Server.
• Logging, tracking the Issues and Maintenance of Issues Log.
• Reporting progress to the rFRAME Team Leader weekly.
• Interacting with Business personnel team for clarification of work details.

Environment: MF-COBOL (OO COBOL), Visual Source Safe (VSS), Cobol Flat Files & Index data files ( MicroFocus ISAM File Management ), MicroFocus-NetExpress 2.0 & 4.0, VISUAL BASIC (VB), Crystal Reports, PFE32, DFU, Windiff, Windows Grep, MS-Office, Windows-XP/2000-professional

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) May’ 2003 to Apr’ 2005
Client: Confidential, CA 
Mainframe DeveloperConfidential is the nation\'s largest publicly traded health care companies serving the needs of 15.5 million medical members.Confidential wanted a central source of information of all the Confidential networked companies to enable them quickly analyze facts and figures for discovering trends and patterns for suggesting new business opportunities. Confidential wanted a centralized system that would help them extensively in their business development. Currently there are several different sources of analytical data throughout Confidential like BCBS MO, BCC CA, BCBS GA, BCBS WI.Thus, Confidential has identified the tremendous value in creating a single data source for all operational and analytical reporting in the form of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).The goal of the EDW program is to create a single, authoritative source of operational and analytical reporting for all Confidential. This EDW would be used by several areas across the organization, including actuarial, medical management, finance and Executive Management.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the work requests.
• Coding using COBOL, IMS-DB (DL/I) and DB2.
• Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation.
• Involved in Impact analysis, Review of Programs, Preparation and Review of Unit Test Cases.
• Estimations of the work requests.
• Developing programs to extract data from IMS-DB database as per the requirements.
• Error resolution using the tool ABENDAID.
• Browsing data sets and viewing copybooks layout using File-Aid.
• Browsing the IMS/DB data using IMS-XPERT.
• Writing Procedure’s and JCL’s for programs.
• Querying on oracle database using SQL to get required data or to check target tables data.
• Creation of Control cards for all type of Jobs (FTP jobs and Extraction jobs) & Uploading of text file data to Mainframe system.
• Submitting JOB’S (JCL’s) for Extraction of Data from Database and FTPing of extracted file to UNIX system.

Environment: MVS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS-DB, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid,CA-1,CA-7,X-Peditor, ChangeMan, File-Aid for IMS (IMS-XPERT), Abend-Aid, SYNCSORT, SPUFI.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Technologyin Computer science & Engineering