SUMMARY

• Software Engineer having over 15 years of experience in IT Industry, including experience in Development, Enhancement, Production support, Data Migration, Conversion (SYBASE to DB2, VSAM to DB2 and DATACOMM Calls to DB2), MIPS Reduction and Legacy Modernization Projects.
• Strong experience in mainframe technologies using COBOL, MF COBOL, PL/I, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, Changeman, File - AID, File-Manager, RDZ and REXX.
• As part of my assignments, Involved in interacting with clients, Analysis, Planning, Scheduling, Effort Estimation, Design, Development, Testing, Quality and Delivery activities.
• Worked with Banking, Securities, Insurance, Automotive, Utilities and State clients
• Experience in Power Builder, Visual Basic 6.0 and Sybase.
• Developed web application development using HTML, ASP, Java Script, VB Script, ORACLE and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the past
• Working knowledge in databases like DB2, ADABAS, Oracle, PL-SQL, MS-Access and SQL-SERVER
• Experienced in working with Stored Procedures and MQ Series.
• Basic knowledge in in SYSTEMATICS-ALS, JAVA, SOAP, XML and Web Focus
• Having good exposure in company’s quality process and methodologies.
• Good Business Acumen, Team player, Mentor, fast learner, Independent worker.
• Flexible to work at any capacity (Developer thru Project Management)
• Proficient in understanding new technologies, strong problem solving, troubleshooting skills, highly motivated and ability to work as an individual and also as a dynamic member in a team
• Exceptionally well organized, strong work ethics and willingness to work hard to achieve employer objectives
• Involved in the Technical interview process for hiring technically talented and capable individuals
• Received Employee of the Month From Confidential &G (Client of Covansys), GEM award from Polaris software labs and Bravo award from Confidential Insurance (Client of Wipro Technologies)
• Collabera Certified AWS Cloud Computing Professional

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Z/OS, Windows, UNIX

Database: DB2, ADABAS, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access

Internet Tools: HTML, ASP, CSS, VB Script, JAVA Script, XML

Languages: COBOL, MF COBOL, JCL, PL/I, NATURAL

OLTP: CICS

Others: VSAM, REXX, Expeditor, Intertest, ENDEVOR, File-Aid, File Manager, PVCS, Systematics ALS, Easytrieve, RDz, RTC, IBM-CQM, NDM, OPC, Power Builder, DATA STUDIO, BMC for DB2 and Remedy

Project Management tools: ECube, Iplan, JIRA and Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Boston, MA

Mainframe Lead Developer

Environment: PL-I, COBOL, DB2, DATACOM, CICS, JCL, File Master, RDz, Debugger and IBM-CQM

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis, impact analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared the design for the new DB2 tables, based on the existing VSAM File
• Modified many COBOL, PL-I batch as well as online modules for converting VSAM Reads into the corresponding DB2 table
• Modified many COBOL / PL-I and CICS programs for BAU
• Batch monitoring on the day installation to make sure that the changes are running fine
• Responsible for coaching, and mentoring junior members in the team

Confidential - Boston

Mainframe Analyst

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, File-AID, Adabas, Natural, Easytrieve, Confluence & JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the COBOL, Natural, Easytrieve and Assembler Modules for preparing the re-engineering document
• Preparing Process Flow Diagrams and saving the I/O files from the batch run for Java team
• Provide the input files to the Java team on request and other similar professional responsibilities as needed
• Interacting with JAVA Team members and BA to clarify the queries

Confidential - Quincy, MA

Project Lead

Environment: PL-I, COBOL, DB2, DATACOM, CICS, JCL, File Master, RDz, Debugger and IBM-CQM

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis, impact analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Modified many COBOL, PLI batch as well as online modules for converting DATACOMM calls into Native SQL for better Performance.
• Converted many single Jobs into multithreaded jobs for better performance
• Batch monitoring on the day installation to make sure that the changes are running fine
• Responsible for coaching, and mentoring junior members in the team
• Onsite-offshore coordination also managed a team of 6 members

Confidential

Senior Developer cum Project Lead

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, File Master, Changeman, NDM, IBM-Debugger, ESP and ECUBE

Responsibilities:

• Modified COBOL-DB2 programs and created test batch jobs for BAU
• Resolved many JCL abends during batch job testing.
• Converted few WEBFOCUS programs into COBOL-DB2 modules
• Managed a team of 4 members

Confidential

Senior Developer

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Eazytrieve, Intertest and Systematics-ALS

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed Conversion / File Fix JCL’s
• Prepared test plan and results for the fixed files
• Created extract and deletion programs using Easytrieve
• Impact analysis of list of programs / Fields affected

Confidential

Team lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, Web Services, DB2, REXX, JCL, VSAM, Intertest and Changeman

Responsibilities:

• Impact analysis of the Existing COBOL-CICS-DB2 Programs for Preparing CSD (Cobol Specification Document)
• Created wrapper modules using Cobol-CICS-MQ Series, which will act as in Interface between web pages and the Mainframe system
• Prepared REXX tools for internal usage
• Helped the other team to convert VSAM KSDS files into DB2 and also managed a team of 6 members

Confidential

Consultant

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, REXX

Responsibilities:

• Coding of new REXX tools
• Preparing the Unit test plans and test results

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Changeman, Intertest, iPlan and VSS)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
• Modified many COBOL-DB2-VSAM and COBOL-CICS-DB2-VSAM modules
• Created COBOL Conversion programs for Loading SMAC data into SECORE
• Involved in Code Review & Test Plan Review
• Prepared REXX Tools for Internal Usage
• Managed a team of 8 members

Confidential

Senior Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Smarttest, Panvalet, Adabas, Natural and CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
• Modified many COBOL-DB2 and COBOL-CICS-DB2 modules
• Responsible for Providing Solutions to the Issues that Arise on Production Batches
• Converted some of the Natural-ADABAS modules into COBOL-ADABAS for better performance

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, Power Builder, DB2 Stored Procedure, RPC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Modified many Power Builder modules to call Cobol-DB2 Stored procedures instead of Sybase Stored procedures.

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, APPTUNE, Changeman and Intertest

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Coded COBOL-CICS-DB2 online programs that synchronizes the db2 data across different subsystems
• Coded COBOL-DB2 batch programs for housekeeping activities and reporting purposes.
• Involved in volume testing and also tuning system performance when required