SUMMARY

• me has 17 + years of experience carrying out the project responsibilities in mainframe technology.
• Having solid record of meeting business needs by analyzing impact, developing functional design, writing program specification, estimating time for the requirements, coding, creating and implementing test plan and writing appropriate documentation.
• Being involved in all phases of SDLC and me has handled complex projects in Insurance and banking domain.
• Experienced in Gathering the requirements and Designing the functional document and building new COBOL, DB2 and IMS programs.
• Experienced in working on payroll systems and Compensation payments to Agents wif 8 years of experience working on financial systems in Insurance & banking domain in Mainframe environment.
• Experienced in working in multiple LPARs and worked through CICS High availability project making applications available across different LPARs and regions.
• Having knowledge in Production support, batch processing in CA7 & ESP scheduler.
• Able to analyze problems and resolve them wif the least amount of disruption to the existing system by making use of debugging tools like Expeditor.
• Good technical knowledge in developing new applications, as well as enhance current systems.
• Experience in importing and exporting Terabytes of data in to HDFS and using HiveQL for querying and analyzing the data.
• Delivered multiple projects meeting client requirements by serving as Module lead and as a single point of contact.
• Having knowledge in CICS systems and definitions by making transactions and system highly available 24/7.
• Strong ability in communicating wif other application Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Stronganalytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills
• Very good exposure to all Quality procedures complying wif ISO 9002 standards and CMM - Level 5.
• Team player wif good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint (Charts, tables, graphs).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: PeopleSoft HCM/FSCM/ELM/EPM. PeopleTools 8.4x and 8.5x

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX, CICS, Quick Job, Easytrieve, Linux Shell scripts.

Databases: DB2, IMS DB.

Tools: & Technologies:, Expeditor, File-aid, File-aid IMS, Panvalet, Ellipse, FAM, WAM, JSP, Dictionary, Platinum, CSL, Infopac, CA7 Scheduler, Control-M, Document Direct, CMOD, Changeman, ESP Scheduler, Active Archive, Dbeaver, REXX.

Hadoop Ecosystem: Hadoop Map Reduce, HDFS, Sqoop, HiveQL, HBase, Pig, Flume, Spark.

Cluster Management and Monitoring: Cloudera Manager, Ambari.

Operating systems: Linux, Windows98/NT, OS/2, MVS,Z/OS

File system: VSAM, IAM, Structured Files in Hadoop

Utilities: Putty, Beeline, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Mainframe/Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, ESP, CHANGEMAN, REXX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the production support to monitor daily batch cycle and to handle different incidents.
• Performing Agile by individual sprint user stories and tasks using JIRA as Agile management tool and participating in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Release Planning meetings.
• Analysing the business requirements and functionalities in current application for reading project configuration data and test data.
• Developing REXX tools for the initial analysis of the applications.
• Online VSAM files of 25 applications are converted to RLS. And the build activity is carried out to handle the affinity dat are being caused by CICS resources across LPARs.
• Responsible for changing CICS programs to handle the TSQs and various possible affinity causing scenarios across applications.
• Applications are made highly available such dat the CICS transactions dat are hit are routed to any available LPARs and CICS regions.
• Transactions are keyed in from five terminal CICS regions wif a load test making around 950 users keying the transaction to analyse on the performance once after the conversion to RLS.
• UAT testing is carried out by bringing down the regions and LPARs when User hits the transactions.
• Fixing the defects raised in the SIT and UAT testing.
• Involved in the project planning and providing the timelines to remove the affinity for a particular application after the initial dependency analysis.
• Design, development, and upgrade of customized PeopleSoft applications.
• Involved in writing COBOL modules for loading General Ledger, Purchasing data into PeopleSoft tables from legacy system.
• Executed GL Allocations process via Mainframe JCL batch programs.
• Customized POPO005.sqr to add the sales tax and item tax for each item in the PO report printouts.
• Worked in Agile environment giving the development team valuable feedback in SPRINT planning meetings, backlog grooming for the next build and time estimates for all tasks.
• Implement short sprint cycles of agile method of Testing, including the need for fast feedback, high visibility, and alignment wif customer need.
• Used TSO Mainview and SQL Explain in a fast-paced environment to monitor the system.
• Analyzed the Batch Jobs time frame and looked for the feasible changes which can facilitate in meeting the SLA requirements.
• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis.
• Work wif business to prioritize production issue resolution.
• Provide support and leadership in critical production support issue resolution.
• Mentor junior developers/interns, leading small teams of developers on projects.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, ESP, CHANGEMAN, REXX, PeopleSoft FSCM (PO, GL, AP), People Tools, Application Designer, Application Engine, Component Interface, BI Publisher, SQR Reports, Crystal Reports, PS Queries, PL/SQL, COBOL, PL/1, JCL, BMC DB2

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements in applying the logics on the data dat is to be migrated to hadoop.
• Involved in the development and configuration of tool and their business logics.
• Developing COBOL programs to handle the Claims present in the yearly Tape datasets and VSAM files. Analysing the performance of the code due to huge counts of data present in Archived claim tapes.
• Coordinating wif the other interfacing teams for system and performance testing.
• This project involves the structured data wif the mainframe files and other legacy system files dat accounts to 3TB of data which is one time migration of both and Active and archived claims.
• Number of nodes used is of 32 data nodes. Responsible for loading the data and applying the business logics such dat making the data available to the downstream frontend systems.
• Using HiveQL the data are being stored in hive tables and partitioning of tables are done by State and region in order to has easy access for the downstream systems.
• Responsible for migrating the tables to Prod clusters using Distcp and validating thereby making sure of the consistency and volume of data.
• HiveQL and pig scripts are used on top of HDFS clusters to get the Claim details and their purge information.
• Supported critical applications by doing production support and maintenance of ongoing production and process issues.
• Used Apptune and Mainview to know the Production Job Abends and worked on fixing the errors and resubmitting the JCL.
• Developed numerous SQR and JCL programs to automate Pay Cycle and other PeopleSoft processes on DB2/MVS.
• Wrote and executed UNIX shell scripts to FTP the vendor flat files to the remote shared drives external to the client data servers.
• Created and modified batch schedule Jobs on UNIX box and to create and save the FTP files in backup folders.
• Extensively worked Vendor Remittances and wrote program to send Electronic Vendor Remittances using People Code, SQR and UNIX Shell Script.
• Created interface program using People Code for Aged Vendor Liability wif many sorting criteria’s and wrote PS Query and did Crystal report for the same.
• Wrote Voucher/Payment Posting reconciliation program to keep track of Postings.
• Created Payment and Voucher Inquiry pages based on Business requirement.
• Customized the GL JEDIT process to allow more than 9999 records to be processed at one time.
• Involved in System integration testing and performance testing of the data in order to migrate and query huge load of data.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, Changeman, FileManager, ESP Scheduler, DB2, Linux, Active Archive, DBeaver, Beeline, Putty, HDFS, Hive QL, Pig.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, VSAM, File Aid ims, Quikjob, Ellipse, Expeditor

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing on the possibility and impact of introduction of new tax benefit treatment in the existing agent payroll programs in our application.
• Gathering the requirements from the business clients and breaking the high level requirements to lower level one for development.
• Responsible for creating the design for the changes in Cobol IMS programs which involves calculation of recovery processing and earnings. Also responsible for the design for changes in recovery reports and commission statement.
• Since this project also involved IMS PSB layout changes in Master Agent database in order to assist to the calculation involved in the coding. Responsible for coordinating wif the DBA and analysing the impact on recompiling the existing IMS programs.
• Responsible for coding changes involves complex calculations in 20 impacted modules and 10 modules in Commission processing and GDC calculations.
• Responsible for Coordinating wif the other external application teams including PeopleSoft for the interface changes since this project involves interfacing file changes across all admins. Dealt wif 13 admin systems and 63 interfacing feeds and its changes.
• Responsible for creating project and Unit test plan for the project and being as the point of contact for this entire project to the AXA clients.
• Also involved in coding some complex programs in order to assist wif the offshore for project deliveries.
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Analysing and fixing the QA and UAT defects and troubleshooting the programs by the halp of debugger tools like Expeditor.
• Preparing deployment checklist and implementation plan to meet the deadline of the project.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Consultant

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, File Aid, Quikjob, Ellipse, CA7 Scheduling

Responsibilities:

• Analysing the total impacted components in our Legacy compensation system.
• Around 85 JCLs and 120 Proc are totally impacted which is to be replaced wif our own routine.
• Responsible for Coordinating wif the other external application teams for their interface balancing and Status calls wif the Client.
• Responsible for creating project and test plan for the project.
• Developing new prototype and building up the logic for the replacement routine
• Developing the Unit test cases and Test and project plan.
• Monitoring the Testing activities and suitable Code and Testing documents review
• Configuring new Jobs required for this project and Job scheduling activities in CA7 scheduler.
• Analysing the impact of newly created routines such dat existing business functions are not effected.
• Responsible in the release activities for these numerous components.
• Analysing and fixing the QA defects and Troubleshooting the balancing counts
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Preparing deployment checklist.
• Monitoring and validating the results in the production such dat our balancing counts are in Sync wif the actual balancing Infogix proc.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, File Aid, Quikjob, Ellipse, CA7 Scheduling

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the suitable requirement from Client by having multiple meetings and designing the Technical document for the project.
• Providing the Estimation to the Client based on the efforts needed for the project.
• Responsible for developing new programs and analysis on existing programs in the system to enhance the programs wif adequate changes.
• Handling the Offshore team as technical lead and managing the deliveries.
• Developing new Test plan and reviewing the Testing documents.
• Monitoring the Testing activities and suitable Code and Testing documents review
• Configuring new Jobs required for this project and Job scheduling in CA7 scheduler.
• Developing the JCLs to accommodate the output reports being sent to CMOD.
• Testing and pushing the reports to CMOD UAT region.
• Analysing and fixing the QA defects and Troubleshooting using Expeditor.
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Preparation deployment checklist.
• Verifying the Batch jobs dat run in production and the tables in IMS are populated correctly and is accurate.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Quikjob, IMS, Expeditor, File Aid, IMS File aid.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of the existing system and feasibility study to undergo code changes.
• Identifying the appropriate COBOL programs in the system to make the changes.
• Involved in developing the code and making enhancements to the existing COBOL programs to has the new Term product to get fit in to the system.
• Coordinating the team as technical lead and managing the outputs.
• Developing new Unit test plan and reviewing the Testing documents.
• Running multiple testing QA and UAT cycles for the changes and sharing it to the business.
• Developing Quick jobs in the JCL required for the project.
• Pushing the output reports to CMOD region.
• Coordinating wif the Release management to deploy the project.
• Provide post implementation support and validating the results after the deployment.
• Analysis of the number of impacted COBOL program, Quick jobs, PERM files and VSAM clusters.
• IMS database PSBs was not involved in the change instead the 7 digit agent code is compressed wif COMP-3 and be moved to IMS database to fit into existing 6 digit code.
• Involved in the changes in the IMS programs to handle the above conversion.
• Also involved in the normal Cobol program changes and Unit testing the changes
• Running multiple Regression testing for the changes and sharing it to the business.
• Testing for the impacts on CMOD reports on the change of agent code length.
• Coordinating wif multiple system to has the testing carried out after the changes.
• Coordinating wif the Release management to deploy the project.
• Provide post implementation support and validating the results after the deployment for few weeks.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, IMS, JCL, JSP, Panvalet, WAM, File Aid, FAM, Expeditor, DICT, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Performed as a Module lead for this project in offshore and provided results to my onsite counterpart.
• Understanding the requirements from the client by attending meetings.
• Analysing and building the Technical design document.
• Coding various modules of the project in COBOL and IMS
• Developing JCLs to accommodate output reports to be pushed to CMOD server.
• Integrating all programs and writing Test scenarios for it.
• QA defect fixing and conducting Code review
• Preparing Deployment Checklist for the successful migration of the code to production region.
• Support batch run for testing the project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Environment: COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, JCL, JSP, Panvalet, WAM, CCS, CSL, File Aid, FAM, Expeditor, DICT, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Analysing and understanding the technical design document.
• Study and understanding the existing application to engineer the business requirement.
• Developing the new code and making the appropriate the code change in COBOL, DB2.
• Changing the CICS Cobol programs by adding the field areas in the CICS online screens.
• Creating the Unit test cases and Unit test results for the code changes done.
• Integration of all programs and JCL setups.
• Coordinate wif testing team to carry out testing batch runs and sharing the test outputs.
• Deployment checklist preparation and support for the production live runs.
• Addressing and solving the incident if any.