SUMMARY

• An astute professional with over 15 years of experience in multiple platforms and different environments in the banking and IT industry.
• A Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer with hands on experience in application development. Confidential I Hogan Platform on both Issuer and Acquirer with Hierarchy database.
• CICS environment and CIS Hogan platform and Relational Database. Data Warehouse environment with Star schema database.
• A COBOL, DB2, Hogan programmer who has worked on Support and Maintenance, Project as well as Small Enhancement.
• Extensive experience in theIT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life CycleSDLC.
• Extensive experience in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Expertise in supporting Business and resolving their queries end to end in banking domain.
• An expert on a few Confidential and their interfaces.
• Experience in High Level Design, Detailed Design, Build, Testing and Support to Project Implementation
• Development activities in Mainframe Technology (PL/1, COBOL, DB2, JCL).
• Including General Ledger, financial account transaction posting and the rules thereof.
• Ability tomulti - taskwork across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, withDevelopmentandProduction Supportprojects.
• Expertise in using scheduling toolCA-7.
• Excellent knowledge of bothBatchandOnlineSystems running on Mainframes.
• Extensively used debugging tools such asXPEDITOR.
• Expertise in delivering schemes compliance deployment.
• Worked on multiple projects Confidential the same time, and delivered the projects as scheduled.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Worked on all phases of the project development life cycle right from Feasibility Study to Post-Implementation support.
• Experienced on Agile and Waterfall Methodology.
• The core banking product feeds, conversion to the Datawarehouse.
• Have worked with data extraction, migration, conversion, transformation and loading.
• Excellent facilitator who worked with the project team, support team, business users and change management team while on a cross functional team.
• Have facilitated software change hand-over from Project to Support, facilitated the update of the manuals through incident trends and business procedure changes.
• Log problem reports using incident trends and facilitate the requirement with business.
• Assist the technical team in building up the test plan and system testing.
• Leads and guides juniors technically to accelerate skills development.
• Plan, Budget and Manage mini-Projects.
• A quick learner with most of the technical tools introduced as hands-on experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Systems Analysis
• Systems Design
• COBOL Programming
• SDLC
• DB2
• JCL
• Systems Support and Development
• Testing
• Systems Feasibility Studies z/OS
• UNIX Fundamentals
• Programming in C
• UNIX Administration
• CICS - Application Programming
• SOA Fundamentals
• Data Stage (ETL tool)
• Test Director (Test Administrating tool)
• Expeditor (Testing Tool)
• DB2 and SQL Application Programming
• COBOL Programming
• Assembly

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As part of the integrating efforts, had extensive meetings with both the Business and Users teams to gather requirements.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Conduct JAD to review the business document with a team of business end users, application developers and technical analysts.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch & Online programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Developing or writing new complex COBOL programs using DB2 database.
• Analyzing and modifying existing complex code.
• Writing SQL queries using with COBOL/DB2 programming.
• Development of the new batch and online programs usingz/OS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM and CICS.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and implementation of required changes.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Perform Peer & Group review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Allocation and resolution of defects encountered during UAT and SIT phase
• Log Defect Log for testing defects identified and track till it is closed.
• Prepare implementation plan and communicate business with downtime of the system and impact if we have any.
• Obtaining client sign-off for implementations by giving demo on new functions.
• Comparing thetest resultsbefore performing the test and after performing the test.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.
• Implementation and Post implementation support.
• Problem Resolution

• JCL - Confidential take-on or data manipulation
• Problem resolution and documentation. Standby on COBOL and DB2
• Produce System Maintenance Specification from the Detail Requirements
• Specification
• Do Subsystem testing and integration testing documents
• Plan the change deployment
• Administer task allocation
• Feedback business users on progress
• Plan priority and assist with the technical solution
• Review Project Related Technical Documents
• High Level Design
• Systems Maintenance Specification
• Systems Test Cases
• Deployment plan
• Confidential

  Sr. Mainframes Developer/Analyst

  Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking of trouble tickets and resolution of escalated support incidents.
• Answers technical support queries and implements fixes for application problems.
• Coordinates with customers to resolve technical support issues.
• Discussion with client in ticket prioritization.
• Participating in business weekly calls and demo on the incident fixes for having approval for deployment.
• Guiding team in issue resolution.
• Reviewing the business analysis & Impact documents for all incidents raised in production.
• Responsible for Review the incident fixes.
• Working on critical issues and provide the solution in less turnaround time.
• Responsible for Participating in crisis calls and provide immediate solution.
• Responsible for review of implementation plans and suggest required changes in plan as per system impact.
• Responsible for review of all release upgrade implementations in Production.
• Participate in the implementation walkthroughs with the release teams.
• Responsible for Compliance (Bank card associations) implementations.
• Documented job flows and schedules using Visio and made changes to reduce the run time.
• Preparation of weekly status report.
• Responsible for coming-up with performance tuning and cost saving ideas to improve the performance of batch and to add value to client.

• Data mapping - DITTO / FILEAID / TSO Utilities and SPUFI
• JCL and Scheduling (COBOL and or DB2) and CONTROL-M scheduler
• JCL - Confidential take-on or data manipulation
• CICS Online programs maintenance
• Assembly program changes
• Problem resolution and documentation
• Document incident trends
• Consult with business users to update training manual
• Suggest system changes
• Manage incidents resolution
• Assign incidents reported to team members
• Follow up and follow through with the clients and technical team
• Mentor juniors (graduates) to accelerate skills development
• Administer the hand-over of developed software from project to support teams
• Manage Small Enhancements
• Draw Impact Assessment document from the Requirements Specification
• Produce System Maintenance Specification from the Detail Requirements Specification
• Do Subsystem testing and integration testing documents
• Plan the change deployment
• Administer task allocation
• Feedback business users on progress
• Plan priority and assist with the technical solution
• Review Project Related Technical Documents
• High Level Design
• Systems Maintenance Specification
• Systems Test Cases
• Deployment plan
• Confidential

  Mainframe Analyst Programmer

  Responsibilities:

• Assist in System Designs and Implementation
• Assist in Database Designs and Implementation
• Problem Resolution during quality assurance testing
• Fix system errors during system testing
• DB2 Queries and Data Extraction for our internal users during testing
• User quires and reports
• Write DB2 COBOL programs on a Dimensional Database Environment
• Plan and execute Microsoft Tasks during Projects using EPM
• Use JCL and Easytrieve for extraction of data from source systems and loading of DB2 tables on the Data ware house multi-schema.
• Regular participation in meeting or conferences with the team or the business team.
• Was involved in DB2 (Version 8 to Version 9) and PL/1 to Enterprise PLI version migration projects.
• Have resolved various critical user queries and problem tickets within agreed SLA.
• Have worked on various business critical revenue impacting releases.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle - Understood and applied the different phases and the different prototyping models in the SDLC lifecycle during course of time with experience.
• Analysis and Design - As a senior developer (Senior Analyst programmer), I have worked on design creation, high level and low-level or detailed designs independently.
• Development - Initial experience in COBOL in one of the project modules and extensive experience in PL1,DB2,JCL code development using the coding standards mandated by the application. Experience in coding,link-edit and promotion of regular and embedded SQL programs.
• Quality Checks and Testing - Responsible for quality check and testing of the deliverables. Experience in creating test plans and results review.
• Involved and responsible for release installation activities.
• Provided installation support during the intallation process which involves reviewing the handover document, pre and post installation activities until user checks are completed and the client gives a ‘GO‘ decision for the release.
• Pivotal part of the maintainance and support team
• Taken the ownership to resolve high severity queries or problem tickets, adhoc queries from the client or business team independently and obtained appreciation for the same in many instances.
• Provided production support and shift support for the project on a 24/7 basis in addition to my regular responsibilities.

• Confidential

  System Analyst

  Responsibilities:

  • Created the high level design and estimate based on the complexity and impact.
  • Understood the derived requirements also in addition to the main requirement.
  • Prepared the external design.
  • Prepared the detailed or low-level design.
  • Co-ordinate the various tasks with onsite and other members and ensured timely delivery.
  • Performed development for the fix and performed unit testing.
  • Prepared the unit test plan and function test plan along with compliance.
  • Provided UAT and release installation support.
  • Provided maintenance and support for the implementation.
  • Prepared documents for user education on the updated transaction and input values..
  • Responsible for the following for my subsystem
  • Project (mini, less R500, 000.00 budgets) Planning and Quoting
  • Feasibility Study on a user change requirement
  • Subsystem Analysis and Design
  • Subsystem Testing
  • Prepare the following documents
  • System (Integrated) Test Plan
  • System Test Results
  • Meet with System Users during User Acceptance Testing
  • Log and monitor System Test Incidents
  • Review the following documents of fellow SME
  • Unit Test Case
  • System Test Plan
  • Systems Design Specification
  • System Test Result
  • Use JCL and Easytrieve to create test files
  • Assist juniors with the technical work
  • Document and present new solution design to the system users before construction

  Confidential

  Developer

  Responsibilities:

  • Code Hogan and Non-Hogan programs for data conversion
  • Prepare JCL and SQL queries for Data extraction and loading
  • Prepare the following documents
  • Unit (Modular) Test Case
  • Unit Test Results
  • Program Specification
  • Do Unit Testing on the modules developed
  • Assist with the system testing and volume testing
  • Review the following during a formal review sessions of the project
  • Unit Test Case document
  • Program Specification document
  • COBOL Code
  • Unit Test Result document

  Confidential

  Programmer

  Responsibilities:

  • Coding and Maintaining Non- and Hogan Cobol Programs
  • Online and Batch reports changes using the Scheduled Processing System (SPS) programming language
  • Screen changes using Function Processing Systems (FPS) function application
  • Required to do Standby for Production and Quality Testing Environment
  • Prepare new and maintain existing JCLs
  • Make schedule changes using CONTROL-M
  • SPS, FPS, JCL and Programs Deployment was on stages and to different testing stages was done using Endeavor(Version Control tool)Packages
  • Prepare and review the following documents
  • Unit Test Case
  • Unit Test Results
  • Program Specification