SUMMARY

• A goal oriented professional with over 10 years of experience in the areas of Application Software Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Expertise in mainframe environment with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, DATACOM, REXX, SQL, SAS, EZTRIEVE, JES2, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, MQ, TABLEBASE, ELI, JSON, SPLUNK,NAS,WEB SERVICES and APPDYNAMICS.
• Extensively involved in Requirement elicitation and Analysis, High and Low level designing, Coding, Unit Testing, QA Support, Implementation, Estimation and Trouble shooting.
• Have domain knowledge in Capital Markets, Auto and Home insurance.
• Expertise in Configuration Management tools like CHANGEMAN, CA Panvalet and ENDEVOR
• Expertise in various tools like BMC, SPUFI, QMF, STAR TOOL, INSYNC, COMPAREX, FAULT ANALYZER, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, SAR, ESP scheduler, CLEAR QUEST, BMC REMEDY.
• Well versed with reverse engineering, performance tuning and proficient in RDBMS concepts.
• Have knowledge of UNIX Basic commands and Shell scripting
• Have in - depth knowledge of Data warehouse concepts, Teradata utilities and Cognos BI Suite.
• Trained on ETL tool i.e. IBM Infosphere Data stage 8.5
• Worked on POC projects (like Mainframe and Splunk integration, AppDynamics etc)
• Involved in data modeling activities to create new DB2 database for one of the core applications. This involved creating normalized tables to improve performance on mainframes.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, self-learning abilities and able to prioritize and complete multiple tasks.
• An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills, strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
• A quick and aggressive learner, work well independently and enjoy being part of a productive team.
• Highly motivated and result oriented with an excellent communication skills.
• Highly experienced in mainframe development/maintenance projects.
• Proficient in release management process with decent experience as a release lead.
• Have very good delivery and operational excellence skills and possess strong leadership competencies.
• Conversant with offshore / on-site model and possesses excellent project management skills besides sound technical and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Z/OS, OS/390, MVS, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, UNIX

Mainframe: COBOL, CICS, JCL and VSAM

Mainframe Tools: TSO/ISPF, Change-Man, CA PANVALET, ENDEVOR, STARTOOL, File-AID, INTERTST, XPEDITOR, IBM Fault Analyzer, EZYTRIEVE, REXX, SAS, BMC, SPUFI, DCLGEN, STROBE, COMPAREX, JEM, JCK, XREF, SAR, SDSF, MF Utilities, QMF, DFSORT, ICETOOL, FTP, IDCAMS, SYNCH SORT, MQ Series, XML, Web services, On-demand and NAS

Scheduling Tools: CA-ESP, CA-Scheduler

Reporting Tools: COGNOS BI SUITE

Teradata Utilities: DB2 Load, BTEQ, Fast load, Fast Export, Mload

Databases: DB2 V9, Datacom, TeradataV13

Modeling tools: MS Visio 2013

ETL Tools: IBM Information Server V8.7/8.5/8.1, Quality Stage V8.5

Other tools: BMC Remedy, Clear Quest, IBM MQ Series, Sharepoint, MS Office 2010, MS Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CO

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involve in Requirement Analysis, Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation,
• Interact with business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• As a subject Matter Expert (SME), offer solutions when the business partners report any problems.
• Understand the existing system architecture from a broader picture and propose changes without affecting existing functionalities/processes.
• Go through the new requirements and assess the impact on the current application.
• Work with business partners, Admin groups (DBA’s, CICS admin), SME and other applications groups as necessary.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and present the detailed design specification documents in the local governance meetings for approvals.
• Coordinate with offshore team and provide them guidance and mentor them from both technical and functional aspects as necessary.
• Review offshore deliverables and ensure on-time and quality delivery.
• Participate in group reviews (design and code) and provide valuable inputs and value adds to presenters.
• Managing the status calls between offshore and customer on a daily and weekly basis respectively.
• Be responsible and accountable for overall offshore delivery and provide technical leadership as a SME.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• During the crisis situations, provide necessary support and offer best solutions.
• Act as a release lead for the whole application and drive the release by closing working with release manager.
• Meet with release manager on a weekly basis, prioritize, schedule and assign the EBT’s to groups/individuals.
• Provide necessary support during the production implementation/certification.
• Work on POC’s (worked on Mainframe integration with Splunk and AppDynamics, Data stage) to introduce new technologies to the existing application.
• Use Teradata utilities and load the data into warehouse.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Release Lead

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the overall quality throughout the Release Life Cycle.
• Oversee ongoing release process starting from identify and freezing the release scope till production implementation.
• Develop release agenda and schedule and publish in SharePoint website.
• Prioritize and schedule change requests.
• Schedule and drive weekly status calls and governance meetings (kind of CCB) with all the key stake holders including outside vendors to ensure release progress is on track, address any outstanding issues and approval on the change requests.
• Escalate and communicate immediately in case of unforeseen problems.
• Prepare design review schedule, setup and drive review meetings with SME’s and development groups.
• Attend the ambiguity meetings held among business, development and QA/UAT groups.
• Co-ordinate closely with all the key stake holders of the release process like client SME’s, business teams, DBA teams, Integration and UAT testing management teams and third party vendor teams to ensure smooth release implementation.
• Monitor and work with development, change management teams, DBA and CICS teams to make sure no issues while code migration between the test environments and production.
• Involve required test teams perform the shakeout activity after code migration to QA environments and ensure issues are resolved prior to QA/UAT testing phase.
• Setup weekly status calls with testing team leads during testing phase to track the progress and address defect, risks and challenges, if any.
• Track and assign the defects to respective development teams and ensure timely resolution.
• Manage and execute production implementation (production shakeout) activity by involving all the stake holders of the release process.
• Address post production issues, if any and ensure smooth and successful release implementation in production environments.
• Ensure that, development and testing teams submit the release artifacts and quality documents in release folder for quality audit purposes.
• Work with CM teams for code promotions and demotions at mainframe side and deployments at distributed applications side.
• Work with management to get the Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) rating for every work item delivered with the release and publish the ratings to all the stake holders.
• Work with quality teams to perform quality audits and release close downs after successful release implementation.
• Document lessons learned, identify improvement areas and suggest changes to release process to avoid repetitive problems.
• Acted as a SME in the areas of Downstream, Endorsement and Claims.
• Assess the business requirements and write the technical specifications.
• Clarify on the questions respective application areas.
• UAT results validations.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.
• Modified and tested COBOL, CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests of business departments.
• Present the code for review and update checklist
• Take new scheduling requests from programmers, set up CA-7 job definition and schedules.
• Extensive coding using COBOL, CICS, JCL and VSAM.
• Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.
• Provide UAT defect support.
• Gathering Signoffs from Business.
• Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.
• Notable Highlights
• Received the Quarterly Employee Recognition awards (Certificate of Appreciation) for 3 consecutive quarters in a calendar year.
• Highly appreciated by the top management for successful implementation of projects.
• Awarded for successfully leading a team, which has delivered/implemented 4 consecutive defect free releases into production.
• Awarded as ‘Employee of the Quarter’.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirements.
• Prepare detailed design preparation.
• Peform coding and unit testing.
• Support QA and UAT and resolve issues.
• Perform implementation activities.