SUMMARY

• Having TEN Years of experience in IT industry in various roles and over FOUR years of experience as Technical Lead.
• Experience in Project planning and execution in all SDLC stages.
• Exposure in client interfacing
• Possess considerable expertise working with Mainframe technologies - COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and IMS DC, VSAM, NATURAL, ADABAS, CA TOOL, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, N2O, Endeavor, Changeman.
• Experience in INFORMATICA
• Experience in Agile Methodologies - Agile SCRUM, Iteration Planning and development
• Good team player and having strong leadership skills
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment
• Awarded ‘Performer of the Year - 2009’
• Served as Onsite Co-ordinator for the project during Knowledge transition phase, proxy phase, shadow phase, steady phase.
• Involved in CMMI Level 5 V1.2 quality deliverables
• Expertise in Onsite / Offshore delivery model
• Experience in HealthCare domain
• Experience in Banking & Finance domain
• Exposure in scientific estimation methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages &Technologies: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, NATURAL, ADABAS, Informatica.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, S/390, UNIX.

Databases: DB2, IMS, ORACLE

Tools: and Utilities: CA TOOL, MS Visual Source Safe, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, N2O, Endevor, Changeman, File Aid, QMF

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Mainframe Technical Lead/Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and preparation of estimation sheets.
• Preparation of solution design documents (PSD).
• Coding as per the requirements, preparation of detail design, unit testing plan and unit test results.
• Reviewing detail design, code, unit test plan and test results
• Defect resolution and tracking of issues from Integration, QA and Regression testing.
• Resolving critical production issues
• Developed application programs thru COBOL, DB2, IMS and JCL
• Developed and tested online screens using CICS and IMS DC
• Handling Release management for Major and Minor releases.
• Tracking post production fatals, abends and incidents.
• Allocations and tracking project progress.
• Taking regular technical and business sessions to the team.
• Interacting with clients and helping team in getting their queries resolved.
• Taking quality related initiatives in team.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and IMS DC, VSAM, Natural, ADABAS Informatica, CICS, CA TOOL, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, QMF, Changeman

Confidential, Johannesburg, SA

Mainframe Technical Lead/Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis to understand the modifications done to the application
• Devised a method to integrate the projects and enhancements that had similar functionality and presented them to clients.
• Developed the online screens and online application programs thru CICS, COBOL.
• Preparation of design document
• Modifying the code, making file conversions, testing, code reviews, defect resolution.
• Participated in Code and test results review.
• Taking quality activities in the team and adherence to quality procedures.
• Post Production defect resolution and Warranty Support

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and IMS DC,VSAM, Natural, Adabas, CA TOOL, MS Visual Source Safe, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, N2O, Endeavor, Changeman.

Confidential, TX

Mainframe Technical Lead/Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and preparation of high level design.
• Participated regularly in requirement gathering, Business requirements document (BRD) reviews.
• Analysis of existing system architecture and preparation of solution design document.
• Modified existing programs and developed new programs, generated reports using easytrieve.
• Unit testing of the developed modules, code reviews and preparation of test bed for integration testing.
• Resolution of defects in various phases of project.
• Production implementation and post production support.
• Interaction with clients for resolution of issues.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and IMS DC,VSAM, Natural, Adabas, CA TOOL, MS Visual Source Safe, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, N2O, Endeavor, Changeman, Salesforce

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Had opportunity to get the knowledge transfer from client directly.
• Doing Development projects and also Enhancement projects as a part of maintenance activity.
• Attending FRMS SRMS.
• Perform the coding, unit and system testing for the various releases as specified by the client.
• Testing and implementation of proposed changes.
• Simultaneously doing Production Support related activities.
• Providing support whenever any Client is out of service.
• This requires analyzing the job or feeds to downstream systems and finding out the problem and giving solutions within SLA, which may vary upon severity.
• Communicate with onsite team members and get the specifications

Environment: S/390, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, NATURAL, ADABAS, DB2.

Confidential, Dallas, CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Doing Development projects and also Enhancement projects as a part of maintenance activity.
• Perform the coding, unit and system testing for the various releases as specified by the client.
• Testing and implementation of proposed changes.
• Simultaneously doing Production Support related activities.
• Providing support whenever any Client is out of service.
• This requires analyzing the job or feeds to downstream systems and finding out the problem and giving solutions within SLA, which may vary upon severity.
• Communicate with onsite team members and get the specifications
• Creation of new CICS screens
• Conversion of main programs into subprograms
• Creation of VSAM sanity dataset

Environment: S/390, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2.