PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT experience in developing Enterprise applications and Mainframe based applications involving Software Development Life Cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing, process control and implementation phases under diversified technologies.
• Experience with business verticals like Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services.
• Expertise in COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, REXX, SAS, CLIST, XGEN, MQ, IMS, DB2, STORED PROCEDURE, XML.
• Used Endevor, SCLM, and SCAM for Versioning the code.
• Used XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, and TRACEM for debugging the code.
• Expertise in all the phases of SDLC preparing requirement specification documents, designing use case diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, state transition diagram and test cases.
• Excellent in leadership, inter - personal, problem solving, and communication skills
• Expert in maintaining good coding standards in the project.
• Excellent Team player with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the development process.
• Undergone in Time Management, Project action Planning, QMS - Quality Management Systems, Cross culture, Interfacing with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• IBM DB2 V 7.1 Certified Professional.
• Brain bench certified in various mainframe Technologies. ed Star Performer in my current project. ed “Project of the Year -2010” for my project in Confidential out of 400 projects presented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL,CICS,MVS/JCL,REXX,SAS,CLIST,IMS,XGEN,VSAM

DBMS: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, SQL, Stored Procedure, DB2 Utilities, Teradata.

Tools: TSO/E, ISPF, STARTOOL, QMF,Endevor,SDF2,QEDIT, MQ, SCLM, ControlM, ControlD,TWS, GTB XIDE, FILEMASTER, File-AID,Queryman.Debugger: XPEDITOR, INTERTEST,TRACEM,CA7

Methodologies: SDLC

Configuration Management Tools: SCLM, ENDEVOR, SCAM

Hardware: IBM 30XX/3090/ES 9000/z/OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

Mainframe Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Mainframe technical lead.
• Lead a team of 6 and gained an insight about the business requirements.
• Interact with application designed with Teradata, UNIX, Oracle, Cognos and Informatica.
• Executed reorganization, diagnostics, and maintenance for various DB2 issues and Teradata issues.
• Played a key role to support production problems on daily basis, defect reporting and tracking to closure.
• Responsible for providing the status reports on weekly and monthly basis and also imparted knowledge transition for the new members.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, SAS, Teradata, Oracle, VSAM, JCL, File master, Endevor and CA7.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Technical lead.
• Involved in the business meeting and proposed solution for various scenarios.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis.
• Allocate offshore tasks and validate finished products delivered to customers.
• Executed reorganization, diagnostics, and maintenance for various DB2 issues.
• Modified CICS screens to add new fields as part for Functional currency.
• Created documents concerning technical specifications, product design, and implementations.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, TraceM, Endevor, WSF.

Confidential, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, SAS, CICS in batch & online mode.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.
• Created adhoc Program in short time frame from the scratch and executed successfully.
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Offered help to team to solve their issues and defects.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding in COBOL, DB2, CICS new programs.
• Responsible for ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Created adhoc program in short time frame from the scratch and executed successfully.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Prepared key artifacts like design documents, business case, Use cases etc for customer sign off as a mandatory requirement following traditional SDLC methodology.
• Responsible for coding in COBOL, DB2 new programs as batch programmer.
• Suggested clients for changing the existing system to in corporate DL ed update without changing the DLCOD, DLCS system functionalities
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Responsible for performance testing with huge volume of data.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of a System Analyst.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis and design.
• Responsible for preparing key artifacts like design documents, business case documents.
• Responsible for writing new batch programs in COBOL, DB2.
• Used ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for guiding offshore team for both the technical and as well as business issues.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis and design and coding.
• Validated XML file sent by FMS System to identify the data issues.
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Responsible for ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.

Technology & Tools Used: XML, COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirements from the client and documenting the same as the use cases.
• Instrumental in completing the BRD and TDD with no comments and delivered before the SLA period was involved in High level and low level designs of the project.
• Responsible for preparing Technical Review documents according to the business specifications.
• Handled many Ad-Hoc Requests and worked on development simultaneously.
• Validating reports from report generating programs.
• Participate in Peer Reviews for different tasks and provide the feedback to meet standards.
• Create many Adhoc programs in short timeframe to solve the temporary issues with the Edit errors occurred during the execution of functionalities.
• Created the CLIST tool in short time frame and executed successfully and got appreciated.
• Worked on IMS DB/DC programs from the scratch.
• Create the MAILIT control cards to FTP the reports as the part of execution of the jobs.
• The coding standard was followed for the new programs.
• SAS Programs are created to format the report and also created a report for the records inserted in the DB2 provider table but not transmitted.
• Worked on SAS testing.
• Create VSAM Cluster files which are used as the input in the CICS program, the records will be displayed in the screen based on the selection.
• Worked on many SORT utilities.
• Handled knowledge sharing session and guidance sessions for trainees in the project.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS,CLIST, IMS DB/DC,ENDEVOR,SPUFI,SDF2,Xpeditor, JCL,REXX,SAS,DB2,VSAM, File master, QMF.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for guiding the offshore team for both the technical and as well as business issues and provided them a way for permanent solution to production support.
• Preparation of Technical Review documents according to the business specifications and attend the meetings with the Subject Matter Experts, Business people to evaluate the risk involved.
• Played a active role in coordinating the activities, understanding the existing business requirement
• Handled Critical IM issues Provided the Solution before the SLA period
• Interact with the clients for production issues, provided them with my ideas to solve the issue.
• More than thirty IM issues were resolved and closed in two months. We got the client appreciation to solve the issues in short life span.
• Participate in Peer Reviews for different tasks and provide the feedback to meet standards.
• Maintain the Quality documents according to the standards for the project requirements.
• Create the Emergency change order and analyze the code and delivering the code in short time span.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, IMS-DC and DB, CLIST, ENDEVOR,SPUFI,SDF2,Xpeditor, JCL,REXX,SAS,DB2,VSAM,TWS,Control M, Control D, File master, QMF.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a team member, involved in the activities of Analysis, Design, Development, Unit & integration testing, Implementation and extended support to Post-Implementation.
• Played a key role in coordinating the activities, understanding the existing business requirement and translating them into design specifications.
• Handled Production Support by fixing jobs within the SLA times.
• Coordinated with onsite in resolving critical production issues.
• Handled knowledge sharing session and guidance sessions for trainees in the project.
• As a key team member, involved in Development, Testing and Baseline Production Support activities.
• The SDF2 tools are used to create the new screens for the Online CICS programs.

Technology & Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, CLIST, DB2, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, SDF2, Expeditor, JCL, DB2, VSAM, File master, QMF.Stored procedures.