Experience Summary:

• Working as a Senior Mainframe Developer at UBS Financial Services having 9 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services, Retail, Transportation domains with extensive experience in Requirements gathering, Impact Analysis, High level design, Programming, System testing, JOB scheduling and implementation
• Expertise in Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, MQ Series, SQL, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, Fileaid, SPUFI, Endevor, CA7, Xpediter, ABENDAID, DFSORT
• Scheduled jobs, prepared batch flows, System and Integration test plans. Involved in Coding, Unit testing, Co-ordination with Offshore team and Review of deliverables
• Strong business orientation, experience in teaming with Business users, good communication skills, team building and leadership skills
• Experience in module development and maintenance projects over a complete SDLC at Onshore (5 years) & Offshore (4 years)

• Programming languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSQ, VSAM, SQL, SQR, SAS
• Databases: DB2, Teradata, CA-Datacom, IMS-DB
• Middleware: MQ series
• Tools: DFSORT, Fileaid, Tracemaster, Xpediter, ABENDAID, SPUFI, FTP, CA7, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, Elipse, CPOS, MS Visio, MS Visual Source Safe, SEEK

• Maintenance & Support - HR applications: Nov 2010 till date

Project Scope: 
UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) is a premier global financial services firm offering wealth management, investment banking, asset management and business banking services to clients. This project provides maintenance and support of applications like Financial Advisor Compensation, Net New Money, Financial Advisor Qualification, Qualified New Relationships etc. of the Human Resources cluster, which belongs to UBS WMA (Wealth Management Americas). 
Client: Confidential,New Jersey, US
Role: Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Knowledge Transition exercise, create detailed documentation on all the existing applications.
• Provide on-call coverage and Production Support for HR applications.
• Work with UBS Business Users to resolve queries and provide quick reports, analysis on critical issues.
• As the Lead for Human Resources cluster, co-ordinate with Offshore team for enhancements, maintenance activities and review their deliverables.
• Coding, Testing, Implementation of production fixes, enhancements, Post-implementation support.

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, FTP, VSAM, SAS

• Remodel Mainframe Financial Systems: Jan 2009 – Oct 2010

Project Scope: 
Neptune Orient Lines is a global leader in container shipping, terminals and logistics services. The Mainframe based systems at NOL like Inventory, Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Purchase Order are to be migrated from Mainframe to SAP platform. So new interfaces need to be developed for other Legacy Systems to be able to communicate to SAP for Inventory related information. 
Client: Confidential,Oakland, US
Role: Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work with NOL business teams to gather requirements and come up with an optimized solution to enable smooth transition from Mainframe to SAP
• Complete analysis of the current mainframe financial systems to determine the impact and identify the components to be created/changed
• Preparation of Technical Design, Co-ordination with Offshore team for build and unit test phase, review of deliverables
• Write new CICS programs to exchange information between Mainframe and SAP systems through MQ. Co-ordinate with SAP team to prepare test plans
• System testing using CICS screens, UAT support

Technologies: MQ, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, TSQ, FTP, VSAM

• Third Party Royalty changes for Merchandise: May 2008 – Dec 2008

Project Scope: 
Payless shoe source is a 4500+ stores retail chain selling shoes and accessories across US, Canada, Mexico & Puerto Rico. There were discrepancies in the Merchandise cost between all the Inventory systems at Payless. The scope of the project was to develop a new Interface to balance the Royalty amount for merchandise in all the Inventory systems. This helped Business Partners in accurate reporting of the Financial Books.
Client: Confidential,Topeka, US
Role: Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Business Users to gather requirements and prepare Detailed Design documents after completion of analysis
• Write new Cobol programs, JCLs, Control cards to act as common interface for retrieving Royalty amount
• Co-ordinate and Participate in Code reviews with Offshore team and test case/test results walkthrough with Payless IT team
• Performed System Integration Test Planning, preparation and execution using tools like Fileaid, CA7
• Preparation of Implementation plan and Production ready components

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SQR, SQL, Datacom, VSAM

• Redesign Financial Chart of Accounts: Aug 2007 – Apr 2008

Project Scope: 
Payless shoe source is a 4500+ stores retail chain selling shoes and accessories across US, Canada, Mexico & Puerto Rico. The Chart of Accounts structure at Payless has undergone a structural change in order to be in compliance with Industry standards. This has resulted in major enhancements in systems like General Ledger, Sales Audit, Cash Management, Store Ledger etc.
Client: Confidential,Topeka, US
Role: Module Leader
Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the impacted interfaces and identification of Cobol programs, JCLs, DB2 tables to be created/modified
• Preparation of Technical specs, System test plans and setting up test data
• Coding, Unit testing, Test results review, Test results presentation to Payless IT Managers.
• Post implementation support and issue resolution using Xpediter

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, Datacom, VSAM

• Create Canadian $ Store Inventory Ledger: May 2006 – Jul 2007

Project Scope: 
Payless shoe source is a 4500+ stores retail chain selling shoes and accessories across US, Canada, Mexico & Puerto Rico. The objective is to create a Store Inventory Ledger for Canadian stores in local currency which gives the sales, inventory retail, gross margin etc. at Store/department level
Client: Confidential,Topeka, US
Role: Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding business requirements, preparation of flow diagrams for existing Canadian Inventory Ledger
• Prepared Detailed design for new interfaces, programs, jobs, DB2 tables
• Coded new COBOL programs, JCLs and coordinated with offshore team for Test Plan reviews and unit testing of these components.
• Allocation of tasks to team members and preparation of estimates for the entire SDLC of the project.
• Testing the CICS inquiry and update screens using test plan data.
• Used SPUFI to write SQL queries for extensive backend testing and to ensure proper backup and restoring of data.

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Datacom, VSAM

• Shoe Cost changes-Online: Oct 2005 – Apr 2006

Project Scope: 
Payless shoe source is a 4500+ stores retail chain selling shoes and accessories across US, Canada, Mexico & Puerto Rico. With a new Distribution Center (DC) coming upon the West Coast, Payless needed to make adjustments to the price components of DC Landed cost for a Shoe. This required changes to the CICS screens, COBOL programs (Online & Batch) of Payless internal systems
Client: Confidential,Topeka, US
Role: Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Make changes to CICS screens using BMS and CICS programs to reflect the new components of shoe cost
• Code changes to COBOL programs, preparation of Test plans, Unit testing and documentation of test results
• Preparation of Weekly Status Report, Defect Tracker, Maintaining Version control using VSS
• Move the modified components to Production, monitor post-implementation reports and provide support for the same

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Datacom, VSAM

• Create Common Order Entry Processing System: Aug 2004 – Sep 2005

Project Scope: 
JCPenney is one of the leading retailers in Apparel and Home furnishing operating throughout the US and Puerto Rico. JCPenney had various order entry systems like Legacy, Online Order entry, Internet, CBP (Checks by phone) and corresponding Order processing interfaces for each of these systems. The objective was to develop a Common Order Entry Processing System that has the features of all the existing Order entry processing systems along with new functionality too. 
Client: Confidential,Dallas, US
Role: Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Detailed analysis, Understanding of all the Order Entry processing Systems and preparation of flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Prepare detail design, unit test plan for the new COBOL programs, JCLs, FTP processes
• Coding, Unit testing using CPOS tool, Preparation of Test Scripts and System test plan
• Preparation of Installation components, Production checklist, provide post implementation support

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Teradata, IMS-DB, VSAM

• Accounts Payable Enhancement & Support: Aug 2003 – Jul 2004

Project Scope: 
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited was a provider of international wholesale voice services, retail data and bandwidth. This project involves providing Maintenance Services, production bug fixes, major/minor enhancements to the Accounts Payable system of VSNL 
Client: Confidential, India
Role: Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in effective and immediate bug fixes for Production job abends using ABENDAID.
• Ensured the continuity of Production Job schedule and met Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the job failures
• Suggested solutions for improving the system performance, SQL tuning
• Coding and Unit testing for enhancements. Co-ordination with Production Control team to install the impacted components to Production.

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM

Accolades/Achievements:

• Several High-fives (Client Appreciation) from the clients
• Production Releases with Zero UAT and Delivered Defects
• As the Knowledge Management anchor, maintain knowledge repository for projects and organize knowledge sharing sessions in the team
• Anchor of Mainframe COE (Center of Excellence) – group involved in providing guidance and resolving technical queries for projects in Infosys Hyderabad, India

Technical

Mainframe foundation Certification which includes Cobol, JCL, MVS, DB2, CICS

Domain

Confidential,of Retail Management
Confidential,of CPG retail industry
Store Management

Domain

Confidential, of Banking and Financial Services