SUMMARY

• 9+ years of hands on experience in Mainframe Development.
• Experience in analysis, design, documentation, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and management of full life cycle commercial applications.
• Well adept in development lifecycle involved within the Mainframe development.
• Experience as a Mainframe developer with good knowledge of COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS and other technical areas related to mainframe and ZOS operating system.
• Proficient in database concepts pertaining to DB2 development and writing SQL queries and Developing COBOL DB2/Stored procedure Programs involving Reading Transforming and Loading DB2 tables. Also ran spufis to query or load DB2 tables.
• Experience in working in production support environment as well, such as resolving urgent Command center issues and live defects within stringent deadlines.
• Experienced in setting up JCLs in QA and running jobs in QA.
• Good Knowledge in business domains Healthcare Domain, Financial Domain Banking.
• Functional experience includes being a team member and also handling the functions of team leader as a mainframe developer.
• Well Adept in impact analysis, creating Tech Spec, Coding, Testing and deployment processes and working on production defects.
• Possess a high technical aptitude and a high level of analytical ability. Solid analytical, problem - solving.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environment.
• Good communication, Presentation and Interpersonal skills with excellent problem solving capability with a result oriented attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL (Mainframe DB2),VSAM, CICS, Easytrieve

Database Management System: DB2, VSAM

Tools: /Utilities/Secondary languages: EXPEDITOR, FILE-AID, ABEND AID, OPC, CA7, INTERTEST, SPUFI, ENDEAVOUR, FILE MANAGER, FILE MASTER, FTP, SYNCSORT, MQSERIES, QMF, NDM, RMDS, DISPATCP, CHANGEMAN, ISPF/TSOiService, HPSM, Remedy

Operating System: ZOS, MVS/ESA, OS/390, UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Sr Mainframe Developer/Application Support

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, CICS, MQseries, Endeavour, Intertest, SPUFI, CA7

Responsibilities:

• Implemented complex new length file creation within online programs with zero defects.
• Created new complex COBOL/DB2 Programs to generate reports which will identify missing eligibility values.
• Developed new automation tools that would avoid manual effort.
• Worked on Production Problems Tickets, providing fix for existing problems.
• The fix to these tickets are provided through complete Software Development life Cycle, starting from Requirement and Kickoff meeting (Conf- Call) with Users and testers who raised the ticket.
• Supported Command Center Urgent issues, which involved finding missing claim details and working on various issues raised by vendor or Client for the incorrect balances, accumulators etc.
• Created various files with Claim information in medical standard formats and transmitted to vendors using MQseries or batch or FTP processes.
• Complete Impact and root cause analysis, Creation of High level Design documents and Technical Specification documents, Coding Unit testing and End to End System testing and Regression Testing.
• Worked closely with product owners analyzing various enhancements and requirements impacting the applications; providing estimates and timelines for service requests.
• Following agile methodology for project implementation.
• Running any special jobs in Dev and Prod requested by client.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, Endevor, CA7, Triggers, File AID, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing various enhancements and requirements impacting the Rehosting project and provide estimates and timelines for service requests for Confidential merchant services (BAMS) to Confidential Corp (FD). This includes moving and replicating Jobs, procedures, card members, programs as per FD standard and testing them till they go live in production.
• Code new COBOL, DB2, CICS programs, jobs (JCL/procs) to provide the merchant reports.
• Enhancing existing programs based on the requirement from merchants.
• Co-ordinate and Participate in Code reviews and test case/test results walkthrough with team, maintaining documentation of the different processes carried out.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, CICS, Endevor, OPC, Xpeditor, File-Aid, REXX, TSO, ISPF

Responsibilities:

• Developed complex Cobol Db2 programs and jobs which run on weekly basis to reconcile two applications to correct the system data which is used by Business management for reporting.
• Involved in Enhancement to the application for Medical procedure codes, Network codes.
• Worked in the production support team for the application for the initial 2years. It involves maintenance of more than 1500 jobs across different sub-application maintained by TOPS.
• Coded COBOL/DB2 programs to reconcile the two applications.
• Working with Enhancements to implement stored procedures.
• Use DB2 utilities to unload the data and perform testing.
• Handled a Single resource application effectively.
• Unit testing by using debugging tools INTERTEST and EXPEDITER.
• 24/7 Oncall support for any application issues.
• Involved in Enhancement to the application for Medical procedure codes, Network codes.