summary

• Senior Mainframe Developer with nearly 10 years of proven, result oriented, progressive experience in application development, Database developer, production support, business development, project management with 7 plus years of US and 2 years of work experience in India
• Professionally adaptable to 'get on board' quickly with new technologies and assignments, able to work independently or in a group
• Excellent coordination, communication, interpersonal, client expectation management and multi-tasking skills with a strong focus to achieve quality deliverables, efficiency, learning business and comply with SDLC process

Technical knowledge

Hardware: IBM-OS 390

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, Win 95/98/2000/XP and Win NT workstation, OS/390

Databases: VSAM, DB2, MS SQL Server 2008, Adabas

Packages: Sungard's Omni Plus 5.1, Omni Plus 5.2, Client Reporting Tool

Tools Utilities: IBM DPROP, FileAid, Startool, Insync, FTP, NDM, IOF, TSO ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, Endevor, MQ, OPC, ESP, CA-7, IBM Utilities, JCL Prep, JSCAN, Expeditor, Tracemaster, DumpMaster, Crystal Report, Actuate, Toad Data Modeler, Visio, Microsoft Office Products

Programming Languages: VS COBOL II, JCL, SQL, CICS, Eztrieve, REXX, SAS, Natural, C, C

professional experience

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

• Working in an Agile environment as a Senior Mainframe Developer, Coordinator and Project Manager in Cognizant's project for Bank of New York Mellon Global Investment Servicing GIS Department
• Started as first team member from Cognizant and with limited guidance, gained business and technical knowledge of the system, built and presented proposals and increased team size gradually to 70 in peak period across multiple technologies and platform
• Created and presented flow diagram of core cycles running in daily basis in GIS system
• Performed smooth Mainframe data centre migration from PNC to BNYMellon by gathering requirement, analyzing target platform, coordinating migration with various subsystem of GIS, prepared migration strategy and plan
• Performed CA-7 to ESP schedule migration project for over 76,000 Mainframe jobs, Coordinated between various teams of GIS, reporting status on weekly basis to CA, prepared documentation and provided knowledge transition sessions on ESP to all GIS associates, developed schedule comparison tool to identify rogue schedules, created mass software package creation tool for moving all element changes to Endevor and saving 120K plus for BNYMellon by removing manual intervention
• Worked as a developer and coordinator in Transmission migration project for BNYMellon GIS and gained extensive knowledge in FTP and NDM
• Requirement gathering, analyzing, develop, unit test, system test, supporting QA and implementation in technologies like COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, DB2
• Took charge to create mainframe cost saving ideas, performance tune long running CPU intensive jobs and received great feedbacks from BNYMellon and Cognizant
• Worked as an active production support member, supporting batch cycles, fixing bugs, lead a support team based out of USA, Argentina and India and supporting on an average 28,000 plus mainframe jobs on daily basis
• Brought several best practices for Client and Cognizant like Unit Test plan, production support checklist, ESP documentation, Knowledge Transition document for new Joinees, Review checklist for project deliveries
• Coordinated with teams across USA, Argentina and various locations in India, reporting day to day activities, status tracking, Service Level metrics creation, resource identification and management, point of escalation for issues, evaluate performances for associates

Confidential

• Worked in a V-Model project as a Senior Mainframe developer and Coordinator for Cognizant in Bank of New York Mellon Institutional Accounting System, gaining knowledge in accounting system business area
• Gained knowledge in Online system, met and gathered requirement from Business analysts, analyze, create detail design documents, get sign off, coding, unit test, system test, participate in QA and implement software modules in various mainframe technologies like COBOL/CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX, SAS, FTP, NDM, used MQ series.
• Presented design and worked on building DB2 model for storing, extract and transmit accounting data using Stored Procedure and DB2 trigger
• On a rotation basis performed production support for batch cycle and fix reported bugs in system
• Worked with 8 member team in India, delivering requirements, review delivered work, stick to the deadlines of project, regular status meeting with teams and delivering project to BNYMellon
• Created and maintained knowledge repository, brought best practices to the team like Work status tracker creation for large projected, Standard large project estimation methodology

Confidential

• Worked in a Waterfall model as a Senior developer and Coordinator for Cognizant's project in Bank of New York Mellon Performance and Risk Services in Waterfall model
• Involved in every phase of SDLC in Mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, DB2, Stored Procedures, Crystal Report, Actuate, Client Report, REXX, CLIST
• Worked extensively in IBM DPROP tool and built SQL query to extract data on incremental basis from DB2
• Using Client Reporting tool built complex SQL query to extract data and present it in Crystal report
• Became a subject matter expert by gaining extensive knowledge in Performance Measurement, Analytics business, completed CPM certification and received numerous accolades from Cognizant and BNYMellon managers
• Worked as lead developer to develop an automated tool to create data extract utility for Performance and Analytics data from DB2, lead architect to design the DB2 database and received best employee award in 2007, 2008
• Gained extensive knowledge on Stored Procedure development and usage via crystal report and Actuate, performance tuning of complex and long running SQL queries
• Coordinated with teams in USA and India, requirements gathering, reviewing and delivering works, status tracking through work tracker, capacity planning, fixing high priority bugs needing immediate turnaround
• Implemented Cognizant proprietary tool in project that gives facility to store and search documents effectively

Confidential

• Worked as a Lead developer for Cognizant's project in ACS previously Mellon Human Resource and Investor Solution department gaining knowledge in Defined Contribution area
• Gathered requirement from project lead and managers, analyze, create design document, receive sign off, coding, Unit test plan creation and recording test results, Implement software modules in mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, used Omnistation package, code Omniscript
• Created Mainframe components for Managed Services model for the HR IS sector and received numerous accolades for Cognizant managers
• Took trainings classes on Mainframe technologies for new joinees in Cognizant Kolkata, India provided training on Omnistation, Omniscript to new project members and helped in gaining business with new client for Cognizant
• Participated in Quality Assurance audits, created defect reports, create and provide status update for project team to counterparts in USA