SUMMARY

• Around 7+ years of Mainframe Development/Maintenance support experience in healthcare domain.
• Worked in various capacities such as Senior Mainframe Developer,SME, Scrum Master, team member and Business analyst.
• Strong experience in project life cycle, starting from requirement analysis, estimation, design, coding, testing, implementation and post implementation activities.
• Strong experience in Maintenance & Support and expertise in handing and identifying
• Production issues (technical and design oriented) and identifying appropriate solution.
• Strong Knowledge in COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2 and CICS, Easytrieve.
• Strong Expertise in Agile, KANBAN and Waterfall methodology.
• Had direct interaction with the Business users and worked together with them in requirement gathering, validate user testing and release planning& Production issues.
• Have good experience in analyzing existing process and identifying areas of the application where the performance can be improved.
• Identified DB2 queries where tuning was required and accordingly worked on the construction of DB2 queries to improve the performance of the process.
• Proficient in creating Training Manual & User Guides.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Specifications and Test cases using requirements and design documents.
• Knowledge about Changeman
• Working Knowledge of Panvalet, Platinum, Xpeditor, File - Aid.
• Ability to thoroughly design and code system’s functional requirements, and construct with minimal or no defects and implement the same.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team.
• Good team player with excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Proficient in coding standards, which will result in better performance of the code.
• Great leadership quality, Self-motivated, good learner and quick to adapt to any changes have helped to be result oriented.
• Ability to communicate effectively, willing to accept responsibility, and has excellent analytical and logical skills.
• Received 5 different awards in last six years for outstanding deliverables.
• Total 7+ years of I.T. experience on IBM Mainframe technology with extensive proficiency in COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, CICS, Eazytrieve, Sync Sort, DF Sort, CA-Platinum, and Xpeditor.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• My main responsibility is Coding, testing and production implementationof the projects.
• Identify areas of improvement considering automation, Prevention, Performance Improvement and Training Issues
• Work with product Owners or Business users to understand issues or requirements.
• Working with the team providing clear direction to team members
• Included the team in formulating decisions and accept for the accountability for the decision
• Tracking, documentation and co-ordination with different Maintenance teams to understand the improvement areas.
• Interaction with the client and end users, facilitating the design and relevant approvals required from the change control boards
• Prepare high level designs, have SQA meeting with architects and SME at onshore
• Prepare low level design documents, coordinate with off-shore for development
• Reviews of coding and testing done by off-shore, system integration testing
• Coordinate with business users for UAT testing
• Implementation of projects, post production verification, post production warranty support
• Project documentation, mentoring off-shore team
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

KANBAN Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a KANBAN Scrum Master
• Conduct sprint planning and daily stand up call meetings, including story board grooming.
• Sprint Capacity Planning and ensuring optimum Sprint Velocity.
• Ensuring Product and Sprint backlog is ready and stories prioritized.
• Sprint Tracking using Version 1 as a tool.
• Sprint Retrospectives and Demos.
• Working cohesively with the business product owner and ensuring road blocks and any impediments resolved at the earliest for a smooth sprint functioning.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Eazytrieve, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, CA Tools and SPUFI, V1

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Mainframe Developer/ SME

Responsibilities:

• As a senior developer
• As being part of Production System Management team, my main responsibility is to maintain and optimize the production environment.
• Performed extensive General Maintenance and application support of Batch and Online processes by programming in COBOL, DB2, JCL, Easytrieve, CICS.
• To assist business on the queries or issues with production data, processes following SLA based structure.
• Help business understand how certain processes works.
• Created various JCL’s/Programs to handle business request on time and ensure reusability of elements wherever needed.
• Provide guidance to team on Technical as well as business front
• Help team in resolving issues and identifying root cause with exact impact
• Batch job monitoring for daily Mainframe batch run (COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM)
• Actively performed Oncall related activities.
• Being a senior member in team, lead a team of 25 members, comprising of 6 onshore and 19 offshore members’.
• Ensuring quality project deliverables in a timely manner
• Communication to both Technical and Business partners whenever required
• Being part of Production system Management team my main responsibility is Maintenance and Enhancement of the production system.
• Maintain and meet SLA’s
• To provide presentation to client on the innovation on the production system & the excellent work being done by team.
• Being a project lead, my part is to understand the requirement, provide resourcing and manage the project.
• As SME
• Determining the scope of the project requirements.
• Interpreting the business needs to IT requirements.
• Working with the IT teams to make sure
• Writing business test cases based on the requirement understanding.
• Working as a liaison between business and testing teams.
• I have also worked in CI Development team before moving to CI PSM. My main responsibilities while in Development were,
• Requirement Gathering/Design/Development of a new application/Maintenance of an existing applications Development involving COBOL/JCL/EZTRIEVE/DB2/CICS/VSAM.
• Preparing Unit Test Plan document, functional and Technical specifications.
• Unit & System testing as per the UTP and checklists.
• Technical Documentation
• Peer reviewed all modules and logged the defects in quality center
• Coordinating with different teams involved in the project and worked together with all for timely and coordinated implementation of the project
• Played key role in decision making of design upon which the project was delivered with high quality
• Helped team understand the impact of the project and ensured excellent team work
• Create low level design documents referring HLD documents.
• Coordinating different phases of testing for system integration and user acceptance testing

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Eazytrieve,Panvalet, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, CA Tools and SPUFI

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Mainframe consultant

Responsibilities:

• As Team Member
• Being responsible for co-ordination with Onsite in task delivery in terms of timely query resolutions, follow-up and being within the allotted deadline
• Preparing functional and Technical specifications.
• Development/Coding
• Maintenance/enhancements
• Unit Testing
• Technical Documentation
• Active participation on daily calls with onshore SME’s/Architects and Leads
• Created low level design documents referring HLD documents
• Walkthrough for LLD documents with SME’s and Architects
• Coordinated with the team in creating high quality design with reusability of components wherever needed
• Estimated the effort and created the schedule for the projects
• Mainframe application coding (COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS) and documentation for same

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Easytrieve, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, Panvalet, SPUFI