SUMMARY:

• Having 13.5 + years of work experience on application design, development and maintenance on Mainframe systems in Manufacturing, Retail, Health - care and Insurance domain with a strong knowledge on JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, TSO, ENDEVOR, QMF, SPUFI, SQL
• Having 45+ months of US client site experience at four different locations (Virginia, Wisconsin, Maryland and Minnesota) with four different clients (Altria, Mercury Marine, Geico and Confidential ).
• Strong working experience with Fortune 500 Clients like Confidential, Altria Clients Service, Mercury Marine, GEICO, BMW.
• Automated number of business-critical tasks to achieve efficiency. Got recognized by Client and NTT for the proactive initiatives for automation.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines and set priorities without close supervision
• Pro-active, flexible, enthusiastic, able to handle different projects concurrently and results driven
• Good Team building, analytical, interpersonal, technical and communication skills
• Having experience of all phases of SDLC process
• Strong knowledge on Health Care domain and completed AHM-250 with 90 percent score on 01/10/2015.
• Responsible for review business requirements and prepare various documents i.e. SOW, project estimation, technical design document and implementation plan.
• Responsible for participate in the business team meetings to represent the technical team to help the business team with technical feasibility and handling user and client queries.
• Responsible for impact analysis of the new changes on various other applications.
• Responsible for designing the architecture for the new interface.
• Responsible for analyzing the online/batch programs and preparing the functional specifications for change requests.
• Responsible for defining testing methodologies, designing test plans and test cases, verifying and validating mainframe applications and documentation based on standards for software development and effective QA implementation in all phases of software development.
• Responsible for review the code and test results created by other team members prior to delivery for increasing quality of the delivery
• Responsible for offshore resource & assign work to offshore
• Responsible for conducting UAT, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Responsible for implementation related activities and to provide post- implementation support within defined SLA time limits.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JCL, CICS, COBOL & SQL

Database: DB2, IDMS, VSAM & IMS DB

Hardware: OS/390, Z/OS, Win XP, UNIX

Tools: /Utilities TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, Platinum, SQL developer, File-aid Painter, SPUFI, QMF, Expediter, File-Manager, SARData Studio, Endevor, Alchemist

Scheduler: ZEKE, ControlM, CA 7, ESP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automated the weekly Sales Tasks to find the missing store sales files.
• Automated the AP Invoice correction process which helped to save around 5000 Man hours annually.
• Automated various tasks related to DC Standardization as part of integration of UNFI and Confidential .

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, ADSO, VSAM, Endevor

Confidential

COBOL/DB2 Developer

Responsibilities:

• There were 407 numbers of stored procedures from different applications which needs the functional change from ‘External’ to “Native’. This change was business and time critical as it involved the different application and communication with different vendors and should be completed by Jan 2015. There were no code changes but huge testing effort was required. I started this project in September 2014 and completed it by mid-December 2014 without any single issue. Client appreciated my effort, efficiency & accuracy, which helped to get 8000 hours of work in a single project for year 2015 and lot more is expected.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SCMS, SPUFI, QMF, SQL Developer, IBM Data Studio.

Confidential

COBOL/DB2 Developer

Responsibilities:

• I joined GEICO in March 2013 at Maryland USA for Texas Detail Modification Project. Coding and Unit testing for this project was already completed and I was supposed to perform the Integration testing with other team members. I find out multiple bugs in the code changes and proposed the fix and implemented the proposed fix.
• I also proposed and implemented the ICETOOL Utility in the existing JCL’s which helped to reduce the efforts from 300 hours to just 80 hours for another project. NTT Data Management at GEICO appreciated my work and applied for my L1B Visa Extension and H1B Visa, along with providing two increments in a year and Bonus.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Endeavor, SPUFI, Expediter.

Confidential

Onsite, Lead, Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I joined Mercury Marine in Oct 2012 at Fond du lac, Wisconsin, USA for Global Trade Compliance Project. There were 110 programs needs to be modified and 10 new COBOL/IMS programs needs to be developed. This project was estimated for 9 months by Client business analyst but we have completed it within 5.5 months. I find out bugs in the existing production programs and fixed the bugs. NTT Data Management and Client appreciated my work and I received a pay increment and monetary incentives.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, Panvalet.

Confidential

Mainframe Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is moving off from Mainframe to a .NET based platform and this project is to archive all of the data which resides in the Mainframe to Legal hold and wipe the mainframe off completely before handing it over back to IBM.

Confidential

Onsite Team Member

Responsibilities:

• This project was for the replacement of TM1 with SalesEDGE1. TM1 is the system which is used by the field sales force to enter contract information for the retails. TM1 is a SAP based application being replaced by SalesEDGE1 which works on .NET platform. FSI shares an interface with TM1.
• This project was to reduce the travel and other expenses made by Territory Sales Manager, Unit Managers in less densely populated areas of Altria sale region of West America. Altria set up a call centre from where TSM and UM used to call the retail owners to let them know about new contracts or promotions Altria is offering as it was expensive to physically visit each retail store.

Confidential

Offshore Team member

Responsibilities:

• I worked four years in Altria and learned technical and functional knowledge of system quickly which helped me to gain the onsite opportunity of 14 months. I proposed and implemented the west call center project which was very cost effective for client. My other notable contributions were in Mainframe movement, SalesEDGE1 and mainframe elimination project. NTT Data Management and Client appreciated my work and I received two promotions, 4 pay increments, twice onsite opportunity, outstanding contribution and several incentives.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, Endevor, QMF, SPUFI, SQL, ZEKE.

Confidential

Cobol/IDMS Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered knowledge from SME’s and provided KT to seniors who joined project after me.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, IDMS, VSAM, Panvalet.