Mainframe Developer Resume
SUMMARY
- Highly motivated, dedicated and passionate professional with extensive IT experience.
- Provide strategic leadership in design and implementation of new systems, ensuring integration across departments.
- Recognized as an effective problem solver with strong communication and organizational skills.
- Areas of Expertise include:
- Payroll | Banking | Financial Systems System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) | Agile Methodology
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Platforms: Z/OS, UNIX, CICS, IBM MQ, OS/400, Windows 2010, Windows NT
Languages: COBOL, SAS, C, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java
RDBMS: DB2, SQL/DS, ORACLE, IMS DB
Other Database: VSAM
Technologies: XML, SOA, MQSeries, Connect Direct, FTP
Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, OOAD, TDD
Development Tools: JCL, Endeavor, SCLM, CTRL - M, JOBTRAC, CA7, Fault Analyzer, TSO/ISPF, INSYNC, FILEAID, File Manager, DFSORT, IDCAMS, ICETOOLS, Debug Tool, Rational Application Developer (RAD), AFP (PAPYRUS)
Project Management: Microsoft Project, JIRA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mainframe Developer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Implemented to add new mortgage insurer “Canada Guaranty” for CSL
- Coding, Unit testing including test case preparation to add Canada Guaranty using COBOL, DB2 & IMS DB
- Coordinate with QA’s in SIT & PAT testing environment.
- Produced Deal Cancellation Report on a daily basis & sent to respective department
- Produced quarterly Attestation report for CSL access
- Setup jobs to unload from CSL tables & convert to CSV file for TBSM (Treasury and Balance Sheet Management) Securitization Project
- Participated Re-designing RESL PL
- Used Confluence/Jira as a project tracking tool.
- Tools used for development & testing were COBOL, SAS, DB2, JCL & IMS DB, Endeavor, CA7, FTP
Senior Developer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Made changes / enhancements to host application, meeting end-user requirements performing following tasks;
- Detailed analysis, design, coding, Unit testing including preparing test cases
- Assisted QA’s for BAT testing
- Used COBOL, DB2, MQ Series & Connect Direct
- Work as release coordinator
- Implemented Work Force Now project on-time & within budget
- Detailed analysis, design, coding, Unit testing including preparing test cases
- Used COBOL, DB2, MQ Series & Connect Direct, IBM Web Services
- Implemented Cross-Partner Banking to automate distribution of funds from an alternate bank if any problems were detected during transmission from the primary bank using COBOL, DB2 & Connect Direct.
- Automated Finance department’s billing system for collecting service changes from clients, minimizing manual work and improving efficiencies.
- Assisted business partners and product owners with refining end-user business requirements.
- Took the initiative to automate batch processes as tools, increasing productivity by eliminating manual work by mainframe operators.
- Provided production support for host applications on a rotational basis, helping resolve issues during processing.
- Worked as Scrum Master for 1 year & performed following tasks;
- Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
- Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
- Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meeting
- Utilized Rally as a project tracking tool for Agile methodology
SENIOR ANALYST / PROGRAMMER
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Delivered cost-effective migration of major financial systems (Payroll, Financial Accounting, Budget, and Inventory) from IBM S/390 mainframe to AS/400 in 2 months; Pentasoft (India) had quoted a 7-month completion time at a cost of U$40K.
- Designed and implemented a payroll system for international employees that saved $U5K/month; this payroll was previously outsourced to a US company. Was rewarded with a salary increase for efforts on this project.
- Performed Coding, Unit testing using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, CLP
ANALYST PROGRAMMER, COMPUTER DIVISION
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Automated the reconciliation process of inter-branch transactions of bank, after automation unreconciled transactions were reduced by 90% and the manpower of Reconciliation Department were reduced from
- Automated and enhanced the Payroll, Provident Fund and HR Management Systems, after automation the manpower of Accounts Department and Human Resources departments were reduced from 65 to 12 and respectively
- Performed successful migration of inter-branch reconciliation system of bank from mainframe to RS/6000
- Automated the Currency Exchange Rate System
- Automated the Government Transaction Reporting System for quick and accuracy in reporting to Central Bank to avoid fines for delayed and complaints from Central Bank using COBOL on IBM Mainframe
- Customized SAFE II banking software as per banks specification using CSF and IMS
- Performed Coding, Unit testing using C, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, JCL, CSP