PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have 10+ years of Mainframe projects experience. Good knowledge and working experience in Credit Card Domain (Vision Plus). Project experience is ranging from Requirement Gathering, Functional / Technical Design, Development, Unit Testing, SIT Support & UAT support as well as BAU (Business as usual) support. My expertise includes business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of VisionPLUS and its enhancements.
• My extensive BAU support experience provides me an edge in analyzing problems and quickly arriving at optimum solutions. My present role as Technical Lead in Confidential is to be a Key point contact for Confidential module. I have excellent written and oral communication skills in English and as a Technical Lead I use these skills to communicate directly with the client and gather details of requirement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM Mainframes, Intel PCs

Platforms: OS/390 MVS, Windows NT/95/98/2000 XP, Unix

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Ezytrieve+, CICS, SQL, Core Java

Databases: VSAM, DB2

Tools: & Utilities: TSO/ISPF, File Aid, Changeman, Infoman, Abend Aid, Xpeditor, Endeavour, CA - 7, OPC

Domain Knowledge: Consumer Finance (Banking and Credit Cards--VisionPLUS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. Mainframe Developer/Tech Team Lead

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• Leading the delivery and support for critical IT projects and services with a culturally diverse and geographically dispersed workforce to the North America Receivables and Payables business groups (part of the Treasury & Trade Services (TTS) unit). Collaborate with business, cross-functional partners, and client relationship partners to drive applications growth and longevity.
• Managing a team of 8, employees and contractors, as well as offshore support teams. (India)
• Directly accountable for 17 mainframeand distributed applications, supporting 4 lines of businesses within the North America Receivables & Payables product groups; Lines of businesses: Electronic & Emerging Receivables, Private Sector Receivables, CitibankPayment Services/Electronic Data Interchange (CPS/EDI) Payables and Receivables, and Payables Check Processing/Clearing.
• Managing L2 and L3 24/7/365 on-call production support.
• Delivering development projects on time and within budget across critical Payables and Receivables applications.
• Ensuring continuous compliance within corporate risk and control frameworks, information security policies, and adherence to government laws and regulations.

Tech team lead/BAU Coordinator

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• To understand business requirement and suggest solution
• Review of Functional specification and check if any gaps and SOW estimates
• File/Data mapping & Building strategy for Conversion
• Prepare High level Design(HLD)
• Provide technical support in coding
• Supporting SIT, UAT, PAT and regression testing
• Supporting Implementation activities
• Post production support for batches and functional issues

Technical Lead

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and preparing the Questionnaires
• Providing High Level Functional Design for the client requirement
• Communicating the High level design with Technical team for the feasibility analysis
• Providing the estimates for the enhancement
• Developing Functional Specification Documents and High Level Design Documents
• Coordinating with the business, development and testing teams for effective communication
• Writing test plans for the enhancements
• Managing implementation of the enhancements to Production
• Below are the funcitonality's majorly worked in Confidential,
• Embossing Module
• Global Embossing
• World Money Cards (CWM)
• Priority Pass Cards
• Conversion of Mag-Stripe cards to Chip Cards
• Renewal Cards processing
• Common Apin Functionality
• Pre-Emboss Upgrade
• Direct Debit
• ECMS Citi Alerts
• Global Minimum Due calculation
• Interest processing
• Monetary/Non-Monetary Flow

Technical Lead

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business requirements and Functional Design
• Providing the technical design and writing technical specification document
• Modularizing the projects into tasks and delegating to team members
• Coordinating with offshore and support them for the development and test support.
• Transition of Application programs in to SIT and UAT Environments
• Managing and supporting the Test Director (HP Quality Centre) / JIRA for BAU defects Performing the end-end yearly disaster recovery exercise for the Portugal production region
• Ensuring smooth implementation and post implementation verification / support

Sr. Mainframe Developer/Team lead

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• Referring to the Functional requirements or High Level design and preparing the Detail Technical specification
• Coding of various components Using the Technical Specification and preparing deviation document if required.
• Distributing the tasks to the team members based on experience level and skill set level.
• Preparing unit test plans for the added functionality.
• Caring out unit testing and result capture.
• Reviews are done at every stage of the development Life cycle.
• Integration testing is carried out on the Unit tested Code to ensure defect free delivery of the Global code to the Business units.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CSP, VSAM, FileAid, Easytrieve, IBM MQ series, Changeman, Endeavor & OPC

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in the Coding/Testing of programs which inquire and update DB2 tables present on Mainframes
• Has prepared functional specifications, technical specifications, design documents, test plans and have also worked on Post Production issues.