PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of experience in IT industry with strong Technical and Functional skills on Open VMS and Mainframes environments
• Experience in Open VMS, Mainframes and Unix
• Experience in migrating COBOL application to JAVA, .NET Platforms using Blaze Rules Engine.
• Expert in providing solutions for COBOL migration projects
• Experience in VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC, DCL and JCL
• Experience in Oracle, Vax RDB, SQL Developer and DB2
• Experience in Decforms, ACMS and Unix
• Experience in converting COBOL programs to PEGA table process for Member Enrollment
• Experience in business model tools MS VISIO, HP Quality Center, Remedy and Team Foundation Server
• Experience in agile software development practices such as Scrum, test driven development (TDD), and continuous integration/continuous deployment
• Development Lead for a team with 5 onshore and 4 offshore resources
• Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to lead, co - ordinate and support offshore and onshore development teams
• Proven skills of understanding Business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
• Acted as SME for all projects worked so far and arranged multiple knowledge sharing sessions
• Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards
• Technical support for QA and UAT testing
• Provide assistance to team with issues needing technical expertise. Providing on-the-job training for new or existing team members
• Hardworking, Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work pressure
• Master new concepts quickly and rapidly resolve problems. Strong work ethic and ability to quickly adapt to new environments
• Strong customer focus, adaptable, flexible and willing to learn
• Problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other teams to resolve complex issues with innovative solutions. Ability to perform design and code quality reviews

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: VAX, Itanium I64, ORACLE

Programming Languages: VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC, DCL, C, DEC Forms and JCL

Databases: RMS (Record Management System), Vax RDB and Oracle RDB, DTR and DB2

Tools: CCMS, DEC Scheduler, MMS, MQ, MS Office and VISIO

Operating Systems: VAX/VMS, Open VMS, UNIX and Windows

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Cobol Technical Lead
• Expert in providing ideologies and solutions for legacy migration projects (Open VMS COBOL to Java)
• Leadership & Team Building
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Onsite & Offshore Methodologies
• SDLC Waterfall / Agile Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business partners to create mapping documentation for AADD (Application and Architecture Design Document).
• Responsible for Rules Harvesting and prepare mapping documents between COBOL and .NET applications.
• Perform End to End testing between .NET and Legacy applications.
• Perform impact analysis of COBOL, Decforms and apply changed to all impacted
• Maintenance of existing system, including error resolution and enhancements to existing system utilizing BASIC, VMS COBOL programs
• Develop programs in BASIC, COBOL and DCL, Decforms and Pro Cobol programs on VMS platform.
• Assisted management, on a daily basis, in isolation, root-cause analysis, and resolution and provided recommendations to user-facing business and application issues Ownership of delivery until completion/implementation.
• Source code management as per the client policies
• Directly interfaced with business and technical managers, ensuring on-time approvals for AADD, UTP/UTR.

Environment: Open VMS, .NET Application

Languages : VAX COBOL, DCL and VAX BASIC

Databases : Oracle RDB, Oracle, Datatrieve

Tools: CMS, MQ, DTR and SQL Developer

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Addressing production support issues as per the SLAs.
• Worked with EDI/EFT teams to translate the member files into VAX formatted files. File translation includes the HIPAA validations for 5010 and before 5010 layouts.
• Enhanced member enrollment system from VAX BASIC and VAX COBOL to PEGA table process.
• Worked with business partners to create mapping documentation for AADD (Application and Architecture Design Document).
• Perform impact analysis of VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC and Decforms and apply changed to all impacted
• Maintenance of existing computer system, including error resolution and enhancements to existing system utilizing VMS COBOL programs
• Develop programs in COBOL and DCL, Decforms and Pro Cobol programs on VMS platform.
• Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, analysis, testing, implementation of software applications and application maintenance.

Environment:: VAX/VMS

Languages : VAX COBOL, DCL and VAX BASIC

Databases : Oracle RDB, Oracle, Datatrieve

Tools:: CMS, MQ, DTR and SQL Developer

Technical Lead/COBOL developer

Responsibilities:

• Development Lead for a team with 5 Onshore and 4 offshore resources
• Worked with business partners to create mapping documentation for AADD (Application and Architecture Design Document).
• Perform impact analysis of COBOL, Decforms and apply changed to all impacted
• Maintenance of existing computer system, including error resolution and enhancements to existing system utilizing VMS COBOL programs
• Develop programs in COBOL, C and DCL, Decforms and Pro Cobol programs on VMS platform.
• Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, analysis, testing, implementation of software applications and application maintenance.
• Preparing low level design specs for proposed requirements/changes.
• Assisted management, on a daily basis, in isolation, root-cause analysis, and resolution and provided recommendations to user-facing business and application issues Ownership of delivery until completion/implementation.
• Source code management as per the client policies
• Directly interfaced with business and technical managers, ensuring on-time approvals for AADD, UTP/UTR.
• Post production warranty support

Environment:: Open VMS, Unix, Blaze Rules Engine and Java

Languages : DCL Programming, COBOL, C and ProCOBOL

Databases : Oracle RDB

Tools:: CMS, MQ and DTR

Architect

• Development Lead and Onshore/Offshore Coordinator.
• Involved with client application engineering team for defining new Architecture
• Analyze the existing system and prepare Rules Harvesting Documents.
• Prepared and executed Proof of Concepts for the new Architecture Viz MQ and Pro*COBOL that supports JAVA application
• Involved in discussions with Business Analysts team for requirements gathering preparing functional specifications and changing them into technical specifications.
• Preparing low level design specs for proposed requirements/changes.
• Perform development (Coding and Unit testing) as per the requirements
• Ownership of delivery until completion/implementation.
• Source code management as per the client policies
• Provided technical support for QA and UAT teams
• Post production warranty support

Environment:: OPEN VMS and UNIX

Languages : DCL, COBOL, C, IFDL, Pro*COBOL, Shell Scripts and Blaze Rules Engine.

Databases : Oracle RDBMS

Tools: CMS, MMS, Datatrieve, and MQ

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussions with Business Analysts team for requirements gathering preparing functional specifications and changing them into technical specifications.
• Estimation of development and system testing efforts
• Conducted and participated JAD sessions with the Project managers, Business Analysis Team, Finance and Development to team gather, analyze and document the Business and reporting requirements.
• Work directly with non-IT business analysts throughout the development cycle
• Create Detail Design documents
• Perform development (Coding and Unit testing) as per the requirements
• Code Review
• System Test planning and test case preparations
• Preparation of necessary documents for production release
• System Test planning and test case preparations
• Source code management as per the client policies
• Technical support for QA and UAT testing
• Post production warranty support

Environment:: OPEN VMS

Languages : DCL, COBOL, C, IFDL

Databases : Oracle RDBMS

Tools:: CMS, MMS, Data Trieve, MQ

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussions with BA team to gather requirements, to prepare functional specification and converting them into technical specifications.
• Conducted and participated JAD sessions with the Project managers, Business Analysis Team, Finance and Development to team gather, analyze and document the Business and reporting requirements.
• Create Detail Design documents
• Coding, Unit Testing, System Integration Testing and UAT

Environment: OPEN VMS, DCL, COBOL, ORACLE, Unix and VAX RDB

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared list of all the elements existed in the system
• Build MMS for all the programs
• Export all the MMS files to new server
• Generate and deploy all the executable in the server location
• Coding and Unit testing for enhancements required to the system.
• Production bug fix
• Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards
• Preparation of mapping document between RMS files and Oracle tables for the purpose of migration

Environment: OPEN VMS, DCL, VMS COBOL and C

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring daily cycle jobs
• Create User Requested Reports
• CR Analysis and Estimation
• Coding and Unit testing for enhancements required to the system.
• Production bug fix
• Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards
• Preparation of mapping document between RMS files and Oracle tables for the purpose of migration

Environment: OPEN VMS, DCL, VMS COBOL and C