OBJECTIVE:

Highly self - motivated and responsible individual with 12 plus years of experience in Information Technology. Extensive experience in Analysis, design and development of Information Systems for various applications in IBM Mainframe and Data warehouse Technologies.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12 plus years of IT experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing and Support Mainframe applications
• Experience in developing business components based on the customer requirement by using COBOL,PL/I, DB2,VSAM,JCL, ISPF, EZTRIEVE, IMS/DC, IMS/DB, CICS, MVS,IBM FILE MANAGER,DATASTAGE, FILE-AID, CHANGE MAN, QMF, SPUFI,XPEDITER,CA7,SYNCSORT,RMS, ENDEVOR,ZEKE
• Experience in working with Insurance, Banking, Healthcare and financial applications
• Experience with Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) from disparate Data sources like Multiple Relational Databases.
• Knowledge in Big Data solutions using Apache Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS, YARN, PIG,SQOOP,SPARK,HIVE,HUE,FLUME, HBASE,OOZIE
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Involved in jobs scheduling, monitoring using CA7 and ZEKE
• Gathering business requirements, established functional specifications, translated them to design specifications.
• Experience in Production Support of Mainframe Jobs. Expertise in Incident Management/Problem Management/Service Request Management/Change Management
• Highly Motivated to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member with excellent Verbal and Communication Skills and clear understanding of Business procedures
• Excellent team member with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities.
• Self-motivated, strong organizational skills, reliable and capable of adopting new technical skills in short period of time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : MVS, DOS/VSE, MS-DOS, UNIX, WIN XP, WIN2010

Hardware: IBM 3090, ES/9000,and Intel Based Machines

Databases: DB2, IMS/DB,HBASE Oracle 8, SQL Server

Control Systems: CICS, IMS DC

Languages: COBOL, PL/I, JCL, JAVA, SAS, SQL, PL/SQL, REXXEZTRIEVE

Others: VASM, TSO/ISPF, FILEAID, FMDB2, FMBASE, XPEDITER, SYNCSORT,ABENDAID, STORED PROCEDURES, PANVALET, LOTUSNOTES,SHARE POINT IBM DATASTUDIO, MS OFFICE, MQ Series, ETI, BRLP, IBM FILE MANAGER

Scheduling Tools: ZEKE,ZENA,CA7 and MS ORCHESTRTOR

Version Control: RMS, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR

Data Warehouse Tools: INFORMATICA,COGNOS SUITE 8.2

Big Data: HADOOP, HDFS,YARN, PIG,HIVE,SQOOP,SPARK,OOZIE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Design and preparation of Technical Specifications.
• Developing new Programs and enhancing the existing programs in COBOL, PL1,DB2,CICS
• Creating Unit test plan, Unit test cases and System Test Cases
• Participated in code walk through meetings on the development or changes in the application systems
• Test the developed programs using Xpediter
• Involved in Test Cases preparation, Unit testing and Test results review
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project
• Attended Batch Job JCL support for IBM Mainframes.
• Worked on new customer requests to establish Schedule Requirements on IBM Mainframes.
• Making Scheduling changes as per Client's Requirement such as defining a new job, modifying an existing job, calendar updates, adding predecessors and successors to the existing job and adding file dependencies.
• Conducted Meetings with Developers to go over upcoming job schedule changes.
• Worked on recurring Incidents to streamline / prevent recurrence.
• Scheduling a job in all the tools, Modify the jobs, run days, Dependencies, Running Ad hoc requests, Moving Programs to Productions, Promoting the JCLs to production after checking the JCL, creating new calendars, modifications to existing Calendars, Setting/Removal of Job dependencies/File dependencies/Time dependencies for Jobs
• Giving permanent solutions for the scheduling issues to the jobs in all the tools, System health check-up,
• Fixing the job abends based on the severity of the job.
• Attending service calls and resolving tickets in timely manner to meet Service Level Agreements.
• Involved in Pre/Post Issuance-Preparing the Issuance request, call handling and problem resolution after Issuance and documentation.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS,DB2,COBOL,PL/1,JCL,CICIS,REXX,SAS,VSAM, File-AID,XPEDITER,SPUFI,ISPF,QMF, FTP,VSAM,IMS,LOTUSNOTES,INFORMATICA,RMS,ENDEVOR,ZEKE

Confidential, Ridgeland, MS

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing High level and Low level Design documents
• Worked on multiple subsystems: EDI 837, 277CA, 835, Claims Entry, Claims Adjudication, Claims Payment, Provider, Beneficiary, Third Party Liability (TPL), PA, POS, DSS, Web Portal
• Preparation of Statement of understanding for the Medicaid fiscal policies involving research and development of low-level design specs
• Coordinated different enhancements projects: NPI, ADA, UB-04 and CMS 1500 Claim enhancements, NCCI, 5010, ICD10, APR and DRG Pricing Methodologies
• Develop the programs as per the Specifications using COBOL, DB2, PL/1, JCL
• Test the developed programs using Xpediter
• Performed system testing and supported UAT, implementation, and maintenance/support
• Performed coordination, site management, people management, and leadership tasks

ENVIRONMENT: MVS/ESA,VSCOBOLII,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,FILEID,EASYTRIEVE,ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, BMC, IBM Utilities, and CA- 7.