SUMMARY:

• Passionate, Inspirational, Result focused, and a proven leader with the ability to set strategic vision, with a focus on breakthrough thinking and innovation management.
• 10+ years of experience in managing and executing Mainframe projects in the capacity of Team Lead, Technical Architect and Analyst and DBA.
• Extensive IT experience in software industry in all phases of software development life cycle including Design, Development, Implementation, Support, and Maintenance of various Business Applications on Mainframe Platform.
• Extremely strong leadership skills in leading and managing Mainframe teams (Onshore/Offshore model).
• Hands - on experience in production support and in development on Mainframe platform using languages like COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, CICS, MQ, VSAM, Java Script, LINUX
• Good exposure on US Managed Health Care and Brokerage domain; worked in US Healthcare Changes like-5010, ICD10.
• Good exposure on public sector project, state client - Georgia Department of Labor.
• Responsible for doing estimation and planning for the project developments.
• Responsible for keeping track on the status of different phases of development.
• Worked on creation of various technical documents like - DSS, HLO, Software Design Documents, Technical Specification Documents, POV, UTP, UTR, estimations.
• Experienced on Mainframe development with good knowledge of COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IBM MQ Series and REXX.
• Experience in using Tools like File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Endeavour, Panvalet, Expediter, Trace Master CA-7, ESP, OPC and JHS Schedulers, Remedy, SPUFI & QMF, REXX, DB2ADM, Insync, OMEGAMON, EXPLAIN, ERwin Data Modeler, Quality center, FTP, NDM, Brakets, File Manager, Data Vantage, IBM Debugging tool.
• Have knowledge of OOPS Programming Language, HTML, JAVA Script and LINUX
• Have performed Impact Analysis for process improvement.
• Possess a high technical aptitude and a high level of analytical ability. Solid analytical, problem-solving.
• Good communication, Presentation and Interpersonal skills with excellent problem solving capability with a result oriented attitude.
• Qualities of flexibility and easily adaptable to any kind of environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: DB2

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, MVS/ JCL, SQL, IBM MQ Series, REXX, GDG, VSAM, Java Script, HTML, LINUX

Tools: /Special Software s: File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Endeavour, Expediter, Trace Master,IBM Debug Tool, CA-7, ESP, OPC and JHS Schedulers, Remedy, SPUFI & QMF, REXX, DB2ADM, Insync, OMEGAMON, EXPLAIN, BMC Mainview, ERwin Data Modeler, Quality center, FTP, NDM, Data Vantage, PuTTY, WinScp, Brackets, SharePoint, Visual Studio

Scheduling Tools: CA7- Scheduler, OPC Scheduler, JHS, ESP

OS: MVS (Z/OS), Windows XP, Vista, Windows 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Currently working towards code development and enhancement using Visual Studio in the Dell Rehosted environment and running the jobs and transactions in BPE and TPE environments.
• I perform unit testing and integration testing of batch and online COBOL, DB2 and CICS modules in the new environment.
• Currently a part of on-call production support team for the Claim applications.
• Involved in maintaining project documentation in SharePoint pertaining to project audits, Testing results, Change Request tracking etc.
• I work on various Work requests and Service request tickets as raised by end users to perform program enhancements to COBOL, DB2, CICS programs, procs / JCLs and work along with release management team to deploy them into production.
• Worked in Data conversion team to identify mandatory PS and VSAM dataset which needed migration and created conversion rules for them.
• Provided on call support post implementation and worked on production issues.
• Performed analysis of all the programs using repro to analyze the behavior in new environment
• I work closely with Client Business, Technical, Infrastructure, Development, Testing and release management teams.

Mainframe Team Lead

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team members to solve their technical queries and helped them in doing the developments for the project.
• Performed integration testing of various program developments and helped them in migrating them to production.
• Created weekly status sheet for the team to track the status of all the developments and to make sure that delivery timelines are met.
• Estimated the effort for program developments and assign that to team members as per resource availability.
• Have handled development of COBOL- DB2, COBOL-CICS programs using VSAM files, GDG and DB2 tables
• Have been trained on DataVantage tool used to migrate data from DB2 and VSAM files to distributed system.
• Have modified HTML, JAVA Scripts using Brackets tool used at the front end of the portals.

Team Lead

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5 for implementing Bank Custody changes in PACE and FACT applications to handle incoming Custody Bank Wires and checks.
• I work closely with Client Business, Technical, Infrastructure, Development and release management teams on this project.
• Responsible to attend client meetings to understand requirements and translate them into design documents.
• Have created the Software design documents proposing architecture enhancement of the system to handle Bank Custody wires and checks.
• I have performed impact analysis on the system and identified the impacted elements.
• Handling and managing efforts starting from estimation, technical spec creation, scheduling, development, UTR/UTP creation, deployment and support.
• Have created new COBOL- DB2, COBOL-CICS programs using VSAM files for Bank Custody.
• Working on integration of these application with JAVA based front end as the phase two of the project.
• I oversee the integration testing for applications handled by the team.
• Involved in status reporting to client manager on a regular basis.
• Maintain the Knowledge acquired during the SDLC phases.

Technical Lead

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Onshore Co-coordinator for a team of six resources.
• Worked closely with Client Business, Technical, Infrastructure, Development and release management teams.
• Co-coordinating work and efforts between Confidential and Client Captive team
• Monitoring claim processing environments for issues, abends, claims processing failure, delay, wrong payment, overpayment etc.
• Working on problem tickets, Incident Managements and Service Requests.
• Involved in both development SDLC phases as well as production support environment.
• Maintain the Knowledge acquired during the SDLC phases.
• Support Vendor Upgrades, Release and Environment Change Support and Report Compliance / Regulatory related audits.
• Handling and Managing Work Order effort projects starting from estimation, scheduling, development, deployment and support.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing estimation on the projects.
• Performing Analysis, Coding and Unit testing of COBOL, DB2 and CICS modules.
• Creating Technical Specification documents, UTP, UTR checklists.
• Maintaining the Knowledge acquired during the SDLC phases.
• Performance tuning for programs using Multi-row Fetch Cursor.
• Provide BAU (Business as Usual) Maintenance
• Used Endeavor tool as a version control tool in promoting in code in different regions and testing
• Participating in disaster recovery drill.
• Training and mentoring new associates to create a knowhow on the business.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as single point of contact for data extraction for this project as a DBA.
• Coordinated between Confidential Consultancy group and CCS application team to understand the requirement and architecture of the application database.
• Responsible for creation of test region for the data extraction.
• Understanding the logical relation between the DB2 tables using Erwin Data Modeler and writing SQL queries for data mining.
• Monitoring the SQL query performance using tools like OMEGAMON and BMC Mainview Explain.
• Worked on various DB2 concepts like SQL queries, cursor, multi-row fetch, load/unload of tables, creation of Index, Joins, Runstats, Reorg and Image copy
• Provided status on the project to Confidential Consulting group, DBA and management.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Business Users to gather requirements and understand the data flow to and from e-health application, for Point of View (POV) preparation.
• Perform Analysis of e-health DB2 COBOL programs based on the fields and determined if existing fields in Claims Repository tables could be used wherever possible. If a place holder couldn’t be identified, proposed addition of new columns to existing Claims Repository tables or addition of new tables.
• Performed data mapping in COBOL - DB2 programs and DB2 tables, which was used as inputs to the HLO and DSS preparation.
• Kept business and management informed on the status of the project.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• For the creation of Request for Proposal (RFP), performed impact analysis (Declaration Impact; Regen Impact; Hard coded Impact or Reference modification Impact) of COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs of TOPS application.
• Based on the Impact analysis, provided estimation for the project.
• Created a REXX tool to automate the impact analysis of programs in TOPS application,
• Provided Training and mentoring to the new associates on Mainframe technology.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of the requirements from client and creating Technical Specification Documents on same lines.
• Code new COBOL, DB2, CICS programs, jobs (JCL/procs) and enhancing existing programs based on the requirement.
• Co-ordinate and Participate in Code reviews and test case/test results walkthrough with team, maintaining documentation of the different processes carried out.
• Perform unit testing, system testing and post deployment defect fixes of modules independently.
• Used Endeavor tool as a version control tool in promoting in code in different regions and testing
• Participated in CAR analysis, Code Quality analysis work and Release management.
• Created tools on REXX for process automation.
• Got introduction to DB2 Stored Procedure for optimization of programs
• Have maintained project documentation for SOX audits
• Provided knowledge transfer sessions to new team members
• Involved in Metrics and Quality management.
• Perform Disaster Recovery exercise.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary contact for three mission critical applications
• Installation of Major and Minor releases
• Resolving production issue and monitoring Batch jobs and Resolving abends
• Creation of Fstrucs in CA-7 for job scheduling.
• Creation of JCLs, PROCS, GDG, VSAM, online and batch programs.
• Creating router jobs to connect applications using Websphere MQ by formatting mssage into HTML format.
• Have maintained project documentation for SOX audits.
• Onsite/Offshore co-ordination.
• Performing Impact analysis and providing estimation on Technical project requirement.
• Provide on-call Production Support for WFAC, WFA/DI and NSDB applications.
• Perform Disaster Recovery exercises.