Professional Summary

• 8+ years of experience in various areas of Systems Analysis and Software Development using CMM 5 & ISO 9001 Quality Processes
• 5 years experience in maintaining Accounts Payable and General Ledger applications
• More than 5 years domain experience in Rail Road and Transportation Domain
• Production Support experience on Core Millennium and AP/GL applications
• Hands on experience in (GEAC)Millennium upgrade for Accounts Payable & General Ledger
• Have intensive knowledge on Invoice Processing and Payment processing and Posting of General Ledger accounts in GEAC
• Experience also includes requirements gathering, IBM mainframe based programming, testing and maintenance.
• Active member of the team that prepared the proposal for NPI (Non Public Information) - Capture and Secure the confidential data across all the IT systems
• Active member of the team that prepared the proposal for CPU optimization across all the Mainframe Batch Systems
• Active member of the team that prepared the proposal for IVR module for screen scrapping solution
• Specialist in designing and writing optimized code, and fine-tuning applications for performance optimization
• Been playing lead and mentor roles for development teams for the past 5 years
• Excellent problem solver, always on the lookout to solve challenging problems. Self-starter, excellent team player and leader
• Go-to person for Design and Code reviews and also follower of Test driven development
• Excellent focus on software quality and metrics
• Good expertise in project cost and effort estimation, project planning, scheduling and tracking
• Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills
• Hands on experience in testing and implementation of Java projects.
• Application Domain knowledge in various Finance Applications including Accounts Payable, General Ledger, and Miscellaneous Receivables. Domain knowledge also includes Treasury Applications management, Credit Card Application processing.
• Intensively involved in ERP conversion project from Blue Printing to Implementation of the various Mainframe Finance Applications.
• Possesses 3+ years of experience as onshore lead and currently managing the team size of 10 offshore and 2 onshore. Hands on experience in project management and client relationship management.

Technology

Mainframe
COBOL
JCL
REXX
Natural
GEAC MSA M-Series Applications (AP / GL)
PDL (Procedural Definition language under Millennium Suite of products)
CICS

Database
VSAM
DB2
Adabas

Utilities / Tools
XPEDITER/TSO 7.7
File Manager
File Aid
ChangeMan 5.6.2C
PANVALET
Changeman
Endeavour
SyncSort

Web and other Technologies
Websphere
HTML
MKS
MS Visio
MS Project

Qualification

• MBA Systems , Madurai Kamaraj University, Full Time Residential Program, India
• Batchelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manonmanium Sundaranar University, India
  

Work Experience

Technology Lead
Confidential, (August 2009 - Present) - Service Scheduling

• Involved in High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans & Test Scripts and Deployment.
• Preparation of Unit and System Test cases, test plans and participated in unit and system testing.
• Prepare test jobs and set up environment for various test cycles like System and parallel Cycles.
• Involved in Production Support Activities & Post Implementation Support.
• Member of the DR Test Team and done some critical BCP
• Involved in requirement collection from the business users for the major customer notification process like Embargo Awareness, Service Change Notification & Service Exception Monitoring
• Prepared LOAD/UNLOAD jobs to load and unload data into/from database.
• Loaded data from Production to Test Environments to test COBOL II, DB2, VSAM programs.
• Prepared Changeman packages and participate in production installs.
• Involved in onsite - offshore coordination and currently managing 10 offshore and 2 onshore resources

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, Natural, Changeman, File Manager, File Manager for DB2, SyncSort, REXX, SPUFI, IBM Utilities, Microsoft Visio.

Senior Programmer Analyst, Team lead
Confidential, (March , 2007 - July, 2009) - General Ledger and Accounts Receivables

• As Programmer Analyst/Developer, supported mainframe finance applications General Ledger and Accounts Receivables.
• 24/7 Production Support.
• Maintain Daily close, Month end close, Quarter close and year end close support for General Ledger Application
• Maintenance of batch jobs that creates the various Financial Reports
• Creating the various adhoc balancing reports for Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow and various other critical reports as per the management's request
• Maintenance of Accounts Receivables batch jobs
• Extensively involved in ERP (SAP) conversion of Financial Mainframe Applications, which covers all the phases from Blue Printing to Implementation. (Millennium Geac to SAP)
• Involved in Identifying the Interfaces between the Legacy and SAP systems
• Involved in preparing the Functional Specification Document to map the Legacy and SAP data items
• Developing the legacy interface jobs to feed the SAP system
• Designing the process flow between Legacy, Informatica & SAP
• Unit testing (IT2) of various Interfaces
• Integration and parallel testing (IT3) by automating the flow through Redwood job scheduler.
• Preparing the interfaces for Go-Live production environment
• Decommissioning the Legacy Applications
• Involved in onsite - offshore coordination and managed 4 onshore and 3 offshore resources

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, PDL, Millennium GEAC Suite of products, Changeman, File Manager, File Manager for DB2, SyncSort, SPUFI, IBM Utilities, REXX, Microsoft Visio.

Senior Programmer Analyst, Team lead
Confidential, (Jan , 2005 - Feb, 2007) - Accounts Payable

• As Programmer Analyst/Developer, supported Accounts Payable Application.
• 24/7 Production Support.
• Authored a mainframe software application for Virtual Payment (VPAY) that enabled BNSF Railway to make payment virtually to its customers. This project is coordinated with Bank of America
• Supported the Batch jobs that checks the duplicate invoice processing, Invoice Edits and payment processing
• Developed the application for Contract Source Information (CSI)
• Involved in Millennium upgrade project
• Involved in the controlled migration of the Java code to various test environments using Websphere/MKS
• Involved in testing and Implementation of JAVA projects
• Involved in onsite - offshore coordination and managed 2 onshore and 1 offshore resources

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, PDL, Millennium GEAC Suite of products, Changeman, File Manager, File Manager for DB2, SyncSort, SPUFI, IBM Utilities, REXX, Microsoft Visio, Websphere, MKS

Confidential, (February, 2004 - January , 2005) - Titan 2 Tax

• Involved in Knowledge Transfer from Client for the Treasury Application TITAN 2 TAX
• Instrumental Member of the initial team to setup project support from Offshore
• Led 4 member offshore team
• Production Support and Application maintenance support
• Developed various Rexx tools to automate the manual tasks and improved the quality of the deliverables

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Natural, Adabas, Endeavor, File Aid, SyncSort, SPUFI, IBM Utilities, Microsoft Visio, REXX

Software Engineer
Confidential, (Jan 2003 - February 2004) - UPC Remediation

• Involved in UPC Remediation Team for GTIN Compliance
• Involved in Location number expansion, one of the key identifiers used in all the Best Buy IT applications
• Part of 10 member team in preparing the Low Level / High Level Design document
• Involved in extensive Map analysis for the field length change
• Involved in creating the test plans
• Member of the go live team for the phase I of the UPC remediation

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, PANVALET, File Aid, SPUFI, IBM Utilities

Software Engineer
Confidential, (June , 2001 - December , 2002) - APPS Run Team

• Production Support for Application processing (APPS) for the Private Label Credit Cards (PLCC). Production Support
• Automated the monthly SSN update process
• Responsible for test case preparation and reviews, in keeping the test coverage updated
• Experience in supporting the critical applications like rule engine, which is the main component in arriving at the credit scores
• Developed module to handle the duplicate card requests
• Involved in creating the test plans, unit & integration testing.

Environment: Mainframe OS/390, TSO-ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Endeavor, File Aid, SyncSort, SPUFI, IBM Utilities.