PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Proven expertise in user requirements gathering, design, development, maintenance, and production support of mainframe applications.
• Strong programming skills with diverse technological experience. Sound analytical and problem solving skills.
• Extensive and diversified experience in Batch and Online development, system analysis and Maintenance programming in both module lead and senior level programmer analyst positions.
• Worked extensively with tools like Expeditor, File-Manager, DB-manager, Data Studio, RMS.
• Hands on experience in COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS DB, DB2, TSO/ISPF, PLI and Stored Procedures.
• Mainframe professional with 7 years of extensive experience in Analysis, Development, Maintenance, Testing/Debugging, Production Support and Implementation on various projects in the Insurance, Banking and Publishing domain working with Fortune 250 clients:-
• Extensive experience in multiple domains like Insurance, Banking and Publishing.
• Many years of proven experience working in the Onshore/Offshore Business model.
• Performed multiple roles including team member, module lead and onshore coordinator with great success.
• Substantial exposure to Software Development Life Cycle in prototyping software applications including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Maintenance and Documentation.
• Team player, Training Mentoring team members on Domain Knowledge.
• Undergone Training in Assertiveness Skills, Cross Cultural Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Planning Prioritizing Skills, Team Building, Defect and Problem Prevention, Quality Processes and Metrics.
• Excellent Customer interface, Team Building, Project handling, Analytical, interpersonal and communication skills. Completed certification on Quality Processes and Practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Languages : JCL, COBOL, PLI, Stored Procedures
• Platform : IBM-Mainframe
• Database : DB2, IMS DB, VSAM.
• Tools : TSO/ISPF, Expeditor, File-Manager, DB-manager, Data Studio, RMS.
• Operating System : Mainframes Z/OS/MVS , MS-DOS, Win 9X/NT
• Others : PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word and knowledge of IBM AS/400 technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.Mainframe/COBOL Developer/Analyst

Worked on three projects while working for State Farm:

• Meta-data in which we have provided support as well as worked on enhancing the existing Stored Procedure/Fetchables and Developing new Stored Procedures/Fetchables for the Metadata applications
• Claims Service Support including Claims Domain application and Client Search
• Bank Service Support - Providing support for a lot of systems which are as follows -
• Provisioning Friendly Files PFF system
• Tax Filing system
• Quarterly Access system
• General Ledger system
• Agent Load System

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Working on projects and deploy the changes in the scheduled quarterly releases. Follow the Release Management timelines strictly to complete each phase of the SDLC.
• Working on CRs Small change requests and deploy the changes in the scheduled out of release windows.
• Participating in the business meetings to understand the business/functional requirements of the Projects CRs Small System Change Requests and convert them into Technical requirements.
• Coordinating with Offshore team to ensure they understand the requirements and complete the changes as per the timelines of the Release Management.
• Facilitating the weekly status meetings on Projects CRs Small Change Requests with the client to track the status resolve any issues.
• Gathering and Understanding business requirements.
• Created Requirements Analysis and Functional Specification documents
• Worked on Unit Test Plan and Unit Testing, Integration test plan and Integration Testing, User acceptance test plan and user acceptance testing of the applications with other applications.
• Monitored several test batch cycles as part of the releases.
• Supported User Acceptance Testing and communicated directly with the users for the Testing and requirements.
• Developed Implementation plan and involved in Implementation and Post production Support.
• Performed Impact Analysis and identified software modifications required
• Used Sharepoint for documents tracing and auditing.
• Developed reusable code.
• Reviewed documentation created by the team before delivering it customer to minimize errors.
• Prepared project specific documentation for project repository.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows 7 Software: COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, Stored Procedures Tools: XPeditor, File-Manager, DB-manager, SPUFI, DSMS, Data Studio and RMS

Thomson West Reuters

Confidential

Worked on two projects while working for Thomson West:

Query Entry Search - forms the link between the front end and the actual data that the user requests for. All requests made by the user are received by the Query entry sub-system and vetted for their correctness

Cases and Third Party Conversion - has process of receiving data for all the states in USA in various formats and then converts the data received from Data Capturing System to Mainframe system. It formats the data according to Westlaw standards. The output file is then loaded into the database

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for the applications.
• Doing Bug Fixes in the application.
• Gathering and Understanding business requirements.
• Modifying the code as per client request.
• Worked on Unit Test Plan and Unit Testing, Integration test plan and Integration Testing, User acceptance test plan and user acceptance testing of the applications with other applications.
• Monitored several test batch cycles as part of the releases.
• Handle relevant technical functional communication with Onsite coordinator.
• Provide weekly status reports.
• Weekly Scope Audit: Identify new sign-ons added and space occupied by UNIX servers. To be done on Weekly basis.
• Daily Penguin Growth Audit: Identify new sign-ons added and space occupied by UNIX servers. To be done on daily basis.
• Quarterly Audit: Identify new sign-ons added and space occupied by UNIX servers. To be done on quarterly basis.
• Handled additional responsibilities of Configuration Manager CM and Defect Prevention Representative DPR for the project.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows XP Software: PLI, DB2, VSAM, JCL Tools: XPeditor, File-Manager, Panvalet and SPUFI

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for the applications.
• Doing Bug Fixes in the application.
• Batch Production Support Monitoring
• EOC Coverage Expert on Call
• Application Maintenance routine and non-routine activities.
• Small Enhancements Development Enhancement Requests
• Communicating with the client for queries related to the specifications.
• Weekly updates on the status.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows XP Software: CL-400, RPG-400, and JDEdwards

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gathering and Understanding business requirements.
• Created Requirements Analysis and Functional Specification documents
• Worked on Unit Test Plan and Unit Testing, Integration test plan and Integration Testing, User acceptance test plan and user acceptance testing of the applications with other applications.
• Substantial exposure to Software Development Life Cycle in prototyping software applications including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Maintenance and Documentation.
• Hands on experience in COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF.
• Provided technical support for the applications.
• Doing Bug Fixes in the application.
• Communicating with the client for queries related to the specifications.
• Weekly updates on the status.