SUMMARY:

• Having 10+years of experience in IT - Industries for various Application Developments using the IBM-AS/400 (RPGLE,RPG-FREE, SYNON, CL/400, DB2/400 & COBOL/400)Technologies.
• Possess knowledge in RPGILE, CL/400,CLLE, DB2/400 and Tools like SYNON, ACMS, X-Analysis, Hawkeye,Implementer &MOVEIT
• Worked as Lead AS/400 (RPG/RPGLE/RPG-FREE/CL/CLLE/ Synon/COBOL ) Programmer Analyst in RPG/ Synon application development, enhancement and support; Experienced in all stages of software development life cycle (SDLC), from analysis through implementation. I am conversant with quality procedures, requirement gathering and analysis along with project coordination and implementation.
• Exposure to working in on-site/off shore model environments and played various roles like Onshore Project Lead, Onshore Module team lead, Onsite coordinator, senior developer and Developer.
• I have worked in Healthcare-PBM industry on a variety of application areas in PBM RxClaimsystem like Prior Auth, Plan Set up, Claim Adjustment, Member eligibility, Drug specific copays, Plan pricing, Med - D etc.Currently working on Specialty Infusion services.
• I have also worked in Retail Domain for McCain Foods .
• Working on i Series Navigator, HawKeye, Aldon,MOVEIT& Implementer.
• Have exposure to Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation project phases with good understanding and compliance to project prescribed processes.
• Experience of interacting with business users for understanding and documenting the Application and business requirements.
• Involved in testing phases like System, Integration, Acceptance, Regression testing.
• ITIL® 2011 Foundation Certified.
• Proficient in managing multiple tasks and projects within tight deadlines.
• Can take independent responsibility as well as ability to lead and be a Productive team member.
• Efficient in design and development activities.
• Having Good problem solving, quick learning skills.
• Strong hands on work experience using SYNON tool in various projects for multiple clients.
• Member in training team to provide the training sessions to new employees and contractors in SYNON Tool.
• Hands on experience in writing more complex code
• Knowledge of software methodologies
• Ability to perform code reviews with good optimizing code skills
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks with strong technical aptitude and learning skills to adapt the rapid changing technologies and implementing the same at work.
• Experience in production support, trouble shooting, bug fixing supporting databases and application task initiatives causing database issues by reverse engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: RPG, RPGILE, RPG-FREE, CL/400,CLLE, COBOL/400, SQLRPG and SQL

Tools: SYNON,COOL 2E, ACMS, X-Analysis, Hawkeye, IBM Client Access, SQL/400, Query/400,WRKQRY, ALDON, ISDB, QMQRY, QMFORM

Utilities: SEU, DFU, PDM, SDA, RLU

Database Packages: DB2/400

Operating system: OS/400, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AS400 Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements, develop business rules and attend reviews to arrive at design patterns/solutions.
• Create Technical Design for Finance Application.
• Work on Tools like DBU, SQL/400, Query/40 and WRKQRY.
• Creating reports using QMQRY & QMFORM.
• Design and create various screens and programs as per the Functional & Technical Designs.
• Program Impact Analysis using HAWKEYE tool.
• Prepare the Test plan for the UAT Testing.
• Configuration management using Implementer10.1 .
• Work extensively on Screendesign, Database Relation Maintenance, Coding, debugging & testing.
• Maintain programming and also created functional and technical specification documents.
• Involvement in weekly project status meeting with clients and also propose the solutions for future business requirements.
• Analyze and understand the Application.
• Consolidate the user requirements and identifying the modifications to the existing application
• Impact analysis of the proposed enhance request.
• Work in an Onshore - Offshore Model. Perform task assignment, daily meetings & reviews.

Environment: AS400, RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, Implementer, Query/400, DBU, RLU, SEU,MQ,QMQRY,QMFORM.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AS400 Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements, develop business rules and attend reviews to arrive at design patterns/solutions.
• Work on Tools like SYNON, Cool 2E, MOVEIT, DBU, SQL/400, Query/40,WRKQRY.
• Design and create various screens and programs as per the Functional & Technical specifications.
• Create Database design in SYNON.
• Program Impact Analysis using MOVEIT and SYNON tool.
• Coordinate with Operations and Infra Admin to setup the environment and to move objects to different Environments and Libraries.
• Create and execute workflows as per the business requirement.
• Analyze Session log files to resolve errors in mapping and managed session configuration.
• Involvement in Performance Tuning at various levels like Unit Testing, System testing.
• Prepare the Test plan for the UAT Testing.
• Work extensively in all SYNON Internal, External functions.
• Work extensively on Screendesign, Database Relation Maintenance/Access Path Maintenance &Coding,.
• Utilize extensively function options for various type of functions.
• Maintain programming and also created functional and technical specification documents.
• Involvement in weekly project status meeting with clients and also propose the solutions for future business requirements.
• Analyze and understand the Application.
• Consolidate the user requirements and identifying the modifications to the existing application
• Impact analysis of the proposed enhance request.
• Lead Team of 3 members. Perform task assignment & reviews of the artifacts.

Environment: AS400, RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, SYNON,Cool 2E,MOVEIT, Query/400, DBU, RLU, SEU.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AS400 Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing requirements, developing business rules and attending reviews to arrive at design patterns/solutions.
• Worked on Tools like SYNON, Cool 2E, ACMS, DBU, SQL/400, Query/400.
• Designed and created various screens and programs as per the Functional & Technical specifications.
• Used AS/400 database DB2/400 which is totally maintained in SYNON.
• Program Impact Analysis using Hawkeye and SYNON tool.
• Coordinated with Operations and Infra Admin to setup the environment and to move objects to different Environments and Libraries.
• Created and executed workflows as per the business requirement.
• Analyzed Session log files to resolve errors in mapping and managed session configuration.
• Created, configured, and scheduled the user reports in RxClaim applications using the query/400 and SQL/400.
• Involved in Performance Tuning at various levels like Unit Testing, System testing.
• Prepared the Test plan for the UAT Testing.
• Worked extensively in all SYNON Internal, External functions.
• Worked extensively on Device design functions, Database Relation Maintenance and All various Access Paths.
• Utilized extensively function options for various type of functions.
• Scheduling jobs using ROBOT.
• Worked on Critical Production supports issues like P1, P2 and P3 alerts
• Maintained programming standards and Confidential standards for future application development, and also created functional and technical specification documents.
• Involved in weekly project status meeting with clients and also proposing the solutions for future business requirements.
• Analysis and understanding of the Application
• Consolidate the user requirements and identifying the modifications to the existing application
• Resolving the production issues of the system after implementation within the warranty period.
• Impact analysis of the proposed enhance request.

Environment: AS400, RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, SYNON, Aldon, Hawkeye, SQL, ACMS, Query/400, DBU, RLU, SEU, X-Analysis, Cool 2E.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AS400 Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 11 Associates.
• Managing, coordinating, planning and executing the project.
• Identifying risks, developing and executing risk management & mitigation plan.
• Creating, maintaining and distributing project status report, approved artefacts to corresponding stakeholders.
• Understanding production issue description, conducting meeting with business to resolve queries, program analysis to find the root cause (RCA) and arrive at design patterns/solutions.
• Program Impact Analysis using Hawkeye and SYNON tool.
• Code analysis using RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, SYNON.
• Data Impact analysis using SQL, WRKQRY.
• Assigning individual responsibilities and track the progress.
• Providing functional and technical guidance to the team members.
• Monitoring performance of the team and providing regular feedbacks to mitigate the issues and challenges.
• Liaising/ Interacting with offshore and Onsite Management

Environment: AS400, RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, SYNON, Aldon, Hawkeye, SQL, ACMS, Query/400, DBU, RLU, SEU, X-Analysis, Cool 2E.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AS400 Sr. Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Leading the overall development effort to successfully plan and execute the development as per project plan.
• Providing ROM size and scheduling all development tasks under the scope of the project.
• Managing and Prioritizing tasks for the team.
• Worked on Tools like SYNON, Cool 2E, SQL/400, Query/400,WRKQRY, Aldon, Hawkeye.
• Designed and created various screens and programs as per the Functional & Technical specifications.
• Used AS/400 database DB2/400 which is totally maintained in SYNON.
• Coordinated with Project Manager/Project Lead Manager to move objects to different Environments and Libraries.
• Involved in Performance Tuning at various levels like Unit Testing, System testing.
• Prepared the Test plan for the UAT Testing.
• Worked extensively in all SYNON Internal, External functions.
• Review the code changes and unit testing results executed by the team.
• Providing resolution to the technical and functional queries of the team while doing the development work.
• Consolidating status of tasks from team and communicating it to project manager and other stakeholders.

Environment: AS400, RPG, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, COBOL,SYNON, Aldon, Hawkeye, SQL, ACMS, Query/400, DBU, RLU, SEU, X-Analysis, Cool 2E.

Confidential

AS400 Sr. Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Carried out the following responsibilities as Developer Lead
• Leading the overall development effort to successfully plan and execute the development as per project plan.
• Providing ROM size and scheduling all development tasks under the scope of the project.
• Managing and Prioritize tasks for the team.
• Reviewing the code changes and unit testing results executed by the team.
• Reviewing the system test results executed by the team.
• Providing resolution to the technical and functional queries of the team while doing the development or research work.
• Managing change requests,.
• Managing and controlling the versions.
• Reviewing the Dump Analysis performed by the team on the production
• Consolidate status of tasks from team and communicate it to project manager and other stakeholders
• Creating the Weekly Status Report and share with Onsite and other stakeholders.
• Carried out the following responsibilities as Developer Analyst
• Understanding the Project Requirements, Feasibility analysis and identifying the impacted functionality
• Project estimation and sizing.
• Preparing low level design (LLD)
• Preparing Unit Test Plan.
• Coding.
• Conducting peer reviews.
• Executing Test cases as per the Unit Test Plan, Logging defect for any deviation.
• Performing System testing.
• Performing a casual analysis for the reported defects and executing necessary steps to ensure that it doesn’t occur again.
• Documenting the processes. Documents are created for the problem, low level design, test cases test results which can be referred for validations and can be further resumed if similar problem is encountered again.
• Performing Dump Analysis: Any program that abruptly terminates in production creates program dumps, which are then monitored and analyzed to find out the problem and then solution is provided.
• Resolving help desk tickets, Help desk Tickets are received from Client and are on higher priority. System Analyst provides resolution of all the issues raised from Business Analyst.
• Organizing Team meeting and client meeting has been organized to clarification of any doubt rose from client

Environment: AS400, RPG, CL,COBOL, i Series Navigator.

Confidential

AS400 Sr. Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement understanding.
• Carrying out impact analysis using Hawkeye.
• Project Estimating.
• Indentifying the test cases and preparing unit test plans.
• Coding for the impacted program.
• Conducting peer reviews.
• Executing the Test cases as per the Unit Test Plan, and if any deviation is found logging the defects.
• Performing System testing.
• Managing and controlling the versions
• Documenting the processes.
• Providing UAT support.

Environment: AS400, RPG, CL,.