SUMMARY:

• Overall 13 years of functional experience in the IT Industry working with Major Insurance and RCG (Retail, & Consumer Goods) Client.
• 5 out of 10 years of experience in Migration projects from Legacy Mainframe applications to Micro focus/.NET/SAP Technologies.
• My significant contribution has been in Analysis, Design, Development and functional Studies, Service Delivery Operations, Quality Management and Client Engagement Confidential multiple levels for eligibility and reporting applications.
• Rich experience in managing and handling maintenance and production support applications spanning different technologies like Mainframe and .NET Technologies, driving performance tuning and cost cutting opportunities.
• Handled application upgrades in Mainframe (Operating system and tools/software)
• Good analytical and problem - solving skills, intellectual capability and a high level of self-motivation combined with ability to work diligently to perform consistently. Skillful in managing time, prioritizing tasks, meeting deadlines ensuring quality output.
• Extensive functional study, research problems and drive performance tuning and cost cutting opportunities
• Expertise in Balancing the Inventories between Warehouse and Inventory Management system.
• Cross Trained in Micro Focus COBOL with Enterprise Server and SQL Server from the direct client.
• Cross trained in .NET Technology (HTML, CSS, Javascript, C#.net, VB.net and SQL Server) and adopted my knowledge in my ongoing projects.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Strong customer focus, excellent communication, organizational and negotiation skills. Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, intellectual capability and a high level of self-motivation combined with ability to work diligently to perform consistently.
• Excellent verbal and written skills and can cater to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead and drive extensive functional study, research problems and drive performance tuning and cost cutting opportunities
• Successfully managed several business requests for Inventory Management system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, REXX, JCL

Databases: VSAM, DB2, IDMS, SQL Server

Tools: CICS, Fileaid, Expeditor, TSO/ISPF, Team Foundation server, Data Tools, IBM Utilities, D-Series Scheduler, Tableau.

Inventory Management System: Purchase Order, Customer Information System, Discount Validation, Endorsements, Chargeability

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• To prepare System understanding documentation for the DSF and SWITCH Applications.
• Coordinate with respective Application owners to schedule the knowledge transitions on time.
• Work with Vendor tools to follow up with the issues and installs/Upgrades.
• Support IMS Upgrades and Vendor tool Upgrades.
• Coordinating with Confidential & Confidential for new enhancements and the projects.
• Working with the business users to perform the UAT testing.

Confidential, Mesa, AZ

Mainframe Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with client for the requirement gathering, prepare Business requirement Matrix documents,
• Involved in creating Solution Requirement Specification documents and deliver to Development team.
• Involved in Walkthrough sessions with client for the Business Requirement and SRS (System Requirement Specification) Documents.
• Involved in creating ROM (Initial & Final Estimation) documents for the Requirement phase and Solution design phase
• Involved in risk analysis and present the business impacts to Business user.
• Involved in creating/modifying the System documentations when required.
• Coordinating with Development team and provide technical solutions on key issues.
• Create complex test scenarios for the System and UAT testing.
• Coordinating offshore team for the development activities.
• Coordinating with QA team for the system and performance testing.
• Involved in Pre and Post-production activities like Production Shake out testing and pick sample policy to check if the discount has been properly validated using MDM source.

Confidential, CA

Mainframe Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with client for the requirement gathering, prepare Business requirement Matrix documents.
• Involved in providing the Business solutions and Technical solutions for the ongoing production issues.
• Involved in creating low- and high-level design documents, which is deliver to development team.
• Preparation & execution of test scripts, database validation to ensure proper inventory balancing between IMS and Warehouse.
• Build separate process flow for each transaction and created a database to track each transaction.
• Create complex test scenarios for the System and UAT testing.
• Verify the Beginning Stock, Planning End of Day, Balancing End of Day and End of Day process.
• Sync the inventories for the items between IMS and Warehouse using the Balancing process.
• Involved in creating Data visualization reports to present Purchase Orders History data (Transactional details) and sent to the End-users on a daily and weekly basis.
• Involved in creating Dashboards to explain the story of the visualization reports to end users.
• Project Management - Manage workload, project tracking and ensure defect free delivery

Confidential, Commerce, CA

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Convert all components (COBOL, JCL, Copybooks, SYSIN’s, PROC’s) to Micro Focus Environment. We have converted IDMS statements to SQL Queries.
• As a single technical POC, liaise closely with Unified’s business teams for testing needs and to ensure smooth execution of the project
• Responsible for End to end delivery and resolution of data sync issues if any between interfacing applications.
• Involved in comparing the results between Micro Focus and Mainframes.
• Involved in migrating the Mainframe reports to Data visualization reports and sent to the End-users on a daily and weekly basis.
• Involved in creating Dashboards to explain the story of the visualization reports to end users.
• Involved in creating SSIS packages to extract data from SQL servers and send it to Mainframes environments by scheduling D-series Jobs in production environment.
• Involved in finding the bugs in Micro Focus and raising the incident to Micro Focus team for the Hot fix.

Confidential, CA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation & execution of test scripts, database validation to ensure proper inventory balancing between IMS and Warehouse.
• Developed separate process for each transaction and created a database to track each transaction.
• Create complex test scenarios for the System and UAT testing.
• Verify the Beginning Stock, Planning End of Day, Balancing End of Day and End of Day process.
• Sync the inventories for the items between IMS and Warehouse using the Balancing process.
• Project Management - Manage workload, project tracking and ensure defect free delivery

Confidential

Developer/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, analysis and coding
• Development of code for existing application in COBOL, DB2 & IMS/DB
• Code changes made for online applications.
• Build Unit test case & regression Test case documents
• Performed unit testing and code reviews
• Involved in code changes on application program after the bug fix.

Confidential

Developer/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, analysis and coding
• Development of code for existing application in COBOL, DB2 & IMS/DB
• Build Unit test case & regression Test case documents
• Performed unit testing and code reviews
• Involved in code changes on application program after the fix.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Development of code for existing application in COBOL, IMS/DB & DB2
• Build Unit Test case documents
• Performed unit testing and code reviews
• To fix the problems on request.
• Involved in code changes on application program after the fix.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, analysis and coding
• Development of code for new application in PLI, IMS/DB & DB2
• Build Unit test case & regression Test case documents
• Performed unit testing and code reviews
• As a Problem Analyst to fix the problems on request.
• Have involved in code changes on application program after the fix.
• Uploading the components to production libraries
• Create or Update Auto Flow Changes.
• Create SCIT entries for the components.
• Have involved in RMS to deploy the components newer version in production.
• Provided technical support after the release.
• Worked with Service Manager.(Problem Record, Request, Incidents, Change Record, Task).
• Have Involved in Structure, JCL and SCM Checklist reviews.