SUMMARY:

• Around 8+ years of experience as a Developer and Lead in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation of Mainframe systems encompassing the full SDLC to deliver on - time solutions to problems/ requirements.
• Have a Strong Subject Expertise in Insurance, Investment, Health care, Claims, Retail, Banking and Utilities systems and good communication skills.
• Worked on Agile Methodologies, including Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, and Test Driven Development.
• Worked in all the phase of SDLC methodologies, right from Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Test case generation and Deployment.
• Specialized in producing/modifying/running/distributing Client Performance Reports for Financial Analysts.
• Specialized in deciphering and documenting old complex code.
• Expertise in Endevor, Changeman development Tools and Embedded Programming
• Quick learner, very resourceful—know where to go to find the answer, very good with problem research and root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Global experience analyzing and resolving software issues in a 24X7X365 environment (Onshore-Offshore Business Model).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with excellent written, verbal and inter-personnel communication skills with ability to interact with end-users, managers and Developers.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE IN:

Front End: COBOL, CICS

Middle Ware:

Programming Language: Cobol, C, C++, Core Java, SQL, Unix, Telon

Mainframe Technology: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, REXX

Backend: DB2, MS SQL Server

IBM Mainframe Development Tools: ChangeMan, Endevor, File-Aid, In-sync

Job Scheduling Tool: CA7, Control-M, TWS

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, Abend-Aid, Trace Master

Operating System: Z/OS, S/370, S/390, MVS

Specialties: SCJP, DB2-730, DB2-733

Project Management Methodologies and Tools: Waterfall model, Agile model

Development Framework/Architecture: Mainframe, MVS Architecture, Insurance Application Architecture

Programming: Cobol, Core Java, XML/XSLT, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Unix, C, C++; VB 6.0

Mainframe Technologies: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, REXX

Databases: DB2 Express, DB2, Oracle 8i, MySQL Server, MS Access,IMS, Store procedures.

Tools: CICS/COBOL, Changeman, Endevor, Xpeditor, CA-7,File-Aid,Abend-Aid, Trace Master, FileZilla, In-sync, TWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Software Enggnieer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Design and Development of the Application
• Built and unit tested the Batch programs with Trace Master debugger.
• Handled multiple standalone software’s called Verimove. Mobius, Finalist and SRM’s
• Handled End-End Release Management Process.
• No associated defects were reported through the system test phase.Led code reviews with peer groups. Successfully moved new code to production via the Changeman versioning control tool.
• Added new Daily, Weekly, Monthly, ADHOC JCL Jobs, Procs, Programs, Control-Cards to Development Environment, two Q/A Environments, Production Environment via Endevor.

Environment: Developer Environment: Endevor.

Technologies: ISPF/TSO, COBOL, DB2, DB2 Utilities, SPUFI, VSAM, JCL, UTILITIES, IBM DEBUG TOOL, FTP, REXX, ISPF DIALOG MANAGER, PKZIP, STAR-TOOL

Confidential, Glastonbury, CT.

Mainframe Design Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Design and Development of the Application in both Agile and Water fall model.
• Built and unit tested the online programs using IBM debugger.
• Worked on output writer, main purpose for output writer is to take polices that are ready to process from the policy transaction level table and produce a formatted output file that will be used by the subsequent system.
• Merged the newly acquired Allied Insurance states into Selective's commercial lines mainframe platform
• Ensure Code reviews are done with peer groups and architects and the new code to production via the Changeman versioning control tool.
• Added new Daily, Weekly, Monthly, ADHOC JCL Jobs, Procedures, Programs, Control-Cards to Development Environment, two Q/A Environments, Production Environment via CHANGEMAN. Used OPC to monitor jobs, used SAR to view reports.
• Utilized COBOL, DB2, JCL, Utilities, DB2 Utilities, Advanced SORT and ICETOOL and SORT/JOIN and STAR-TOOL to correct Taxlot data and to produce adhoc reports.
• For the Taxlot users: Wrote a Mainframe SAS with FTP, REXX, EZTRIEVE+, ISPF Dialog Manager, PKZIP Production Support Utility that created a Realized and Unrealized Tax Lot Reports in HTML/EXCEL/PDF/XML formats and emailed them to the users.

Environment: Environment: ChangeMan.

Technologies: ISPF/TSO, COBOL,DB2, DB2 Utilities, SPUFI,VSAM, JCL, UTILITIES, IBM DEBUG TOOL, FTP, REXX, ISPF DIALOG MANAGER, PKZIP, STAR-TOOL, CHANGEMAN

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/ Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Ran monthly and quarterly adhoc UNIX/PERL/FTP processing which posted the resultant reports to the FOCUS website
• Solved numerous mainframe SQRibe production problems via root cause analysis
• Modified UNIX Shell Scripts in accordance with business needs
• Modified an APL program on VM
• Modified and wrote many mainframe-based SAS programs using Base SAS Procs Version 9 (and wrote SAS MACROS as well) for a Mutual Funds application
• Modified mainframe-based SAS programs pursuant to the 529 Plan Student Loan regulatory changes
• Worked in Onshore-Offshore Business Model

Environment: ISPF/TSO, OS/390, COBOL, CICS/VSAM, DB2, SAS, DB2 Stored Procedures. SPUFI, QMF, JCL, EZTRIEVE+, CHANGEMAN, FTP, Secure FTP, PeopleSoft SQRibe; ETL; DATAWAREHOUSE, UNIX

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Maintenance, Development and Support of General Ledger, Accounting, Book-Keeping and Balance and Control Reconciliation Systems, Profit and Loss (P & L) Systems, Government Operations Back-Office Systems, and Tax Systems in a Brokerage/Investment Banking environment where report production was time critical
• COBOL, JCL, CICS/VSAM, DB2 and DB2 Utilities, SPUFI, PLATINUM, Changeman, COMPAREX; COBOL Stored Procedures, SQL Stored Procedures in an IBM DB2 Stored Procedure Builder platform
• Produced Trade and Book-Keeping Reconciliation reports via querying ADP structures and via querying Book-Keeping and Trade Warehouse DB2 Tables and via reading the street security master file called the MSD
• Performed data conversion due to DB2 table modifications
• Converted a huge non-partitioned DB2 table to a partitioned DB2 table
• Added income and counter-party information to our DB2 table which came from numerous sources (via writing numerous programs, JCL streams, utilities), and wrote/produced report programs that reported on this DB2 data
• Produced flexible dynamic Book-Keeping Journal Reports
• Modified data-entry CICS programs/screens to support new report parameters and report security access
• Added new banks to proprietary Merva process
• Worked with ISO SWIFT Category 5 message types
• Made major Letter of Authorization workflow changes
• Fixed numerous production problems
• Saved users weeks of manual checking via re-writing program so that the TAX-seasonal report could be reset upon discovery of external system’s input data problems
• Created COBOL programs that produced dynamic LOAD/UNLOAD/IMAGE-COPY cards for our partitioned DB2 table
• Wrote an extensive Control-M Keystroke Language Utility

Environment: ISPF/TSO, OS/390, COBOL, DB2 and DB2 Utilities, SPUFI, PLATINUM, JCL, CICS/VSAM, SQL, Stored Procedures, Changeman, Control-M, EXCEL VBA, ClearCase

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• End users were Financial Analysts
• Converted many CICS/VSAM/DB2 programs to COBOL/DB2 Stored Procedures
• Worked with the COE offshore staff who wrote the companion JAVA front-end components that triggered our COBOL/DB2 Stored Procedures
• Used DB2CONNECT and Stored Procedure Builder to test Stored Procedures
• Wrote COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs
• Wrote programs to parse XML files from distributed systems; sent XML files to them as well
• Coded a Secure FTP JCL Job, JCL Proc and COBOL/DB2/VSAM program
• Extensively tested all of these new and/or modified components

Environment: ISPF/TSO, OS/390, COBOL, CICS/VSAM, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, Stored Procedure Builder. SPUFI, QMF, JCL, CHANGEMAN, FTP, Secure FTP

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided DB2 tables and programming that allowed users to change the account’s CAP limit, to produce reports detailing these CAP limit changes, to add average daily balance and APY earned and interest paid to the statement (within the interest-payout-section), to send this modified statement to the Statement System, and to override the money manager tier
• Performed documentation/analysis/research of the existing system's programs/jobs/procs/data/DB2-tables and performed analysis of the new system
• Created several analysis-related EXCEL spreadsheets for the new development
• For the data analysis, created and executed complex ADHOC jobs. All of these results were used to complete the new system's specifications
• Wrote and tested several Batch COBOL DB2 programs that updated the database and wrote and tested several utilities so as to check out the results of these DB2 programs’ database updates
• Used SPUFI's, BMC Tools; PLATINUM; JCL/UTILITIES/SORT; COMPAREX; the firm's match-merge utility; DYL280; MQSERIES
• Attended an IBM-DEBUG Tool Course
• Onsite/offshore coordination

Environment: ISPF/TSO, OS/390, COBOL/3, DB2, SPUFI, PLATINUM, JCL/UTILITIES/SORT, Changeman, OPC, CICS/VSAM, IBM-DEBUG-Tool, COBOL DB2 Stored Procedures, COMPAREX, DYL280, IBM DEBUG Tool, MQSERIES