PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT professional with over 10 years of experience primarily on Mainframe Programming. A team player with:
• Strong Analytical, Design skills and problem solving abilities.
• Extensive experience in Health Care, Confidential .
• Good experience of project flow diagrams using tool VISIO
• Good experience over 7 years in Technical and functional documentation
• Worked on modernization of mainframe application
• Launch a COBOL application from a web browser
• Having experience on VSE COBOL
• Experience with change management, implementation planning and release management
• Involved in complete development phase from Designing, Analysis, Coding, End to End testing, Implementation process and finally Approving package
• Having good knowledge and over 10 years of experience MVS TSO/ISPF, CICS 5.1, OS/390, COBOL, JCL, SAR, JOBTRAC, SYNCSORT, DB2,VSAM, GDG,SQL, MQ series, EasyTrieve common Mainframe Application Utilities.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, prototyping, design, development, Integration testing, End to End Testing and Support of Mainframe applications and programs.
• Having good experience in Release Activities, Job Automation,
• Knowledge on IBM tools like EGL (Enterprise Generation Language), VGA(Visual Age)
• Have experience on HTML, Java Script, XML, CSS, Web Aware
• Worked with tools like MS PROJECT 2010
• Results - oriented, self-sufficient individual that works with minimum guidance.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Have experience working in a team of developers as well as interacting with customers.
• Worked as a coordinator for offshore and onsite model.
• Worked on Enhancement Projects, Development and Production Support
• Experience in performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environments and experience in bug reporting and fixing.
• Excellent Team management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: OS/390, Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP

Languages: EGL, VGA,COBOL, JCL,SYNCSORT,DB2- SQL,CICS 5.1,VSAM, IMS-DB

Database: DB2 UDB V9,IMS DB

Other Tools/ Special Software: File-AID: MVS, DB2, Abend AID, XPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, QMF, SPUFI,Librarian, Catalog Manager, Service Center, MS Office, Quality Center, MEGA,MQ series,EG, IBM Debug Tool, SAR, JOBTRAC

System Development / Enhancement: Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Documentation and Support, Enhancement

Domain Experience: Health Care, Confidential, Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured cost-effective support, maintenance and enhancements for applications..
• Proactively analyzed recurring problems and provided a permanent fix for problems to prevent them from recurring.
• Took major responsibilities in the analysis, design, programming and test phases.
• Designed and developed system using COBOL, DB2, SYNCSORT and VSAM.
• Supported the application in support phase
• Developed programs using COBOL, JCL, and SQL for both batch and online CICS.
• Handled data storage and data reference in VSAM, DB2, IMS/DB and Sequential file.
• Generated reports using SQL query in QMF and SPUFI
• Accessed VSAM files and DB2 Tables using File-AID tools.
• Used Elips for version control and Xpeditor for debugging the programs.
• Abend-AID is used to trace the data which caused ABEND.
• Used MQ-Series to fetch the data from other environments.
• Communicated with business partners for understanding the problem and clarifying their queries
• Interacted with client and onsite partners to implement projects within highly competitive deadlines.
• Coordinated with other technical and business groups whenever required.
• Provided Weekly status reports to project management.
• Provided support for batch processing which is normally carried out during nights.
• Used Team Track for assigning tickets to other systems such as job schedule and post production job run.

Confidential, Pasadena CA

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured cost-effective support, maintenance and enhancements for applications..
• Involved in modernization of EHS application
• Proactively analyzed recurring problems and provided a permanent fix for problems to prevent them from recurring.
• Took major responsibilities in the analysis, design, programming and test phases.
• Designed and developed system using COBOL, DB2, SYNCSORT and VSAM.
• Worked on modernization of mainframe EHS application using Java script
• Supported the application in support phase
• Developed programs using COBOL, JCL, and SQL for both batch and online CICS.
• Handled data storage and data reference in VSAM, DB2, IMS/DB and Sequential file.
• Used GDG for taking backup of VSAM clusters and driver files during batch process.
• Generated reports using SQL query in QMF and SPUFI
• Accessed VSAM files and DB2 Tables using File-AID tools.
• Used CHANGEMAN for version control and Xpeditor for debugging the programs.
• Used SAR, and JOBTRAC tool for production job alert ticket.
• Abend-AID is used to trace the data which caused ABEND.
• Used MQ-Series to fetch the data from other environments.
• Communicated with business partners for understanding the problem and clarifying their queries
• Interacted with client and onsite partners to implement projects within highly competitive deadlines.
• Coordinated with other technical and business groups whenever required.
• Provided Weekly status reports to project management.
• Provided support for batch processing which is normally carried out during nights.
• Used Team Track for assigning tickets to other systems such as job schedule and post production job run.

Confidential,, Pasadena CA

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured cost-effective support, maintenance and enhancements for applications.
• Proactively analyzed recurring problems and provided a permanent fix for problems to prevent them from recurring.
• Took major responsibilities in the analysis, design, programming and test phases.
• Developed programs using COBOL, JCL, and DB2 for both batch.
• Involved in Unit, Integration and End to End Testing
• Interacted with DBA in creating new DB2 tables And involved in automation of jobs
• Handled data storage and data reference in VSAM, DB2, GDG and Sequential file.
• Used GDG for taking backup of VSAM clusters and driver files during batch process.
• Accessed VSAM files and DB2 Tables using File-Manager tools.
• Used CHANGEMAN for version control and IBM debugger for debugging the programs.
• Generated reports using Batch jobs.
• Defects documented using tool Quality Center.
• Abend-AID is used to trace the data which caused ABEND.
• Used MQ-Series to fetch the data from other environments.
• Communicated with business partners for understanding the problem and clarifying their queries
• Coordinated with other technical and business groups whenever required.
• Provided Weekly status reports to project management.
• Created Project plan using MS PROJECT 2010

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared design and functional flow documents
• Preparing the test plans, Unit, Integration and System testing.
• Involved in project estimation which requires gathering and preparation of functional and technical design document.
• Developed programs using VGA, EGL, COBOL, J CL, and SQL for both batch and online CICS.
• Handled data storage and data reference in DB2, VSAM, IMS, PS file.
• Used GDG for taking backup of pre-batch and post-batch files.
• Generated reports using SQL query in QMF and SPUFI
• Accessed VSAM files and DB2 Tables using File-AID tools.
• Used CHANGEMAN for version control and Xpeditor to debug programs.
• Documented defects using Quality Center and Service Center.
• Documented functional and technical specification using tool MEGA.
• Explaining the Business background and the Client Requirements to the new team members.
• Helping team members in resolving the technical challenges faced while doing the tasks.
• Conducting weekly status meetings and preparing weekly status reports.
• Providing answers to queries/questions raised by Clients.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Emphasis was given on the analysis, Code Programming and test phases.
• Written DB2 Stored Procedures
• Used GDG for taking backup of pre-batch and post-batch files.
• Generated reports using SQL query in QMF and SPUFI
• Accessed VSAM files and DB2 Tables using File-AID tools.
• Used CHANGEMAN for version control and Xpeditor to debug programs.