SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in Information Technology industry.
• Delivered responsibilities as Lead Programmer/Analyst.
• Extensive Experience in IBM Mainframe development using COBOL,DB2, IDMS, CICS,QMF, VSAM, JCL and IBM Utilities.
• Experience working with and knowledge in Core JAVA, XML
• Extensive knowledge of Development, Maintenance and Testing.
• Experience working with TSO/ISPF, File - Aid, ENDEVOR.
• Extensive experience in QA, CMM
• Good knowledge in System testing and Integration testing.
• Delivered Infopac reports for senior management (e.g. Group Executive Directors, Group Heads, Business Heads etc.)
• Established the Business Continuity Plan, Disaster Recovery.
• Setup / Maintain Documentation and Standards.
• Functional Domain knowledge includes Financial and Insurance Industries.
• Articulate with excellent communication skills. Commitment to co-operative teamwork
• Strong investigative and problem solving skills.
• Designed, developed and implemented online and batch applications in alignment with business goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe Application Development: Hardware Platforms, IBM ES/9000, IBMOS/390, IBM PC

Operating System: WINDOWS XP, GENERAL MVS/ESA,OS/390, MS-DOS, UNIX

Databases: DB2, IMS, IDMS, FLAT FILES, GDG,VSAM, MS ACCESS 97, SQL SERVER 2000

Languages: COBOL, REXX, CICS, IMS/DC, JCL, HTML, SQL,VB5.0, C, JAVA, XML, ASSEMBLY LANGAGE

Tools: /Software:VISIO, XPEDITOR, CA-REALIA, DMLO,FILEAID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, ISPF, SDSF,FTP, ZEKE, FXB, XCEL, VISUAL EDIT,VISIO, TUXEDO, TSO/ISPF, TEXT PAD,COGNOS Impromptu 7, INTERTEST, NDM, AIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed new application interface COBOL programs
• Involved in database designing, RI design.
• Involved in quality testing and performance improvement phase.

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, DB2, FLAT FILES, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR.XCEL,VB.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed new COBOL programs and maintained existing programs.
• Involved in analysis, coding, testing, Implementing programs/projects
• Involved in quality testing and performance improvement phase
• Did offshore coordination.

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, DB2, FLAT FILES, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed new COBOL programs and maintained existing programs for WDC.
• Written Easytrieve program to map the new file format.
• Involved in analysis, coding, testing phase of the program
• Created new validation tools for QA . This has saved many hrs per person.
• Defining job flow, outlining JCL requirements.
• Performing Configuration Management and Version Control activities

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, DB2, FLAT FILES, VSAM, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, CICS, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

System Analyst / Lead Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developing new COBOL programs and maintaining existing programs.
• Understanding Business requirements. Modified COBOL programs according to the business rules. Verifying completeness and correctness of batch documentation.
• Completely involved in Environment Maintenance.
• Extracting data from the production server and FTP to test servers.
• Extensively used XPEDITER to test the code.
• Generated formatted reports from SQL SERVER using Cognos.
• Completely involved in System support and System Testing.
• Used ENDEVOR for code migration across various instances. This is to ensure error free migration of data

Environment: GENERAL MVS, TSO, FLAT FILES, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, XPEDITOR, SQL SERVER 2000, Cognos Impromp 7, SPUFI, ENDEVOR.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

System Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developing new COBOL programs and maintaining the existing programs.
• Developing Tuxedo interface to interact between Cobol program and Java Servlet .
• Completely involved in Environment Maintenance (testing environment).
• Extracting data from the production server and FTP to test servers.
• Extensively used XPEDITER/XCHANGE to change the system date.
• Generated reports from DB2 tables, using the QMF.
• IBM utilities used for copy, test, load, verify DB2 tables.
• Modified COBOL programs according to the business rules

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, DB2, FLAT FILES, VSAM, IDMS, COBOL, REXX, JCL, CICS, TUXEDO, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, JAVA, HTML, XML

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

System Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developing new programs and maintain the existing programs. Completely involved in Environment Maintenance. Involved in System Testing.
• Extensively used XPEDITER/XCHANGE to change the system date.
• IBM utilities used for copy, test, load, verify DB2 tables.
• Completely involved in System support Verifying completeness and correctness of batch documentation. 24 X 7 Support the system.

Environment: IBM S/390, OS/390, DB2, IDMS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDF - II, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

Confidential, St. Louis

System Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, design, coding new programs, System and integration testing phase of the project(SDLC). Completely involved in Environment Maintenance, System testing. IBM utilities used for copy, test, load, verify DB2 tables.

Environment: IBM S/390, OS/390, DB2, IDMS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDF - II, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, coding and testing. Involved in Support, abend solving.

Environment: IBM S/390, OS/390, DB2, IDMS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDF - II, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, coding and testing.

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, IBM S/390, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, DB2, IDMS COBOL, JCL, CICS, SDSF, ISPF, DMLO, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, MS OFFICE, XPEDITOR

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, documentation, coding,design.

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, IBM S/390, OS/390, GENERAL MVS, WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS 98, DB2, FLAT FILES, GDG, VSAM, IDMS, COBOL, REXX, HTML, JCL, CICS, SDSF, ISPF, FILE AID, PLATINUM, SPUFI, MS OFFICE, CA-REALIA, XPEDITOR, VISIO, ZEKE

Confidential

Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, coding and testing.

Environment: IBM PC, IBM ES/9000, GENERAL MVS, IMS, COBOL, REXX, JCL, IMS/DC, ISPF, FILE AID, XPEDITOR