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Professional experience

Profile

  • Competent, dynamic and highly-motivated professional who has exposure of around
  • 8 years experience in IBM mainframe other middleware technologies across various
  • development, enhancement production support projects to support USA UK clients
  • in the Retail Banking, Insurance and TTH Travel Transportation and Hospitality

domain.

Domain Experience:

  • 4 years of experience in Insurance domain.
  • 2 years of experience in Retail Banking domain.
  • Around 2 years of experience in Travel, Transportation Hospitality domain.
  • Client Facing Experience: Around 4 years, including 19 months of onsite experience.

Proven leadership ability.

Key Skills

  • Requirement analysis, feasibility study, use case development, cost estimation, project
  • planning, resource management, system functional analysis, incident, problem and
  • change management, design development, UAT and implementation support.

Soft Skills:

  • Programming Language: COBOL, JCL, METACOBOL, CICS, IDEAL
  • Database: DB2, IMS, VSAM Datacom DB
  • Platform Tools: TSO, XP-editer, ENDEAVOR, Changeman, File-Aid, SPUFI, SDSF,
  • Roscoe, SMUT, OPCA CA7.
  • Basic Knowledge of Assembler, MDM, Unix, C C .
  • Acumen in ITIL, Maximo, Bladelogic, Admin console, Microsoft Word PowerPoint

Excel with Macro.

Career History

Confidential

IT Specialist

Role: Technical lead

  • Achievements:
  • Awarded with Spark Award 2013 for outstanding client relationship team building.
  • Awarded with Eminence and Excellence Recognition 2012 award for best initiative.
  • Awarded with top performer of the year for consecutive two years.
  • Successfully implemented 16 Innovation/Process Improvement initiatives, which reduced around 250 person-hour per month. Appreciated and recognized for ownership, innovation and leadership by client manager.
  • Requirement analysis, feasibility study, use case development, cost estimation, project
  • Requirement analysis, feasibility study, use case development, cost estimation, project

Confidential

lT Analyst

  • 4 years of working experience as Business Techno-functional

Analyst for one of the biggest Confidential insurance customer

  • Successfully implemented three Legacy project from offshore

without a single issue and appreciated by client AEGON lead

  • project Manager, SME BA due to quality of deliverable.
  • Successfully implemented the SIPP and three Legacy project
  • from onshore without a single issue and appreciated by client
  • AEGON lead project Manager and production support Head

due to quality of deliverable.

  • Successfully completed more than 150 Service requests.
  • Worked as a Technical Lead, Senior Analyst and Developer

for one of the biggest car rental customer AVIS to implement

  • 'Constraint Relief' Project and appreciated by Project leader,

onsite coordinator for excellent analytical ability, keen

observation and Batch processing inventory creation.

  • Awarded with 'On the Spot Award' on 2011 by TCS for

outstanding contribution to the organization.

confidential

  • Project Description: Bank of America is largest financial
  • services company in the United States by assets and the
  • second largest bank by market capitalization. Bank of America

serves clients in more than 150 countries.

  • The main objective of this project is to provide 24/7 production

support along with production fixes for 18 RDS Reference

  • Data Systems applications, which are build in Mainframe, DB2,

Java, Websphere, ETL, MDM Oracle.

  • Contribution: Triage all production issues directly/indirectly
  • impacted/associated with all RDS applications and fix those

production issues based on the priority.

  • Ensure Data quality for all the SOR based on the business
  • need.
  • Closely monitor the system application performance and

report to RDS management in a regular basis.

  • Ensure 24X7 production support by monthly production support
  • coverage planning with the help of 6 offshore and 8 onshore

resources.

  • Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular

project status to the customer.

  • Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously

monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

  • Hold review meetings and monitor project activities to ensure

quality and timely completion.

  • Successfully implemented 7 innovations/process improvement
  • initiatives were implemented. Few are as follows
  • Automated consolidated hourly performance report - reduced

human error and 22 person-hour per month.

  • Work load balancing team restructuring coverage planning.
  • Better incident problem ticket tracking facility.
  • Combine Morning EOD reporting to RDS management -

reduced around 200 person-hour per month.

confidential

Resource Manager

  • Project Description: confidential is largest financial services company in the United States by assets and the second largest bank by market capitalization. Bank of America serves clients in more than 150 countries.
  • The main objective of this project is to provide 24/7 production support along with production fixes for 18 RDS Reference Data Systems applications, which are build in Mainframe, DB2, Java, Websphere, ETL, MDM
  • Oracle.
  • Contribution: Triage all production issues directly/indirectly impacted/associated with all RDS applications and fix those production issues based on the priority.
  • Ensure Data quality for all the SOR based on the business need.
  • Closely monitor the system application performance and report to RDS management in a regular basis.
  • Ensure 24X7 production support by monthly production support.
  • Coverage planning with the help of 6 offshore and 8 onshore resources.
  • Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
  • Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
  • Hold review meetings and monitor project activities to ensure quality and timely completion.
  • Successfully implemented 9 innovations/process improvement initiatives were implemented. Few are as follows
  • Log extraction Job - reduced manual effort by 70 . Volume report automation - reduced human error and 35 person-hour per month.
  • Putty database creation - reduced manual effort by 50 .

confidential

  • Project Description:
  • AEGON business users encountered around 500 legacy system issues during last few years.
  • Legacy program is dealing with those issues.
  • Contribution: Bridging between business and technical
  • team. Responsible for understanding business requirements

and identifying system changes by doing Initial System

  • Analysis, feasibility study, Estimation, project planning and

risk management. Accountable for organizing Resource

  • Management, Business System Design, Technical Design
  • Review, Build Unit Testing Coordination Responsible for
  • quality of deliverable.. Providing UAT Support Coordination and
  • Implementation Support Successfully implemented three Legacy

issues from offshore in production without a single issue and

  • appreciated by client AEGON lead project Manager, SME BA

due to quality of deliverable.

confidential

  • Project Description: confidential. is introducing SIPP Self

Investment Personal Pension capabilities to the market.

  • In SIPP enabled pension plan, customers have direct access
  • to stock market. Customers can manage their own portfolio.
  • They can invest in wide range of products like: MTS Market
  • Traded Share , Bond, Funds, Collectives, Structured Products,
  • Properties etc. This is a development and maintenance project

in the areas of Mainframe, Unisure, e-commerce, T-SQL,

  • Composer GBST , IDE, Expression, Pega, SDM platforms
  • where the entire work depends upon the number of work
  • packages raised by the business users. Offshore will primarily be
  • involved in System Build, UTP preparation and Unit Testing.
  • Contribution: Single point of contact from Heritage team.
  • Initiate requirement-gathering meeting to capture detailed
  • requirements and documented to communicate the same

to technical team. Responsible for understanding business

  • requirements and identifying system changes by doing
  • Initial System Analysis, feasibility study, Estimation, project
  • planning and risk management. Accountable for Business
  • System Design, Technical Design Review, Build Unit Testing
  • Coordination. Responsible for quality of deliverable. Carried
  • System Testing, Integration Testing and provided UAT Support
  • and Implementation Support Successfully implemented the
  • SIPP program without a single issue. Learn a lot regarding multi
  • technology system during design and build in order to establish

the links between different platforms. Awarded by 'On the Spot

  • Award' for outstanding contribution to the organization.

confidential

  • Project Description: AEGON business users encountered
  • around 500 big system issues during last few years. Legacy
  • program is dealing with those issues. I have worked to fix

four important legacy issues of charge system. Offshore was

  • primarily involved in System Build, UTP preparation and Unit

Testing.

  • Contribution: Bridging between business and technical
  • team. Responsible for understanding business requirements
  • and identifying system changes by doing Initial System
  • Analysis, feasibility study, Estimation, project planning and

risk management. Accountable for organizing Resource

  • Management, Business System Design, Technical Design
  • Review, Build Unit Testing Coordination Responsible for
  • quality of deliverable. Providing UAT Support Coordination and
  • Implementation Support Successfully implemented three Legacy

issues in production without a single issue. Appreciated by client

  • AEGON lead project Manager and production support Head

due to quality of delivery.

confidential

  • Project Description: During business as usual, if any problem

is encountered by any business user, then IT helpdesk call

has been recorded.

  • Production support team is doing the initial
  • analysis. If they discover any system related problem, then they
  • raise a 'Service Request' SR to 'IT change' team to fix Change
  • SR or investigate investigation SR that system problem.
  • Offshore was primarily involved in Initial analysis, Requirement
  • Specification preparation, System Build, UTP preparation and

Unit Testing.

  • Contribution: Responsible for understanding business

requirements and identifying system changes by doing

  • Initial System Analysis and feasibility study. Responsible for

Requirement specification preparation. Build, Unit System

confidential

  • Project Description: Constraint Relief Expansion project address Avis Budget Car rental's ABCR critical business need of being able to create new rental and hierarchy locations in the existing system. Due to the limited range of location numbers available it is expected that Avis Budget would run out of location numbers sometime in the near future. The project implements a strategic solution that eliminates the constraints that exist within the current Locations database structure regarding location number, location mnemonic assignment and motor vehicle asset number. The project also address the IT strategic direction to move the Locations database from the existing Hierarchical databases IMS to relational databases DB2 and ORACLE . Contribution: Responsible for technical specification, analysis,
  • development, unit testing and integration testing of 3 deployment groups. Managed PROC and JCL analysis and modification
  • of 2 deployment groups. Involved as an External PROC JCL reviewer of 15 deployment groups. Appreciated by Project leader, onsite coordinator for excellent analytical ability, keen observation and Batch processing inventory creation.

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