Software Engineer / Mainframe Developer Resume

SUMMARY

Information Technology professional with 20+ years of experience in designing, development, testing, implementation and supporting of Mainframe Business Applications in IBM MVS and IBM/z/OS environments.
Worked for major financial firms, robust knowledge and significant hands on involvement in various aspects of Banking/Brokerage/Institutional Trading/ Financial Services Applications;
Robust knowledge and experience working with COBOL batch and CICS online applications, DB2 Database, SQL, Store Procedures;
Robust knowledge of IBM MQ Series Messaging and Queuing;
Knowledge and experience working with distributed technologies such as those that have front end of application based on .NET, JAVA, JAVA Script;
Experienced with full cycle of Application development & testing; Responsible, dedicated, organized with solid mathematical and problem solving skills, capable of working both independently and as a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

COBOL, CICS, SQL, Stored Procedures;
IBM MVS, IBM/z/OS;
DB2
MVS OS /JCL, TSO / ISPF, VSAM, MQ Series, SDF, FILE - AID, INTERTEST, XPEDITER, SYNCSORT
ENDEVOR, BMC, CHANGEMAN, PLATINUM, DB2 Development Center, MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Software Engineer / Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Served as a developer/ analyst on a BOFA Retirement Plans system, which handles all aspects of all types of retirement plans and accounts (such as IRA, IRRA - Rollover Retirement accounts, ROTH IRA, SEP, 529 - College Plan accounts and so on).
Functionality of the System includes accounts openings, inquires, updates, handling fees, contributions, distributions, beneficiaries and plan’s maintenance.
Developed, tested and implemented into the System a brand new feature - Application Security & Log Monitoring (ASLM), which traces down and logs all user activities in case any non-public customer’s information has been exposed.
The System is based on a set of COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs with the usage of VSAM files and MQ Series.

Confidential

Software Engineer / Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Served on Production Support and Development of Mainframe Services (MFS), Point-of-Sale (POS) and Eligibility systems.
POS is a major system, which provides pricing for all type of claims going thru
ESI network, such as direct claims, mail claims, card claims.
MFS supports multiple servers performing various functionalities such as Claims entry, Claims history, Claim summary, Account summary, Drug Coverage/Drug pricing.
On mainframe side each server is essentially an online transaction involving stream of CICS programs. In addition, MFS supports multiple batch jobs.
Responsibilities require immediate response to production problems and included:
Analysis of production problems and means required for their solution;
Analysis of programs flow and performance in order to spot root cause of a problem;
Coding and testing of COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs as part of system enhancement and fixing production problems;
Creating, coding SQL statements intended to test and validate programs performance;
Coded, tested, implemented JCL jobs and procedures;
Creating test scripts/data for testing fixed servers, performing init and system testing;
Analysis, fixing, coding, testing and implementing of JCL jobs and procedures;

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Relationship Goal Manager/ Assets Held Away, which handles and monitors Confidential clients' outside accounts;
Investment Solution Toolset - on this system was involved in the processing of Strategic Wealth Portfolio management;
ICST trading system, which supports online securities trading;
Broker’s Compensation system.