SUMMARY:

• More than 18 years of experience in Information Technology - Doing Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and Documentation in Health Insurance, Banking, Auto Insurance, Federal Govt.
• Specialized in coding Mainframe applications (COBOL, APS, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, VSAM, REXX and JCL).
• Very good experience in Business Process Analysis and Business Flow Diagrams, writing Use Cases, User Requirements and Detailed Functional Requirements (DFR).
• Very Good Working Knowledge of Java, JSP, XML, XSLT and XML Schema.
• Excellent working knowledge of DB2, Stored Procedures and the utilities QMF and SPUFI.
• Proficient in working with MQ Series for z/OS Applications and extensively involved in the Design and Development of WebSphere MQ for z/OS Applications.
• Strong Business analytical skills and very good experience in interacting with the end user.
• Very good Experience working with Business Flow diagrams and Technical Software Designs.
• Good experience working in healthcare HIPAA transactions in Healthcare Industry (270/271, 276/277, 837).
• Excellent working knowledge of CICS, along with the browsing techniques TSQ and TDQ, creating maps using SDF, BMS GT.
• Good experience working on CA Easytrieve, to generate reports etc.
• Strong skills in Testing Applications and writing the Test cases for the applications at various levels and very good experience in Quality Assurance (QA) support.
• Strong skills in working with various debugging tools in the mainframe environment using XPEDITER and INTERTEST.
• Very Good Experience working with the migration tools ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN and the utilities FILEAID, INSYNC, ABENDAID, SYNCSORT, DF-SORT, ICETOOL, ICEMAN
• Very good experience working with Microsoft Office (Word, Visio and Excel)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframes : COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, MQ Series, JCL, REXX, IDMS, FILEAID, Easytrieve, Syncsort, BMS GTB

Business Analysis: Requisite Pro, Microsoft Office (MS-Word, MS Visio, MS-Excel), MS-Share-point, MKS, DB2 Queries, Facilitate Pro.

Special Software/Tools: ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, Xpediter, Intertest, SPUFI, QMF.

Operating Systems: MVS, Windows and UNIX/AIX.

Languages : Java, C, C++, HTML, XML and XSL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Programmer/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on COBOL, DB2, VSAM and setting up JCL.
• Worked on CICS using BMS/GTB to make the screens 508 compliant.
• Worked on INTERTEST to test the CICS applications
• Participated in several sessions with the end user to gather requirements.
• Developed COBOL batch programs and accessed VSAM, QSAM and DB2 applications according to the business requirements.
• Worked on FILEAID, XPEDITER, SPUFI and QMF.
• Gathered user requirements, functional requirements, analysed the mainframe applications and created high level and low level requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Developed COBOL, DB2 programs to generate reports, and setting up JCL.
• Participated in several sessions with the end user to gather requirements.
• Created the high level Project Scope document and release specific Project Scope Agreement (r-PSA).
• Created Use Case diagrams and description.
• Created the Detailed Functional requirements (DFR) and designed the screen shots of how the output screens should look like.
• Created a DB2 performance tuning document to recommend methods to improve the performance of a DB2 system.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, TSO, MVS.

Confidential, Baltimore MD

Social Security Administration / Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on COBOL, DB2, VSAM and setting up JCL.
• Worked on REXX and Dialogue Manager.
• Developed COBOL programs to read various master files (VSAM, Sequential) and update the data into DB2 according to the business requirements.
• Participated in several sessions with the end user to gather requirements using Facilitate Pro.
• Extensively worked on Business Process Analysis as part of re-designing a new system in web related technology.
• Created Use Case diagrams, gathered user requirements, and functional requirements.

ORSIS(Office of Retirement and Survivors Insurance Systems) has responsibility for programmatic and management information systems that support the Nation’s retirement and survivors insurance programs and are responsible for software through all stages of the life cycle: analysis, requirements, design, development, testing and validation, implementation and maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM and setting up JCL.
• Worked on CICS applications to access DB2 and display the claims data on the screens.
• Developed COBOL programs to add data into DB2 and create VSAM datasets as per the functional requirements.
• Tested mainframe applications (online and batch) at various levels, Unit Testing (Development region) and Validation testing.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, ENDEVOR, CONTROL-M, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, TSO, MVS, UNIX/AIX.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted and participated in several meetings to gather requirements.
• Developed DB2 stored procedures and tested them using DB2 Connect in various regions.
• Worked on COBOL/CICS applications to display the Business Online data on various screens accessing the data from DB2 tables and VSAM datasets.
• Developed programs on MQ Series to read the queue and update the DB2 tables.
• On-call Production support (24/7) and QA support.
• Generated reports using Easytrieve.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery (DR) process, setting up JCL to back up the DB2 data and VSAM datasets.
• Involved in preparing the Test Data perform Unit Testing and QA.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, PL/I, DB2, REXX, CICS, XML, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, MQ Series, Easytrieve, FILEAID, and DB2 Connect, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, QMF, SPUFI, TSO, and MVS.

Confidential, NH

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Websphere MQ for z/OS and developed MQ Series Applications.
• Developed COBOL batch programs and worked on DB2 applications and DB2 stored procedures..
• Developed CICS maps and On-line programs (CICS / DB2).
• Worked on batch programs, VSAM and setting up the JCL.
• Worked on Easytrieve to generate reports as part of QA support.
• Prepared TEST DATA and tested all the developed/modified applications.
• 24/7 On Call support provided as part of the releases and scheduled jobs.
• Involved in Unit testing, QA testing and User acceptance testing.
• Extensively involved in QA support, running cycles.

ENVIRONMENT: APS, COBOL, DB2, CICS, REXX, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, Websphere MQ for z/OS, Easytrieve, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, QMF, SPUFI, TSO, MVS, UNIX/AIX.

Confidential, Hampton, VA

Sr. Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed and gathered Business Requirements and created high level and detailed documents as part of the requirement.
• Developed COBOL programs, PL/I programs, CICS maps, On-line programs and DB2 applications and DB2 stored procedures.
• Extensively involved in DB2 performance tuning techniques to improve the performance of the system.
• Worked on REXX, ISPF Skeletons and the Dialogue Manager.
• Worked on the job scheduler CA-7.
• Worked on batch programs, VSAM datasets and setting up the JCL and worked on SYNCSORT.
• Prepared TEST DATA and tested all the developed/modified applications.
• Extensively worked on XPEDITER as part of debugging the application.
• Worked on Easytrieve to generate reports.
• Worked on MQ series to read a batch file and writing to MQ and vice-versa.
• Worked on JavaScript.
• 24/7 On Call support provided as part of the releases and scheduled jobs.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, PL/I, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, Java Script, Easytrieve, FILEAID, IDMS, XPEDITER, QMF, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, TSO, MVS, UNIX/AIX, z/VSE.

Confidential, N Wilkesboro, NC

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on COBOL, PL/I, DB2, CICS and APS modules to expand the fields as part of POID Expansion project.
• Worked on COBOL/AIX and C++ programs as part converting APS programs to C and C++ programs.
• Worked on Java as part of converting CICS programs in to web applications.
• Worked on batch programs, VSAM datasets, created test datasets in the test environment as part of testing the batch programs and worked on SYNCSORT.
• Worked on REXX, ISPF skeletons and Panels.
• Prepared TEST DATA and performed Unit Testing for the modified applications.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Testing and User acceptance testing.
• Worked on XPEDITOR as part of debugging the application..
• 24/7 On Call support provided as part of the releases and scheduled jobs.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, PL/I, DB2, CICS, APS, JCL, VSAM, ELIPS, FILEAID, REXX, CLIST, ZEKE, LIBRARIAN, XPEDITER, QMF, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, TSO, Sybase, Java, MVS, SAR/SDSF, UNIX/AIX, Shell Scripting.

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Sr. Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assessed and gathered Business requirements to make the EDI Transactions HIPAA Compliant.
• Worked with Claims Adjudication System dealing with all the HIPAA compliant and Non-HIPAA compliant claims.
• Developed C and C++ programs to read the health care claims in a flat-file.
• Developed CICS maps, On-line programs accessing data from DB2, IMS/DB.
• Worked on DB2 Stored procedures.
• Worked on DB2 performance tuning (worked on DB2 Explain to identify the potentially high cost access steps and worked with DBA to run the runstats utility...etc)
• Developed APS and COBOL subroutines called by CICS programs to retrieve the data and display it on the screen.
• Developed MQ Series on-line Application to accept and send HealthCare data (for 276/277 transaction sets).
• Worked on MQ Series batch application to read a Queue and create a VSAM back-up.
• Gap Analysis and Assessment for HIPAA Transactions (276/277, 270/271, 835 and 837 Transaction sets).
• Worked on Java, JSP, HTML and XML to display the health care data on Web.
• Setting up the JCL.
• Worked on Easytrieve, accessing an MQ to generate Error reports.
• Performed Unit Testing and Involved in System testing and User acceptance testing.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, APS, COBOL, DB2, Websphere MQ for z/OS, IMS, SQL, QMF, CICS, JCL, ENDEVOR, FILEAID, SMARTEST, SPUFI, TSO, MAX/VSAM, MAX/IMS, JAVA, JSP,HTML, XML.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided Maintenance & Application support for Confidential Systems
• Made changes to COBOL and DB2 programs as part of the maintenance and support.
• Worked on batch programs, VSAM datasets and created using IDCAMS.
• Worked on Java, JDBC and JSP in developing the web applications.
• Interacting with the onsite team in providing technical support to them.
• Worked with ATERAS to convert IDMS to DB2 using DB-Shuttle IDMS conversion technology.
• Analysis of client supplied Components and preparing the documentation according to that Maintaining the system and Preparation of test environment.
• 24/7 On Call support.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS/ESA, COBOL, DB2, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, CICS, JCL, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, XPEDITER, TSO, Java, JSP, JDBC, XML, Web sphere.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed JCL procedures.
• Modified COBOL programs and CICS maps and DB2 programs.
• Performing Unit testing of DB2, CICS, and Batch Programs using JCL.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL, IDMS, CICS, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, JCL, FILEAID, TSO