SUMMARY:

• Overall 11+ years of total IT experience in Application Delivery, Application Development, Maintenance and support projects in fortune 100 companies
• Roles performed as Technical lead, onshore offshore coordinator and Subject Matter Expert (SME) with domain expertise in healthcare, Transportation, Banking, and Insurance domains
• Expertise on Requirement analysis, Estimations, On - site/off-shore project execution model, and customer interaction
• Strong experience in Design, developing, debugging, maintaining and enhancing Health Insurance Application using Mainframe technology.
• My technology Forte is COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Easytrieve, ISPF, IBM Utilities etc
• Exposure to AdvantageGen, Ideal,DataCom and IMS
• Exceeded client expectations in development of scalable Mainframe Applications
• Clear understanding of business procedures and ability to work as an individual and as a part of a team
• Excellent analytical, functional, design and development skills with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Extensively worked on healthcare, Transportation, Banking, and Insurance domains
• ITIL V3 foundation certified from EXIM.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Special Skills: Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Estimations, coding & Testing Team Management and Status reporting

Programming Languages: VS Cobol II, Ideal, Stratus Cobol

Databases: DB2,Datacom,IMS

Operating Systems: MVS, Win NT/2000/95

Control Languages: JCL

OLTP: CICS

Utilities: VSAM, ISPF/PDF, SMARTTEST,INSYNC, SPUFI, Advantage Gen

Tools: File-Aid, QMF, Xpeditor and Teradata SQL Assistant, MS Office, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tech Lead & offshore coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in workshops with business users and perform requirements gathering
• Developed functional and technical specification documents
• Provided effort estimates to the project management team
• Involved in data model creation
• Responsible for status tracking, identifying risks and issues, presenting the same to project management team on daily basis
• Conducting review meetings on deliverables and obtaining approvals from Client team
• Prepared High Level and Low Level design as per Requirements and presented them to client team
• Establish off-shore team and trained them on the functionalities
• Created check lists for the deliverables
• Co-ordination with QA team for SIT and UAT testing, present the test results to Business team
• Continual interaction with the stake holders to understand the issues and to provide workarounds / permanent fixes
• Clarifications of technical and functional queries posed by team
• Developed components for POD ( Proof of Design) during HLD phase
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to track the completeness of given requirements

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Cobol, DB2, CICS

Utilities: SPUFI, File Master, Endevor, MS Visio

Confidential

Tech Lead & offshore coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Accepting Incident tickets and creating a requirement documents and handing it to the team for the development
• Offshore Coordinator
• Responsible for work deliverables.
• Co-ordination with team and client effectively.
• Co-ordination with QA team and release management teams.
• Continual interaction with the stake holders to understand the issues and to provide workarounds / permanent fixes
• Clarifications of technical and functional queries posed by team.
• Interacting with client to understand and analyze the requirements (CR).
• Preparing technical specifications.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Cobol, DB2

Utilities: SPUFI, File Master, Endevor

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Have traveled to onshore for Confidential .
• Built the offshore team.
• Responsible for Requirement gathering for the enhancement requested by Client.
• Co-ordination with team and client effectively.
• Conducting status meetings on weekly and need basis.
• Clarifications to technical and functional queries posed by team.
• Interacting with client to understand and analyze the requirements (CR).
• Preparing technical specifications.
• Writing queries using DBQ to extract data from various VSAM files reporting purpose

Environment: OS: VOS

Software: Stratus Cobol, Files, Command macros, Forms

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge acquisition from Onsite
• Interacted with client to understand and analyze the requirements (SCR).
• Prepared Understanding document and high level estimates
• Helping team members in developing and testing.
• Coordinate the System Integration Testing and Sign-off.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Cobol, DB2

Utilities: SPUFI, File Aid, Endevor

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge acquisition from SMEs and preparing System Design Documents.
• Resolution of production problems within Service Level Agreements (SLAs) defined, and ensure system availability
• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
• Continual interaction with the stake holders to understand the issues and to provide workarounds / permanent fixes

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Cobol, DB2

Utilities: SPUFI, File Manager, Endevor, QMF, DOC Direct, Debug.

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client to understand and analyze the requirements
• Prepared Project Plan and was involved in high level estimates
• Involved technically in Development phase of the Project Plan
• Involved in developing the test cases and executing the System Integration Testing

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Cobol,IMS DB/DC

Confidential

Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with client and understand/Analysis the requirement.
• Analyze/Review the business objective and functional requirement and prepare the estimates.
• Identify and design the changes to all the impacted systems
• Prepare the project plan and Build the changes.
• System Integration Testing.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: Advantage Gen, JCL,DB2,GDF

Utilities: SPUFI, File Aid

Confidential

Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and documenting
• Interaction with client and understand/Analysis the functional requirement.
• Building technical specifications.
• Attending review meetings.
• Offshore coordination and knowledge sharing.
• Developed POLARIS interface, which was core for projects success.

Environment: OS: MVS, Windows - XP

Software: COBOL, IDEAL,DATACOM