SUMMARY:

• Tech Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer with 11 years of experience in MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, Easytrieve, MQ Series, Stored Procedures, Abend - AID, File-AID, QMF, Xpeditor, IDCAMS, Sync sort.
• Possess good experience in Agile and Water fall Methodology.
• Strong in Design, Development, Maintenance, Enhancement, Migration/Conversion, Testing and Production Support of large scale Mainframe applications in Financial, Retail and Insurance.
• Worked extensively with tools Endevor, Expeditor, Intertest, File-aid, Panvalet and Changeman etc.
• Very good experience in writing complex SQL queries, Stored Procedures (External and Native SQL) in very complex database applications.
• Strong Problem identification and problem analysis.
• Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like QMF, SPUFI, and DB2-FILE-AID.
• Good understanding of VSAM File layouts and Compare file formats.
• Strong in Troubleshooting technical problems & implement solutions.
• Experience in Production Support Systems by troubleshooting and solving problems in a timely fashion.
• Ability to quickly grasp and understand complicated mainframe systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate issues with the client, team members, team leads and/or project management.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM Mainframe Languages: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, and EASYTRIVE

File: AID, QMF, IDCAMS, Sync sort, BMC Tools for DB2.

Data Base: DB2, Datacom, Oracle, SQL Server, Stored Procedures, IMS

Version Control: ENDEVOR, Change man, SCLM, Panvalet

INTERTEST, XPEDITER, Abend: AID

Job Schedulers: CA7, TWS and control M

Monitoring tool: Remedy, Version Manager

Others: REXX, MQ Series, JSON, Agile, Water Fall Methodology, ETL Basics (Talend, MSBI), Microsoft Office products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Tech Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the requirement sent by the Client.
• Coding as per Confidential Standards.
• Preparing and updating the Technical Design documents.
• Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding and unit testing, Implementation support, documentation.
• Coordination among different subsystems/team for execution of SIT, UAT, QA and final base lining of project.
• Integration Test Plan preparation and execution.
• Knowledge Transition to & from within and across teams. Mentoring Junior associates.
• Developing External Stored Procedures and Native SQL stored Procedures in DB2/SQL.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, MQ Series, CICS, Endevor, DB2 Stored Procedures, File aid and Agile, Abend-AID, File-AID, QMF, Xpeditor, IDCAMS, Sync sort.

Confidential, O’Fallon MO

Tech Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developing the software code as per the prepared design using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Easytrieve and CICS.
• Involving in Functional Requirements discussion and Review meetings.
• Preparing technical design documents as per business requirements.
• Ensure deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule.
• Coordinate with internal and external customers, vendors as necessary.
• Coordinating Production support on post implementation.
• Business Improvement and Process Management on existing and new Business engagements along with Customer relationship and Offshore Team management.
• Develop and maintain operational procedure documentation.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, MQ Series, CICS, Endevor, INTERTEST, Ezytrieve, File aid, Agile.

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Tech Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis and troubleshooting production issues to identify their root cause.
• Gathering the requirements from the Client.
• Preparing application technical design documents as per the client’s requirements.
• Developing the software code as per the prepared design using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Ezytrieve and CICS.
• Unit testing the software to ensure that it satisfies the Client needs.
• Deploying the software code in various regions like Development, Test, Integration and Production.
• Supporting the System and Integration testing.
• Analyze and correct the bugs identified during System Integration Testing.
• Analyzing and resolving the production issues.
• Conduct self and peer reviews to ensure the quality of the deliverables.
• Respond to clarification requests and issues from offshore team.
• Addressing and fixing critical customer defects.
• Performing quality checks on the deliverables before they are released to the client
• Requirement validation of subsequent phases.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, MQ Series, CICS, CHANGEMAN, INTERTEST, Ezytrieve, File master, Vision Plus, Stored Procedures and Agile Methodology.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Tech Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing functional business applications and creating detail design.
• Prepare required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Provide technical direction to team members as required to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Responsible to verify the accuracy and completeness of programs and systems by preparing sample representative data and perform testing by means of cycle and system processing.
• Responsible to Tests, debugs, and refines the system to produce the required result.
• Interact with clients based on requirement.
• Responsible to track the versions.
• Responsible to write new programs/change the existing programs.
• Responsible to effectively communicate issues with the client, team members, team leads and project management.
• Resolving and troubleshooting production issues.
• Responsible for understanding of DB2 SQL and responsible to write/execute complex queries.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL 74/85, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, SPUFI, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, EASYTRIEVE, PANVALET.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

Project Lead/Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, VSAM, VS COBOL, DB2
• Follow coding standards and development of programs and jobs using JCL, VS COBOL II, VSAM, DB2, and CICS.
• Unit and System testing of programs.
• Debugging of the programs.
• Analyzing modifications, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Handling Ad-Hoc Requests.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, UNIX, SQL Server 2008, Serena Version Manager, Intertest.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Knowledge transition of the USF-Finance applications.
• Production support of the application on 24/7 basis.
• Involved in interaction with the client to gather requirements.
• Involved in functional and technical design preparation.
• Involved in Coding and Unit testing.
• Handling batch job failures and resolving user queries.
• Conduct peer review of the software components to ensure the quality of the deliverable.
• Deployment of the software in the Development, Test, Integration and Production environments using deployment tools.
• Worked with offshore team by passing on the requirements and clarifying their queries.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2/Datacom, CICS, ELIPS, FILE-AID, INTERTEST, Stored Procedures.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Technical specification document for minor development Projects.
• Analysis and coding for the work requests sent by the client.
• Test case preparation and implementation of the test cases for Unit Testing and supporting UAT.
• Extracting Trade data on user’s request.
• Coordination with the Production support team.
• Monitoring batch cycle on a regular basis.
• Converting FTP jobs to SFTP and NDM.
• Providing Solutions to the user Queries.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, INTERTEST, Java, Stored Procedures, Abend-AID, File-AID, QMF, Xpeditor, IDCAMS, Sync sort, IMS, Network Data Mover (NDM), Secure File Transfer protocol (SFTP).