PROFILE:

• Technically skilled with extensive lead experience, business savvy and Internationally travelled IT professional with 11 years of dynamic experience in developing and supporting business system application software.
• Exceptionally well in project management with the organizational and supervisory skills.
• Ability to handle critical project under stringent timeline keep in the quality in focus.
• Also a self starter and highly motivated who takes ownership of projects from the start to end.
• Proactively foresee the potential issue in advance and take the preventive measure.
• Managed full life cycle projects, including requirements gathering, system study, analysis, design, developmentdeployment, Maintenance & Support. Helped clients remain within their budgets by implementing proper change control mechanisms.
• Effectively managed the team of technical people
• Solid interpersonal skills to handle Client relationship backed by quality deliverables.
• Very proactive in formalizing the process and best practices to minimize the recurring issues and hence reducing the cost.
• Led AS400 projects on application development, evaluation, testing, deployment and Maintenance Support.
• Supporting critical application as primary/secondary in 24/7 environment and providing resolution within the prescribed SLA.
• Provided training to new batch of 15 trainees on basics of RPG/400, CL/400, AS/400 Systems, OS/400, SQL/400.
• Gathered Requirement, designed and developed a new system from scratch for a shipping client and the project involved RPG/400 and Java interface.
• Mentoring and team building of new team members
• Interviewed the potential candidates for different projects.

KEY SKILLS & TOOLS:

AS/400 Skills/Tools: CL/400, ILE CL, RPG (III/400, IV/ILE, Free Form), SQL/400, Embedded SQL, DB2/400, SEU, PDM, DFU, RLU, SDA, DBU, FTP, Query/400, SQL/400, STRISDB, STRDBG, ROBOT, I - Series Navigator, Synon (COOL 2E), Advanced Job Scheduler, Subfiles, VIEW, Database Design, Stored Procedures, Query Optimizer, Service Programs, Binding Directory, Triggers, Journaling

Configuration Tools: Turnover, Implementer, VSS

Analysis Tools: X-Analysis, Hawkeye, IAI

Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, PL/SQL

RDBMS: IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle 10g

Other Tools/Products: IBM Rational Rose Clear Quest, Websphere Workload Estimator, Remedy, Websphere on I-Series, HP Service Center, Service Now, HP Incident Management Tool, HP Problem Management Tool, HP Change Management Tool, HP Knowledge Management Tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

System Architect

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential, Somerset, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed CVS Adjustment System from the Architecture point of view and on the basis of analysis and findings provided the list of bottlenecks, pain points and shortcoming in their system. And provided the short term and long term recommendations to fix all the issues.
• Understanding Business Requirement in its entirety from Client’s perspective and create high level design document and estimation.
• Assignment of the Work to onsite team and offshore team and coordination of the effort for the timely delivery and client satisfaction.
• Help development team with their technical and Business queries and facilitate any other information required by developer.
• Code Review, test plan review, test data review, QA
• Escalates issues in a timely fashion to the right contact person and put the best efforts to resolve those in a timely manner.
• Analysis, Design, Estimation, Coding & testing
• Plan UAT testing Internally and with client team
• Validation of health insurance plan data before uploading to production

Technical Lead Manager and Onsite Coordinator

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirement in its entirety from Client’s perspective and create high level design document and estimation.
• Assignment of the Work to onsite team and offshore team and coordination of the effort for the timely delivery and client satisfaction.
• Help development team with their technical and Business queries and facilitate any other information required by developer.
• Code Review, test plan review, test data review, QA
• Preparation and distribution of Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly status report containing details related to the projects and significant changes.
• Production support schedule planning and second level support for critical issues. Provides the emergency fix to the production issues so that business can be run as usual.
• Identification of Potential Risk and supply the best available solution in different scenarios based on knowledge, experience and discussion with other technical folks in the team.
• Escalates issues in a timely fashion to the right contact person and put the best efforts to resolve those in a timely manner.
• Provides Open culture to the team, acknowledges and appreciates each team member's contributions and provide feedback on the weak areas.
• Effectively utilize each team member to his fullest potential and assign work accordingly.
• Interviewing of the new candidates, mentoring and imparting training to the new team members. Also facilitate all the project related accesses like network id creation, email id creation etc to new team members
• Analysis, Design, Estimation, Coding & testing
• Performing pre UAT session for Business Analyst, User and higher management
• Plan and coordinate Implementation of the projects in Production Environment.

Module Lead

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Designing, development, and Testing for multiple iSeries RPG projects.
• Understand the scope of deliverables and provide project estimates for new projects.
• Assigning work to the team members, helping them to understand the requirement and answer their queries.
• Code Reviews, test plan reviews, test data reviews and QA
• Use TurnOver change management system to track and control program changes in four environments: Development, Integration, Quality Assurance and Production.
• Preparation of test plan and execute thorough Testing on a dedicated test environments to ensure the developed program/product meets the critical requirements.
• Based on the requirements specs, preparation of conceptual design and logical architecture document.
• Preparing low level test plan with test scenarios for QA team.
• Monitoring the defects logged and ensure their timely resolved.
• Reporting using SQL queries and AS400 Work queries.

AS/400 Project Lead

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understood Business Requirement after discussion with Client
• Proposed multiple solution for the said requirement
• Prepared Architecture Design document showing different components
• Prepared System Design document
• Prepared High Level Design document
• Prepared the Estimation of total effort
• Migrated the data from existing application to AS400 using the Data Transfer utility
• Created standards for the coding and documentation.
• Interviewed and Build the team
• Provided training to new team members about the Business functionality and requirement.
• Prepared Database Design from scratch using normalization techniques
• Low level design, coding, testing, preparation of unit test data, documentation.
• Code Review, Unit Test Cases Review, Unit test proof review, QA
• Created database objects: Tables, Indexes, views, aliases.
• Preparation of System Test Cases, System testing
• Performed the Integration test of AS400 and GUI modules
• Assisted user in UAT
• Performance monitoring and Analysis
• Support after Implementation

Software Analyst

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Designing, Code modifications, and Testing
• Reviewed business requirements, design documents and prepare Test Plans for assigned project release.
• Debugging the bugs and provide the fix.
• Concentrated and involved more in System Integration testing.
• Working with batch job - submitting, changing, monitoring.
• Run SQL Queries and debug the batch job to root cause the issues.
• Involved in Defect tracking
• Involved in comparing the old and new code test result using SQL queries.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.
• Preparation of Base change documents, design specifications, technical specifications and test case documents.
• Preparation of test plan and execute thorough testing on a dedicated test box to ensure the developed program/product meets the critical requirements.
• Helped user in performing UAT

Software Programmer

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential, Indianapolis, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Designing, Coding, Code Review and Testing.
• Responsible for design, development and testing new programs
• Working with batch job - submitting, changing, monitoring.
• Run SQL Queries and debug the batch job to root cause the issues.
• Use iSeries Navigator to create and test stored procedure calls.
• Involved in Backend Database and New Batch Job testing in AS400.
• Preparation of test plan and execute thorough Testing on a dedicated test box to ensure the developed program/product meets the critical requirements.
• Analyzed the tickets opened in Remedy and provided the appropriate solution of the problem.
• Written New Report programs for the different clinical trial studies.

Software Consultant

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the SQL queries for the cause of slow response using the query optimizer.
• Analysis of the queries and code to optimize the application
• Worked with the development team about the concerned areas and get the slow response problem rectified.

Software Developer

Environment: Windows XP, AS/400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client Requirement and Project Scope
• Created High Level Design Document for individual request
• Created Low Level Design Document for individual request
• Performed Code changes using the Cool:2E tool
• Created Unit Test specs and Unit test data
• Tested the modified/newly created programs according to the requirement
• Reviewed Design document
• Reviewed Code, Unit test cases and Unit test data.