SUMMARY:

• Having 13 plus years of IT experience with primary focus on Application Development, Maintenance & Production Support projects in IBM OS/390 Mainframe environment and exposure to complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based on a Waterfall, Agile/Scrum Software development methodologies.
• Strong Domain experience in PeopleSoft HRMS, Health Insurance, Home Insurance and Credit Cards.
• Manage project scoping and estimation activities, document the project scope and approach, review plans with business and technology stakeholders and acquire sign - off from business and technology leadership.
• Serves as lead to direct technical activities (including analysis, planning, architecture, design, development, testing and maintenance of support systems for business areas).
• Works with cross-functional teams and interact effectively with all levels by participating in Project & Enterprise meetings as necessary.
• Extensive experience in attending the project review meetings with Clients, gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), developement and all the levels of testing.
• Worked as Tech lead for the Conversion project in HR Space to convert the HR Datamart application from mainframes to ETL-Informatica.
• Leads or acts as technical contributor for the translation of business requirements to technical specifications.
• Works closely with team to coordinate and plan ongoing and scheduled system maintenance activities and assists other team members who perform ongoing system maintenance, research, problem resolution and support tasks for existing systems.
• Extensive experience in programming, unit testing, integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems.
• Takes a lead role in supporting 24x7 On-Call activities - Production Issue resolution for Severity Level 1 to Level 4 abends based on Service Level Agreement.
• Support Deployment Activities - Participate with Release manager/Release Management Team to work towards planning for project Deployment & Post Deployment Activities - Resolve incidents/problems reported and also perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for issues.
• Strong hands-on experience in using Mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, DB2, SQR, PL/1, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, SQL & FTP Process.
• Expertise in using mainframe tools such as XPEDITER, RDZ, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, File-Aid, File Manager, SPUFI, QMF, CHANGEMAN and CONRTOL-M.
• Perform DB2 LOADS, UNLOADS, Image copies and other DB2 core utilities in developer test and staging DB2 environments. Strong experience in various DB2 utilities like SPUFI, QMF and File-db2.
• Expertise in using revision controllers such as CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, SCLM & TELON Tool for checking out, testing & issuing the components in Production.
• Knowledge in using HP Service Manager and Incident/Problem/Change/Release Management
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite & Visio.
• Work experience in Onsite-Offshore team structure & flexible with work environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving and analytical abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating environments: MVS, Z/OS and OS/390, Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista.

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, PL/1, SQR, SAS, MQ Series, Easytrieve, SQL, VSAM, FTP Process.

Database skills: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB.

Tools: File-Aid, File Manager for DB2, REXX, Xpediter, RDZ, SPUFI, QMF, Autoflow, Route, Register & SAVRS, CONTROL-D, BLDDOC, BLDISS, SIA Tool, STRUCISS, ABEND AID, HP Service Manager, Quality Center

Change Management Tool: Changeman, RMS, Endevor Capable to doing Debugging Facility by XPEDITER (batch & online), RDZ

Job Scheduler: Control M, CA7

Domain Expertise: PeoploSoft HR, Health insuanrance, Home Insurance, Credit Cards.

Microsoft Products: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access, PowerPoint, Visio

Additional Skills: Good knowledge on JSE (Java Standard Edition) concepts. Fair knowledge in PEGA PRPC and completed CSA certification in PEGA 6.2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining different applications under Confidential of State Farm insurance.
• Gathering business requirements, Understanding business components involved, planning and effort estimation.
• Worked as Tech lead for the Conversion project in HR Space to convert the HR Datamart application from mainframes to ETL-Informatica.
• Serves as lead to direct technical activities (including analysis, planning, architecture, design, development, testing and maintenance of support systems for business areas).
• Played key role in identifying the non critical and less time consuming batch processes in Mainframes and converting them to PeopleSoft app engine programs as part of legacy modrenization effort.
• Preparing HLD, review against Functional requirement and getting Customer Signoff.
• Creating low level design for each individual components and validating it’s technical implementation.
• Coding the programs as per the specification.
• Provide Application support and resolve the defects.
• Participating in unit testing, integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems.
• Responsible for conducting reviews such as requirements review, design review, code review, unit test case review, Test Plan review, test case review.
• Complexity determination and estimation of requirements.
• Day to day reporting of the project status to the Project Manager.
• Provinding 24x7 On-Call support - Production Issue resolution for Severity Level 1 to Level 4 abends based on Service Level Agreement.
• Mentoring the team on technical issues.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, PL/I, MQ Series, SAS, IMS,FILE-AID, EASYTRIEVE, Control-M, SyncSort, DB2, SQL, HP SERVICE MANAGER, RMS, AUTO FLOW, CHANGEMAN, FTP, ABEND AID.

Confidential, illinois

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership in relevant technologies to the team of developers
• Interact with Client and Service Delivery Team to understand the business and system requirements
• Analyze the business requirements and prepare plans for the customization of external, internal reporting Health systems
• Performs impact analysis and supports development of effort/cost estimates
• Preparing HLD, review against Functional requirement and getting Customer Signoff.
• Creating low level design for each individual components and validating it’s technical implementation.
• Responsible for conducting reviews such as requirements review, design review, code review, unit test case review, Test Plan review, test case review.
• Develop, test and maintain external, internal reporting systems projects implementation and upgrade
• Support and maintain the systems for stability and availability

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, AS/400, VSAM, SAS, IMS DB/DC, PL/1, REXX, FILE-AID, Control-M, SyncSort, HP SERVICE MANAGER, RMS, PANVALET, AUTO FLOW, CHANGEMAN, FTP, Control-D, BLDDOC, BLDISS, QMF, ROVR.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements, Understanding business components involved, planning and effort estimation.
• Timely Delivery of all the Deliverables.
• Program Analysis and Design.
• Preparing HLD, review against Functional requirement and getting Customer Signoff.
• Creating low level design for each individual components and validating it’s technical implementation.
• Responsible for conducting reviews such as requirements review, design review, code review, unit test case review, Test Plan review, test case review.
• Day to day reporting of the project status to the Project Manager.
• Effective usage of Quality Center for defect tracking and monitoring
• Interaction with Onsite Dispatcher, either verbal or in written.
• Coordination with teams located in different locations to achieve on time completion of deployment process.
• Performing different Types of Testing on the Code Changes.
• Mentoring the team on technical issues.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, AS/400, MQ SERIES, SAS, PL1,VSAM, PL/I, Control-M, ASSEMBLER, DB2, FTP, IMS DB, FILE-AID,EASYTRIEVE, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, and SQL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identification of impacts likely to be caused by proposed enhancements.
• Preparation of program specification documents as per high level design.
• Coding the programs as per the specification.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans.
• Testing the programs and preparation of Unit Test Results.
• Providing Support for SIT and UAT.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, PL1,VSAM, MQ Serries, PL/I, SAS, ASSEMBLER, DB2, FILE-AID,EASYTRIEVE, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, SQL, and VISION PLUS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identification of impacts likely to be caused by proposed enhancements.
• Preparation of program specification documents as per high level design.
• Coding the programs as per the specification.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans.
• Testing the programs and preparation of Unit Test Results.
• Providing Support for SIT and UAT.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, PL1,VSAM, PL/I, ASSEMBLER, DB2, FILE-AID,EASYTRIEVE, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, ASSEMBLER, and SQL