PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strategic, committed, dedicated, results - oriented, and focused professional with hands on expertise on Mainframe application development, maintenance/support and migration projects in various multi-cultural and multi-vendor environments.
• Goal-oriented, open and flexible approach to work and can realize the short term wins keeping in view the long-term objectives, with ease. Strong verbal and written communication skills and eye for details will help to stay focused, learn, perform and deliver under pressure.
• I believe in innovating wherever possible to achieve better results faster.
• Sr. Mainframe Developer, with 15+ years of hands on experience in Application programming in IBM Mainframe Environment, Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, exposed to complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based on Waterfall and Agile/Scrum Software development.
• Extensive Knowledge in requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and Maintenance/Support and Migration of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Experience of working in the domains of Health Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Investment and Retail Banking and Financial applications. Extensive hands on experience on all IBM Mainframe Application Development, Maintenance/Support and Migration (Data and Application) projects.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in MVS, TSO/ISPF, CA7, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Teradata SQL, IMS DB/DC, Xpeditor, Changeman, Endevor, LIbrarian, SPUFI, QMF, IBM Data Studio, Native SQL Stored Procedures (NSP), FILE-AID, MQ Series in an IBM Mainframe Environment. Exposure to latest RDz and IDz environments.
• Diverse work experience with different management and individual functionalities of the application life cycle like Work allocation, Preparing Project Status Report (PSR), Weekly Status Reports (WSR), Design, Estimations, Reporting activities.
• Excellent communication, team building, Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills and Interpersonal skills with team and customer.
• Very good exposure to Application Quality, Security, Risk, Compliance and Governance activities.
• Always willing to take new challenges/Risks/ambiguity issues/Complex problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: IBM z/OS, OS/390, MVS, UNIX, Windows NT, XP and 10, RDz and IDz

Programming Language: COBOL, JCL, SQL and PACBASE

DBMS and Databases: DB2, IMS DB, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Tablebases, DYL280 and VSAM

Mainframe tools: Xpediter, Changeman, Endevor, LIbrarian, SPUFI, QMF, IBM Data StudioNative SQL Stored Procedures, FILE-AID and CA-7

Other tools: HP Quality Center,JIRA, REMEDY, Platinum, BMC for DB2, REXX, MQ Series and Beyond Compare

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the Technical Specification Documents (TSD) and carrying out walkthrough meetings with the Technical leads followed by SME’s.
• Accountable for design, coding, development, testing, debugging, deployment and documentation of application to fulfill the requirements.
• Provide support for enhancing, testing and deploying the COBOL modules and JCL codes as per the requests of business needs.
• Involved in developing Jobs and maintaining as per the TSD.
• Responsible for distribution and delivery of agreed upon deliverables.
• Involved in preparing and executing Unit Test Plans, Unit Test Scripts and Unit Test Results (UTR).
• Using File manager to verify and create test data
• Responsible for all the phases and functionalities of application life cycle.
• Planning and execution of ARC and DR exercises.
• Debugging and diagnostic skills in batch processing.
• Ensure for quality deliverables on time with high security and low risk.
• Documenting and coordinating project activities for internal knowledge base.
• Working on ad-hoc report requests.
• Involvement and preparation of Metrics related to Quality, Estimation, and Defects etc.
• Induction and Transfer of Knowledge to New Resources.

Environment: COBOL, JCL Java Script, DB2, Endevor, File Manager, MQ Series, DB2 Connect Native SQL Stored Procedure, IBM Data Studio, RDz, IDz, Remedy, JIRA, Rally and HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Application (Batch and Online).
• Creating the IM tickets and RFC’s for abends.
• Analyzing and Designing the User Requirements rose through the Tickets.
• Coding and testing the Programs according to User Requirements.
• Making Minor changes to existing Programs.
• Responsible for distribution and delivery of agreed upon deliverables.
• Review and Testing the Minor Enhancements.
• Documentation of all the processes and requests.
• Communicating and coordinating with the Onsite for analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that the work products are of high quality and on time through following the process.
• Involvement in Quality Related Activities (Metrics, WPSR etc).
• Transfer of Knowledge to New Resources.
• Allocation of work and tracking them to closure.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB/DC, Tablebases, DB2, Xpeditor, Changeman, SPUFI and File Aid.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the bug specifications and changing programs
• Preparing the data required for testing (sometimes country specific data)
• Analysis and Fudging the data to meet the test criteria
• Preparing the JCL's for running the program
• Downloading and uploading data from and to Teradata
• Testing the Program for the required functionality
• Conducting peer reviews
• Preparation of program checklist and test validation plans preparation of change control and change control checklist in Remedy Control
• Second testing of the changed programs and the related documents
• Raising the review comments if required
• Communicating and coordinating with the Onsite for analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that the work products are of high quality and delivered in time. to New Resources regarding business.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, Teradata, CICS, File Aid, MQ Series, LibrarianStored Procedures (COBOL), Xpeditor and SPUFI

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and specifications.
• Preparing the Teradata Scripts (SQL's) according to the requirements to extract data from Teradata.
• Writing the JCL's to extract the data from Teradata using these scripts (SQL's) and to do FTP.
• Responsible for distribution and delivery of agreed upon deliverables.
• Writing the COBOL Programs if required to manipulate data.
• Unit testing the Scripts, JCL's and Programs using the country specific data for the accuracy.
• Conducting peer reviews
• Raising the review comments if required
• Preparation of program checklist and test validation plans
• Preparation of change control and change control checklist in Remedy Control
• Communicating and coordinating with the Onsite for analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that the work products are of high quality and delivered in time. to New Resources regarding business.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Teradata, File Aid, Librarian, Xpeditor, SPUFI and Platinum.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Application (Batch and Online).
• Analysing and Resolving the Tickets.
• Making Minor changes to existing Programs.
• Review and Testing the Minor Enhancments.
• Ensure that the process is followed.
• Documentation of all the processes and requests.
• Communicating and coordinating with the Onsite for analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that the work products are of high quality and delivered in time. to New Resources regarding business.

Environment: PACBASE, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Intertest, SPUFI and Fileaid.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of all the existing Interfacing Components ( JCL’s, COBOL-IMS DB/DC Programs).
• Mapping the IMS DB fields to DB2 fields.
• Making changes to existing COBOL-IMS DB Programs so that they interact with the existing and new Database properly.
• Review and testing the objects to fix the Bugs.
• Documentation of all the processes and requests.
• Communicating and coordinating with the Onsite for analysis and Implementation.
• Ensure that the work products are of high quality.
• Involvement in Quality Related Activities (DPC).
• Deliver work products on time.
• Transfer of Knowledge to New Resources.
• Coordination with team members and with the members of interfacing applications.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB/DC, Tablebases, DB2, Xpeditor, Changeman, SPUFI and File Aid.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Converting all the objects of Oracle to DB2.
• Compilation and running of Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers using the Development centre and JCL.
• Successfully worked with DB2 Connect.
• Testing all the objects on mainframes and DB2UDB for windows.
• Migrating the schema on to mainframes for developing the application programming part.
• Communicating and coordinating with the onsite personnel.
• Preparation of application and technical documentation of Conversion & new functionality.
• Coordinating with the application development people for preparing specifications.
• Complete review of each and every change to the application and interfacing applications.
• Ensuring the timely delivery of work requests.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2 and Native SQL Stored Procedures.