OBJECTIVE:

Seeking software developer position to exhibit and demonstrate my software design and programming skills and thereby achieve the organisation’s objectives. I am ready to relocate anywhere in US.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of experience in Systems Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit, Integration & System testing, Implementation of computer application systems on Mainframe and other platforms.
• Involved in maintenance, conversion, migration / decommissioning and development of Mainframe application systems on IBM, Confidential and UNIX platforms.
• Domain knowledge in Security Trading, Brokerage Systems, Insurance, Banking, Financial Accounting, Purchase and Inventory, Logistics, Airline and Telecom data processing, Data warehousing.
• Hardcore experience in High Volume business data processing on mainframes
• Excellent knowledge in understanding of Business Processes and the Operational aspects of these processes. Expertise in scheduling the business processes on mainframe computers.
• Knowledge in process performance improvement and process tailoring.
• Expert knowledge in mainframe computer operations, scheduling, performance monitoring.
• Worked on large Migration / Conversions projects from IBM COBOL to MICROFOCUS COBOL ON UNIX.
• Experience in working on projects for prestigious clients including Wal - Mart, Confidential, Confidential, Newport News, AutoZone Corporation, Nationwide Insurance, Confidential, Bupa Australia, KBC Bank Belgium, Air Canada, GDL Singapore, and L&M Insurance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM - MVS/ESA/OS390/ZOS, Confidential - MCP/CLEARPATH/2200, UNIX - AIX/HP-UX, WINDOWS - 2000/XP/VISTA/NT, MSDOS

IBM: IBM-COBOL (COBOL-II, COBOL370), CICS, JCL, TSO, ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, PL/I, NATURAL, FORTRAN, ADABAS, IMS/DC, Easytrieve, IDMS, EXPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, FILEAID, REXX, CLIST, STROBE, EASYTRIEVE, ASSEMBLER, SAS, WEBSPHERE-MQ, CICS WEB services,VSAM, RACF, SMP, SMS

Confidential: COBOL, DMSII, WFL, CANDE, COMS, MARC, XGEN, L INC 4GL

ORACLE: 9 /10 - PL-SQL, STORED PROCEDURES, ADMINISTRATION

UNIX: SHELL, VI, MICROFOCUS/4.x/5.x, COBOL, C++

WEB: CORE JAVA, JSP, .NET3.5, ASP, VB6, C#, Micro-focus Cobol web services, MQ series

Databases: DB2 V7 / 8 on OS390, UDB 9, IMS-DB, Informix 6.x, Oracle 8/9/10, DMSII

Hardware: IBM Mainframes, AIX, Confidential Mainframes, HP-9000 SERIES, IBM DESKTOP

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL-II, DB2, PL/I, VSAM, JCL, TSO, REXX, IDCAMS, AUTOSYS

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and provide support for MVS PL/I, Cobol, VSAM, DB2 with stored procedures applications on IBM Z/OS mainframe.
• Provide root cause analysis and troubleshoot problems with existing applications. Provide / back-up programming support for other team members.
• Follow the documentation standards for all documentations.
• Translate the system requirements into functioning appli-cation source code.
• Analyze existing COBOL programs to create specifications for needed changes.
• Provide input to system design, test plans, and program specifications.
• Work with team of developers to conclude development, user acceptance testing, and production implementation.
• Understanding the requirements from end users.
• Prepared Unit test plan for each program to be tested.
• Also prepared Test strategy document, Integration test plan, User acceptance test plan, Implementation plan.
• Modified / developed PL/I application programs. Unit tested these programs and handed over to QA team for further testing and error reporting. Integration testing was carried out for all the Unit tested programs. Involved in Database table design for DB2. Used AUTOSYS for batch job submission.
• Attended meetings with end users and IT department in person and over phone.
• Attended weekly status meetings with IT department.
• Used emails for daily and weekly status reporting.
• Provided On call support as per the schedule.

Confidential

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL-II, PL/I, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, TSO, CICS, CICS Web services, file manager, SORT, ICETOOL, IDCAMS, PL/I, REXX, File Aid, IDMS, MQ Series, Sync-sort, Eztrieve, Endeavor, Expediter, EDI transactions, ORACLE 10G, SQL, MS WORD, EXCEL, VISIO, PROJECT

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements from end users.
• Prepared Unit test plan for each program to be tested.
• Also prepared Test strategy document, Integration test plan, User acceptance test plan, Implementation plan.
• Modified / developed COBOL BATCH application programs using IMS DB. Unit tested these programs and handed over to QA team for further testing and error reporting. Integration testing was carried out for all the Unit tested programs. Involved in Database table design for IMS DB. Modified CICS programs for new user requirements. Used CICS web services.
• Attended meetings with end users and IT department in person and over phone.
• Attended weekly status meetings with IT department.
• Used emails for daily and weekly status reporting.
• Provided On call support as per the schedule.

Confidential, CA / Seattle, WA

Environment: Z/OS COBOL-II, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, CICS, PL/I, TSO, REXX, CLIST, File Aid, Expediter, ChangeMan. CICS web services, ESP job schedular.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements from end users.
• Prepared Unit test plan for each program to be tested.
• Also prepared Test strategy document, Integration test plan, User acceptance test plan, Implementation plan.
• Modified / developed PL/I, BATCH application programs. Unit tested these programs and handed over to QA team for further testing and error reporting. Integration testing was carried out for all the Unit tested programs.
• Involved in Database table design for DB2.
• Attended meetings with end users and IT department in person and over phone.
• Attended weekly status meetings with IT department.
• Used emails for daily and weekly status reporting.
• Provided On call support as per the schedule.
• Agile methodology was used during this project.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL-II, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, CICS, TSO, PL/I, REXX, File Aid, MQ Series, Syncsort, Eztrieve Endeavor, Expediter, EDI transactions, MS WORD, EXCEL, VISIO, PROJECT, SAS, SPSS on Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• As key team member, Understanding the Brazil government electronic Nota Fiscal document requirements for vendors and suppliers from Business Analysts.
• Agile methodology is being used for the entire project.
• Prepared business requirement document (BRD), technical design document (TDD)
• The BRD and TDD given to Confidential Brazil IT department for review and approval.
• The BRD and TDD was used while preparing Program specification documents for changed programs and new programs
• Prepared Unit test plan for each program to be tested.
• Also prepared Test strategy document, Integration test plan, User acceptance test plan, Implementation plan.
• Modified existing mainframe COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, PL/I programs to handle the new functionality. Unit tested these programs and handed over to QA team for further testing and error reporting. Integration testing was carried out for all the Unit tested programs. Used Micro-focus Cobol web services to make call to web front end. Developed and maintain SAS programs.
• Attended meetings with Confidential Brazil IT department over phone and video conference every week.
• Attended weekly status meetings with Confidential IT team lead.
• Used Web based tools (Share-Point) for daily and weekly status reporting.
• User acceptance in progress at Confidential selected Stores. Used MMW for program migrations.

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL-II, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, CICS, PL/I, REXX, BIZTALK, IMS DB, File Aid, MQ Series, Syncsort, Eztrieve Endeavor, Expediter, EDI transactions, MICROFOCUS COBOL, UNIX, INFORMIX DB / 4GL.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements from end users.
• Prepared business requirement document (BRD), technical design document (TDD)
• The BRD and TDD given to Confidential IT department and end users for review and approval.
• The BRD and TDD was used while preparing Program specification documents for changed programs and new programs
• Prepared Unit test plan for each program to be tested.
• Also prepared Test strategy document, Integration test plan, User acceptance test plan, Implementation plan.
• Modified existing mainframe COBOL, DB2, VSAM programs. Also modified / developed UNIX based MICROFOCUS COBOL programs with ORACLE RDBMS. Unit tested these programs and handed over to QA team for further testing and error reporting. Integration testing was carried out for all the Unit tested programs.
• Attended meetings with end users and IT department in person and over phone.
• Attended weekly status meetings with Confidential IT department.
• Used emails for daily and weekly status reporting.

Confidential, NH

Environment: IBM-AIX, IBM-mainframeCOBOL-II, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, CICS, PL/I, REXX, IMS DB, File Aid, MQ Series, Syncsort, FORTRAN, Eztrieve Endeavor, Expediter, EDI transactions

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of existing applications and preparing the inventory of various applications.
• Estimated the efforts involved in migrating various components of the application including programs, data conversion, using or developing automated tools to reduce the time frame.
• Also prepared the details plan for data transfer after the cutoff dates along with the volume of data transfer.
• Modified the existing code to new platform having MICROFOCUS COBOL on UNIX platform with Informix RDBMS. The existing code is using mainframe COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, FORTRAN.
• Involved in system test plans, unit test plans, and code walkthrough after conversion of programs. Execution of parallel runs and verification of test results. Managing team of 4 programmers.
• The JCL on mainframe was converted to Shell scripts on UNIX during this conversion. Used tools also to do this task.
• Currently maintaining the maintaining purchase & inventory application converted from mainframe to Microfocus Cobol on the UNIX platform using Informix RDBMS as database.
• Work involved analysis of user requirements, creation of user requirement document, design document, unit test plan, program code, program debugging, Unit testing of program, System Testing, Implementation, user document preparation.
• Heavy use of embedded SQL, Stored Procedures and UNIX commands. Import and export of data from Oracle. Use of extensive query language. Also involved in providing day time and evening support for the applications.

Confidential, VA

Environment: IBM-AIX, IBM-mainframeCOBOL-II, PL/I, DB2,, VSAM, JCL, CICS, PL/I, REXX, IMS DB, File Aid, MQ Series, Syncsort, Eztrieve Endeavor, Expediter, EDI transactions, SAS

Responsibilities:

• The NET meeting was used for the KT sessions done between onsite and offshore teams. The KT sessions went for two months.
• At the end of KT phase, offshore was used as secondary support and onsite as primary support.
• After two month offshore started working as primary support team with 24*7. Apart from transition to offshore also involved understanding of user requirements for the retail ordering and customer tracking system, creation of user requirement document, design document, test plan, Code modification and unit testing of the program modules, system and integration testing, QA, user acceptance. The system is using VSCOBOLII, PL/I, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, FILEAID, XPEDITER, and CA7. Developed and maintained SAS programs.
• Specific duties include develop and analyze business and functional requirements and technical design documents; design, develop, implement, and document new and existing systems; structure general design requirements into an application system, defining information flow, program functions, and data requirements; define test criteria, prepare and compile test cases, analyze results, and validate systems; and assist with project planning and reporting. It will be necessary to provide on-call support as needed and may require working after hours/weekends to meet project or implementation schedules.

Confidential, MI

SOFTWARE : CANDE, WFL, COBOL, DMSII, COMS, ALGOL, DMALGOL

Responsibilities:

• The NET meeting was used for the KT sessions done between onsite and offshore teams. The KT sessions went for six months.
• At the end of KT phase, offshore was used as secondary support and onsite as primary support.
• After two month offshore started working as primary support team with 24*7. Apart from transition to offshore also involved understanding of user requirements