SUMMARY

• Around 12+ Years of IT experience in Design, Development, Maintenance, Enhancements, Production Support, Conversion, Troubleshooting of IBM Mainframe Applications
• Expertise in batch and online applications using COBOL, SAS, PL/1, JCL, DB2, CICS, REXX, VSAM, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, MQ Series, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN,RMS etc.
• Expertise with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and documentation including requirements gathering, analyzing the project requirements, analyzing the existing systems, Detailed Designing, Writing of Global Design Documents, Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Development, Testing of the applications and Documentation of Applications Software
• Excellent knowledge in Regression Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Production Implementation and maintenance of mainframe applications. Support activities on Integration Testing and UAT.
• Experienced in code implementation in staging environments and maintenance and Production implementation and post implementation support
• Good understanding and practice of Quality Assurance Processes. Acquired knowledge through the Defect Prevention activities, Quality Control (ISO 9001, CMM), Configuration Control, Coding Standards, Maintenance standards etc.
• Proficient in IBM utilities and Tools like IBM SAFR, CNTL - M, RMS, XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, CA-INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, PANVALET, SYNC SORT, FILEAID FOR DB2, PLATINUM FOR DB2, CA-7
• Expertise in creating Unit Test plans, Integration Test Plans, System Test Plans and Executing the test cases, documenting test cases and test results in Test Director, Tracking the defects, Prioritizing the defects using Test Director and Fixing of the defects .
• Excellent SQL Developer skills including Stored Procedures, Indexed Views, User Defined Functions and Triggers
• Knowledge in job Scheduling, Performance Tuning, Normalization/De-normalization concepts, database design methodology.
• Excellent Organizational, Analytical, Teamwork skills along with good communication and interpersonal skills, Very good team player, Ability to handle tasks independently.
• Strong domain knowledge on Insurance, Financial Services and Banking, worked on Auto Insurance, Homeowners Insurance, Consumer Loans and Transportation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, OS/390, WINDOWS, DOS, UNIX (USS)

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, PC compatible

Languages: COBOL, PL/1, SAS, JAVA, HTML, JAVA SCRIPT, EASY TRIEVE, JCL, SQL, REXX, PL/SQL

OLTP: CICS, IMS/DC

Databases: DB2, IMS, VSAM, Oracle

Middleware: DB2 Connect, MQ Series

ETL: IBM SAFR

Batch Schedulers: CA Scheduler

Configuration Management: Changeman, Endeavor, RMS

DB2: DB2 Stored Procedures, Platinum, BMC, QMF, SPUFI, Command centre, Datacom, DB2 Development Centre

Incident Management: Service Manager, Clarify, Remedy

Messaging: MQ Series

Debugging: Xpediter, IBM debugger, Intertest

VSAM/NonVSAM: FileAid, Dataxpert, Starttool

Performance Tools: Strobe, Omegamon

Others: MS Office, Abendaid, ISPF, Syncsort, Clarity, BMC, Panvalet, VISIO etc

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, unit testing, supporting system testing, resolving production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications using COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2,SAS, MQ series
• Participate in the meetings with Business users to gather business requirements, discussing about the pending requirements and set the priorities for the requirements
• Involved in design, coding and testing of COBOL/DB2 Stored Procedures
• Prepare / modify JCLs and PROCs for special requirements i.e. data fixes, deletion of data based on retention date.
• Participated in Code walkthroughs and test case review meetings
• Attending theweekly status meetings for project status updates
• Analyzed the DC 2/3 online and batch applications, Prepared the High Level Design Documents, Component Specifications, Developed and tested the changes and documented the test cases and test cases results and conducted the reviews using the COBOL,PL/1, XML, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS
• Wrote unit test plans, integration test plans
• Responsible for coding and implementation of Auto flow charts.
• Used the Service Management tool HP Service Manager to support Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration and service level management processes
• Participated in Identifying poor performing SQL queries mainly to 24*7 batch processing jobs by getting the STROBE statistics of DB2 queries and improved the performance of the long running DB2 queries

Environment: MVS, COBOL, CICS,PL/1, EASY TRIEVE, JCL,DB2, IMS, VSAM, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, SUPER C, SDSF, IDCAMS, VISIO,SERVICE MANAGER, FILENET, Control M.MQ Series, JAVA, WEB SERVICES

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, unit testing, supporting system testing, resolving production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of policy transactional data store applications using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SAS,IMS
• Primary work involves support, design, development of payments for the Payment Centers, On-line applications, Statefarm.com bill payments, NECHO, VRU, 3rd party payments, P&C Claims
• Involved in Design, Coding and Testing of COBOL/ PL/1, EASY TRIEVE /JCL/ IMS/DB2 Batch and Online Programs
• Analyzed the Internal Cash online and batch applications, Prepared the High Level Design Documents, Component Specifications, Developed and tested the changes and documented the test cases and test cases results and conducted the reviews using the COBOL, JCL,IMS,DB2, MQ series
• Used the Service Management tool HP Service Manager to support Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration and service level management processes
• Developed front end templates using HTML, DOM, Java Script for Adoptive Assistance (AD) Function Transfer, Split or Merge.
• Participated in enhancements to payment center ATS application screens / modules, online payments loads applications using the COBOL,DB2, IMS,MQ
• Involved in coding and testing SAFR views and Fetchables.
• Presented Design specs, test cases and test results in code review session with the entire team.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, PL/1, REXX, SAFR, SAS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, IMS, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, SUPER C, IDCAMS, VISIO,SERVICE MANAGER, FILENET, Control M,MQ Series

Confidential, Madison, WI

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, unit testing, supporting system testing for the STAR FIIPS Project Costing Project, Activity, Funding conversion and interface to PeopleSoft system COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, XML, MQ, CICS
• Participate in the meetings with Business Users to gather business requirements for STAR FIIPS Project Costing Project, Activity, Funding conversion and interface to PeopleSoft system.
• Primary work involves design, development for STAR FIIPS Project Costing Project, Activity, Funding conversion and interface to PeopleSoft system using COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, XML, MQ, CICS,SAS
• Participated with Business Users and FMIS support group to understand the FMIS 5.0 modernization changes
• Analyzed existing FMIS 4.0 system and FIIPS application
• Wrote the high level design documents for the FMIS 5.0 modernization changes as per the FMIS 5.0 State Guidance Document
• Wrote the technical design documents for the FMIS 5.0 modernization changes as per the FMIS 5.0 State Guidance Document
• Developed the new code for the FMIS 5.0 modernization changes using the COBOL, JCL, MQ Series, DB2, DB2/XML, SAS for the different actions of federal project actions

Technologies: IBM mainframe, IBM 3278, TSO, ISPF/SPF, Z/OS, JES, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, PLATINUM, CHANGEMAN, IMS, QMF, SQL, HOST ON DEMAND, FILE-AID,JOB/SCAN, SDSF, XML,SAS

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Technical specifications and Program specifications as per the business requirements.
• Preparing Unit Test plan documents, Coding and Unit Testing.
• Implementation of the changes.
• Loading data into DB2 tables and using SUPFI, QMF for testing.
• Technical guidance to the team.
• Modifying the existing COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs in both online and batch.
• Modifying and running the BATCH jobs for generating user specific reports.
• Helping the client in preparing System test data and system testing.
• Code walk through were conducted to analysis the newly developed system before and after the testing to evaluate the system for meeting the Software engineering quality metrics namely effectiveness, efficiency, reliability, security etc.
• Data Cleaning and purging of the data from the recovery management system
• Participated in dress rehearsals for data validation after mock static and financial conversion.
• Support the User Acceptance Testing.
• Providing 24/7 Production support.
• Emergency maintenance - Providing primary support to the application, which includes solving production Abends.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, MQ Series, VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, SDSF, BMS, ABEND-AID, IDCAMS, INTERTEST, MS-EXEL, MS-WORD, FILEAID, MVS, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, TSO/ISPF, SAR, STORED PROCEDURES, PL/SQL, ORACLE.

Confidential - Buffalo, NY

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in analyzing and understanding the business requirements
• Analyzed and documentation of the TELON based applications flows
• Participated in preparation of the Program Specifications for TELON to COBOL/CICS conversions project, Branch Expansion Project and LVC method changes project including the business and technical requirements
• Wrote technical specifications for both online as well batch programs
• Participated in Understanding of the existing TELON code programs of the PEP systems
• Participated in developing of the PEP systems in online as well as in batch
• Coded the new programs in CICS / COBOL for PEP online systems and enhancements to PEP
• Modified the batch programs for LVC changes and Branch Expansion Changes, Wrote BMP, DL/1 programs
• Developed new CICS programs and screens using BMS macros for online Applications PEP system and Generated new reports using Easytrieve and modifications existing Easytrieve programs
• Participated in Unit testing of the new and enhancements programs, Integration testing of all impacted applications
• Wrote unit test plans, integration test plans
• Participated in code review of the programs, reviewing of the test plans and test results
• Participated in releasing the programs into staging environments using ENDEVOR
• Wrote new reports programs, modified existing reports programs using SAS, Easytrieve

Environment: IBM-3090, OS/390, MVS/ESA, COBOL/370, JCL, CICS, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, VSAM, DB2, TELON, CA7, MVS, TSO/ISPF, SYNCSORT, FILE-AID, BMC, QMF, SPUFI, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, ABEND-AID, FOCUS, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, IDCAMS, UNIX, POWERBUILDER, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, REXX, CLIST, MPP, DL/1, BMP, MPP.