SUMMARY

• 10 years of IT experience in the Mainframe projects for reputed clients.
• Expertise in all phases of the systems development life cycle in the mainframe environment. I have technical strengths and the ability to work in a legacy application environment. With significant experiences in multiple industries, including but not limited to: insurance, banking and retail institutions. I have been involved in projects that produced superior results even in systems that require the strongest analysis, design, programming, and user contact skills in COBOL and Assembler languages, database, and production control arenas.
• Worked with Allstate Benefits, Set up new products for their health insurance portfolio like CP12, GVCIFX, GVC INC, Mayo, GVC3 and others.
• Involved in South Authorization project of Confidential, one of the biggest payment processor in US. Enhanced and maintained their Authorization System.
• Successfully modernized the Confidential Legacy systems to Micro Focus platform.
• Industries: Insurance, Banking, Retail
• Functional Areas: Insurance New Business processing, Insurance premium admin, Credit Card Authorization, Legacy Modernization.
• Methodologies: Water fall, Agile, Application Management Methodology (AMM), Productivity Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Development Tools: TSO, ISPF

Products: Life70, Cyberlife, Vantage, InterComm

Databases / DB Tools: DB2, IDMS, QMF, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, SCLM, Panvalet, SAR

Desktop Tools: Microsoft Office, VisioHardware IBM PC, IBM 3090, IBM ES 9000 OS - 390

Methodologies / Techniques: Water fall, Agile, Application Management Methodology (AMM), Productivity Management

Network Software / Communications: MQ SERIES, FTP, TCP/IP, SAS

Operating Systems: Windows 7, MVS, TSO/ISPF, DOS/VM, / VSE, Z/OS

Programming Languages: COBOL, COBOL-II, Assembler, MICRO FOCUS COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, REXX, Easytrieve

Utilities / Command Languages: MF UTILITIES, IDCAMS Use access method services for catalogs, IEBCOPY utility Copy libraries, IEFBR14, SORT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Working as the Lead Developer for the L70 system.
• Mentoring new Joinees on mainframe technologies.
• Design and Development of complex Business Improvement and Strategic Projects assigned.
• Preparing Technical Specifications and High Level Design Document.
• Supporting Production Cycle and Test-Quality cycle as well.
• Interacting with the Client for Technical issues and queries in the project.
• Guiding Team on the Technical Issues.
• Review of the process documentation to ensure that all the client procedures and processes are being followed.

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of complex Business Improvement and Strategic Projects assigned.
• Mentoring new resources on the Mainframe Technologies.
• Preparing Technical Specifications and High Level Design Document.
• Guiding Team on the Technical Issues.
• Review of the code and other deliverables including process documentation to ensure that all the procedures and processes are being followed.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured smooth re-engineering processes of the Assembler based codes.
• Imparted training to fellow team members with technical aspects of assembler re-engineering process.
• Efficiently handled re-engineering process of Assembler codes into COBOL based codes.
• Transferred all data by transforming the BDAM system into a RRDS based application.
• Re-engineered the assembler codes used for accessing data from the BDAMS into COBOL based modules using RRDS.
• Assessed assembler programs of the client applications and finalized the total duration & complexity of the re-engineering process.

Confidential, Melville, NY

Responsibilities:

• Starting off as a developer gradually moved into a Team Lead role and responsibly led the South Authorization Team consisting of five resources. Handled all project deliveries made from offshore to be implemented on client systems.
• Worked on COBOL, VSAM, Easytrieve, REXX, DB2, SQL, CICS and Assembler based codes as per project requirement.
• Extensively used Endevor, SAR, Panvalet to track version of modules, schedule jobs and maintain production reports.
• Coordinated with the the onsite team and offshore quality team for daily account/project related activities.
• Analysed periodically the client requirements for change requests (CR), development and enhancement.
• Identified the production problems for bug fixing and designing of optimum and efficient solutions for the bug detected on the production system.
• Ensured that the requirement was met on time by conducting Unit Testing. Involved in System Testing to test that the entire application was adaptable to the new changes.
• Conducted Regression Testing to test if the existing functionality of the application was in place and User Acceptance Testing which supported the enhancement.
• Implemented the system enhancements and resolved the queries of the clients. Documented the development and enhancement tasks time to time.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client to understand Client Processes/requirements and planned activities accordingly to meet targets and deliver solutions.
• Prepared codes and tested modules as per the change requirements of the client.
• Used Spufi, QMF to execute queries on DB2 databases.
• Drafted and prepared various technical and functional documents when needed.