SUMMARY:

• 11.5+ years of experience in Requirement gathering, design, development, testing, implementation and production support in insurance domain (annuities, traditional and UL).
• Currently working as a project lead for a project named “Fund Expansion.
• Expanded fund number from 3 chars to 8 chars.
• Increased max funds per policy from 99 to 200.
• Added a new character to VIDD ‘7’ to represent the fund number.
• Increased max funds per company from .
• Migrated 3 business rules tables to DB2 (T014, OB3 and TAB1).
• Converted 20 business rules tables to adjust size of fund number.
• Leading a team size of 10 members for a project of 36000 hours of effort.
• Altered/Converted around 80 DB2 tables and around 70 transactions in vantage One.
• Addition of new screens and paging logic in various screens of Vantage.
• Have performed the roles of a Programmer Analyst, Module lead, Project lead, Architect with equal ease.
• Strong problem solving & technical skills coupled with confident decision making for enabling effective solutions leading to high customer satisfaction and low operational costs.
• Strong Technical expertise in Mainframe /Micro - Focus.
• Experience in programming and testing on Mainframes /Micro-Focus using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2.
• Handling the complete SDLC of the product including Requirement gathering, Business specification, technical design and analysis, coding and unit/system testing, conversions, migrations in Insurance domain.
• Experience in creating Architecture designs for the new applications and proposing the solutions for the issues and performance improvement in the existing system.
• Providing complete support at onsite development releases and production support.
• Co-coordinating and managing Product releases.
• Received numerous awards and COA for the project work.
• Single point of contact for performance optimization, performance tuning of jobs and production support in the system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows Server 2003, OS/390-MVS, WINDOWS NT 4.0 / 95/98/2K, z/OS

Skill Set: COBOL, JCL,VSAM, IBM Utilities

Databases: DB2

Tools: MFE, Expeditor, Connect-Direct NDM, SAR, SPUFI, Change man, TSO/ISPF, REXX, BCV5Zeke, CA7, Dump master, Endeavor, File Manager, File Aid, Ezytrieve.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Variable and Fixed Annuity and Index for Lincoln, a leading US insurer.
• Worked on CSC propriety products Vantage one.
• Key role in Product design and implementation. Creating Architecture designs for the new products/system and proposing the solutions for the issues and performance improvement in the existing system
• Designing and architecting the solution to integrate with different systems
• Providing technical assistance to team for overall development and implementation
• Implementation of complex enhancements related to Payout processing, Partial Surrender, Anniversary processing, Accounting changes and Conversion assignments
• Pivotal role in Production Support Team. First hand analysis of all issues reported in Production.
• Co-ordination of all Production Implementation of every release
• Maintain relationships and closely work with business users & analysts at the client side for requirement gathering
• Identifying and enhancing any improvements/run time/value add scope found.
• Work assignments and tracking of status and progress for team members.
• Involved in preparing different ROE (Rough order estimate) for new products and existing functionality.
• Driving weekly client call discussing ongoing release and other adhoc activities.
• Conducting meeting for pre production migration and post migration.
• Responsible for all client communication related to SIT/UAT region.
• Involved in annual appraisal discussion and performance rating recommendation for team members.
• Leave management for team members.
• Mentoring new team members in the team and team members going to onsite.
• Coordinating, mentoring team members in the Work stream and training them on concepts of Life Insurance and Annuity products

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Variable, Fixed, Traditional and UL Annuity and Index for Confidential, a leading US insurer.
• Responsible for overall design, development and implementation of solutions on the client side.
• Worked on CSC propriety products Vantage one.
• Key role in Product design and implementation. Creating Architecture designs for the new products/system and proposing the solutions for the issues and performance improvement in the existing system
• Designing and architecting the solution to integrate with different systems
• Providing technical assistance to team for overall development and implementation
• Implementation of complex enhancements related to Payout processing, Partial Surrender, Anniversary processing, Accounting changes and Conversion assignments
• Pivotal role in Production Support Team. First hand analysis of all issues reported in Production.
• Co-ordination of all Production Implementation of every release
• Maintain relationships and closely work with business users & analysts at the client side for requirement gathering
• Identifying and enhancing any improvements/run time/value add scope found.
• Work assignments and tracking of status and progress for team members.
• Involved in preparing different ROE (Rough order estimate) for new products and existing functionality.
• Driving weekly client call discussing ongoing release and other adhoc activities.
• Conducting meeting for pre production migration and post migration.
• Responsible for all client communication related to SIT/UAT region.
• Involved in annual appraisal discussion and performance rating recommendation for team members.
• Leave management for team members.
• Mentoring new team members in the team and team members going to onsite.
• Coordinating, mentoring team members in the Work stream and training them on concepts of Life Insurance and Annuity products

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Variable, Fixed, Traditional and UL Annuity and Index for Confidential, a leading US insurer.
• Responsible for overall design, development and implementation of solutions on the client side.
• Worked on CSC propriety products Vantage one.
• Key role in Product design and implementation. Creating Architecture designs for the new products/system and proposing the solutions for the issues and performance improvement in the existing system
• Designing and architecting the solution to integrate with different systems
• Providing technical assistance to team for overall development and implementation
• Implementation of complex enhancements related to Payout processing, Partial Surrender, Anniversary processing, Accounting changes and Conversion assignments
• Pivotal role in Production Support Team. First hand analysis of all issues reported in Production.
• Co-ordination of all Production Implementation of every release
• Maintain relationships and closely work with business users & analysts at the client side for requirement gathering
• Identifying and enhancing any improvements/run time/value add scope found.
• Work assignments and tracking of status and progress for team members.
• Involved in preparing different ROE (Rough order estimate) for new products and existing functionality.
• Driving weekly client call discussing ongoing release and other adhoc activities.
• Conducting meeting for pre production migration and post migration.
• Responsible for all client communication related to SIT/UAT region.
• Involved in annual appraisal discussion and performance rating recommendation for team members.
• Leave management for team members.
• Mentoring new team members in the team and team members going to onsite.
• Coordinating, mentoring team members in the Work stream and training them on concepts of Life Insurance and Annuity products

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, Planning, Estimation, Design and implementation of the Work Requests received.
• Development High and Low Level Design
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Regression testing and assisting the clients in acceptance testing.
• Involved in project process improvements aimed at improving the quality of technical deliverables.
• Production Support
• Mentoring new members in the team.