SUMMARY:

• Technically sophisticated, seasoned, and talented professional offering over 13 years of broad - based experience in Mainframe Technologies. Exhibit superior talents in directing successful IT departments and technical support programs by implementing effective strategies to optimize business processes, elevate efficiency, and improve quality while significantly reducing cost. Quick learner and logical thinker, paying keen attention to detail in handling tasks. Possess excellent communication and presentation skills, along with interpersonal abilities; effectively listen and deal accordingly with individuals from all levels.

• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and leadership skills
• Complete knowledge of COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, MVS, JCL, ASSEMBLER and VSAM
• Expert knowledge on product install using SMP/E.
• Experience in performing past four IMS Version Upgrades starting from V9 till V15 and involved in DB2 version upgrades and Maintenance from V9 till V11 NFM.
• Well experienced in IMS DBA utilities like CA Database Analyzer, Image Copy, Reorg, Database Recovery, etc.
• Experience in DB2 Database Administration activities and IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytic Accelerator) related activities
• Experience in DB2 Utilities like Unload, Reload, Reorg, Runstats, Image Copy, Repair, Recover, Check Data, DB2 Connect etc.
• Experience in tuning the Queries for performance related issues.
• Have knowledge on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in resolving the IMS performance issues.
• Good understanding of Agile and Scrum Methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills along with great interpersonal abilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, ASSEMBLER, CORE JAVA, REXX

Databases: DB2, IMS DB

OLTP: CICS

ETL Tool: DATASTAGE

Cloud: MICROSOFT AZURE

Mainframe Skills: JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF

Operating Systems: MVS, OS 390, MSDOS, WINDOWS, UNIX

Tools: / Utilities SPUFI, FILE-AID, FILE MANAGER, FILEAID, QMF, CHANGE MAN, LIBRARIAN, ENDEVOR, MFE, INSYNC, DUMP MASTER, REVOLVE, CONTROL-M, VERSION MERGER, INTERTEST, PANVALET, ABEND-AID, CA PLATINUM TOOLS, FTP, CA-7, SMP/E, IBM DB2 ANALYTIC ACCELERATOR (IDAA), MAINVIEW, DB2 CONNECT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior System Programmer

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the System performance using the Mainview tool and Buffer Pool Activity report.
• Performing Repartition for the IMS HALDB Databases.
• Provide DBA support for the entire range of IMS platforms for production and test systems: CICS-DBCTL, BMPs, DLI Batch, PSBGEN, HALDB and non-HALDB full function databases like HIDAM, HDAM, etc., block level data sharing environments.
• Maintaining the RECON datasets by doing bi-weekly reorg on RECON datasets.
• Provide support for the production abends which are related to DB2/IMS and maintain the on-call log for each event.
• Performing and supporting database structural maintenance (DDL, DML and DCL).
• Installing database application objects into the production environment.
• Batch threads, Deadlocks, Resource Unavailability analysis.
• Monitor DASHBOARD report for Missed copies, Objects size increase for Partitioned and Non-Partitioned table spaces, etc.
• Monitor the daily Re-org, Runstats, Image Copy jobs and in case of failure take corrective measures.
• Helping the team in performance tuning the queries as part of improving the slow running applications using DB2 Explain.
• Provide support to IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytic Accelerator) related activities.
• Monitoring the JIRA queues and Service Now Incident Queues and resolving tickets by strictly following the SLA.
• Granting and Revoking DB2 object privileges across Z/OS environments.
• Provide 24/7 on call support and attend the War/Focus Rooms in case of emergency.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, Malvern, PA

• Performed analyses to develop/confirm new technical specifications.
• Developed COBOL DB2 code to meet the new technical specifications.
• Developed integrated test plans, monitored jobs and reconciled all elements quarterly.
• Unit testing and Integration Testing the Elements and creating the Test Plan.
• Monitoring the jobs through Control-M during the Testing. Reconcile elements related to Centerfield project with the Quarter release elements.
• Maintaining and updating the Design Description Document with all the new and impacted elements in e Centerfield project.
• Analysis and Coding the New Business Request based on the information present in the ticket and updating the status on the NBR.
• Arranging the Code Review Meeting for the modules before moving into INT.

I.T. Analyst

Confidential

• Maintained customer service and billing application for GE Medical Systems field engineers.
• Created iterative application enhancements, and supported users.
• Tech support for the GIB system that controlled end-user customer views for Service, Marketing and Sales of Confidential Technologies.
• Requirement gathering and Analyze the enhancement, its impact and prepare Change Document, containing Application impact, Business impact, Implementation Plan, Test plan, Work estimation and Promotion plan.
• The crucial tasks are enhancements, supporting the users and troubleshooting for the issues.
• Solving of tickets logged by users in Clarify tool. Production support for functional abends.
• Providing Root-cause analysis for the defects occurring in the application and providing permanent fix to these defects.
• Attending change control meetings
• Testing - UAT, Integration & smoke testing
• Preparation of work packets, technical specs and test plans
• Providing Year end, quarter end & month end support for the application.