SUMMARY:

• 21 years of combined IT experience on IBM system i as SME, Technical/Project Lead in diverse cultural environment, across Application & System Development - Mortgage, Finance, Regulatory, Servicing, Medical systems. 8 months of construction project and procurement experience, 5 months of travel.
• Proven high-performance, fast learner, result driven professional with experience in diverse range of projects, intellectually curious, critical thinker and possess strong interpersonal and people skills, ability to adopt to change and be change agent, organized, detail oriented and proactive.
• Experience in SDLC-waterfall, Agile-scrum, Kanban. Proven in planning, requirements, impact analysis/design, root cause analysis, cost benefit analysis, complex decision making in up/downstream impact to systems, applications and alternative solutions, contingency planning and risk management
• Managing projects with success records, related to Distributed Systems Management and Data Management with different technologies on system-i enterprise projects.
• SME in loans migration, servicing, regulatory, investor accounting, acquisition, architecture, system engineering, system migrations/integration, capacity planning, operations, security, disaster recovery, OS upgrades, failover systems setup, data flow and production system setups, Turnover (CMS) team lead.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting a variety of applications at system and application level
• Success record in & mentoring application developers and system engineers. Team building, offshore coordination.
• Liaison among management and IBM representatives, third party vendors.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Project Management: Risk analysis, Contingency, Conflict resolution, Strategic Planning, Communication, Team building, Motivator, Influencer, Stakeholder engagement, Offshore Co-ordination

Methodologies: Agile, waterfall

Languages/Platforms: SQL, free-form RPG, ILE, CL, COBOL, Stored Procedures, Java, XML, WebSphere, MQ Series

Native to iSeries(AS/400): Job/User/Data Queues, Multithreading, API’s, Application/System journaling, Library/Collection

Databases: DB2 UDB for iSeries, Triggers, Constraints, Key concepts, MS SQL

High Availability: Vision Solutions - OMS/400 & ODS/400

Operating Systems: Windows NT/10, UNIX, V7R2 i5/OS (lower ver), Windows, Linux

Utilities: Turnover, Hawkeye, EDI, Operations Navigator, Query, FTP, ZMOD, DBU, SDA, SEU, WDSC client for iSeries, Taatools

Other: ODBC, JDBC

Tools: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visio, PEX Analyzer, RDi, Database Monitor, SharePoint, CDC, NetBeans IDE, Rally, Nexus, PCR, Viper, Putty, Oracle VM virtual box, Robot scheduler, DBMON

Big Data: Hadoop, HDFS, Flume, Hbase, Hive, Pig and Sqoop, NoSQL

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Excelled in monitoring and performing inspection of construction progress, collaborating with architects and suppliers
• Responsible for procurement of interior design, electrical and metal work vendors by slashing 15% of costs, also in charge of design approvals, monitoring & controlling the vendors work.

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

Technical Architect & Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead in migration of 4 million loans from Bank system to Countrywide Servicing system in 16 months, Migration of 100K ALS Heloc loans to servicing system in 4 months , with very minimal impact to applications, involved extensive in data analysis/field mapping, design and automation of loan transfer process to pre-boarding and to servicing systems
• Managed extensively on variety of enterprise level data analysis, file/field mapping, data base design, data extraction, transmission and loading the data to target regulatory servers per regulatory requirements for Secondary Marketing, OFAC, SOX 404 compliance database, Basel III, NPI
• Liaison among technical, business application managers, single point of contact and SME for
• Investor Accounting in re-engineering Journal Ledger/Balance Sheets reporting that goes to investors including Confidential & Confidential, trouble shooting on regular basis to make sure jobs complete on schedule basis
• Tax and Statement application changes for year-end reporting and in conjunction with regulatory requirements
• Rules engine, data masking, encryption/decryption in loan servicing, bankruptcy and foreclosure applications
• IVR payment application changes and performance improvement, fine tuning and enhancement of store and forward process
• Project coordination and as SME in multiple Field expansion projects, archiving the data from 9K+ files from 7 production systems by saving 14% of the disk space and 8% of performance improvement on systems
• Served review committee in writing coding standards for Java/RPG*/IFS/COBOL for i-series and setting up the control through turnover via Exit programs saving the manual code review time during review process
• Team lead on application impact analysis & changes related to various OS upgrades, CMS(Turnover), WebSphere, MQ series, Test environment build, Operations, high availability with success rate of zero to minimal impact to systems
• Successful development and implementation of ZMOD/FTP/SFTP security protocols as per network security requirements for existing acquisition application without impacting the business and passing audit
• SME in reducing the Night Batch window by 25% to allow the growth in Loan Servicing portfolio using various techniques such as database query optimization, multi-threading, blocking. Project enabled users to use the system early and continue business function without any impact after exponential portfolio growth. Also separated critical path from regular night batch jobs and included error handling, so that reporting jobs, download jobs and other jobs can run simultaneously along with interactive jobs
• Managed design, development and setting up Meta Data Repository for set of i-series data bases, tremendously used by the business users for their data analysis process
• In charge of customization of third-party tools, such as Vision solution-OMS, ODS, Journal extraction, Turnover, Configuration management system, Security Tools, Hawkeye, source scanners, auto code generators, data Obfuscation, all of which are designed to reduce manual intervention and repetition of tasks

Confidential, Moorpark, CA

Senior Developer, Tester and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Writing Master Test Plans/Test Cases and executing the Test cases for date routines and logging the defects.
• Worked closely with the development team in getting the code fixes.
• Enhancement and maintenance of the existing patient billing system.
• Excelled in creating multiple reporting options for analysis for Target-2000 tool for i-Series that scans RPG/COBOL.
• Executing the Target-2000 tool at client sites, collecting, analyzing, sending the data for further micro level analysis to offshore-India, explaining and presenting the findings at client site. Working on short term resource estimates