SUMMARY

• Having 13 years of IT experience in different stages of Application and Product development - Analysis, Design and Development in Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations
• Well experienced in Mainframe application design, development, testing implementing using COBOL, CICS, ASSEMBLER, Microfocus COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, PL/1, IMSDB, IDMS, REXX, Nomad, ADABAS, Natural, ENDEVOR, File-Manager, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF, Change Man, MQ series, VisionPlus, IBM Utilities, Endeavor, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, CA7,Batch scheduling.
• Experience in Development, enhancement and production support in Mainframe Technology.
• Have experience in building Online as well as Batch programs for supporting the Mainframe applications as well as Batch.
• Experience in allocate/ coordinate work within a team/project. Works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.
• Extensively used Debugging tools like Expeditor, Fault Analyzer, Endeavor, Abend Aid.
• Strong Experience with CICS Transaction processing with DB2 application including Map/Map set creation.
• Used SDF for Map Design involving Complex Screens and Developed Online Programs involving CICS, DB2, COBOL.
• Enhance and support critical functions within the application including but not limited to Global trade processing related functionality, interfaces with sub-custodians, static data maintenance and updates, and reporting
• Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations. May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD preparation.
• Experience in large scale Mainframe projects which involves Joint Venture, Migration projects from Mainframe to Distributed technologies, Mainframe to Teradata, DB2 performance Optimization Projects
• Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support Conducts reviews of the test Plan and test Data.
• Hands-on experience across all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including business requirement analysis, data mapping, build, unit testing, systems integration and user acceptance testing.
• Analyzes information and provides recommendations to address and resolve business issues for a specific business group.
• Experience Contributes to defining time tables and project plans.
• Analyzes and estimates feasibility, cost, time, and compatibility with hardware and other programs.
• Conducts analysis of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems.
• Proposes innovative, creative technology solutions.
• Coordinating onsite team for resolution or clarifications of technical / functional / Process / Managerial issues for ensuring smooth and successful project deliverables.
• Excellent client communication skills and worked very closely with both technical clients, line of business and operations clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: MVS COBOL, JAVA/ J2EE, Advanced Java (JSP, JDBC, SERVLETS), C, SQL, PL/SQL, JCL, SQL, UNIX, COBOL, Unix Shell scripts, C++

Mainframe Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, ASSEMBLER, VSAM, IMSDB, IDMS, TSO, ISPF, QMS, SPUFI, VSAM, MICROFOCUS COBOL, MQ, Endeavor, Changeman, XPEDITOR, SPSS-Mainframe, SAS, Eazytrieve, Nomad, PL/1, REXX, SYNCSORT, Vision Plus, File-Aid, DFSORT, IDCAMS,DB2 utilities ICETOOL,CA7.

ETL Tool: IBM InfoSphere DataStage

Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, IMSDB, IDMS, SQL Server 2008/2005, DB2, Teradata, SQL*Loader, IBM Cognos.

Script: Unix Shell Script.

Mark-up Languages: HTML, XML.

Other s/w, Tools: OPTIM, SCLM, SPUFI, Erwin, TOAD 7.x, QMF, Putty, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CICS, FILE-Manager, BMC, File-Aid, Xpeditor, SAS

Version Control: Endevor, Change man, MQ Series

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Scheduling Tools: Autosys, Control-M

Operating System: IBM 3270/S/390, IBM mainframe (ES9000), z/OS, Linux. Windows 7, Windows XP, Unix, Windows NT, IBM 3090

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involving writing functional design based on Business requirement Document (BRD)
• Involving in technical support in more complex situations.
• Involving in all phases using Software Development Life Cycle.
• Involving writing Technical design based on Functional Design
• Attending Functional Design walkthrough meetings with business team.
• Involved writing programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, VSAM and PL/1 based on Technical Design requirement.
• Involved in job scheduling using control-M
• Involved in production support and point of contact any production support issues.
• Involved writing new JCLs and Procs as per Technical design.
• Involved unit testing and preparing documentation for test results.
• Involved in writing Easytrieve programs to create reports.
• Involving in application performance levels are achieved.
• Involved in Enhance and support critical functions within the application including but not limited to Global trade processing related functionality, interfaces with sub-custodians, static data maintenance and updates, and reporting.

Environment: SCLM, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, File-Manager, REXX, MQ Series, FTP, UNIX, VisionPlus, Control-M, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, PL/1, TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI.

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Business requirement discussion with all the stakeholders
• Analyzed business requirements and created analysis document.
• Prepared high-level design and low-level design documents for the project.
• Identifying potential areas for cost saving by running business applications with improved techniques.
• Inloved in DB2 Performance Optimization.
• Involved writing Cobol-Db2 programs.
• Involving in production support and maintenance.
• Involved in production support and point of contact any production support issues.
• Scheduling jobs before moving into production.
• Developed Copybooks, COBOL programs, VSAM, CICS, IDMS, Nomad, Procs and JCLs as per requirements.
• Modified CICS Assembler programs to process policy inquiry transactions initiated from the Internet.
• Daily meeting with all the business partners to understand their current business process
• Creating and thoroughly reviewing design documents and presenting to the project team.
• Involved in Production support issues.

Environment: OPTIM, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, IDMS, Nomad, REXX, FTP, ASSEMBLER, ENDEVOR, File Manager, XPEDITOR, Fileaid, TSO/ISPF, Control -M, QMF, SAS, SPUFI.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis on the business requirement document and prepare analysis document for S/IR application as per the requirement mentioned in BRD (business requirement document).
• Worked on the forecasting of resource allocation to support project timelines.
• Conducted domain and technical trainings within the team.
• Production Batch Scheduling using CA7.
• Inloved in coding using COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, IMSDB, PL/1 and VSAMs.
• Involved in production support and point of contact any production support issues.
• Modified and tested COBOL, DB2 programs and JCL per the business Requirement.
• Developed IBM DB2 Stored SQL Procedure to retrieve data from class room scheduling database for web application room request availability of room and building
• Handled the task of creating impact document for the requirements including identifying impacted CICS, COBOL and DB2 programs.
• Involved in job scheduling using control -m.
• Used Endeavor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages in to production site
• Create incidents tickets for permanent fixes.
• Production support.
• Worked in AFS- Automated finical System.
• Co-coordinating with offshore team and on-site team

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, PL/1, SAS, MICROFOCUS COBOL, FTP, ASSEMBLER, IMSDB, Endeavor, IDMS, MQ Series, Control-M, File-Manager, Easytrieve, CA7, Tools & Utilities File-Aid, TSO/ISPF, REXX, QMF, SPUFI.