SUMMARY

• Over 17 years of professional experience with strong Business and mainframe Technical skills in Pharma, Health Care, Targeted Advertising, media & marketing services and public Service industry, Automotive, Shipping and Logistics, Investment Banking and Banking.
• Experience includes Software engineering, Analysis, Architect, Design, implementation and maintenance including providing on - call production support
• Experience coaching and explaining Scrum principals
• As a "servant leader" help the Scrum team to follow the process.
• Results oriented individual with strong Technical, Leadership, Analytical, Development and Communication skills.
• Specialize in SDLC Projects with experience in designing, re-engineering, migration and Development of mission critical applications to address complex business problems.
• Help product owner understand how to create and maintain the Product Backlog.
• Work with the scrum team to evolve the Definition of Done.
• Support Product owner in creation, refinement and prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning.
• User, Technical Documentation, User and stakeholders training.
• Extensive experience in coordinating onsite and offshore teams.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Experience in mainframe technologies - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, IMS-DB/DC, IDMS-DB/DC, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Endeavor, Changeman
• Experience in developing mainframe utilities to improve productivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL (all dialects), JCL, Rexx, CLIST

Databases: DB2, IMS-DB and IDMS-DB

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Transaction Processing: CICS, IMS-DC, IDMS-DC, ADSO

Other Tools: Changeman, Endeavor, CA-11 for job scheduling, TWS, QC, Code Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo NY

PM/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provided production and consultation support when SaaS was upgraded to FP6 version.
• Interacted with Confidential /Experian, to look at the options of upgrading the FraudNet and the API.
• Proposed solution to upgrade Device ID to include digital fraud monitoring and data collection.
• Involved in Performance testing and certification from GPCoE.
• Provided consultation to Canada and Brazil business to look at the option of implementing Device Id.
• Involved in coding and unit testing of SASEFM mainframe programs to upgrade to API 4.2.
• Database design to capture device information as part of integration with SaaS and GSP/digital channels and SASEFM.
• Interacted with SaaS and GSP teams to capture the API requirements and ensure all of the fields in the API are mapped to the database.
• Interacted with DB team to create the digital device database.
• As a project manager, interacted with various stakeholders from different applications and business users to capture the different feeds that need to flow into SASEFM for decisioning. This involved setting up of numerous working sessions with various teams to capture requirements, technical discussions and reviews.
• Played the role of scrum master to define epics, sprints and user stories in consultation with the development team using JIRA, including daily standups.
• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Retrospective, Review/Demo, Pre-panning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing, etc)
• Helping team to address impediments. Shielding the team from addressed impediments during the Iteration and removing it that affects the team.
• Involved in estimation and project monitoring including resource utilization in clarity.
• Helping the team maintain their burndown chart.
• Coaching team on best Agile practices.
• Involved and coordinated SIT, UAT, dress rehearsals and Production connectivity testing.
• Involved in ISR and ITSA process of the project.
• Interacted extensively with SAS (product vendor) to align their support to this project from requirements gathering to implementation.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, TWS, Endevor, Java, QC, SAS, Code Analyzer, MQ, JIRA, Clarity

Confidential, Montvale NJ

Tech. Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a technical lead, keep all the projects and all related processes running smoothly.
• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Part of Information Technology Development team involved in Re-engineering legacy applications to internet and intranet applications.
• Plan the different projects and allocate resources depending upon the deliveries and funds availability.
• Maintain all benchmarks and projects status, Change management, New Clients IT presentations and, lead the Teams.
• Additional responsibilities include regular inputs to the team leaders and being a mentor in the Professional Development of team members.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Mentor the team to train the new consultants and other team members.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Assist in defining detailed requirements of users, and coming up with technical solutions.
• Liaison with various other teams such as developers, managers, business analysts and users to handle change requests, incidents and ensure zero defect deliveries.
• Involved in reviews of processes, requirements, deliverables to ensure quality of the products delivered.
• Where needed was also involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting incidents, and analysis of complex requirements/enhancements.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.
• Involved in data mapping, conversion and verification to interface with WEB front-end.
• Assisting in adapting COBOL programs to suit Web based requirements.
• Analysis of process flow to develop test environments, including DB2 handling and space considerations.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Changeman

Confidential, KY

Sr. Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Part of Information Technology Development team involved in Re-engineering legacy applications to internet and intranet applications.
• Plan the different projects and allocate resources depending upon the deliveries and funds availability.
• Maintain all benchmarks and projects status, Change management, New Clients IT presentations and, lead the Teams.
• Additional responsibilities include regular inputs to the team leaders and being a mentor in the Professional Development of team members.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Mentor the team to train the new consultants and other team members.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Monitor, support and troubleshoot production schedules / workflow for operating issues.
• Liaison with various other teams such as developers, managers, business analysts and users to handle change requests, incidents and ensure zero defect deliveries.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting incidents, and analysis of complex requirements/enhancements.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.
• Involved in data mapping, conversion and verification to interface with WEB front-end.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Changeman, IDMS-DB, ADSO

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Mentor the team to train the new consultants and other team members.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Monitor, support and troubleshoot production schedules / workflow for operating issues.
• Liaison with various other teams such as developers, managers, business analysts and users to handle change requests, incidents and ensure zero defect deliveries.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting incidents, and analysis of complex requirements/enhancements.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Changeman, IDMS-DB, ADSO

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Monitor, support and troubleshoot production schedules / workflow for operating issues.
• Liaison with various other teams such as developers, managers, business analysts and users to handle change requests, incidents and ensure zero defect deliveries.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting incidents, and analysis of complex requirements/enhancements.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Endeavor, IMS-DB/DC

Confidential

Mainframe Prgmr.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Monitor, support and troubleshoot production schedules / workflow for operating issues.
• Liaison with various other teams such as developers, managers, business analysts and users to handle change requests, incidents and ensure zero defect deliveries.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting incidents, and analysis of complex requirements/enhancements.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.
• Involved in migration of data residing in VSAM datasets to DB2.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Endeavor, IMS-DB/DC

Confidential

Mainframe Prgmr.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Production support for all the day to day transactional and reporting systems. All the controller statistics also tracked.
• Created the User Documents and train the users and clients on the tools.
• Experience in database tuning and the application tuning.
• Monitor, support and troubleshoot production schedules / workflow for operating issues.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IDMS-DB/DC, REXX, CLIST, CA-11, Endeavor, ADSO

Confidential

Mainframe Prgmr.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interaction with the business users to extract the business requirements, present the design to the business users, engage the users in user acceptance testing.
• Created user documents to document the existing billing system and architected the high level and low level design of the modules and programs.
• Involved in the time estimation of modules and programs.
• Formulated the strategy to link CICS screens with VB forms.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.
• Trained offshore team on the business functionality of the existing system.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, REXX, CA-11, Endeavor, DB2, CICS, QuickApp, VB 6.0

Confidential

Mainframe Prgmr.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interaction with the business users and technical leads to understand the business requirements of the applications, and technical design.
• Created user documents to document the functionality of the existing applications. This involved studying and recording the technical design, database design and the Job flows.
• Involved in coding, debugging, documenting, peer reviewing, deploying, monitoring and support.
• Involved in extensive system testing and user support.
• Architected several major enhancements to the application by way of designing new record types.
• Mentored offshore team on the functionality of the existing systems.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, REXX, CA-11, Endeavor, IDMS-DB, ADSO, DB2, CICS