PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9 plus years of Experience in IBM Mainframe Technologies and Conversant with all phases of project Life Cycle including Requirement Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Maintenance and Documentation.
• 14 plus years of hands - on experience in the Information Technology industry.
• 14 plus years of hands-on experience in the mainframe COBOL enterprise applications.
• 10 plus years of hands-on experience in the coding and programming.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in IT Project management
• Extensive knowledge and Good Experience in Mainframes (COBOL, DB2, JCL, and CICS) and on other tools like File-Aid, Endevor, Changeman, Expeditor, and CA7.
• Good Experience in the migration projects from Mainframes to Java, Mainframes to .Net
• Good Experience in the database migration from IMS to DB2 Tables, DMS-II to DB2 Tables, VSAM files to DB2 Tables.
• Good Experience in the Tera data migration projects.
• In-depth expertise in a broad variety of IT skills, such as project planning, systems development, systems design, systems maintenance, helpdesk/user support, documenting system requirements and changes, infrastructure implementation, and network administration.
• IBM DB2 Certified Professional.
• Good communications skills and the ability to interact with business users.
• Work in fast-paced team environment with focus on quality.
• Work on projects with minimal supervision.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently
• Very strong in Production Support and issue solving capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM Mainframe Technologies: VS-COBOL 74/85, MF-COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, Micro Focus Net Express 5.1, JCL, DB2, Easytrieve, CICS, IMS-DB/DC, SAS, DB2, Natural, VSAM, PL/1

Mainframe Technologies: MCP, Clear path Series, WFL, CANDE, BLSOURCE, DARGAL, WORDER, BLSCHED, BLDIST, SOAP, DUMPALL, Evolve IT DMS.

Teradata Technologies: Teradata Macros, BTEQ, MLOAD, FASTLOAD, FAST EXPORT, Teradata SQL Assistant, Teradata Manager, PMON, Putty

ETL Tools: DataStage

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, MCP, SMP/E, Window 95/98/XP/7, Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linus 5, Clear path Series.

Tools: TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, CHANGE CONTROL, CHANGE MAN, JES2, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, FILEAID-DB2, FILEAID-IMS, INSYC, FILE MASTER, MAX/VSAM, BMC Utilities, VIASOFT, INTERTEST, CA7, XGEN, Cande, BLSource, Workbench, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT, Dump master, TELON, Progeni, PLATINUM, IBM DB2 TOOLS, SPUFI/QMF, Crystal Reports, Cobol-Report Writing, Teradata SQL Assistant, Teradata Manager, PMON, Putty, DataStage

Version Control: ENDEVOR, PANVALET

Debugging Tools: VIASOFT, INTERTEST, XPEDITER and SMART TEST

Job Schedulers: CA7, and control M

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Cobol-Report Writing, SPUFI/QMF, Power Builder Reporting (Data windows)

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, SQL server-2000, DB2, PL/SQL

Monitoring tool: HP open view, Remedy.

Java Technologies: Java, J2EE, Eclipse, Tomcat, Web Sphere, XML, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC, EJB, SOA, CSS, JSP, JQuery

Micro Soft .Net Technologies: VB 4.0/6.0, ASP, Share Point, Microsoft Visual Studio

EDI Tools: Powerbuilder, TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, NetBeans.

Presentation Tools: MS Visio, MS Power Point

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ability to quickly understand and code Mainframe COBOL /DB2 programs per technical and user requirement specifications.
• Provide production support maintaining, troubleshooting, and problem solving with existing State CalWORKs Mainframe COBOL/DB2 business programs and systems.
• Develop project plans and detailed schedules.
• Use industry and/or State CalWORKs mandated standard coding techniques and testing processes to ensure quality.
• Document all programming work per State CalWORKs standards.
• Enhance existing State CalWORKs systems to meet new business requirements.
• Explain and/or document complex problems and solutions in an understandable manner to both technical and non-technical State CalWORKs personnel.
• Present technical solutions and alternatives to management and decision makers at a level of understanding commensurate with the audience.
• Configure, build and maintain the production run processes. Mainframe job and processes.
• Solve problems that arise with database data, production runs and/or the systems products (on-line screens, reports files or interfaces).
• Tuning and optimization of COBOL/DB2 programs and systems.
• Maintenance of system documentation.
• Troubleshoot, Identify and correct reported or suspected errors with code, logic and/or data.
• Apply necessary and discretionary system changes and/or fixes, making system enhancements as required by IT management, business units, statutes, contracts or the system’s underlying architecture and/or technology as authorized by State CalWORKs IT management.
• Helpdesk related activities for Policy system related problems and issues.
• Create new applications, programs and/or interfaces in order to resolve problems.
• Technical Lead or assistant with development teams.
• Share knowledge, mentor and train State Fund staff, on a regular and ongoing basis through the State CalWORKs Mentoring and Skills Enhancement program as well as shadowing and consistent transfer of information form Consultants to State CalWORKs project team members

Environment: TSO/ISPF, MF-COBOL-II, Micro Focus Net Express 5.1, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, FILE MASTER, INTERTEST, EZYTRIEVE, CHANGE MAN, CNTL-M, MQ Series, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVASCRIPT, DataStage

Confidential, Charleston, WV

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for production support 24X7.
• Responsible to identify the root cause for production abends.
• Provided emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Mainly involved in the Business requirements, Design documents, and reviews. Installation of the project.
• Mainly involved in development and maintenance of the project.
• Mainly involved in development of the project using COBOL, DB2, JCL and CICS.
• Responsible in preparing weekly reports and delivering the reports on time.
• Involved in on call support team activities and adherence to SLA.
• Worked upon many root cause analysis and gave the best resolutions to customers.
• Involved in improving the performance activities of the project.
• Preparing the Knowledge documents for future reference in the project.
• Tuning the mappings for better performance
• Identifying and resolving the Bugs issues in design documents
• Performing unit testing, integration testing and UAT
• Preparing release note documents for different releases and involving in installation and post installation of the project.
• Mentoring fresher's in the team on project related activities.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, MF-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2/IMS, TELON, SAS, VSAM, SPUFI, DataStage PLATINUM, FILE MASTER, INTERTEST, EZYTRIEVE, CHANGE MAN, CNTL-M, MQ Series, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVASCRIPT

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Based on Design Document working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
• Responsible to ensure the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Responsible to update program specification document.
• Based on severity, coordinated clients and business users to resolve the Production issues.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with Business User/Technical Lead as required ensuring program deadlines are met.
• Based on requirement to debug the program in development environment.
• Provided permanent fixes for production issues and responsible for performance Tuning.
• Working on emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
• Responsible for code reviews and Unit Test Documents Reviews.
• Based on requirement working multiple projects.
• Responsible to create project documents and flow chats for system.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2/IMS, SAS, VSAM, SPUFI, PLATINUM, FILE MASTER, INTERTEST, CHANGE MAN, MQ Series, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVASCRIPT, Terada, BTEQ, MLOAD, FLOAD, FEXPORT

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Based on Business Requirement Documents prepared High Level Details Design Documents.
• To Prepared Technical Specification Documents for each programs online and batch.
• Prepared required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Responsible to guide technical direction to other team members to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements designing, building, and testing Analyst models, and managing the data workflow within the model.
• Responsible for the four types of Performance tuning Mapping Level, Session Level, Source Level, and target Level.
• Also used Joiner transformation for Heterogeneous Sources
• Used parameter files for defining the values and parameters used in sessions and mappings.
• Update the Daily status to client.
• Maintained the Business Rules Document based on batch/Online programs.
• Created JOB flow (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)
• Based on requirements to define and update existing Business Processes Documents.
• Created Physical Data and Logical Data Diagrams Using Visio.
• Performed the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Based on severity, coordinated clients and business users to resolve the issues.
• Responsible to create both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with Business User/Technical Lead as required to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Tested, debugged, and refined the system to produce the required result.
• Responsible for configuration Management and installed the Migration changes into Production.
• Provided permanent fixes for production issues and responsible for performance Tuning.
• Responsible for coding and unit testing.
• Provided emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
• Responsible for code reviews and Unit Test Documents Reviews.
• Responsible to update the status to client on daily basis.
• After analysis, used COBOL/DB2/CICS programs to create data flow ERD diagrams.
• Worked on loading of data from several flat files sources to Staging using Teradata MLOAD, FLOAD.
• Worked on exporting data to flat files using Teradata FEXPORT.
• Query optimization (explain plans, collect statistics, Primary and Secondary indexes)
• Build tables, views, UPI, NUPI, USI and NUSI.
• Written several Teradata BTEQ scripts to implement the business logic.
• Worked exclusively with the Teradata SQL Assistant to interface with the Teradata.
• Worked with Source databases like Oracle, SQL Server
• Involved in designing and developing the FDW (Financial Data warehouse) Data load process.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, MF-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2/IMS, TELON, VSAM, SPUFI, MKS PLATINUM, FILE MASTER, INTERTEST, EZYTRIEVE, CHANGE MAN, CNTL-M, MQ Series, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVASCRIPT, Terada, BTEQ, MLOAD, FLOAD, FEXPORT

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked between onsite and offshore
• Responsible to identify the root cause for production abends.
• Based on severity, coordinated clients and business users to resolve the issues.
• Tested, debugged, and refined the system to produce the required result.
• Provided permanent fixes for production issues.
• Based on the Production Issue, working on code changes, testing.
• Responsible for coding and unit testing for permanent fixes.
• Based on severity working on emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
• Responsible to update the status to client on daily basis.
• Support the offshore team.
• Based on severity working with other teams to resolve the production issues.
• After analysis, used COBOL/DB2/CICS programs to create data flow ERD diagrams.

Technologies: zOS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, MF-COBOL-II JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS,SPUFI XPEDITER, MKS, CHANGE MAN, ABP,QC.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Based on Business Requirement Documents and based on requirement, prepared High Level Details Design Documents.
• Prepared Technical Specification Documents for each programs online and batch.
• Prepared required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Responsible to guide technical direction to other team members to ensure program deadlines are met.
• After analysis, used COBOL/DB2/CICS programs to create data flow ERD diagrams.
• Created the Crystal Reports based on client requirement.
• Maintained the Business Rules Document based on batch/Online programs.
• Created JOB flow (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)
• Based on requirements to define and update existing Business Processes Documents.
• Created Physical Data and Logical Data Diagrams Using Visio.
• Responsible to convert TELON online screens into Java Online Screens.
• Responsible to convert all TELON programs into Business Documents.
• Responsible to replace all IMS calls into DB2 calls
• Performed the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL 74/85, DB2, JCL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, SPUFI/QMF, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, EASYTRIEVE, TELON, PANVALET, XGEN, BLSOURCE, CANDE, IBM DB2 TOOLS, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVA SCRIPT.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked between onsite and offshore
• Responsible for first point of contact for all the issues.
• Conducted team meeting with offshore on daily basis and responsible to resolve issue for offshore team.
• Responsible to carry the pager to support 24X7.
• Responsible to identify the root cause for production abends.
• Based on severity, coordinated clients and business users to resolve the issues.
• Analyzed functional business applications and created Details Design.
• Prepared required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Provided technical direction to Other programmers as required to ensure program deadlines are met.
• Tested, debugged, and refined the system to produce the required result.
• Responsible for configuration Management and installed the Migration changes into Production.
• Provided permanent fixes for production issues and responsible for performance Tuning.
• Used Opti Dump to see the production abends.
• Responsible for coding and unit testing.
• Reviewed all the deliverables from offshore.
• Provided emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
• Responsible for code reviews and Unit Test Documents Reviews.
• Responsible to update the team status to client on daily basis.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, MF-COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, DB2/IMS DB, VSAM, SPUFI, CHANGE CONTROL, PLATINUM, PANVALET, FILE MASTER, INTERTEST, MQ Series, XGEN, BLSOURCE, CANDE, JAVA/J2EE/HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PowerBuilder, Terada, BTEQ, MLOAD, FLOAD, FEXPORT

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked between onsite and offshore.
• Responsible for coding, Unit testing, code reviews and Unit Test Documents Review.
• Prepared Unit test plan and Unit test results.
• Wrote new programs/changed the existing programs based on client requirements.
• Responsible on requirement gathering and Analyzes functional business applications and creating Details Design.
• Responsible to Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
• Responsible to create data flow documents from IMS to DB2
• Responsible to document each fields on CICS screen.
• Verified the accuracy and completeness of programs and systems by preparing sample representative data and performed testing by means of cycle and system processing.
• Coordinated with Business Users/onsite development Team to resolve the issues.
• Installed the changes in production, after all phases (code changes, test plan, test results).
• Tracked the defects and prepared casual Analysis documents.
• Worked XGEN for cobol74 programs
• Prepared/updated project related knowledge documents and Quality documents.

Environment: MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, QMF, FILE MASTER, VIASOFT, ENDEVOR, UNIX, XML, and Confidential Mainframe, XGEN, BLSOURCE, CANDE,