PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IBM Mainframe professional with 9+ years of IT experience as Mainframe Consultant /Mainframe Developer/Technical Lead in Analysis, technical design, development, Integration, testing and project management of Mainframe Hosted Application Systems.
• Extensive experience in analysis, design, development, customization's and implementation of software Applications.
• Extensive Experience in Performance Plus tool and good knowledge of Confidential .
• Experience in all the stages of the Software Development Life Cycle development /Agile Methodology.
• Programmer/Analyst/Consultant. in COBOL,CICS,TS,TDQ,MQ,VSAM, DB2, SQL, JCL and MVS, IDMS, ADSO.
• Hands on experience working on tools like Expediter, Endeavor, Change Man,DTCN,QKEY,File - Aid, FTP, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF/TSO, DMLO, MAPC, ADSALIVE, etc.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing Co-ordination between onsite and offshore.
• Experience in obtaining the project requirements from user, writing system specifications, translating User requirements into technical specifications, preparation of requirements documents, formulating The requirements into design specifications and tracking project progress.
• Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from the Requirement analysis to Maintenance.
• Effective in cross-functional & global environments to manage multiple tasks & assignments
• Concurrently.
• Excellent Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new Tools & Software quickly as required.
• Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills help contribute to timely completion of project Deliverable well short of schedule.
• Possess a high degree of positive attitude and a superior ability to work well with others.
• Strong technical and analytical skills, problem solving, communication and work ethics.
• Strong ability to understand issues of clients and act quickly to resolve issues with client satisfactory result.
• Expertise in production support activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Z/OS (IBM Mainframe),TSO/ISPF, OS/390, MVS/ESA, Windows, MS Office Tools, Lotus Notes,Microsoft Outlook 2013,MS Excel,Powerpoint, MS Visio,Word 2007,Word 2010

Programming Languages: JCL, COBOL,CICS,PL/SQL,ADSO

Version Control Tools: Endeavor, Change man, Quick Edit

File Management and DB Tools: File aid, SPUFI, QMF, Savers, Abend Aid, File Manager, Super-CE, CA Work Station workload, SYNCSORT,DFSORT,IDCAMS,IBM Utilities, EXPLAIN, Insync,SFTP

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor,ADSALIVE,DTCN

Other Tools and utilities: TSO/ISPF QMF, SDSF, IBM utilities, Performance Plus, Sync sort, IBM DB2 Utilities, COBOL-DB2, Remedy,HP Quality Center, Waterfall and Agile Methodology, RTC Ticketing tool; DB2 Visualizer 9.1.2.,HP ALM,Jobtrac,QKEY,MQ,TS,TDQ

Database: DB2, VSAM, IDMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

Mainframe Developer (Onshore Technical Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements understanding and Joint application Development discussions.
• Provide development work for Healthcare Tricare MVH application.
• Design, code and make modifications to complex applications from detailed specifications.
• Creation, deployment, and maintenance of programs by performing work as an expert in the specified language which includes a good understanding of how data is related across multiple databases, tables and platforms.
• Provide leadership role on highly complex projects and provides technical leadership to less experienced staff.
• Assist Quality Assurance teams in testing of applications.
• Peer review code and technical documents for other team members.
• Assist in research and issue resolution for processing of business data.
• Create, lead or participate in creation of, advice and/or approve technical specification documents for new and modified code.
• Translate technical details into business terminology to bridge gaps between clients and IT.
• Follow defined Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Change Control processes
• Develop and maintain system level documentation.
• Coordinate development activities with other teams, e.g. database management, infrastructure configuration, quality assurance testing.
• Coordinate Project activities between client and offshores team.
• Ensure quality of deliverables, productivity team and meeting deadlines for all assignment as per client expectations.

Environment: TSO/ISPF,JCL,COBOL,CICS,MVS,File-Aid,VSAM,DB2,SQL,MQ, TD/TS queues, Z/OS (IBM Mainframe),Windows, MS Office Tools, Microsoft Outlook 2013,MS Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word 2007,Change Man, SPUFI,SYNCSORT,DFSORT,IDCAMS,IBM Utilities.

Confidential, Westlake, Ohio

COBOL Developer\ Mainframe Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing and delivering COBOL-IDMS code and deliver to Client Service.
• Analyzing highly complex business requirements, designs and writes technical specifications to design or redesign complex computer platforms and applications.
• Analyzing and developing new programs in COBOL and IDMS or modifying existing programs as per Requirement.
• Played a key role in suggesting and implementing process improvements
• Analysis, coding and testing of enhancements using COBOL/IDMS/ADSO maintenance included in this project.
• Understanding the complete design and also help the module/team leader in developing the system, Code generation as per coding standards as mentioned in the project plan
• Prepare unit test Plan, system testing, UAT and production Specifications & data
• Perform Review & Testing activities as mentioned in the project plan
• Following the SDLC life cycle Unit testing, System testing, UAT, Production.
• Served as a point of contact for vendor with India and United States for application development and production support activities.
• Provide Coding direction to less experienced staff and also developing highly complex original code.
• Acted as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts.
• Coordinate Project activities between client and offshore team.
• Communicating with business to understand customer requirement.
• Ensure quality of deliverable, productivity team and meeting deadlines for all assignment as per client expectations.

Environment: IBM Mainframe 3270, COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO, ADSALIVE, DMLO, ADSC, MAPC, HP ALM, Job Trac, IBMZ/OS1.13, SAVERS, ENDEVOUR, ABENDAID, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft office, Excel and Powerpoint,Easytrieve,Culprit

Confidential, Dover, NH

Lead Mainframe Developer/ Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided Primary and Secondary on-call support by 24/7 to respond production issues and restore normal operations.
• Participation in DR Exercise and also attend Infrastructure meeting and participate in IPL activities.
• Analyzing programs in COBOL and DB2, JCL,and DB2 database development.
• Liaison between Customer/Business and Technical team.
• Played a key role in suggesting and implementing process improvements
• Analysis, maintenance and production support activities are included in this project.
• Understanding the complete system understanding needed for schedule handling and optimization of batch cycle to stabilize the system.
• Represented IT to customers. Coordinating the requirement/technical/business clarifications from the offshore team by communicating to IT and business Client counterparts
• Root Cause Analysis for production issues and suggested/implemented their solutions.
• Scheduling the batch jobs through Remedy based the new user requirements.

Environment: IBM Mainframe 3270, COBOL, JCL, SQL, DB2, Endevour, File Aid, VSAM, SPUFI, CA workstation ESP, Savrs, Abend Aid, SAR, ABENDAID, Expeditor, Agile methodology, RTC

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/ Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing and delivering reports to Client Service.
• Worked in multiple projects spanning across different end customers like
• Analyzing and developing new programs in COBOL and DB2 /Cobol and or modifying existing programs as per Requirement.
• Team member working on development activities of Confidential Vantage-One and/or Performance Plus mainframe components.
• Analysis, coding and testing of enhancements, maintenance and production support activities are Included in this project.
• Understanding the complete design and also help the module/team leader in developing the system and completing the project.
• Code generation as per coding standards as mentioned in the project plan
• Prepare unit test Plan, Specifications & data
• Regular interaction with the Business Analyst and technology managers for requirement gathering of projects.
• Perform Review & Testing activities as mentioned in the project plan
• Following the SDLC life cycle Unit testing, System testing, UAT, Production.
• Ensuring that release of any software items meet customer requirements of functionality
• Analyzed Business Requirement Document, Technical Requirement Specification.

Environment: IBM Mainframe 3270, COBOL, Jobtrac,JCL, DSS, SQL, DB2, Endeavor, PPLUS, ESP, SAVERS, SPUFI, DB2 VISUALIZER, MQ, Service Manager, IBM Utilities, Sync sort, DFsort, IDCAMS,Vantage One/WMA

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements from Client team and suggesting the solution to Client.
• Participate in meeting with business team to evaluating the pros and cons of different design approaches.
• Performing Integration testing, monitoring of cycles and jobs scheduling both in test and production regions.
• Preparation of unit and integration test plans, their execution and documenting the test results.
• Guiding testing team to start the testing of new jobs.
• Co-ordination with testing team on defects, issues and clarifications. Defect’s SLA management.
• Production issue root cause analysis, issue simulation.
• Hands on experience of Bug tracking tools, such as Quality Center, Excel and others.
• Generate reports of the bugs, code documentation and Test result analysis for audit and Quality Assurance purpose.
• Coordinate with Systems, Development, Business Analysts, Project Managers, host/attend daily defect review meeting to debug and assign defect/s for resolution
• Proficient in identifying gaps and inconsistencies after requirements specifications review and suggest positive improvements on process and technology.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, QMF, Z/OS, MVS, DB2, TSO, ISPF, Endeavor, File Manager, IBM Utilities, IDCAMS