PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 8.10 years of excellent hands - on experience in system development, maintenance and production support using SDLC methodology in Mainframes technologies.
• About 4 years of experience in mainframe and distributed production support.
• Overall 8+ experience in life and annuities insurance domain.
• DB2 730 certified.
• LOMA 280 certified.
• High proficiency in Mainframe technology with relevance to the different phases of Analysis, Design, Programming, Debugging, Testing and Implementation of various application systems.
• Have both Development and Production support experience.
• Have excellent experience in working with mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, IMS DB, REXX, TSO/ISPF, CA7/Jobtrac (Scheduler), Xpeditor, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, SPUFI, UTILITIES.
• Experience in using DFSORT, ICEGENER, IEBCOPY, IEFBR14, IDCAMS, ICETOOL.
• 24X7 production support, providing root cause analysis (RCA), suggesting and implementing Innovative ideas.
• Have experience in analyzing, coding, testing, debugging and reviewing DB2 and COBOL programs.
• Experience in creating LLD, HLD, test plan, test d Confidential, test results and test strategies.
• Experience in System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production parallel testing
• Follow up and coordinate with the Business teams to work on the solutions.
• Participate in daily meeting with the team, code walkthroughs and defect tracking meetings.
• Experience in leading a team, coordinating with multiple cross commit teams for issues and solution.
• Involved in the preparation/maintenance of the traceability matrix to keep track of each change recommended by the client would be part of the initial requirements on the analysis, design, coding, and testing phases.
• Have solid planning and organizational skills in all aspects of development.
• Strong Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, word, excel and power point.
• Resource planning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Z/OS, MVS, OS/390, Windows XP, Windows 7

Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX, Easytrieve

OLTP: CICS

Database: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB

Version control tools: CHANGEMAN, Endeavor

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor

Scripting language: Unix Scheduler Jobtrak, TWS, ControlM

Incident management tool: Servicenow, ManageNow

TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, File: AID, FTP, DFSORT, ABEND-AID, MS office Word, Excel and Power point

Testing tool: Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Onsite Tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully supported over 450+ informatica jobs, 600+ mainframe jobs and 3000+ magic processes.
• Successfully lead the team of 10 resources.
• Maintain and keep track of SLAs and OLAs of interfaces.
• Work on Priority 1 issues and coordinate with multiple teams for resolution and impact assessment.
• Have end to end knowledge of systems which enables to handle and support multiple live issues and respond there itself with proper solution.
• Conducting monthly meetings with team members to update them with project updates & also taking team's concerns with the higher management.

Confidential

Offshore Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully supported over 450+ informatica jobs, 600+ mainframe jobs and 3000+ magic processes.
• Successfully lead the team of 8 resources.
• Maintain and keep track of SLAs and OLAs of interfaces.
• Work on Priority 1 issues and coordinate with multiple teams for resolution and impact assessment.
• Have end to end knowledge of systems which enables to handle and support multiple live issues and respond there itself with proper solution.
• Conducting monthly meetings with team members to update them with project updates & also taking team's concerns with the higher management.

Confidential, Minneapolis

Onsite Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully supported over 450+ informatica jobs, 600+ mainframe jobs and 3000+ magic processes.
• Successfully lead the team of 8 resources.
• Maintain and keep track of SLAs and OLAs of interfaces.
• Work on Priority 1 issues and coordinate with multiple teams for resolution and impact assessment.
• Have end to end knowledge of systems which enables to handle and support multiple live issues and respond there itself with proper solution.
• Conducting monthly meetings with team members to update them with project updates & also taking team's concerns with the higher management.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Mentor the teammates, review multiple deliverables.
• Understood the business requirement as part of requirement gathering and Analysis.
• Added new fields and logic in multiple COBOL-DB2 programs.
• Also performed multiple JCL changes to include new functionality.
• Took active participation in Unit Testing and Integration testing.
• Coordinated offshore support.
• Created design document and implementation of solutions.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understood the business requirement as part of requirement gathering and Analysis.
• Added new fields and logic in multiple COBOL-DB2 programs.
• Also performed multiple JCL changes to include new functionality.
• Took active participation in Unit Testing and Integration testing.
• Created design document and implementation of solutions.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Identified time consuming JCL/COBOL-CB2/COBOL components and performed the analysis on the same.
• Prepared the design documents and system requirements specification.
• Performed multiple COBOL-DB2 components changes to consume less time than earlier which include stored procedure changes.
• Took active participation in Unit Testing and Integration testing.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understood the business requirement as part of requirement gathering and Analysis.
• Added new fields and logic in multiple COBOL-DB2 programs.
• Also performed multiple JCL changes to include new functionality.
• Took active participation in Unit Testing and Integration testing.
• Created design document and implementation of solutions.