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Mainframe Application & Development Lead (onsite) Resume

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Irving, TX

SUMMARY:

  • Mainframe application & development lead with 11+ years of expertise in Mainframe programming, development & implementation support environment.
  • Extensive end - to-end experience in COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS & MVS from development perspective and well versed in SDLC and QA concepts .
  • Accomplished in Command Center Operation procedures, major incident support, service improvement and operational excellence.
  • Supervising 10 members in my current project, sustaining an atmosphere of exactness, efficiency and attention to detail
  • Implemented various cost saving programs in my applications and received "Outstand ing " for my initiatives
  • Excelled in Financial and Banking Applications, especially in Credit Card process

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware/Operating System: IBM Mainframes, z/OS, z/VM, MVS, Windows 8(NT 6.2), 8.1(NT 6.3) Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, ASSEMBLER, CICS, SAS, REXX

Special Software: DB2, Exstream Dialogue, File Aid, TSO/ISPF, SCM, VSAM, CHANGEMAN, IOF, SDSF, FTP, RACF, CA1, CA7, CA11, HMC, OMEGAMON, IBM UTILITIES, SAR/RMO, CLIST.

PC Skills: Outlook, MS Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Lotus Notes Area of excellence: Financial and Banking Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Mainframe application & development lead (Onsite)

Responsibilities:

  • Actively participating in business and functional requirement discussions with client SMEs and stakeholders.
  • Based on the discussions, preparing and delivering the impact analysis document for the whole application and confirming the impacted areas for the requirement with client SMEs and customers.
  • Once the requirement is baselined, creating the application-impacted documents for each sub applications based on the final requirements.
  • Creating the high-level design for each TPRs based on the functional requirement and application - impacted documents.
  • Mentoring my team in creating detailed design for each TPRs based on my high -level design and application-impacted documents.
  • Participating in internal detailed design walk through with every teams under my application and providing my approval on their design.
  • Representing in project management calls with clients and code reviews for every TPRs in my application.
  • Summarizing the project development status and issues faced in the unit testing in the client calls. Presenting the project status, issues, reports and m etrics to onshore project/delivery managers.
  • Analyzing and assigning the production problem tickets to my offshore team and valued the deliverables prior to client delivery.
  • Constructing the COBOL, DB2, CICS components from scratch per the detailed design and the technical requirements.
  • Redesigning and restructuring of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
  • Designating the projects to offshore and monitoring the status of deliverables on time to time. Coordinating the code reviews and test script reviews with offshore and clients.
  • Validating the results of test script creation and end -to-end validation in user acceptance testing. Projecting the reports and statistics for the projects completed and for issues identif ied and fixed during testing and implementation phase.
  • Charting the metrics for monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to support PMR and audits conducted. Maintaining the system documentations up to date in project SharePoint site .
  • POC for the defects in QC and assigned the defects to offshore for the further analysis, re -test and resolution.
  • Resolving the complex project defects, which requires the follow up with business and customer validation.
  • Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with o ffshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Establishing the REXX tools to reduce the efforts spending during analysis & trouble shooting criteria. Contributing in the resolution of technical issues raised by different business units.
  • Representing in the quality check and standards of the program coded before the implementation. Monitoring the unit testing and user acceptance testing to ensure the completeness of testing.
  • Leading the deployment of projects in Production environment and supported for post-implementation issues.
  • Introducing appropriate strategies for the implementation of the multiple TPRs in my application. Implementing process improvement techniques for the system performance, cost and MIP savings. Excelled on Online and batch failure resolutions. Especially on DB2 systems.
  • Costing and controlling the quality of product/service.
  • Providing extended support for Continuity of Business (COB) during system testing.
  • Mainframe development and support lead (Onsite)
  • Participated in functional requirement discussions with clients and customers.
  • Analyzed and assigned the production incidents to my offshore team and valued the deliverables prior to client delivery.
  • Participated in functional and technical requirement discussions and created the application -impacted documents for each requirements.
  • Created the high-level design for each TPRs based on the functional requirement and application - impacted documents.
  • Mentored my team in creating detailed design f or each TPRs based on my high-level design and application-impacted documents.
  • Organized the design walkthrough across the teams and chaired the design walkthrough with clients. Represented in project management calls with clients and code reviews for every TPRs in my application.
  • Constructed the COBOL, DB2, CICS components from scratch per the detailed design and the technical requirements.
  • Coordinated the code reviews and test script reviews with offshore and clients.
  • Summarized the project development status and issues faced in the unit testing in the client calls. Presented the project status, issues, reports and metrics to onshore project/delivery managers.
  • Validated the results of test script creation and end -to-end validation in user acceptance t esting. Projected the reports and statistics for the projects completed and for issues identified and fixed during testing and implementation phase.
  • Charted the metrics for monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to support PMR and audits conducted. Restructured the existing modules as per the requirements, which were missed during development phase.
  • Updated and maintained the system documentations up to date in project SharePoint site . Implemented process improvement techniques for the system performance and cost savings.
  • POC for the defects in QC and assigned the defects to offshore for the further analysis, re -test and resolution.
  • Resolved the complex project defects, which requires the business confirmation and validation. Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with offshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Established the REXX tools to reduce the efforts spending during analysis & trouble shooting criteria. Contributed in the resolution of technical issues raised by different business units.
  • Led the deployment of projects in Production environment and supported for post-implementation issues.
  • Introduced suitable strategies for the implementation of the multiple TPRs.
  • Extended the support for On-Call irrespective of timings to resolve all the issues within SLA. Excelled on Online and batch failure resolutions.
  • Participated in functional requirement discussions with clients and customers. Preparation of High-level design and application impact document based on the functional requirements (FR) and business requirements (BR).
  • Assigned the TPRs to my offshore teams based on the Capacity.
  • Mentored my team in preparation of detailed design document as per the high-level design and functional requirement.
  • Organized the design walkthrough across the teams and chaired the design walkthrough with clients. Constructed the COBOL, DB2, CICS components from scratch per the detailed design and the technical requirements.
  • Led the weekly status call from onsite along with clients on the project status discussion and deliverable plans.
  • Summarized the project development status and issues faced in the unit testing in the client c alls. Created the metrics and presented in the weekly call with onsite Delivery managers.
  • Validated the results of test script creation and end-to-end validation in user acceptance testing. Updated and maintained the system documentations up to date in project SharePoint site.
  • POC for the defects in QC and assigned the defects to offshore for the further analysis, re -test and resolution.
  • Resolved the complex project defects, which requires the business confirmation and validation. Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with offshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Led the deployment of projects in Production environment and supported for post-implementation issues.
  • Implemented the REXX tools to reduce the manual effort in multiple validation process. Costing and controlling the quality of product/service.
  • Produced and implemented process improvement techniques for the system performance and cost savings.
  • Introduced appropriate strategies for the implementation of the multiple TPRs.

Mainframe Infrastructure and Operational Support Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Possessed a solid background in Data processing with heavy emphasis as a Mainframe Infrastructure and Operational Support Analyst.
  • Implemented CHANGE records in 100+ global logical partitions.
  • Projected the statistics and reports of the changes implemented across the regions with the client managers periodically.
  • Responsible for setting up and scheduling of ADHOC jobs using TWS for z/OS, CA11; verify and troubleshoot JCL errors and resolve job ABEND resolution.
  • Well-versed in MVS, CICS and RCF (Automation) commands and educate it to my team.
  • Oversaw and facilitated JCL overrides, PROCS, IBM Utilities, Restarts, and Concatenations. Examined version control application, JCL and program modification for quality assurance and compliance with departmental standards and procedures.
  • Performed initial severity analysis of incoming alerts/issues and properly escalate issues per process. Contributed technical support to operations and ap plications programming staff during platform conversion.
  • Provided technical support to Data Center operations, end users, production control, applications and development support personnel.
  • Excelled in Service Now tool for documenting and reporting purpose with the clients.
  • Mainframe technical support lead
  • Analyzed and assigned the production incidents to my team and valued the deliverables prior to client delivery.
  • Participated in functional and technical requirement discussions and created the application-impacted documents for each requirements.
  • Created the high-level design for each TPRs based on the functional requirement and application - impacted documents.
  • Mentored my team in creating detailed design for each TPRs based on my high -level design and application-impacted documents.
  • Represented in project management calls with clients and code reviews for every TPRs in my application.
  • Coordinated the code reviews and test script reviews with onshore and clients.
  • Summarized the project status, issues, reports and metrics to onshore project/delivery managers. Projected the reports and statistics for the projects completed and for issues identified and fixed during testing and implementation phase.
  • Charted the metrics for monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to support PMR and audits conducted. Restructured the existing modules as per the requirements, which were missed during development phase.
  • Implemented process improvement techniques for the system performance and cost savings. Established the REXX tools to reduce the efforts spending during analysis & trouble shooting criteria. Represented in the quality check and standards of the program coded before the implementation.
  • Contributed in the resolution of technical issues raised by different business units. Extended the support for On-Call irrespective of timings to resolve all the issues within SLA. Excelled on Online and batch failure resolutions.
  • Mainframe application lead
  • Participated in functional requirement discussions with clients and customers for all the TPRs in my team.
  • Preparation of High-level design based on the functional requirements and business requirements. Mentored and monitored my team in preparation of detailed design document as per the high-level design and functional requirement.
  • Constructed the COBOL, DB2, CICS components from scratch per the detailed design and the technical requirements.
  • Led the weekly status call from offshore with c lients on the project status discussion and deliverable plans.
  • Summarized the project development status and issues faced in the unit testing in the client calls. Created the metrics and presented in the weekly calls with Project/delivery managers.
  • Mentored my team in creation of test scripts based on the requirements and worked on the end -to-end testing and validation.
  • Updated and maintained the system documentations up to date in project SharePoint site .
  • Involved in User acceptance testing and resolved the defects raised for our project and application. Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with o nshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Led the deployment of projects in Production environment and supported for post-implementation issues.
  • Created and implemented the REXX tools to reduce the effort in multiple manual validation process. Introduced appropriate strategies for the implementation of the multiple projects.
  • Costing and controlling the quality of product/service.
  • Produced and implemented process improvement techniques for the system performance and cost savings.

Mainframe Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Preparation of detailed design document as per the functional requirement and business requirement documents.
  • Constructed the COBOL, DB2 components from scratch per the detailed design and the technical requirements.
  • Summarized the project development status and issues faced in the unit testing in the client calls. Created the metrics and delivered in the weekly c all with Project/delivery managers.
  • Created and executed of test scripts based on the requirements and worked on the end-to-end testing and validation.
  • Maintained the system documentations up to date in project SharePoint site . Supported the User acceptance testing and resolved the defects raised for our project .
  • Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with o nshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Deployment of components in Production environment and support ed for post-implementation issues. Created and Implemented the REXX tools to reduce the manual effort in M OCK testing prior to the implementation weekend.
  • Introduced appropriate strategies for the implementation of the project.
  • Produced and implemented process impro vement techniques for the system performance and cost savings.
  • Costing and controlling the quality of product/service.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Preparation of detailed design document as per the high-level design and functional requirement documents.
  • Development of code components as per the Low-level design and technical requirements. Creation and execution of test scripts for the testing and validation.
  • Updating the system documentations of the project.
  • Supported the User acceptance testing along with defect resolving .
  • Deployment of components in Production environment and support for post -implementation issues. Introduced appropriate strategies for the implementation of the project.
  • Costing and controlling the quality of product/service.
  • Chaired defect management and deliverable calls with o nshore to ensure the standards followed in deliverables.
  • Implemented process improvements for the cost savings and MIPs savings.

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