PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ years of comprehensive and in - depth experience in Mainframe Technologies to deliver highly effective solutions to business and clients across domain like Finance, Insurance, HR. Implemented large-scale custom development and/or systems integration projects in one or more phases of the SDLC and Agile.
• Strong experience in writing COBOL/Pl1/JCL/DB2/IMS/CICS programs for application functionality enhancement and for other business improvements purposes.
• 5+ years of comprehensive and in-depth experience in legacy modernization projects costing more than $5, 00000. Migrated large scale mainframe applications to Informatica platform.
• Experience in analysis of the current mainframe financial systems to determine the impact and identify the components to be created/changed.
• Experience in working with Architect, DBA, Data analyst, security analysts across the enterprise to build the modernized solution.
• Very good experience in user acceptance testing. Moving the changes to UAT and meeting the user on developed requirement and taking them through functionalities.
• Experience in developing reports using SAS on mainframes.
• Experience in designing error and exception handling procedures to identify, record and report errors.
• Extensive Experience in developing and error handling in mainframes.
• Provided production support to the system and handle production queries/defects.
• Hands on experience with industry standard methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum methodology within the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Good experience as onsite coordinator and in offshore/onshore model.
• Sound knowledge of Informatica (ETL).
• Comprehensive and in-depth experience as Business/System analyst to deliver highly effective solutions to business and clients across domain like Finance, Insurance, HR. Implemented large-scale custom development and/or systems integration projects in one or more phases of the SDLC and Agile.
• Experience in business requirements gathering, maintain trace ability matrix and create process flows and transform the business needs to simplify technical specifications. System/solution design including proposals utilizing several alternatives in solving a problem.
• Communicate status, prioritize requirements, influence and obtains approval for requirement documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe Skills: COBOL, PL1, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS VSAM, SAS, RDz, File Manager, BMCDB2, DB2ADMIN, RMS, GIT, AUTOFLOW, VISIO, PANVLET, XPEDITOR, Syncsort/ DFSORT

Data warehousing: Informatica Power Center 10.1.1/9.6/9.3 , Repository Manager, Informatica Power Exchange for mainframes

Databases: DB2 UDB 9.5/8.0/7.0, T-SQL, SQL, PL/SQL

Reporting tools: SAS, Python, R

Environment: Windows 10/2008/2007/2003/2000/ XP/98, Red Hat Linux

Job Scheduling: Control M

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Lead Mainframe Developer/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing, programming, testing, upgrading, and developing systems in IBM Mainframe using COBOL, PL/1, JCL and DB2, SAS, CICS, VSAM, REXX etc.
• Reverse engineering of existing application program in Mainframes to unfold as is application into a technical document.
• Analyzed business requirements, maintain trace ability matrix and create process flows and transform the business needs to simplify technical specifications.
• Bridged the gap between business and technical teams to bring clarity in understanding the needs better.
• Provided the estimates for development activities.
• Implemented and tested enhancement features requests to enhance the product functionality.
• Provide proven problem research and resolution skills for batch and online systems.
• Used ITIL concepts and HP service Manager work through the life cycle of incidents, problems and changes.
• Worked on InformaticaPower Center tool - Source Analyzer, Data warehousing designer, Mapping & Mapplet Designer and Transformation Developer.
• Created the technical and business documents to design application on informatica.
• Created data maps in power exchange tool for mainframe resources
• Converted functional specifications into technical specifications (design of mapping documents).
• Created auto flows in mainframes for control M setup.
• Used Control-M to schedule jobs.
• Responsible for design and implementation needed for loading and updating the warehouse.
• Created complex customized reports using SAS.

Environment: COBOL, PL1, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS VSAM, SAS, RDz, File Manager, BMCDB2, DB2ADMIN, RMS, GIT, AUTOFLOW, VISIO, PANVLET, XPEDITOR, Syncsort/ DFSORT, Informatica Power Center 9.X (Power Center Designer (ETL), IDQ 9.6,, DB2, UNIX, Oracle, Python.

Confidential

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas.
• Provide support for enhancing and maintaining existing applications
• Coordinate with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes
• Offer assistance for troubleshooting current Mainframe environment
• Integrate system on allocated software projects
• Created programming logic in mass data extraction, evaluate and validate based on the new business rules and system design.
• Analyzed, designed and created new JCL JOBs, PROCs for daily, monthly & yearly Reporting purposes.
• Review designs for custom application and execute features and functions
• Coordinate with varied systems and integration infrastructure
• Perform designing, coding, testing, debugging and documenting application development process
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test/Production environment by the team during SIT, UAT & implementation.
• Created and updated system's functional and documentation
• Reported daily status to technical delivery managers

Environment: COBOL, PL1, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, SAS, RDz, File Manager, BMCDB2, DB2ADMIN, SCLM