CAREER PROFILE:

• More than 16 years of IT experience especially on Confidential mainframe platform
• Possesses sound technical knowledge and hands - on experience working on end-to-end Application development, Maintenance and production support projects using Confidential Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL
• As Senior Technical Architect has helped customers define, re-define, develop and implement changes to complex technical architecture to derive the desired benefits and achieve the ROI
• Has 8+ years project management experience of setting up and executing application development, maintenance and 24 X 7 production support projects in multi-location model
• Has 1.5+ year experience in managing Service Delivery of countrywide Infrastructure implementation and support services for Confidential Mainframe System z environment
• Has worked in customer facing role in USA, UK and Germany for over 5 years
• Has extensively worked in Asset management, Insurance, Retail and Distribution, Finance domains
• Experienced in performing wide variety of roles and responsibilities such as Project Management, Customer relationship management, Onsite co-ordination, business analysis, technical design, software development, maintenance, production support and presales support
• Has worked on wide variety of projects involving application maintenance, development, re-engineering, production support, performance optimization, data migration, legacy modernization projects
• Actively participate in major Legacy modernization COE(Centre of Excellence) initiatives
• Technical Pre-sales
• Lead Employee technical competency development program
• Contribute to development and institutionalization of solutions, methodology and frameworks for Legacy modernization projects
• Have managed end to end implementation of System z196 virtualized infrastructure with 3-site Disaster Recovery (DR) solution in India

SKILLS PROFILE:

Hardware Platforms: Confidential System z9, Confidential S/390, ES-9000, Confidential PC

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, Rexx, FOCUS

Operating Systems: OS/390, MVS/ESA, Windows XP, Windows 98, DOS

Databases / File System / Middleware: DB2, PS, PDS, VSAM, MQ Series, Stored Procedures.

Tools: Xpeditor, Intertest, Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI, Insync, XPEDITOR, Endevor, Changeman, Telon, CA7, VISIO, Visionplus, Informatica, Power-exchange, Reveal

PROJECT SUMMARY:

Confidential

Service Delivery Manager

Environment: z/VM, Linux on system z, Websphere Application Server, DB2, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, GDPS

Tools: Tivoli Composite Application Manager suite, Omegamon for z/VM, DB2 tools

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage a team of 15+ onsite resources
• Develop skills on z/VM, Linux, Crypto Cards, GDPS
• Prepare, Execute, Monitor and Control the Implementation Project Plan
• Manage Stakeholder communications and escalations
• Architecture design and advisory
• Develop Technical Solutions
• Liaise with Confidential internal support teams and help resolve technical Issues
• Setup procedures for System health check monitoring and operations support
• Solution Pre-sales and Support

Confidential

Service Delivery Manager

Environment: : z/OS, CICS, DB2, MQ

Tools: Omegamon, RMF

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of skilled 20+ onsite professionals
• Manage 24 X 7 L1 Operation management and L3 Prime shift coverage
• Manage 24 X 7 uptime and track it using stringent SLAs
• Manage Stakeholder communications and escalations
• Liaise with Confidential internal support teams and help resolve technical Issues
• Setup procedures for System health check monitoring and operations support
• Vendor management

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: z/OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, MQ Series, J2EE, Confidential Websphere Server, CICS Webservices

Tools: Fileaid, Changeman, Rational Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Build a team of onsite, offshore near shore resources
• Application study
• Architecture design and advisory
• Setup of Web infrastructure, Standards and guidelines
• Manage various application design/development/enhancement projects
• Manage data migration projects from VSAM to DB2
• Manage screen modernization project
• Software Development and Enhancement using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: : z/OS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, Focus

Tools: TRITUNE, Filemarvel, Datavantage, PDSMAN, BMC

Responsibilities:

• Study of mainframe CPU utilization
• Identification of potential candidates for optimization
• Application performance tuning (COBOL, FOCUS and SQL tuning)
• Client Coordination
• Manage resources to perform code analysis, optimization, coding, testing & implementation
• Code development, testing and implementation

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: :OS390, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2

Tools: Endevor, Xpeditor, Reveal, CA7, TELON, Fileaid

Responsibilities:

• Define, implement and formalize procedures for tracker maintenance and production support from offshore
• Build a team of Offshore resources who can support and maintain Confidential
• Capture system knowledge and educate offshore resources by means of Knowledge acquisition documents and Video conferencing
• Manage and mentor offshore resources to carry out application maintenance and production support
• Analyze production problems and implement high priority fixes to ensure business continuity
• 24 X 7 Production support
• Application maintenance, enhancements and various integration projects
• Code development, testing and implementation

Confidential

Onsite co-ordinator, Team Leader

Environment: OS390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Oracle

Tools: Informatica, Power exchange, Oracle SQL Loader

Responsibilities:

• Developed Informatica based solution to replace TPA interface on mainframe
• Research, design and implement Power-exchange to retrieve data from mainframe datasets, tapes, DB2 onto PC platform
• Manage Informatica development from offshore
• Code development, testing and implementation

Confidential

Onsite co-ordinator

Environment: OS390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM,

Tools: STROBE, CA-Panvalet, File-aid

Responsibilities:

• Study of mainframe CPU utilization
• Identification of potential candidates for optimization
• Prepare statement of work
• Application performance tuning (COBOL and SQL tuning)
• Client Coordination
• Manage offshore resources to perform code analysis, optimization and testing
• Code development, testing and implementation

Confidential

Onsite co-ordinator

Environment: OS/390, VS COBOL II, CICS, JCL, DB2, CRUD Manager

Tools: Endevor, File-aid

Responsibilities:

• Understand functional and technical specifications provided by the client
• Analyze the requirements and prepare program specification
• Modify existing programs and code new programs for integration and data formatting
• Carry out review, Unit test, system test and integration testing
• Code development, testing and implementation