SUMMARY

• Sr. Mainframe Project Lead, with 10+ years of hands on experience in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of business - critical applications. Strong liaison between business units, technology, support and operations teams.
• I believe in team work and possess strong interpersonal cum leadership skills. Have worked with multi-vendor/cross functional teams. My key strengths are commitment, technical cum analytical skills and effective communication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ programming, Easytrieve, Assembler, SAS, PL1, REXX, CLIST, Java Script and SQL

Databases: IBM DB2, IMS DB, VSAM (KSDS, RRDS & ESDS), SQL Server, Oracle DB and AIX DB

Version Control Tools/Scheduling Tools: Changeman, NDVR/ JOBTRAC, OPC, CONTROL-M and CA7

File Transmission Protocols: XCOM, MYXCOM, Connect Direct NDM, FTP, Tumbleweed, SFT and Fusion

Sort Products/Other Tools: IBM SORT, DFSORT, Syncsort and ICETOOL, TSO/ISPF, FILEAID, XREFPLUS, CA VIEW, CA DB2 Tools, QMF, SPUFI, CA Workload Automation, SFTP, SQL Server 2008 & 2010, SQL Server Management Studio, Toad, Eclipse, RAD, Visual Source Safe, Secure CRT, iSTROBE, WebSphere MQ explorer, Toad, Eclipse, IBM Debug tool for z/OS, IBM Fault Analyzer, IBM File Manager, IBM Application Performance Analyzer, GT Software Ivory BMS/TS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Project Lead

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Leading the development of JCLs, PROCs and COBOL - CICS modules to automate the data delivery of interchange adjustment reports based on subscription maintained in the VSAM files for regulatory filing.
• Created new COBOL modules to generate reports dynamically based on different type of subscription maintained in CICS based Report Distribution Management System(RDMS) and create dynamic JCLs to NDM the reports to clients using Internal Reader.
• Conducted requirement elicitation sessions from business users and created functional specifications (FRD and MDD). Created User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) documents.

Mainframe Tech Lead

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed Merchant Central File System(MCFS) capture process to capture data from new VIP Database tapes. Created a daily process to parse the MCFS capture tapes from existing and the new database to compare and report differences to VIP.
• Developed COBOL modules and Copybooks to add new Card Acceptor Id field into Universal segment and pass this field to downstream processes for comparison and reporting. Coordinated with offshore and other vendor teams for testing and production release.
• Perform QA testing of comparison process with VIP and new capture with downstream processes. Lead the UAT and support release activities.

Project Lead

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the re-engineering effort for policy admin systems as part of multi-year transformation project. Worked on extraction of business rules, understanding of entity relationship models, process models and cross reference in the applications.
• Analyze, understand and document current functionality of existing systems. Work closely with integration and configuration teams to document integration touch points. Developed specifications for new products/services, applications and service offerings.
• Worked on moving functionalities from legacy to distributed systems. Worked on batch migration, batch optimization, data migration, infrastructure migration, online rewrite and report rewrite functions.

Lead Systems Analyst

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Responsibilities:

• Supported 24/7- mission critical applications under policy administration portfolio. Lead the production support team covering incident, problem and defect management. Outlined process standards for abend resolution, RCA and data fixes.
• Lead the requirement work stream for personal lines application in services area. Subject matter expert in services area and lead enhancements for business requirements in areas like POLK, SCORE and MVR & CLUE applications.
• Lead XPATH and field analysis documentation and creating requirement traceability matrix document, test case and use case documents.
• Created User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) documents. Also, created test plan, test scenarios and supported UAT. Wrote and maintained Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) for minor and major enhancements.

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis for major enhancements, which includes analyzing requirements proposed by the client and preparing understanding technical design documents. Involved in code review, testing reviews and conducted code walk through meetings.
• Created new COBOL modules for payment and non-mon processing. Performed extensive unit testing. Created JCL’s and PROC’s to generate files dynamically. Worked on enhancement of CICS screens to add/modify new transactions. Created NDVR packages for prod movements.
• Performed extensive impact analysis to understand and document modules affected by project change. Modified impacted JCLs, created procedures and performed integration testing. Involved in new VSAM file creation, job scheduling and prepared implementation plans.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported online production environment by monitoring online screens and batch schedules. Handled incidents proactively in form of jo abends, environment issues, data issues and connectivity issues. Supported multiple MQ/DB2/Server OS upgrades and migrations.
• Modified the JCLs, PROCs and COBOL modules to support minor enhancement projects. Created test data to test changed modules.
• Handled all P1 and P2 incidents are resolved within the given time frame for restoring service. Co ordinated with multiple teams to resolve