SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of diverse experience in Information Technology, specializing in developing Mainframe Based Applications.
• Experienced in developing, enhancing, maintaining and implementing applications for Retail and Logistics domain.
• Experienced in analyzing Business requirement document and technical Specifications. Substantial period of experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and sound knowledge of the workflow of the entire SDLC.
• In - depth knowledge in allied software development process including planning, resource management, change management, estimation, schedule and defects management.
• Performed various roles like COBOL DB2 Developer, Database Administrator, Natural Developer and Mainframes Lead.
• Extensive experience in managing a project which has web screens as the front end and Mainframes as the back end with IMS as the connector.
• Sound knowledge in database concepts and work experience in IBM DB2 & rudimentary understanding of Teradata and ADABAS.
• Proficient with the various DBA Activities in Development and Test environments including Backups, Restores, data refreshes, Security/User management, Performance Tuning, Enabling, REORG, and RUNSTATS.
• Have excellent analytical, documentation and communication skills; Proactive, quick learner; Possess leadership qualities and an efficient team player.
• Have good experience in leading a team comprising of 5 to 7 developers.
• Completed 4 months of extensive mainframes training at Infosys Global Education Centre, Mysore, India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM z/Os v10 Mainframe system

Programming Languages: COBOL,NATURAL and TELON

Database: DB2

Tools: Xpeditor, Endevor, Changeman, ISPF, SDSF, FTP, FILEAID, File ManagerREXX, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, DB2 Connect, QUERYMAN, Rational Robot

Related Skills: JCL,IMS,VSAM,TSO and CICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Mainframes Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead a number of Best Way development projects through entire lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design architecture and development or enhancement specifications, scheduling, estimating, coding, quality assurance testing, deployment, documentation and support.
• Attend to mission critical issues and turning it around in the least possible time.
• Brainstorm with the business customers and come up with the most efficient application design for the required stream of users.
• Document the requirements specifications into proper Visio projections to help the business and developers to understand the workflow of the application
• Lead a young team of developers to design, develop and execute various Bestway applications.

Environment: z/OS, TSO, COBOL, DB2, Natural, IMS and JCL.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Mainframes Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain various dispatching applications which help to control the movement of trains.
• Attend to mission critical issues which impact the train movement and resolve it in the quickest possible time.
• Coordinate as a team and make sure that there are no technical glitches that would lead to compromising the safety of lives.
• Designed and developed an application that recorded the various Service interruptions across different routes and calculated the amount of cost associated due to the train delays due to those Service Interruptions.
• Responsible for closely monitoring the behavior of the system for any unexpected behavior post the production implementation of any new or enhanced applications.

Environment: z/OS, TSO, COBOL, DB2, Natural, IMS, TELON and JCL.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Mainframes Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the intermodal legacy applications
• Propose and design enhancements along with the other technology leads that helped to improve the scope and usage of the applications.
• Monitor and resolve issues in production in the least possible time.
• Coordinate with offshore to build and executed projects.
• Trigger discussions and topics related to conversion of the legacy applications to introduce J2EE as the front end and connect through IMS.

Environment: z/OS, TSO, COBOL, DB2, Natural, IMS and JCL.

Confidential

Mainframes Lead/ Developer and Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and later lead the design, development and implantation of the most critical Point of Sale, Managed Pricing.
• Designed and Developed the Event Planning application, the output of this application was being viewed by the corporate team including the board of directors on a regular basis to plan the major pricing events at JCPenney.
• Coordinate with the various interfaces leads in this huge project which had complex business underlying to make sure that there were no business logic differences in any of the interfaces.
• Ensure submission of quality deliverables as per the committed timelines with less or zero defects.
• Design database entities and create them in test regions. Execute RUNSTATS, REORG on a regular basis based on the usage, size of the tables.
• Suggest/Add indices to the tables by predicting the usage type and tune the SQL queries to improve the performance of the application.
• Handle the humongous amount of data in massive tables by efficiently transforming them to files and processing the file data in different programs.
• Understand and educate the new team members about the hundreds of rules behind defining the price of an item.

Environment: z/OS, TSO, COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, VSAM and CICS