SUMMARY

• Over 9.5+ years of IT experience in various projects doing Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Production Support in Banking and Finance, Telecom, Insurance, Retail, Automobile and Health care Applications.
• Around 8.5+ Years of Mainframe Experienced in business application development with Systems Analysis, Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and SAS
• Around 2.7+ Years of US Experience under Banking and Security Domain in Mainframes
• I was rewarded by the Kaiser Permanente and Verizon as star of the month along with couple of appreciations from other clients on handling application issues on time, process improvements, UAT support & for timely responses.
• I have awarded with Mainframe Technical Architect with successful completion of Technical Architect readiness training program .
• Performing in different roles as a Technical Lead, Senior Developer proficient in obtaining project requirements from user and manager, formulating the requirements into design specs, preparing system specifications, assigning tasks to team members, and tracking the progress.
• Expertise in the Mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF/SDSF,VAGEN, Panvalet, Endeavor, Xpeditor, Abend-Aid and RPF (Roscoe Programming File)
• Experienced in creating JCL and JCL PROCs using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, FILEAID, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL.
• Experienced in creating High Level Design, Detailed Design and Functional Requirement documents.
• Strong skills in support activities, analysis, technical design, testing, trouble shooting for both batch & online application programs in mainframe applications.
• Extensive knowledge in onsite offshore model of working.
• Attained immense experience in usage of mainframe DB2 tools SPUFI, File Manager for Db2 & QMF.
• Strong skills in working with various debugging tools in the mainframe environment for trouble shooting using XPEDITOR (CICS/Batch), Debugger, CEDF and Trace Master.
• Attained production/UAT support experience via usage of supportive tools including JOBTRACK.
• Good knowledge on version control tool like ELIPS, Endevor , Roscoe, STABLE along with a strong knowledge on change management tool like CCF (Change Control Facility),
• Strong Experience with CICS Transaction processing with DB2 application including Map/Map set creation.
• Extensive experience with preparation of report using reporting tool/Language like SAS.
• Good experience with report viewing tool like SAR and MOBIUS.
• Strong experience in DB2 application like cursor (Declare, Open , Fetch ), SQL query optimization, Cursor using pointer functionality.
• Good experience in Cobol-VSAM application with VSAM database like KSDS and ESDS cluster
• Developed new inbound/Outbound program in CICS Web Services Environment with support of CICS Transaction Server 3.1.
• Possess very good organizational, analytical, teamwork and Project management skills along with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Having an Attitude of willing to learn, accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results within timelines by constantly motivating the concerned teams to provide the best solutions to the clients.
• Good experience working with offshore teams and ability to train the team members on process and technology updates in the project by conducting Knowledge sharing sessions and regular telecom meetings, and extensive knowledge in onsite offshore model of working.
• Scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).

EDUCATION:

MCA (Master in Computer Application)
BSc (Bachelor of Science)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages 8.5 + yrs

VS COBOL II, OS/VS COBOL, JCL, SQL , IMS,SAS,Cobol/390

Tools/Interface 8+ Yrs

SPUFI, CICS, VAGEN, ROSCOE, STABLE, ELIPS, TSO ISPF, QMF, SPUFI

RDBMS 6+ yrs

DB2, Oracle 8i

File System 7+ yrs

VSAM

Web Technologies 1.5 yrs

Java, JDBC , Servlets, Applets , Beans , JSP

Operating Systems

MVS, OS/390, Windows NT,

Hardware Platforms

IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Online Transaction Processing Environment 8+ Yrs

CICS , CICS Web Services , CICS Transaction Server 3.1

Debugging Tool 8+ Yrs

Xpeditor, Trace Master (Online ) , CEDF

Scheduler 4 + Yrs

Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS job scheduler), CA-7 , Job track

Other Utilities 7+ Yrs

Roscoe, RPF, File manager , SAR, Mobius , CCF, ELIPSE, stable, Endevor , Insynch

Key Achievements in Major Projects:

I was involved in design and development of the following large scale and transactional projects utilizing COBOL/DB2/VSAM/JCL.

• International Data Ware House Project (Global Payment Mainframe System, Fifth Third Bank, USA): The key functionality of this project is to incorporate data elements that Fifth Third Bank currently receives from Royal Bank of Canada (Canada Branch & Can link RBC Accounts) and Citi Bank Multi-Currency Accounts into Fifth Third’s Data Warehouse and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. This will enable improved reporting and a more accurate view of the customers’ data.
• Trans Union, Credit Score processing (CACS, Fifth Third Bank, USA): This is an another complex project implemented in CACS ( Computer Assisted Collection System), Fifth Third Bank ) where the bank collects everyday near about forty millions records from Trans Union to Collection system during night batch cycle processing.
• DCM Processing ( CACS , Fifth Third Bank , USA): This is regarding DCM(Diseased Collection Management system) process where everyday millions of accounts have been updated from DCM system to CACS (Computer assisted Collection System) in Fifth Third Bank through the nightly mainframe Batch processing jobs.
• In SWAT application data has been imported successfully for Shoe Trader project and was highly appreciated by the customer and the LOB of Charming Shoppe, CSI.
• Migration of Platinum utility in NetPro eASR (Network provisioning system , Verizon) : Migration of Platinum utility in NetPro eASR have been implemented where the entire application was Migrated from Platinum utility to IBM utility ,the JCLs which are the core functionality of application have been upgraded to IBM utility .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Projects summary (April 2007 - Present)

Sr. Developer, Confidential, New York, USA,
Project Duration: June 2012 Present

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: - GSP (Global Securities Processing) is a Securities Movement and Control (SMAC) system used by BNYM(Bank of New York Mellon) to provide Global Custody services to its clients.GSP receives and processes trade instructions from clients (via INFORM, SWIFT, direct client feeds) & Mainframe services. It sends/receives Messages to/from sub custodians and depositories (CREST) via SWIFT.GSP processes settlement notifications and reason code updates from sub custodians and depositories (CREST).GSP accomplishes settlement of U.S. trades via real-time interface with ASP and tracks the life cycles of securities transactions in real-time.

As a Technical Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Updating the existing JCL’s to handle the Next Generation changes
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER/Trace Master set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.
• Participating in Internal Audits and External Reviews.
• Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.
• Involved in warranty Support for the releases

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM), Tools (GSP tool for Map creation, Trace master (debugger tool) ,File manager, SPUFI)

Sr. Developer, Confidential,Cincinnati, OH,

Project Duration: Aug 2011 May 2012

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: - Fifth Third Commercial IT Global Payments applications consists of several sub application like ACH, ARP, MTS Wire and Image Exchange which deal with all kind of customer payments transactions activity along with day to day customer set up for each applications. ACH (The Automated Clearing House) A division of the Federal Reserve Bank is a processing and delivery system that provides for the distribution and settlement of electronic credits and debits among financial institutions, likewise MTS wire application deals with wire transfer activity between Fifth Third bank and other financial Institution.

As a Technical Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designed the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases ,test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Manage the resource for offshore team.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Involved with ACH/ARP Customer set up and Customer Testing
• Involved with Image Exchange Application Customer set up.
• Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (Roscoe, RPF, ELIPS, SAR report, File manager, SPUFI)

Technical Lead Confidential,Cincinnati, OH

Project Duration: Nov 2009 –July 2011

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: - Computer Assisted Collection System (CACS) application is a collection system which supports all phase of collection operations, from initial application processing through servicing and accounting to collections and recovery accounting. It provides user with an intuitive interface that simplifies the collection system. Computer Assisted Collection System (CACS) is a browser based mainframe application supported by Fifth Third Bank. CACS consists of around 1 million accounts which is a combination of active and inactive account. CACS system services deals with commercial loans, Mortgage loans, Bank cards, Installment loans, DDA, Saving account and miscellaneous accounts. Managing, Designing, and Developing the Internet application for the customers as per the requirement.

As a Technical Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Made the Requirement Analysis from the scratch
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM Database design Concepts.
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Enhancement and Implementation of the new inbound and outbound program in CICS Web Services environment.
• Discussed with business Analyst and Line of business to understand the exact requirements and wrote down the functional specification
• Involve in designing the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases ,test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Coordinated with the testing team for QA testing.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (Roscoe, RPF, ELIPS, SAR report, File manager, SPUFI), CICS Web Services

Technical Lead Confidential,

Project Duration: Jan 2009 –Oct 2009

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: - Charming Shoppes, Inc. (CSI) is a multi-brand, multi-channel women\'s apparel retailer. Founded in 1940 on Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.CSI supports multiple applications like Merch, Supply Chain, Corp Services and Store system which handles the sub application like Purchase order creation, Purchase order deletion, Purchase order updating, Mark down, Mark up, Ticketing and much smaller sub application. The overall functionality of all these applications are to support from starting of placing an order till the billing processes in the stores.

As an offshore Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Preparing the estimation for the requirement.
• Review the code and preparing the KT session for team members.
• Preparing UTP and UTR.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Prepared the HLD and LLDs for all the functional requirements.
• Worked on Production Fixes.
• Coordinated with the Client teams during the production moves.
• Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Analysis, testing and debugging of new code before it promotes to production.
• Creating the Program specifications and coding of application programs based on the specifications of the client.
• Developed programs using COBOL, TOTAL, MANTIS
• Designed maps using DFH Macro.
• Responsible for creating High level Design (HLD) document, Estimation analysis document.
• Conducting meetings with Onsite team to review the program specification, design document & estimation.
• Used Proprietary configuration management tools to manage the naming, versioning of the programs.
• Creating a new package in change man for the new change requests.
• Developed JCL’s, JCL procedures as per the client standards

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (ELIPS, SAR report, File manager, SPUFI)

Sr. Developer, Confidential, (Verizon, USA)

Project Duration: June 2007 –Dec 2008

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: - Network Provisioning system (NetPro) is used to perform the network provisioning tasks of tracking and associating data from MCI systems, Local Exchange Carriers, and customer premises. Netpro’s circuit order tracking sub system allows users to manage all of the various activities performed during provisioning starting from the date order entered Netpro to the completion of MCI due activity. This notifies the billing system to start billing the customer. NetPro transmits access service requests (ASRs) to local exchange carriers to provision access into the MCI network.

As an offshore Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of new inbound and outbound program in CICS Web Services with CICS transaction server.
• Worked on requests to convert platinum utility to IBM utility in JCL
• Worked on screen changes in fields in CICS in Netpro.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Coordinated with the Client teams during the production moves.
• Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Involved in Analysis, Coding, Testing, Maintenance and Enhancement.
• Involved in quality aspects, such as Test Case and defect log preparation for the CR’s.
• DB2 query performance analysis.
• Developed RPC (Remote procedure call) programs for online.
• Developed batch, online COBOL, DB2, VSAM programs.
• Developed production JCLS for new programs written.
• Developed JCLs and PROCs using utilities like IEBCOPY, IEBCOMPR, FILE-AID
• Test case preparation & execution for change requests.
• DB2 SQL performance analysis using EXPLAINS

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (ELIPS, SAR report, Expeditor, Panvalet,File-Aid, SPUFI), CICS Web Services , CICS Transaction Server 3.1