Professional Summary:

• 7 Years of overall work experience in Mainframes with excellent development, debugging and diagnostic skills in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, FOCUS and EZTRIEVE batch and online processing .
• Worked and explored program development, scheduling, file handling and debugging tools like Intertest, Dump master, XPEDitor, Endeavour, FILE AID, OPCS, CA-7, ESP, Spufi, INSYNC, PDX, AbendAid and Quality Center.
• Excellent knowledge in Banking and Financial Services and Health Insurance domain.
• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of full lifecycle applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas
• Familiar with all MS Office products Word, Excel, Outlook and MS SharePoint.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects, and set priorities without close supervision.
• Pro-active, flexible, enthusiastic, and results driven.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent written and spoken English, clear oral communication skills.
• Ability to be calm under pressure.
• Strong analytical ability in discussing questions and discrepancies concerning business users and clients.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new software and technologies.
• Fix critical Production Abends and analyze business impacts.
• Motivate and Train other team resources and bring the best out of them.
• Assigning the tasks to the offshore team members and attaining the deliverables on time.
• Excellent Quality and Process management skills.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer

Description: Working on IT deliverables of multiple simultaneous Healthcare Development/Testing projects/tracks of Non-Claims Portfolio such as HCRSBC, DPM 5.0 Portal, DPM-SGE, DPM P R Change, IRAPS, Clinical Data Registry CDR , Private Exchange, Govt. Provider, Benefit Viewer, ICD-10 Conversion etc. of BCBSMN account.

Responsibilities:

• Developed and coded online and batch applications COBOL, CICS, and SQL programs.
• Performed COBOL and CICS development with relational database DB2 using SQL, TSO, Abend-AID, File-AID, QMF, Xpeditor, Endeavor, IDCAMS, Syncsort other MAINFRAME Software development tools.
• Modified applications written in COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve2, DB2/SQL and SPUFI. Used Xpeditor as the primary test utility for the COBOL, DB2 applications. Updates were made to VSAM files as well as DB2 database tables. Responsible for developing business solutions as well as the creation and execution of test cases
• Designed coded and implemented changes using Cobol-2, CICS, VSAM, DB2/SQL, JCL.
• Primary responsibilities include designing, coding, and testing of COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 programs for online applications executing changes and testing related batch job cycles.
• Endeavor was used for program version controlling/configuration management and CA-7 is used for job scheduler. SDF2 was used to create online maps/screens for CICS.
• Responsible for creating several new CICS programs used to help drive development and maintenance of new online interface applications.
• Planning and coordination of daily development coding unit testing activities Primarily responsible for preparing the detailed technical design LLD documentation from the business specs and HLD doc. with active participation from tech. lead and other senior developers in the team.
• Responsible for Coding Testing of day to day agreed upon deliverables/project milestones, issues, problems, dependencies, assumptions, risks, conflicts and mitigation and resolution of the same and escalation to PM client management where warranted.
• Responsible for regular communication and necessary coordination with Client leads/Managers of the respective tracks, Reporting issues/progress during weekly/monthly status calls with offshore onsite project teams assisting Dev. Lead / PM in tracking and controlling the project / people issues till closure. Liaison with other Project Managers/BAs/SMEs and individual Software Development Managers to ensure delivery of a high-quality product which is compatible with release timeline targets.
• Responsible for dealing with challenges such as cross-team dependencies, changing schedules and constantly evolving fluid business requirements scope creep ,changing milestones, changing project schedules which has a huge impact on the project costs, timelines and the number of deliverables. Coordinated Change Requests CRs /Amendments / Extension projects through the change control board CCB reviews and approvals, with revised costs, schedules in accordance with the revised agreed upon business requirements.

Confidential

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer

• Description: The Transitional Benefits program is a CMS mandated program in which Part D plans must extend certain beneficiaries temporary supplies of medication if the medication is restricted by the plan's formulary. CMS also mandates that plans send notifications to members within 72 hours of the prescription being dispensed. CIGNA receives pharmacy claim files for various from Argus a third party vendor who pays Cigna claims which detail all Part D prescriptions dispensed via transition from the previous and contain information relating to the member, provider, claim, pharmacy and a flag identifying which edit caused the issuance of the transitional benefit record. These files are processed by CIGNA to generate letters that are printed and sent to members, physicians, and LTC pharmacies within 24 hours of receipt of the Argus file. Design and printing of the letters is managed by Prinova. Built and enhanced 10 batch 4 DB2, 3 FOCUS and 3 COBOL VSAM modules in this application.
• The intent of the Transition letters is to explain the limitations of the temporary supply, detail the formulary restriction, and inform the recipient of the process to request a formulary exception.
• The members will always receive a letter. Physicians will receive letters unless the member is in a Long Term Care facility in which case a letter will be sent to the dispensing Pharmacy instead of the Physician. In addition to the transitional benefit letters, daily consumption letters are also generated. This process produces Dacon Physician Letters, Member Letters and Dispute Letters. The Physician and Member letters explain that an alternative regimen for the daily consumption of a prescribed medicine is available. A higher strength tablet or capsule with fewer dosages can be substituted.

Responsibilities:

• Learn new reporting technology called FOCUS to analyze some of the existing source code programs written in FOCUS.
• Conduct FOCUS training sessions for other members of the team.
• Provide temporary and permanent solutions to Production Abends.
• Provide automated Solutions to reduce manual effort on some of the regular tasks.
• Provide code and report walk through for the business users by facilitating various meetings.
• Responsible for Unit Testing in development environment, UAT testing, production implementation and post-install validations for the change.
• Make changes to the DB2 tables using the LOAD/UNLOAD utilities in test and production environments.
• Analyze and performance tune DB2 programs by coordinating with the DBA.
• Documenting the process of analyzing and fixing production related issues in Abend Log.
• Perform knowledge transfer of the entire application to other team members.

Achievements:

• Received PEGASUS award for making significant and consistent contributions in Quarter 1 - FY 13.
• Recognized by the client for identifying and fixing bugs in the existing application.
• Confidential

Role: Mainframe Developer

• Project: Investor Communication Solutions - Board of Director's proposal analysis for SEC Rule 452.
• Description: Developed a batch application that compared shareholder votes of over 2,500 North American corporations from year 2009 to 2010 to analyze the impact of an SEC Securities and Exchange Commission rule related to a Corporation's board of directors.
• Under the rule, brokers may vote their clients' shares discretionary voting if the client hasn't given specific voting instructions 10 days prior to a shareholder meeting, providing the proxy material is transmitted at least 15 days before the meeting and from January 2010, discretionary voting rule was removed for Board of directors' proposal for all corporations.
• This project required a lot of old data to be pulled from purged tape files, for the year 2009 to 2010 analysis. This was a very critical project and had to be delivered in quick timeframe with quality.
• The reports generated were used by Broadridge Vice President Regulatory affairs in several of his meetings with SEC to closely study and monitor rule 452.

Responsibilities:

• Study and analyze Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 452 involving Board of Director's proposal voting during annual shareholder meeting process.
• Creating checklists and maintaining proper documentation, preparing test cases and scripts, validation, coordinating the whole effort for module with review.
• Increased the quality of the products delivered into production by defining and implementing standard testing process and technical improvements.
• Provide code and report walk through for the business users by facilitating various meetings.
• Developing, renovating and reviewing the code based on client request
• Generate and maintain various versions of the output reports as required by the clients.
• Perform knowledge transfer of the entire application to other team members.
• Document the entire application for future analyses of the work done as part of this project.

Achievements:

• Received star performer Award for March-May 2011 Quarter for my work on this project.
• Received ACE awards and appreciations from client and business users for detailed analyses and clarification on queries related to this application.
• Confidential

Role: Mainframe Developer

• Project: Investor Communication Solutions - Say on Pay Proxy Enhancements Provision of the Dodd-Frank Act.
• Description: Enhanced existing batch and online proxy and reporting applications 6 DB2 and 6 COBOL VSAM programs to accommodate the so called Say-on-Pay provision of the financial reform act signed in by US President on 7/21/2010 which requires issuers to allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation at least once every three years. To determine how often that vote will happen, issuers will have to poll investors about how often they want to vote on compensation Frequency vote . Additionally, it had a provision for a shareholder vote on golden parachutes.
• Frequency vote needed re-architecting of some of the applications and made the enhancements complex because it had four choices: 1 year, two years, three years or abstain printed on the voting instruction form unlike the customary three choices: for, against or abstain that systems throughout the industry are typically architected on. The deadline issued by the SEC for this was January 2011 after which all issuers will have to hold the votes at the annual meeting.
• This project was completed well in advance of that date in order to inform investors who receive voting instruction forms.

Responsibilities:

• Modifying and processing DB2 data through the use of SQL, within COBOL programs.
• Developing and enhancing procedures using JCL Job Control Language statements.
• Capturing client requirements and analyzing them functionally as well technically.
• Understanding new requirements/ Code Analysis Analysis of the existing code to determine the changes requires .
• Carrying out impact analysis of the changes as per new requirements.
• Collaborating with other teams, interfacing with the Deployment Group and providing them necessary information support as and when required.
• Coordinate work with Project Managers to perform the Resource Planning.
• Managing the allocation of work within the team and meeting the deadlines.
• Developed solutions using waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Developed plans, processes, and procedures for preparing the data and merchandise for an accurate conversion with no impact to operations.
• Trained new associates in program development, file handling and debugging with tools such as INSYNC, PDX, Intertest, Dump master and OPCS etc.

Achievements:

• Received appreciations from the business users for completing the project well in advance of the production install date.

Confidential

Role: Mainframe Developer

• Project: Investor Communication Solutions - High Profile Annual Shareholder Meetings.
• Description: Developed new application that identifies and addresses top shareholders who pose reputation or financial risk to Broadridge for companies in North America during the annual shareholder meeting process.
• Various automated reports and CICS screens designed, helped management to be able to track and monitor activities of top shareholders and some of the key aspects related to voting, showing whether the shareholder has voted for the company's management or against them. Voting details also include the way in which some of the top shareholders voted i.e. by telephone, internet, email etc.
• These reports also help in tracking some of the very sensitive contested annual shareholder meetings which involves a group of shareholders opposing current management and looking to possibly takeover the company.
• Top shareholders sometimes do not vote and in order to make sure that voting and shareholder consent is obtained in a timely manner, automated emails from mainframe are sent to Bank/Brokers who indirectly hold these shares asking them to vote.
• Built 7 batch 4 DB2 and 3 COBOL VSAM and 4 online DB2 interfaced Screens modules in this application. The batch modules had DB2 inserts/deletes/updates/selects, VSAM reads/writes, logic to automatically send email attachment excel/text reports. Online screens had paging logics, DB2/VSAM updates from the screen. Also coordinated with DBA group to design and finalize the various DB2 table architectures.
• This project took 6 months for the initial deploy. Also worked on 8 to 10 more enhancements to this application.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas.
• Designing online screens and menus using CICS and DB2.
• Understand the application functionality using source code of Programs, JCLs and CICS Screen navigation, copybooks, Db2 Tables, Input and Output files, Reports generated and answer business user related queries.
• Support, enhancement or maintenance of existing applications.
• Coordinated with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes.
• Make recommendations, researches and find out alternative solutions.
• Responsible for the evaluation of design and development of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for coding, component integration testing and unit testing.
• Offered support during the testing phase.
• Created and updated system's functional and reference documentation.
• Developed solutions using waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Trained new associates in program development, file handling and debugging with tools such as INSYNC, PDX, Intertest, Dump master and OPCS etc.
• Participated in various Human Resources initiatives and other organization wide activities.