Professional Profile
I have 12 years of experience in the IT Industry. I have worked as a Application Developer/Business Analyst in the Banking, Health Care, IT Services and Insurance industries with business customers, vendors and technical staff to successfully complete projects.

• Business Analysis/Application Development - Exceptional in extracting business requirements, business analysis, design, integration and problem solving. Consulted with business users and vendors to understand business needs. Developed customer test systems, reviewed system requirements and wrote program specifications. Actively supported team members, goals, roles and responsibilities. Completed assigned projects on time and within budget. Interacted with production support to deliver quality results within established timeframe applying methodology and procedures outlined by business resources.
• System Maintenance – Managed project prioritization, created estimation and resource requirement documents for new and on-going production support issues. Supported external vendors and the decision support system. Maintained interface programs for data warehouse and financial systems.

Education and Certifications
Master of Science – Computer and Information System, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
Bachelor of Science – Physics, University of Kerala, India

Industries
Banking
Health Care
Insurance
IT Services
Areas of Expertise
Business Analysis
Application Development
Coding
Debugging
Testing
Documentation
Implementation
System Maintenance
Application Support

Experience and Skills
Java/J2EE
Spring
Hibernate
Enterprise COBOL
COBOL II
JCL
VSAM
Xpediter
File-AID/TSO
Endevor
DB2
CICS
IMS DB/DC
Universal DB2
SQL Server
MySQL
DataStage
Data Warehousing

Chronology of Experience

Confidential,
Duration: 1 Year
Position: Application Developer
Environment: Java/J2EE, Agile, UML, Eclipse, MySQL, SQL Server, Tomcat, Jetty, Subversion, Maven
Tools: Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, JSP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Java Beans, SQL, CSS, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Dia, Power Architect, StarUML, BIRT
Co-designed and developed a web based Java/J2EE application which using N-Tier architectures to provide single application for Professional Service Employees and Managers to document opportunities, submittals, and accurate management reporting, transactional and secured for Compuware Corporation. Actively involved in developing planning diagram including Use Case, Context, Data Flow , ERD Diagrams and used Agile methodologies. Developed and unit tested Java Beans, Controllers, DAO, and JSP.
Confidential,
Duration: 2 Years
Position: Application Developer
Environment: IBM z/OS, MS Windows NT/XP
Tools: Enterprise COBOL, COBOL II, TSO, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, Xpediter/TSO, Endevor, File-AID/TSO, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, SPUFI, QMF, MS Visio
Wrote specifications, designed, developed, unit tested, and implemented online and batch IMS and DB2 programs and created new job streams in production. Implemented the feed reports for the implementation of new Medicare Advantage groups, City of Detroit, State of Michigan, and BCBSM. Developed application programs for Medicare Advantage project to provide a means by which BCBSM could support the transition of claims processing from TMG to PGBA. Created program specifications and unit test plans to develop batch and DB2 programs for the development of feeds or interfaces and to provide PGBA with membership data and benefit information. Developed application programs for National Provider Identifier project to eliminate the need for maintaining multiple payer specific identifiers by requiring all covered entities to use a single National Provider Identifier (NPI) in connection with HIPAA standards. Created and unit tested DB2 programs to make NPI information available in the data warehouse that stored historical information about claims and providers. Modified the programs to access the routines and NPI crosswalk table. Migrated OS/VS COBOL to Enterprise COBOL.
Confidential,
Duration: 2 Years
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: REXX, Universal DB2
Tools: Lotus Notes, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvest, Araxis Merger, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Windows 2000
Developed and maintained applications for Comerica Gateway, a technologically advanced MS Windows-based PC financial system that allowed commercial customers to obtain account and balance information and/or initiate various types of transactions on-line. Developed and implemented customer test system, Wire Simulator, for new customers to test payment initiation, and verified all responses. Converted all wire payments to the Cross Application Link (CAL) interface and consolidated numerous DB2 tables into one table. Modified hub processing of one transaction individually and received back each response to a batch of transactions and then sent back individual files to the customer.
Confidential,
Duration: 7 Years
Position: Programmer/Analyst
Environment: IBM MVS 390, MS Windows 98/NT/2000
Tools: TSO, JCL, COBOL, COBOL II, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Dialog Manager, REXX, Xpediter/TSO, File-AID/TSO, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Visio, CA-Dispatch, Endevor, Data Warehousing, SQL*Plus
Developed and maintained interface programs for the M204 system, data warehouse and external vendors. Developed online and batch programs using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and JCL and wrote system specifications, including startup and initialization strategy, inputs and outputs, interface specifications, file layouts, control requirements, processing and timing requirements, and test plans. Prepared job streams in test and production environments. Loaded and modified Oracle tables/data for assigned projects in data warehouse via ETL tool (DataStage). Created ETL process to extract and transform data from VSAM files and loaded into DB2 tables using DB2 load utilities.

Professional Education and Training
Instructor Led Training

SQL Programming Language
Developing Enterprise Java Applications with Spring and Hibernate
Developing Java Web Applications
Best Practices in Java Programming
Java EE5: Integrating JSF, EJB3 and JPA
Struts 1 for Enterprise Java Web Development
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
JAVA
C++
Visual Basic
ORACLE PL/SQL
DataStage (ETL)
Business Objects

Ancillary Skills
REXX (Client Server)
Araxis Merger
Lotus Notes
MS Excel
SQL*Plus
MS Word
Dia
MS Visio
Power*Architect
StarUML
BIRT