Experience Summary:

• Over 10 years of extensive experience on mainframe platform encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Over 4 years of experience in dealing with multiple Clients at on-shore USA
• Possesses diverse experience in System Analysis, Designing, Application Programming, Development, Maintenance and Support.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Given trainings on Easytrieve, REXX across the projects in IBM

Confidential

• IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family
• Got BRAVO award for leading a team to develop Job Policing Tool in REXX, File Tailoring and SDSF
• Got BRAVO award for developing FTP GEN tool using REXX
• Certified Six Sigma White Belt Professional by IBM
• Certified QPACE Quality Management System by IBM
• Brainbench Certified Professional in JCL,COBOL,VSAM, CICS
• Presently performing a role of Application Architect on Mainframe technologies

Skill Set:

Professional Experience

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Description:

• FACTS is a Legacy system which generates the policy number for new business policies and sends the data to many downstream systems like Cyberlife, Suitability, Marketing Management Information System, Policy Writing, Medfees Medical Fees , Field Data Administrator System FDAS etc. Also it communicates with Medical Information Beuro MIB , Motor Vehicle Dept by Labone, Clinical Reference Lab Choice point etc to get necessary information requested for each policy case.
• FACTS generates policy numbers for Life and Annuity cases. FACTS gets new business cases from different service centers and General Offices through FACTS online system and NYLapps New York Life Application System . FACTS also generate a number of reports on daily and weekly basis and send it to the respective departments.
• Generalized Disbursement System GDS is one of the most critical applications of New York Life Insurance Company. It manages day-to-day disbursement of money out of New York Life. It processes company's disbursement for group life, disability and health claims, dividends, pensions and supplementary contracts to its customers and Payroll for NYL employees. It also maintains the disbursements data for Special Markets and Long Term Care. GDS interacts with all the administrative divisions of NYL responsible for disbursement and also interacts with a number of banks all over the United States and abroad there is only one bank outside of USA presently that NYL deals with i.e. Royal Bank of Canada .
• The purpose of the Management Information Reporting System MIRS is to provide service activity data and other business activity data for Home Office and Service Center management reporting purposes. Several reports are generated using the MIRS database about the various In-force and New Business policy related activities in NYL on a daily basis. Some or all of these reports are sent to the Chairman of the board and the senior management in NYL to study the business related activities.

Skills: HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER, COBOL, JCL, MARK-IV, AFP, RAMIS, NYLLMS, OMEGAMON, CICS, VSAM, REXX, SAS, DB2, REMEDY,RATIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGER, RPM , IQ NAVIGATOR, XML, SQL, TSO / ISPF, SDSF, QMF, CONTROL-D, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, WARM

Role Responsibilities:

• Daily monitor the FACTS conversion cycle and transmissions to interfaces like
• Medical Information Bureau, Motor Vehicle Report Labone on a daily basis
• Work on the daily tickets opened by customer in Remedy Ticket Management Tool
• Work on the code conversion of Mark-IV and RAMIS Reporting steps
• Respond to customer queries on a daily basis
• Involves in requirement meetings with customer and provide the suggestions/inputs based on the existing system
• Review Requirements and come back with questions to Customers until clarified
• Provide requirement analysis to New York Life manager
• Create detailed estimate of the hours of the Project to manager
• Prepare the Design document and test plan
• Generate reports as and when requested by Customers
• Review code written by Offshore or Code whenever required, review Testing results
• and Implementation
• Communicate with downstream systems like Suitability, Cyberlife, NYLAPPS
• Perform Interface testing with Suitability, Cyberlife and NYLAPPS
• Provide end-to-end support for User Acceptance Testing for all releases
• Prepare the documentation based on the IBM OPAL quality standards
• Update all documents in Rational Portfolio Manager
• Responsible for Production implementation and monitoring of the jobs
• Responsible for end-to-end support of the FACTS application
• Provide 24x7 application support
• Managing the offshore effort hours and update in IQ Navigator tool

Confidential

• Description: The New York Life Insurance Company NYLIC is the largest mutual life-insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Field Access Communication System FACTS is a Legacy system which generates the policy number for new business policies and sends the data to many downstream systems like Cyberlife, Suitability, Marketing Management Information System, Policy Writing, Medfees Medical Fees , Field Data Administrator System FDAS etc. Also it communicates with Medical Information Beuro MIB , Motor Vehicle Dept by Labone, Clinical Reference Lab Choice point etc to get necessary information requested for each policy case.
• FACTS generates policy numbers for Life and Annuity cases. FACTS gets new business cases from different service centers and General Offices through FACTS online system and NYLapps New York Life Application System . FACTS also generate a number of reports on daily and weekly basis and send it to the respective departments.
• Generalized Disbursement System GDS is one of the most critical applications of New York Life Insurance Company. It manages day-to-day disbursement of money out of New York Life. It processes company's disbursement for group life, disability and health claims, dividends, pensions and supplementary contracts to its customers and Payroll for NYL employees. It also maintains the disbursements data for Special Markets and Long Term Care. GDS interacts with all the administrative divisions of NYL responsible for disbursement and also interacts with a number of banks all over the United States and abroad there is only one bank outside of USA presently that NYL deals with i.e. Royal Bank of Canada .
• The purpose of the Management Information Reporting System MIRS is to provide service activity data and other business activity data for Home Office and Service Center management reporting purposes. Several reports are generated using the MIRS database about the various In-force and New Business policy related activities in NYL on a daily basis. Some or all of these reports are sent to the Chairman of the board and the senior management in NYL to study the business related activities.

Skills: HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER, COBOL, JCL, MARK-IV, AFP, RAMIS, NYLLMS, OMEGAMON, CICS, VSAM, REXX, SAS, DB2, REMEDY,RATIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGER, RPM , IQ NAVIGATOR, XML, SQL, TSO / ISPF, SDSF, QMF, CONTROL-D, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, WARM

Role Responsibilities:

• Daily monitor the FACTS conversion cycle and transmissions to interfaces like
• Medical Information Bureau, Motor Vehicle Report Labone on a daily basis
• Work on the daily tickets opened by customer in Remedy Ticket Management Tool
• Work on the code conversion of Mark-IV and RAMIS Reporting steps
• Respond to customer queries on a daily basis
• Involves in requirement meetings with customer and provide the suggestions/inputs based on the existing system
• Review Requirements and come back with questions to Customers until clarified
• Provide requirement analysis to New York Life manager
• Create detailed estimate of the hours of the Project to manager
• Prepare the Design document and test plan
• Generate reports as and when requested by Customers
• Review code written by Offshore or Code whenever required, review Testing results
• and Implementation
• Communicate with downstream systems like Suitability, Cyberlife, NYLAPPS
• Perform Interface testing with Suitability, Cyberlife and NYLAPPS
• Provide end-to-end support for User Acceptance Testing for all releases
• Prepare the documentation based on the IBM OPAL quality standards
• Update all documents in Rational Portfolio Manager
• Responsible for Production implementation and monitoring of the jobs
• Responsible for end-to-end support of the FACTS application
• Provide 24x7 application support
• Managing the offshore effort hours and update in IQ Navigator tool

Confidential

ACE USA is one of the worlds leading providers of Workers Compensation Coverage operation from over 140 countries. ACE USA provides you with solutions for a diverse range of U.S.-based customers - from small, mid-sized and large businesses to non-profit organizations and educational institutions to large multinationals and contractors on U.S. government jobs around the globe. ACE provides coverage to categories like Accident Health Management, Liability, Claims Risk Management Services, Medical, Climate Risk, Property, Environmental Products and Surety etc.

Forms and Policy Print:

This is the important module in the Workers Compensation System which generates and prints the Forms required in a policy which goes to the customer/underwriter. This area collects the data issued by the users, rating details and populates them on to the forms.

Skills: DB2, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, DOCUMAKER, MICROFOCUS COBOL, JAVA, J2EE, ROSCOE, PANVALET, FILE-AID, RPM, SDSF

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the enhancements/production problems in Forms/Policy Print area
• Discussing the requirements with customer and responding with comments/questions
• Providing system information to customer in requirements and project initiation phase
• Responsible for documenting the requirements, User Acceptance Plan and all other client communications
• Assigns work item to team members in bug tracker
• Provides details estimate on the enhancement/development/production problem
• Analyzing the requirements with onshore SME's and preparing the detailed requirements spreadsheet.
• Providing Solutions/Analysis of requirements to offshore team
• Primary contact for the daily production policy print cycle and resolving incase of abends
• Provide reports to managements weekly

Confidential

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group is a 10 Billion AUD company made up of more than 50 different businesses interacting to give customers access to a wide range of financial services through more than 2,000 offices in some 40 countries around the globe. ANZ was named the most sustainable bank globally in the 2008.

Per the contract, IBM's role is to develop the code per the requirements and move-to user acceptance testing. User acceptance will be taken care by Satyam.

Skills: JCL, ENDEAVOR, DB2, FILE-AID, CA7, RPM

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing the requirements
• Coding and unit testing
• Reviewing code and unit test results
• Moving the code to Endeavor for system testing
• Supporting System testing team

Confidential

• IBM Global Services US has outsourced the data programming operations work for its client Dun Bradstreet to IBM India Private Limited.
• Dun Bradstreet is the world's leading provider of global business information, which empowers customers to make informed critical business decision. They offer a variety of business information for Risk Management, Sales Marketing and Supply Management decisions worldwide. D B's proprietary DUNSRight quality process provides customers with Quality information.
• The work that we receive consists of mainly two parts, the first being identification of the DUNS number assigned to the company. This is done using a process called Matching through a tool CFP Customer File Processing . The second part deals with using the obtained DUNS number to link information about the business performance, history, risks and opportunities in their business relationship. This is done on mainframes using SAS Statistical Analysis System , EASYTRIEVE, COBOL, REXX, ROSCOE tools and JCL Job Control Language .
• The data provided by D B is drawn from a global database of 135 million records. Each company in the global database is assigned a Unique DUNS number. This is used in identifying, organizing and consolidating information about business. Credit Bureau reports are available to prospective creditors Banks, Financial Institutions or others like potential landlords, life insurance companies, etc. A credit bureau helps banks to take quick decisions on credit requests as they have an objective source of the consumer's credit repayment history and total credit availed by a consumer.
• Marketing Spectrum Web MSW is D B's marketing tool which helps D B's customers in decision making. This helps D B to integrate customer data with D B's data. The result is a data warehouse with the data analytical capabilities to the customer. The information provided by this tool can help in understanding and more accurately predicting customer's business behavior and targeting and modeling prospects. So customers can decide with confidence with the solutions provided by D B.

Environment: Z/OS, JCL, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, SAS 8.2, ROSCOE 6.0, TSO/ISPF, REXX, VSAM, File-Aid, Tape Management System TMS , Rational Portfolio Manager RPM

Role Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, Coding, Quality review, Documentation, Issue resolution
• Deliver high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements and interacting with the client accordingly
• Lead a Team for developing Job Policing Tool JPT which will automatically reviews the code on mainframe and also notifies the team member with a SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol mail.
• Giving trainings on Various Shipping mechanisms in the projects to the team and make them follow
• Responsible for Effective execution of Knowledge Transfer to New members
• Supporting and helping team members in solving technical issues
• Updating quality documents, metrics and other formal approval mails in RPM