Professional Summary

• Over Six years of extensive experience in Software Development of Mainframes involving requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development in Insurance industries.
• Experience developing application software on the IBM Mainframes in Z/OS using COBOL , DB2, SQL, CICS, Endeavor, JCL, VSAM.
• Developed applications using COBOL, DB2 and JCL.
• Certified in IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 – 700 Certification.
• Possess well versed experience in using the tools Viz. Changeman, QMF, Spufi, FILE-AID, Xpeditor, Lotus Notes, TSO DUG, Panvalet and MS Access among others.
• Worked on both online and batch systems.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (MS Word, MS Excel & MS Power Point)
• Worked as a project coordinator and also handled single handed projects.
• Possess excellent analytical, communication and documentation skills.
• Good in problem solving skills.
• Worked as an application team lead, also mentoring developers lacking Z/OS, Rumba skills.
• Good experience in solving critical production problems.
• Coordinated effectively between Offshore and Onsite.

Software Skills:

Databases :DB2,IMS DB,Oracle
Operating Systems :Z/OS, Windows XP, 7, Unix.
Programming :Cobol, CICS,VSAM, DB2, JCL, SQL, C, PL/1, Integrated Java.
Tools :TSO/ISPF, Changeman, Endeavor, Xpeditor, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI,
Panvalet, Lotus Notes.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Duration: April’09 to present
Location: Omaha, USA

Role: Mainframe Programmer
Project Title: SSUPDATE_UDAP (Core Processing Engine)
SSUPDATE is an application which process and calculates the business of Plastic holder on daily basis. UDAP (Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practice) is one of the enhancement projects for SSUPDATE which is updating all the business rules, that has been decided by government of United States, to the plastics (Credit card).

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the system and understand the business changes to the plastic
• Understanding the user requirements and developing Impact analysis documents as per the requirement
• Create and validate the design as per new rules
• Understanding the requirement and do the estimation
• As per request, enhancing the existing system using Cobol program
• Closly working with Statement team to implemet UDAP changes and customizing the paper statement using CSF tool as per client need.
• Responsible for doing Interstate which used to help in Error fixing and debugging.
• Responsible for development, testing, bug fix, and code turnover.
• Testing the code with all possible scenario so that all changes must give possible and expected results
• Using FILE-AID, to review and edit the data file as per requirement
• Setting up the environment for testing the applications using REXX tools
• Documenting the newly developed program and changes in existing one so that it is easy to understand by everyone
• Developing new modules as per the requirement and testing it to make sure that it works fine
• Changing the existing program as per the user requirements such that it works as expected
• Developing In stream and cataloged Procedures in JCL as per the requirements
• Developing utility members as per the requirements
• Guiding and explaining more than 10 offshore member about the requirements and making sure that they understand the requirements clearly
• Involve in Metrics and Quality management
• Responsible for timelines and quality of deliverables.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, REXX, DB2, Oracle, Intertest, FILE-AID, Endevor, CA-7, Smart test, File manager, Stored Procedures, QMF.

Confidential,Duration: Feb’08 to April’09
Location: Hartford, USA

Role: Mainframe Programmer
Project Title: LRRS Business rules extraction
Loss Reserve and Reporting system (LRRS) is the reserving system used to calculate IBNR as well as provide for the actuarial reconciliation of reserve review data. The reserve review is a tool used by Actuaries to analyze loss and expenses patterns in order to predict the appropriate reserve levels required to service the claim for each LOB. Actuaries make changes to reserve ultimate into LRRS by using a MS Access based LAN model.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the entire LRRS application and understand the business involved in that
• Completed end to end job flow analysis using CA-7
• Created the detail Batch flow, Process flow, Program, and Architecture flow document of entire system
• Provided schedule ID level analysis and helped client in increasing the scheduling performance
• Used Visio software to visualize the business involved.
• Used to do Intertest for fixing errors in easy way.
• Analyzed and documented all the system modules
• Used Endevor and FILE-AID to analyze system program also helped the client to finding dead code and new suggestion to improve the performance
• Created Cross reference and Data dictionary document and supplied to client for future enhancement
• Suggested customer to code File status to prevent unexpected Production ABEND
• Prepared and provide Gap analysis document to client to improve and enhance their system
• Analyzed and documented the business involved in Teradata database
• Used FILE-AID and File manager to review and analyze the data file for analysis and documentation
• Involve in Metrics and Quality management
• Guided offshore team in explaining the requirements and making sure that they understand the requirements clearly
• Responsible for work management, and Task delivery
• Responsible for timelines and quality of deliverables.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, FILE-AID, Endevor, Intertest, CA-7, File manager, MS Access and SQL.

Title: R14260-AIMS Update in EABFA Conversion
Confidential,Start/End Date: Oct’2007-Jan’2008
Role: Project Lead

Description:
EABFA Conversion Work involved creating batch program for populating the inactive records for the existing database. Earlier the SAMS database only had the active records of the different relationships populated onto the table by an update process. But the requirement needed the design to populate the database with the inactive records for all the corresponding active records. The records had to be populated depending on relationships through which they were built and this needed an extensive analysis. A batch program was coded where the job would be populating the records.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively handled the Project alone
• Played a Critical and Key role player in this project.
• Prepared program specifications and diagrams, developing coding logic flowcharts
• Interpreted and used computer operating systems and interface tools to code, compile, test, run and debug programs
• Problem analysis, preparing charts and diagrams and submitting solution recommendations

• Maintained application systems include 24/7 production support.

Environment:
COBOL,DB2,SQL,PL/I,JCL,XPEDITOR,LOTUSNOTES,PANVALET,SPUFI,TSO DUG,RMS and ENDEAVOR.

Confidential,Start/End Date: Feb’2007-Sep’2007
Role: Team Member

Description:
Changing of Primary Indicator in EABFA Table. Checking for the primary relationship between the Left Role Player ID and Right Role Player ID.Earlier there was no proper relationship between Left and Right Role Player ID’s.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detail High Level Design program specifications such that we the team can do the coding. Also created logic flowcharts for easy understanding.
• Interpreted and used computer operating systems and interface tools to code, compile, test, run and debug programs
• Assisted in problem analysis, preparing charts and diagrams and submitting solution recommendations

• Unit testing the offshore programs and implementing.

Environment:
COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, TSO/ISPF, SQL, EXPEDITOR, RMS, PANVALET, LOTUS NOTES, IMS-DB

Confidential,Start/End Date: Sep’2006-Jan’2007
Role: Team Member

Description:
Retrieve employee details using DB2 Stored Procedure from different databases.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detail High Level Design program specifications.
• Uploaded components into PANVALET.
• Prepared of Test cases and Test Results Documents.

Environment:
COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, RMS, LOTUS NOTES, Z/OS RUMBA.

Confidential,Start/End Date: Sep’2005-Aug’2006
Role: Team Member

Description:

It deals with the changes in Awards Control-D and Source Change reports and creating some new reports by accessing AWARDS database based on requirements

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, configured J2EE components using EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC using Eclipse
• Implemented MVC architecture using struts framework
• Developed Session bean, to implement business logic
• Implemented Abstract factory patterns to generate DAO
• Used Log4j for debugging
• User Interface using Java Script, HTML, CSS, Custom tags,
• Configured Hibernate with oracle, J2EE and Struts Framework, used Eclipse and Hibernate Synchronizer as plug-in to generate and develop complete Hibernate code along with its configuration and mapping files.
• Configured Validator Framework with the Struts for client side and server side validation.
• Wrote prepared statements called them using JDBC for Oracle 9i
• Involved in database development and coding of SQL DDL and DML statements. Involved in developing test cases for Unit testing
• Configured CVS for version control of application
• Involved in Production Support of application.

Environment:
J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Struts, Eclispe3.x, Hibernate, XML, HTML, Java Script, DHTML, XML, Oracle 9i.

Confidential,Start/End Date: August’2004-July’2005
Role: Team Member

Description:

Provide Associate Register Data to FDW Creating Balance Process Files from Associate Register data.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Requirement Specifications and preparation of High Level Design Documents.
• Coding COBOL and DB2 modules which create balancing process flat files from AR data base.
• Preparation of PAT JCLs to deliver to Onsite.
• Preparation of Test Cases and Test Result documents for the modules.
• Uploaded components into PANVALET.
• Preparation of quality related documents (Check lists, Estimation Documents, WAT, Weekly Status Report, Review Report and Traceability Matrix).

Environment:
COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, RMS, LOTUS NOTES, Z/OS RUMBA.

• Education:
• Master’s Of Computer Application
• Bachelor’s Of Computer Application