SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of work experience in Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance.
• Extensive business and functional knowledge on Insurance domain and expertise in Auto, Property and Confidential applications.
• Rich mainframe programming experience using COBOL, JCL, PL/1, DB2, REXX, VSAM, CICS Web Services, WSDL, REST, IMS - DB, TSO, MQ, XML, Eztrieve, ISPF.
• Proficient in DB2 - SQL, PL/SQL and other supporting tools like SPUFI.
• Experience in Web Applications using Core Java, C++, SOAP.
• Experienced in fast paced agile development environment and methodologies including Test Driven Development (TDD) and SCRUM using IBMRTC over 4+ years.
• IBM Certified - Database Associate (DB2 9 Fundamentals).
• Actively looked for scope of Automation in various time consuming tasks and developed tools using REXX and VBA.
• Experience on traditional Waterfall model as well as the emerging Agile and Scaled Agile Methodology.
• Designed and developed complex reports for the business purpose.
• Worked as Programmer, Scrum master and Tech Lead.
• Responsible for maintaining and support production systems by 24X7.
• Proficient in QA Testing, Test Plans, Test Scenarios / Test Cases and documentation.
• Highly motivated team player with immense ability to grasp new concepts and apply.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Q++, C, C++, COBOL, JCL, PL/1, REXX, CICS Web services, Eztrieve, VB, VBA, REST, WSDL

Web Technologies: Core Java, HTML, SOAP.

Database: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, MS Access, XML, JSON

Other Tools: DB2 Utilities, SORT Utilities, TSO/ISPF, MQ Series, IBM SPUFI, FTP, NDM, Lotus Notes, MS Excel with VBA, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, Eclipse, CICS, High Speed Lookup (HSL), Rational Application Developer, Rdz and Putty.

Framework: Agile, Scaled Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tech lead

Confidential, San Antonio,Texas

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the new Business Rules and the feasibility of introducing.
• Involved in preparation of design strategy documents for all the impacted methods and for new functionality.
• Responsible for high and low level design of the changes in the Property & Confidential systems that are impacted.
• Responsible for tracking the changing requirements on a day to day basis (agile methodology) and handling the code changes for the same.
• Developed, Designed, Coded and Tested changes to COBOL, PL/I, C++, core Java and CICS programs utilizing VSAM and DB2 databases.
• Design the DB calls, analyze and address the performance issues related in IMS DB calls.
• Developed CICS web services with PL/I.
• Prepared JCL and documentation for proper execution of programs.
• Modified COBOL programs and created Easytrieve one-time-run programs to convert & initialize data in existing tables
• Provide strong skills in analysis and troubleshooting, teamwork, and communication.
• Provide proven management skills and ability to work under tight timelines while still producing quality results.
• Maintain / support existing applications in production.
• Support production moves and perform on-call support on rotational basis.
• Responsible for offshore design and code reviews before it is delivered to clients.
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo meetings.
• Helped product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
• Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.
• Organizes and facilitates the iteration planning meeting.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Generate quotes and purchase of Homeowner and/or Confidential Property Insurance using mobile app, tablet and mobile. Confidential .com for all stateside locations.
• Ability to save and retrieve quotes across all channels.
• Coordination with Xactware for plugin for mobile.
• First in industry to implement Homeowner and Confidential Property Insurance policy acquisition on mobile.
• Focus is to digitize property floes on mobile channels.
• Update the Policy Administrative System Product Admin Suspension tool and changes to dwelling system.
• Update the Confidential Product Admin Suspension tool to collect data for Confidential Suspension event to interface with Property Systems, including a Confidential event expiration date.
• Update the Property system to utilize the Confidential Suspension event data to support.
• Extend Confidential Product Admin to include GIS maps for defining suspension areas.
• Enhance Confidential Product Admin to improve usability in scenarios that include multiple suspension areas.
• Enhance GIS maps and services with the ability to be included in the definition of coverage suspension area and to return this information to Confidential Product Admin.
• Extend the current Confidential suspensions in property include calling Confidential product admin for all Coverage Suspensions.
• The current infrastructure will continue to be used for true ‘Hold’ conditions and not for coverage suspension scenarios.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allow Confidential ’s to handle property losses in the new Confidential financial system for the following line of business.
• Homeowners
• Fire
• Valued Personal Property
• Renters
• Simplify and replace the legacy functionality to open/close, payments, manual opens, reserves and maintain a property claim.
• Provide the ability for Confidential ’s to view the policy details or policies which may be associated to the loss.
• Replace the existing interfaces with the property policy systems to provide policy, coverage’s, limits and deductibles.
• Provide the ability to identify exposures at the level necessary to provide distinct limits and deductibles associated with coverage’s, endorsements and contractual limits.
• Allow Confidential ’s to issue payments in the new Confidential financial system.
• Retire and replace the existing financial reports for property losses.
• Migrate and provide the ability to perform actions for all losses in the new loss financials system.
• Migrate and provide the ability to do new activity for all losses in the new loss financial system to include correction, reversals, stop pay and blank reconciliation.
• Migrate financial data for all auto losses including domestic and international financial transactions into the new loss financials system.
• Migrate accident, Massachusetts surcharge, and catastrophe code information into the new loss financial system.
• Migrate policy data for all auto losses from Confidential or from Confidential DB, when Confidential policy does not exists into the new loss financials system.
• Provide migrated Confidential data to the downstream analytical system.
• Enrich Confidential data and system to allow downstream system to continue to recognize migrated Confidential losses.
• Remove all migrated data from the old legacy databases.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create an ALR launch point at the loss party level.
• Create an user interface to initiate the letter,
• Systematically create the demand letter.
• Attach predefined Confidential documents.
• Electronically deliver demand letter to selected recipient.
• Provide the ability to recreate and resend packet.
• Provide the ability to view the packet in Confidential .
• Utilize fielded data to find potential fraud with rules.
• Create escalation or alert system linked to rules.
• Display the indicators that triggered the alert.
• Provide user interface to refer a claim to SIU and for SIU to accept or decline a referral, and to indicate the status, history and resolution of an accepted claim.
• Provide work assignment, task list creation and tracking capability.
• Provide reporting for SIU acceptance, investigation and resolution of SIU Confidential .

Module lead

Confidential, San Antonio,Texas

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the new Business Rules and the feasibility of introducing.
• Involved in preparation of design strategy documents for all the impacted methods and for new functionality.
• Developed, Designed, Coded and Tested changes to COBOL, PL/I, C++, Core Java and CICS programs utilizing VSAM and DB2 databases.
• Analyzed, debugged and modified COBOL and C++ program discrepancies for batch and online processing.
• Implemented business logic in C++, java using Business Task Manager Framework.
• Design the DB calls, analyze and address the performance issues related in IMS DB calls.
• Used CICS as Transaction Manger.
• Prepared JCL and documentation for proper execution of programs.
• Modified COBOL programs and created Easytrieve one-time-run programs to convert & initialize data in existing tables
• Managed System Testing and implementation of the system
• Provide strong skills in analysis and troubleshooting, teamwork, and communication.
• Maintain / support existing applications in production.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop capabilities to capture all the required data for Confidential .
• Create new work items and escalation process needed to obtain the injury, eligibility and payment information from Injured party.
• Develop capability to determine if an injured party is Medicare eligible.
• Develop rules/triggers to determine if and when data needs to be included in the quarterly reporting to the Centres for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) Coordination of benefits contractor.
• Develop a process to generate required quarterly reporting to the CMS Coordination of benefits contractor.
• Develop a process to receive and resolve data errors identified by CMS and to provide updates in the next quarterly report.

Team member

Confidential, San Antonio,Texas

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the new Business Rules and the feasibility of introducing.
• Involved in preparation of design strategy documents for all the impacted methods and for new functionality.
• Developed, Designed, Coded and Tested changes to COBOL, PL/I, C++, Core Java and CICS programs utilizing VSAM and DB2 databases.
• Analyzed, debugged and modified COBOL and C++ program discrepancies for batch and online processing.
• Implemented business logic in C++, java using Business Task Manager Framework.
• Used CICS as Transaction Manger.