SUMMARY:

• Analytical, enthusiastic leader with over 14 years of Information Technology experience in project management, business analysis, software development, design, testing, coding, maintenance and production support for Open systems and Mainframe Legacy system projects.
• Certified LOMA/RETAIL/PMP professional with in medical/ finance/ Retail/Logistics/Insurance domain and Project Management expertise.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business specifications into functional requirements, and communicating effectively through walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming and JAD and JAR sessions
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a track record for meeting deadlines and deliverables on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM OS/390, Pentium

Operating System: MVS/ESA, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, OS/390

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, REXX, EZETREIVE, MQ,Series, C, C++, VB6. HTML, XML, ASP3.0, VB Script

Databases & Tools: DB2, VSAM, SQL, ORACLE 8i, MS-SQL Server

Other Utilities: File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Expediter, SCS, Netman, SARK, SPUFI, QMF, Pan valet, Endeavor, Crystal Reports, TSO/ISPF, OMS.HPSD,ETL Tools

Others: UML.Rational Rose, MS OFFICE, EXCEL, Power Point, Project and Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Northridge, CA

Project manager/Sr Business Systems Analyst

• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Actively participated in Budget & forecast of the Organization and came up with Plan on prioritization of new and Pipeline projects
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Solution Approach/Use case walk through and signoff and Estimation of the Project (cost/time) and Project plan, detailed design document signoff.
• Critical time management of (12-24hrs) medical translations into in the context of the effective medical reports. High quality Deliverables at a stipulated time frame
• Effective employee/ HR Resource management by guiding them in all (technical/business/ systems) aspects and training the new members for preparations
• Facilitate requirements and design sessions for projects
• Co-ordinate design walkthrough’s and acceptance from review board. Periodic data and process audits and quality assurance.
• Extensive Data management by having the Daily backups and DR backups in context of Data Redundancy. Client/User satisfaction and support all the time necessary.
• Onboarding of clients and provide the necessary training and assist in initial setup.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Assist clients in creating templates and mapping them within the workflow. Training the staff accordingly.
• Extract, Transform & Load using SQL management studio for Business Analysis & Decision making.

Environment: VB Script / Java Script / Oracle / MS Access/ Rational Rose / MS Visio / MS Project/ SharePoint / Agile methodology / SDLC / SQL

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Project Manager / Business Systems Analyst

• Business Analysis and understand the existing process and data retrieval change in process of ML. Solution Approach walk through and BRD signoff. Estimation of the Project (cost & Schedule) and detailed design document signoff. Tracking Metrics. Conducting Status report meetings.
• Involved in the core design and testing part as well. Due to Virtual store POS sales etc. Open system team also involved.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Interact with Business & vendors on the requirements for the proposed enhancement by JAD/JAR Sessions.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Extract, Transform & Load using SQL management studio for Business Analysis & Decision making.
• Critical Account/Finance system; provided with a separate testing team to test the other systems not to affect the existing output layouts and also to check the requirement is met.
• Successful system and integration, user acceptance testing and signoff. Covering the metrics for the same
• Responsible for all deliverables from Estimates to Production move and Signoff’s. Handled and successfully completed as per the estimated time and received an award from Kohl’s for my dedication towards the project.

Environment: MVS COBOL / DB2 /VSAM / JCL/CICS / Informatica / Rational Rose / MS Visio / MS Project/ SharePoint / SDLC / HPSD / SQL

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

• Interact with Business users frequently to understand the requirements & provide technical assistance.
• Interact with Business & vendors on the requirements for the proposed enhancement by JAD/JAR Sessions.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Extract, Transform & Load using SQL management studio for Business Analysis & Decision making.
• Interact with the interfacing Onsite and Offshore teams on the proposed solutions for Enhancements.
• Provide the production support for the CPS Application and also work with cross functional teams in case of emergency support / new enhancement activities.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Preparation Estimates, BRD’s, LLD’s, Assisting in Coding and test strategy, Unit testing & User Acceptance testing documentation & execution.
• In the Current CPS project we introduced various processes (ABEND resolution document, monitoring activities, KT documents, analysis documents, ABEND metrics, estimations, BRD's etc.) to the customer processes, which is a value, add to the customer.
• The below Enhancement projects I have handled and implemented by suggesting the solution. Deliverables were on time.
• Discover Version Upgrade from 7.1 to 9.1 & 9.2 Enhancement completed & CAPN Enhancement implemented successfully.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Batch Duplicate checking process & Mass rejects process - Suggested & implemented a process where we can process the rejects by following simple steps. It is automated. Solution achieved by analyzing the data from PeopleSoft using ETL Informatica Process.
• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.

Environment: MVS Cobol / DB2 /VSAM / JCL/SAS/CICS / Informatica / PeopleSoft / File aid / MQ Series/ Connect Direct/ MS Visio / MS Project/ SharePoint / ETL/SDLC / HPSD / SQL.

Confidential,AZ

• As a Business systems analyst. Interviewed business users and customers to gather business needs related to project scope.
• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with SME’s in understanding the Requirements pertaining to the project. Responsible for Business as well as the technical flow and functionality to fix all types of problems from different users of NBC systems.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Interact with Business & vendors on the requirements for the proposed enhancement by JAD/JAR Sessions.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Batch Duplicate checking process & Mass rejects process - Suggested & implemented a process where we can process the rejects by following simple steps. It is automated. Solution achieved by analyzing the data from PeopleSoft using ETL Informatica Process.
• Support and Maintenance activities of Confidential NBC Mainframes Legacy systems.
• Defining solutions clearly in HPSD for future reference/assistance. Preparing the system documentation to have it on knowledge base repository of Confidential systems.
• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.
• Define and measure progress with by collecting metrics.

Environment: COBOL / DB2 /VSAM / JCL/CICS / File aid / MQ Series/ MS Visio / MS Project/ SharePoint / SDLC / ETL

Confidential,MI

• Migration of Batch programs which involved analyzing, design, migration, coordinate discussions with onsite team, code, test and deliver solutions to the client.
• Following CMMi Standards Level 5 Quality process in all the activities.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Interact with Business & vendors on the requirements for the proposed enhancement by JAD/JAR Sessions.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Developing Unit test cases and test plan. Setup of Unit and Integration test environment. Performing Unit/Integration testing for the migrated code.
• System test environment setup at offshore and fixes for the Onsite system test errors.
• Worked on cross functional teams to check on new migrated system stability & compatibility GL Migration
• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.
• Analyze the Batch programs and screens to understand the requirement for migration.
• Following CMMi Standards Level 5 Quality process in all the activities. Commencement of Audits while delivering and processing
• Developing Unit test cases and testing plan. Setup of Unit and Integration test environment.

Environment: MF COBOL / DB2 /Oracle / MQ Series/ MS Visio / MS Project/ SDLC / SharePoint

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr Soft Engineer

• Responsible for Support and Maintenance activities for the DSS - Distributed Support System and Marketing Systems of American General Life. The DSS system deals with Agents/Agency compensation. Marketing Systems comprises of Payryte, Sales Conference, Agents Cross Reference and Agent/Agency daily processing.
• Strong experience working with tools such as Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling, Enterprise Architect / IT Modernization, MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Activity and Sequence Diagrams and Use cases and also experience on work flow, data flows and Flow charts.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Experience in bidding proposals such as RFP (Request for proposal) and RFQ (request for quotation) procedures.
• Interact with Business & vendors on the requirements for the proposed enhancement by JAD/JAR Sessions.
• Understand and translate business problems and opportunities in the context of the textual requirements and translate those into effective technical documentation.
• Analyzing customer requirements. Prepare Approach documentation and Estimation. Developing Technical Specifications. Developing new application programs and/or changes to the existing programs. Following CMMi Standards Level 5 Quality process in all the activities.
• Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical solution
• 24/7 production support for DSS and Marketing systems of AG. Post ABEND analysis for the cause of the production problem. Making permanent fixes. Prepare for the production move.

Environment: MVS COBOL / DB2 /SAS/ASSEMBLER/JCL/CICS / MQ Series/ SDLC / MS Project / SharePoint

Confidential

Software Consultant

• Worked for Tamil Nadu schools system, as a Team Leader involved in the complete SDLC phases for the School admin System. This is an approved state project. Developed in VB and Oracle as a Database
• Implemented Pals billing system successfully as lead analyst involved in the complete integration of all stores.
• Experience and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Estimates, Budget, Planning, forecasting, Design, Development and Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Worked for a NGO Microfinance banking organization as a Software Developer and developed Micro credit finance system for a nationalized bank in Bangladesh.
• Worked as a Software Developer and developed websites for Life Help Centre for the Handicapped and South Indian Peoples Association Using HTML, ASP, VB, Flash.
• Worked as a Software Developer for Nsambya Hospital & Micro Care Limited, Uganda; developed the Billing and accounting system of Hospital management system project.

Environment: VB /Oracle / C/C++/ASP/HTML/MS Access / SDLC