SUMMARY:

• Around 12+ years of total IT experience with 10+ years in IBM Mainframe, Design of functional, technical specifications, Application Development, Maintenance, Testing, and Quality control & Project Management of business applications in Mainframe systems.
• Strong expertise & over rich experience in application development, maintenance & support on Mainframe systems with 5 years of experience as Team lead.
• Experienced in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, REXX and EAZYTRIEVE.
• Extensively worked on IBM Mainframe, developing COBOL based applications providing production support and maintenance of existing Systems.
• Extensive hands on experience in mainframe tools like File - Aid, File Master, Xpediter & Intertest, Debug tool, IDCAMS, QMF and SPUFI.
• Participated in complete Software development Lifecycle, analysis of business and functional specifications and formulation of Detail Design writing Technical Specifications followed with construction through deployment.
• Expert in assisting with overall planning of team activities including identification of tasks, resource allocation, scheduling and development of comprehensive work plans
• Involved in all the activities in the System Development life cycle form the preparation to Go Live and production support.
• Experienced in Defect investigation, Tracking and Fixing
• Assisted with overall risk management including identification of risks, defining mitigation strategies, implementing approved mitigation strategy, and ongoing monitoring of risks
• Expert in Performing analysis activities - Working with other departments/customers and vendors to determine the scope of system changes and document business and system requirements.
• Responsible in facilitating meetings, performing project administration (such as time and cost monitoring, issue management, status reporting), managing and directing team activities from both a strategic and tactical perspective, and making key project decisions
• Ability to multitask and very flexible in adjusting to people, circumstances and responsibilities, hard-working with an ambitious and realistic attitude. Good interpersonal skills and a team player
• Worked in diversified business domains with 5+ years of experience in Health Care & PBM services, 3 years in Logistics & Travel and Transportation domain
• Have 1 year hands on experience on CORE JAVA, SCALA & SPARK and has completed foundational level trainings and certifications on BIG DATA ANALYTICS
• Have done a proof of concept use cases like file copying from HDFS to RDD and applying transformations to it. Also, I have done a use case to insert new columns to the existing layout of file using SCALA and SPARK programming.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Senior Developer - Billing - Finance, STM Migration

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with Project Stakeholders in all phases of the engagement - Initiation, Planning, and Execution & Monitoring & Control.
• Involved in Mentoring/training Users/Clients
• Interaction with DBA before the enterprise release to define and modify tables as per project needs.
• Running the DB2 explain to all the newly created or impacted SQL’s and sharing the results with DBA’s
• Continuously monitoring the critical job streams with the volume of data approaching and proactively providing performance tuning to the SQL’s to make the process faster.
• Developing new batch and Online modules using COBOL, DB2, JCL & CICS
• Have extensively used QMF, SPUFI to test the performance of the query and also used BMC load and unload utilities for loading and unloading the data.
• Mass loading & unloading of DB2 tables done using DSNUTILB utility.
• Working with various cross dependent systems and external vendors to determine the scope of system changes and document business and system requirements
• Provided key input in creating the functional design.
• Direct and manage the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings, one-on-one interviews and corresponding through emails with work stream owners to discuss the impact of change request on the project.
• Perform risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritize the application development and testing.
• Prepare Detail Design or Technical Specification from the BRD/FRD obtained from business, present them in the review meeting, implement the changes after approval, followed with testing, IT/QA/UAT support till deployment.
• Work with the offshore team, coordinating with them in getting the deliverables done with good quality & ensuring delivery on schedule without any SLA slippage.
• Have developed many tools using REXX and HIPERSTATION to automate many of our process and built tools to create short cuts for some of the process to improve productivity.

Environment: OS (ZOS), COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, SPUFI, REXX, Eazytrieve and ICETOOL, File Master, Endeavor, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST

Confidential

Project Lead - Adjustment system & Contract Performance Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Detail Design or Technical Specification from the BRD/FRD obtained from solutions, present them in the review meeting, implement the changes after approval, followed with testing, IT/QA/UAT support till deployment.
• Any further maintenance on the deployed changes are support defect management process. My involvement here is analyzing the defect, identifying the solution, prepare & present the in the review meeting, implement the changes after approval, followed with testing & deployment.
• Presented periodic Metrics to the senior management to show the progress, constraints and dependencies in the project.
• Provide production support for IRA application on all kinds of support.
• Interaction with DBA before the enterprise release to define and modify tables as per project needs.
• Running the DB2 explain to all the newly created or impacted SQL’s and sharing the results with DBA’s
• Continuously monitoring the critical job streams with the volume of data approaching and proactively providing performance tuning to the SQL’s to make the process faster.
• Developing new batch modules using COBOL, DB2 & JCL
• Have extensively used QMF, SPUFI to test the performance of the query and also used BMC load and unload utilities for loading and unloading the data.
• Have written innovative tools using REXX to improve productivity and have worked on eazytrieve programming to report impacted transactions during Billing recoveries

Environment: OS (ZOS), COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, SPUFI, REXX, Eazytrieve and ICETOOL, File-Aid, Changeman, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, CORE JAVA, VB.NET

Confidential

Lead Quality Controller

Responsibilities:

• Participated in client discussions to get the requirements of the projects
• Prepared estimates for all the deliverables
• Trained and mentored the new team members on the work process to be followed and about the organization chart.
• Created a metrics tool “Production 100” to track the quality of deliverables.

Environment: Windows 2000, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point