SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT Technology Lead with over 11.5 years of solid IT experience with outstanding Application Design, Application Development, Maintenance and Support in in Mainframe Z/OS platform and in Rehosting of Legacy mainframe applications from mainframe Z/OS to Windows, UNIX, and Linux platform using Micro focus tool.
• As Technology Lead involved in Successful implementation of multiple projects in Rehosting mainframe applications across various units Retail, Banking domains and railway sectors while working with/for fortune 500 companies
• Demonstrated abilities to manage a project through its complete lifecycle viz. Requirement gathering and analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Deployment and maintenance in mainframe environment and during rehosting the mainframe applications to Windows/Linux/Unix environment using Microfocus tool.
• Strengths include big picture focus while rehosting mainframe applications using microfocus tool by providing technical solutions which can include: configuring Micro focus ES,IDE and debugging, file share,, cataloging,MFBSI in Batch
• Strengths also include Micro focus CICS online configuration, ISC concepts and solving performance issues.
• Extensive experience in doing POC for unsupported components in rehosting environment, Performance tuning of online/batch applications in Microfocus rehosted environment using profiler
• Seasoned experienced in rehosting mainframe applications using Clerity tool
• Having experience in pure mainframe Z/OS platform by developing and installing applications in Retail, Finance and Bank domains
• Actively engages in driving strategic initiatives, and the related goals, to ensure the most optimal outcome.
• Lead validation activities for the assigned sub - modules for all types of testing e.g. Functional, Integration, System, User acceptance testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages:: Mainframe-Cobol, Microfocus-Cobol, CICS, JCL

Operating Systems: Z/OS, UNIX, LINUX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista

Project Management: MS Visio 2003, MS Office XP

Tools: MicroFocus Enterprise Server, Net Express, Micro focus Visual studio

Databases: DB2, SQL Server 2000, 2008, UDB

Source control/Build/Scheduler: : VSS, SVN, Endevor, Control-M

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology Lead

• Incident Management for Production Support and Interact with Business for Production issue resolution to ensure Business expectation is met.
• Review the incident solutions provided by the team and communicate to business and other stakeholders.
• Provide value add to incident solution process with technical knowledge and application knowledge by engaging with Application teams and business teams.
• Permanent bug fixes by doing root cause analysis, code changes by analyzing the ticket regularly for recurring issues. Minor enhancements to enhance user experience and reducing clarification calls.
• Provide clarification of Business requirements to developing, testing teams and offshore support teams.
• Reviewing the deliverables prepared by development team, testing team e.g. Application and component design, test plans, testing strategy, etc.
• Create System and Knowledge Management documentation (i.e. diagrams, flow charts, etc.)

Confidential

Technology Lead

• Doing initial analysis and providing the estimates about the time taken to complete the task in mainframe end.
• As a single point of contact in mainframe end I took the responsibility as the developer which includes preparing design document, coding and testing in mainframe environment
• Responsible high quality code deliverables and supports peers in quality checks such that design requirements are met.
• Provide support to data mart ETL Interface team and coordinating with them to process the reports generated in mainframe end.
• Lead validation activities for the assigned sub-modules for all types of testing e.g. Functional, Integration, System, User experience
• Support the creation of the 'Go Live' plan for enhancement activities and manage the assigned activities in the plan;
• Perform root-cause analysis of any issues that arise post-implementation and work on solutions related to issue fixing.

Confidential

Technology Lead at Client location

• Doing impact analysis for the components that are affected by this change in mainframe environment.
• Deliver high quality code deliverables and supports peers in quality checks such that design requirements are met
• Interface with internal team spread globally to undertake onsite-specific activities of the project.
• Lead validation activities for the assigned sub-modules for all types of testing e.g. Functional, Integration, System, User experience
• Support the creation of the 'Go Live' plan for enhancement activities and manage the assigned activities in the plan;
• Perform root-cause analysis of any issues that arise post-implementation and work on solutions related to issue fixing.

Confidential

Onsite Technology Lead

• Contribute to the requirements elicitation process by creating assigned parts of the requirements documentation with guidance from supervisors;
• Participate in creating application architecture document to provide deliverables in line with architectural requirements;
• Create low level design artifacts independently and high level design artifacts with guidance and supports prototyping through creation of POCs
• Resolving Technical issues during Integration in both batch and online application.
• Responsible for performance tuning of the programs that are causing performance issues in clerity environment during SIT.
• Responsible for Post implementation support to resolve critical batch and online issues in rehosted UniKix environment in clerity.

Confidential, California

Technology Lead

• Responsible for performance tuning of the programs in Rehosted Clerity-Unix environment.
• Resolving Technical issues during Integration in both batch and online application.

Confidential, Texas

Technology Lead

• Responsible for rehosting online applications and fixing the issues in rehosted Micro focus-Windows environment
• Responsible for proposing new design and preparing implementation plan in Micro focus- Windows environment.Ex.Proposed to have separate region for PO application for load balancing and implemented the same.
• Responsible for Resolving Technical issues during Integration in both batch and online application.
• Responsible for performance tuning of the online PO application.
• Responsible in providing Hyper care support post implementation and fixed lot of issues

Confidential

Onsite Technology Lead

• Responsible for rehosting online applications and fixing the issues in rehosted Micro focus-Linux environment
• Responsible for proposing new design and preparing implementation plan in Micro focus-Linux environment
• Resolving Technical issues during Integration in both batch and online application.
• Responsible in DR, fail over testing post implementation.

Confidential. Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Technology Analyst

• Defining Solution approach for the components that are not supported in MicroFocus by doing a POC
• Resolving Technical issues during migration
• Responsible for the delivery of transition documents in time.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

• Migration planning
• Defining Solution approach
• Resolving Technical issues during migration
• Resolving technical issues during Production Implementation
• Post-Implementation hyper care support

Confidential, Atlanta

Senior Software Engineer

• Defining Solution approach
• Resolving Technical issues during migration
• Responsible for the delivery of PoC and related documents in time.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Migration planning
• Defining Solution approach for rehosting mainframe applications
• Resolving Technical issues during PoC
• Responsible for the delivery of PoC and related documents in time.

Confidential

Software engineer

• Root-cause analysis of the wrong data updated in E&B Database
• Root-cause analysis of the issues occurred in application.
• Fixing the issues and Documentation of all the fixed

Confidential

Software engineer

• Extracting Business rules from existing Mainframe application during reverse engineering process.
• Preparation of Design documents as part of reverse engineering.
• Reviewing the detail design document used for forward engineering to code in .NET3.0