PROFFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Technical Lead with 11 and a half years of Hands - On experience in end-to-end Mainframe Application Development and Maintenance & Support, leading and mentoring a team of up to 15 people, and Project and team management
• A Result driven Technical Lead with 11 years and 6 months of extensive experience in application development, maintenance and support experience in IBM Mainframe and related Technologies, and Project and resource management
• Expert in delivering and managing technical projects which are being run at multiple geographies
• Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance certified with proven success in facilitating agile processes in the teams
• Expert in understanding and transforming complex business requirements into software applications which are scalable, performance optimized and maintainable
• Adept in end-to-end development and implementation of software applications including requirement gathering and analysis, High-level and Detailed design, Coding, Debugging, Testing support, deployment, Post-Prod support and documentation
• Extensive Experience in Healthcare and Banking domain software applications
• Adept at Agile (Scrum) and waterfall methodologies of software development
• 6 years of expert experience working alongside the end client at the client location in US

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL Queries, VSAM, CA-7 Scheduler, ZEKE Scheduler, CA-GENEROL, HP Exstream Dialogue, Ezytrieve, CICS, MQ Series

Database: IBM DB2, Basic Knowledge of IMS

Tools: SDSF, FILE AID, PLATINUM, STARTOOL, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, DB2 TOOLS, IBM Data Studio Developer, ChangeMan, Info Pac Reporting, CA JMR, IBM Tivoli Output Manager, CA-Service Desk, Serena Business Manager (SBM), Insync

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Project Lead

Technologies / Tools Used: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Easytrieve, CA Endevor, XPEDITOR, ZEKE Scheduler, MQ Series, IBM DB2 Viewer

Responsibilities:

• Tracking the list of all the incidents and service requests currently he team has, and also maintaining the complete list of old incidents
• Making sure that all the work and tickets in the project goes smoothly
• Reporting and representing the team in inter-team discussions and the meetings with Confidential vendors
• Mentoring and helping the team members in their work tasks and technical brainstorming in case required for the complex tasks my team is working on
• Team Capacity Planning and providing team progress
• Working on the road maps and presenting it to the senior management
• Presenting the team in all discussions with the client, client management and senior management
• Maintaining multiple complex mainframe applications for the End client
• Monitoring proper functioning of large applications which involve multiple sub-systems involving many complex processes and batch jobs
• Working on Production Tickets / Incidents of all levels of priority from P1 thru P5
• Analyzing the Production issues and working on fixing the issues
• Working on Service Requests from the Business Teams and end users
• Monitoring daily batch cycles and batch jobs
• Presenting the Team in discussions with the Business Teams and the stakeholders to discuss for the Production fixes
• Analyzing, researching, deciding and implementing the technical solutions for application improvements
• Testing the changes done for Production fixes and migrating these to Production
• Maintaining the Production Incident Logs and monitoring the tickets
• Working on the coding and SQL queries and varied technical tasks to work on the service requests raised by the end users and business stakeholders / users

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Technical Lead and Scrum Master

Technologies / Tools Used: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Easytrieve, Serena ChangeMan, XPEDITOR, Tivoli Scheduler, MQ Series, IBM DB2 Viewer, HP Quality Center ALM

Responsibilities:

• Being a Project Lead, responsible for all the project deliverables including designs, code, integration testing, and all the related documents
• Tracking of all the projects / incidents / defects currently assigned to the team
• Reporting to the Vice President and Director regarding the latest updates and developments for the team
• Presenting the team in inter-team technical and non-technical discussions and decisions
• Help and mentor team with their technical queries and challenges Apart from Project Leader activities - I do my own technical work as well as below:
• System Research, Business requirement analysis, feasibility checks
• Design of new critical projects for the biggest HPS carrier - Confidential
• End to end - development of most critical projects related to the same HPS carrier
• Wrote extensive and complex DB2 queries using multiple JOIN predicates to generate reports for the carriers
• Consuming the EDI-834 Inbound file and process the file to load to the HPS Database - DB2 Tables
• Worked on generation of the Outbound EDI-834 File to exchange / carriers
• Enhanced multiple CICS-COBOL-DB2 programs using MQ Series for multiple projects
• Worked on multiple DB2 stored procedures enhancements to update / insert data into DB2 database
• Debug the multiple online programs / stored procs for the defects raised by testers
• Interacted with the front end BR (Business Rules), WTX, WMB - to receive data in mainframe thru MQ Series / channels / containers
• Developed a good number of Easytrieve / DB2 programs to read (for reporting) / update / insert data into multiple DB2 tables
• Handled the end-to-end conversions (bringing the new carriers onboard the HPS system) of 2 new carriers for HPS
• Reviewed the code / queries developed and the documentation written by my team members
• Single-handedly owned a big initiative right from the conception stage till the final delivery for the new carrier I worked for HPS, to get the historical data from the carrier and store it on HPS database. Involved multiple interactions and iterations, good number of data validations, before loading the data into DB2 tables.

Confidential, Green Bay, WI

Onshore Technical Project Lead

Technologies / Tools Used: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Easytrieve, PANVALET, XPEDITOR, CA-7 Scheduler, PLATINUM, FILE AID, IBM DB2 Viewer, HP Exstream Dialogue (Creating input files for Exstream Dialogue Pubs and processing the output MRDF / AFP / PDF Files), SQUIDs Test Management Tool, Info Pac Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end development of multiple highly visible projects - right from the beginning stage of requirement understanding up, preparing High Level and Detailed level designs, coding, unit testing, supporting the testing, production implementation, production warranty and hand-over to the Production Support & Maintenance (PSM) Team
• Created the requirement understanding document, proposed multiple solution options to all the stake-holders, performed the feasibility checks on the multiple design options, and got approvals on the most suitable and feasible option
• Created the architecture / designs of the new applications based on the requirements
• Held multiple sessions with the business stake-holders and the users to discuss the project requirements and designs
• Developed new applications from scratch using COBOL, DB2, JCL
• Developed new applications using HP Exstream Dialogue engine (ENGEXE), creating the driver file to be input to the engine
• Coding the whole JCL using the ENGEXE from scratch - handling version of the HP Exstream, multiple Input DD Files (look-up files), getting the output files from the engine - MRDF, AFP, AFPALL, PDF, PDFALL files
• Coding JCL to load these output (AFPALL) files to Mobius for Web viewing, and sending the print files (MRDF / AFP) to the Print servers for document printing
• Coded and enhanced multiple DB2 stored procedures, which fetch / update from multiple DB2 tables
• Generating Info Pac reports
• Led the Onshore and Offshore Team and managed / reviewed on a regular basis the deliverables from the Onshore and Offshore Teams
• Presented the team in all the requirement discussion / design meetings
• Worked on creating the Interface document of files / data to be shared from / to our system to / from other systems, based on multiple discussions
• Logging SIT Test Cases in Squids Test Management Tool
• Helping the stakeholders / UAT testers / Business with answering questions and queries in regards to the applications
• Liaise among the technical development team and IT Project managers and the business
• Daily discussions and meeting with Offshore Lead and team to brief them about the project tasks and mentor them

Confidential, Green Bay, WI

Technical Project Manager and Onsite Coordinator

Technologies / Tools Used: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Easytrieve, PANVALET, XPEDITOR, CA-7 Scheduler, PLATINUM, FILE AID, IBM DB2 Viewer, SQUIDs Test Management Tool, Info Pac Reporting

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end development / enhancement of multiple projects and built all the required documentation
• Coded and enhanced multiple applications in COBOL, JCL, DB2
• Wrote multiple DB2 queries to generate reports for the business
• Enhanced DB2 stored procedures based on project requirements
• Worked in Scrum Framework, and performed all Scrum related activities which include but are not limited to Scrum meeting, Sprint Planning, Story writing, Story pointing, Sprint Review
• Story Grooming, discussions with the Product Owner and estimation of the stories
• Giving Demos for the work achieved during the past sprint, and also presenting the same for my offshore team
• Mentoring the Offshore Team and managed / reviewed on a regular basis the deliverables from the Offshore Teams
• Facilitate discussions / meetings among the various teams and between the Onshore / Customer and Offshore Team
• Presented the team in all the requirement discussion / design meetings

Confidential

Project Leader

Technologies / Tools Used: COBOL, DB2, CICS, CA GENEROL, IMS

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirement of the project.
• Changing the codes written in CA-GENEROL.
• Worked on enhancing multiple COBOL-IMS programs
• Handling the online part of the project.
• Giving support to the system testing team by resolving any issues or fixing defects.
• Giving basic mainframes training to freshers.
• Mentoring new joinees in the team
• Analyzing the existing functionalities of the system.
• Analyzing the requirements of the new system and their feasibility.
• Interacting with the Chordiant business analysts regarding the business requirements.
• Interacting with the external technical teams of RBS banking.
• Debugging the existing system and documenting the findings.
• Determining the external system APIs to be used in the new system

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Technologies / Tools Used: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, STAR TOOL, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, FILE AID

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end development of new applications
• Designed and Coded a major chunk of a new and a critical application (7 out of the total 14 modules) single-handedly, and got many accolades from within and outside the team
• Did coding in COBOL-DB2 and JCL
• Handled / Took ownership of the major part of the application during the testing phase (11 modules), as the team was reduced to 2
• Gave full testing support to the Quality testing team present at a different location
• Gave full testing support to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Team present at the client location