Professional Summary

• IT Consultant with 15+ years of experience in end-to-end software development. Full software lifecycle expertise, including:
• requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing (unit, system and integration testing), implementation, project management and production support
• PMI Certified Project Management Professional with excellent mainframe and Teradata skills.
• Solid application development experience using COBOL, DB2, CICS (with MQ), JCL, IMS and VSAM
• Have extensive experience in development of new applications and in bug-fixing/upgrading of existing applications
• Has excellent analytical skills and worked effectively in 7x24 production support of time-critical applications and experienced with working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experienced as an on-site team lead leading many development, maintenance and enhancement projects with onsite & offshore components
• Has performed multiple consulting roles including:
• Lead Analyst, Functional Designer, Senior Software developer, Application developer.

Technical Skills

Languages:COBOL, JCL, PL/1, SAS

Software/Tools:VSAM, EASYRIEVE, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, PLITEST, SELCOPY, SMARTTEST, Quickstart, Endevor, TOAD, VISIO, Quality Center, Comparex, XML

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, M204, TERADATA, Oracle

Communications:CICS

Operating Systems:Z/OS, OS/390, PRIMOS, UNIX

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications

Experience Highlights:

Variety of demanding clients and projects with increasing complexity and responsibilities since 1986:

Client : Confidential, San Bruno, CA Mar 2007 – May 2009 
Project : Production Support, Maintenance and Enhancement
Role : Project Lead / Designer

This project provided round-the-clock production support of applications and enhancements. As a single point of contact I managed the offshore project and provided technical support to the offshore team responsible for maintenance, enhancement and production support. New applications developed or enhanced and successfully deployed included: Purchase Order Management system, Supply Chain Navigator, Enterprise Data Warehouse system, and more. In addition, had created functional design documents and data mapping documents for an ERL implementation interface development.

Software/Tools used: COBOL, DB2, CICS, Fileaid, Easytrieve, VSAM, JCL, Oracle, TOAD, VISIO, Quality Center

Client : APL (American Presidential Lines), Oakland, CA Sep 2005 – Feb 2007
Project : GFF & TAS
Role : Software Developer

GFF (Global Freight Forwarding System) was a new front-end developed and TAS (Terminal Accounting System) was an existing application. Developed the CICS programs that interface between the Java front-end and mainframe back-end and provided extensive technical support to the business users in Europe and Asia to resolve their issues during the UAT and post-production phases. In addition to this project, I did the performance tuning of an existing mainframe extract and Teradata upload process. As part of this process, had rewritten the extract and developed an archival and purge process using Teradata as the archival database. For this tuning, had coded a COBOL extract to replace the existing batch spufis in order to improve performance.
Software/Tools used: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, Fileaid, Endevor, SMARTTEST, Quickstart, Teradata, NDM, XML

Client : Confidential, San Bruno, CA May 1999 – June 2005
Project : Production Support of Inventory Systems & Other Projects
Role : Onsite Team Lead/Analyst/Developer

During the 6 year period at CONFIDENTIAL I worked in various roles as onsite team lead, system analyst and developer.
Some of the tasks performed include:

• As part of the maintenance and enhancement team, gathered requirements for new enhancements in Inventory applications, evaluated the feasibility, did impact analysis to determine the affected components to estimate the time and cost impact, designed, developed and successfully implemented the applications
• As onsite lead, coordinated the offshore work and performed the acceptance testing of the deliverables
• As a data analyst for one of the Retek implementations, interacted with various test teams (system test, integration test and performance test teams) to gather data requirements for each testing phase to work out the test data preparation strategies
• Was the team lead for offshore legacy break-fix team for another Retek implementation (a major implementation of Retek’s Merchandising system). The work involved fixing all the issues/bugs found during system and integration testing of the legacy interface. These interfaces consisted of CICS programs using MQ queues
• Did on-call production support (24*7) for Inventory applications developed on COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM & CICS (challenges included fixing high-severity production abends/issues within an SLA of one hour)

Software/Tools used: COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS DB, Fileaid, FTP, Xpeditor, Easytrieve, STROBE, JCL, Endevor, VSAM, Quality Center

Client : Confidential, Dunedin, FL Mar 1997 – April 1999
Project : Y2K Enabling
Role : Offshore Project Manager

I was responsible for the offshore work (done by a team of 20 resources) that included impact analysis, code change to make the programs Y2K compliant, unit testing and system testing of the various applications done under tight schedule requirements. 
Software/Tools used: PL/1, M204 (database), SAS, PLITEST

Client : Confidential, Sep 1995 – Feb 1997
Project : User interface development for a Data warehouse
Role : Offshore Project Leader

The project involved the development of various extracts (using BTEQs) to retrieve the relevant data needed by external systems from Teradata Data Warehouse. As the project leader, I encountered many challenges and had worked closely and had continuous interaction with the client as this was one of the first pilot offshore projects for the new client.
Software/Tools used: TERADATA, DB2

Client : Confidential, Sep 1995 – Feb 1997
Project : Development of a Securities Clearing and Settlement System 
Role : QA Team Lead

Client : Confidential Jan 1991 – Apr 1993
Project : CYBER COBOL & CYBER DM to IBM COBOL & DB2 Migration project 
Role : Module Leader

Client : Confidential Apr 1990 – Dec 1990
Project : Office Automation system development
Role : Developer of Office Automation system using specifications provided by client

Client : Confidential Sep 1989 – Mar 1990
Project : Payment and Collection System development (COBOL/IMS)
Role : Developer

Professional Activities, Certifications and Trainings

• Completed PMP from Project Management Institute
• Completed Sig Sigma Green Belt course
• Teradata Basic & Utilities Training conducted by AT&T