Project Leader Resume Richmond, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Over 11+ years experienced Mainframe professional with extensive hands - on experience in maintenance & enhancements, development and production support projects.
Exceptional Project Leader with significant expertise coordinating and directing complex development projects from initial requirements involving requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and post-implementation support.
Talent for identifying potential issues and offering solutions to successfully align customer needs.
Over 11+ years of experience in Development, Production Support, Enhancements & Maintenance projects in mainframe system environment.
In depth knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) including analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation, deployment and maintenance of software applications and related databases.
Strong COBOL & SAS programming experience and excellent knowledge in IBM utilities.
Expertise in mainframe system environment in developing - Batch programs, Online CICS programs, JCL, VSAM, DB2.
Sound experience in 24/7 on call support for mainframe based applications and services. Over 3 years ( ) of experience as an onsite-coordinator/technical lead.
Implemented value addition to the business, which brought cost savings of around approximately $100K per annum.

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Confidential, Richmond, VA

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

Work on conversions with the external clearing firm to onboard new clients in Confidential advisors.
Support BL Server application (API solution to access mainframe datasets.)
Review/walkthrough the High Level Design & Detail Design Document with a system architect.
Coordinate design specifications & coding with the team.
Provide weekly & monthly status to the Client Managers.
Extract adhoc reports to business user as per their request.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

Identifying & Solving potential problems, providing workarounds for critical business tasks etc.
Baseline Requirements with Business Analysts and transition with extended team.
Coordinate Design specifications & Coding with offshore team.
Review Unit/System Test plan & test results to ensure testing standards.
Prepare Installation Playbook and walkthrough with other technical teams/business analysts/users involved in the project.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

Created and automated daily, weekly and monthly reports using SAS.
Extract data from database using SAS.
Scope & Functional Requirements Analysis.
Baseline Requirements with Business Analysts and transition with extended team.
Prepare Estimation and Work Plan for the project.
Review/walkthrough the High Level Design & Detail Design Document with a client side system architect.
Coordinate the Design specifications & Coding with offshore team.
Review the coding done to ensure coding standards are followed.
Review Unit/System Test plan & test results to ensure testing standards.
Prepare Installation Playbook and walkthrough with other technical teams/business analysts/users involved in the project.

Maintenance and Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

System study and Understanding the procedures.
Identify & analyze the production bugs and providing solution.
Analysis, coding and testing of modules in estimated time frame.
Preparation of unit test plan/test cases and execution of Unit testing/System test cases.
Ensure defect free implementations.
Provide 12x7 on call support for the applications handled
Estimation, Design and preparation of Functional specification and Technical
Architecture document for new work orders based on client's request.
System study and Understanding the procedures.
Analysis, coding and testing of modules in estimated time frame.
Preparation of unit test plan/test cases and execution of Unit testing/System testing
Identify and Analyze the production bugs and providing solution for the same
Ensure defect free implementations.