SUMMARY
- More than 16 years of IT experience especially on IBM mainframe platform
- Possesses sound technical knowledge and hands - on experience working on end-to-end Application development, Maintenance and production support projects using IBM Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL
- As Senior Technical Architect has helped customers define, re-define, develop and implement changes to complex technical architecture to derive the desired benefits and achieve the ROI
- Has 8+ years project management experience of setting up and executing application development, maintenance and 24 X 7 production support projects in multi-location model
- Has extensively worked in Asset management, Insurance, Retail and Distribution, Finance domains
- Experienced in performing wide variety of roles and responsibilities such as Project Management, Customer relationship management, Onsite co-ordination, business analysis, technical design, software development, maintenance, production support and presales support
- Has worked on wide variety of projects involving application maintenance, development, re-engineering, production support, performance optimization, data migration, legacy modernization projects
- Actively participate in major Legacy modernization COE(Centre of Excellence) initiatives
- Technical Pre-sales
- Lead Employee technical competency development program
- Contribute to development and institutionalization of solutions, methodology and frameworks for Legacy modernization projects
- Have managed end to end implementation of System z196 virtualized infrastructure with 3-site Disaster Recovery (DR) solution in India
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- IBM System z9, IBM S/390, ES-9000, IBM PC
- COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, Rexx, FOCUS
- OS/390, MVS/ESA, Windows XP, Windows 98, DOS
- DB2, PS, PDS, VSAM, MQ Series, Stored Procedures.
- Xpeditor, Intertest, Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI, Insync, XPEDITOR, Endevor, Changeman, Telon, CA7, VISIO, Visionplus, Informatica, Power-exchange, Reveal
- IBM System z196, IBM System z10, IBM System z9
- COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, Rexx z/OS, zLinux, z/VM
- DB2 on z/OS, MQ on z/OS, CICS, VSAM, COBOL
- DB2 on LUW, MQ on LUW, Oracle RAC, WAS on Linux
- Omegamon, RMF, SPUFI, IBM DB2 Advance Tools, Informatica, ITCAM tools, FileManager, Visionplus, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, 3 site GDPS Solution, IBM Crypto Express 3 Card
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Service Delivery Manager
Environment: z/VM, Linux on system z, Websphere Application Server, DB2, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, GDPS
Responsibilities:
- Build and manage a team of 15+ onsite resources
- Develop skills on z/VM, Linux, Crypto Cards, GDPS
- Prepare, Execute, Monitor and Control the Implementation Project Plan
- Manage Stakeholder communications and escalations
- Architecture design and advisory
- Develop Technical Solutions
- Liaise with IBM internal support teams and help resolve technical Issues
- Setup procedures for System health check monitoring and operations support
- Solution Pre-sales and Support
Confidential
Service Delivery Manager
Environment: : z/OS, CICS, DB2, MQ
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of skilled 20+ onsite professionals
- Manage 24 X 7 L1 Operation management and L3 Prime shift coverage
- Manage 24 X 7 uptime and track it using stringent SLAs
- Manage Stakeholder communications and escalations
- Liaise with IBM internal support teams and help resolve technical Issues
- Setup procedures for System health check monitoring and operations support
- Vendor management
Confidential
Project Manager
Environment: z/OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, MQ Series, J2EE, IBM Websphere Server, CICS Webservices
Responsibilities:
- Build a team of onsite, offshore near shore resources
- Application study
- Architecture design and advisory
- Setup of Web infrastructure, Standards and guidelines
- Manage various application design/development/enhancement projects
- Manage data migration projects from VSAM to DB2
- Manage screen modernization project
- Software Development and Enhancement using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL