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