SUMMARY

• Expertise in BCP, JES2, IOCP, HCD, RMF, SMF, STP, DFSMS, DFHSM, DFDSS, FDR, SDSF, DFSORT, TDS, IOC, OSA/SF, WLM, NFS, APF, SMP/E, TSO/E, ISPF, RACF, SVC Dumps, OMEGAMON, VTAM/SNA, OpenSSH, UNIX System Services.
• Efficient in developing Enterprise wide Operations strategy for a high volume production system, reducing systems complexity and redundancy, maintaining alignment of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, rolling out RSUs and applying PTFs, maintenance of new software releases, developing performance and utilization metrics reports that contribute to reliability, scalability, availability & capacity management.
• Extensive experience in COBOL, CICS, REXX, JCL, SAS, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, MQSeries, SCLM, CHANGEMAN, Endevor, Easytrieve, Insync, IDCAMS, File Manager (z/OS, DB2 & IMS), JOBSCAN, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, PANVALET, CA - 7, DEBUG, Fault Analyzer, INFOMAN, CEDF, INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, XPEDITER, PQEDIT, MQJ Explorer, SCP, WinSCP, WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in IBM RACF software setup and configurations, evaluated the current environments, made recommendations for standardizing and simplifying procedures and helped in the design, develop, test and implementing hardware/software components, RACF tools, and utilities.
• Extensive experience in using various File Formats: PS, PO, PDS, PDS/E, z/FS and VSAM/E.
• Profound knowledge and hands on experience in using IMS and DB2 databases and expertise in maintenance and management of both the system components.
• Created Test LPARs to be used by the System support team for installing and testing software.
• Profound understanding of information technology industry trends and experience on emerging DevOps and various other tools, IBM RDNG, RDz, Eclipse IDE, SonarQube, Confluence, GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins etc.
• Expertise in Source Version Control Administration using z/OS legacy tools, integration, and migration from legacy systems to open source GitHub repositories.
• Having Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL 4 Foundation certifications, reflects the ability of thorough understanding and flexibility of adapting to different Project Development Life Cycles and skills in applying various Project Management methodologies.
• Thrive in challenging and demanding environments and proven to resolve internal/external issues with critical systems within the stipulated timelines and meeting SLA’s.
• A quick learner with excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with a proactive attitude and team spirit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential z/OS Change Control Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain currency of software in IBM z/OS systems and subsystems and ISV software, rolling out RSUs and applying PTFs, migrating to new releases and installing and upgrading the products and components as required under existing maintenance agreements.
• PROD & TEST LPARs IPL for the scheduled system changes, fixes, and storage initializations etc.
• Monitoring system logs, SVC dumps, job cycles execution by IBM Tivoli Workload scheduler tool, for implementing possible recommendations to exploit performance benefits, suppressing the excessive messages etc. and addressing the occurred issues by analyzing the root causes.
• Updating System automated message handling process to generate required notifications.
• Maintain alignment of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, conducting DR exercises.
• Decommission and retire z/OS products, services, and hardware in support of business decisions.
• Maintaining and renewing the certificates/license keys for software products like ASG-JOB/SCAN, ZEN FTP ALERT, LRS VPS etc.
• Manually changing the daylight savings time zone/clock on LPARs through HMC.
• Accessing WLM services, performing the tasks of adding new service classes, changing dispatch priorities and corrections to existing classification rules etc. as required.
• Monitoring APF authorized programs and libraries, cleaning up of obsolete datasets and their references from parmlibs, Performing IODF, JES2 printer etc. cleanup.
• Adding generic dataset profiles and maintaining/updating SMF BUFSP values as required.
• Changing IPL initiators configuration deck as needed. Maintaining the catalogs and catalog entries, DASD/DISK unit address changes.
• Configuration and monitoring the supporting components and tools like IBM Health Checker etc.
• System’s panels and logs enhancements and modifications using CLIST and REXX scripts.
• Monitoring the system performance using Tivoli OMEGAMON and addressing the thresholds.
• Development of REXX routines to be used for RACF management of TSO User Id’s.
• Monitor and address the Central storage (real memory) shortage occurrences on LPARs.
• Define new HiperSockets interfaces for LPAR’s and fix the existing routes as needed.
• Update and maintain the IBM Book Manager files on the z/OS System.
• File transmissions using FTP, SSH & TLS protocols and maintaining HFS, zFS file systems.

Environment: z/OS, HMC, VTAM/SNA, DFSMS, DFHSM, FDR, JES2, SDSF, DFSORT, TDS, IOC, OSA/SF, WLM, NFS, APF, SMP/E , LPA, ServerPac,TSO/E, ISPF, RACF, SVC Dumps, TN3270, COBOL, CICS, PS/PO/PDS/VSAM, CLIST, REXX, JCL, DB2, IMS, MQ, SCLM, SPUFI, File Manager (DB2 & IMS), VPS, ASG-JOBSCAN, FTPALERT, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, DEBUG, Fault Analyzer, OMEGAMON(DB2 & CICS), JAVA, FTP, TCP/IP, z/OS USS, WinSCP, Rational ClearQuest, IBM RDNG, WAS, WebSphere MQ, GitHub, Eclipse IDE, JIRA, Jenkins etc.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions and perform analysis of system processes which determine the feasibility of converting Account Receivable data from Confidential to Himark platform.
• Role includes coordinating with the Clients, gathering the requirements and preparation of Functional Specifications documentation.
• Preparing Technical design documents, with program specifications at very detailed level.
• Development of SAS, COBOL source code to implement the conversion logic.
• Development of JCL’s and using SYNCSORT techniques for applying various data extraction criteria.
• Testing batch COBOL, SAS modules and online CICS modules, uses IMS and DB2 databases.
• Monitoring job cycles execution using OPC tool, analyzing the root cause of any issues occurred using ABEND-AID tool.
• Performing file operations using tool, INSYNC and MQ operations by using MQJ Explorer.
• Using different types of VSAM file accessing methods.
• Optimizing the file access operations by applying performance tuning techniques for Indexes etc.
• Responsible for preparing unit and system integration test cases and performing the testing.
• Review of the code, Unit, Integration test plans and results to ensure code meets customer requirements and standards.
• Extensive usage of version control tools like Endevor.
• Thorough usage of Online debugging tools, Intertest, CEDF.
• Role includes coordinating with the Clients, gathering the requirements.
• Providing Support in terms of monitoring cycles execution in Production, System testing, User Acceptance testing environments.

Environment: VS COBOL II, SAS, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, MVS, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, OPC, Intertest, CEDF, CEMT, ABEND-AID, Endevor, MQ Series, MQJ Explorer.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions and perform analysis of system processes which determine clients’ benefit eligibility and update clients’ information.
• Preparation of Functional Specifications documentation.
• Preparing Technical design documents, with program specifications at very detailed level.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans, Integration Test plans and creation of Test environment.
• Review of the code, Unit, Integration test plans and results to ensure code meets customer requirements and ACES standards.
• Supporting the QA, System Integration and Acceptance testing and Production deployment.
• Testing online CICS code and batch COBOL programs in a Mainframe environment comprises of IMS and DB2 databases.
• Using Rational Clear Quest tool for defect management.
• Using Rational Requisite Pro as version controlling tool for document repository.
• Extensive usage of version control tools like SCLM and file operations using tool, File Manager.
• Monitoring job cycles execution using OPC tool, analyzing the root cause of any issues occurred using ABEND-AID tool.
• Optimizing the file access operations by applying performance tuning techniques for Indexes etc.
• Role includes coordinating with the business analysts and gathering the requirements.
• Actively Involved in Analyzing the Business specifications, impact analysis.
• Providing Support in terms of monitoring cycles execution in Production, System testing, User Acceptance testing environments .

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL, SPUFI, MVS Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, OPC, CEDF, CEMT, ABEND-AID, SCLM, File Manager, Rational Clear Quest and Rational Requisite Pro.

Confidential

Technical developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business specifications and preparation of Specification Design document for the alerts system to be developed.
• Impact analysis and preparation of Technical Design document.
• Development of batch modules using COBOL, JCL.
• Implementation of Critical Online modules using CICS.
• Performing file operations using tool, Fileaid and source code release management tool, Endevor.
• Generation of reports using Easytrieve.
• Development of critical DB2 modules to access database, implementing complex SQL queries, Sub queries, Co-related queries, using Aggregate and Scalar functions.
• Using different types of VSAM file accessing methods.
• Optimizing the file access operations by applying performance tuning techniques for Indexes etc.
• Thorough usage of Online debugging tools, Intertest, CEDF.
• Role includes coordinating with the Clients, gathering the requirements.
• Providing solutions for the Production issues.
• Supporting the QA, System Integration and Acceptance testing and Production deployment.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL, TSO/ISPF, Intertest, FileAid, Endeavor

Confidential

Technical project lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting and coordinating with the clients for the requirements gathering and design solutions.
• Conduct workshops with the key end clients to design the blueprints and preparing functional specification documents.
• Preparing Technical design documents, with program specifications at a very detailed level.
• Technical Development of Lift and Shift and Conversion of Mutual Fund applications.
• Implemented online MQ service to receive Price feed from NSCC on Daily basis.
• Used tools like PQEDIT, for MQ operations.
• Development of major batch modules using COBOL, JCL.
• Implementation of Critical Online modules using CICS.
• Extensive usage of Version control tools like Changeman.
• Performing file operations using tool, Fileaid.
• Generation of reports using Easytrieve.
• Development of critical DB2 modules to access database, implementing complex SQL queries, Sub queries, Co-related queries, using Aggregate and Scalar functions.
• Using different types of VSAM file accessing methods.
• Optimizing the file access operations by applying performance tuning techniques for Indexes etc.
• Thorough usage of Online debugging tools, Intertest, CEDF.
• Role includes coordinating with the Clients, gathering the requirements.
• Actively Involved in Analyzing the Business specifications, impact analysis.
• Providing Support in Analysis and providing the solutions for the Production issues.
• Supporting the QA, System Integration and Acceptance testing and Production deployment.

Environment: VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, MVS, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, SYNCSORT, Intertest, CEDF, CEMT, PQEDIT, MQ Series, Xpediter etc.