SUMMARY

• ITIL Certified, experienced Project Manager, technically Hands - on (Mainframe Generic Skills and specifically DB2 relational Database Specialist), well versed with Project Execution, Delivery, Team Handling, Process, Risk, Issue and Stakeholder Management. Confidential has extensively worked at Onsite in a customer facing role in USA BELGIUM, NEDERLANDS & UK on multiple project assignments.
• Confidential has worked extensively using programming languages such as COBOL, PL/1, CA-IDEAL and DBMS such as DB2, IMS DB/DC, CA-DATACOM. Worked in both Batch as well as Online M/F applications.
• Comfortable working with CICS, JCL, VSAM skills. Thoroughly worked on M/F tools like Control-M, CA-7, Librarian, Endeavor, Changeman, Xpeditor, Intertest, File Aid, File Age and Test Director, Quality Center.
• Confidential has worked on different types of IT projects such as Development, Production Support, Maintenance and Enhancements, Testing(Functional and Manual) and Re-engineering/Reverse Engineering projects as well as good at preparing technical documentation for legacy applications after thorough analysis of code modules involving Business Applications covering Manufacturing, Automobile, Property & Casualty Insurance, US Healthcare, Banking & Finance specifically Cards (Prepaid/Debit/Credit), Telecom Billing and Government domains.
• Confidential is currently holding a valid Business Visa (B1/B2) to USA (valid until 02/17/2020) and open to take up Project-assignments across different geographies.
• Confidential is holding a H1B Work Visa Petition, which can be extended/transferred immediately to a new employer’s name & the same does not come under yearly H1B Quota limits nor need to follow the yearly H1B petition filing timelines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Technical: IBM Mainframes Core
• Non - Technical: Project, People & Process Management.
• Project Acquired skills: COBOL,PL/1,CA-IDEAL,DB2,IMS-DB/DC, CA-DATACOM, VSAM,JCL, CICS,XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR,FILE AID,CA-7,CONTROL-M,TESTDIRECTOR, QUALITY CENTER, Java, JSP, Websphere Commerce
• Trained Skills: IBM MAINFRAME - MVS COBOL, DB2,VSAM,JCL,CICS, IBM Websphere MQ, Websphere Commerce, Java, JSP etc.
• Domain Skills: Banking &FinancialServices (CARDS), Government, Public Services, P&C Insurance, HealthCare, Manufacturing, Automotive, Telecom, Testing-Manual &Functional
• Linguistic Skills: ENGLISH,Telugu,Hindi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Offshore Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling of multiple simultaneous tracks/projects of (Non-Claims Portfolio) BCBSMN account in HLTIVS Unit right from SOW stage, Opportunity/Proposal creation, project code creation, resourcing, allocation, project planning, defining the project milestones/deliverables, metrics reporting, milestone reporting, project budgeting, maintain and tracking the project margins, invoicing, billing, handling project delivery issues, escalations, communication and coordination with onsite leads/managers of the respective tracks, conducting weekly/monthly status calls with offshore/onsite teams, tracking the project and people issues till closure.
• Responsible for Govt.Provider, Private Exchange, CATS, HCRSBC, ICMS, Oracle UCM 11G Upgrade, DPM 5.0 Portal, DPM-SGE, DPM P&R Change, IRAPS, DPM Medicare, CASE 360, UM-CM-DM Correspondence, HP Rationalization, HP Exstream Enterprise Correspondence, Clinical Data Registry, Benefit Viewer, CE&O Transactional Steady State, Service Regression etc. bunch of projects and their CRs/Extension Opportunities and amendments from Offshore DC.

Confidential

Offshore Lead for Development Team

Responsibilities:

• As the Offshore Dev. Team Lead for the project, involved in analyzing & understanding of the Business Requirements, Scope; Assisting the Project Tech. Lead in preparation of design documents, implementing the code changes and unit testing of screens, programs, JCLs; Where ever CMSe web part is involved testing of web-services and coding of necessary Mainframe programs; Regression testing of Reports, Files and other screen/web functionality. After the C&T phase, assisting the QA team in OPAC & OPIN testing, defect analysis, code fixes for defects raised and retesting and defect resolution, code movements thru different endeavor regions and post implementation support.

Confidential

Application Lead for ESPS & RPMS Applications

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Prepare Phase deliverables for the two Mainframe applications ESPS & RPMS as part of the SWIFT Clone & GO process.Responsible for scheduling,conducting the SME KT Sessions for the respective applications with FORD IT SMEs.Responsible for preparing the day to day agenda for KT Sessions along with Application Cloning Team nd Data Separation teams based out of both at Onsite and Offshore.Responsible for filling in the information so gathered into the Prepare Phase deliverable documents. Responsible for coordination,communication and Review of the prepared documents and for getting the Gate Review done and final approval and signoff from the Business SMEs of both FORD & JLR and uploding the docs in TC site and common project shared drive and finally promoting the deliverable docs from Prepare WIP to Prepare Gateway.

Confidential

TEAM LEADER

Responsibilities:

• As a team leader, I was responsible for DD & Transition Phases. Preparation of Documents necessary for carrying of DD phase.
• Participating in actual Due Diligence . Preparation of Documents necessary for KT /KAP phase.
• Participating in actual KT phase.
• Giving Business Unit wise Transition to Offshore team on respective Products/Applications .

Confidential

Billing Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• As a team leader, I was responsible for SIT(System Integration Testing) of SSBS Billing Systems and Team Handling; Analysis of the specifications, requirements provided by the users; Batch execution for 3 logical days(cycles) of testing including the month-end functionality testing.
• Responsible for regression testing of the financial reports using the production CDRs
• Responsible for new functionality testing by executing the Batch Cycles covering 3500 batch jobs using the Control-M job scheduler tool
• Responsible for upstream interfaces testing which are feeding data into SSBS
• Responsible for downstream interfaces testing for the data/reports generated from SSBS
• Responsible for User Interaction, Interaction with development team during Testing
• Active involvement in preparing/review process of DTP, Test cases, Test scripts, documenting of Test Results, facilitate resolution of Bugs/Defects raised in Test Director and coordination with relevant stake holders in Defect Triage meetings and Re-testing of the code fixes till closure.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• Acting as SPOC, for overall functioning of Billing Test Team and its day to day deliverables, issues, conflicts, problems, risks and dependencies, and necessary communication and coordination with internal and external teams and other stakeholders and senior management.

Confidential

SME

Responsibilities:

• As an SME for Mainframe applications, I was responsible for Analysis of the IT Controls check list from MAINFRAMES perspectives Guiding and mentoring the assessors in the preparation of questions for different stake holders.
• Being physically present at the time of interviewing the stake holders,help the assessment team with the MAINFRAME related questions and interpretation of the answers and incorporating the same in the check list and assessment reports.
• Responsible for framing of SMART action points in the assessment reports.
• Helping the remediation team with any questions related to the SMART action points and the possible solutions
• Help the assessment team in the re-assessment of IT Controls check list and determine the compliance of the same.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities

• As the lead resource for this documentation project, I was responsible and accountable for the following:
• Meeting and conducting technical discussions with the various SMEs and application owners and users for the specified MAINFRAME applications (Aries, Falcon,TBS & TCS).
• In the absence of any written documentation, trying to understand the application functionality by going thru source code of Programs, JCLs and CICS Screen navigation, copybooks, Db2 Tables, Input and Output files, Reports generated;
• Responsible for knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing related to Incoming Interfaces(U/S) and Outgoing Interfaces(D/S) and Interfaces with the other External systems and documenting the same for each given application.
• Responsible for proper communication within the team and knowledge sharing with the team, monitoring and controlling the day to day activities of the team
• Responsible for User interactions, discussions with the Developers, Testers and SMEs.
• Taking Overall ownership and ultimate responsibility for the sign off of the delivered documents, by the respective stake holders.