SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience in leading IT Projects Related to Analytics & Mainframes. This includes various roles like Onsite Project Lead, Scrum master, Team Management.
• Currently working with a team specializing in ETL and data analytics.
• Comprehensive knowledge of projects working on Agile Methodology like Scrum. Certified Professional scrum master.
• Facilitating all the scrum events and ensuring that teams collaborate and communicate effectively.
• Well experienced in analyzing the business needs and preparing the technical requirements and mentoring the development team for driving the project needs.
• Making information visible and available to team to inspect and continuously improve.
• Spearheaded a team of developers to ensure Implementation of ETL and modernization of Legacy applications.
• Have been associated with U.S. clients for past 11+ years and have a firm knowledge of Retail, healthcare and banking industry.
• Mentoring new agile teams and helping them set up their process and practices.
• Led initiative of Legacy modernization which will result into long term savings of $ 20 Million .
• Adaptable to new technologies in short span and implement them in real - time projects.
• Effective communicator and working experience with steering committees and other project managers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.

Programming Languages: Cobol, JCL, SQL, PL/SQL, APS-Cobol, MFE Cobol, Java, UNIX Shell scripting

OLTP: IMS-DC, CICS, CTS

Databases: TERADATA, Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2

Operating Systems: Z-OS, UNIX

Release management Tools: ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN

Data Querying Tools: Oracle SQL developer, Teradata SQL Assistant

Tools: File-Aid,, VSAM, MFEEE TD12.0/TD13.0/TD14.0 utilities, Service Now, JIRA

Workload management Tools: CA7, Control-M.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Project Lead / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Managing Sears Analytics Program, Targeted interaction & Analytics Team with over 25 associates. These applications are the most critical and important application for Sears Business.
• Acting as Scrum Master for Enhancement project and Development Projects.
• Conducted daily scrums, sprint and release planning sessions, and sprint demos.
• Work with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices.
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement.
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams.
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination
• Manage Burndown, burnup charts and other reports.
• Interact with internal and external peers and managers to exchange information related to areas of specialization. Collaborate with stakeholders on the evaluation of the feasibility, effort and costs to implement requirements.
• Provided subject matter expertise to all teams throughout the SDLC lifecycle to ensure that the product meets the requirements, to minimize project risks and to maintain quality.
• Led initiative of Legacy modernization which will result into long term savings of $ 20 Million. Spearheaded a team of developers to ensure requirements and functional designs are translated accurately into working technical designs that serve customer needs.
• Led the initiative for Optimization of batch jobs by Identifying long running queries, scripts, Spool space issues, skewness issues etc. This resulted in saving of $150,000.
• Accountable for enterprise level SLAs.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Java, JCL, Cobol, Teradata, IBM DB2, SQL, ENDEVOR, File Aid for DB2, Control-M, CA7, QMF, Teradata SQL Assistant, UNIX, Service Now Micro-strategy.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Technical specifications from the Business requirements.
• Preparing Functional specification of the Business requirements.
• Liaison between business, technology delivery team, user experience, and quality control.
• Worked on End to End implementation of HIPPA compliance on various MF applications which were used in adjudicating the claims.
• Worked on Design of House Generics Where we can be given Generic Drug compared to their corresponding Branded counterparts. This was done using Cobol, JCL, DB2 Tables and MFEEE
• Acting as Offshore tech lead for entire development project.
• Interacting with the ESI (Express Scripts Inc.) Business and Subject Matter Expert (SME) team for understanding ESI system functionality and requirement gathering.
• Involved in design of mainframe applications like MEDICARE TRANSITIONS which used to fetch data from MQ series and other GUI based interfaces using Cobol, JCL and DB2 and CICS.
• Preparation of the Unit test data according to the code changes.
• Coding and Unit testing. Independent unit testing.
• Peer review the code, Group Reviews, Test cases and Test results

Environment: JCL, COBOL, IBM DB2, SQL, CICS, File-Aid, ENDEVOR, File Aid for DB2, SPUFI, QMF, Teradata, MFEEE.

Confidential

Sr Software SME

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Architectural design for wiring of different modules of the application which includes Building automated orders for new connections, components, data transfer objects, business implementation.
• Involved in KT for smooth transition from previous vendor.
• Handle end to end Dev/Enhancement work requests for SOCS application on monthly basis.
• Doing all the code changes (Using Assembly Language) and unit testing for SOER monthly release.
• Preparing analysis + design documents for SOER monthly release using COBOL, JCL and assembly language.
• Enhancement in existing modules of Assembler Programs

Environment: JCL, COBOL, IBM DB2, SQL, File-Aid, Assembler, Panvalet ENDEVOR, File Aid for DB2, SPUFI, QMF.

Confidential 

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the phases of SDLC including Requirements Collection, Design & Analysis of the Customer Specifications, Development and Customization of the Application.
• Supporting the production and monitoring the Mainframe integrated modules through files or DB2.
• Involved in developing online screen using IMS DC and DB, MFEEE for Implementation of BASEL 2 Laws.
• Involved in Minor Development + Enhancement (Batch programs-MFE COBOL and Modification in Existing Screens)
• Involved in Technical Design, Coding and Unit testing, Independent unit testing.
• Peer review the code, Group Reviews, Test cases and Test results.
• Reduced defect by 50% by acting as Defect Prevention Anchor for the project. Used Pareto principle for it
• Configuration Controller (CC) for the project.
• Knowledge Management Anchor for the Project.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, IBM DB2, SQL, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS File-Aid, ENDEVOR, File Aid for DB2, SPUFI, QMF, MFEEE.