PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Technical/Project Lead with 11+ years of results - oriented, progressive experience to support and maintaining the Batch and Transactional IBM Mainframe applications.
• Well versed in all the stages of the software development life cycle, like Requirement Gathering, Architectural Design, High level Technical Design, and Coding, Testing with the Mainframe applications.
• Extensive experience in Requirement gathering, Team Handling and Co-ordination experience with complex projects involving different applications and technologies.
• Strong functional experience includes Life Insurance, Annuity, Credit Cards and Banking domain.
• Good experience in handling a Mainframe, Data warehouse applications involves Development, Support and Maintenance activities.
• Experience in handling on-call application support for the production failures.
• Team player with excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Strong leader with experience training developers and advising technical groups on Mainframe and ETL best practices for data migrations.
• Comfortable with technical and functional applications of RDBMS, Data Mapping, Data management and Data transportation.
• Analyze business requirements, preparing the flow chart, perform the gap analysis, and maintain the traceability matrix as per the project need.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

• Languages
• Tools/Utilities
• Databases
• O/S
• Processes
• COBOL
• Stored Procedures
• SQL
• SAS
• TSO/ISPF
• JCL
• File Aid/Manager
• File Aid DB2
• Spufi
• TWS
• CA-11
• Talend, Informatica
• SAP HANA
• IBM DB2
• IMS DB
• SQL
• VSAM
• OS/390
• Z/OS
• Windows
• SDLC
• ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Cincinnati, OH

Technical Lead

Environment: IBM z/OS, COBOL, SAS, JCL, DB2,TWS, DB2 visualizer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting across all application holders and LOB to understand the requirement and joining the project CD sessions to discuss the BRD’s in detail.
• Doing a high level application analysis and provide the necessary details to project teams and business analysts.
• Preparing the Impact analysis document, High and Low level technical design documents for Mainframe applications.
• Preparing the necessary project artifacts required as per the organization standards.
• Responsible for the Technical Specification,Code development and preparing the necessary test result documents for the SME approvals.
• Involved in guiding the team and responsible for meeting the development timelines.
• Coordinating with offshore team on all phase of the project deliverables.
• Unit testing and supporting the system and E2E validations.
• Co-ordination with different application team at offshore and guiding them on all phase of the projects.
• Develop and guide the Mainframe team in Coding, test validations.
• Maintaining the task allocation and project deliverable tracking with offshore team on daily basis.
• Expertise in handling the major and complex production implementation involving the multiple teams.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Environment: IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, SAS,DB2, TWS, DB2 visualizer

Responsibilities:

• Doing a high level application analysis and provide the necessary details to project teams and business analysts.
• Prepare the High level and Low level Technical design specification based on the Functional Specifications.
• Preparation of technical specifications and enhancing and guiding the team to build necessary mainframe components as per the requirement.
• Co-ordination with different application team at offshore and guiding them on all phase of the projects.
• Working with FTP team on the file transmission setup to Mainframe environments.
• Involved in guiding the team and responsible for meeting the development timelines.
• Coordinating with offshore team on all phase of the project deliverables.
• Unit testing and supporting the system and E2E validations.
• Maintaining the task allocation and project deliverable tracking with offshore team on daily basis.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Environment: IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2,SAS,

Responsibilities:

• Analysis on the all data requests and their source identification in the applications/systems.
• Support data mapping and support the transmission to Data warehouse and Argus.
• Preparation of technical plan, enhancing and guiding the team to build necessary mainframe components as per the requirement.
• Working with FTP team on the file transmission setup to Mainframe environments.
• Involved in guiding the team and responsible for meeting the development timelines.
• Coordinating with offshore team on all phase of the project deliverables.
• Unit testing and supporting the system and E2E validations.
• As a part of this initiative, our application needs to share all type of data we receive or send across all type of different vendors with the detail information which will be used by the to ingest the data into the Data Lake environments.
• Responsible to provide all type information we send to TSYS, Vantiv, Argus, Loyalty Edge and Trans union.
• Provide the data mapping for each file, layouts and the respective field mapping.
• Convert some of the fields in the readable format and make easy for data ingestion.
• Fulfilling all the data needs to have the ingestion of all data/files to Data lake environment

Confidential - Minneapolis,MN

Project Lead

Environment: IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, Expediter, TWS

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business functionality and preparing the System Requirement Documents with reference to User Requirements.
• Providing the justification and taking the Estimation Approvals with client on Mainframe and ETL team. .
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Preparing and reviewing various project documents and configuration management etc.
• Mentoring team members in technical areas/decisions and help them in complex queries and reports.
• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Updating the existing JCL’s to handle the Next Generation changes
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.
• Participating in Internal Audits and External Reviews.
• Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.
• Involved in warranty Support for the releases

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: IBM z/OSCOBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, TWS,PL/SQL, Informatica

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge Acquisition of SLI Business and SME are about the different applications.
• Provided Production support service to the SLI Applications involved Mainframe, PL/SQL and Abinitio skills in it at onshore.
• Provided Stand by support at onshore for SLI Mainframe applications
• Involved in building the Service Definition of Incident, Problem and Request Managements to SLI.
• Good exposure of building the new Onsite-Offshore delivery models.
• Experience in building a new Team of (10+) and setup the Production support service at offshore
• Educate the offshore team about SLI business and production support activities
• Expertise in handling complex issues with business users and handling critical batch failures.
• Complete responsibility of offshore production support service deliverables and Governance activities required for the team.
• Provided process improvement solutions to avoid the time consuming BAU process and regular batch failures
• Knowledge Acquisition from Ameriprise Business team and understanding the existing business functionality.
• Understanding the requirements thoroughly by going through the Functional Specification or URL documents prepared by the BA team.
• Co-ordination and effectively managing the Onshore-Offshore work module.
• Lead root cause analysis identification & resolution issues.
• Convert business requirements into technical requirements for various enhancements including facilitating discussions between business and development teams to reach agreement on objectives and priorities.
• Define test plan, perform system testing, regression and integration testing.
• Resolving incidents logged on the Remedy (Incident & Problem management tool) by TC users, meeting the SLA according to Service Definition guidelines.
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Manage the resource for offshore team.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Provide idea generation, cost and estimation, resource management and mentoring.
• System ownership of highly visible month-end process. Extensive user interaction providing customer with various ad hoc reporting requests.
• Provide proven problem research and resolution skills via 24/7 weekly on-call production support of daily batch transactional processes for approved excess application.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements
• Involved in making appropriate changes to code as per the change requirement.
• Requirement analysis.
• Analyzing the existing Code. Changing the code as per the requirement
• Preparation of Unit test case and testing the code changes
• Code Promotion, fixing the identified defects by testing team
• Preparing understanding documents regarding the knowledge gained by Business Requirement.
• Coordinating the Offshore team with Onsite Team.
• Analyzing the Pacbase / COBOL Code. Changing the code as per the requirement
• Preparation of Unit test case and testing the code changes
• System Testing Documentation