PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Lead functional coordinator and software developer skilled in functional as well as technical requirements capturing, managing, and configuring applications to meet client’s specifications and contributing as a team member to achieve organizational objectives & goals. Effective planner quickly adapts new tools and concepts with ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.
• Around 9 years of extensive experience in IT industry as Mainframe application developer.
• Maintain and emerge new technologies on Mainframe to provide technical strategical solutions.
• Extensive experience in designing systems emerging the waterfall and current new technology agile software models.
• Extensive working experience in COBOL, PL1, SMP/E, JES2, JES3, JCL, IDMS, DB2, VSAM, Store Procedures, REXX & CICS and other Mainframe Utilities.
• Experience in handling on call application support for the production failures.
• Good experience in version control and other tools like Changeman, SPUFI, RCUPDATE, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR and CEDF.
• Comfortable with technical and functional applications of RDBMS, Data mapping, Data management and Data transportation.
• Involved in project related quality processes - construction and documentation using checklists.
• Created templates for advanced project work to organize tasks with project deadlines.
• Maintaining Incident HDFS and TFS tool as part of optimization and quality assurance process.
• Experience in writing functional and technical documentation with good attention to requirement details.
• Strong understanding of documentation principles and organization rules/templates with conflict team members by applying negotiation resolution.
• Experience in finding the best way to secure the IT infrastructure of an organization.
• Helped in understanding database, documenting sequence of steps and checking integrity security of system in applying disaster recovery.
• Analyze business requirements, preparing the flow chart, perform the gap analysis, and maintain the traceability matrix as per the project need.
• Hands on experience in writing and analyzing various SQL like Oracle, DB2 for 5+ years.
• Handle and manage small to medium size team as a lead coordinator in conflicting situations with good work-style negotiation ideas/strategies.
• Coordinate project documentation request with project manager and team. Reviewing all project related documents for accuracy.
• Extensive experience in Requirement gathering, Team Handling and Co-ordination experience with complex projects involving different applications and emerging technologies.
• Coordinate with client, handle conflicting situations and get questions answered for functional documentation with applying different independency - based resolution strategies.
• 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 Mainframeapplications.
• Good experience in project management with emerged new technologies.
• Strong functional experience includes Retail and Financial domain.
• Experience in handling on call application support for the production failures.
• Involved in project related quality processes - construction and documentation using checklists.
• Created templates for advanced project work to organize information.
• Ability to multi-task across different applications with development and production support.
• Experience working as an onsite coordinator. Attending different meetings with clients gathering requirements, creating HLD (High level design), LLD (Lower Level Design) documentation and transitioning to offshore team applying different level resolution strategies.
• All courses I’m perusing in current semester helped in making myself very flexible, self-motivated and ability to work independently and with team on real conflicting situations.
• Ability to multi-task across different applications with development and production support.

SUMMARY

ERP Products: Mainframes

Software methodologies: Waterfall and Agile.

Operation System: OS/390, Z/OS windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 and XP

Software Products: MVS, VS COBOL II, SMP/E, JES2, JES3, JCL, CICS V4.1.0, PL1, SQL, TSO / ISPF dialog management, IBM Utilities, IMS and REXX.

Databases: DB2, Oracle, VSAM, SQL, Stored procedures and IDMS

Version control tools: CHANGEMAN

Defect tracking tools: HDFS, TFS

Data interaction and other utilities and Tools: ISPF, TSO File-aid, JCL, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, Abend-aid, IBM (IEBCOPY and IEBGENER etc.), AQT for DB2, VSAM, MS Word, MS OFFICE skills

Other languages: SQL, HTML and Knowledge on PYTHON coding and basics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Mainframe Lead Developer/Functional Lead Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project coordination including planning and implementing content across all workflows.
• Document all programming work per client Brokerage standards.
• Enhance existing Confidential systems to meet new business requirements.
• Explain and/or document complex problems and solutions in an understandable manner to both technical and non-technical client personnel.
• Work closely with clients to identify business requirements and software plans.
• Reported progress of tasks to all stake holders through reports.
• Wrote user stories based on the requirements gathered from stake holders/end-users.
• Ability to quickly understand and codeMainframeCOBOL /DB2 programs per technical and user requirement specifications.
• Coordinate with users/partners to finalize design documentation, sizing and planning based on length of project and priorities.
• production support maintaining, troubleshooting, and problem solving with existing applicationMainframeCOBOL/DB2 business programs and systems.
• Develop project plans and detailed schedules.
• Improved coordination by building relationship across teams that helped establishing clear goals.
• Use client brokerage mandated standard coding techniques and testing processes to ensure quality.
• Got opportunity to learn new regulations of cyber law.
• Involved in offering training programs of cyber law to co-employees.
• Experienced in learning of new security threats.
• Understand existing Legacy Business functionalities available in Brokerage modules and document the artefacts which drive the key design strategies for the implementation team.
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore development team(s) to identify priorities and update scope of work to ensure architectural solution could be translated into effectual implementation.
• Detail out plans to remove the complex Legacy applications to minimize the IT production cost and to maximize the ROI.
• Strategize and provide direction to compare data of legacy to proactively identify post-go live issues.
• Present the proposed architecture flow to impacted application teams and get their consent before implementing the same.
• Analyse Enhancement Scope and Business requirements.
• Involved in hiring employees who are certified in Cybersecurity.
• Lead all the SDLC phase involved in this project which includes analysis, design, build, unit testing, System testing, System integration testing and deployment.
• Ensure right tools & standards are consistently used and data integrity is maintained across so maintenance of application is made easy.
• Prepare Effort Estimations, Impact analysis and High-level design documentation for the new functional requirement.
• Co-ordinate with Business user(s) to gather the Business requirements for new enhancements.
• Present technical solutions and alternatives to management and decision makers at a level of understanding commensurate with the audience.
• Configure, build and maintain the production run processes.job and processes.
• Solve problems that arise with database data, production runs and/or the systems products (on-line screens, reports files or interfaces).
• Tuning and optimization of COBOL/DB2 programs and systems.
• Maintenance of system documentation.
• Troubleshoot, Identify and correct reported or suspected errors with code, logic and/or data.
• Apply necessary and discretionary system changes and/or fixes, making system enhancements as required by IT management, business units, statutes, contracts or the system's underlying architecture and/or technology as authorized by Confidential IT management.
• Helpdesk related activities for Policy system related problems and issues.
• Create new applications, programs and/or interfaces to resolve problems.
• TechnicalLeador assistant with development teams.
• Share knowledge, mentor and train team, Mentoring on a regular and ongoing basis and Skills Enhancement program as well as shadowing and consistent transfer of information form Consultants to Brokerage project team members.

Environment: TSO, PL1, MF-COBOL-II/IV/V/VI, VSAM, SPUFI, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, CNTL-M, MQ Series, CICS, IMSL, DB2, DB2 Stored procedures, IDMS, JCL and FILE-AID.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer/onsite coordinator

Responsibilities:

• As part of onsite coordinator, involved in discussions with client to understand functionality and gathering functional requirements.
• Technical design and construction have been done for services (like navigation process, logoff & logon process etc. between screens) across the online modules other than ACIR module.
• Quality assurance has been done at construction level by preparing system test cases and capturing results to compare with the results expected and actual.
• Carried out the analysis to figure out bugs during System testing and User acceptance testing phases.
• Impact analysis and code review have been done for components developed by me based on checklists.
• Maintaining ACIR module to also support new requirement of defining all replenishment tasks to be done per day and setting priority for different replenishment tasks on ACIR screen (based on picking task).
• Maintaining history of replenishment task details in database by writing different DB services and DB2 stored procedures.
• Involved in Code migration.
• Created Go-live document and production move jobs. Ensured the batch cycles gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in service level agreement. Handled well Ad-Hoc requests.
• Involved in fixing errors/abends during production move.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support and resolved technical issues.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analysis of functional document have been done and listed out technical requirements.
• Understanding existing business model and customer requirements.
• Extracted the data from various business partners like Prices, Finance, E-commerce, Mailing, Suppliers, Customers and prepared functional-techno specifications.
• Prepared functional documentation and LLD for a couple of CICS online modules.
• Involved in providing technical background to different Business analysts and application managers.
• Involved in database designing.
• Construction and quality assurance have been done at each level independently by preparing test cases and capturing results (From HLD to UTR stage).
• Developed a CICS online module to provide a different overviews of presale document (4 different types) to an end user.
• Involved in analyzing and solving bugs raised during system testing.
• Prepared a production move support document for Go Live.
• Involved in reviewing the technical standards of other team members in project.
• Impact analysis of one of the maintenance cycles has been done.
• Prepared and archived functional documentation with new requirements and changes done in maintained cycle.
• Prepared TD’s and construction for maintenance cycle.
• Mentoring of other team members in construction of TDs prepared.
• Involved in reviewing the technical standards and assuring quality of components constructed by other team members in project.
• Used ISPF/TSO for editing.
• Prepared a production move support document for Go Live.
• Actively involved in communicating with other team members and counterpart.

Confidential

Associate Mainframe Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Based on Technical document, technical design is done.
• Involved in programming and unit testing using JCL, VS COBOL II, DB2.
• Adapted impacted online applications using CICS.
• Unit/Integration testing and reviewing developed programs with the help of checklist.
• Help in solving technical issues after production move.
• Communication skills
• Stress management
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Adaptability
• Planning
• Flexible across different projects