SUMMARY

• More than 10 years of experience in various Technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, DB2, IMS, CICS - Web services, ECL
• Experience in Project Scheduling, Project Tracking and Team Management
• Experience in leading team of 16 members for around 6 years through all phases of the project
• Experience of over 8 years in business, functional and system analysis
• Experience of over 9 years in General Insurance, Banking, Welfare and Healthcare systems
• Experienced in Welfare domain and very good knowledge in Social Welfare Programs like CalWorks, CalFresh, Medical, CalHeers, etc.
• Experience in interacting with clients to gather requirements, use case preparation, onsite coordination and implementation
• Experience in reviews and walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, test results
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - requirements gathering, analysis, high-level design, low-level design, coding, unit testing, system integration testing user acceptance testing in Development, Maintenance and Enhancement projects
• Experience in all phases of Testing, including Preparation of Test data, Testing environment set-up, Creation of Test cases, Unit Testing and System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
• Proficient in Six Sigma, SEI CMMI and PCMM Quality processes and in execution of projects involving CMMI level 5 processes
• Experience in production support activities
• Experience in configuration management
• Experience in training and mentoring team members on insurance domain, mainframe technology and client's system
• Certified ‘Associate in General Insurance’ (AINS) on completion of INS21, INS22 and INS23 certifications
• Award of Appreciation for CalHEERs development from Unisys, Awarded ‘Recognizing Excellence’ by client ( Confidential UK) and ‘Certification of Achievement’ by CSC
• Strengths include being a quick learner with excellent analytical and problem solving skills; being a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills; effective handling of concurrent responsibilities and good presentation and documentation skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, ECL

Data Base: DB2, IMS, RDBMS

Operating Systems: MVS OS/390, Unisys 2200

Tools & Utilities: MS Access, Powerpoint, excel;, ms project, Changeman, Endeavor, Bagman; Xpeditor, IBM debugger, Intertest, Control-M, OPC, $AVRS, SDSF; SPUFI, SQL, QMF, FILE-AID DB2, BCM, DB2; FILE-AID, TSO-ISPF, FTP, Abend-aid, QW, INFOPAC; XML, SOAP, Data Manager, COGEN; DB2 PowerBuilder, Eclipse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

CalHeers project manager

Responsibilities:

• Application development Mnagement, Requirements analysis and design of new module for eligibility determination request that needs to be sent to CalHEERs from LEADER
• doing preliminary analysis and testing of implementing XML based communication through MSMQ for LEADER system
• assisting other modules in design and overall design improvement of the project.
• Assigning tasks to the development team and providing answers for business queries and resolution for technical issues faced by them
• Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
• Acting as quality coordinator for the project to implement quality standards in the project including but not limited the coding checklist, promotion checklist, defect tracking and CAR analysis on defects.
• Recommending and implementing process improvements
• Estimating development effort required for change requests
• Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
• Monitoring the progress of the tasks assigned and reviewing the deliverable s from the development team
• Coordinating with other team leads in existing LEADER system to analyze the impact on current system and suggesting changes to minimize the impact.
• Supporting client in training activities to user on the new system.
• Maintenance and improvement of the subsystem.
• Requirements gathering through JADs and system analysis.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering through direct client interaction, performing business and system analysis based on requirements and preparing use cases for them
• Application designing of CICS-Web Services using Channels and Containers and testing XML SOAP messages generated by various applications
• Assigning tasks to the development team and providing answers for business queries and resolution for technical issues faced by them
• Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
• Acting as Release Coordinator for production releases
• Recommending and implementing process improvements
• Estimating development effort required for change requests
• Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
• Budget planning for change requests through walkthrough and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams
• Providing status updates to project manager and preparing Monthly Quality Reports
• Monitoring the progress of the tasks assigned and reviewing the deliverables from the development team
• Reviewing and maintaining quality related documents prepared by team members in appropriate configuration libraries during all phases of SDLC
• Managing team members and appraising them on their performance

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert of client's data warehouse application - Facit
• Requirements gathering through direct client interaction, performing business and system analysis based on requirements and preparing use cases for them
• Modification, development and testing of batch programs and jobs using COBOL, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve and JCL
• Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
• Coordinating with production DBA’s to handle the system performance issues
• Estimating hours and resource planning for tasks
• Coordinating effectively between multiple application owners and offshore team
• Assigning tasks to the development team and providing them with business and technical support
• Mentoring team members and reviewing their deliverables
• Providing status updates to project manager and preparing quarterly Quality Reports
• Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
• Preparing of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
• Base support activities to provide resolution to tickets raised by client
• Supporting production incidents and performing abend analysis of production jobs

Confidential

Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert for COGEN application
• Performing business and system analysis on use cases to prepare detailed design
• Modification, development. testing and debugging of online programs, batch programs and jobs using COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL
• Preparation of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
• Estimating hours for tasks
• Base support activities to provide resolution to tickets raised by client based on priority
• Timely escalation of issues to immediate supervisor
• Conducting knowledge transfer sessions for new team members

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Modification, development, testing and debugging of online programs, batch programs and jobs using COBOL, VSAM, CICS and JCL
• Creating fresh test regions as part of NPI implementation
• Scheduling of jobs in test environment using Control-M
• Monitoring of batch jobs and solving abends in minimal possible time
• Preparing test cases and test plans and performing peer review
• Preparation of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
• Providing oncall production support on rotational basis
• Participating in Disaster Recovery exercises for mainframe applications