SUMMARY

• Having 14 plus years of IT experience with primary focus on Application Development which includes 14 years of comprehensive experience on Mainframes
• Domain experience in Auto Insurance, Health Insurance, Finance Tax.
• Manage project scoping and estimation activities, document the project scope and approach, review plans with business and technology stakeholders and acquire sign - off from business and technology leadership.
• Serves as lead to direct technical activities (including analysis, planning, architecture, design, development, testing and maintenance of support systems for business areas).
• Works with cross-functional teams and interact effectively with all levels by participating in Project & Enterprise meetings as necessary.
• Extensive experience in attending the project review meetings with Clients, gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Leads or acts as chief technical contributor for the translation of business requirements to technical specifications.
• Works closely with team to coordinate and plan ongoing and scheduled system maintenance activities and assists other team members who perform ongoing system maintenance, research, problem resolution and support tasks for existing systems.
• Oversees/Coordinates the completion of unit testing, integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems.
• Assist in evaluating priorities and advice on options, risks, and costs versus benefits of proposed solutions.
• Takes a lead role in supporting 24x7 On-Call activities - Production Issue resolution for Severity Level 1 to Level 4 abends based on Service Level Agreement.
• Support Deployment Activities - Participate with Release manager/Release Management Team to work towards planning for project Deployment & Post Deployment Activities - Resolve incidents/problems reported and also perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for issues.
• Keep up to date on technological changes by participating in Technology Roadmap audits, especially with regard to job-related languages, operating systems, tools and methodologies.
• Strong hands-on experience in using Mainframe technologies like COBOL, PL/1, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, SQL.
• Expertise in using mainframe tools such as XPEDITER, RDZ, DFSORT, File-Aid, SPUFI, and CONRTOL-M.
• Expertise in using revision controllers such as CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, Tool for checking out, testing & issuing the components in Production.
• Have Strong knowledge on Optimizing SQL queries, By SQL Optimization saves the MIPS consumption there by reducing the Maintenance cost of the Application.
• Knowledge in using HP Service Manager and Incident/Problem/Change/Release Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: PL/1, COBOL, JCL

Database Management Language: SQL

Database skills: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, Datacom

Tools: DFSORT, File-Aid, File Manager, Xpeditor, RDZ, SPUFI, QMF, Autoflow, ROVR, SAVRS, CONTROL-D, BLDDOC, BLDISS, SIA Tool, STRUCISS

Service Management Tool: HP Service Manager (HPSM)

Version Controller/ Change Management Tool: CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, RMS

Job Scheduler: Control-M, CA7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, Coding, Testing & Implementation of new or enhanced processes. Coding includes Scala to create and work with Apache-spark Dataframes, RDD’s and datasets
• Handled importing of data from various data sources, performed transformations using Hive, MapReduce
• Continuous monitoring and managing the Hadoop cluster through Cloudera Manager
• Responsible for building scalable distributed data solutions using Hadoop
• Working in an Agile environment, participating in different scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-up’s, sprint backlog grooming and sprint retrospective
• Used Oozie to automate the data loading into Hadoop Distributed File System. Designed& implemented Java Map/Reduce programs to support distributed data processing.
• 24*7 On-call support & System monitoring
• Lookout for continuous enhancement & automation of the various existing processes
• Customizing the applications to meet STATE FARM requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Play SME in Financial Systems solution center portfolio & Serve as liaison between the Technology organization and the business users
• Interact with stewards of all financial systems and Business partners to understand the business and system requirements
• Analyze the business requirements and prepare plans for the customization of external, internal reporting systems
• Customizing the applications to meet STATE FARM requirements
• Involve in resolving the critical production issues, impact analysis on System news
• Interacts with cross-functional teams such as upstream & downstream areas for organizational business/system changes
• Coordination with offshore team on client deliverables
• Works side by side with Web developers on Mainframe/Web development projects

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, Coding, Testing & Implementation of new or enhanced processes. Coding includes simple COBOL, Cobol-DB2, Batch programs, JCL, SQL, REXX coding.
• Retrieve and Manipulate Database objects using advanced SQL coding.
• Data loading & maintenance, Statistics gathering & usage.
• 24*7 On-call support & System monitoring
• Lookout for continuous enhancement & automation of the various existing processes.
• Estimate the number of work & hours for the new processes and communicate same to onsite team lead for Client’s approval.
• Support Data warehouse sizing activity.
• Identifying areas for improvement and providing value-add / productivity improvement tools.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Analysis and Development of code, performing Unit Testing.
• Worked on generating the Daily, Weekly reports.
• Worked on Batch Jobs, Production support batch

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Analysis and Development of code, performing Unit Testing.
• Production support batch