SUMMARY:

• 13.5 years of experience in the IT industry with wide range of experience in SDLC Life cycle processes - Requirement analysis & Solution design, Build, Testing & Implementation.
• Includes 6+ years of experience in the Confidential in client facing roles.
• Have extensive knowledge and working experience on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) both in Agile & Waterfall models.
• Worked on Requirements management, System study, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Integration Testing and System Maintenance as Developer to Project management roles.
• Worked in various domains like Banking, Retail, Insurance and Telecom.
• Involved in Technical and Project management roles for Break-fix & Enhancements - planning, estimation, tracking, and preparation of Customer reports etc.,
• Onsite and offshore team management, task assignment to team members and their progress monitoring.
• Experienced in working with Onsite-Offshore model and led a team of 5 to 25 members in few projects.
• Self-motivated and high target oriented individual with application development experience on IBM Mainframes using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IBM Utilities, SQL, QMF, Stored Procedures, JCL, Changeman, File-Aid, Xpeditor etc.,
• Written SQL queries and Stored Procedures using relational databases like DB2 etc.
• Expertise in Database tools like LOAD, UNLOAD, IMAGE COPY, REORG, RUNSTATS etc.
• Good knowledge of tools like File-AID, File-Manager, XPEDITOR, INFOMAN, Service Desk tools, Module Coordination System (MCS), MF Mainframe Express (MFE), MF-Revolve, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Changeman, Move4DB2 etc.,
• Participated in project definition, conference room piloting and analysis phase of large, complex & demanding assignments.
• Sound knowledge in using IBM utilities like SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER. Expert in development, maintenance of batch programs in COBOL and testing with appropriate JCL.
• Trained in Hadoop suite - Java, Map Reduce, HDFS file system, Pig, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Flume etc.,
• Has good understanding of Hadoop/Big Data concepts - Name node, Data node, Job tracker, Task tracker etc.,
• Worked on EBCDIC to ASCII framework and file conversion projects, Data migration from mainframe to Hadoop lake etc.,
• Good Understanding of product lifecycles and Comprehensive Delivery Process.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Have immense ability to build productive relationships with peers, management, and clients applying strong Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: VS-COBOL II 3.2, JCL, CICS

Databases: DB2, VSAM and Oracle 8i, Teradata, Stored Procedures

Technologies: Mainframes

Development Tools: SQL, QMF, SPUFI, SAR, CA-7, Connect Direct (NDM / FTP), BMC Utilities, File-Aid Utility, PEGASYS

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, Micro Focus - Mainframe Express, Revolve

Version Control Tools: ELIPS (Librarian), Module Coordination System (MCS), Panvalet, Changeman, Endevor

Incident Management Tools: Infoman, HP Open view, CA Unicenter, HPSM, Heat

Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center, BMC Remedy

SDLC Tools: DOORS, HP Project & Portfolio Management, Clarity

Big Data Suite: Cloudera, Map Reduce, Hive, HBase (No SQL), Pig, Oozie workflow, Sqoop, Flume, Zoo Keeper etc., Snap Logic, DMExpress Syncsort

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Consultant,

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL, USA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for doing analysis, preparing technical specs and functional specs, development, maintenance of code. Responsible for complexity determination and estimation.
• Distributing the work between offshore team members & track development progress.
• Participating in code and work product review of offshore deliverables.
• Worked as a liaison between technology and the business clients to improve business processes and support critical business strategies.
• Worked on EBCDIC to ASCII framework. Data migration from Mainframe to Hadoop Lake.
• Extracting master files data from mainframe, converting them to ASCII, creating schema from the Confidential etc.,
• Using Data Registry to register the type of file to the environment and setup framework jobs to do Data validation DQs, Count validation, Generating integrated keys & load Hive tables.
• Testing the jobs/code in Hadoop pre-prod/QA environments and validation.
• For some projects helped in extracting DB2/Teradata table data and loading to Red shift tables using S3.

Technologies Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS, File-Manager, IBM Debugger, Change Man.

Project Manager,

Confidential, Simsbury, CT, USA

Responsibilities:

• Work with integration teams and come out with project release plans and proposals.
• Managing the new initiative from the client close to $3m in value and a team of 5 onsite & 10 offshore members. Complete delivery & engagement management.
• Work out project plans, status reports, meeting with client partners for SOW planning and financial costing for in scope items.
• Meeting with business/client team for proposal, status, requirement sessions etc.,

Technologies Used: Java, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Oracle, DB2, Enterprise Architect, ERWIN, Mainframes.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL, USA

Responsibilities:

• Custom/Ad-hoc report generation, Solving incident tickets & production support.
• Helping business team in making informed decisions with respect to claims volume and daily processing load.
• Providing solution advisory on user queries. Participate in design and code reviews.
• Perform thorough Design and Test Results reviews and coding walkthroughs along with CVS lead and got them signed-off by the respective App managers.
• Coordinate with interface teams in case of file delays or issues with claims interface files.

Technologies Used: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, File-AID, Xpeditor, Change Man .

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain Project Plan, Communication Plan, Work Plan, Task Log, Risk Log, and Issues Log.
• Managed a team of 8 members both of technical & career front including their appraisal.
• Reporting project status to upper management (client & Wipro) on deliverables & participate in WSR, QSR, SDR meetings etc., Chaired those meetings many times.
• Participating in Risk assessment & mitigation meeting with Delivery manager.
• Solution Advisory on product technical issues & assigning incident/problem tickets.
• Responsible for create/implement quality process & maintaining proper documentation.
• Review code changes prior to the implementation as a part of configuration control.

Technologies Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Oracle, File-AID.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• As per FSD, create Technical Design and Document.
• Meet with client team to understand the business and delegate the work accordingly to offshore team members.
• Creation of High level and Low level design documents as per the business requirements.
• Perform thorough Design and Test Results reviews and coding walkthroughs.
• Tests performed manually in different stages and environments (Development, Test), prior to moving to Production.

Technologies Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Oracle, File-AID.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis, design and enhancement to existing system using business spec / technical spec documents.
• Coding of application changes as required / specified by technical specification document.
• Prepare test plans and conduct unit testing / system testing.
• Incidents come as Remedy tickets and they are assigned for problem studies. They will be worked based on the priority by the team.

Technologies Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Oracle, File-AID.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS, USA,

Responsibilities:

• Participating in daily client meetings and understanding / gathering the requirements.
• Analysis on the BRs and estimating feasibility of technical implementation and creating the technical requirements for the offshore team.
• Project tracking and maintenance of time Vs resource.
• Coordinating with offshore team on daily basis for knowledge base and status, helping them in design, coding and testing, mentoring them to deliverables in timely manner.
• Helping the clients in making business decisions on projects.

Technologies Used: TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, File-AID and NDM.

Sprint Telecommunications,

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to the existing Application, as per the clients request.
• Design of technical solution to meet the requirements of functional requirement documents.
• Coding of application changes as required / specified by technical design documents.
• Involved in technical reviews and fine tuning of the system.
• Providing support in break-fix and severity-calls.

Technologies Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, CTG-Beans.

Confidential, Bangalore, India

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the tickets based on the specification document received from the clients, preparing design documents and providing estimation effort (LOE - Level of Effort).
• Involved in Requirements gathering and converting them into technical requirements.
• Performed DB2 LOADS, UNLOADS, Image copies, RUNSTATS, BINDS and other DB2 core utilities from production to development, test and then to staging environments.
• Coding and unit testing of the tickets received from the clients & documentation of the unit test results.

Technologies Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, File-AID, INFOMAN and NDM.

Developer,

Sprint Telecommunications,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis, design and enhancement to existing system using detailed design documents / client requests.
• Coded COBOL/DB2 programs as per technical design and quality standards
• Prepared unit test plans, test cases, test data. Documented the test results

Technologies Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, XPEDITOR, File-AID.

Programmer/Analyst,

Sprint Telecommunications,

Responsibilities:

• Coding testing of COBOL/VSAM programs as per the requirements.
• Implemented several change requests in customizing the functionality of the ITE system with Sprint software engineering standards.
• Testing the code or modified modules against the requested and existing functionality.

Technologies Used: IBM MF, OS/390, COBOL 370, VSAM, DB2, CList, JCL, TSO Dialog Manager.

Mahendra Engineering College,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering, Analysis, Designing, Coding, Implementation, Testing and Performance Tuning of the software
• Customized the software with creative new ideas and incorporated modules like time sheet, schedule hours, remote login, access check, User / Administrator login etc.,
• Involved in complete design & development of the Application using VB 6.0, SQL Oracle 8i
• Designed forms & reports using Visual Basic. Developed & tested stored procs in Oracle.

Technologies Used: Windows 2000 / NT, Visual Basic 6.0, Data Reports 6.0, Oracle 8.0