SUMMARY:

• Versatile IT professional with vast knowledge of Insurance, Banking and Health Care Domains, with in depth knowledge in mainframe technologies.
• Over 9 Yrs of expertise in coordinating projects with cross functional teams located in different geographic locations with efficiency and better productivity.
• Delivered design documents, developed code well before project time line
• Increased revenues by 6% by developing tools that increased productivity of resources.
• Designed programs effectively as such they need less maintenance for future enhancements.
• Identified, recommended and prioritized new features and applications in conjunction with business leaders and department managers.
• Developed, coded, installed, tested, debugged and documented applications using cost effective tools.
• Successfully trained 25 new employees in on site / offshore to get them up to speed on project.
• Streamlined unit testing process to increase efficiency and to accomplish zero defects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Developer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Proposed methods for effective data masking and developed tools that will accomplish the masking with least downtime.
• Actively involved in requirement gathering and drafted use cases.
• Drafted technical specifications and developed programs that will mask
• LINK system using COBOL, JCL, DB2,, IDMS, MQ Series and IBM Utilities.
• Worked closely with QA to develop use cases, review test cases and track feature bugs.

Senior Tech Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Effectively communicated development needs to Offshore teams in India and Philippines
• Merged bunch of program into single one and hence minimizing maintenance effort.
• Developed complex programs using JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, MQ Series and COBOL.
• Led a cross - functional team of developers, QAs and UX designers to develop features and fix defects during system testing

Senior Tech Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with users to enhance the project features.
• Saved over $50,000 in the project by using risk mitigation methods in project planning.
• Developed Detail Design Documents for core modules of the project using COBOL, DB2, CICS,, IDMS, MQ Series and VSAM.
• Delivered project with ZERO defects.

Senior Tech Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Lead team to migrate data from Aetna (Kansas City/Pompano Beach) service centers to Confidential Database. This saved operational cost of $500,000 /yr to the client.
• Gathered requirements and drafted use cases.
• Managed a team of 4 people offshore and onshore
• Monitored project status, tracked deliverables and organized meetings with clients and other participants.
• Coordinated meeting with Vendors, Clients, development and testing teams.
• Responsible for delivery of the project and meeting project deadlines.
• Developed tools that will aid in migration process.

Senior Tech Lead

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Suggested changes in release process to make the project execution more efficient.
• Made changes to the testing process to save the redundancy in testing per year for client.
• Merged related projects into one single project and restructured teams to have the more work done with better communication.
• Helped in developing tools that can automate mundane activities.
• Understood system architecture and suggested client on the new possible changes and improving the existing process and performance.
• Make release changes in DOCUGEN, KEYDOC systems to be in compliance with regulations imposed by the government by using COBOL, IDMS, VASM, MQ Series and DB2.

Team Lead

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Saved Client $88,000 in project execution by using the existing functions from Confidential project and still accomplishing the need of the project.
• Gathered requirements for SIRCON, Zurich, AR-GL, Distribution and CCED interfaces
• Developed data model for DB2, TERA DATA databases
• Performed query tuning and wrote stored procedures.

Project Lead/Delivery Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Gained this project because of the work showcased in Confidential Project and the trust worthiness built with client.
• Delivered the project well before dead line
• Delivered the changes without any overhead to the client by coming up with cost effective ideas.
• Manage a total team of 25 people.
• Track project status and participate in meeting with clients to give project status update and gather details on changes.

Tech Lead/ DBA

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Owned Core Batch process for Subsidy/Net Pay/Commission processing.
• Trained business team's in developing test data.
• Coordinated with offshore in fixing critical defects within given turnaround time during the course of 9 months of UAT and Parallel production testing
• Performed design and development activities of the interfaces using
• Developed subsidy and Net Pay programs using COBOL, DB2, MQ Series, VSAM and JCL.