SUMMARY

• Technology Architect and Delivery Leader wif 17+ years of experience in various IT services - Application Modernization / Migrations, Solutioning, Software Development on IBM Mainframes and x86 based COBOL platforms.
• Hands on experience in Application Modernization and Digital Transformation of large-scale Mainframe systems of fortune 500 customers onto on-prem and hybrid environments.
• Industry/Domain: Life and Annuity Insurance, Core Banking and Supply Chain.
• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to collaborate effectively wif internal/external teams, customers, and vendors to develop solutions aligned wif business objectives.
• End to End experience in Modernization life cycle - Assessment, PoC, Reference implementation, defining of migration strategy, execution, and cutover onto Windows, Redhat Linux and IBM AIX.
• Solution Architect and technical SME for modernization of multi-tenant Life and Annuity platform supporting 4 Million policies across 30 clients and digital transformation of re-hosted platform. Reference link.
• Successful in enhancing digital capabilities of Life and Annuity platform to integrate through Microsoft Azure APIs, Pub-Sub that allowed digital capabilities like IVR, Chatbox, Unified desktop and creation of Operational Data Store (ODS).
• Leading Conversion Center of Excellence in Life and Annuity space. Creating re-usable and scalable architecture for data conversions.
• Knowledge on Big Data Technologies and No-SQL database. Understanding of Cloud eco system.
• Expertise in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Portfolio, and mainframe workload assessment.
• Collaborate wif partners and vendors to develop solutions and reference architectures in teh Mainframe modernization space.
• Work effectively wifin a matrix organization and wifin a very diverse array of potential client project organizational models, including Verticals, Service Lines, multiple sponsors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages & OLTP: COBOL, JCL, CICS.

DBMS: DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, VSAM

Migration Tools/Utilities: MicroFocus Migration Work Bench, Microfocus Enterprise Server Microfocus Enterprise Link, NTT UniKix TPE, BPE, UniKix Migration Tool Kit (MTK)

Mainframe Technologies: Endevor, Changeman, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF,CA7, Xpeditor

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell

BigData Technologies: Hadoop eco system, Hive, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Dremio

Distributed Platform Tools: Team Foundation Server(TFS), Visual Studio IDK, StoneBranch Scheduler, CA Autosys, Toad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solution Architect / Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrated mainframe technology-based insurance platform and re-hosted to on-prem Linux using NTT Unikix product. This Life and Annuity platform is used by 30 US insurance companies and supports 10 million+ active policies.
• Platform owner for Life and Annuity.
• Migrated mainframe technology-based Health care logistic platform onto windows platform using Microfocus suite of products.
• Develop SOAP Webservices published through Microsoft Azure API gateway.
• Worked on creation of near real time and batch data feed to ODS (Operational Datastore) residing on Azure. Currently working wif vendors on implementing CDC.
• Reducing COBOL inventory by developing teh extract / reports on Data Exchange tool (Dremio) connected to ODS.
• Data migration using NTT Clerity MTK. Overview of IMS DB to SQL conversion using BluePhoenix data conversion product.
• Performed application assessment and develop business case for ROI. Developed source assessment report, migration strategy along wif effort and schedule to re-host application.
• Consulted customer in selection of third-party products (Scheduler, Source control solution, tools / products for application support & monitoring etc.).
• Designed application security, version controlling methods, build, deploy methods.
• Software installation, configuration, role-based security and creation of Development, QA and production environments.
• Defining production cut-over strategy.
• Developed various reusable tools for code migration, data migration, conversational to pseudo-conversational CICS, REXX to Shell scripts, Assembler to COBOL, automated test execution tools and created utilities for Developer community.
• Performance optimization and peak season planning for high volume events.
• Creation of new service offerings and enhance technical capabilities of teh platform.
• Project Delivery, Release management, Warranty Support, Technical Reviews and Quality Metrics preparation.

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Part of teh Mainframe Modernization team and involved in end to end migration cycle.
• Responsible for code migration from Mainframes to IBM AIX using MicroFocus suite of re-hosting products.
• Responsible for Mainframe Data Migration using Simotime.
• MicroFocus Upgrades installation, configuration and acted as a single point contact for all MicroFocus patch releases, installations, Configurations wif in Tesco.
• Coordination wif MicroFocus consultant for product features.
• Coordinating wif testing and integration teams in bug fixing.
• Design Review, Process Improvement planning and Implementation (End to End).
• Automating teh manual tasks by Korn Shell Scripts.
• Overview on IMS DC to .Net screen migration using MicroFocus Enterprise link.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of business requirements.
• Designing of new programs / modification of existing programs as per requirements.
• Participation in user acceptance testing and other testing phases.
• Impact analysis.
• Application Maintenance and Production Support.
• Handling Production incidents and making sure to close them wif in SLA.
• Preparation of Technical specs, program specs and unit test cases.