PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• iSeries Professional with 14+ years (9 years in Investment Banking) in IT - Industries for various Application Developments using the IBM-AS/400 (RPGLE, CL/400, DB2/400 & COBOL/400) Technologies.
• Worked as AS/400 (RPG/RPGLE/CL/CLLE/COBOL) Software Developer in RPG application development, enhancement and support;
• Experienced in all stages of software development life cycle (SDLC), from analysis through implementation. I am conversant with quality procedures, analysis and design, requirement analysis, development, testing, Implementation using Agile SCRUM Methodology, Waterfall.
• Worked across various locations Singapore, United Kingdom, India and United States.
• Exposure to working in on-site/off shore model environments and played various roles like Onshore Project Lead, Onshore Module team lead, Onsite coordinator, senior developer and Developer.
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills.
• Innovative, creative and timely solutions for complex customer requirements.
• Extensive experience in: evaluating end-user requirements and applying to complex information management solutions third party system development, application system analysis, design, programming, and technical management on many applications and application categories
• Aldon, Turnover and various custom applications.
• Works well with users and technical staffto quickly assess and assimilate business requirements, and effectively target resources to critical needs.
• Strictly adheres to client coding, style, and documentation standards on all projects to ensure maintainability and continuity of all code produced.
• Have worked in Investment Banking, Retail and Media domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM iSeries (AS/400)

Software: RPGLE, RPG/400, COBOL, CL, Query, DDS, Subfiles, COBOLClient /iSeries Access, DDM, DB2, Journaling, MQ

Tools: Aldon, Turnover CMS, Implementer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Software Developer

Environment: RPGLE, RPG/400, CL, DB2, SQL, MQ, DTAQ, Turnover, Agile Methodology

Responsibilities:

• Involve in RPG/AS/400 to design, code, test and document applications and systems.
• Analyze requirements, functional design, and architectural design documents to determine coding needed within Order Management area
• Develops technical project documentation including, flowcharts, diagrams, and Technical Design documents
• Design and build innovative robust solutions to Business requirements
• Ability to look at problems and requirements holistically in a complex landscape
• Develop / modify functionality within an established application framework
• Develop unit test plans and conduct unit test as per test plans
• Provide estimates for completion of Developer Technical Design Documents
• Manages work and assists team members to meet specified due dates for tasks and projects to deliver on time and on budget
• Proactive in providing status updates on tasks and projects to team members
• Accountable for relationships with internal business customers, peers, management team
• Agile and flexible to accommodate changes in business, working in a collaborative environment

Confidential, New York

Developer/Senior Developer/Project Lead

Environment: RPGLE, RPG/400, CL, DB2, SQL, MQ

Responsibilities:

• Managing the Onsite team and being a Technical Lead; providing guidance to team members at both onsite and offshore.
• Managing end to end project delivery, which involves but not limited to the below
• Gathering business requirements across various Lines of Businesses along with conducting prioritization meetings to prioritize these business demands.
• Interaction with users across the globe, thereby understanding their business demands.
• Identifying the software changes to meet the requirements of the change request/enhancements
• Estimating the effort and coming up with timelines to achieve the target.
• Specifying the design, coding, unit testing, SIT support for the new requirements/change requests raised.
• Drafting necessary documents to track/support the change requests inclusive of Impact analysis, Functional and Design specifications, Unit test cases, Guide for Implementation.
• Coordinating with the Business users in UAT, providing Implementation and post implementation support, thereby ensuring timely delivery to the customer.
• Conduct monthly business stakeholder meetings to provide an update on the overall program status, discuss risk/issues and mitigation plans and obtain feedback from the business on delivery from a technology point of view.
• Interact with infrastructure teams in terms of capacity planning, infrastructure optimization and initiate performance tuning projects as a part of capacity and resiliency.
• Worked on server migration projects of iSeries LPAR from one country to another.
• Worked on iBox migration projects of iSeries DEV/UAT and Production LPARs.

Confidential

System Analyst/Software Developer

Environment: COBOL, CL, DB2, SQL

Responsibilities:

• As a team member my responsibilities included analysis of the requirement, design, development and interacting with the onsite for requirement clarifications.
• Shouldering overall responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with the quality control standards and business practices and procedures.
• I am involved in redesign, testing and oversight of the implementation of the new enhancements in the existing environment.
• I am also responsible for analyzing requirements/design of the City & Suburban System, document them and get them approved by onsite.
• Have developed a level of competency, which helps to anticipate issues and solve them in advance.
• During the development of enhancements, I am responsible for developing, preparing Unit test cases and testing the enhancements of the existing application.
• I have been working with MKS implementer which is basically a version controller acting as a tool to retrieve the source from Production server to Development server and to promote the source from Development server to Production server.
• Investigation of the Production issues and fixes the bugs along with the amendments.
• Supporting the onsite calls during the onsite testing and prepares the approach documents for Customer end testing.

Confidential

Software Developer

Environment: COBOL, CL, DB2, SQL

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in entire SDLC cycle which includes analysis, design, coding, testing and till implementation. My responsibilities were in this projectIn analysis phase, carried out analyzing the programs and documented the reports.
• In Design phase, designed the code changes for the impacted programs/files which were of high complexity.
• In the construction phase, did the coding and unit testing of all the impacted components and prepared Test cases and Test logs for Unit Testing as well as System Testing.
• Used to support to the client during the production run and also took care of implementation support.
• Involved in setting up the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment and assisting UAT.
• To maintain the coordination of the onsite team with the offshore development team in delivering the status details documents prepared AS/400 codes.
• Is also involved in Quality assurance activities to ensure all the deliverables leverage cognizant Standards and has used Prolite to collect, consolidate and analyze project metrics, and assist in the efficient calculation of quantifiable project specifications.