SUMMARY:

• Able and conscientious Programmer Analyst with 8 years of experience in IBM mainframe environment .Outstanding technical expertise with excellent analytical skills and trouble shooting ability. Proficient at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation .Demonstrated the ability to interact with people on many levels in a fast paced work environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Strong experience in Insurance Industry and also worked as part of Retail Industry. Lead multiple teams through special and strategic projects for the customer with 100% satisfaction ratings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: COBOL, CICS, JCL, REXX, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, JSP

DBMS: DB2 V8, DB2 V10, VSAM

TECHNOLOGIES: Mainframes

PRODUCTS: INGENIUM, ORACLE - OIPA

OPERATING SYSTEM: Z-OS, MVS, Windows

TOOLS: FILE-AID, XPEDITER, SPUFI, QMF, AQT, TSO/ISPF, OPTIM, ABEND-AID, SDF2, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities, FTP, EASYTRIEVE, OPC Job Scheduler, Rational Asset Analyzer, Quality Center, Remedy

CONFIGURATION MGMT: VSS, SVN, CHANGEMAN, Star Team

MIDDLEWARE: MQ Series, CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Achieved Best Performer of Quarter thrice
• Achieved Excellent Performer Semi Annual once
• Received several Customer Appreciations for excellent Project Execution.

Confidential

Environment: Mainframes - COBOL, CICS, JCDBMS - DB2, VSAM

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Handled end to end implementation of each enhancement task independently from estimation till production install, followed by post production support.
• Communicated with Business partners and SMEs to understand requirement and resolve queries.
• Used work breakdown structure method for estimation.
• Created technical specification, test case documents followed by Coding and Unit Testing.
• Coding involved CICS Screen changes, COBOL, JCL and DB2 table changes.
• Coordinated with interfacing applications during Integration testing.
• Coordinated with infrastructure teams like DBA to implement table changes for production install.

Confidential

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Carried out Level 0 and detailed estimation for all 3 projects.
• Assisted Project Manager in resource loading for 3 projects that were to run in parallel
• Handled weekly status reporting of projects with Confidential management team.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with Business and Analysts to come up with strategic solutions
• Coordinated with Business and Vendor Management group to handle Initial Full Customer load which involved extensive customer data mapping.
• For new customers, coordinated with Business to design Plan Structures to fulfil Business needs and fit into existing system. Plan structures affected Premium and Billing
• Coordinated with Offshore development team in translating requirements and ensuring traceability of requirement right thru the technical design creation, coding and testing phases
• Coordinated with CICS, DB2, Web Service, MQ infrastructure Teams to in corporate new environmental changes like adding CICS transaction, DB2 table changes, setting up new MQ and handling web service calls
• Coordinated with QA and partnering teams during testing phases.
• Meticulously handled Configuration Management activities which were critical as many teams (production support, upgrade and development teams) were working on the same INGENIUM ADMIN system simultaneously.
• Handled weekend Production Installs and Post install testing with Business partners in live environment.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions with Production support team to help them understand newly implemented functionalities.
• Monitored post production fallouts and coordinated with Confidential management to plan out fix implementation for the same.

Confidential

Technical Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential SMEs in designing the entire system flow right from Initial Data load to end processes such as billing and correspondence.
• Contributed actively in several brainstorming sessions to understand the format of initial data which was highly sensitive in nature and to formalize a strategy to load these millions of participants into new system.
• Created High level and Low Level Technical specification documents and coordinated with Offshore team to develop based on the design provided
• Created huge amount of test data to do volumetric testing and individual functional testing, as real data was unavailable.
• Coordinated with several infrastructure teams to setup new MQs, new DB2 tables, new CICS transactions
• Designed new batch Job trails and performed required scheduling for entire new trail
• Developed archival processes using OPTIM tool to periodically archive data for performance tuning
• Handled configuration management activities which were very complicated due to the spiral model where number of phases were worked in parallel
• Coordinated Release Management activities with Confidential team
• Participated in Production installation and post-production support which involved one week of hyper-care monitoring

Confidential

Environment: Mainframes - COBOL, JCL

Senior Programmer & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Carried out extensive Data Analysis across all three applications (using SQL queries) to identify Data elements which were logically inactive or erroneous in the legacy system so that they are not ported into the new Java based system.
• Created several data discrepancy reports based on the data analysis performed. These Statistics proved useful while estimating for the new system development.
• Assessed all the Interfaces involved in these 3 legacy applications to identify common and uncommon Interfaces among them. Further, the common interfaces were assessed in depth to identify common and uncommon data elements. Finally, created detailed mapping documents to depict this analysis

Confidential

Environment: Mainframes - COBOL, JCL

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Having introduced to INGENIUM product, attended sessions to understand this product
• Worked on requirement gathering, analysis and technical design flow creation for requirements.
• Created Test Plan and Test cases for Unit Testing
• Developed COBOL code and HTML components followed by reviews using checklists
• Reviewed all deliverables to maintain quality before handing it over to Customer

Confidential

Environment: Mainframes - COBOL, CICS, JCLDBMS - VSAM

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed several existing functional processes of this system to understand its complexity in terms of number of built-in rules
• Used Rational Asset analyzer tool for studying and extracting business rules from COBOL and CICS code.
• Articulated analysis and finding in detailed documents.
• Developed top-down and bottom-up rules extraction methodology with the team.

Confidential

Environment: Mainframes - COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL

Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Carried out all the tasks with rich experience of software development lifecycle execution and discipline.
• Interacted with Confidential SMEs to come up with Technical design solutions for requirements assigned
• Developed CICS modules where communication within programs happened thru address pointers.
• Created several batch reports using SQL forms and procedures.
• Developed new batch jobs and made job scheduling changes in existing batch trails.
• Built Application Knowledge Portal for Disability Income product and its functionality that affected Group Business
• Conducted knowledge sharing sessions within and across projects, mentoring new team members on mainframe technology and disability income functionality.

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, CICS, JCL

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed in-depth analysis of core areas of correspondence i.e. annuitant processing, payment and tax processing.
• Studied the current Business Processes and overall IT work around involved and identified Pain Point areas in these process
• Proposed resolutions for these pain areas and articulated documents with proposed state flow diagrams. Used MS Visio to create Flow diagrams
• Evaluated the efforts involved for successful implementation of the recommended solutions using PATNI Plus estimation template
• Handled configuration management by maintaining versions of the artifacts created

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, CICS, JCL

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Carried out analysis for different enhancement requests and mapped these requirements to the operational systems.
• For each enhancement implementation, created Technical design documentation, test cases, conducted coding and unit testing without any schedule variance.
• Performed reviews at several stages of development life cycle to maintain quality of deliverables
• Assisted team members in ABEND analysis and resolutions
• Created learning documents on Functional processes and technical process flows
• Assisted in Production Support with quick turn-around time for fixes