SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of professional experience in Software Development Life Cycle with IBM iSeries (a.k.a. AS400) development, maintenance and support projects involving multiple clients in different business domains such as Healthcare (PBM), Insurance, Banking, Finance, Retail and Supply Chain Management.
• Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment
• Working as a functional - technical lead:
• With business users to define and analyze problems and align the most appropriate technical, application or configuration solutions
• Requirement gathering and query resolution. Responsible for interaction with client/ business users/ Test leads to state the requirement clearly
• Creates, reviews and delivers end-user documentation (user guide, process flow charts, and materials) and for accuracy. This documentation starts while Analysis and preparing functional, technical, requirements and test documents
• Working with the vendor teams and users to select/ create appropriate scenarios to test all results to determine whether system changes met project specifications. Work with users for test scenarios to assist in end user acceptance testing
• Reviews system test plans and system tests modules before implementation as part of delivery
• Construction: Coding and Unit Testing. Comfortable in coding modules in Synon, RPG, RPGLE, CL, CLLE, free format
• Develop detailed implementation plans, back-out and upgrade project plans in conjunction with other account team associates (for big projects)
• During upgrades: monitors production performance enhancements and system integrity with end-users
• Currently, assigned to production support Tier 2 production support group also where we handle/ assist in Root Cause Analysis, Impact analysis (DB2, SQL, SEQUEL, WRKQRY), query resolution for healthcare clients.
• Expertise in: Review and Preparing functional and technical specifications, coding and testing. Delivered big projects having a team of more than 10+ members. Documenting unit test plans and test scripts.
• Experience of working on: Synon Cool: 2E, RPG, RPGLE, CLLE, SQL, worked in ILE concepts.
• AS400 Full Development life cycle and maintenance projects that includes business process prototyping, configuration, testing and validation, go live, production verification, production support and . Proficient in analysis, Synon/ RPG and CL coding.
• Customer communication and Business requirements gathering and transforming into functional and technical specs.
• Delivering large and complex projects individually and by managing team also. Worked on projects having multiple interfaces with the application.
• Leading projects: big and medium sized
• Post production support for various AS400 change request projects.
• Change management control tools like Aldon and Implementer.
• Tier 2 application resolution support, Incident management.
• All interactions/communications with the client, getting the requirements, preparing and reviewing test inventory, resource allocation, estimation, scheduling. Coding and reviewed code, test cases, and deliverables before submitting to client, preparing status reports for users and client.
• Demonstrating the various application features among the team members and brainstorming ideas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Synon Cool:2E, RPG, RPGLE, CL, CLLE, COBOL/400 (Analyzing code only), Free format RPG, ILE Concepts. Secondary: C code, Embedded SQL, Dynamic and Static SQL. DB2/400, MS - Access Tools & Techniques SQL, SEQUEL, Static and Dynamic SQL, IBM Client Access, SQL/400, Query/400, SDA, DBU, RLU, ALDON, Implementer, X-Analysis, SEU, STRDBG/ ISDB, Advantage 2E (Synon/COOL 2E), FTP, sFTP, Visio, IFS (Integrated File System), Stored Procedures, Triggers implementation, ERD, DBCR (Database Change Request), Familiar with TCP/IP socket programming, XML, ROBOT scheduler, JIRA, HPSM. Workshops Attended Estimation Techniques, Configuration Management, Lean Six Sigma Green belt, Defect Prevention and Causal Analysis, Management, Quality Management system, Reviews, Walkthrough and Inspections, Communication Skills for Leadership, The Enabling Leader (Internal s), Six Sigma DMAIC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements - Analysis and Estimation, Test Specs, unit/system testing, QA testing, user acceptance testing to Implementation and Rollout. Manage and coordinate with Vendor-Clients.
• Estimation of Work Requests.
• Preparation and Review of functional and high level technical documents from requirements
• Coding and testing the work request.
• Reviewing & Preparing Unit Test plan and review Unit test results.
• Task assignment and monitoring.
• Packaging loads for implementation using Implementer.
• Ensuring quality and timely deliveries for our business partners.
• Preparation of Unit Test cases.
• Reviews and QA activities.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, SYNON/COOL: 2E, RPG, RPGLE, SDA, RPG/400, CLP/400, SQL/400, X-Analysis, ROBOT, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM and Implementer.

Confidential, Illinois

Technical Team Lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Validation of Business requirement gathering. Studying existing system for understanding upon the requirement, analyzing and extracting business rules to be implemented. Mostly, did one-to-one meetings, prototyping, Use cases, RTM’s and Brainstorming for collecting the requirements. Then, analyzing and extracting business rules of an existing system.
• Providing Estimation of Work Requests using ‘4 x 4 Matrix’ estimation methodology or ROME (Rough Order Magnitude Estimate).
• Worked on decommissioning projects; where my role is to understand the impact, know interfaces, design application flow diagrams, technical modules impacted, etc.
• Design Use Cases and get them reviewed by client for any defects/queries. Also an impact analysis is done to see if existing programs need to be modified. This is done using SYNON Case Tool.
• The methodology ‘ANALYSE/400’ is used to create database relationship diagram. Also, Generation of ERD Diagram methodology used to identify parent - child relationship between different files and to create ERD diagram in VISIO.
• Preparation of functional requirements, process flow diagrams/ charts, high level technical documents from requirements.
• Coding and testing the work request. Preparation of Unit Test cases.
• Task assignment for offshore and monitoring.
• Ensuring quality and timely deliveries for I got appreciations.
• Reviews offshore deliveries, team member’s work and QA activities.
• Worked as a solution architect for 8 months: During transforming one system into another, I worked to analyze the existing system and preparing the current architecture flow (business, functional and technical). Prepared the architecture data flow to the new system w.r.t. New interfaces.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, SYNON/COOL: 2E, RPG/400, CLP/400, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, ROBOT and IMPLEMENTOR.

Confidential, Texas

Senior Team member

Responsibilities:

• Providing production support services by resolving IMR’s, supporting enhancements and job monitoring.
• Analyzing issues received from the user and proposing/suggesting possible and potential solutions.
• Client communication for IMR resolution.
• Coding and Testing
• Handled maintenance and enhancements done in GMAX.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP, RPG/400, RPGLE, CLP/400, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, IMPLEMENTOR, CM.

Confidential, Hong Kong

Developer/ Team member

Responsibilities:

• Performed all the SDLC activites of AS400 as mentioned in above projects.
• My role in this project was similar to analyzing and coding.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, ILE Concepts, RPGLE, RPG, CL, CLLE, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, ALDON, CM.

Confidential, AZ

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed all the SDLC of AS400 as mentioned in above projects.
• My role in this project was similar to analyzing and coding.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, RPG, free RPG, CL, CLLE, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, ALDON, CM.

Confidential

Offshore Trainee/ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Learned basic programming concepts
• Operating system concepts
• System programming
• SDLC cycle
• Basic of VB .Net, ASP .Net and PL SQL
• For short duration of 5 months, I was involved in a Sales Force Automation project from .
• Created reports, screens using RLU and SDA
• Created screen validation programs
• Created report generation programs