SUMMARY:

• Result driven professional experience of 8+ years in the areas of IBM Mainframes
• Extensively worked on various Mainframe Technologies like COBOL, Micro focus COBOL, PL1, JCL, VSAM,IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, Vision Plus, Easy trieve and REXX.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently.
• I was given Lead role, which includes, involving in Business requirement discussion, understanding the requirements from Business team, pass on the requirements to offshore dev team and lead the project from Design, Dev, Unit testing and Deployment. I am Single point of contact for the entire project I drive.
• Understand the business parameters that could influence performance (data sizes, complexity, concurrent executions .. etc)
• Extensively worked on the Mainframe DB2 and IMS DB Databases .
• Effectively working on building REXX tools for creating Mainframe Screens to automate the process.
• Excellent hands on experience in performance tuning of DB2 Queries.
• Very strong in debugging Mainframe Cobol program using Trace master, Xpeditor.
• Experienced in working in production support for Mainframe Projects, ESP Scheduling.
• Experienced in to plug in the mainframe legacy system.
• Experiences in closely working with the business teams and gathering the requirements
• Very strong in converting the complex business cases in to requirements and in designing the respective interfaces or dimensions or facts
• Excellent hands on experience in preparing the documents like HLD, LLD, Technical Design Docs and UTC
• Working experience on the various phases of SDLC cycle like Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, UAT, Deployment and Production
• Experience working with various scheduling tools like ESP,CA7
• Has the ability to quickly understand and acquire the additional application skills that are required for project delivery.
• Having working experience in the Health Care, Insurance and Banking,.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware Platforms: IBM compatible PC, S/390

Operating Systems: MVS, MS - DOS, DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP

Languages: COBOL, PL1,JCL,REXX

Databases Used: VSAM, IMS DB /DC, DB2

Tools: and Utilities: FILE-AID for files and IMS, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR and CHANGEMAN

Extensively worked on: COBOL, PL1,IMS DB/DC and DB2

Domain Knowledge: Insurance, Health Care AND Bank

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and Rexx

Responsibilities:

• Working on abends/ adhoc requests for different project teams within ECS and other teams.
• Involved in24*7 production supportfor Production job runs and reporting.
• Monitor Daily Job's schedule and take necessary steps.
• Worked on Performance Improvement of long running Jobs in Production.
• Handling tickets through Service manager tool.
• Creating change tickets for Job failures and resolve the abends in a timely manner.
• Need to Resolve the Abends and Issues in an effective way and should resolve all the complex tasks effectively.
• Maintain the root cause analysis & issues tracker sheet.
• Handled Corporate and Interim Releases.
• Have to provide the value added points and try to improve the current process much better.
• Analyze the functional requirements and discuss tasks/issues with the client team and propose optimal design solutions for the corporate/Interim releases.
• Work with client leads and business analysts closely in prioritizing the tasks and determining the implementation of fast track code fixes.
• Manage risks to project activities and come up with mitigation plan to ensure the assigned tasks are under control and should not affect the project delivery timelines.
• Assign the work to offshore and manage the deliverables.
• Key Participant in release activities.
• Provide technical and functional assistance on Change Requests and Test Support Management support to on shore/off shore Team.
• Review the development work and unit test results.
• Share the best practices/reusable concepts for the project to increase the team throughput as well as increased quality.
• Provide timely responses to all the Client requests and Communicate project status to team manager on a regular basis.
• Review the Cobol Programs and DB2 Queries within the team to improve the performance.
• Give transition of work done for all the initiatives involved to the client stake holders and support them as and when required.
• Help team members while building the designs and Code as per the standards specified and reviewing the same.
• Work with the other teams in the project to schedule jobs. .

Confidential

Consultant

Environment: MicroFocus Cobol,Jcl and Db2

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the functional requirements and discuss tasks/issues with the client team and propose optimal design solutions for the corporate/Interim releases.
• Work with client leads and business analysts closely in prioritizing the tasks and determining the implementation of fast track code fixes.
• Manage risks to project activities and come up with mitigation plan to ensure the assigned tasks are under control and should not affect the project delivery timelines.
• Assign the work to offshore and manage the deliverables.
• Key Participant in release activities.
• Provide technical and functional assistance on Change Requests and Test Support Management support to on shore/off shore Team.
• Review the development work and unit test results
• Analyzing the requests, preparing Flow Charts, HLD’s and LLD,s.

Confidential

Consultant

Environment: Vision Plus,DB2

Responsibilities:

• Review the Cobol Programs and DB2 Queries within the team to improve the performance.
• Give transition of work done for all the initiatives involved to the client stake holders and support them as and when required.
• Help team members while building the designs and Code as per the standards specified and reviewing the same.
• Work with the other teams in the project to schedule jobs.
• Analyzing the requests, preparing Flow Charts, HLD’s and LLD,s.

Confidential

Associate

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM,DB2 and IMS DB/DC.

Responsibilities:

• Key Participant in release activities.
• Provide technical and functional assistance on Change Requests and Test Support Management support to off shore Team.
• Review the development work and unit test results.
• Share the best practices/reusable concepts for the project to increase the team throughput as well as increased quality.
• Provide timely responses to all the Client requests and Communicate project status to team manager on a regular basis.
• Analyzing the requests, preparing Flow Charts, HLD’s and LLD,s.

Confidential

Associate

Environment: Pl1, JCL, IMS DB/DC and CICS.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requestsTranslating business requirements into detailed design
• Preparing the design document.
• Involved in code changes, unit testing and regression testing.

Confidential

Team Member

Environment: COBOL, JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC and CICS.

Responsibilities:

• As a Team member involved inAnalyzing the requests
• Translating business requirements into detailed design
• Preparing the design document, code changes and testing.