SUMMARY: 8+ years of experience in IBM Mainframe with COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, EZTRIEVE, DB2, IMS, CICS-Web services

Experience in leading team of 6 members for around 4 years through all phases of the project Experience in Project Scheduling, Project Tracking and Team Management In his whole career, he worked in Insurance industry. He has strong functional knowledge of Annuities, Life and Health insurance sectors. Exposure in writing Queries on IBM-DB2. Worked in various phases of the SDLC such as understanding requirements, construction of code, creating test cases and testing. Worked in Open VMS environment and has sufficient knowledge in DCL, DTR and Report Writer in COBOL. Experienced in creating JCL and JCL PROCs using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, FILEAID, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL. Attained immense experience in usage of mainframe DB2 tools SPUFI, File Manager for Db2 & QMF. Exposure to various CMM procedures and artifacts through working experience in CMM level- 5 environment. Working knowledge of Edifecs, Healthcare EDI transactions (835, 837, 270, 277 etc.), Transaction Manager. Provided support for the daily batch production cycle which included JCL changes, restart and recovery procedures and notification of the appropriate application programmer to resolve batch abends. Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills. Team player with excellent organizational skills to assess needs, set priorities and meet deadlines. Effective communicator, skilled in building positive working rapport with clients at all levels of technical expertise. Strong analytical skill, able to work independently. Experience in leading a team. Ability to mentor and train junior team members. Quite familiar to onsite-offshore model.

Technical Skills Language / Platform IBM Mainframes: COBOL, Eztrieve, JCL, CICS Open VMS : HP-COBOL, DCL, and Intouch VSAM, DB2 z/OS, MVS/ESA, MS-DOS, WINDOWS-2000/XP/9X/ME, HP Open

Database OS/Environment VMS Tools Transaction manager, EDI, FILE-AID, Xpediter, Change Man, File-Aid, Spufi, MQ Series, Intertest DTR, Report Writer in COBOL Functional Skills Annuities and Life/Health insurance Domains Others Awareness of Six Sigma Quality Processes, ISO and CMMI Standards, BS7799 security guidelines Introductory Knowledge VB, C, C++, SQL, HTML

Key achievements & Certifications

PAHM Certification in Healthcare. Certified in June 2010 Delivery Excellence Award, from IBM for passion and commitment for NetworX Pricer Implementation project for BCBS of MN account. Awarded in November 2010 Valuable Contribution Award (Paritoshika), from IBM for commitment and hard work during initial phase of BCBSMN project. Awarded for Q1 - 2010 Client Appreciation Award, from client GENWORTH FINANCIAL for successful merger of LEGAL ENTITIES for the year 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Client: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Minneapolis, MN Role: Lead Mainframes Developer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota's first health plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota. A nonprofit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health plan based in Minnesota, covering 2.9 million members in Minnesota. Project 1: STAR Claims Online Adjudication Till date Type: Development and Production Support Roles and Responsibilities: Monitoring and assigning tasks to team members Full time first level production support for Mainframe applications and always given high priority for the production issues. Help team members in resolving the incidents and SRs Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts. Generated Adhoc reports using EASYTRIEVE against IDMS, VSAM & Flat files for user analysis. Updating the existing JCLs to handle the Next Generation changes Application designing of CICS-Web Services using Channels and Containers and testing XML SOAP messages generated by various applications Estimating the efforts required for service requests Understanding the business requirements Preparing the AID documents Coordinating with Client SMEs Resolving the incidents and problems Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT. Executing the requirements Functional Design, Technical Design, Build & Test Coordinating and executing System Integration Test Oct 2011

Change and Release Management (including implementation) DB2 table Loads and Unloads to sync the tables of 2 different mainframe systems. Reviewing and maintaining quality related documents prepared by team members in appropriate configuration libraries during all phases of SDLC Managing team members and appraising them on their performance

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, File-Aid, Spufi, MQ Queues, Intertest, Edifecs, Healthcare EDI transactions (835, 837, 270, 277 etc.), Transaction Manager. BCBS : Project 2: Implementation of NetworX Pricer-Modeler as new Claims Pricing Engine Jan 2011 Sept 2011 Type: Development and Production Support Roles and Responsibilities: Analysis for the requirements. Interacting closely with BAs to understand the requirements from FSD. Modification, development and testing of batch programs and jobs using COBOL, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve and JCL Analyzing and Coding some of the complex requirements based on functional specification document Created Adhoc and business reports using Easytrieve against DB2, VSAM and Flat Files. Mentoring team members and reviewing their deliverables Work with testing team to create test cases

Performance tuning the DB2 SQL quires. Preparing test JCL and running them for data analysis.

Preparing of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC Base support activities to provide resolution to tickets raised by client Supporting production incidents and performing abend analysis of production jobs

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, File-Aid, Spufi, MQ Queues, Intertest Client: MetLife, Bridgewater, NJ Role: Mainframes Lead Developer Metlife: Project 1: MetLife Institutional CBF Discovery Re-engineering July 2010 Dec 2010 Type: Current State Assessment of the system and Future State Recommendation As a Team Lead, I initiated the project from scratch. By understanding the requirements mentioned in the Discovery Charter given along with daily communication with the client, the team started building up the current state. As we progressed, we started putting up the Future state of the application and now we are completed with Pension Closeouts Contract Listings and have good hold on rest of the applications. Along the way, we used different methodologies/approaches for current state assessment and Future state recommendations such as: Requirement Fulfillment Traceability Matrix

Leveraged Six Sigma methodology for the Analysis using tools such as Control-Impact Matrix & SIPOC Creation of Conceptual Design Document which includes functional view of the application, Microsoft Visio diagrams for future state

Environment: Microsoft Visio, Six Sigma Methodology (DMADV) MetLife : Project 2: Institutional GPAY-PCTS Production Support 2009 Jun 2010 Type: Production Support Aug

Understanding the existing system and supporting the system Identifying the improvement areas and taking initiative in implementing it Enhancing the system by optimizing the processes A batch cycle support for payment processing, cross system accounting Requirements processing Solving production incidents Develop new programs or changing the existing programs as per the requirements. Modification, development, testing and debugging of online programs, batch programs and jobs using COBOL, VSAM, CICS and JCL

Creating the reports in EASYTRIEVE and SAS against VSAM/FLAT files. Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts. To monitor the daily batch cycle and for its successful execution Being the part of 24x6 support, to resolve any query which business might have with a quick response time To resolve the incidents which businesses have reported

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Xpediter, Change Man, File-Aid, Spufi Client: Genworth Financials , Nashville, TN July 2009 Role: Sr. Mainframe Developer Mar 2008

Genworth Financial RI & I (Formerly GEFA-WIM) is one of the worlds leading financial assurance companies with operations spread across the globe. As a major GE business, Genworth Financial focuses on providing Life, Health and Annuity products in the US Market. Continental Life Insurance Company (CLI) of Brentwood, Tennessee and American Continental Insurance (ACI) are members of the Genworth Financial Family of Companies. Project : CLI Application Support Type: Maintenance Roles and Responsibilities; Responsible for effective communication with the client to understand the requirements Detailed analysis of user requirements. Preparing test plans

Designed and developed the batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2. Modified the existing CICS screens and online programs. Generated the business and user reports using EASYTRIEVE. Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements Production Support activities Monitoring the Batch Cycle and Abend fixing. Understand the defects logged by team members and categorize the defect on basis of the root cause and the kind of defect Conduct Defect Prevention (DP) Meeting monthly to discuss Defects, Pareto Charts, Parameters related to Costing, Trend of defects Provide day-to-day project status to the customer Worked extensively in developing new source modules with COBOL, DCL and DTR

Environment: HP Open VMS System, DCL, DTR, Report Writer in COBOL Genworth Financials , Lynchburg, VA 2006 Feb 2008 Role: Sr. Mainframes Developer Project: UAS and Related Annuity Applications Type: Maintenance The objective of the project is to provide offshore support for UAS. The project involves activities such as: Enhancements to the On-line CICS Programs Enhancements to the Batch Programs Enhancements to the Batch Jobs and Procedures Coding new On-line CICS programs, Batch programs, Batch Jobs, Procedures Defects fixing Generating Reports as per requirements using Eztrieve Providing Secondary Production Support for the UAS Nightly Batch Cycle. Detailed analysis of user requirements. Understanding the functional specifications and converting it to technical specifications Preparing Detail Design document Preparing test case documents and test plans Construction of code based on technical specifications Unit testing of completed modules Ensuring if action items raised for preventing the defects are implemented successfully Maintain a quality check in all the deliverables moving out from offshore To make the team aware about quality procedures and standards Environment: IBM Mainframe OS-390, MVS/JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Eztrieve Sept

Client: Household International (HSBC), New Delhi, India Feb 05 Jun 06 Role: Sr Mainframes Consultant. Household International (HSBC) is a financial family with more than 120 years of lending experience in USA, Canada and UK. Household offers a broad set of financial products & services. Different services offered from Household are Consumer Lending, Mortgage services, Direct Lending, Direct Deposit, Credit Card Services, Retail services, Auto finance, Insurance etc. Project: CMS (Credit Management System) Roles and Responsibilities: Involved in define phase & requirements gathering and sizing of the projects. Documented the business required solutions, functional specifications and technical specifications. Designed and developed the batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2. Transferred files from CMS to other interface systems using FTP & NDM. Involved in the system performance tuning in the post implementation phase by using monitoring tools like Strobe and BMC Apptune. Provided 24/7 production support to a number of post implementation issues. Extensively worked with the users for testing new functionality in (UAT) User Acceptance Testing. Prepared test plan and modified batch flow design and re-run procedure documents. Participated in System Testing, Regression Testing, User level testing, and project implementation. Xpeditor is used to debug the complex online and batch programs. Audits written in DB2 to extract the user requested data from DB2 databases

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, CHGMAN, IMS DB, FILEAID, RACF, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, OPCT, CONTROL-M, XML, SAS, PL/1, SOAP, TERADATA, QUALITY CENTER, BMC TOOLS, ASSEMBLER.

Client: NASCO, IBM Global Services New Delhi, India Mar 04 Jan 05 Role: Mainframes Consultant. Project: CMS and CDM Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in Analysis, Design, Development and Production Support for the project. Provided fixes to a number of Pre-Production related issues of different Severity / Priorities and completed many Work Requests as per requirement. Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing, User level testing, and project implementation.

Monitoring Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Yearly Jobs and fixing the production problems. Designed and developed the batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2. Modified the existing CICS screens and online programs. Generated the business and user reports using EASYTRIEVE. Running the daily team meeting with business and test managers. Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed, stored test data in Quality Center. Extensively designed, coded and tested both batch and online programs. Extensively worked on the credit Origination system using Credit Decision Management. Provided 24 * 7 primary production support and fixes to a number of PreProduction and Post-Production related issues.

Technical Environment: Z/OS, MVS, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SAS, EASYTRIEVE, MQ-SERIES, TSO/ISPF, RACF, XPEDITOR, CHGMAN, FILEAID, CONTROL-M, FTP, NDM, SPUFI, STROBE, ASSEMBLER, HP QUALITY CENTER.