
• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer, with 10+ years of hands on experience in application development. • Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
• Extensive knowledge of mainframe architecture, including IBM zSeries hardware and z/OS operating system.
• Experience working in the domain of Telecom & Insurance. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support. Developed programs which involve CICS. Experience working on developing and testing DB2 Stored Procedures, DB2 version migration and testing.
• Experience in ETL methodologies for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing using IBM Data Stage, IBM WebSphere Information Server
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different
functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience in leading a team, status reporting, metrics, estimates.
• Extensive knowledge on implementing SOA using Web Services.
• Implemented CICS and COBOL programs as web services via CICS Transaction Server (CTS)
and CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG)
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Ability to write Complex SQL queries with strong knowledge of DB2
• Strong knowledge about database design, normalization, DB2 stored procedures, functions,
referential integrity, Concurrency, Utilities.
• Extensively worked on SYNCSORT for Data Manipulation and Sorting for Flat Files and VSAM.
• Proficient in COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler programming languages. - Skilled in CICS, DB2, and VSAM database management systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of resolving complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities, with experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Extensive Experience on UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING and SQL.
Cyberlife Project:
Cyberlife has a very large customer base in USA and is being used by some of the top Life Insurance companies. Maintaining the Cyberlife system is a major task for Cybertek. US-LIFE-TPA-M(CyberLife) serves the purpose of development and administration of the Insurance software product CyberLife for multiple insurance companies. The work involves the development, implementation of various releases of CyberLife for production and any enhancements, conversion and transition activities for the clients.
• Worked as product developer in design, develop and maintenance of insurance product(Cyberlife).
• Devised brand and product strategies to drive client satisfaction.
• Reviewed product and updates to meet company quality standards, schedule production and work-in-progress tracking and reports.
• Optimized the Cobol/Db2 programs to reduce the run time from hours to minutes. Modifying the
existing programs as per client requirement, writing test cases, handling UAT and production install.
• Communication with customer and on-site liaison.
• Processing of the moves for pilot, model and production endeavors.
• Trained multiple resources on CYBERLIFE insurance product.
• Training new resources into various aspects of the project, which includes familiarization with Cyber Life.
• Resolving functional queries related to Billing by doing peer to peer code analysis and helping juniors by addressing their Issues.
• Developing technical specifications by understanding BRD's from the client's perspective.
• Solving immediate response, high priority and critical assignments (SR/PR's).
Environment: Z/OS, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IBM Infoshpere Datastage V9.1, Oracle, Putty(Unix), JCL, TSO, ISPF, DCCS, ANSI SQL, File-Aid for DB2 V10, Easytrieve, IBM Utilities, MQ Series, SAS, SPUFI, BMC, QMF, UNIX, UNIX Shell Scripting, CA-7, SOA(WSDL).
WMTP Project:
Work Management Tool Project is to replace the home-grown tool currently used by Back Office groups (Customer Accounting, Peak, Operations Research Support and Revenue Protection) with an off the shelf enterprise solution (iWD) to improve performance, scalability, flexibility, reduce operational costs, bring efficiencies, visibility and accountability across Customer
Service. The tool will route Back Office work tasks originating in multiple source systems (CIS, FCS,
template, FMOS, WMS, Outlook, iResolve, RPMS, etc.) to reps based on skill, priority, SLAs and business rules created by the Business Unit. It will later be deployed to other Back Office groups (Credit Risk, Final Bill Collections, etc.)
• Development of Mainframe code using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SQL, DB2utilities like load, unload.
• Capturing Business requirements, transforming requirements into functional design specifications.
• Tracking the requirements through Requirements traceability matrix.
• Participated in reviews of various functional documents like Use case design, functional design specifications, test scenarios, test cases.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous
implementation.
• Following SDLC Agile Scrum methodology, working with user and delivering software application to the user with in target of two weeks.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Interacting with Business and testing teams for discussions on Business requirement, Functional specification, Release meeting, Deployment meeting and walk through Test artifacts.
• Develop new batch process to receive data through FTP from different systems like Outlook Exchange, FCS and on-demand and apply the business rules and pass the data by invoking PLT transactions to SOA which will further send the data to Genesis.
• Submit Miscellaneous tasks requests to create the new files, GDG bases in all the regions.
• Providing work status in daily stand-up meeting with interfacing applications in Scrum Calls.
Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2 V9, IMS-DB, CICS, FAULT ANALYZER, INFO-X, DCCS, TSO, ISPF, SPUFI, SDSF, PANVALET.
ZEUS is a comprehensive Group Insurance Mainframe application product Group Facts 6.03, from ERISCO. Guardian Life Insurance Company (GLIC) handles Individual and Group business. This ZEUS application handles Group Insurance business of GLIC. This
application performs main business functions like Policyholder Setup (Sets up Group, Division and Class for the policy), maintenance of Plan and Member details, rating and premium calculation, billing and accounting and applying payments, calculating agent commissions, sales rep compensations and report generation for Guardian Group Insurance Business. The user community of this application is clerks in RHOs (Regional Head Offices). There are about 700 to 1000 users for this application. These users are mainly located in Bethlehem, PA, Appleton, WI and Spokane, WA. Regional Group Offices (RGO) are the places where from Agents & Sales persons work. There are about 48 RGOs. Phoenix, Mercury, Olympus (Data warehouse) and Claim Facts sub-systems directly depend on ZEUS.
• Developed programs that send daily feed to ETL application
• Analysis and Understanding requirements & functional specifications.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules
• Knowledge Transfer to offshore team with business functionality and new requirements.
• Worked closely with the WEB team for developing new XML tags as needed by Web from mainframe for the reports to be displayed in the front end
• Development of new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests.
Environment: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2 V9, XP-EDITER, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, ISPF, SPUFI, OPC, IBM Mainframe Utilities, QMF, SDSF.
• Received Pat on the back award for Automation
work by developing code for recurring issues.
• Received Accolades twice for the work excellence.