Jamal Shaik
Dallas,Texas
Summary
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to look out for new technologies to modernize legacy mainframe applications.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President
Citi
02.2021 - Current
- Maintaining key performance indicators of application
- Overseeing day to day operations of mainframe applications with integrated cross functional teams for stable application
- Preparing and estimating efforts for projects and resources thru out year
- Identifying areas in application for cost savings in DASD and MIPS consumption
- Adhering teams to adapt with newly modernized mainframe applications by integrating thru Bit bucket/Jenkins/Git for CI/CD
- Collaborating with multiple teams in order to maintain data integration across all connected applications
- Meetings with architects to review design and determine best possible solutions
- Identifying areas for possible automation of test cases for shift left approach
- Participating in ACAB meetings to get changes approved
- Reviewing, updating and prioritizing strategic initiatives to provide comprehensive support to senior leadership
- Managing diverse portfolio of projects, ensuring that each project met established quality standards and delivered expected results on time and within budget
- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics
Technology Lead
Infosys
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Handled and fixed production support tickets on daily basis created by business to support production environment
- Provided mentorship to junior team members, fostering professional growth and strong work ethics in workplace.
- Troubleshot complex issues impacting systems performance, applying root cause analysis techniques to prevent future occurrences.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully deliver complex technology projects within agreed timeframes and budgets.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define technical requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Reviewed offshore deliverables and ensured that quality of code is maintained and proper coding standards are followed
- Organized and coordinated team and client meetings as and when needed
- Delivered comprehensive technical documentation including architecture diagrams, design specifications, and user guides for easy reference by colleagues or clients.
- Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
- Involved in loading data into tables, unloading tables and running run stats on tables
- Generated queries using SQL to check for consistency of data in tables and to update them as per business requirements
- Recommended optimized ways for streamlining system
- Conducted knowledge transition (KT) sessions with new team to make them understand application thoroughly.
Application Developer
Atos-Syntel
12.2013 - 02.2020
- Developed and enhanced changes to existing system as per client requirement
- Identified technical and business implication of business need request initiated by customer
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Worked closely with clients throughout development process to gather feedback, ensuring that final products met their expectations.
- Attended daily status meeting, sprint planning meeting and retrospective meeting
- Explained project technical risks and benefits during project kick-off.
- Communicated with client to gather business requirement and estimated effort required for completion
- Involved in preparation of Unit test Plans and integration testing
- Validated test data created by TDM team to load it into lower environment
- Involved in loading data into DB2 tables, unloading tables and running run stats on tables
- Participated in system testing support activities and implementation activities
- Performed unit tests using UFT automation
- Tested SOAP tool connectivity.
Education
Bachelors of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Kakinada Institute of Engineering & Technology
India01.2013
Skills
- Software Development Management
- Production support Management
- Collaboration and Innovation
- Application quality Management
- Risk Management
- Technical Proficiency
- Budgeting and Cost Estimation
- Quality Management
- Staff hiring
- Policy Development and Enforcement
Accomplishments
- Modernized mainframe applications to adopt to the new change by implementing CI/CD integration with bitbucket and idz.
- Identified areas for cost cutting thru DASD reduction and MIPS consumption.
- Generated revenue to organization by implementing the recovery process with overdraft accounts.
- Created multiple automation tools in mainframe for devops.
Personality Traits
- Actively pursued Interests include playing Tennis, badminton, trekking and event organizational activities.
- Volunteering to help the community.
- Love to do camping and grill.
- Playing PC games like Prince of Persia, Assassin’s creed and God of war.
- Repairing the electronic gadgets, automobile DIY and car enthusiast.
- Punctual, Result oriented, Analytical, Extrovert.
Profile Synopsis
10 years of experience in Developing, Debugging, Maintenance and Managing of software projects in Mainframe. Currently working as AVP Applications Development Manager with CITI. In-depth Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Methodology. Domain expertise in U.S Healthcare, Manufacturing and Banking. Modernization of legacy mainframe applications thru CI/CD pipelines.
It Skill Set
Cobol, JCL, CICS, Unix, Micro Focus Cobol, DB2, IDMS, DVM, MVS, zOS, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, PANVALET, Easytrieve, XPEDITER, SQUIDS, QTEST, File-Aid, VSAM, REXX, ABEND-AID, Strobe, ISPW, Changeman, TOPAZ, DB2 Platinum, UFT, SonarQube, IBM IDZ, OPC Scheduler, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Git
Mainframe Experience
10 years
Personal Information
- Total Experience: 10 years
- Date of Birth: 07/01/91
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Awards
- Received STRETCH, SPOT, ENTREPRENEURIAL awards
- Appreciations for defect free and timely deliveries for complex requirements.
- JMR print Tool for extraction of Elapsed & CPU time by step-by-step process to validate performance.
- PERFORMANCE COMPARISON tool to validate the performance of two different database version.
- OP forms retrieval tool for the entire system depending on the application Code for ISPW Migration.
- Version control validation tool created to figure out the mismatch between the different versions of the components.
- Automated tool for DB2 refresh depending on the region.
Timeline
Assistant Vice President
Citi
02.2021 - Current
Technology Lead
Infosys
02.2020 - 02.2021
Application Developer
Atos-Syntel
12.2013 - 02.2020
Bachelors of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Kakinada Institute of Engineering & Technology