Raghu V Kaspa
Easton,USA
Summary
Finance Technology Architect with 20+ years of experience leading global finance transformation and building cloud-native payment architectures. Proven track record in designing secure, scalable financial systems by integrating Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and AWS microservices to support high-volume, multi-entity operations. Skilled in implementing GAAP- and SOX-compliant controls, optimizing end-to-end payment processes, and driving intelligent automation initiatives across complex enterprise environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
15
15
Certification
Work History
Solutions Architect
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2022 - Current
- Design software integrations and applications for various finance and accounting initiatives.
- Define functional requirements for integrations with various financial and billing interfaces
- Define policies and procedures for Acquisitions, Mergers and new Line of business integrations
- Ensures accuracy of the business requirements that drive the design of technical solutions
- Aligned with organization’s architectural standards and strategic vision
- Overseas technical lead and supplies related information on all size projects
- Analyzes applications for compliance as per the organization checklist and provide recommendations
- Focuses on the most complex and varied specifications, devises data verification methods and standard system procedures
- Ensures accuracy of the technical documentation for assigned projects
- Recommends efficient and cost-effective solutions for systems/program design
- Participates in program component and data architecture design, performance monitoring
- Product evaluation and “buy vs build” recommendations
- Key Projects
- Bad Debt and Chargeback Reduction
- Overdue contract and Rental management
- Cashback and Amazon Rewards
Programmer Analyst III
Avis Budget Car Rental
07.2016 - 03.2022
- Ensures accuracy of the business requirements that drive the design of technical solutions
- Aligned with organization’s architectural standards and strategic vision
- Overseas technical lead and supplies related information on all size projects
- Involved in all facets of the software development life cycle. Codes, tests, and implements application software and systems
- Conducts code and design reviews to recommend development of new code or modification of existing code
- Analyzes applications for compliance as per the organization checklist and provide recommendations
- Focuses on the most complex and varied specifications, devises data verification methods and standard system procedures
- Ensures accuracy of the technical documentation for assigned projects
- Recommends efficient and cost effective solutions for systems/program design
- Participates in program component and data architecture design, performance monitoring
- Product evaluation and “buy vs build” recommendations
- Key Projects
- Wizard Back office Modernization – Revenue Distribution and Adjustments - 2019
- GAAP Standard Adoption – 2018
- Accounting Modernization Program – 2018
- Maggiore on Wizard – 2017
- GAAP Revenue Recognition – 2017
- Credit Card Hashing and AMS Migration-2017
- Prepay enhancements Phase – 2017
- Wizard Modernization – 2016
- Chip n Pin – Credit Card processing enhancements - 2016
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2015 - 07.2016
- Work with various customer teams to derive business requirements based on project vision
- Work with application teams to translate business requirements to functional requirements
- Translate functional requirements in to high-level solution and technical requirements
- Design work flow diagrams and user stories for various development teams
- Identify infrastructure requirements based on the technical requirements for third party applications
- Create daily and weekly status reports and perform health checks at regular intervals
- Design, develop and implement IMS Connect based COBOL applications for communications between Z/OS and open systems
- Design and develop DB2 COBOL stored procedures to support two phase commit processing
- Develop batch processing for ETL to enterprise Data warehouse applications
- Develop ISPF panels for business users to execute adhoc reporting on data files
- Develop and execute unit test plans, integration test plans for application testing
- Automate batch script execution using REXX Batch processing on TSO
- Use WSIM to perform load testing for point of sale applications
- Review applications for PII, PCI compliance both in terms of access and in terms of data content
- Use Strobe to analyze and tune application processing for better performance
- Provide QA and User acceptance testing support to QA and business teams
- Identify job dependencies and schedule new jobs in production OPC environment
- Monitor online transactions and batch processing for production support
- Create supporting documentation for training and SOX compliance purposes
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
08.2014 - 03.2015
- Enhance existing COBOL source modules for integration with external applications
- Convert existing COBOL modules to modular structure to reduce future development effort
- Design, develop and implement a new compilation and link process to support the modular source code
- Design DB2 data models based on IMS database structure with valid entity relationship keys for data integrity
- Identify infrastructure requirements based on the technical requirements for third party applications
- Create daily and weekly status reports and perform health checks at regular intervals
- Develop ETL batch programs for migrating IMS databases to DB2 databases
- Automate test and UAT JCL creation from production job stream using ISREDIT macros
- Develop and execute unit test plans, integration test plans for application testing
- Use vendor products to perform load testing and performance testing
- Review applications for PII, PCI compliance both in terms of access and in terms of data content
- Use Strobe to analyze and tune application processing for better performance
- Provide QA and User acceptance testing support to QA and business teams
- Identify job dependencies and schedule new jobs in production OPC environment
- Monitor online transactions and batch processing for production support
- Create supporting documentation for training and SOX compliance purposes
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
01.2013 - 08.2014
- SCLM is IBM supplied Source configuration and Library Management product for version control and code promotion. This product was developed using TSO REXX, ISPF Panels, ISREDIT macros and FLM Translator macros. Vision of this project was to customize the product to move the existing source code to One Source – Multiple Load processing.
- Develop edit macros on the source code and change hard coded values to symbolic parameters
- Develop a new edit macro and integrate with SCLM to act as preprocessor and replace the symbolic with defined values mentioned in the Architecture definition for the module
- Enhance SCLM COBOL Compiler language definitions to execute a preprocessor before the compile
- Design, develop and implement a new compilation and link process to support the modular source code
- Develop batch REXX to identify the link lists for SYSLIB and copybook concatenations
- Develop REXX code to perform preliminary checks on the source code for coding standards and PCI/PII compliance
- Create supporting documentation for training and SOX compliance purposes
Programmer Analyst
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2009 - 07.2011
- Work with application leads to design and develop a credit card payment service to perform authorization and settlement services through point of sale
- Work with third party merchant services to identify the technical requirements for authorization and settlement processing
- Translate business requirements and merchant services requirements in to technical requirements
- Design and develop a new COBOL MQ programs to transfer data from mainframe hosted Point of sale to web services
- Work with IBM teams to configure a request and response MQ AMS channel for communication between Z/OS and web services
- Define new DB2 tables to hold communication logs with password based encryption and decryption
- Work with IBM teams to modify the MPR for AMS modules preload for increased performance
- Create technical documentation for application support teams
Programmer Analyst
Cendant
10.2006 - 03.2009
- Translate high level design documents to low level solution documents
- Prepare project definition document based on the low-level design documents
- Create functional and unit test plans based on the low-level design documents
- Develop new mainframe screens using IMS DC and COBOL for end user interaction
- Develop and test new COBOL, DB2, IMS DC programs for claims and insurance processing
- Integrate modules with other application teams for integration testing of the application
- Identify data requirements for user acceptance testing and data configuration
- Ensure stability of the UAT and Production environments by monitoring abends
- Create technical documentation for future maintenance and enhancements to the application
- Create batch jobs using JCL and schedule the jobs in production environment using CA7
- Create batch jobs for periodic back up and purge on the DB2 tables
Trainee
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2006 - 10.2006
- Gain knowledge of the various phases of the Software development Life Cycle
- Enhance knowledge of COBOL, IMS DB, IMS DB, JCL, Assembler, DB2, CICS
- Gain knowledge of the various IBM and vendor products for Z/OS
- Gain knowledge on Travel, Transport and Hospitality domain
- Understand and attain proficiency on the various processes related to Car rental business
- Gain understanding of various testing methodologies
- Attain project management, execution and team management skills needed for daily IT operations
Education
Master of Business Administration - Global
Deakin University
AustraliaPost graduate Diploma - Business Analytics
Institute of Management Technology
IndiaBachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Production and Industrial Engineering
Andhra University
IndiaSkills
- Credit card processing
- Accounts receivable and payable
- CRM and vendor management
- Fleet and inventory management
- Customer profile management
- Commission processing
- Insurance claims processing
- Access control (RACF)
- PCI/PII compliance
- Operating systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX, Windows, Linux
- Programming languages: COBOL, C, C, VB, REXX, CLIST, SCLM, EASYTRIEVE, SAS, R, Python, Java
- IBM technologies: IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, ISPF, TSO, INFOPAC, OMEGAMON
- Mainframe tools: Workload Simulator, ABEND-AID, File Aid (IMS/TSO/DB2), PKZIP, SELCOPY
- Big data technologies: Hadoop, HDFS, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Pyspark
- Microsoft products: MS Office Suite, MS Access, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint
- Robotic process automation (RPA): UiPath
- AWS, Oracle Fusion, MS Navision
Certification
- IBM certified DB2 Associate
- TATA Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
- TATA certified Software estimator
- IBM Explorer- Big Data Programming
- IBM Explorer- Big Data Hadoop
- IBM Explorer- Big Data Fundamentals
References
- Jeanne, Tansey, Senior Project Manager, jeanne.tansey@avisbudget.com, 973 496 2528, Avis Budget Group, PMP
- Abdul S, Chaudhary, Programmer Analyst IV, Abdul.Chaudhary@avisbudget.com, 973 496 8710, Avis Budget Group
Publications
- Simulated Annealing As A Machine Learning Model: Principles, Applications, And Comparative Analysis; 10.61137/ijsret.vol.11.issue3.124
- Characteristics Of High Performing Organizations: A Case Study Of Tesla, Inc.; https://ijsret.com/wp-content/uploads/IJSRET_V11_issue3_1062.pdf
- Evolution Of Credit Card Payments And Future Advancements; https://ijsret.com/wp-content/uploads/IJSRET_V11_issue3_1062.pdf
- The Role Of Artificial Intelligence In Credit Card Fraud Detection; 10.61137/ijsret.vol.11.issue3.139
- Role Of Operations Research In Car Rental Industry; 10.61137/ijsret.vol.11.issue3.123
Affiliations
- ACM Professional Member 8686257
- Member ACM SigAI
- Author Medium https://medium.com/@kasparvktcs
Accomplishments
- Best Innovation Project - Deakin University (2022)
- Finance and Strategy - Distinction Deakin University (2022)
- Finance Leadership Award Avis Budget Group 2020 - Account Modernization Program
- Best Employee Avis Budget Group 2019 - Wizard One Source
- Innovation Award TATA Consultancy Services 2016
Languages
English
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Innovations
Founder – SustAin (Stealth Startup)
Initiating an AI-driven technology venture focused on advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN Agenda 2030). Leading efforts to design and prototype data-driven solutions using artificial intelligence (machine learning, NLP, and geospatial analytics) to address challenges in climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, and smart cities. Actively building partnerships with global sustainability networks, research institutions, and impact-focused investors to scale measurable solutions. Currently developing an MVP targeting AI for sustainable production and packaging at Indian FMCG
Timeline
Solutions Architect
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2022 - Current
Programmer Analyst III
Avis Budget Car Rental
07.2016 - 03.2022
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2015 - 07.2016
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
08.2014 - 03.2015
Consultant
Avis Budget Car Rental
01.2013 - 08.2014
Programmer Analyst
Avis Budget Car Rental
03.2009 - 07.2011
Programmer Analyst
Cendant
10.2006 - 03.2009
Trainee
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2006 - 10.2006
Master of Business Administration - Global
Deakin University
Post graduate Diploma - Business Analytics
Institute of Management Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Production and Industrial Engineering
Andhra University
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