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Sivachandhar R V

San Antonio,TX

Summary

  • 13 Years of I.T. Experience on IBM Mainframe technology with extensive proficiency in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Eazytrieve, IMS DB/DC, z/OS Connect EE, SORT, IBM Tools.
  • Mainframe Lead Developer/Senior Analyst Programmer with 14 years of experience in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Troubleshooting, Support and Implementation of full life cycle mainframe applications.
  • Effective at supporting team needs with high-quality code, subject matter expertise and collaboration skills. Skilled programmer and complex problem-solver experienced in data analytics.
  • Experienced in onsite offshore model and leading teams. Well Acquainted to work on Agile or Water fall model projects.
  • Experienced in communication with client and business users for SDLC activities and in driving process improvement activities.
  • Executed mainframe development and enhancements for Life Insurance,Annuity and Health insurance projects using mainframe tools and utilities.
  • Strong production support experience of an Life/Annuity Admin system.
  • Played different roles - Architect/Technical lead / Module Lead / Developer. Involved in Sizing and estimation of medium and large size projects and review of estimates
  • Have excellent team spirit, communication and interpersonal skills with strong team leading capabilities.
  • Strong logical and analytical skills leading to problem resolutions within timelines.
  • Innovative, creative and able to adopt new technologies and systems.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Mainframe Architect

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
03.2020 - Current
  • Document Modernization – Created Infrastructure and migrate entire life Insurance application documents from legacy Elixir based system maintained through PL/I , Crawford script and CSF tools to webservice based application based on xPression tool
  • Leading team of 20 resources on 2 Yrs migration journey running on T&M and subsequently Fixed bid Project
  • Built infrastructure to create work list items for MSR through Webservice SOAP call (service was not available in RESTful) rather than MQ based Application

Mainframe Technical Lead Analyst

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
06.2017 - 03.2020
  • FIAP – A Federal regulated Compliance project which is to document all existing controls for Business and It process for Risk and Control Inventory. Create controls on Business process on IT code for identified gap in Business Controls. Report gaps to enterprise team and create controls for IT process.
  • Converted all the Service accounts from a SAU accounts to Cyberark accounts for multiple type of connections in multiple modes of communication channel
  • Converted few options provided on Green screen IMS transaction to a rest api Call through z/OS connect EE framework based on IMS connect gateway (IMS Transaction)
  • Real Time Payment - Created the Infrastructure to support payments made to be Real time and update all the book of records to support this process
  • Created Multiple POC during the introduction of z/OS connect framework
  • Built Infrastructure to Send Notification to members in near real time based on MQ from an existing ftp transfer file-based application
  • Migrated more than 200 jobs from FTP/SFTP to Connect:Direct end points. Coordinated with multiple External Vendor application and Infrastructure team to establish connection, whitelisting the servers and creating multiple Service accounts in multiple servers and mode of channel
  • Mentored and helped mainframe team members to resolve critical issues on daily basis.
  • Handled break-fixes for production daily batch cycles and supported team members to resolve any critical issues with expert knowledge on the application..
  • Tracked and monitored the work assigned to junior members and provided help in case of critical issues.
  • Responsible for review and sign-off of technical specification document, peer code review, promotion of code changes to model office for UAT and to production environment.
  • Responsible for change management process in the team, which outlines system document changes review and sign-off.
  • Assisted in the final implementation and Go-live planning activities for projects.
  • Provided support to debug production and UAT issues.

Senior Mainframe Developer

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
06.2014 - 06.2017
  • Worked as Programmer Analyst for Life team.
  • Created additional test environment and streamlined release process to enable Multiple releases in a Month for Mainframe application to support Biweekly release for Agile Teams
  • Converted 100+ FTP connections to password less ssh key based SFTP connections for multiple Linux servers
  • Worked on multiple Reprice projects for various Life Insurance and Annuity Products for changing or adding coverages or introducing new Product on Market for Members
  • Migrated all end points for application from Webmethods to IBM Sterling for external Vendor file transfers
  • Served as Release and Configuration lead for all Mainframe application related to Life, Health and Annuities which involves Build, Deploy and Migrate components to Production and Maintain 6 System Test Region for applications
  • Responsible for SDLC life cycle like analysis, design, development, unit testing and integration testing and implementation.
  • Prepared technical specification documents and flow chart diagrams for various projects and enhancements.
  • Handled break-fix, enhancement, maintenance and user support requests.
  • Handled production support and root cause fixed critical daily batch cycle jobs.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Worked closely with clients to establish specifications and system designs.
  • Interacted with business on regular basis to keep pace with them.

Mainframe Developer

Kaiser Permanente
01.2011 - 06.2014
  • Worked as Software Engineer for Kaiser Permanente NCRS and ICS Project.
  • Involved in analysis of Production issues reported by the customer that are critical, high and medium.
  • Tested programs and databases to identify issues and make necessary modifications.
  • Involved in analysis of JCL and COBOL coding to provide solution to customer.
  • Involved in quality activities like preparing weekly reports for resolution submitted.
  • Worked as an application SME for a Pharmacy Warehouse application for Health care provider to maintain Inventory
  • Worked to support PIMS application which is a hub for the Pharmacy claims to be collected and distributed to multiple vendors for book of records and General Ledger updates
  • Reduced the job abends Incidents from 200 to under 50 in 5 months after transition
  • Cleared all the User Service Requests in 3 months without backlog after transition

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Bachelor of Electronics And Communication

Anna University
Chennai, TN, India
04.2010

Skills

Primary Skills

  • COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, EASYTRIEVE, IMS

Secondary Skills

  • z/OS Connect, Source Control

Development Tools

  • FILEMANAGER, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, CA7

Debug Tools

  • IBM Debug, iDz

Databases

  • VSAM, DB2,IMS

Configuration Tools

  • CHANGEMAN, ELIPS

Accomplishments

· Conducted multiple session on DFSORT/ICETOOL instead of COBOL logic at Account level

· Served as Oncall Support for Critical Application support on Rotation for 4+ years

· Won multiple Proposals for various teams and Projects with the latest being the Document Modernization with $1.2M price

· Served as a team member for the Assessment of the Application to migrate to Microfocus and AWS servers.

Certification

  • Six Sigma GreenBelt Certified in 2013
  • DB2 9 Certified in 2012
  • AHM 250 Certified in 2011

Timeline

Mainframe Architect

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
03.2020 - Current

Mainframe Technical Lead Analyst

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
06.2017 - 03.2020

Senior Mainframe Developer

United Services Automobile Association, USAA
06.2014 - 06.2017

Mainframe Developer

Kaiser Permanente
01.2011 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Bachelor of Electronics And Communication

Anna University

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