Sr. Mainframe Developer Resume

Title
Sr. Mainframe Developer

Primary Skills
Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM

Location
US-VA-Herndon

Posted
Jan-04-09

SUMMARY
* Over 8 years of experience in System Analysis, Design and Development, Production Support, Maintenance, Migration, Testing of software and documentation for large enterprises on IBM Mainframes.
* Extensive expertise in analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of applications using mainframe software like COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedure, VSAM etc.
* Experience in all phases of SDLC, Project Management, Software Practices and Standards.
* Having strong experience in DB2 databases
* Have wide exposure to Load and Repair utilities in DB2
* Ability to carry out conditional and unconditional Load and Refresh tables with Production data.
* Ability to resolve various DB2 issues like Check Pending and Copy Pending state using Repair utility.
* Having wide exposure on Platinum tool for Query Performance enhancements.
* Able to code Stored Procedures and complex queries and also fine-tune queries for performance optimization.
* Ability to deliver projects on time with high quality
* Ability to work under pressure
* Hands on experience working on tools like Expeditor, Endevor, File-Aid, Panvalet, Spufi, QMF, Changeman, Librarian, ADF, ISPF/TSO etc.
* Involved in documentation using MS Office tools.
* Having working knowledge on transfer tools like FTP and printing of files in AFP format.
* Proven ability to learn and adapt quickly, motivated self starter and enthusiastic team member
* Ability to lead teams and provide assistance when need arises.
* Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
* Team player with excellent organizational skills to assess needs, set priorities and meet deadlines.
Having extensive knowledge in Testing including Testing for Quality Assurance documentation in all projects along with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Technologies :COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, MQ-Series, Java.
Database : DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, VSAM, SQL, PL/SQL
Software/Tools : Xpeditor, Intertest, Insync, FILE-AID, Panvalet, Changeman, Librarian, Endevor, QMF,
SPUFI, ISPF/PDF/SDF, BMS, MS-Office, Visio, MS-Project.
Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, VAX/VMS, UNIX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 95/NT /XP
Utilities : ISPF/PDF, TSO and SUPER C, DB2 Platinum
Hardware : IBM 3270 Mainframe and PC Pentium Ranges

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Sr. Mainframe Developer - 2007 to Present
Bear Stearns Companies, New Jersey, USA
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. The company's business includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, institutional equities and fixed income sales, trading and research, private client services, derivatives, foreign exchange and futures sales and trading, asset management and custody services. Through Bear Stearns Securities Corp., it offers global clearing services to broker dealers, prime broker clients and other professional traders, including securities lending. Maintenance of the module Global Clearings Systems (GCS) which offers clearing services of funds information from broker dealers, prime broker clients and other traders and processes them and send the processed data for archiving and Database updation. GCS module also interfaces with various front end modules in Java and transfer the processed data to Java screens thru MQ-Series queues. The front-end modules displayed the received data from the MQ-Series directly to the users and clients.

Responsibilities:
* Understanding the Overall functionality of the application
* Monitoring the production jobs and resolving abends
* Working on Enhancements to the basic functionality of the application based on the problems encountered
* Created new procedures for processing of additional brokers and adding new reports
* Coded new Programs to support new functionality in the application using COBOL
* Coded Complex SQL queries to load data into DB2 tables
* Create test cases using only the business/functional and technical requirements as input
* Create test plan with test data requirements
* All executable statements must be tested using XPEDITOR, expected results documented
* Test data was created that will trigger all executable statements
* Execute unit test using executable components currently coded
* Create test summary report documenting test case, expected result, actual testing result
* Participated in IT testing and Support activities
* Participated in IT testing and Support activities along with Quality Assurance Testing and Documentation.
* Imparted training on Application knowledge whenever needed.

Environment: IBM 3270 MVS/ESA, COBOL, DB2, JCL,CICS, AFP, InSync, Xpeditor, InterTest, Endevor, MQ-Series.

Sr. Mainframe Developer - 2006 to 2007
Verizon Communications, New York
Verizon Communications Inc. is a Fortune #12 company pioneering in Telecom domain and provides Business, Service, Network and Element Management solutions, and innovative products and services in Telecom and end-to-end system development support.
E-media Module takes care of the processing of final feed mainly from the Pricing, Taxing and the Configuration modules based on different types of connections and different bill designs, various types of bill formats such as Paper format, Open Envelop Option , Disk format, catering to the needs of the customer.
The primary task of the project is to develop, maintain and enhance the project modules as per the business requirement. The maintenance mode included job monitoring and resolving production problem tickets. The enhancements include addition of modules to support additional functionality not previously present in the form of icons, messages on the bill display need to be added/changed periodically as decided by the Business requirements and also catering to integrating new businesses.

Responsibilities:
* Monitoring the production jobs and resolving abends
* Working on adhoc requests like creating a new display section and adding a new report on the bill and periodically adding new messages on the bill using COBOL programs, Copybooks and JCL's
* Coded Programs in COBOL to support new functionality in the application.
* Create test cases for the impacted JCL's as per the client requirements.
* Create test plan with test data requirements
* All impacted statements in source programs, JCL's and copybooks must be tested using debugger or debugging statements and expected results documented
* Test data must be created that will trigger all the impacted code.
* Execute unit test using test data provided by the client for all executable components currently coded
* Participating in the defect fixing raised by the testing team
* Participated in various Testing phases include User Acceptance Testing as part Quality Assurance.

Environment: IBM 3270 MVS/ESA, DB2, FILE-AID, Endevor, JCL, AFP, COBOL, INSYNC.

Mainframe Developer- Asset - 2004 to 2006
Allmerica Financials, Worcester,MA
Allmerica Financial is the holding company for a group of financial services companies operating in two primary businesses, the marketing of products and services that enable clients to accumulate assets and manage risk. This module includes both maintenance and development related work.
The Policy Management System is a property and casualty transaction processing system used to support the revenue growth and product development objectives for the Allmerica. The primary task of the project is to develop, maintain and enhance the project modules as per the client requirement.

Responsibilities:
* Study of Business and Design Specifications
* Analyzing the Impacted programs & JCLs
* Coding new programs using COBOL and changing existing programs depending on the requirement
* Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Testing the code
* Self & Peer Reviews for Code & Test cases
* Actively involved in fixing defects which involves changing the programs and other parameters
* Participated in various Testing phases include User Acceptance Testing as part Quality Assurance.
* Production Support through internal tools
* Converted and tested programs from older database to DB2 using COBOL
* Rewrote code when necessary to accommodate added constraints between tables.
* Migrated IBM mainframe Insurance and financial applications from timeshare environment to a VAX/VMS platform using VAX COBOL, Rdb/VMS, Oracle, Oracle SQL*Plus and SQR. Analyzed existing data warehouse, streamlined monthly procedures, and performance enhancements like decrease load time and increased data accessibility to users.
* Large-scale Migration of Legacy System data from VAX RMS / RDB Files to ORACLE Database and DB2
* Migration of IBM Cobol Programs to S Cobol Programs
* Developed VAX DCL Procedures to run the Job

Environment: MVS, VAX/VMS COBOL, MVS-Assembler, COBOL, JCL, AFP, PANVALET, INTERTEST, Easytrieve, PL/1, Oracle, SQR.

Mainframe Developer- Vantage - 2003 to 2004
Allmerica Financials, Worcester, MA
Allmerica Financial is the holding company for a group of financial services companies operating in two primary businesses, the marketing of products and services that enable clients to accumulate assets and manage risk. This module includes both maintenance and development related work.
The Vantage Module takes care of processing of Annuity policies and transaction processing system on the policies from the creation to maintenance to maturity. The main objective was to support the revenue growth and product development objectives for the module Vantage. The primary task of the project is to develop, maintain and enhance the project modules as per the client requirement.

Responsibilities:
* Study of Business and Design Specifications
* Analyzing the Impacted programs & JCLs
* Coding new programs using COBOL and changing existing programs depending on the requirement
* Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Testing the code
* Self & Peer Reviews for Code & Test cases
* Actively involved in fixing defects which involves changing the programs and other parameters
* Production Support through internal tools
* Participated in various Testing phases include User Acceptance Testing as part Quality Assurance.
* Analyzed, designed, coded and tested modifications to existing VAX/VMS-based modules written in VAX COBOL and Easytrieve to resolve migration issues
* Large-scale Migration of Legacy System data from VAX RMS / RDB Files to ORACLE Database and DB2
* Migration of IBM Cobol Programs to VAX Cobol Programs
* Developed VAX DCL Procedures to run the Job

Environment: MVS, VAX/VMS COBOL, DB2, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, JCL,PANVALET, SPUFI, INTERTEST, QMF, Oracle, DB2, Easytrieve.

Mainframe Developer - 2001 to 2003
Sealand Services Inc, Dallas, Texas
SEALAND Services Inc. was a leading Shipping Transport Company. The project Shipment Management System Interface (SMSI) sub system is a part of shipment management system Interface dealing with:
* Vessel Close-out/Select operations which generate user reports to verify before the container reaches the port.
* Inbound operations as to how many transits the container would be going thru before reaching the destination from the point of origin.
* Interaction with US Customs as to how many containers each ship has, what material each container has, the type of container and the type of substance the container is carrying, whether perishable, non-perishable, hazardous etc.
* Revenue generated for each container and the amounts and balances after deductions and also the bill details to be sent to the Account Receivable department for General Ledger and Book Keeping.

Responsibilities:
* Involved in Analysis of Requirements, Detail Design preparation, Coding, Unit test Cases preparation, Unit Testing.
* Coded new programs as per the database changes
* Changing the CICS related programs for the database changes
* Migration of IBM Cobol Programs to VAX Cobol Programs
* Involved in Peer Review of DDs, Coding and Unit Testing
* Actively participated in preparing UTP and programs were debugged in Xpeditor
* Actively involved in Production support and resolving abends.
* Participated in various Testing phases include User Acceptance Testing as part Quality Assurance.
* Trained new resources on the application, Technical and Quality aspects.

Environment: IBM OS/390 Mainframe, MVS, VAX/VMS, VS COBOL, JCL, CICS, Changeman, Librarian,VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, IMS, ADF, MQ-Series and Xpeditor.

Mainframe Developer - Data migration - 2000 to 2001
Sealand Services Inc, Dallas, Texas
SEALAND Services Inc. was a leading Shipping Transport Company. The project Shipment Management System Interface (SMSI) sub system is a part of shipment management system Interface dealing with:
* Data Migration between ADABAS to DB2 and between SQL Server to Back-end DB2 servers.

Responsibilities:
* Involved in Analysis of Requirements, Detail Design preparation, Coding, Unit test Cases preparation, Unit Testing.
* Coded new programs as per the new database requirements
* Involved in coding the COBOL-IMS DB for data extraction.
* Involved in Peer Review of DDs, Coding and Unit Testing
* Actively participated in preparing UTP and programs were debugged in Xpeditor
* Participated in various Testing phases include User Acceptance Testing as part Quality Assurance.
* Actively involved in Production support and resolving abends.
* Team lead for project to consolidate and convert data from VAX/VMS legacy system using VAX COBOL and Rdb/VMS into interim SQLSERVER data warehouses and then into final DB2 database.

Environment: IBM OS/390 Mainframe, MVS, VAX/VMS COBOL, JCL, CICS, Changeman, Librarian,, VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, IMS, ADF, MQ-Series and Xpeditor.

EDUCATION
Master's in Computer Applications.

Certifications
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