Mainframe Developer Resume

Title
Mainframe Developer

Primary Skills
COBOL, CICS, PL/1, IMS, MVS Assembler

Location
US-VA-Herndon

Posted
Jan-05-09

SUMMARY
* Over 8 years of experience in System Analysis, Design and Development, Production Support, Maintenance, Migration, Testing of software for large enterprises on IBM Mainframes.
* Extensive expertise in analysis, design, development and deployment of applications using mainframe software like MVS Assembler, COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DB2, VSAM, etc.
* Experience in all phases of SDLC, Project Management, Software Practices and Standards.
* Having strong experience in DB2 and IMS databases
* 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, Intertest, Spufi, QMF, Smarttest, ISPF/TSO etc.
* Involved in documentation using MS Office tools.
* Proven ability to learn and adapt quickly, motivated self starter and enthusiastic team member
* Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
* Team player with excellent organizational skills to assess needs, set priorities and meet deadlines.
Ability to lead a team

TECHNICAL SKILLS
IBM Technology : MVS Assembler, COBOL, PL1, NATURAL, JCL, CICS, ENDEVOR, VSAM, Easytrieve, Ultim
Database : DB2, IMS DB, Oracle, MS Access and Adabas
Software/Tools : VSAM, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, PANVALET, QMF, SPUFI, SMARTTEST, INTERTEST
Operating Systems : MVS/ESA, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 95/NT
Utilities : ISPF/PDF, TSO and SUPER C

EDUCATION
Masters of Science, Computer Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: SUPERVALU,
Sr. Mainframe Developer - 2008 to 2008
SuperValu, Salt Lake City, UT
SuperValu is one of the leading retailing & Distribution organization with great presence in most parts of US under different banners. Different modules handled as part of this project are Jewel, Price Maintenance, ADSI, Loyalty Card. This project involves the maintenance of the system and development of enhancements and new functionalities.

Responsibilities:
* Understanding the Overall functionality of the Jewel-Osco system.
* Guiding the team members when they require help in understanding the requirements.
* Guiding the team members in improving their analytical skills.
* Helping the team members in resolving the technical issues.
* Constantly monitoring the quality process to be followed by the team members.
* Involved in coding the COBOL-DB2 & COBOL-IMS DB/DC.
* Actively participated in writing SSAs (Segment Search Arguments) to extract data from IMS DB
* Coded Complex SQL queries to load data into DB2 tables
* Create test plan with test data requirements
* All executable statements must be tested using XPEDITOR, expected results documented
* Test data creation 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
* Resolving the production abends.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, JCL,CICS, Smartest, File Master, VSAM.

Sr. Mainframe Developer - 2007 to 2007
One Beacon, Canton, MA
OneBeacon is one of the leading insurance companies in US. It has business in P&C area of the insurance. OneBeacon provides insurance for Auto, Property, Agri, etc. This project involved in maintenance of all the policies data issued from OneBeacon and also houses the data from other insurance companies like Hagerty, Adirondack, etc.
All these policy data will be periodically transmitted to the respective state RMV's as per the guidelines set by each state. Data that is transmitted to state includes the new business done for that period, any policy changes done, cancellations, and expirations. DMVS also handles the response received from the state and needs to fine-tune the existing database as per the suggestions received.


Responsibilities:
* Participating in the Analysis of DMVS applications
* Worked with Expeditor for analyzing COBOL programs, Copybooks and JCL's
* Coded Programs in DMVS applications
* Create test cases for the impacted JCL's as per the client requirements.
* Changing the COBOL programsfor the changed policy number to invoke CICS services
* Changing the Natural programs for extracting the data from ADABAS
* Changingthe CICS table entries and creating mapsets
* Guiding the team members when they require help in understanding the requirements.
* Guiding the team members in improving their analytical skills.
* Helping the team members in resolving the technical issues.
* Constantly monitoring the quality process to be followed by the team members.
* Create test plan with test data requirements
* All impacted statements in source programs, JCL's and copybooks must be tested using Expeditor debugger and expected results documented
* Test data must be created that will trigger all the impacted statements
* 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

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Natural, ADABAS, FILE-AID, Endevor, Expeditor.

Main Frame Developer - Asset Conversion - 2006 to 2007
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.

Allmerica sold the VUL & Traditional policies business to SE2 and required all the data present in Allmerica system to be transmitted onto the SE2 system. As part of this system, we need to prepare several reports required for the SE2 to build their system.

Responsibilities:
* Preparation of reports to project policy data.
* Analyzing the business logics
* Preparation of one time programs for the data extraction and FTP's
* Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Testing the code
* Self & Peer Reviews for Code & Test cases

Environment: MVS, MVS-Assembler, COBOL, JCL,PANVALET, INTERTEST, Easytrieve, PL/1

Main Frame 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
* Production Support through internal tools

Environment: MVS, MVS-Assembler, COBOL, JCL,PANVALET, INTERTEST, Easytrieve, PL/1

Main Frame Developer - Vantage - 2001 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

Environment: MVS, DB2, COBOL, SQL, JCL,PANVALET, SPUFI, INTERTEST, QMF.

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