Mainframe/Java/Ingenium Programmer Analyst Resume

Title
Mainframe/Java/Ingenium Programmer Analyst

Primary Skills
I work for AT&T for their East Billing System. I am looking for an opportunity in telecom ,Insurance or banking domai...

Location
US-CT-Milford (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jan-19-09


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

* 9 years of Information Technology Experience in maintenance and development of various Enterprise Business Application systems in the Mainframe environment.
* Worked extensively in Insurance Financial and Telecom Domain. Strong Knowledge in Life/Health Insurance Domain. Expertise in integrating various Java based Business application systems on open platform and Mainframe/Legacy/Cobol systems.
* Exposure to plan and execute all phases of System Development Life cycle(SDLC) across System Analysis, Estimation , Architectural Design, High Level Design, Low Level Design, Peer review ,Development, Maintenance, Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing, UAT, Implementation, Work flow design, Documentation and Production/Application Support.
* Efficient and extensive expertise in designing ,coding and testing of variety of software applications in COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, Changeman, DB2 LOAD, ABEND Aid, SAR, CA-7, Star Tool, Rexx, Easytrieve, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID (DB2), Job monitor, SQL, Sync Sort.
* Got good exposure to North American insurance products. Vast Expertise in Non-traditional Products, Annuities, Variable Universal Life and Segregated Funds. Worked extensively in Interest bearing Products and Unit Linked Products. Actuarial knowledge on Whole life and Term Products. Good knowledge on Whole life and Term products. Worked on New Business, Agency, Accounting, Product Set Up.
* Expertise in detail documentation and motivation towards Quality of deliverables. Experience in Software Quality Assurance Process Models, ISO and CMMI Level 5. Ability to work on multiple projects in different environments. Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and applicable web services.

* Extensive experience in resolving issues at all levels of project life cycle(SDLC) and best practices on the team to ensure quality standards. Used Business process tools, specifically work flow engines. Experience developing in a Remote Transaction Services environment using workflow.

* Ability to work independently, efficiently and effectively under stressful, high pressure and tight deadlines. Ability to work in an iterative development environment. Good team player with excellent inter-personal communication, leadership, mentoring and multi-tasking skills.



EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor of Engineering (4 Years).



TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

Hardware : IBM OS/390, Z/OS, PC Series, AS 400
Operating System : MVS, MS-DOS, UNIX/Linux; Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP Server
Languages : COBOL II, JCL, C, C++, JAVA, REXX, CLIST, PL1, PL/SQL
Access Methods : VSAM, ISAM, HISAM
Databases : DB2, IMS - DB, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, IDMS
OLTP : CICS, IMS DC, ADS/O
Domain : INSURANCE, TELECOM, SOA, WEB SERVICES
Software/Tools : MQ-SERIES, ENDEVOR, ISPF5.9, CTG, TOAD, COOL:Gen
JOB MONITOR, SQL, SYNC SORT, DB2 STORED PROCEDURES,
JOBTRAC, CHANGEMAN, ABEND AID, BMS/GT, HEAT
SAS, CA-7, STAR TOOL, EASYTRIEVE, SPUFI, QMF, FILEAID
(DB2) XPEDITOR, PANVALET, ECLIPSE, CWS, MS OFFICE TOOLS
PVCS, PLATINUM, INGENIUM, UNIX SHELL SCRIPT, INERTEST
J2EE Technologies :JAVA, JSP, RMI, EJB, JDBC, SERVLETS, JNDI, JMS, HTML,
JAVASCRIPT, JAVA BEANS, STRUTS, HIBERNATE, SPRING, ANT


ACCREDITATIONS:
* SUN Certification for JAVA.
* IBM Certified professional, DB2 Database Administration.
* Accredited Business Communicator (IABC). Cambridge University Business English Certificate.
* EDS/SOLCORP Certification on the following
1. Advanced North American Insurance and Financial Products.
2. INGENIUM Application Architecture.
3. Application Programmers Training for INGENIUM.
4. Insurance Process Flow Training.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1. Senior Systems Analyst at AT&T June '08 - Till Date
Project Name: CRB-East (Customer Records and Billing East)

Company : Amdocs Inc
Client : AT&T East
Location : New Haven, CT
Domain : Telecom Billing
Team Size : 20
Hardware : Z O/S
Software : COBOL11, COBOL, JCL, CLIST
RDBMS/Storage : DB2, IMS DB, VSAM
TOOLS & UTLITIES : CA-7, FILE-AID, VANTIVE, EXPEDITOR, NDM, SDSF, SSO
SPUFI, TSO/ ISPF5.9, ESP, JOB MONITOR, SQL, SYNC SORT,
MS VISIO, IBM FILE/STORAGE UTILITIES.

This project deals with Customer Records and Billing System East of AT&T. CRB maintains the Billing for the customers of Eastern region. CRB runs in an IBM mainframe (MVS) environment in the St. Louis Data Center. It runs on St. Louis SL04-ASYS, SL04BSYS & SL04-CSYS. The system is written in COBOL and uses IMS as well as some DB2 for database management. The CRB System uses Universal Service Orders as input.
CRB is responsible for the management of Retail and Resale customer's Wire line products and services and supports the billing of those customers by passing the recurring and non recurring charges related to the products and services on the customer's account to the Bill Formatting process. CRB passes information to all systems that need to know when changes have occurred on a customer's account.

The CRB system is a Batch processing system. The Market Area and Users are both located in Connecticut.
At&t's customer base comprises of Retail, Wholesale and Business. This is the maintenance, support and enhancement project. There are quarterly releases and off releases. There were two major releases for the second half of 2008. These are October release and the December off release.
1) Best Online Pricing East.
2) CentraLink 1100.
3) NLP Audit.
The Best Online Pricing project deals with Promotional discounts for the customers opting for Paperless E-Bills. The BOPS which handles PROMOS adds a tracking USOC (Universal Service Order Code) to the CRB Database.
The NLP Audit Report is the monthly report generated by the CRB system to report on the entire customer Data to be passed to ORA, A system maintained by IBM. The data is used to display information on the Caller IDs by the ORA.

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Prepared HLD and Detailed Program Technical Specifications from SFAD (System Feature and Design) and CR Document using templates and involved in documentation and reviews at various levels for Design Standards of Project Deliverables.
* Involved in Project Plan, Resource management, Effort Estimation, Delivery, Handling defects and schedule handling using templates and Matrices and Modeling tools.
* Involved in Impact Analysis and System Design development.
* Developed modules using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, and IMS DLI.
* ALL type of Bug Fix and Analysis using Debugger Tools.
* Prepared test plans and test cases for Unit testing, Regression testing, UAT Testing.
* Job Monitoring and Bug Fix with 24/7 production support and maintenance.
* Organize and schedule Status Meeting with Billing Application Support (BAS) Group to gather functional requirement and scope changes.
* Worked closely with Business Users and Business Analysts.
* Prepared Artifacts required for each milestone and Initiated workflows for different Phases in SDLC process (PRISM/ ITUP).
* Planning the Release activities, Auditing and Freezing the Implementation packages, Getting TD Approvals and C-ordinate with the EPAS (Support Group) for the final Move to the production.
* Involved in batch cycle monitoring and fixing of productions ABENDS. Worked as Offshore coordinator for a Global (Onsite/Offshore) delivery model.


2. Systems Analyst at Hartford Life Insurance, CT March '06 - April '08
Project Name: HLIKK (Hartford Life KK)

Company : Solcorp / EDS(Consultant)
Client : Hartford Life International Insurance
Location : Simsbury, CT.
Domain : Life, Annuity & Segfund Systems (Life Insurance and Investment)
Team Size : 8
Hardware : Z O/S
Software : Ingenium6.5, COBOL11, COBOL, CICS, REXX, PL/SQL, And JCL
RDBMS : DB2, STORED PROCEDURES.
TOOLS & UTLITIES : IBM UTILITIES, FILE-AID, PATHFINDER V 3.2, PVCS, EXPEDITOR, JCL,
CA-7, STAR TOOL, NDM, FAULT ANALYZER, ABENDAID, SPUFI, VSAM,
TSO/ ISPF5.3, ENDEAVOR, SDSF, SYNC SORT, ECLIPSE, MS VISIO, ERWIN
MQ-SERIES, JAVA, STRUTS

This project deals with INGENIUM 6.5 installations to support Hartford Life Insurance of US.
The company's product line comprises of Annuities, segregated fund investment products and Universal Life products. There are two phases for this project. 1) New Business Re-Engineering.
2) Variable Annuity Modification Day2. 3) PIP 3 WIN Riders.
This project deals with Benefit Payment Processing for Variable Annuity Products. Benefit Payment is applied as Automated Systematic withdrawal or Partial surrender of the Account Value. The Benefit Amount accumulates at the first anniversary of the Policy. BP needs to be applied during the policy year for the next anniversary. Policy Holder is free to choose the mode of disbursing the proceeds out of the payment process. The Benefit Amount is Free of withdrawal charges.


Responsibilities:

* Prepared HLD and Detailed Program Technical Specifications from Functional Specification and CR Document using templates and involved in documentation and reviews at various levels for Design Standards of Project Deliverables.
* Involved in Impact Analysis, System Design and Development (Online/Batch).
* Involved in Project Plan, Resource management and Effort Estimation, Delivery, handling defects and schedule handling using templates and Matrices and Modeling tools.
* Version control, parallel development and staging, Change packages using ENDEAVOR.
* Developed Online and Batch Programs and Jobs using COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, CICS,REXX,CLIST and JCL
* Wrote Batch Report Using COBOL II, Sync Sort and involved in project documentation.
* Prepared and executed Test Plan, Test Cases for Unit, Integration, Assembly, Regression testing, UAT Testing. Also Involved in Stress, Performance testing
* File Transfer using NDM and used Star tool for Testing.
* Job Monitoring, scheduling and Bug Fix using SAR, CA-7, FAULT ANALYZER, ABEND-AID.
* 24/7 Level 1, 2, 3 Production Maintenance as part of SDLC Cycle used ISPF/ IBM UTILITIES for storage and file management.
* Involved in Performance Tuning of DB2 objects, Views, Tables, Indexes using ER diagrams and changed Physical and Logical Data Model and used static SQL Queries using Explain.
* Used SPUFI for execution and testing of the static SQL and Permanent Bug Fixes.
* Worked closely with Business Users and Business Analysts for code/FS reviews and walkthroughs.
* Used ABENDAID for Dump analysis and ABENDS fixes. Used TEST DIRECTOR for Scheduling.
* Developed application with J2EE Design Patterns using JSP Model 2 MVC design. This application used Struts framework and Object relation Mapping (ORM) Hibernate for the Data Layer.
* Presentation tier change using HTML templates and JAVA Script client validation.
* Coordinated the plans with DBAs and Development team for the production migration.
* MQ-SERIES Programming to Integrating JAVA Pathfinder to CICS Application/Transaction Server.
* Tracked project progress and delivery issues. Involved in batch cycle monitoring and fixing of productions ABENDS. Involved in design, code, testing and review phases of the project. Tele Conferencing with the remote team in Toronto and Japan with the Global (Onsite/Offshore) delivery model.



3. Senior Programmer Analyst at Liverpool Victoria, UK May '05 - Feb '06
Project Name: LIVVIC (Liver Pool Victoria)
Company : Solcorp / EDS
Client : Liverpool Victoria
Location : Crawly, UK
Domain : Life, Annuity & Segfund Systems (Life Insurance and Investment)
Team Size : 10
Hardware : OS/390 01.02.00, UNIX
Software : Ingenium6.4, COBOL11, COBOL, CICS, REXX, SHELL SCRIPT, SQL, JCL
RDBMS : DB2, STORED PROCEDURES, VSAM
TOOLS & UTLITIES : IBM UTILITIES, TOAD, CTG, FILE-AID, PATHFINDER V 3.1, PVCS, And EXPEDITOR
CA-7, STAR TOOL, EASYTRIEVE, ABENDAID, SPUFI, PANAVALET
MQ-SERIES, ISPF5.3, JAVA

This project deals with INGENIUM 6.5 installations to support for Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited UK. Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited is registered in England No. 3232514. A wholly owned subsidiary of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society. A member of the Association of British Insurers, the General Insurance Standards Council and the Financial Ombudsman Service. Registered with the Financial Services Authority under number: 202965.
The company's product line comprises of Annuities, segregated fund investment products and Universal Life products. Major Changes are
1. Introduction of segregated fund products as Child Trust Fund Products, Flexible Premium Growth Bonds, With Profit Growth Bond.

2. Cooling Off Period Processing. Single Premium Paid Up Coverage on a Regular Contractual Premium Plan. Documents and Letters Processing.
Role: -Tracked project progress and delivery issues-Involved in batch cycle monitoring and fixing of productions abends-Involved in design, code, and testing and review phases of the project.

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for the Impact Analysis of the systems.
* Prepared HLD Program Technical Specifications from Functional Specification Document.
* Impact Analysis and development using EXPEDITOR and involved in reviews.
* Developed / Customized new Complex Batch Reports using CA EASYTRIEVE.
* Version control, parallel development and staging using PANAVALET.
* Developed Programs using COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, CICS,REXX and JCL
* Prepared and executed test Cases and Plans for Unit, Integration, Regression and UAT Testing
* Job Monitoring, scheduling CA-7 , online batch debugging using EXPEDITOR.
* 24/7 Production Maintenance used IBM UTILITIES for storage and file management.
* Wrote shell compile scripts and script to load Rate tables and for the Cash Interface system running on UNIX BOX. Developed utility shell scripts for the development environment.
* Used SPUFI for execution and testing of the static SQL Queries and Permanent Bug Fix.
* Worked closely with Business Users and Business Analysts.
* Changed/Developed Pathfinder Java Components and devolved Platform specific MQ and DQ Scripts in Native Languages with the MQ-Series Middleware for CICS Transaction server.



4. Senior Mainframe Developer at Prudential Insurance Jun '04 - Apr '05
Project Name: Prudential Life of Taiwan,

Company : Solcorp / EDS
Client : Prudential.
Location : Toronto, Canada
Domain : Traditional Life, UL Life, Unit Linked Life Insurance
Team Size : 15
Hardware : OS 390, AS400
Software : Ingenium6.5, COBOL11, COBOL, CICS, SQL, JCL
RDBMS : DB2
TOOLS&UTLITIES : EXPEDITOR, ABEND- AID, PLATINUM and EASYTRIEVE, VSAM, TSO/ISPF,
PANAVALET, FILE -AID, SAR, PVCS, ISPF, VSAM, CA-7, JAVA, JDBC
TEST DIRECTOR

Prudential of Taiwan, Taiwan operations of Prudential of US, a Fortune 100 company, is one of Taiwan's leading private life insurance companies. The company offers various products, riders and options that can be customized to variety of combinations. The new SOLCORP / INGENIUM software platform provide Prudential of Taiwan, with several comprehensive business benefits including increased user productivity, modernization of new business processes and workflow paths, an enhanced customer-centric environment, and reduced time to market for new products.
This is an enhancement done to the Base Ingenium 6.5 to provide the enhancements required to support various products, riders and options. This has various interface systems communicating with the Policy administration system running on INGENIUM.
Responsibilities:

* Responsible for the Impact Analysis of the systems due to the Enhancement.
* Prepared HLD and Program Technical Specifications from Functional Specification Document.
* Delivery handling and schedule using TEST DIRECTOR tools
* Version control, parallel development and staging using PANAVALET.
* Developed Programs using COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL,REXX, BMS Macros.
* Wrote Report Using Sync Sort and involved in project documentation.
* Prepared test Cases for Unit testing, Regression testing, UAT Testing
* File and storage Management using FILE- AID and IBM UTILITIES with JCL.
* Job Monitoring, scheduling and Bug Fix using CA-7, ABEND-AID
* Used PLATINUM for execution and testing of the static SQL used Permanent Bug Fix.
* Worked closely with Business Users and Business Analysts.
* Coordinated the plans for the production migration.
* Developed Java Components to connect to CICS Transaction server.



5. Senior Mainframe Developer at General Electric US Oct '03 - May '04
Project Name: GEFA (General Electric Financial Assurance)
Company : Solcorp / EDS
Client : General Electric Financial Assurance, U.S
Location : Toronto, CA
Domain : Annuity Systems (Life Insurance and Investment)
Team Size : 14
Hardware : OS/390 01.02.00
Software : Ingenium5.6, COBOL11, COBOL, CICS, JCL, ISPF5.3 and REXX, SQL
RDBMS : DB2
TOOLS&UTLITIES : PAN-APT, CHANGEMAN, QMF, MQ-SERIES, INERTEST
PVCS, ABEND-AID, ECLIPSE, COOL:Gen, JAVA, RMI, TSO, SDSF.

This project deals with Ingenium 5.6 installation to support GEFA's fixed annuity product line.
This is an enhancement done to the Base Ingenium 5.6
To provide the enhancements required to support Variable and fixed annuity products. The project is an Ingenium 5.6 installation to support GEFA's fixed annuity product line. Project scope included 130 modifications to INGENIUM5.6. Project was shelved at a time when functional specifications had been completed; some technical specifications had been completed. Annuity System was developed for Daily Interest Cash Flows and Guaranteed Interest Investments (DIA and GIA).

Responsibilities:

A. Responsible for the requirement analysis and design of the cash flow processing.
b. Prepared HLD and Program Technical Specifications from Functional Specification Document.
c. Impact Analysis and development using INERTEST and staging and change packages using CHANGEMAN d Programming/Coding for various Modules for the process using code generator.
E Providing executing the testing plans Test cases and test data for the cash flow modules.
f. Making the Implementation plans for the final Move to the production.
g. Devolved Batch/Online Programs reports using COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, CICS,REXX, JAVA and
COOL:Gen



6. Mainframe Application Developer at New York Life Sep '02 - Sep '03
Project Name: MYLIFE (Max New York Life).
Company : Solcorp / EDS
Client : New York Life - Max
Location : Toronto, Canada
Domain : Whole Life, Unit Linked, OPPB (Life Insurance and Investment)
Team Size : 10
Hardware : OS 390, SOLARIS
Software : Ingenium6.2, COBOL11, COBOL, CICS, SQL
RDBMS : DB2, IMS/DB
TOOLS & UTLITIES : PANVALET, ABEND- AID, FILEAID FOR DB2, MQ-
SERIES, JCL, MF-COBOL, EXPEDITOR, MS-ACCESS
PCVS, TOAD, ISPF, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, SHELL SCRIPT

Max New York Life, a joint venture between Max India Limited and New York Life, a Fortune 100 company, is one of India's leading private life insurance companies. The company offers various products, riders and options that can be customized to over 250 combinations. The new SOLCORP / INGENIUM software platform provide Max New York Life with several comprehensive business benefits including increased user productivity, modernization of new business processes and workflow paths, an enhanced customer-centric environment, and reduced time to market for new products.
This is an enhancement done to the Base Ingenium 6.2 to provide the enhancements required to support various products, riders and options. Major Changes where introduction of Traditional Products, UL Products, Annuities and OPPB.

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for the impact analysis of the OPPB systems.
* Prepared HLD and Program Technical Specifications from Functional Specification Document. Preparation of Technical Specifications.
* Changed Data Model using ER Diagrams and altered/ Created Views and Tables and added fields.
* Used COBOL, DB2, JCL, File-Aid, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, IMS DB and QMF extensively in Development & Support phases.
* Wrote SHELL mass compile scripts and scheduler crypt to load directories for system running on UNIX BOX. Developed utility shell scripts for the development environment.
* Involved in developing test strategy, test plan/cases and reviewed test plan
* Conducted Code reviews and code walk through with Business Analysts.
* Making the Implementation plans for the final Move to the production coordinating with the DBAs and Production team.
* 24/7 Production Support and production maintenance.
* Worked closely with Business Users and Business Analysts.




7. Programmer Analyst at Bell Telecom US, Aug '00 to Aug'02
Project Name: CAFE (Cabs Automated Front End)

Company : Benchmark Technologies LLC.
Client : Bell Telecom
Hardware : OS/390 02.10.00
Software : COBOLII, COBOL, CICS, SDSF, LIBRARIAN, IMS DB/DC, SQL, DB2
VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF 5.0, PL1
Tools & Utilities : FILE AID, XPEDITOR, EASYTRIEVE, IBM UTILITIES, ELIPSE

Profile: CAFE (Cabs Automated Front End):
Bell Atlantic is one of the Regional Bell Telecom companies in USA. CAFE (CABS Automated Front End) a Client Server Access Provisioning System is a re-engineered application of the existing SAFE (SOP Automated Front End) system. CABS is a Carrier Access Billing System. SAFE is the main frame based Access Provisioning System used by the NICS organizations (user organizations) to process Access Service Requests (ASRs) which are received from the access customers (AT & T, MCI, Sprint ). The SAFE archival process is one where all screens of SAFE mainframe system for each access service requests are screen scrapped into flat files to be written onto CD-ROMs.

Responsibilities:

Working as an Analyst & Tester for the SAFE archival process & CAFE (SEP99 & DEC99 releases). In SAFE activities include analyzing the application screens, preparing copybooks coding using COBOL and unit testing and system testing, contacting the client through Email, lotus notes for clarifications. In cafe activities include analyzing a CID, coding & testing (UNIT & SYSTEM). The systems were written in
COBOL/PL1 and used IMS DB/DC. Wrote online inquiry screens and developed batch testing procedures.
The environment was IMS DB/DC.

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