SANDHYA GANESAN

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Work Authorization: Green Card Norristown, PA – 19401

Career Highlights

Eight plus years of experience of progressive IT experience in Software Development

Life Cycle process, including Waterfall and Agile

Excellent functional knowledge in Banking and Insurance industries

Hands on experience Requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, build and release,

project management, documentation

Experience in SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/ODS, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACESS,

SAS/GRAPH, SAS Enterprise Guide

Solid understanding and proficient use of various procedures like proc SQL, proc report, proc

freq, proc means, proc contents, proc summary, proc rank, proc import, proc export, proc

print, proc sort

Experience in developing Mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2, SAS

Extensive experience in Software Configuration Management (Build and Release) using

ClearQuest, ClearCase, Perforce, HP UX Software Distributor

Scripting in multiple languages – UNIX, Windows – ANT, Python, DOS, VB Script

Experience in debugging Perl scripts

Excellent Project Managing skills, Financial analysis, tracking, reporting, resource managing

Strong leadership, excellent communication skills, team player and ability to handle complex

assignments posses the confidence to work as part of a team or independently

Technology and Environment

Primary Skills Good Analytical and Interpersonal skills

Operating System UNIX (AIX, HP), Microsoft Windows

Database Oracle 8.x, 9.x, 10g, DB2, SQL

Programming Languages Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, REXX), PL/SQL, Windows Scripting, VBA,

UNIX, Perl

Version Control Tools Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0, IBM Rational ClearCase &

ClearQuest, Perforce

Reporting Tools SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/ODS, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACESS,

SAS/GRAPH, SAS Enterprise Guide, Business Objects

ETL Tools Informatica Powecenter

Other Tools IBM Utilities, Endevor, TSO, ISPF, CA7, FTP, Connect Direct, BMC

Remedy, Autosys, Planview, Microsoft Project Plan, MS Office,

Sharepoint, Weblogic

CHNOLOGY AND ENVIRO

Education

Bachelors of Engineering (2000-2004) - Medical Electronics from Visveswariah Technological University,

Karnataka, India

Professional Experience

Employer: Infosys Ltd Designation: Associate Project Manager

Client : Aetna – Blue Bell, PA Duration : Sep 2012 – Dec 2013

Environment & Tools : Planview, Sharepoint, IBM Rational Clearcase/ClearQuest, MS Excel, VBA

scripting, Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft Office tools

Roles and Responsibilities:

Work with a designated lead Project Manager to manage projects, assist in leveraging sound

project management practices, while being flexible enough to achieve aggressive project

delivery goals and objectives

Manage project scope, time, budget, change, resources, communication and risk on projects

Work with discipline leads to communicate resource needs, project milestones, deliverable and

risks on a regular basis

Maintain or assist in the maintenance of MS Project schedules on the projects

Support the monitoring of financial responsibilities across projects, including reviewing hours

and tracking costs

Responsible for oversight of one or more projects by creating project plans, monitoring project

timelines, reporting on project status

Provide administrative support as needed

Participated in the internal project audits and was consistent in maintaining zero findings

Employer: Infosys Ltd Designation: Release Engineer

Client : Capital Group – San Antonio, TX Duration : Sep 2010 – Sep 2012

Environment & Tools BMC Remedy, Share point, IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Perforce,

Subversion, SVN, HP UX Software Distributor, Mainframe, Informatica

Powercenter, BOE, Autosys, HP Unix, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Windows

Scripting, UNIX shell scripting, ANT, Anthill

Roles and Responsibilities:

Experienced and in depth knowledge in Release Management, Change Management, ClearCase

and ClearQuest Administration, Support Maintenance, Development and Testing

Experience in managing the deployment of product and ensuring each release follows strict

change control procedures using Clear Case, ClearQuest, HP UX Software Distributor

Developed and maintained the build environment, source code control system and issue

tracking system using ANT, MS Build

Created UCM projects and streams as appropriate as well as created and updated build jobs to

automate work flow.

Experience with tomcat and weblogic server administration and configuration

Experience in identifying and assisting in the design and implementation of necessary build tools

to increase release efficiency

Supported Release services for traditional SDLC Waterfall and Agile Methodology

Facilitated successful Release of Code from Engineering to Production by proactively &

reactively working with Product Management, Development, QA and Operations

Responsible for ensuring the impacts of the released software for stakeholders by scheduling

reviews as required

Concurrently managed multiple Releases and Changes

Created custom sharepoint forms for build request and manage team communication for

developers

Documented all release procedures and trained the new team members

Employer: Infosys Ltd Designation: Technology Analyst

Client : J P Morgan RPS, Overland Park - KS Duration : April 2008 – Aug 2010

Environment & Tools SAS, JCL, DB2, IBM Utilities, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, FTP

Project Data Conversion and De-Conversion

Roles and Responsibilities:

Extensive experience SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/ODS, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACESS,

SAS/GRAPH

Solid understanding and proficient use of various procedures like proc SQL, proc report, proc

freq, proc means, proc contents, proc summary, proc rank, proc import, proc export, proc print,

proc sort

Developed new macros for report generation using SAS/Macros as per the clients requirements

Used various procedures such as Proc Tabulate, Proc Means and Proc Report to generate tables,

listings, graphs and reports

Strong knowledge about drop, keep, retain, and date manipulations, formats

Present statistical results using the appropriate graphs, charts, tables and written

reports

Proficient in producing external files and customized reports using SAS procedures

Expertise in system design and development required for business process

Experience in analytical, design, development, integration testing, regression testing, user

acceptance testing, implementation and maintenance phases of various projects

Responsible for pilot project testing and implementation

Performed data and programmed validation to ensure the quality of deliverables met internal

standards

Lead a team of 4-5 offshore developers, being completely responsible for their deliverables, as

well as providing technical guidance, and reviewing design documents, test cases and code

Employer: Infosys Ltd Designation: Software Engineer

Client : J P Morgan RPS – Overland Park, KS Duration : Nov 2007 – Mar 2008

Environment & Tools SAS, COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2, IBM Utilities, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, FTP,

Connect Direct, OMNIPLUS, VSAM, Fileaid, SPUFI, IBM Mainframe utilities,

TSO/ISPF

Project DB Payroll

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participated in requirement gathering session to understand user requirements

Analyze client specifications to identify changes required, assess the risks and dependencies.

Effort estimation

Created detailed requirement documents based on the functional requirements

Enhancement of SAS programs

Created Data dictionary and migrate the data during the upgrade of SAS version

Used SAS ODS to create HTML, RTF and PDF files in the process of producing reports

Developed programs using COBOL, COBOL/DB2, JCL, PROC, copybooks

Worked in liaison with offshore team and business team to resolve the bugs in code and provide

with enhancements in timely manner.

Lead a team of 3 offshore developers, being completely responsible for their deliverables, as

well as providing technical guidance, and reviewing design documents, test cases and code.

Extended support in implementation and post implementation activities

Employer: Infosys Ltd Designation: Software Engineer

Client : J P Morgan RPS – Bangalore, India Duration : Dec 2005 – Oct 2007

Environment & Tools SAS, COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2, IBM Utilities, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, FTP,

Connect Direct, OMNIPLUS, Visual Safe Source

Project Maintenance of DC Payroll

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participate in project discussions and weekly status meetings of the project proceedings with

the onsite team

Involved in impact analysis on the maintenance modules to identify the impacted programs that

are required to change as part of this new Servicing Interface.

Done reverse engineering to identify the gaps in the Business requirement.

Create test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests

Understand and update the existing code or create new code by using BASE/SAS, SAS/MACROS

and SAS/SQL to implement new requirements

Extensively used procedures such as PROC APPEND, PROC IMPORT, PROC MEANS, PROC

SUMMARY, PROC CONTENTS and PROC SQL

Customizing the existing COBOL/DB2, JCL programs while debugging the code for any issues.

Estimation of change requests

Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to

integration system

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