Ankur

Nexeon Technology & Business Services LLC.

(Mainframe Technology)

781-***-****

acgkl0@r.postjobfree.com (Corp-to-Corp only)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

. 8+ year's industry experience.

. Total 8+ years of experience at Mainframe technology.

. Close to 4 years in Insurance domain (July 2006 to March 2010).

. Total 4+ years of experience at Mainframe technology in Retail domain

(April 2010 to July 2014).

. Has worked on projects for clients WAL-MART and Traveler's Insurance.

. Strong background working with clients, designers, and programmers to

identify requirements, provide cost analysis, preparing BRE (Business

Rule Extraction), System details documents and develop implementation

timelines.

. Strong analytical and technical skills to provide support and enhance

systems on Workers Compensation system like Rapid1 (Voluntary Workers

Compensation Policy Administration), PICS (Policy Issue Capture System)

and now Replenishment System for Wal-Mart both on GRS and Legacy side of

it.

. At on-site performed the role of on-site coordinator and Team Lead.

. Skills to perform QA Testing using Quality Center and QTP along with

writing comprehensive Test Plan.

. Sound Knowledge of Insurance and Retail domains.

. IBM certification on DB2.

. AICPCU INS21 certified.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

. Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and

rapidly evolving requirements.

. Effective communication skills and record for coordination between

globally located teams.

. Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.

. Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and

meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical

Support teams.

. Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent

travel meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with

all facets in the clients organization.

. Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis and

providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.

. Adept in providing Analytical Support to key business Applications

/solutions

. Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to

presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

. Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),

involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design,

Development and Testing.

. Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.

. Working on Risk assessment and Estimation for a project.

TECHNNICAL SKILLS

Operating IBM OS/390 MAINFRAME

Systems

Languages COBOL, JCL, EAZYTRIEVE REXX FOCUS, SQL

Databases IMS DB, DB2, VSAM, TERADATA

Tools ENDEVOR, ENDSCAN, File AID, SPUFI, QMF, LIBRARIAN,

CHANGEMAN, XPEDITER, Microsoft Visio 2000,

PROJECT DETAILS

Project - 1

Project Name GRS Support

Client Wal-Mart

Role Support Analyst/Module Lead for 10 offshore

Objective Supporting Replenishment System for Wal-Mart

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, FOCUS,

EZTRIEVE, Data Stage, JDA

Team Size 18

Duration May 14' - ongoing

Location Bentonville, AR

Project Description:

GRS is the new technology revolution of Wal-Mart supply chain. From old

legacy system, the forecasting has been improved to 99.5% (compared to

95%). From suggested ordering till the sales information capture the whole

PO lifecycle passes thru Wal-Mart GRS/Replenishment system.

GRS Support mainly consists of following sub modules:

. JDA user interface/ JDA workbench

- System suggested and buyer push/manual order maintenance and

dropping to DC

- Capturing Sales and receiving information

- Monitoring JDA setting and behavior for suggested orders

. Project Issue Tracking

- Requests from customer regarding any new request such as new Store

opening, new business requirements, new line of business for

specific market plan etc.

. System Monitoring

- Monitoring existing GRS system which in turn runs 1600 jobs round

the clock of which 250 are critical (both time and business). We

support all the jobs in case of abend, long run etc. We modify the

system flow as per business request, or in case of technical

difficulty.

. System tuning

- Over the span of last 4 years of Wal-Mart GRS system, there are

areas of improve the performance of the system by tuning long

running job, breaking large data handling into prices efficiently,

removal of obsolete jobs etc

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Team lead for GRS.

. Customer communication, business communication and working with

development/ performance engineering team in gathering new opportunities,

ensure escalations in case of a delay, fine tune the flow by guiding the

support team.

. Provide 24*7 supports for the GRS system based on shift.

. Provide guidance to onsite and offshore counterpart in day to day

activities for Perpetual Inventory / Business logics and other tasks.

Coordinating with the offshore management to get releases completed on

time with quality.

. Responsible of creating Status Reports.

. Preparing System Details document, Process Flow Chart - to identify the

ripple effect on the system if there are any unused parts to be

discontinued from the system.

. Responsible for creating quality artifacts and process improvement to

better and efficient deliverables.

Project - 2

Project Name Replenishment Support

Client Wal-Mart

Role Support Analyst/Module Lead for 10 offshore

Objective Supporting Replenishment System for Wal-Mart

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, FOCUS,

EZTRIEVE

Team Size 18

Duration April 10' - April 14'

Location Bentonville, AR

Project Description:

Replenishment is the heart of Wal-Mart supply chain. From suggested

ordering till the sales information capture the whole PO lifecycle passes

thru Wal-Mart Replenishment system.

Replenishment Support mainly consists of following sub modules:

. Perpetual Inventory maintenance

- System suggested and buyer push/manual order maintenance and

dropping to DC

- Capturing Sales and receiving information

- Monitoring INFOREM setting and behavior for suggested orders

. Project Issue Tracking

- Requests from customer regarding any new request such as new Store

opening, new business requirements, new line of business for

specific market plan etc.

. System Monitoring

- Monitoring existence replenishment system which in turn runs 4000

jobs round the clock of which 250 are critical (both time and

business). We support all the jobs in case of abend, long run etc.

We modify the system flow as per business request, or in case of

technical difficulty.

. System tuning

- Over the span of 30 years of Wal-Mart Replenishment system, there

are areas of improve the performance of the system by tuning long

running job, breaking large data handling into prices efficiently,

removal of obsolete jobs etc

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Module lead for Perpetual Inventory and Project Issue Tracking.

. Provide 24*7 supports for the Replenishment system based on shift.

. To identify the areas of improvement for the Replenishment system and

provide guidance to System tuning team for better performance.

. Provide guidance to offshore counterpart in day to day activities for

Perpetual Inventory related and other tasks. Coordinating with the

offshore to get releases completed on time with quality.

. Responsible of creating Status Reports.

. Preparing System Details document, Process Flow Chart - to identify the

ripple effect on the system if there are any unused parts to be

discontinued from the system.

. Responsible for creating quality artifacts and process improvement to

better and efficient deliverables.

Project - 3

Project Name UPCAL Decommissioning

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role Onsite Coordinator

Objective Business Rule Extraction

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, FOCUS

Team Size 4

Duration Nov 09' - March 10'

Location Hartford, CT

Project Description:

UPCAL (UPBEAT and Combined Account Loss Reporting System) is a system which

is implemented through a set of batch COBOL/FOCUS programs which collects

upstream Commercial Lines Premium and Loss data and serves as the backbone

for much of the Commercial Lines Management Information reporting .

UPCAL data is mainly used for creating reports such as,

. Production reporting

. Premium and Loss reporting

. Controllable Income Statements

. Regional Executive Reporting

. Agent reporting

. Profit sharing reporting

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with SME's and BA's to gather Business requirements.

. Generate the inventory of UPCAL System for the used Jobs, Input Files,

Output Reports and any other external data using Cobol Converter Tool.

. To identify the unused components of UPCAL using Cobol Converter Tool.

. Extracting Business Rules from the batch modules to write BRE (Business

Rule Extraction) so that the new Modules can be written on the basis of

the existing rules.

. Preparing System Details document, Process Flow Chart - to identify the

ripple effect on the system if there are any unused parts to be

discontinued from the system.

. Coordinating with the offshore to get releases completed on time with

quality.

. Responsible of creating Status Reports.

. Responsible for creating quality artifacts on Decommissioning process and

Business Rule Documentation.

Project - 4

Project Name CIS Month End

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role Developer

Objective Streamline the CIS Month End System

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, FOCUS

Team Size 1

Duration June 09' - Oct 09'

Location Hartford, CT

Project Description:

CIS (Controllable Income Statement) is a system which creates reports on a

monthly basis thru a set of batch COBOL/FOCUS programs which collects

upstream Commercial Lines Premium and Loss data and serves as the backbone

for much of the Commercial Lines Management Information reporting .

CIS data is mainly used for creating reports such as,

. Production reporting

. Premium and Loss reporting

. Controllable Income Statements

. MIST (Management Information Search Tool)

. Regional Executive Reporting

. Agent reporting

. Profit sharing reporting

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with SME's to gather technical requirements.

. Understanding the System from existing Jobs (over 400 manual Jobs).

. Streamline the process of reporting by identifying the reports and their

inputs from more that 6000 members using COBOL Converter Tool.

. Identify unused components using Cobol Converter Tool.

. Streamline the process by eliminating redundant steps the in Jobs and by

writing more efficient Jobs (JCL) - after completing of the project, the

number of Jobs came down to 100 and most of them run in scheduler.

. Responsible of creating Status Reports.

Project - 5

Project Name ACER Documentation

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role Onsite Coordinator

Objective Business Rule Extraction

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, FOCUS

Team Size 6

Duration Dec 08' - May 09'

Location Hartford, CT

Project Description:

ACER (Agents Consolidated Experience Reporting) is a system which is

implemented through a set of batch COBOL/FOCUS programs which collects

upstream Commercial Lines Premium and Loss data and serves as the backbone

for much of the Commercial Lines Management Information reporting .

ACER data is mainly used for creating reports such as,

. Production reporting

. Premium and Loss reporting

. Controllable Income Statements

. MIST (Management Information Search Tool)

. Regional Executive Reporting

. Agent reporting

. Profit sharing reporting

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with SME's and BA's to gather Business requirements.

. Extracting Business Rules from the batch modules.

. Preparing BRE (Business Rule Extraction) document, System Details

document, Process Flow Chart.

. Coordinating with the team lead to get releases completed on time with

quality.

. Responsible of creating Status Reports.

Project - 6

Project Name RQI Engagement - Rapid1 PICS Development

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role Developer

Objective PICS (Policy Issue Capture System) system enhancements

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM

Team Size 3

Duration May 2008 to Nov 2008

Location Hartford, CT / Cognizant Kolkata, India

Project Description:

PICS (Policy Issue Capture System) is a system which is implemented through

a set of batch COBOL programs which collects upstream Workers Compensation

Policies. While issuing or modifying a Workers Compensation Policy,

depending on the issuing State, State and Federal Bureaus needs to be

notified with the current status of the Policy with certain criteria. After

collecting upstream information of the Policy, PICS generates reports for

individual Bureaus of that particular policy. Some Bureau needs the report

in a daily basis, some in a alternate day or some in a weakly basis. By

handling a set of scheduler Jobs, it is maintained.

There was variation in the format of the report a Bureau requires. In the

project, it is also handled by developing new rule and techniques.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Gathering the requirements from the client during the client call.

. Analyze the enhancement requirements received from the client.

. Co-ordinate with leads and reviews their activities to ensure a quality

deliverable.

. Solely responsible for the deployment, packaging and deliveries done to

the clients.

. Created project plans and efficiently allocated work among the team to

ensure a complete delivery of the enhancements on time.

. Handled quality audits.

Project - 7

Project Name RQI Engagement - Rapid1 Development

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role Developer

Objective Rapid1 (Workers Comp) system enhancements

Environment Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM

Team Size 10

Duration September 2006 to April 2007 and Nov 2007 to April 2008

Location Cognizant Kolkata, India

Project Description:

Rapid1 is an online Policy Issuing system for voluntary Workers

Compensation Policies. This system deals with all aspect of the Policy

administration through a huge number of IMS DC, COBOL programs and keeps

the Policy record in IMS DB (Workers Compensation and Forms) database. The

system involves activities like Underwriting, Ratemaking, and Endorsements

generation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Gathered requirements from client and transferred the knowledge to

offshore team.

. Provided support both Maintenance and Enhancement activities mainly in

Rating enhancements.

. Primary responsibilities also includes daily interaction with the

clients, requirements gathering, raise clarifications, provide estimates,

unit testing, review of the components done by offshore team and code

migration across environments.

. Created project plans and efficiently allocated work among the team to

ensure a complete delivery of the enhancements on time.

. Handled quality audits.

Project - 8

Project Name RQI Engagement - Rapid1 Independent QA

Client The Travelers Indemnity Company

Role QA Tester

Objective Rapid1 (Workers Comp) system testing

Environment Mainframe, IMS DB. Testing Tool - Quality Center, QTP

Team Size 3

Duration April 2007 to Nov 2007

Location Cognizant Kolkata, India

Project Description:

Rapid1 QA activities involve QA Testing for all enhancements and

maintenance done across the system for a release.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Gathered requirements from client, development team and transferred the

knowledge to offshore team.

. Preparing Test Plan.

. Managing the testing through Quality Center.

. Execute the Test Bed through QTP.

. Raising defects in Quality Center and maintaining it.

. Created project plans and efficiently allocated work among the team to

ensure a complete delivery of the enhancements on time.

. Handled quality audits.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science (YGPA West Bengal University of

- 8.34) Technology

Higher Secondary Examination (Aggregate - 75%) West Bengal Council of Higher

Secondary Education

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