MUJAHID A MOHAMMED

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SUMMARY

1. Information Technology Professional with over 15 years of experience

as a Programmer Analyst/Architect/Lead Worked on IBM Mainframe, Unix

and PC/LAN environments.

2. Has extensive experience in Gathering functional requirements from

business users and System Design. Participated in number of large

projects, developing end-user software using structured programming

techniques and generator tools, working in-house and formal

development methodologies.

3. Participated in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) such as Analysis, designing, developing, debugging, conversion,

testing, implementation, and production support.

4. Strong communication skills, with the ability to work in demanding

environment

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

PLATFORMS & OPERATING SYSTEMS

. IBM Mainframe, HP-UX, VAX-11/750, Unipower-30, Sun Fire T2000, IBM

PCs, Windows-NT Server/Workstation, Zenith Superlan, Pentium Class

Machines, Windows NT/98/2003 Server/XP/VISTA, MVS, z/OS, VMS, UNIX /

Sun Solaris 10, DOS/VSE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TOOLS

. VS COBOL II, COBOL/390, MF-COBOL, CICS, SQL, JCL, EZTrieve, REXX, DB2

Stored Procedures/Subroutines, IBM Websphere MQ Series for z/OS v5.3,

Unix Shell Scripts, C Language, Java 1.2, HTML, CA for DB2 (RC Query),

CA View, BMC Utilities, SPUFI, QMF, TOAD for Oracle & DB2, DB2

Connect, CA-7, IBM VisualAge for COBOL, Shadow Direct Server,

TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, Changeman, Librarian, Endevor, SCLM, VB Scripting,

PVCS, Xpediter, MF-NetExpress, MF-Animator, INTERTEST, IBM Utilities,

Abend-Aid, File-Aid, Infoman, VSAM, ISAM, FTP, NDM, ESP, Lotus Notes,

MS-Office Suit, MS Visio 6.0, Cognos Impromptu, Cognos Powerplay

DATABASES

. DB2 ver 9 NFM, IMS/DB, ORACLE 7.1, DBASE, MS-ACCESS, FOXPRO, Informix

7.31

APPLICATION AREAS

. INSURANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT, TRANSPORTATION, UN-EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE,

TREASURY ACCOUTING, SHIPPING, FINANCE, BROKERAGE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

. Used MF-Cobol, Vs-Cobol, Cobol/390 extensively to write structured

and efficient programs that deliver required business functionality.

. Used CICS to develop pseudo conversational programs, develop BMF

screens as per flow of the application functions.

. Participated in impact analysis and submitted various forms and flow

diagrams for new CICS transactions and Batch flows.

. Used JCL and JCL utilities like IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SYNCSORT, etc. to

manipulate VSAM datasets, backup datasets, analyze data, load VSAM

datasets, extract data for test conditions. Created JCL to run job

flows in various test environments. Prepared JCL for production

environments.

. Converted VSAM files to DB2 during application migration process

. Written complex Insurance Policy Rerating Offset process using MF-

Cobol on HP-Unix

. Used SQL and DB2 STORED PROCEDURES to write complex queries to

retrieve/manipulate data from various tables to match business

functionality. Used Explain facility to check/tune the efficiency of

the SQL calls

. Used DLI calls in Cobol programs to extract segments data from IMS/DB

. Used MVS, TSO/ISPF facilities to maneuver thru the system resources

and tools.

. Used FILE-AID to manipulate datasets and Vsam datasets.

. Used EZTRIEVE and REXX to perform regular routines to prepare reports

and output files.

. Used CHANGEMAN/ENDEVOR to manage change control process for various

applications.

. Used PVCS to Prepare documentation about applications and changes made

to them subsequently

. Debugged batch programs with XPEDITOR/IBM Debug tool and Online CICS

programs with INTERTEST.

. Used MQ SERIES extensively to manage data flow from various

application interfaces.

. Used Db2 partition numbers to segregate data to different MQ's, so

that the started task jobs picks the data in timely and efficient

manner.

. Used FTP/NDM to transfer files and reports to other Mainframe LPARS

and FTP servers

. Used Micro Focus Cobol on UNIX platform to write complex systems that

take input from various interfaces, converting data from Oracle 5.0

database and Foxfro tables, and subsequently converting them to ISAM

files and vice versa.

. Implemented Accounting software in many districts and supervised

installation and maintenance of UNIX systems

. Lead a team of 8 members for 2 years in the District computer center

. Lead an off-shore team of 6 members for 9 months for client Sea-Land

. Prepared Test Plans and Test cases to suite business functionality and

all possible errors .

. Ran the test plans and test cases thru Unit Test, Regression Test,

User Acceptance testing stages.

. Supported the applications during production and post-production

stages

. Used Ms-Office products to prepare documentation of applications and

also to keep track of my work, so I can switch to other tasks easily

and comeback and resume what I was doing. These tools are very helpful

for multi-tasking.

DETAILS OF EXPERIENCE ON VARIOUS PROJECTS

Integrated Technology Solutions & Services, Inc

(Feb 2012 - Sep 2014)

Columbia, SC

Mainframe Developer/Architech/Lead working at client site SC DEPARTMENT OF

EMPLOYMENT AND WORKFORCE. My primary responsibility is to work as Subject

Matter Expert in assisting the department to Design/Implement/Interface

with TRA Project, that is been developed by an outside vendor. I have to

make sure that the software is developed in accordance with the agreed

business requirements and further I need to design and develop interfaces

to the other related existing systems UI benefit system, TAA system. This

project is in pending status since July, 2012.

I have developed a new CICS system (is going to be part of Automated

Benefit Processing System) to refresh Issues and Errors before a

beneficiary is paid UI Benefits. This will allow the local offices to

track the issues and resolve in timely manner. I have prepared User

Training manual to train the users to use this option. This system is

waiting to go into production Federally mandated changes like, Fiscal Cliff

changes, Federal Unemployment Tax Act and Sequestration..

After that I worked on a requirement to classify the Overpayments correctly

as Fraud or Non-Fraud Overpayments. This is in production on 5/30.

Some more projects that I am worked on to date are

- Sequestration

- Federal Unemployment Tax Act

- Re-employment Assessment

Roles &Responsibilities:

. Understanding new federal requirements from Business users, Examining

existing Legacy applications to determine how the new requirements can be

met

. Identifying mainframe components where the changes are needed to make and

assigning to the team

. Designed the database and coordinated with DBA to create tables and

backup procedures.

. Coordinating with users to complete Test cases that can be used for unit

testing, System Testing and User Acceptance testing.

. Coordinating with test team to explain the batch flow and batch testing

cycle process.

. Developed interface designs and developed interfaces to suit the new TRA

System that is Visual Studio .net based.

. Developed interfaces to Department of Labor Sun OS systems, to forward

the un-employment trend and numbers and match un-employed individuals to

Nation New Hires

. Assisted in maintaining and matching management reports for Beneficiary

Accuracy Management with Department of Labor.

. Designed/Developed new CICS system to Refresh Issues and errors in UI

benefit system (ABPS). The new CICS programs and Maps are developed from

scratch.

. Worked on multiple platforms including Mainframe, SUN OS, Visual Studio &

SQL Server based clients.

Environment : IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM(lot of it and its the

main datastore for entire SC UI benefit system), DB2 Ver 9 NFM (not much

but we are developing new systems using this), PANVELT, XPEDITER, SUN

Solaris OS 10, Unix Scripts, DB2 Connect, MS Visio, etc.

Headstrong Services

(Apr 2011 - Jan 2012)

Chicago, IL

Mainframe Developer working at client site CVS CAREMARK. Involved in

Support and Development activities for Medicare Part D Beneficiary

Enrolment System. My activities are programming in development and support

of the application. Design and performance tuning, watching job executions

and fixing problems and performance issues in them, interacting with CMS

and clients to get their business requirements met in a timely manner.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, TOAD for DB2, IBM Debug,

Changeman, etc.

Insight Global, Inc

(Nov 2010 - Feb 2011)

Tampa, FL

Mainframe Developer working at client site Health Plan Services. Involved

in Coding, Testing, Documentation for Cigna Dental Project. This is a new

product offering under individual policy. Responsibilities include Coding,

test plan & test case preparation, data preparation, testing, documenting

changes etc.

Environment : IBM Mainframe/COBOL/JCL/DB2/IBM Debug too/Changeman etc.

S2Tech:

(June 2010 - Oct 2010)

Jefferson City, MO

Mainframe Developer working at client site (Wipro-Infocrossing) on 'VSAM To

DB2 Conversion' Project in Medicaid (MMIS) application for the State of

Missouri, responsible for application design, development, coding,

compiling, testing & implementing new COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs and

enhancing existing applications by renovating old programs using various

tools on the Mainframe.

Environment: IBM Mainframe//Z/OS//JCL/COBOL/CICS/DB2/VSAM/Endevor etc.

Programmer Analyst

Dec, 2007 - Aug, 2008

United Parcel Service of America, Inc

Morristown, NJ

Scheduled Delivery Date/Re-Scheduled Delivery Date project

Scheduled Delivery Date/Re-Scheduled Delivery date project is to calculate

dates and times for International Packages & Shipments and store them, such

that all front-end applications can access them accurately. This system

accesses Origin and Destination profiles and Route plan flow tables to

arrive at these dates. Participated in Design and Development stages of

the project and currently being implemented.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Analyzed functional requirements and written detailed design

. Designed main control program that calls pickup & delivery programs

. Designed Pickup program that looks into pickup profiles to pickup

delays

. Coded COBOL/DB2 control program that retrieves data from Origin &

Destination programs and populates SDDRDD table, pickup table and

Destination tables

. Modified many CICS trasactions and BMS on-line screens to match the

new requirements

. Modified existing COBOL/CICS programs to exchange data and flow of

the new process

. Tuned sql queries using explain reports for maximum performance

. Used MQ SERIES to transfer data between applications and Balance load

on started tasks

. Implemented Data propagation on other Lpars so the Front-end

applications access

. Perform Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing and UAT

testing

. Supported the application during post-production

. Shared Production support 1 week in every 5 weeks

Technical Skills Utilized: VS-COBOL II, CICS, IBM Websphere MQ for z/OS

v5.3, SQL, DB2 v8, IMS DB, DB2 Rc/Update, DB2 Detector, Spufi, BMC,

TSO/ISPF, Infoman, JCL, SYNCSORT, CHANGEMAN, Xpediter, Intertest.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Sep, 2006 - Sep, 2007

United Software Group, Inc

Columbus, OH

INDIANA ONLY RATING project for Nationwide Insurance

The first phase of this project is to develop Rate Trace Logger program to

implement Worksheet. This worksheet contains the Calculations performed

during Rating process. The Rate Trace Logger program would be memory

resident until all the policies that are selected to be logged are

completed. The program would be called from Rating modules that are sub

programs to the main program.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Analyzed functional requirements and written detailed design

. Written Technical specifications

. Made enhancements to Main Rerating control module on HP-Unix system

. Developed new shell scripts for newly added functionality

. Made enhancements to Main Rerating control module on Mainframe that's

running on VS-Cobol and Db2 database

. Made enhancements to Cobol/Db2 programs to add new functionality

. Written Cobol programs that extract data from various VSAM and Db2 to

convert to flat files in oracle table structures to load to Oracle

database

. Made enhancements to Main Rating module

. Developed new Rate Trace Logger program

. Performed Proof of concept testing for Rate Trace Logger program that

is memory resident

Technical Skills Utilized: MF-COBOL, HP-UX, SQL, ORACLE, VS-COBOL II, DB2,

JCL, VSAM

NC NON STANDARD AUTO project for Nationwide Insurance

This project is to implement the Nonstandard Class Plan M rating program in

North Carolina. Class Plan M NSA will be introduced in the Nationwide

Affinity Insurance Company of America (NAICOA) for New Business only

effective 11/07/05. The business will be identified by Company Code 56 and

Residual Market Code 70 for Voluntary and 20 for Facility.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Analyzed functional requirements and written detailed design

. Written Technical specifications

Technical Skills Utilized: COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, TSO/ISPF, JCL, MVS, MF-

COBOL, HP-UX

RATE CAPPING project for Nationwide Insurance

Rate Capping is a new rating approach to control renewal impacts to rate

changes. In our current environment, we spend a great deal of time

weighing the benefits of additional segmentation initiatives with the

renewal premium changes that will occur to some segments of our in force

portfolio. Rate Capping is a new tool that will allow regions to more

aggressively select goal state segmentation to achieve the most accurate

and competitive new business rate level while effectively managing

retention impact.

Offset Factor: FACTORS ARE DESIRED TO RECOUP THE PREMIUM LOST DUE TO RATE

CAPPING

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Developed Technical specifications from functional requirements

. Developed new Offset program as per technical specifications using MF-

Cobol on HP-Unix platform

. Developed new Unix Shell scripts to handle connection to Oracle

database and start the SQL Loader so the MF-Cobol programs can

retrieve data from Oracle database

. Used TOAD to navigate thru ORACLE db examining various properties

. Made enhancements to Cobol/Db2 programs to add new functionality

. Performed Unit testing and Integration testing with Online and offline

interfaces

Technical Skills Utilized: MF-COBOL, HP-UX, SQL, ORACLE, TOAD for Oracle,

VS-COBOL, DB2, TSO, ISPF

Senior Programmer Analyst

Oct, 2004 - Sep, 2005

GCR, Ltd

Columbus, OH

OHIO JOB INSURANCE project for Ohio Dept. of Job&Family Services

This project is implemented from Aug, 2004. This project processes and

pays unemployment benefits to eligible claimants who became unemployed due

to market conditions, Foreign trade rules and disaster. This project is

developed/managed by Deloitte.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Primary role in correcting and maintaining Trade related programs,

converted legacy data.

. Maintenance of MQ series programs and enhancing them.

. Working with MQ Admin to resolve version problems that lead the data

to dead letter MQ.

. Resolving the defects that are identified by users by either

correcting the programs or correcting the data problems.

. Incorporated new business rules in Trade adjustment programs and

tested thru various stages to production deployment.

. Wrote complex DB2 queries and tested them using QMF, SPUFI, and

Advanced Query Tool (AQT).

. Debugged Db2 stored procedures to resolve problems faced by online

users

. Compared Java code with Cobol Db2 stored procedures to find any

interface issues

. Have extensive knowledge on Change management control applications

such as Changeman, Endevor & SCLM. Used SCLM extensively to store and

manage programs and other components.

. Implemented standards as per State rules and maintained program

documents

. Used IBM Visual Age for Cobol for rapid application development

. Created Test Plans and Test Cases for Unit Testing & Integration

testing.

. Created JCL for different testing environments

. Performed Integration, System & Regression testing

. On On-Call support 24/7

Technical Skills Utilized: COBOL 370, SQL, DB2 v6, DB2 Stored Procedures

(Subroutines), DB2 Platinum, Spufi, BMC, CICS, MQ Series, TSO/ISPF, JCL,

SYNCSORT, SCLM, Xpediter, PVCS, MS Visio 6.0, Test Director and MS

Access 7.0.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Jun, 2003 - Oct, 2004

Paragon Computer Professionals, Inc

Cranford, NJ

GLOBAL CORPORATE ACTION REPOSITORY project for Merrill Lynch, Jul 2004 -

Oct 2004

This application provides subscribers with information on the certain

changes happened on their securities. Subscribers will chose certain types

of events that they are interested in. Reports will be generated from data

available in Db2 tables on mainframe and on Sql Server database to transmit

the data thru MQ.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Designed & Developed XML Parser programs in Cobol to retrieve data

from SQL Server database and format the output in a MQ layout

. Enhanced COBOl/CICS MQ series programs to send data to various clients

. Helped .NET programmers to write complex SQL queries.

Technical Skills Utilized: COBOL-II, CICS, INTERTEST, MQ Series, Spufi,

Endevour, XML, SQL, IMS DB/DC

QUNTUM VIEW DATA project for United Parcel Services, Jun, 2003 - Jul,

2004

Quantum View Data provides data about customers' and suppliers' shipments

for inbound and/or outbound packages. Data files delivered via the Web in

.csv, .txt or XML formats are easy to integrate into internal software

applications or databases such as Supply chain management.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Primarily responsible for Billing interface programs & Dials

(Deliveries) interface programs

. Analyzed business requirements and Technical specifications and

enhanced many IBM Cobol/ Websphere MQ/IBM DB2 programs for three

enterprise releases

. Setup Parallel process to handle MQ's with huge data based on Db2

partitions

. Coded various Websphere MQ programs to eliminate job dependency

. Setup Started tasks and modified Cobol programs to process data when

available in the MQ queues

. Integrated Retry logic into COBOL/DB2/MQ programs to handle db2

deadlocks

. Created Test Plans and Test Cases for Unit Testing & Integration

testing.

. Created JCL for different testing environments

. Performed Integration, System & Regression testing

. On Production support for entire UPS applications for 1 week in every

8 weeks

Technical Skills Utilized: VS-COBOL II, IBM Websphere MQ for z/OS v5.3,

SQL, DB2 v7, DB2 Rc/Update, DB2 Detector, Spufi, TSO/ISPF, Infoman, ESP

scheduler, JCL, SYNCSORT, CHANGEMAN, Xpediter,

Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Jun, 1998 -- May 2003

Advent Business Solutions, Inc

Edison, NJ

OHIO JOB INSURANCE project for Ohio Dept. of Job&Family Services, 05/02 -

05/03

This project processes and pays unemployment benefits to eligible claimants

under various Government programs like DUA, TRA, etc. This project is

Designed and Developed by Deloitte.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Primary role in Development of IBM DB2 Stored procedures using Cobol.

Wrote 85% of stored procedures that are used in OJI application.

. Developed IBM Cobol batch programs & IBM Db2 stored procedures for

Trade Re-adjustment Allowance program.

. Developed IBM Db2 stored procedures for wage related interfaces to

front-end applications

. Have extensive knowledge of IBM DB2 Stored procedures, Visual Basic

and JAVA applications on various platforms and Architecture, where by

debugged stored procedure problems on both back-end and front-end,

with great ease and confidence.

. Developed IBM Cobol batch programs for Initial Claims & Monetary

Calculations

. Wrote batch COBOL-370 programs based on program specifications.

. Wrote complex DB2 queries and tested them using QMF, SPUFI, and

Advanced Query Tool.

. Have extensive knowledge on Change management control applications

such as Changeman, Endevor & SCLM. Used SCLM extensively to store and

manage programs and other components.

. Implemented standards as per State rules and maintained program

documents

. Used IBM Visual Age for Cobol for rapid application development

. Prepared program specifications and documented them.

. Tested DB2 Stored procedures (Subroutines) using IBM DB2 Stored

Procedure Builder and Xpeditor.

. Created Test Plans and Test Cases for Unit Testing & Integration

testing.

. Created JCL for different testing environments

. Performed Integration, System & Regression testing

Technical Skills Utilized: COBOL 370, SQL, DB2 v6, DB2 Stored Procedures

(Subroutines), DB2 Platinum, Spufi, TSO/ISPF, JCL, SYNCSORT, IBM VisualAge

for COBOL, SCLM, Xpediter, PVCS, Visio, Test Director and MS Access 7.0.

Intellirisk 5.2 Re-Write Project for AIG Claim Services, Inc, NY

10/01 - 03/02

This is a Risk Management system for AIG Insurance system. Front-end is

developed in VB and back end is on Mainframe. The communication link

between front-end and back-end was using Shadow direct server. The

objective of this project is to convert VB code to Java, Replace Shadow

direct server with DB2 connect and convert Shadow RPC programs to programs

with DB2 Stored Procedures..

Role & Responsibilities:

. Declared DB2 stored procedures (subroutines) and global temporary

variable tables.

. Modified COBOL programs to remove shadow RPC functionality, including

security procedures and passed the output data to a global temporary

variable table to be fetched by online objects.

. Written DB2 stored procedures using COBOL to make an EXCI call to CICS

programs/transactions

. Used QMF extensively to create Procs in DB2 for issuing adhoc

queries.

. Prepared test cases & created test data to verify business

functionality as per business requirements

. Tested programs using display statements and checking Db2 started task

on Db2 Lpar. Also verified the result sets returned by CLI module.

Technical Skills Utilized: COBOL 370, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, JCL,

Db2 Stored

Procedures, Spufi, CA for Db2(RC Query), and DB2 Connect.

RMIS Netdata 1.3 project for AIG Claim Services, Inc, NY

09/00 - 09/01

NETDATA is a Risk Management Information System report creation &

distribution application to request a report, process, generate reports and

distribute the reports in different formats such as PDF, Print, CD-ROM, and

in different delivery methods such as Internet Email, FTP etc. The front

end was developed in Visual Basic 5.0 and the backend was on Mainframe

COBOL, and DB2. Finally, PDF creation, and the Internet Email process were

developed using Java 1.2 with, JDBC, etc.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Collected functional requirements, designing and developing the

reports required for Risk Management Information System.

. Prepared Test Plans & Test cases to be verified at various stages of

the project with the help from business users

. Wrote Cobol, Db2 programs to convert data to various formats including

Excel format

. Wrote Cobol, Db2 programs to consolidate report inputs to have common

properties and generating cover pages.

. Wrote batch MQ Series programs to transmit the data to destined

queues.

. Designed and developed batch process to FTP reports to the

respective destinations using FTP thru REXX programs.

. Developed and enhanced functionality to convert report files to PDF

format that were received at Java Server location and emailed them to

the respective users using Java 1.2, JDBC, HTML etc.

. Performed Integration, UA testing and Production implementation.

. Produced and maintained documentation to comply with SEI's CMM level

II

Technical Skills Utilized: VS COBOL II, DB2 v5, REXX, TSO/ISPF, JCL,

Xpeditor, Endeavor, MQ-Series, Omni Plus, SAS, IMS DB, Java 1.2, JDBC,

HTML, and MS Access 7.0.

Claims Online Reporting System project for AIG Claim Services, Inc, NY

11/99 - 09/00

CORS (Claims Online Reporting System) reports were developed using Visual

Basic as front end and COBOL as the back end. These reports were converted

to Cognos Impromptu reports using Cognos Tools to have drill through

capabilities and web reports.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Understood Visual Basic and the COBOL interface.

. Created Impromptu Catalogs to include relative DB2 tables.

. Generated Impromptu reports using Catalogs.

. Interacted with business users to improve data presentation

. Created PowerPlay Cubes to include relative data for easy porting.

. Created PowerPlay reports to adhere drill through capabilities.

Technical Skills Utilized: Cognos Impromptu, PowerPlay, VS COBOL II, DB2,

Db2

Platinum, Spufi, QMF, IMS DB, JCL, Xpediter and Endeavor.

RMIS - EMU Conversion Project for AIG CLAIM SERVICES, INC 05/98 -

08/99

RMIS (Risk Management Information System) had the capability to display

risk details in 17 different currencies. Since all European counties

decided to follow a single common currency (EMU), all the programs that

calculated currencies and generate reports were changed.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Identified programs that calculates and effects currency conversions.

. Wrote and maintained special calculation routines such as

triangulation, etc., in common copybooks.

. Enhanced COBOL DB2 programs and COBOL CICS programs to effect new EMU

rules.

. Performed Integration testing all the programs and compared the

results with previous results.

. Produced and maintained documentation to comply with SEI's CMM level

II

Technical Skills Utilized: VS COBOL II, VSAM, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, JCL,

Xpediter, Intertest, and Endeavor.

Senior Software Engineer/Lead Developer

Jan 1998 - Mar 1998

Business Management Data, Inc

Irvine, CA

Train Dispatching Project for CSX Tech & CONRAIL, PA

This was one of the systems of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (CONRAIL),

that dealt with train dispatching from each station and geo-graphic

reporting, train operating plans and schedules, as well as train times

reporting at various stations. CSX Technology and Norfolk Southern (NS)

acquired CONRAIL. The goal of this project was to transition out CONRAIL's

Train Dispatching system to CSX and NS systems

.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Interacted with Client Managers to arrive at functionality needs to

be incorporated.

. Scanned thru the batch jobs and programs to understand the existing

application

. Guided team members to complete functional and technical

specifications.

Technical Environment: COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, Total/Supra and JCL.

Automotive Terminal Operations Project for CSX Tech & CONRAIL, PA

This was one of the systems of CONRAIL that dealt with automotive terminal

operations. Terminal Operations Information System (TOIS) was the system

that kept track of and monitored automobiles loading and unloading to and

from railcars.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Interacted with clients and users to understand the existing

application.

. Wrote functional and technical specifications to transition out the

terminals to CSX & NS.

. Analyzed existing programs to develop new functionality to suit CSX &

NS systems.

Technical Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Total/Supra, Mantis and JCL.

Computerized Documentation System for SeaLand,Inc, TX (Off-

shore&Onsite)9/96 - 12/97

The Computerized Documentation System was one of the oldest systems

existing in Sea-Land transportation system. Vessel Select process was an on-

line process that triggered various batch processes to produce different

kinds of reports and manifests at origin and destination ports.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Worked as Team Lead

. Wrote the technical specifications for the business needs, assigned

coding and unit testing to offshore.

. Conducted integration testing and moved to production, supporting

daily and weekly jobs.

. Increased the overall performance by removing the link from unused

systems.

. Resolved technical problems faced by end users across the world.

. Monitored and guided team members to complete the coding and unit

testing.

. Worked with the team to complete the work requests.

. Produced Test Scripts and Test Cases, confirming to ISO 9001

. Learned, then guided and trained team members to support production

jobs.

Technical Skills Utilized: VS COBOL II, PL/1, VSAM, IMS DB, CICS, JCL,

Changeman, Xpediter,

MQ-Series and Intertest.

Interface to US Customs project for SeaLand, Inc, TX (Onsite)

02/97 - 05/97

This system facilitates US Customs review and Approval to move cargo into

United States. The process involves, transmitting Cargo data to Customs,

and receiving US Customs acceptance and reject messages.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Interacting with US Customs department to find out the errors

transmitted or the missing information and sending back the correct

segments

. Correcting the rejection messages and advising users what to transmit

. Identifying the changes required for the existing application.

Technical Skills Utilized: VS COBOL II, ADABAS/NATURAL, DB2, JCL, CICS, LU

6.2

ARRIVAL NOTICES project for SeaLand, Inc, TX (Off-shore)

09/96 - 02/97

This system produced arrival notices to customers about vessel arrival.

This process depended on Vessel Select process, to trigger this process.

The system maintained various tables that contained Customers, Ports,

Country codes, Vessels, etc.

Role & Responsibilities:

. Designed and developed new functionality from business requirements.

. Analyzed complex COBOL programs using Expediter

. Performance tuned the project

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