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EXPERIENCE PROFILE

. Extensive experience in Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding,

Testing, Deployment & Production Support

. 4+ years of work experience in USA to implement high quality software

through effective process improvement

. Strong requirement gathering, gap analysis skills resulting in higher

value to the overall business application software

. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to

technical requirements and architecture.

. Provide effective solutions for complex business requirements through

software development methodologies

. Involved in various phases of the testing cycle such as Unit, Functional,

System Integration, User Acceptance and Regression

. Proficient in programming languages like RPG, RPGLE, CLP, CLLE, Free Form

RPG and having good experience in AS400 tools like SYNON (Advantage:2E),

Turnover, Aldon, Implementer and Hawkeye.

. Extensive experience in DB2/400, SQL/400 & Query/400

. IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family.

. IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family.

. Strong leadership and successful team building capabilities and excellent

technical, communication, presentation & customer service skills

. Project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills and

supporting multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational

structure

. Ability to work independently as well as in a team with responsibility.

. Awareness of the Software Processes involved in a CMM Level 5 company.

Employment history

Working as a Senior Associate at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Dec 2010 - present.

Worked as a Senior System Engineer at IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2004 - Dec 2010.

Worked as a Software Engineer at US Software Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 2002 - Jul 2004.

Technical skills

Technology AS400

Language RPG, RPGLE, Free Form RPG, CLP, CLLE, DDL, SQL/400,

Query/400, COBOL/400

Operating System OS400, Windows, Unix

Database DB2/400, Oracle

Tools/ Utilities SYNON, Turnover, Hawkeye, DBU, WRKDBF, Aldon, Implementer,

ROBOT

Processes IBM's QMS (Quality Management System), Cognizant's C2.0

Specialized in

Application/Functional Healthcare, Retail, Finance

areas/Packages worked

on

Types of projects Development, Maintenance, Support & Enhancement,

worked on Migration

Environments worked on AS400

Environments exposed Mainframe

to

Languages/Tools worked RPG, RPGLE, CLP, CLLE, Free Form RPG, COBOL/400, DB2/400,

on SQL/400, Query/400, SYNON, Turnover, Aldon, Implementer,

Hawkeye, DBU, WRKDBF

Languages/Tools C, C++, VB, VC++, Oracle, Java, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS,

exposed to JCL, HTML, ASP

Education

Course Institution Course Grade/Percentag

Period e

1997 - Bharathiar Bachelor of Engineering in 85%

2001 University Electrical and Electronics

Training Details

Organization Cognizant Technology Solutions

E-mail Etiquette

Effective Business Communication Skills

Counseling

Presentation Skills

Workshop on Cognizant 2.0

Core Values and Standards of Business Conduct

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Understanding Privacy

CMMI High Maturity Practices

Dynamic Presenters

Risk Management

Harassment Prevention and You

Secure Coding Practices

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Winning by Influencing

HIPAA/HITECH Privacy & Security

Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS)

Merchandizing

Retail Foundation Course

Organization IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Inspections and Reviews

Estimation Techniques

Defect Prevention & Causal Analysis

Configuration Management

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Customer Interaction Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Testing Methodologies

QMS (Quality Management Systems)

Implementer

Aldon

SYNON

Java on AS/400

RPM (Rational Portfolio Manager)

Organization US Software Pvt. Ltd.

Software development life cycle (SDLC) - Waterfall

IBM AS/400 Concepts (RPG/400, RPGLE, CL/400)

Defect Prevention & Causal Analysis

Configuration Control

Project Metrics

Conducted AS400 training

Turnover

Hawkeye

Project Details - Cognizant

Project 3 Way Match (One of the Leading Pharmacies, US)

Team Size 30

Role Onsite Technical Lead (US)

Responsibilit Involve in the following activities:

ies - Gather requirements from Business

- Review the Schedule & Estimation from offshore

- Convert the Business Requirements to Technical specifications

- Coding & Testing

- Review the offshore deliverables

- Guide the team technically

- Prepare & co-ordinate the weekly status reporting

Environment SYNON, RPG, CLP, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CLLE, Free form RPG, DB2/400,

Implementer

Job This initiative will enhance client's current vendor catalog

description maintenance application by having cost updated in central catalog

in timely manner and to address short term enhancement to have cost

flow down to the stores on timely manner. Also track all cost

discrepancy issues (related to vendor cost update delay, rejections

and user approval delay) to Business, so that corrective action can

be performed to resolve cost discrepancy issues.

Project Catalog File Transfer (One of the Leading Pharmacies, US)

Team Size 30

Role Onsite Technical Lead (US)

Responsibilit Involve in the following activities:

ies - Gather requirements from Business

- Review the Schedule & Estimation from offshore

- Convert the Business Requirements to Technical specifications

- Coding & Testing

- Review the offshore deliverables

- Guide the team technically

- Prepare & co-ordinate the weekly status reporting

Environment SYNON, RPG, CLP, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CLLE, Free form RPG, DB2/400,

Implementer

Job Servicing both pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare

description providers, the new vendor company provides drug distribution and

related services designed to reduce costs and improve patient

outcomes. This vendor will be replacing the existing vendor, as the

wholesale supplier of medicines to the pharmacies. The objective of

this enhancement is to replace the Catalog cost data of the

existing vendor with new vendor.

Project Customs Information for Domestic Items (One of the Leading

Pharmacies, US)

Team Size 30

Role Onsite Technical Lead (US)

Responsibilit Involve in the following activities:

ies - Gather requirements from Business

- Review the Schedule & Estimation from offshore

- Convert the Business Requirements to Technical specifications

- Coding & Testing

- Review the offshore deliverables

- Guide & mentor the team functionally & technically

- Prepare & co-ordinate the weekly status reporting

Environment SYNON, RPG, CLP, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CLLE, Free form RPG, DB2/400,

Implementer

Job The client was planning to open the new stores in St. Thomas

description Islands. Cognizant is working with the client to extend the Customs

related functionality applied for import items to domestic items

that are to be sourced outside US (St. Thomas Islands as of now)

Project WIC Deletion (One of the Leading Pharmacies, US)

Team Size 30

Role Onsite Technical Lead (US)

Responsibilit Involve in the following activities:

ies - Gather requirements from Business

- Review the Schedule & Estimation from offshore

- Convert the Business Requirements to Technical specifications

- Coding & Testing

- Review the offshore deliverables

- Guide the team technically

- Prepare & co-ordinate the weekly status reporting

Environment SYNON, RPG, CLP, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CLLE, Free form RPG, DB2/400,

Implementer

Job The client's Item code is six digit number that uniquely identifies

description an item within the system. Typically an item code will be created

if an item needs to be inventoried, planogramed or advertised. To

meet the demands of client's steady growth and acquisitions,

Business have been defining more items on the system than ever

before. Given the limitation on the size (6 digits) there is a

potential risk of exhausting the available item codes in the near

future. The project's objective is to delete and reuse the inactive

Item codes so that there will be a healthy pool for new item

definition.

Project Details - IBM

Project RxClaim Application (CVS Caremark, US)

Team Size 25

Role Offshore Team Lead / Onsite Co-ordinator (US)

Responsibilit As an offshore team lead, the following were the responsibilities:

ies - Converting the Business Requirements to Technical specifications,

Development, Testing, Schedule & Estimation

- Also involved in Guiding the team technically, Preparing,

co-ordinating the weekly status reporting, Allocating work

As an onsite co-ordinator, the following were the responsibilities:

- Involved in analyzing the Business requirements and converting it

to Technical specifications, Development, Testing, Implementation,

Schedule & Estimation, Reviewing the offshore deliverables

- Also involved in Guiding the offshore team technically, Tracking

and monitoring project status activities, co-ordinating the weekly

status reporting

- Involved in the Production support activities.

Environment SYNON, RPG, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CL, Free form RPG, DB2/400, Aldon,

Hawkeye, VB Recap

Job RxClaim application which is a Claim processing engine used for

description Adjudication of Medical and Pharmacy Claims and payments against

Eligibility, Plan Benefits, Formularies, Price, DUR and

Prior-Authorization. IBM supports Caremark to comply with HSA

Legislation, CMS regulations and HIPAA guidelines, by converting

the High level Business requirements into the detailed Technical

Specifications, Development and Testing. Also the Production

support is given when required.

Project Revenue Code Expansion (Healthnet, US)

Team Size 5

Role Senior Developer

Responsibilit Schedule & Estimation, analyzed the Business requirements and

ies converted it to Technical specifications, Coding, Testing &

Implementation. Tracked and monitored project status activities,

prepared & co-ordinated the weekly status reporting.

Environment RPGLE, CLLE, Free Form RPG, RPG/400, CL/400, DB2/400, Implementer

Job This project change is to upgrade MC400 inpatient, outpatient and

description encounter claims to four-character revenue code from

three-character revenue code. This requirement is in compliance

with the industry standard. Technical Design Documents have to be

prepared from the given Business Specifications Document and then

Coding, Unit Testing of code will be continued.

Project Handleman - Hito (Handleman, US)

Team Size 30

Role Senior Developer

Responsibilit Analysis, Coding, Testing & Production Support. Also involved in

ies Quality control activities, by preparing the metrics for the

project.

Environment RPGLE, CLLE, Free Form RPG, RPG/400, CL/400, DB2/400, Aldon, WRKDBF

Job To develop and implement an integrated, flexible business

description environment that will enable the organization to achieve strategic

growth through a focus on the client's internal and external

customers mainly for the music items distribution. Technical

Specifications have to be prepared from the given Functional

Specifications and then Builds, Enhancements, Conversions,

Interfaces, Unit Testing of code, Integration Testing, User

Acceptance Testing will be continued. The Production system has

also been supported by solving the tickets raised by the users.

Project IRFS (International Remarketer Financing System) (IGA, US)

Team Size 17

Role Developer

Responsibilit Business Study, Development, Testing, Support and Enhancement,

ies Meeting Co-ordinator, AMT-WST (Asset Management & Work Station

Security) in charge, Quality control activities by preparing the

metrics for the project

Environment SYNON, RPG, SQL/400

Job IRFS is International Remarketer financing system. IRFS is a dealer

description financing system designed specifically for Financiers and Suppliers

(Distributors) who sell their products through a network of Dealers

(Remarketers). It is the solution to control and manage financial

transactions related to dealer financing. The Financier funds the

Dealer's acquisition of product from the Supplier. The Financier

pays the Supplier for the product supplied, and then the Dealer

owes the value of the product to the Financier. This application is

developed in Synon. The Improvement Requests had been raised by the

client in case of any problem in the Application. And they had been

resolved either by enhancement or development according to the

need.

Automating FP Calculation

The tool automates manual procedure of calculating the Function

Points for each release. It gets the program names as input in a

text file and all the files used in each program will be listed in

an individual spool file according to its usage (whether it is in

Input/Output/Update mode).

Project Heinz Migration (Heinz, UK)

Team Size 20

Role Developer

Responsibilit System Study, Business Study, Support and Enhancement work

ies

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, CLLE, Query/400

Job Client would like to migrate the whole AS/400 Application to

description Offshore. Gone to the client place (UK) for a month to study and

transfer the knowledge on Business and Technology. Solved the Work

requests which come under support and enhancements.

Project Details - US Software

Project Canadian Payroll (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 5

Role Project Lead

Responsibilit As a Lead, involved in the following activities:

ies Estimation and Project startup activities.

Doing the Impact Analysis on the Programs and modifying them

Testing and debugging modified programs.

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Hawkeye

Job The client wanted to increase the number of warehouses in Canada,

description so the file fields and variables used to hold the warehouse number

has been expanded from 3 to 5. The Project is basically expanding

the Warehouse fields from Canadian Payroll files of the client

Financial system, from size 3 to 5. And the affected programs are

all modified to accommodate the expansion of the fields and Tested

for their functionality.

The Project is a Zero Defect Delivery and received the

Appreciations from Client and Onsite Lead.

Project GLTRANP Field Expansion (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 5

Role Project Lead, Quality Controller

Responsibilit As a Lead, involved in the following activities

ies Preparing proposal for the project.

Estimation and Project startup activities.

Doing the Impact Analysis on the Programs and modification to them

Testing and debugging modified programs.

As a Quality Controller, capturing metrics, ensuring the quality in

the work product and conducting causal analysis for statistical

deviation.

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Turnover, Hawkeye

Job The client was interested to enhance their Accounting systems and

description so they proceeded with expanding the transaction system of the

company. General Ledger Transaction File (GLTRANP) has been

modified to include the new fields and expanding some of the

existing fields like Invoice number, Check number, Location number,

and Vendor number for going into future enhancements. There are 121

programs affected due to this expansion, which are also taken care

in this project and the modified programs are undergone a

functionality testing.

The Project is a Zero Defect Delivery and received the

Appreciations from Client and Onsite Lead.

Project Audit tool (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 9

Role Developer, Defect Prevention Controller

Responsibilit Analysis and creating tools. Defect Prevention, Causal Analysis for

ies defects.

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Turnover, Hawkeye, SQL/400

Job After the installation of the modified files and programs in the

description Production, the production data of the old and new warehouse

variables are compared for the mismatches. If any discrepancy

found, then the corresponding file will be analyzed for the reason

of mismatch and accordingly the new warehouse variable is populated

correctly. The Audit tool fully automates the above manual

procedure. It gets the file name as input and compares the

production data of old and new warehouse fields, then prints if any

discrepancy found.

Project Field Expansion - Phase II (Program changes) (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 9

Role Developer, Defect Prevention Controller

Responsibilit Analysis, Coding and Testing. Defect Prevention, Causal Analysis

ies for defects.

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Turnover, Hawkeye

Job The programs which use the expanded files are being modified to

description populate the new warehouse fields('5' sized) by the old fields('3'

sized). This is done to preserve the value in the old fields. In

future, the old fields could be removed from the file.

Project Installation Schedule Review (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 9

Role Developer, Defect Prevention Controller

Responsibilit Analysis, Defect Prevention, Causal Analysis for defects.

ies

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Turnover, Hawkeye

Job The Logical files of the expanded Physical files are analyzed for

description installation. This phase verifies the newly created Logical files

for the Warehouse key fields.

Project Field Expansion - Phase I (File changes) (COSTCO Wholesale, US)

Team Size 9

Role Developer, Defect Prevention Controller

Responsibilit Analysis, Coding, Testing and creating tools. Defect Prevention,

ies Causal Analysis for defects.

Environment RPG, RPGLE, CL, Turnover, Hawkeye

Job The client wanted to increase the number of warehouses in US from

description the existing 3 digit number to 5 digit number in the future. So the

file fields and variables used to hold the warehouse numbers are

expanded from 3 size to 5. This has been divided into 3 phases.

This file changes is the first phase. The program changes come as

the second phase. And the third phase, testing phase is the ongoing

task. In this phase, the files that have the warehouse '3' sized

fields are modified to include the corresponding warehouse '5'

fields. Both the Character and Numeric fields are expanded. Also

created the tool (Tool to Analyze '3A' Fields) to automate the

manual work.

Tool to Analyze '3A' Fields

The tool got the file name as input, and then fetched all the

'3A'('3' sized character) Warehouse fields and checked whether the

field had been expanded to '5'. If expanded, then the corresponding

'5' sized field was also fetched and had been given as output.

Awards Received

> University Rank Holder in Engineering (85% Aggregate)

> Received 'Project Excellence Award' in Retail open house (Cognizant)

> Received client appreciations for delivering the projects on time with

high quality (Cognizant)

> Received the BRAVO Award for single handling the AS/400 Applications

in Handleman Project (IBM)

> Received the Customer Satisfaction Award (IBM)

> Received the "WOW" award given by the account team (IBM)

> Participated in COFFEE BREAK event held at competency level and got

selected as the Best paper (IBM)

> Appreciations from the Client and Organization, for leading to achieve

the Zero-defect delivery (GLTRANP Field Expansion and Canadian Field

Expansion) (US Software)

Certifications

> IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family

> IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 Universal Database V8.1

Family.

> Brain Bench certification in AS/400

Achievements

> Coordinated with C2.0 team for tracking of process activities

(Cognizant)

> Involved in TRIAGE Team for Production support (IBM)

> Key member to implement RPM (Rational Portfolio Manager) in Handleman

project (IBM)

> Involved in Defect Prevention, Configuration Control and Metrics

Calculation for the Project Quality (IBM)

> Active member in the AS/400 Technical Interview Panel for IBM

> Member of the LEAN team for Caremark account to improve the quality of

deliverables (IBM)

> Involved in Asset management (IBM)

> Created multiple Tools to Automate the manual work (US Software)

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