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Evansville, IN
Posted:
July 17, 2015

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Anhad Bajaj acqssi@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Around 7 Yrs of software experience in all phases of project life cycle including

the analysis, design, development, testing, documentation, implementation and

technical support in the area of IBM z/OS MVS Mainframe related technologies

COBOL,JCL,DB2,VSAM,CICS.

Extensive Experience in Development, Production support, Enhancement,

Maintenance Projects.

Extensive experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, VSAM

Expertise in knowledge system study and making documentation.

Experience in preparing conceptual and technical design documents.

An outstanding team player with good analytical and problem solving capability.

Provides timely and accurate reporting to all levels of management.

Excellent communication skills.

Strong understanding of Business concept and have good problem analysis

skills.

Worked extensively with tools like Expeditor, SPUFI, File-Aid, Change-Man,

SAR and manual testing for Mainframe.

Gained extensive experience in Maintenance phase as part of the young

Maintains team.

Experience in Structured Methodology covering entire life cycle of the system in

Mainframe applications of Insurance.

Involved in development and coding the new programs.

Working experience on Insurance product Cyber Life.

Developing COBOL programs for processing input files, and updating databases.

Prepared detailed documentation for programs.

Responsible for the version control of programs moved into production.

Communicate with users to decide on scheduling processes for various batch

jobs.

Preparing the test JCL's and files for testing the batch programs.

Modified COBOL programs as per business requirements.

Performing the unit testing and system testing for all jobs and programs.

Extensive and diversified experience in Batch and Online development, system

analysis and maintenance programming.

Proven expertise in design, development, maintenance, and production

support on mainframe technology.

Coordinated other members in development.

Modifying Production JCL’s to run daily batch jobs.

Technical Skills

Databases DB2, Oracle

Languages JCL,COBOL,SQL

OLTP CICS, IMS / DC

Operating Systems MVS/ESA,OS/390,Z/OS

Access Methods VSAM

Tools/Utilities

Domain Knowledge Insurance

CYBERLIFE,TSO, ISPF, FTP, SPUFI, QMF,

XPEDITER,VIASOFT, FILE-AID,SUPERC, IDCAMS,

IDT, IEBGENER, NDM,ENDEVOR,INSYIC

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Education:

Bachelor of Engineering in ECE from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal.

Professional Experience

Client- Sammons Financial Group, IL Jan 2014 – Till date

Role: Senior Programmer Analyst

Project: Sammons Financial Group Cyberlife Resoultions (Chicago)

SFG uses CyberLife product licensed for processing their life and annuity products.

Project scope includes working on various assignments and up gradation that deals

with CyberLife product.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Working on Maintenance of the system, which included defect analysis and

resolution for existing bugs in the system

Worked on all the aspects for an Insurance client with CyberLife platform.

This includes resolving and analyzing the production abends and bugs on

COBOL, VSAM and CICS environment.

Support of nightly batch cycle, this involves the resolution and monitoring

of JCL Job abends during the nightly production cycle.

Worked on QA testing and Regression testing. Resolve any discrepancies

and provide support for the participating Modules.

Preparing Technical design document for various enhancements.

Handling the flows required for the integration testing.

Finding defects and documenting the same.

Ensuring that quality of deliverables is excellent and that delivery dates for all

assignments are met.

Deliver the assignment as per the set procedures

Preparation of coding standard document, coding checklist

Single point of contact for resolving all the technical and business related

issues and queries of the India team relating to CyberLife SFG project after

discussing with the customer.

Attend business and technical meetings with the client managers and project

teams to resolve issues and risks.

Responsible for the requirement gathering.

Environment: Cyber Life (Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, ChangeMan,

Expeditor)

Client- Pacific Life Insurance Company, CA Oct 2010 – Jan 2014

Role: Senior Programmer Analyst

Project: US-LIFE-PACLIFE-M (Pacific Life Insurance)

Pacific Life uses CyberLife product licensed for processing their life and annuity

products. Project scope includes working on various assignments and up gradation

that deals with CyberLife product.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Completely involved in all Development Phases and also in Environment

Maintenance

Worked on all the aspects for an Insurance client with CyberLife platform.

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Worked on New Product development, which included coding and introducing

all the technical aspects for a new product being launched by the company and

incorporating it on the CyberLife platform

Worked on Maintenance of the system, which included defect analysis and

resolution for existing bugs in the system

Worked on QA testing and Regression testing.

Preparing Technical design document for various enhancements.

Handling the flows required for the integration testing.

Finding defects and documenting the same.

Ensuring that quality of deliverables is excellent and that delivery dates for all

assignments are met.

Deliver the assignment as per the set procedures

Preparation of coding standard document, coding checklist

Single point of contact for resolving all the technical and business related

issues and queries of the India team relating to CyberLife Pacific Life Project

after discussing with the customer.

Attend business and technical meetings with the client managers and project

teams to resolve issues and risks.

Responsible for the requirement gathering

Request analysis of IT trouble ticket.

Code analysis and code changes according to request

Developing and implementing of work requests using COBOL, JCL, CICS and

DB2.

Involved in coding and unit testing of new Batch programs developed in

COBOL/DB2 and the enhancements.

Modifying the VSAM files to include new fields.

Providing online error corrections.

Preparing documents for the fixes given

Developing new programs and maintain the existing programs.

Modifying Production JCL’s to run daily batch jobs.

Involved in writing JCL's & procedures for executing the programs in both

the production and test environments.

Extensively used JCL for various sort utilities

Provided maintenance, implementation and support for various systems.

Extracting data from the production server and FTP to test servers

Environment: Cyber Life (Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, ChangeMan,

Expeditor)

Client: AVIVA Insurance UK July 2008 – Sep 2010

Project: Office management

Role: Software consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

Analysis of work request.

Developing and implementing of work requests using COBOL, JCL,CICS and

DB2.

Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests

Preparing conceptual and functional design documents.

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Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, CICS,

VSAM and JCL.

Analyze problems with COBOL Programs, JCL.

Identifying the code changes and changes in JCL.

Coding new CHANGE REQUESTS in COBOL.

Provided Application Support to the complex Insurance product Office

Management

Project involved analysis and resolution of the incidents records on a very

tight deadline.

Acknowledge and resolve high priority issues.

Prepare Analysis documents for new incidents and maintain a database for the

resolution of known problems.

Test and verify all the queries submitted by team members before they are

applied in the production.

Provide on call production support if and when required.

Create Log of all the production queries.

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, Endeavor, CyberLife

Client: HSBC Bank, India Jan 2008 – Jul 2008

Project: Consumer Credit Act -2006

Role: Developer and Tester

CCA 2006, The Consumer Credit Act 2006 was passed to improve consumer rights

and redress, improve regulation of consumer credit businesses and provide a fair and

competitive framework for consumer credit agreements. There are three mandatory

notices that are displayed on the statement as part of the Consumer Credit Act 2006

(CCA 06).

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as the interface coordinator of the team with various statements

producing agencies.

Produced several test scripts to be run for different functional requirements and

single handedly managed the entire testing phase.

Active participation in defects resolution, with client’s appreciations on the

same.

Handled Implementation plan and worked from end to end phase of the

project.

Mentored new members coming to the team and organized sessions on credit

cards overview.

Handled Quality and CMMI initiatives of the project.

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, MVS, JCL, CICS, VSAM

Personal Information

Passport Number: H7148037

VISA Status: H1 B valid till 09-28-2015

Father’s Name: Mr. Hemant Jain

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Contact Email: acqssi@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Number: 949-***-****



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