Malarvizhi Mani

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Professional Snapshot

Six years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which involves requirement gathering, requirement analysis, design, development, implementation & enhancement of projects in SalesForce.com and Mainframe COBOL technologies.

Extensive knowledge and experience as Module Lead with extensive expertise in IT tracking software

Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.

Tracking all the production related incidents via OPAS and working directly with client to provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.

Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,FILE-AID, TSO/ISPF,CA7 (Scheduler),CHANGEMAN,INFOMAN,SPUFI,IBM UTILITIES,FTP,Crystal reports

Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.

Good domain knowledge of the Banking & Retail Industry

skills in COBOL

Good exposure in creation of Statements, Letters, Documents, notices, invoices and Billing Applications.

Good knowledge on designing and implementing SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) applications.

AFP, CSF, Exstream Dialogue) IBM printers & Xerox printer.

Expertise in Electronic Document Composition technologies CSF, Exstream Dialogue, AFP Printing and PDF.

Detailed knowledge about CSF and Exstream Dialogue Designer Design manager.

Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.

Expert in tuning the performance of SQL queries.

Experience in different phases of testing including Unit Testing, String Testing, System Testing Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Expert in Production monitoring, supporting and scheduling the batch job stream.

Very good understanding of converting mainframe reports, statements into dialogue.

Supported delivery of Batch and Online programs, customized reports, application/data conversion and process improvements

Excellent Customer interaction onsite/offshore project coordination skills.

Having experience as a Technical Lead in Designing, Developing and Testing Mainframe Applications.

Technical Profile

Programming Languages : COBOL, COBOL II, Enterprise COBOL, JCL, SQL, XML

Database : DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server2000.

Tools / Utilities : TSO, ISPF/PDF, JES2, JES3, Syncsort, Xpediter, File Manager, FILE-AID,

Endevor, SCLM, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, SDF, CA-7, FTP, Visio, ChangeMan.

Access Method : VSAM- ESDS, KSDS, RRDS

Web & Application Servers : WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache-Tomcat.

Web Development Tools : HTML, DHTML, XML.

Accessories : Ms-word, Ms-Excel, Ms-Office, Visio.

Operating Systems : Z/OS, OS/390, MVS, XA/ESA, MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP.

Printing/Documentation : Exstream Dialogue, AFP, PDF

Project Experience – Key Projects

Client: Ascena Retail Group, Jan 2013

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project Description:

Ascena Retail Group is a leading national specialty retailer of apparel for women and tween girls, operating, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the dressbarn Maurices, and Justice, Lane Bryant and Catherines brands. The project is complete end-end code (COBOL to JAVA) and data migration

Environment: COBOL, MVS JCL, DB2, VSAM, ChangeMan, FILE-AID, NDM, FTP, Edit plus, Notepad++, MS Word & Excel

Responsibilities:

CA-7 job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding

Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling

Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.

Escalation of Technical issues with the team

Online Scheduling

IMS & CICS

IMS Master Terminal Operation

Infrastructure Scheduling

Test Region Scheduling

Online/Batch environment switching

Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing regardless of platform.

ABEND resolution and job restarts

Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.

Coordinate ad-hoc mailings

Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software Releases:

Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (catalogued procedures)

Create Documentation and run instructions

Implement CA-7 (with SB Universal Agent) and CA-Autosys batch flows.

Develop and implement automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

Client: CITI BANK, USA Jan 2011 to Oct 2012

Project: CITI CARDS Statements

Role: Mainframe Developer / IT Analyst

Project Description:

Description: The Front-end Statements & Merchandise Management team’s overarching goal is to evolve the paper, monthly billing statements into true marketing channels that can be used to drive increased revenue and customer engagement

Redesign of Internet PDF

Redesigning of Landscape letter sized PDF Statement format into a portrait A4 PDF statements. This will help to increase customer experience by providing better appearance and clarity in the statements as well as easy to print in home printer. This new statement layout does not contain any marketing space / onserts and will have some enhancement in layout content and color of the statement.

Statement Redesign

Redesigning of Landscape letter sized Statement format into a portrait A4 printed Statements. This will help to increase customer experience by providing better appearance and clarity in the statements as well as easy to print in home printer. This new statement layout is designed with more creative marketing space / onserts. And will have some enhancement in layout content and color of the statement.

Balcon One Low Rate

“One Low Rate" is a new Balance Transfer (BT) offer construct intended to create a simple and straightforward customer lending solution. This offer will provide outstanding value to customers while helping us to build receivables. We also believe this offer will incent customers to continue making purchases with their Citi Card after completing a balcon.

Braille & Large Print Statements

Citi Cards serves visually impaired customers by providing account communication in Braille and Large Print format. Horizon, a non-profitable organization to support visually impaired is taking the feed and generating in that format for Citi. Horizon is ready to accept the feed from Citi in PDF format so that Citi can reduce print and postage costs.

Environment: COBOL, MVS JCL, DB2, VSAM, ChangeMan, FILE-AID, NDM, FTP, Edit plus, Notepad++, MS Word & Excel

Responsibilities:

Involved in Requirement Analysis, Coding, Technical support, and Testing and Quality assurance.

Prepare the Analysis and understanding documents.

Resource and project planning for optimum usage of resources and seamless delivery for meeting the project deadlines.

Coded COBOL and COBOL DB2 programs and tested them thoroughly.

Creating bind strategies and running bind jobs

Used CA7 (Mainframe Production Control Scheduling) to schedule jobs.

Monitor and ABEND resolution of MVS CA-7/CA-11 batch processing.

Used Endeavor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages in to production site

Assurance of fast and error free delivery of requirements within limited amount of time.

Monitoring the Error events and resolving them.

Create and modify JCL jobs in production.

Analyzing the issue mentioned in Ticket and applying appropriate solution.

Carried out the Change Release (Regression Testing) test schedule where planned changes going to production were routed.

Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends.

Creating Change Request (CRs) as and when required.

Tracking the work in progress and attending status meetings.

Performing detailed turnover of all activities performed.

Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members.

Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle and all documents are version controlled and maintained.

Used QMF for executing Query

Client: CITI BANK, USA Jan 2010 to Nov 2010

Project: Bancomer

Role: Mainframe Developer / System Analyst

Project Description:

Bancomer is a commercial bank which provides a bouquet of services to individuals and corporate in Mexico. Their core application is currently running on ALTAMIRA platform, which uses both online and batch processing concepts.

Bancomer needs to analyze their complete credit card applications and verify if the fix was given for any business logic flaws that were identified in the earlier assignment(by TCS) to avoid the financial penalty during their external audit finding

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, CICS, CA-7, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, IBM UTILITIES,

CHANGEMAN

Responsibilities:

Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and implementation phases

Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.

Modified and tested COBOL and CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests of business departments.

Take new scheduling requests from programmers, set up CA-7 job definition, schedules, triggers and requirements.

Monitor and ABEND resolution of MVS CA-7/CA-11 batch processing.

Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.

Extensive coding using COBOL, JCL and VSAMs.

Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.

Gathering Signoffs from Business.

Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the team. (Both offshore and onsite) at the end of the schedule.

Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database

Client: CITI BANK, USA Sep 2009 to Dec 2010

Project: Banamex Migration

Role: Mainframe System Engineer

Project Description:

Banamex is a full-fledged commercial bank which provides a bouquet of services to individuals and corporate in Mexico. Their core application is currently running on UNISYS platform, and as a part of IT standardization Banamex needs to migrate their applications on to IBM z/OS platform

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, CICS, CA-7, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, IBM UTILITIES,

CHANGEMAN

Responsibilities:

•Understanding different system functions.

•As a COBOL developer coded many programs in MQ series, IMS, and DB2 and worked with DBA\'s to resolve database related job efficiency problems

•Resolving project related issues during design and testing.

•Creation of High level and Detailed level flow diagrams for programs.

•Creating RE sheets for impact on databases.

•Creating bind strategies and running bind jobs.

•JCL job creation to compile and run COBOL db2 programs

Education Summary

M.S (Software Engineering), Vellore Institute of Technology, India

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