OBJECTIVE

With more than *+ Years of experience in the Software Development field, I am seeking a position as a software Developer where I can work in a challenging environment with zest. To work in a pragmatic way in an organization with full determination to achieve organizational as well as personal goals.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Strong domain experience in Banking & Capital Management, Credit Cards, Retirement and Mutual Fund Industries.

Well versed in Application Development with Mainframe Technologies, Java technologies, Distributed and Client-Server Architecture environments.

Experience in working on DB2, COBOL, JCL, VSAM and IMS/CICS Screens along with ISPF, SDSF, MVS and MQ series.

Noted for outstanding research and impact analysis which leverages ability to work individually and as a team to solve critical issues.

Strong problem analysis & solving skills, analytical & logical skills is an added advantage.

Excellent exposure in Database and Mainframes technologies.

Adept at using SQL queries, sort cards and Easytrieves.

Solid in Core JAVA concepts such as Collections framework, advance java, Multithreading & Object Oriented concepts.

Experience in the deployment of multi-tiered web based enterprise applications and Server side Business logic using Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC & Java Beans.

Proficient in understanding the job schedules, monitoring the cycles and scheduling new jobs /modifying schedules through jobtrac (CA tool) or through ESP (IBM tool).

Worked extensively in development of stored procedures, Dynamic SQLs, Cursors and embedded SQLs.

Hands on experience working with Web and Application Servers such as Apache Tomcat & IBM WebSphere and experienced in generating logs by Log4j to identify the errors in production test environment.

Extensive development experience on different IDE's Eclipse, STS, Visual Studio for debugging and using java coding standards.

Experienced in Pair Programming, Waterfall model and Agile Methodologies with SCRUM.

Competent in building new webpages and maintaining websites through basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript or JSP. Experience in using Joomla tool for building websites.

Pioneer in using REXX or CLIST to automate tasks and building tools to reduce manaul effort.

Experience in using JIRA, Remedy & Clarity tools.

Knowledge in SSIS, SSRS in Microsoft sql server, XML and SOAP tester.

Highly motivated to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.

Experience in mentoring new associates and providing business/technical training.

Generate and communicate reports and release notes, Experience in documenting the process/procedures.

Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.

Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Louisiana, Lafayette (Dean’s List, Honor’s Convocation) with a GPA of 3.91/4.0, Merit Scholarship (May 2013)

Bachelors in Electronics and Communications from JNTU, India with a GPA of 7.5/10 (May 2008)

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

LANGUAGES

TOOLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS

DATA-BASES

COBOL

SPUFI/QMF

Windows XP

MY SQL

C/ C++

FILE-AID/File Manager

Linux

MS ACCESS

Java Script

Personal Tables

Windows NT

MS SQL Server

XML

Apptune

Windows 2000

DB2

HTML

SQL Explain

MVS/ISPF/TSO

FoxPro

REXX

File Manager

OS360

JCL/Proc

Easytrieve

CLIST

MQ Series

Other Mainframe tools: Syncsort, BMC utilities, Fault Analyzer, Performance Analyzer, NDM, Infoman, FTP

CA7/ESP (Schedulers), DFSORT, Abendaid, Debug Analyzer, IBM utilities

Version Controllers: Changeman, Endeavor, Microsoft Visual Source Safe

OTHERS: CICS (Operating Environments), MS Office (all), ECLIPSE (IDE).

EXPERIENCE

DST Systems

Senior Software Developer

(July 2013 – Present)

Client Services Support Team

DST Systems Inc. is an American software development firm that specializes in information processing and management. DST Brokerage Solutions specialize in delivering mutual fund sub accounting processing services to financial intermediaries that help improve productivity, increase process efficiency and reduce operational risk.

Responsibilities:

Daily Interaction with business partners and other stake holders for analysis of the technicalities and the planning of the migration activities.

Handle small/client specific projects from analysis phase until the post implementation phase in both waterfall and agile methodologies based on client need.

Research technical tickets to identify root cause, performing impact analysis and discussing them with concerned authorities to explain the issues, communicating with internal clients and guide a smaller team to fix the issue.

Discussions with SMEs and system architects to analyze the issues/client requirements and work with them to spec the high level documents for business and technical teams.

Perform unit testing, system testing, regression and user acceptance testing for the impacted modules.

Attend daily meetings to talk about day-to-day activities and status of them.

Handle day-to-day requests to generate reports and perform database/dataset updates as per client needs.

Research issues on a daily basis and discuss them with team on how to fix them.

Analyze critical issues related to system changes and perform necessary actions to correct them.

Monitor daily cycles, part of the on-call rotation to handle system related issues.

Handle system related changes, support major installs.

Mentor new associates on both domain and technical aspects of the systems.

Perform peer reviews for code changes, scheduling changes, design documents and test results.

Schedule and hosting meetings with business team and project teams to understand requirements, discussing gaps, build test plan and discuss road blocks.

Part of on-call rotation to monitor job schedules and be available for the 24x7 support.

B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration

As a graduate student at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, I was able to assist a director in Business Administration department

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Graduate Assistant (Jan 2012 – May 2013)

Responsibilities:

Designed University Website for College of Business using HTML, CSS and maintained the Server.

Provided technical maintenance of computer labs, performed setup for meetings and supported for a smoother experience.

Performed desktop maintenance, software installations and backups for professors.

Gathered information for website professors, processed them and posted to the local media.

Supported the print labs and Xerox rooms in the College of Business department.

DST Systems

Software Engineer,

Client: DST Systems

(Oct 2010 – Dec 2011)

DST Worldwide Services, a subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc., offers technology Development, support, processing, and consulting solutions to a variety of industries including financial services, health care, insurance, and business process management.

TRAC is a Pension plan record keeping portion of the TA2000 Mutual Fund System. It handles both tax qualified and non-qualified plans. Tax qualified plans are retirement plans established by an employer that meet specific IRS guidelines.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing, designing the system/components with the best approach by choosing from all the various possible approaches after considering the entire cross impacts.

Developing or Enhancing the code & Unit testing the functionality of different programs according to the technical requirement.

Scheduling new jobs, modifying the schedules, creating a test schedule for the cycle runs etc.

Performing System Integration testing with other impacted development teams and test support teams.

Following standard process to ensure good quality of deliverable.

Additional job responsibilities such as Peer reviews, Job Monitoring, validating the deliverable.

Trained new associates on the technical concepts.

Direct interaction with on-shore team to gather requirements and developing deliverable.

Building end-to-end modules for loan-enhancement project to provide users with GUI for loans on Retirement plans.

Converted CICS modules to be java based programs that triggers mainframes and populates information on GUI.

Lead a small team of 3 and managed multiple projects for successful implementation.

Infosys Technologies Limited

Systems Engineer,

Client: American Express Company

(May 2008 – Oct 2010)

American Express sometimes known as "AmEx" or "AmEx” is a diversified global Financial Services Company. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's check businesses. AmEx cards account for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US, the highest of any card issuer.

Responsibilities:

Performed various phases of Waterfall Methodology; analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of Projects.

Built sort cards and used them for impact analysis, data validations.

Developed code and enhanced it along with Unit Testing functionality of different programs according to the technical requirement.

Developed SQL’s as required and tuned them for the better performances.

Developed SQL Stored procedures and CICS programs that can interact with the front end high level languages.

Supported SQL stored procedures testing through SOAP tester for front end team and performance tuned them.

Scheduled new jobs, modifying the schedule, creating a test schedule for the cycle runs.

Integration testing with the other impacted development teams and the test support teams.

Following Standard Process to ensure good quality of deliverable.

Additional job responsibilities such as Peer reviews, Job Monitoring, validating the deliverable.

Managed a team of 2 to handle small Projects and implement client requirements.

CERTIFICATIONS

PR101-Mainframes certification & Infosys quality certification.

Advanced Mutual Fund Industrial Concepts certification.

INTERNSHIP & ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Implemented Online Library Management System (2008)

IEEE PAPER: Implemented “Flow Aware Allocation for On Chip Networks” paper.

oImplemention of IEEE paper to analyze the flow of data packets with an flow-aware algorithm on On-chip Network

Document retrieval model using Vector Space Model

oImplemented a document retrieval model using Vector Space Model in java as part of Information Retrieval System course.

Recursive Descendant Parser

oThis project builds recursive descendant parser and constructs parse trees. When an input is given, breaks the input into tokens and recognizes the characters which were given in the input.

Dimensional meshes

o Programming in C++ to perform filling holes, sub-division, smoothing and morphing on 3-dimensional meshes

VOLUNTARY PROJECTS & WORKS

Android App (2013) : A user friendly app designed using Google Auth which checks a registered user with other users who have similar interest in activities such as Tennis within the same time slot with an intention to play and make friends with them.

Post event validation (2013) : Project used to detect onset of events using Twitter. Built using Google and Bing news API’s, the app validates if an event is detected through twitter/Face book.

Keywords in Tweets (2013) : This project detects keywords with more Importance from Tweets which can be used in the Event Detection Process.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS & AWARDS

Enhancement of ACAT transfers processing project was nominated for yearly best projects and was picked as an honorable mention in the Internal Services Section (2014).

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