Suraj Nair

SUMMARY

Over ** years of extensive experience in business system analysis and mainframe development.

Experience working in the credit card, retail, banking and insurance domains

Perform data mapping and data analysis flow between existing and future systems.

Responsible for requirement determination and documentation.

Analyze existing systems and conducting Impact Analysis, Solution Designing, performed current state, Impact and Gap analysis with appropriate documentation.

Gather and define business requirements (Functional and Non-Functional), map processes (existing or as-Is and future or To-Be), and analyze data.

Analyze current state reference data models and flows and prepare use case diagrams.

Interface with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies, and with business units to gather requirements

Work with business SMEs for requirements gathering and producing appropriate documentation

Elicit and document functional and non-functional system requirements

Conducted system Testing and UAT and maintain documentation as per standards and guidelines

Prepare/manage project plan, Define strategies, Organize Team meetings, Co-ordinate business users & technical teams

Responsible for all client communications including status reports, methodology presentations and project audits.

Provide continual offshore representation of end users and thus business context to the development teams.

Analytical thinking and adaptability

Ability to work independently and in a team

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience working on TSYS

Understanding of using Agile or Scrum methodologies

As a Programmer, developed Mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, C, HTML

Experience

Tata Consultancy Services April 2007 – Present

Business Analyst

Client: Aviva Insurance Canada

Aviva Insurance Canada is one of the country's leading providers of property and casualty insurance, covering homes, cars, recreational vehicles, groups and businesses.

Project/Program Name: Print Migration

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Supra, HP Exstream

This project is for the migration of in house printing schedules to a third party system.

Analyse current state reference data models and flows.

Plan the process for the future system

Provide the analyst team and assist them with the preparation of DLD

Prepare the systems testing and UAT

Support the migration and assist in the smooth flow to the downstream systems

Client: Great West Life

The Great-West Life Assurance Company is a life insurance company. The Investment team blends the comprehensive analysis of broad economic trends with stock-level fundamental and technical analysis to seek out attractive growth investments.

Project/Program Name: Securities Front Office

Environment: COBOL, .NET, SQL, Excel

The SFOS is to handle the securities front end of the investments division. This involves working on short term enhancements and solving issues that the business users face.

Detailed analysis of applications in scope with respect to changes

Performing Current State, Impact and Gap analysis with appropriate documentation

Skilled in analysing and mapping existing business processes to the desired levels (GAP Analysis), evaluating available technology-based solutions, suggesting appropriate business solutions

Resourceful and deft in all phases of the SDLC (Requirement analysis, development, testing and troubleshooting) as well as managing project activities.

Analysing current state reference data models and flows.

Working with business SMEs for requirements gathering and producing appropriate documentation.

Elicit and document functional and non-functional system requirements

Creates and maintains test documentation as per standards and guidelines

Client: Bank of Montreal

The Bank of Montreal or BMO Financial Group is one of the Big Five banks in Canada. The BMO is the Canada's oldest bank. It has three client groups, Personal and commercial client group, Investment banking group and private client group. These client groups involve BMO Harris bank, BMO Capital Markets and BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Project/Program Name CIS

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SQL, TSYS

The purpose of this project is to introduce insurance for the bank’s loans and other products including mortgages and deposits

Detailed analysis of applications in scope with respect to changes on the Credit Adjudication system

Performing Current State, Impact and Gap analysis with appropriate documentation

Highly skilled in analysing and mapping existing business processes to the desired levels (GAP Analysis), evaluating available technology-based solutions, and suggesting appropriate business.

Resourceful and deft in all phases of the SDLC (Requirement analysis, development, testing and troubleshooting) as well as managing project activities.

Analysing current state reference data models and flows.

data mapping between existing and future systems

Working with business SMEs for requirements gathering and producing appropriate documentation.

Perform data mapping and data analysis flow between existing and future systems.

Preparation of the Technical Design Document

Client: Royal Bank of Canada

The Royal Bank of Canada is the largest financial institution in Canada, which is measured by deposits, revenues, and market capitalization. Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A leader in retail banking and wealth management, Royal Bank consistently ranks among the top firms in Online Banking, Wealth management, Insurance.

Title: Online Investment Portal

Environment: C, JCL, HTML, SQL

The objective of this project is to enable Royal Bank IT systems to give bonus and special rate to users who purchase and renew their GICs online rather than through branch thus enabling the bank to enhance the online usage of users and reduce the branch efforts. The objective of this project is to enable Royal Bank IT systems to enable the end user to redeem GICs online and also to enable the purchase of an additional GIC product online.

Meeting with client on enhancements and providing estimations

Detailed analysis of applications in scope with respect to changes

Preparation of the Technical Design Document

Designing and developing program changes

Providing estimates, and Status reporting

Managing offshore team and helping the team to understand the requirements and provide resolution to their queries.

Client: Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services provider headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. A global leader in investment banking, Morgan Stanley consistently ranks among the top firms in mergers and acquisitions, equity underwriting and debt financings.

Title: Branch Number Expansion

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FileAid, SoftTech, Platinum, MS Excel,

The objective of this project is to enable Morgan Stanley IT systems to increase the number of retail branches from 700 to 958 by reclaiming Bank Channels and recycling offices closed for the last 12 months.

Documenting and finalizing in scope applications and source code inventory

Remediation of office number by using but not limited to Externalization approach as the solution of choice

Performing Current State, Impact and Gap analysis with appropriate documentation.

Guiding project stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives

Detailed analysis of applications in scope with respect to remediation, identifying solution patterns, and detailed technical design for remediating the applications

Impact Analysis on applications in scope to identify impacted components and the impact.

Grouping and sequencing of applications in scope based on dependencies and rollout feasibility.

Analyze the applications in scope and design the best-fit solution approach in collaboration with respective application owners.

Review and acquire sign-off on the solution approach from respective application owners.

End to end testing of remediated applications with respect to the remediation

Experience working with high volume data processing

Title: Third Party Interface Remediation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FileAid, SoftTech, Platinum, Excel, TSYS

This project is aimed at Target corporation be Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant. Central Encryption Data Store (CEDS), a Service solution designed to remediate the sensitive fields that flow across Credit card application to TSYS and other vendors. CEDS was developed as a centralized data repository with capabilities to generate reference numbers. These reference numbers can then be pervasively exchanged across systems, thus removing the potential for individuals with malicious intent from stealing Guest data.

This project involves extensive study of the existing systems and identifying the sensitive fields that have been used within the programs, Data files, databases etc. and also the usage. For this purpose we have to analyze the systems in the credit and understand the flow of these interlinked systems

Managing project level activities

Analyse the existing system to understand the impact and thereby develop design to meet the requirements.

Preparation of requirement document and specification document to review with business

Data Mapping and data analysis

Experience working with high volume data exchange and transaction processing systems

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Dec 2006 – Mar 2007

Analyst Programmer

Title: Payment Business Services

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2

PBS or 'PAYMENT Business Services' is one of the leading Payment service providers in Denmark. Most of Danish Banks and central bank of Denmark, called “Denmark’s National Bank”, own PBS. PBS specializes in electronic payment services. PBS is involved in developing and operating solutions for payment systems and is a leading supplier of payment solutions and related services to banks, private associations and public institutions.

The project involved development and enhancement of applications for creation of electronic Certificates/ digital ids, PIN Code generation and printing, NET-ID Creation, Printing and mailing documents (Invoices)

Analyze existing application

Create low level design

Application Development and Unit Testing

Review code

Support and Defect fixing

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd July 2005 – Nov 2006

Programmer Analyst

Title: AON- CICA Agility

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM

CICA is a subsidiary of AON Corporation, one of the largest insurance, brokerage and consulting firms in the world. CICA has been providing exceptional insurance products that have helped millions of policyholders to plan and protect their futures and the futures of their families.

Life/Health/Seniors is a module in the CICA project. Applications are entered into system and it will be routed to the automated lookup system that creates report of all active and inactive policies the policyholder has owned, as well as the claims the policyholder has filed. And this report will be routed to underwriting team

Requirements gathering and Impact Analysis

Detailed Design of the system functionality

Development, Code Review and Testing

Power Alpha Consultants Aug 2002 – June 2005

Business Analyst

Title Financial Information System

Company Power Alpha Consultants

Environment COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2

MX Technology Corporation uses various Financial Information System (FIS) applications like Accounts Payable, Purchase Order, Accounts receivable, general Ledger, Fixed Assets, Capital projects etc. for its business purposes. The base (McCormick & Dodge) code for these financial applications is provided by GEAC Computer Systems, Inc. Sony has incorporated its in-house functions to the base code provided by GEAC, with an aim to use the code to meet its own processing requirements.

Impact analysis

Requirements Analysis

Create detailed design

Providing Enhancements to the Programs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL and C++

RDBMS: DB2, VSAM

DB/DC: CICS, HTML

Tools: FileAid, Expeditor, Endevor, Platinum, Softech, CA7, EZTRIEVE, ChangeMan, TWS, TOM, INFO/X, SPUFI, DCLGEN, SDF, QMF, ISPW, STARTOOL, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, UML, HPQC, WBS Estimation, FP Estimation, SQL, UX, Agile methodologies

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from University of Madras (1999 – 2002)

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) from Mahatma Gandhi University (1996 – 1999)

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