Insurance Project
Resume:
SITA RAM KILARI E-Mail : *********@*****.***
Sr. Mainframe Programmer/Analyst Phone: 309-***-****
Experience Summary
• 11 Years of Information Technology experience in Managed Services, Development, Maintenance,
Production Support and Project Management of Mainframe
• Strong knowledge in management activities like project estimations, risk analysis, budget and
resource planning, time sheet allocations, effort tracking etc
• Demonstrated proficiency in several languages, Access methods, Databases and Tools.
• High Programming skills on COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM and DB2
• Involved in different levels of testing i.e. Unit Testing, SIT and UAT
• Documenting the test results and uploading to document repository.
• Created numerous test scenarios and test data for UAT
• Taken up the Quality Management activities like Project Documentations, Compliance Audits,
Security Audits, Quality Assurance, Metrics, Dashboard Preparation etc.
• Highly experienced in delivering End to End applications using Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC)
• Prepared pseudo code and design for numerous COBOL and CICS programs for conversion from
mainframe to SAP
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements gathering and writing skills with expertise in
developing and documenting Business Requirement document (BRD), Functional Requirement
Specification (FRS), Technical Specifications across the deliverables of a project
• Strong domain knowledge in Insurance, Banking Applications and Finance Systems
• Over 7 years of experience as a Team Lead and responsible for end to end Project Delivery and
Application Development
• Establish and execute Offshore and Onsite models at multi-location teams simultaneously to keep
onsite/ offshore teams in synch with rest of the project teams
• Experience in developing Project Plan, Cost-Effort-Duration and Resource planning
• Coordination of releases with business, plan, build and operate teams to ensure expected product is
delivered with adequate quality
• Good experience in Software Release Management, Delivery process and Quality Management
• Project Management experience, Quality Assurance with strong background of SDLC (Agile and
Waterfall) and also involved in difference levels of Testing of Business Applications
• Create and getting approvals for change requests in HP Service center
• Working on tickets as part of support using service center
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced programmers and supervisory
responsibilities
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Educational qualification
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.
Technical Skills
Platform : IBM Mainframe
Operating System : OS/390, WINDOWS 2000, XP
RDBMS : DB2
Skills : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, and MVS/ESA
Tools : PANVALET, ENDEVOR, Changeman, FILE AID, Xpeditor, File
Manager, Fault Analyzer, SDSF, IBM Utilities, FTP, NDM,
XCOM, Control M, PLATINUM, QMF, SPUFI, and VISIO
OLTP : CICS
Incident Management : HP Service Desk
• Certified in NCFM (NSE's Certification in Financial Markets)
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Project Experience:
Nationwide Insurance Company
Application Lead, February 2012 to February 2013.
Description: NAPS is a configuration of systems, each designed to support a portion of the processing of
an automobile insurance contract. The system processes personal automobile liability first-party coverage
insurance, and several non-automobile related Insurance Coverage. It supports 7 Service Centers, 46
states. Business is written in Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, the Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, the Nationwide Property and Casualty Insurance Company, the Nationwide General Insurance
Company and Colonial Insurance Company of Wisconsin. As part of Nationwide Business Solutions, We
are basically supporting the policy processing part in NAPS where minor enhancements and design are also
in the scope of the project.
• Involved in enhancement and maintenance
• Preparing test data and test JCLs for the client team
• Preparation of high level design and reviews
• Solely responsible for review of unit test plans, system test plans and results
• Providing Ballpark estimation
• Part of the UAT team that includes data preparation, coordination with testing team
• Knowledge Management to create repository of business knowledge
• Maintained the quality related artifacts of the project and Involved in quality audits
• Implementing change request to meet new business needs
• Introduce new types of policies and calculating premiums
• Update and rollouts of the States that will be using Auto Insurance Inquiry
Application for their On-line Insurance Verification.
Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
Application Lead, June 2008 to February 2012
Description: HLS is the acronym of Home Loan System. It includes an overnight batch component and a
daily online system. The overnight batch component basically processes all monetary transactions that
occur during the day overnight. There are approximately over 190 batch programs in HLS of which
90% are in Cobol II.
• Involved in enhancement and maintenance.
• Presenting Design Documentation, Unit Test Cases and Code Reviews.
• Coordinate with SIT Teams for testing activities.
• Preparation of high level design and reviews.
• Preparation and review of unit test plans, system test plans and results.
• Sharing results to client through documentum
• Providing Ballpark estimation
• Knowledge Management to create repository of business knowledge.
• Maintained the quality related artifacts of the project and Involved in quality audits .
• Implementing change request to meet new business needs.
• Create and getting approvals for change requests in HP Service center
• Working on Incident tickets as part of support using service center
• Changing interest rates, adding new home loan benefits.
• Modifying main and stubs for customer letters.
• Executing bi annual jobs to update new stubs as per client requests.
• Preparing one timer jobs to sync DB2 and VSAM files.
Development Bank Of Singapore
Application Lead, September 2007 to June 2008
Description: DBS is the largest bank in Singapore and the fifth largest in Hong Kong, with leading
positions in consumer banking, treasury & markets, asset management, securities brokerage,
equity and debt fund raising. With one of the highest credit ratings in the region, DBS is ready to
serve customers in 15 markets as a bank that specialist in Asia. I worked under RN (Remittance)
module, which means funds transfers.
• Program Analysis
• Worked on Earth project as per process tuning
• Coding and testing, change the effected documents.
• Maintenance as per requirements of the Clients
• Review and Testing
• Processing daily, weekly Jobs (Cycles).
SEI Investments Company
Technical Analyst, July 2004 to September 2007
Description: PAY3000 is SEI’s mainframe application that produces periodic and non-periodic disbursement
checks from both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans and performs the related tax reporting. It is
a menu-driven disbursement system comprising of two separate subsystems namely Pension (which
handles recurring payments for pension and/or annuities) and Lump Sum (which handles non-periodic
payments including partial and total distributions). To maintains data needed for monthly, quarterly, and
yearly tax reporting. Required state and federal withholding information is maintained as well as non-
resident alien (NRA) data.
• Involved in enhancement and maintenance.
• Presenting Design Documentation, Unit Test Cases and Code Reviews.
• Coordinate with SIT Teams for testing activities.
• Preparation of high level design and reviews.
• Preparation and review of unit test plans, system test plans and results.
• Part of the UAT team that includes data preparation, coordination with testing team
• Knowledge Management to create repository of business knowledge.
• Maintained the quality related artifacts of the project and Involved in quality audits .
• Implementing change request to meet new business needs.
• Generating trial balance report for check writing
• Reporting ACH Notice
• Generate Write Advice Notice and ACH Tapes
• Download the IRS notifications by state and federal governments and identify the
impact to the system and modify the system to generate corresponding pay stubs.
KBC Bank
Team Member, April 2004 till July 2004
Description: The part of the application in the Branch offices, will support branch office employees and
manage in their activities to handle i.e. create new loan applications by taking the information from the
customer and from the main bank governed by Government of Belgium. This also includes attaching
guarantees, guarantee amounts, previous loan repayments income the borrower and Co borrower. Using
the above information the application makes a score that gives whether the applicant is suitable for loan or
not. The application is managed through browser Application.
The coding part is done in VAG, tested and in turn it generates COBOL coding in the background. We
have to work as per the change requests and defects sent by the client.
• Analysis and coding
• Coding programs in VAG
• Report Generation
• Peer reviews
• Unit testing
• Generating and promoting in Changeman
Merrill Lynch Insurance
Team Member, August 2002 to April 2004
Description: Merrill Lynch is a leading global financial management and advisory company with a presence
in 43 countries across six continents. It serves the needs of both individual and institutional clients.
Insurance Strategic Partnership (ISP) is a system responsible for the receipt of commissions and payment
of compensation to Merrill Lynch agents for the sale of Insurance Products.
ISP processes initial sales of life insurance contracts and annuity policies, as well as subsequent
premiums and renewals. The system processes both proprietary and Non-proprietary life and annuity
products.
ISP calculates commission payable to Merrill Lynch Insurance Group (MLIG) form proprietary
carrier for the sale of their annuity and life products, and tracks that the payment has been received. The
system also calculates compensation payable to Financial Advisors (FA’s).
• Program analysis
• Coding, change effected Document Preparation
• Maintenance as per requirements of the clients
• Review and testing
• Processing daily, weekly jobs (Cycles).
References:
Praveen Behara +91 ********@**.***.*** IBM India Pvt Ltd., India
Dinesh Singh +1 214 470 IBM, US
********@**.***.***
4879
Fayaz Pamidi +1 720 917 *********@**.***.*** IBM, US
5771
Ashish Vashist +91 ashish.vashist@niit- NIIT Technologies, India
981******* tech.com
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