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SENTHILKUMAR SAKTHIVEL

Name Senthilkumar Sakthivel Contact # +1-510-***-****

Skill Mainframe Mail Id **********@*****.***

Summary

Having 6 years of experience in developing and maintenance of Software Applications using

Mainframe.

Strong Analysis and Debugging skills

Extensive development and maintenance experience in CICS, DB2, DB2-StoredProcedure

Good Hands on experience in online screen designing in both CICS and IMS DC.

Conversant with all phases of the project Software development life cycle. (Analysis, Design,

Coding, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Production Monitoring).

Adherence to Quality norms and ensured to delivery schedules.

Worked extensively in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC

Exposure to PL/1 programming language. Involved in analysis on Business Functionality and

Application process

Exposure to MQ Concepts.

Worked in Mainframe Tools Such as File-aid, CHANGE-MAN, Inter-test online/batch, CEDX,

XYMD, Control-M, Eazytrieve and Panvalet.

Visa Information

Country Visa Type Valid Till

USA H1B VISA 26-Dec 2014

Domain Expertise: (State NA, if Not Applicable)

Experience

Domain Specific Area in Domain

(Months)

BANKING 25

1 CREDITCARDS

LOGISTICS 15

2 SUPPLYCHAIN

INSURANCE 26

3 AUTO INSURANCE

SENTHILKUMAR SAKTHIVEL

Technical Expertise

Technology / Classification Mainframe

Experience Experience

Primary Skills Secondary Skills

(Months) (Months)

COBOL 66 MQ 20

JCL 66 PL/1 4

DB2 56

CICS 36

IMS DB 26

IMS DC 15

VSAM 53

Additional Skills CHANGEMAN,FILE-AID,SPUFI,INTERTEST

Education

Year of

Degree Qualification College / University / Institution

Passing

SENTHU INSTITUTE OF

BE ECE TECHNOLOGY,MADURAI.ANNA 2006

UNIVERSITY

Professional Activities, Certifications & Training attended

Course / Certification Name Institution Year Duration

IBM MAINFRAME TRAINING MAINTEC TECHNOLOGIES PVT 2006 AUG-DEC 2006

LTD,CHENNAI

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Engagement Overview

Project Name Matson Navigation Application Maintenance Start Date Jan 2013

Client Matson Navigation, USA End Date Till date

Project Location Oakland California, Chennai Team Size 4

Project Description:

Matson is the logistics and Ocean shipping company. We are doing maintenance and supporting

Matson Applications. Set of Mainframe Applications ensures the New customers Onboarding and

sending shipment status, Invoice and load trucking messages. Corresponding Electronic data

interchange (EDI) x12 messages will be sending to consignees and trading partners.

Contribution:

• Analyzing and requirement and preparing the design document based on the requirement.

• Developing the code based on the design and retrofitting the changes.

• Involved in Edi Map requirement specification preparation.

• Interacting with end customers to understand the new EDI requirement.

• Involved in Production support of mainframe applications.

• Involved in Unit testing

• Debugging the code to fix the Testing issues.

• Team Coordination and technical guidance for team members.

• On call production support

Environment:

MVS Z OS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, CHANGE-MAN, EDI

Operating System: ZOS

Project Name State Farm CDE – Agent Delegation Start Date Nov 2012

Client State farm Insurance, USA End Date Jan 2013

Project Location Chennai Team Size 4

Project Description:

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State Farm Insurance is a group of insurance and financial services companies in the United

States and has corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. It is ranked 37th in the 2011 Fortune

500, and is also the world's largest mutual "P&C" (property & casualty insurance) firm. There are two

key components of the engagement - BIS (Business Information Systems) and CDE (Customer Driven

Evolution). CSC is the first service provider at State Farm to have SLA based Managed Services MSA.

Agent Delegations provides the capabilities for agents to determine who in their office beside

themselves can have access to complete analytics on their assigned book of business or other

administrative tasks for their office and act on behalf of the agent or agency administration leader.

Implementation of a flexible data model for management of administrative tasks that can be delegated

by agents or sales leaders to others to act on their behalf

During Delegations the system will be configured to allow delegations of the Customer Initiated

Assignments administrative tasks and the system will have the flexibility to be extended for other

administrative tasks.

Contribution:

• Analyzing and developing the code based on the Technical design document.

• Creating the DB2 Stored Procedure and developing the

Main module, Data Access Module and fetchables

• Unit testing the code using SAMS Pocket Tool

• Debugging the code to fix the Testing issues.

• Preparing the Unit Test cases and Unit Test Result.

• Supporting for the Integration testing and System Testing.

• Interacting with SME’s for Functional Clarification.

Environment:

MVS Z OS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, STORED PROCEDURE, PANVALET, SIA, SQS, APPTUNE

Operating System: ZOS

Project Name State Farm CDE - Capacity Build AKL 2/3 Start Date Aug 2012

Client State farm Insurance, USA End Date Nov 2012

Project Location Chennai Team Size 6

Project Description:

State Farm is a fortune thirty five enterprise providing insurance and financial services, headquartered in

Bloomington, Illinois. State Farm employs approximately 69,000 associates and 17,000 independent

contractors who work as exclusive insurance agents.

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The CDE initiate is mainly to address the changing expectations of the customers by building a truly

integrated customer platform (ICP).The new system would be more customers centric with a variety of

products accessible online and will support transactions through smart phones and mobile applications.

Contribution:

• System Analyst and Primary owner for a Mutual Fund Application under the capacity build

initiative.

• Collaborated with clients and other vendors (TCS and Accenture) in an intensive three months

exercise to obtain end to end knowledge of State Farm’s systems. Oversaw and contributed to

the ‘system as is’ documentation.

• Designed high level diagrams and various other artefacts to ensure the availability of a

consistent and comprehensive repository for State Farm’s Applications.

• Currently an expert and trainer for two critical applications under State Farm’s Mutual Fund

Life line of business.

• Analysed on PL1 Programs involved in the applications and documented the input, output and

functional process of the corresponding programs

• Analysed on Batch jobs involved in these Applications and drawn the diagrams in Visio and

documented the Batch flow and the details.

Environment:

MVS Z OS, COBOL, PL\1, IMS DB/DC, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, PANVALET, SIA, CONTROL-M,

CONTROL-D, JCL.

Project Name Financial Systems Solution center Start Date Apr 2012

Client State farm Insurance, USA End Date Aug 2012

Project Location Chennai Team Size 7

Project Description:

State Farm Insurance is a mutual company, leader in Auto insurance but also handles Fire, Health,

Workers compensation and residual marker insurance in USA. Financial Systems Solution Center

comprises of 18 business critical applications which are interacting with different upstream, downstream

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systems and also interact with different internal applications. FSSC is to support and be a solution

provider for the Finance, Agency and Investment Departments. These applications require 24X7 supports

to quickly resolve production issues.

Contribution:

• Involved in fixing production issues

• Involved in fixing job abends and finding the root cause

• Analyzing the change request and changing the program based on the requirement.

• Involved in testing after code change and integration testing

• Involved in implementation support

• Rotational on call production support

Environment:

MVS OS, COBOL, PL\1, IMS DB/DC, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, CONTROL-M, CONTROL-D,

HP QUALITY CENTER.

Project Name APS EXCAL Start Date Jan 2011

Client Travelers Inc. End Date Dec 2011

Project Location Chennai Team Size 6

Project Description:

Travelers Inc. head quartered in Hartford, USA and is one of the biggest insurance companies.

EXCAL is one of the applications in travelers which are for Insurance policy issuance. To meet customer

requirement, APS - EXCAL needs to support the Increased Online screen (IMS DC) field length and DB2

database which needs to be migrate from IMS DB.

Contribution:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, IMS DC screen designing (MFS), backend coding, debugging

and unit testing.

• Involved in the Software development life cycle (SDLC).

• Responsible for completing the Change request independently.

• Ensure the code change for the requirement based on the business needs.

• Team lead activities.

• Communicating with Onsite coordinator and clients via e-mail and phone.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE-AID, IMS DB and IMS DC

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Operating System: ZOS

Project Name Supply Chain Execution Management Start Date Sep 2009

Client Ingram Micro Inc. End Date Dec 2010

Project Location Chennai Team Size 4

Project Description:

Ingram micro Inc. is head quartered in Santa Ana, USA and is the largest technology distributor and a

leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company.

We have IM-First and IM-Pulse applications to support the Supply chain management system. IM-First is

the Front-end application that is used for warehouse management system in NA and Europe. IM-Pulse is the

Back-end system for planning, order management and procurement system. IM-Pulse is running in

Mainframe Applications and IM-First is in Open systems like MF-Cobol and Pro C.

Contribution:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, coding, debugging and unit testing.

• Offshore lead for Europe region.

• Involved in the Software development life cycle (SDLC).

• Responsible for completing the Change request based on the priority.

• Ensure the code change for the requirement based on the business needs.

• Communicating with users and clients via e-mail and phone.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, INTER-TEST, IMS DB, Control-M

Operating System: ZOS

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Project Name Advanced fraud early warning system(AFEWS) Start Date Jul 2007

Client CITIBANK End Date Sep 2009

Project Location Chennai Team Size 3

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Project Description:

Citibank is one of the leading global players in the financial service sector having most diverse

consumer product offerings - banking services, credit cards, loans and insurance. Citibank International Card

Center (ICC) handles the card division of Citibank. Advanced Fraud Early Warning System (AFEWS), a part of

ICC is a post authorization fraud detection system.

The primary objective of this ongoing project is to offer cost-effective business and technical solutions

to provide the ability for the fraud analysts to capture the fraudulent transactions happening in the Credit

Cards and Payment products.

Contribution:

• Involved in Coding online, batch programs and enhancements.

• Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Preparation of Technical Specifications.

• Responsible for mentoring the juniors.

• Involved in full Software development life cycle (SDLC).

• Communicating with users and clients via e-mail and phone.

• Interacting with Onsite counterpart.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, DB2, CICS, CICSPLEX, VSAM, File-Aid, Change-man.

Operating System: ZOS

Employment History

Company Name Designation Start date End Date

Computer Sciences Corporation Sr.Software Engineer 05-Dec-2011 Till date

L&T InfoTech Software Engineer 07-Sep-2009 30-Nov-2011

Citigroup Programmer 23-Jul-2007 04-Sep-2009

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