Project Life Insurance

Location:

New Delhi, DL, India

Posted:

December 22, 2012

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Yogesh Arora

Email: ********@*****.***

Tel: (M) - 999-***-****

Objective

To pursue a challenging career requiring strong analytical and

organizational skills in the IT field.

Experience Summary:

. 8 years of Hands-on Experience in CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL and other

Mainframe technologies

. Currently working as Project Lead with Polaris (NSE: Polaris). Joined

Polaris in Nov 2010

. Worked as Project Lead in CSC (NYSE: CSC).From June 2006 - Nov 2010.

. Quality skills in Abend resolution, IPCS, Abend-aid, Debugging

. Have successfully implemented several extremely large and complex

Online and batch systems.

. Strong Life Insurance & Banking domain knowledge (LOMA 280, 290

certified)

. Well versed with PMP concepts, SDLC, Agile Methodology and Performance

Baseline measurement

. Extensive experience in interaction with teams all across globe

. Exposure to formal Quality Processes (Assurance and Control) in CMM

Level-5 Companies

Work in U.S.

. Worked in a Client interfacing role at client location in New York for

2 years and in Austin for 3 months

. Worked as an Onsite coordinator and lead for several projects with an

end to end responsibility

. Represented IT from client side (AXA) on several projects in

feasibility study, product design, business & implementation meeting

Skillset :

|Technologies |COBOL, CICS, PL/SQL, JCL, Assembler |

|Databases |VSAM, DB2 |

|Tools/ Utilities |IPCS, Expeditor, Intertest, File aid, SST, Hyper station, CSF, |

| |Panvalet |

|Domains |Life Insurance, Banking, Airline |

|Operating Systems|MVS, z/OS, OS- 390, Windows |

Project Experience

Organization : Polaris Financial Technology Client :

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Application : International

Duration From : : November, 2010 To : Till Date

Designation : Project Lead Team Size : 35

resources

Domain : Banking (International Business)

Technologies : CICS, DB2, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, File aid

Project Description :

The International System is used to process all non-sterling accounting for

RBS, handling accounting for same-day sterling payments to other UK Banks

(CHAPS) and passing entries to the RBS domestic system. It links to other

systems to provide the Bank with a complete currency package, including -

International and domestic accounting, Online account enquiries, Statement

production, Payment processing support,

Calculation and accrual of interest on accounts and contracts, Generation

of interest payments, Adjustment of interest payments for back-valued

items.

Responsibilities :

. Requirement feasibility and Product design

. Estimation, Business meetings within IT and with Business

. Preparation of Component Design doc for ongoing requirements.

. Coding for Online Cobol modules

. Preparation of Implementation plan documents for each project

Organization : Computer Sciences Corporation Client : AXA

Financial (US)

Application : Life-70

Duration From : : June, 2006 To : Nov,

2010

Designation : Module Lead / Project Lead Team

Size : 50 resources

Domain : Life Insurance

Technologies : CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest, File aid

Project Description :

The AXA Group ("AXA") is a worldwide leader in financial protection and

wealth management.

AXAs operations are diverse geographically, with major operations in

Western Europe, North

America and the Asia/Pacific region. AXA had over $731 billion in assets

under management as of

June 30, 2011.

Life70 is a major life insurance product developed by CSC and used by

several insurance

companies in the US. The scope

of the project includes implementing new insurance products, maintenance

and enhancements to

existing Life70 system and also providing production support.

Important Projects

1) Indexed UL 151

Role : Technical Lead Team Size : 17

Resources

Duration : March 2010 - October 2010

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest,

File aid

Description : Indexed UL is a highly innovative built on the premise

of traditional UL products

with an opportunity to earn higher interest based on stock market

performance. Gives Policy owner

flexibility to either continue to earn Guaranteed interest rate on its

policy reserves or invest into

one of four Index accounts viz. 1 year S&P, 1 year MSCI, 1 year EAFE or a 3

year term S&P price.

Responsibilities . Estimation, Business meetings with IT, Product, QA

and System users

. Requirement feasibility and Product design

. Implemented procedure to store daily prices of various

index prices and

other new factors into system

. Coding, testing of various modules - Inter fund transfer,

allocation rules,

Online Screen changes

. Development of Trading grid report - a new report to be

used by AXA

Hedging team for trade in options - which captures every

accounting

transaction on policy.

. Development of test plan

2) Market Stabilizer Option

Role : Technical Lead Team Size : 14

Resources

Duration : Sep 2009 - February 2010

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest,

File aid

Description : Market Stabilizer Option is a highly innovative product

built on the premise of

traditional IL products with an opportunity to invest directly in S&P 500

index. Policy owner can

elect to move money on any day of month into a Holding account, which then

be moved into a

segment on the third Friday of month. Term of each segment is 1 year. Any

loss on the segment up

till -25% and any gain beyond 17% will be on AXA. AXA takes out a Cash

reserve amount (on day

of segment built) and Market Value adjustment (to account for loan, partial

withdrawals).

Responsibilities . Estimation, Business meetings with IT, Product, QA

and System users

. Requirement feasibility and Product design

. Implemented procedure to store daily prices of various

index prices and

other new factors into system. Developed checks to

ensure validity &

correctness of Input feeds to Life70 system.

. Coding of various modules - Extensive batch & Online

screen

changes, allocation rules, edits on new elements, Online

Screen changes

. Development of Trading grid report - a new report to be

used by AXA

Hedging team for trade in options - which captures every

accounting

transaction on policy.

. Development of test plan

3) Athena UL Survivorship III - Day3 requirements

Role : Technical Lead Team Size : 3

Resources

Duration : Jan 2010 - April 2010

Technologies : COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest, File aid

Description : Athena Survivorship III was launched in mid 2008. The

project aim to

develop code for transactions which can happen on policy in 2nd year after

policy issue and leftover problems from Day1 and Day2.

Responsibilities . System analysis, coding and testing

. Status reporting and SOX requirement

4) Athena UL Survivorship III - Day2 requirements

Role : Technical Lead Team Size : 7

Resources

Duration : June 2009 - October 2009

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest, File aid

Description : Athena Survivorship III was launched in mid 2008. The

project aim was to

develop code for Day2 functionality viz. Loans, Withdrawals, Annual report,

Face amount decrease, Rider Termination, Accounting.

Responsibilities . Business meetings with IT, Product, QA for Annual

Report development

. Coding & testing of assigned mods

. Code review and oversee regression testing

. Defect tracking and prevention activitiesystem analysis,

coding and testing

. Status reporting and SOX requirement

5) Lights On Production Support team

Role : Team Member Team Size : 9 Resources

Duration : Jan 2009 - June 2009

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest,

File aid

Description : Lights on is responsible for maintaining all Problem

Tickets, Service Requests

Production Support and Reporting tasks. Additionally it handles small non

Billable projects. The Team strength is 9 (2 Onsite + 7 Offshore)..

Responsibilities . Preparation of Technical analysis doc

. Coding & testing of assigned problem report

. Code review and oversee regression testing

6) Athena UL LPR Series 149 - Day2

Role : Module Lead and Onsite Coordinator Team Size : 9

Resources

Duration : Aug 2008 - Dec 2008

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest,

File aid

Description : Athena UL LPR Series 149 brings with it benefits of

Traditional UL product

with a Lapse Protection Rider. All S149 policies have a fictitious Lapse

protection fund, which runs parallel to Policy Account Value. This

fictitious Lapse protection fund usually runs longer than Policy account

value, since no

policy admin charges are taken out of this fund and thus helps policy to

stay enforce longer. This project developed Day2 functionality viz. Loans,

Withdrawals, Annual report, Face amount decrease, Rider Termination,

Accounting. Premium payments directed to LPR fund are subject to excess

load in this project..

Responsibilities . Business meetings with IT, Product, QA

. Coding & testing of various mods - Annual Report, face

amount decrease, Excess load logic

. Code review and oversee regression testing

. Defect tracking and prevention activities

Other Significant Projects:

Technologies : Cobol, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Expeditor, Intertest,

File aid

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Educational Qualifications :

|12th |2000 |CBSE |DSPS, Karnal |80 |

|10th |1998 |CBSE |TBN, Karnal |76.2 |

Awards and achievements:

. Won "Employee of the Month" in CSC

. Completed LOMA-280, LOMA-290 certifications with high 90's percentage

. Received Certificate of Appreciation (COA) twice for work on 2 different

projects

Yogesh Arora

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