Software Engineer Sales
Resume:
Neelu Soni
**********@*****.***
Summary
Delivering project management expertise, along with unsurpassed business analysis and application
design, architecture, development, testing and implementation proficiencies, to organizations seeking a
dynamic, self motivated professional to build winning partnerships that produce exceptional results. Over
10 years of experience in Software development life cycle with emphasis on:
Online and Batch application development using CICS, VS COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Endevor,
SCLM, File Manager, File Aid, Platinum, Intertest Batch, Intertest Online, Xpeditor Batch, Xpeditor
CICS, FOCUS, QMF, RMDS, SQL Server, Oracle, Essbase, SmartTest, SmartEdit, Java, J2EE,
VB, ASP, JSP, XML, HTML, UML with Rational Rose, and MS Visio.
Onsite – offshore models of communication
Ability to lead developers to develop clean, maintainable and efficient code and coordinate with
clients to analyze business requirements.
Domain Knowledge in Sales and Inventory, Insurance: Claims/Policy Processing, Finance:
Trading and Investment.
Awards and Recognition:
IBM Certified DB2 9 Associate.
Oracle 11g: A comprehensive Hands On Introduction Course (Learning Tree International).
Orion Award for Outstanding Performance (In CGI).
Brain Bench certified Programmer: COBOL, DB2, MVS, CICS, JCL, OO Concepts, RDBMS
Concepts and SQL Fundamentals.
Technical Skills
Domain Mainframes
MVS, Windows NT/95/98/XP/2000, UNIX, LINUX.
Operating
Systems:
CICS, VS COBOL, COBOL 74, PL/SQL, JCL, VSAM, FOCUS, Java
Languages:
RDBMS: DB2 9, MS Access 97/00, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server 2000/2005
TSO, ISPF, Eclipse, VB IDE, HTML, JSP, ASP
IDE & Web Tech:
Application Tools: Endeavor, SCLM, File Manager, File Aid, QMF, Intertest Online, Intertest
Batch, SAVERS, SPUFI, Xpeditor Batch, Xpeditor Online, BMS Macros,
SDF, Platinum, SmartTest, SmartEdit, CA11, Guidewire Claimcenter,
MQSeries, GTB, Essbase 11, JIRA, TRANMAN, PODS, SCAR, StorQM,
Socrates
ERP/CRM Peoplesoft
Professional Experience
Organization Designation Duration
Bank of America AVP Nov 2007 till date
Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Senior Application Developer March 2007 to Oct 2007
@ Inherent Technologies
CGI Information Systems and Senior Software Engineer Oct 2004 to Feb 2007
Management Consultant
Concourse Information Solutions Software Engineer Sept 2002 to Feb 2004
Barbari Softwares Software Developer Jan 2000 to Aug 2002
Education
Master of Information Technology (2 years course) from DAVV University, India.
Bachelors of Computer Science (3 Years course) from DAVV University, India.
Projects Undertaken
Name: VSAM to DB2 Conversion: Firm Trading System
Client: Bank of America, Jacksonville FL
Role: AVP
Duration: Jan 2010 thru Dec 2010
Environment: DB2, VS COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Platinum, SmartTest, SmartEdit, FileAid, Endevor,
SPUFI, QMF, CA11, GTB, Intertest Batch, Intertest Online, Xpditer Batch, Xpediter Online, BMS Macros,
SDF, MQ Series, UNICENTER, TRANMAN, DCAR, STORQM, JIRA, PODS, Socrates, Essbase 11,
Oracle 11g, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Java, Data dictionary Tool
Scope: Involves developing modules that use the new DB2 database instead of legacy VSAM datasets
to keep track of Firm's Inventory Positions and maintain them on daily, monthly and yearly basis, allows
Inventory to be marked to market using prices from ML's Trading systems, market values to be fed to the
other external systems and to be used daily for Departmental chargeback, production credits to be
tracked and firm trading activity to be captured, numerous Management Reports tracking P&L, ageing of
inventory, and risk exposure to be produced. This effort involves elimination of the discrepancies in FTS
system due to old file system in place, increasing the usability of the online screens and enhancement of
performance of the system.
Responsibilities:
Analyzing the impact of requirements on the firm trading system and other internal and
external systems that are linked to it and transforming the requirements into functional
specifications for development and implementation and preparing technical design specification
document.
Designing and developing the database required to replace the VSAM data structures.
Defining the meta data
Communicating with various data center groups to get the database build and running.
Creating, testing and implementing data ware housing, database recovery and backup.
Designing, developing, reviewing and delivering the requirements .
Creating, loading and unloading data into test environment, p reparing Test Plans, test cases
and testing the application.
Creating implementation packages and coordinating the release.
Analyzing and resolving issues for daily and monthly batch cycles of system to ensure
consistent ongoing availability of Production Environment
Schedule periodic meetings with the client to ensure the business case and objectives are
clearly defined, kept current, and met.
Schedule periodic meetings with internal and external technology teams to ensure accurate
and complete project specifications in adherence to business specifications.
Publish periodic status reports to inform of project status and to alert interested parties of
potential issues that may impact implementation dates.
Name: Firm Trading System (Application Development/Production Support)
Client: Bank of America, Jacksonville FL
Role: AVP
Duration: Nov 2007 thru Dec 2009
Environment: DB2, VS COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Platinum, SmartTest, SmartEdit, FileAid, Endevor,
SPUFI, QMF, CA11, GTB, Intertest Batch, Intertest Online, Xpditer Batch, Xpediter Online, BMS Macros,
SDF, MQ Series, UNICENTER, TRANMAN, DCAR, STORQM, JIRA, PODS, Socrates, Essbase 11,
Oracle 11g
Scope: Involves developing modules that keep track of Firm's Inventory Positions and maintain them on
daily, monthly and yearly basis, allows Inventory to be marked to market using prices from ML's Trading
systems, market values to be fed to the other external systems and to be used daily for Departmental
chargeback, production credits to be tracked and firm trading activity to be captured, numerous
Management Reports tracking P&L, ageing of inventory, and risk exposure to be produced.
Responsibilities:
Analyzing the impact of requirements on the firm trading system and other internal and
external systems that are linked to it and transforming the requirements into functional
specifications for development and implementation and preparing technical design specification
document.
Designing, developing and delivering the requirements.
Creating, loading and unloading data into test environment, p reparing Test Plans, test cases
and testing the application. Creating implementation packages and coordinating the release.
Act as a liaison with GTI to address, on an ongoing basis, infrastructure maintenance and
data center mandated initiatives.
Analyzing and resolving issues for daily and monthly batch cycles of system
Manage Adhoc requests
Name: Claims Administration Solutions – Claims Reporting
Client: Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance, Louisville KY
Role: Senior Application Developer
Duration: Jul 2007 thru Oct 2007
Environment: DB2, VS COBOL, CICS, JCL, Xpeditor, SCLM, SPUFI, SAVERS, UML, Visio 2002,
Guidewire Claimcenter, Java, WSDL
Scope: Involves replacement of existing system to take data from Web application and feed into the
Claims Reporting. Involves analysis of existing functionality, designing of new intermediate staging tables
to store data retrieved from new claims system and developing a mechanism to translate and map the
data from these staging tables into existing claims reporting tables.
Responsibilities:
Coordinating with the client team to analyze the key business requirements .
Analyzing the impact of requirements on the existing claims reporting system and other linked
internal and external systems, creating functional specifications and technical design specification
document.
Designing, developing and delivering the requirements, preparing test plans, test cases and
creating and using test data for testing.
Coordinating with Java Integration team to fetch the data into claims reporting system.
Name: Claims Administration Solutions – Conversion Status Utility, County Split, Stop Pay and
Loss cause code enhancements
Client: Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance, Louisville KY
Role: Senior Application Developer
Duration: Mar 2007 thru Jun 2007
Environment: CICS, DB2, VS COBOL, JCL, Xpeditor, SCLM, SPUFI, SAVERS, UML, Visio 2002,
FOCUS, VSAM, WSDL
Scope: Conversion status utility i nvolves developing code that allows status change of claim branches,
loss occurrence or agency and for other online systems to call this utility. County Split involves creating
extracts using data from VSAM files and matching them on DB2 table to identify the associated new agent
numbers. Stop pay involves enhancing the existing functionality to read data from VSAM files and create a
daily extract and remove the FTP file. Loss cause code involves changing system to allow conversion of
numeric cause code to alphanumeric values and to accept new alphanumeric codes.
Responsibilities:
Coordinating with the client team to analyze the key business requirements .
Performing feasibility analysis of the requirements, creating technical specification
documents, designing, developing and delivering the requirements, preparing test plans, test
cases and creating and using test data for testing.
Coordinating with Java Integration team to allow the system to call the conversion status
utility using WSDL.
Name: ARROW Electronics – FOCUS Enhancements
Client: ARROW Electronics, Inc. NY
Role: Module Lead/Team Lead
Duration: Jan 2006 thru Feb 2007
Environment: CICS, DB2, VS COBOL, JCL, VSAM, FOCUS, Intertest, Endeavor, QMF, FM, SAVERS,
ASP, VB
Scope: Involves creation of new FOCUS extracts to store FOCUS data, creation of FOCUS source
request to retrieve and load data into the new extracts, enhancements and maintenance of existing
FOCUS extracts and maintaining FOCUS reports that use the FOCUS extracts.
Responsibilities:
Coordinating with the client team to analyze the key business requirements .
Analyzing the impact of requirements on the existing FOCUS, SUBIT and RMDS reports and
estimating the module effort requirements.
Creating functional specifications document s, designing, developing, testing and
implementation of application, preparing and performing testing according to test plans and defect
resolution.
Analyzing and resolving production support issues
Transferring knowledge to the offshore team while working with the client at onshore .
Name: ARROW Electronics Sales and Inventory Desktop
Client: ARROW Electronics, Inc. NY
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Duration: Oct 2004 thru Dec 2005
Scope: Involves development of new screen and enhancement of existing Sales and Inventory Desktop
for enabling AP and NA users to have a complete view of the possible coverage of open order quantity for
a particular sales order line including on hand quantity and scheduled purchase orders quantity
(SODDSOMP Screen Enhancement) and inclusion of all delay time factors existing in shipment date
calculation for ARROW Electronics shipment process (Ship date Enhancement). It also involves
enhancement in existing user interfaces, creation of Backlog database and its online maintenance. New
batch reports and support backup data files for Sales, Credits and Bills of Material for Cost of Goods Sold
are generated (COGS Report Generation and Incremental Report Enhancement).
Environment: CICS, DB2, VS COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Intertest, Endeavor, QMF, FM, Visio, Peoplesoft,
MQSeries, ASP, VB, XML
Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements, preparing the Technical Design specification, d esigning and
developing new screens and enhancing existing user interfaces to incorporate enhancements
Creating Test plans and test cases for testing, testing application and Defect Resolution.
Analyzing and resolving production support issues.
I hereby declare that above mentioned information is true to best of my knowledge. Supportive documents
can be provided on demand.
Neelu Soni
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