Rakhi Prasad
House No - ****/D, E-Mail: ******@*****.***
Second Floor, Mobile: 991-***-****
10th Main, First Cross,
Kodihalli,
Bangalore - 560008.
Objective: To obtain an active and dynamic position in an innovative
development environment as Software Engineer where I can use my expertise
for the potential growth of the organization and self.
Summary:
> Six years, 7 months of experience in IT industry, in Mainframes.
> Five years, 9 months of experience in Vision Plus.
Education:
> BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) from Dayanand Sagar College
of Management and Information Technology, Bangalore (Bangalore
University) in 2003 with 78%.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems MVS
Languages COBOL, JCL, CICS
Tools\Technologie Vision Plus, Endevor, Vsam, Control-M,
s File Aid
Functional Skills:
Management and Leading team effectively and have team
Leadership Skills building capabilities. Always take
initiative.
Training & Ability in building a team committed to
Development achieving the objectives by helping each
team member to give their best efforts.
Ability to organize, plan and motivate a
team of people.
Employment Summary:
Apr'05-Dec'10 Worked in Capgemini (previously Kanbay) as a
Consultant.
Jun'04-Apr'05 Worked For Mahindra British Telecom, Pune as
Junior Technical Associate
Training Programmes
. Cobol, IBM Utilities, DBMS, SQL, Software Engg, VV&T, CICS
From MBT
. Vision Plus Base I Training from Kanbay.
. Vision Plus Base II Training from Kanbay.
Project Details
PROJECT # 1: PROJECT GLOCARDS RBS MIGRATION
(May 2010 till December 2010)
ANZ currently has multiple cards platforms across Australia, NZ and Asia
Pacific, operating at various levels of maturity. ANZ Consumer Finance
Australia has investigated a project ('One Cards Platform for ANZ') to
consolidate all cards platforms across the regions onto one platform namely
Vision Plus.
GloCards RBS Migration stream is established as part of the GloCards group
programme.RBS Migration stream is aimed to move existing V+, Triad and
Falcon systems across from HP.
Client: ANZ Bank
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V+).
Team Size: 100
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
. Module coordination and management
. Delivery of Technical Spec, code and test
plan
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
Project # 2: Project Online Card Payment Security (OCPS)
(February 2010 till April 2010)
The project OCPS relates with the ANZ National's term for the 3-D Secure
protocol, which is an XML-based protocol used as an added layer of security
for online credit and debit card transactions .The protocol was developed
by Visa to improve the security of Internet payments and offered to
customers as the Verified by Visa service .OCPS allows authentication of
the payment cardholder by their card issuer when making purchases online
from a merchant's website.
Client: ANZ Bank
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V+).
Team Size: 1
Role: Team Lead
Responsibilities:
. Module coordination and management
. Reviews and delivery of Functional spec, Technical Spec, code and
test
plan
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
Project # 3: Project Doc (February 2009 till January 2010)
Worked at client side at ANZ, Bangalore as Systems Analyst.
Worked in project called Doc in which worked on LTS.
Client: ANZ Bank
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V+).
Team Size: 2
Role: Team Lead
Responsibilities:
. Module coordination and management
. Reviews and delivery of Technical Spec, code and test plan
. Technical Specs preparation
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
Project # 4: FDI 9.01 Release (September 2008 till January 2009)
In this release, the customisations will be done according to the
client specific on 8.31 Base Vision Plus.
Client: FDI
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V+).
Team Size: 20
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
. Module coordination and management
. Resource planning and scheduling
. Reviews and delivery of Technical Spec, code and test plan
. Understanding of Business Requirement and preparing Functional Specs
. Technical Specs preparation
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
Project # 5: Penguin (September 2007 till August 2008)
Penguin is an initiative to launch a dual card in V8.23g. Currently
all the card products of GE Australia are housed in V2.56. As this is
a old Version of Vision Plus and paysys has withdrawn its support for
V2.56, GE australia has decided to launch all its new products in
V8.23g. As V8.23g is to be setup from scratch, this was a challenging
project by nature.
Client: GE Money Australia and New
Zealand
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V+).
Team Size: 4
Role: Team Leader
Responsibilities:
. Module coordination and management
. Resource planning and scheduling
. Reviews and delivery of Technical Spec, code and test plan
. Understanding Functional Specs / Business Requirement
. Technical Specs preparation
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
. SIT Support
Project # 6: GE Money Tactical Projects (Sep 2006 till August 2007)
This Project mainly deals with multiple projects, which are less than 50
man days. Each individual will be solely responsible for his work request
through out the life cycle of the work request. The total life cycle of
software will be followed here viz... Receiving the functional spec from
the client, analysing the request/Problem, preparing the Technical Spec,
Coding, UTP, UTR, UAT Verification, Implementation Plan to implement in
Production and Production Support. The requests can be of any module and of
any function. The project has an onsite coordinator who will be a link
between the team at offshore and the client. The individual will give
estimates for the request before hand to the client and work will be
planned in such a way to deliver it in time to the business.
Client: GE Money Australia and New
Zealand
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V +).
Team Size: 10
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
. Understanding Functional Specs / Business Requirement
. Technical Specs preparation
. Programming, Reviews and Testing
. Onsite Communication
. UAT Support
. Implementation Support
Project # 7: Network International (January 2006 till August 2006)
Network International (NI) processes Emirates Bank International (EBI)
credit cards. NI has a requirement to enhance the current system of Vision
Plus to process instalment credit cards for two Banks EBI and FGB (FIRST
GULF BANK).
Network International also (NI) processes Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB)
credit cards. NI wants to convert entire ADCB credit cards portfolio from
their existing system to Vision PLUS application. With this they want some
new functionality to be added with the existing application.
Client: Network International, Dubai
Software/Architecture: COBOL, V+
Team Size: 14
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
. Scoping, Desinging, Developing, Testing and Implementing the new
functionalities to be added to the existing system.
Project # 8: Isys Customization (June 2005 to December 2005)
The Credit Card business of the Discover Financial Services is currently
processed by EXPERIAN. The current system Vision Plus 2.5 with Experian's
customizations is called GEMS (Global Experian Management System). After
being acquired by Morgan Stanley, Discover decided to migrate its credit
card processing to Vision Plus 8.18. This current project, involves the
analysis, design, conversion and final migration and implementation of GEMS
Credit Card Processing Application to V+ 8.18 along with all subsystems
(except MBS) and Interfaces.
Client: Discover Financial Services,
USA.
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, V +).
Team Size: 120
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
. Scoping, Desinging, Developing, Testing and Implementing the proposed
new system.
Project # 9: CSS (Customer Services System), (June 2004 to Apr 2005)
BT's Customer Services System (CSS) is the company's largest computing
system based on Mainframes. CSS manages all aspects of Customer service on
the Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN) from order capture through
issue and fault handling to work Management and billing. The Verification
Validation Testing (VVT) group works on comprehensively System Testing and
verification of the latest developed code.
Client: British Telecommunications, UK.
Software/Architecture: IBM Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, IDMS).
Team Size: 13 (Offshore- 12, Onsite - 1)
Role: Team Member
Responsibilities:
Understanding functional/technical requirements by investigating the
requirement specifications document. Preparation of System Test Plan,
Schedule and their tracking, Preparation of Project Management Reports in
Billing System of CSS.
Giving support to higher phases of Software Delivery like Integration
Testing, Pilot and Live.
Other Key Skills:
. Received an award for best performance.
. Good analytical skills.
. Can perform equally well in a team and individually.
. A very quick learner, Organized and well structured at work.
. Independent, Self-Motivated and Hard-Worker.
. Committed to deadlines and schedules.
Personal Details:
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Single
Languages Known : English, Hindi
Permanent Address : House No - 151,
Gujrat Colony Chas,
District - Bokaro,
Jharkhand - 827013.