Project Management

Thiruvelan Prembabu (Prem)

*********@*****.*** 925-***-**** (cell)

San Ramon (near San Francisco), CA.

PROFILE

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Results driven Senior Applications developer manager with proven ability in

the support of mainframe applications and implementing new technologies on

IBM mainframe.

Recognized as a customer focused team player with strong written/oral

communication skills coupled with technical and problem solving skills.

Proven track record of managing and delivering projects of ETL type data

extract/access, transform, load and report applications and Security IT

audit compliance to ensure that the business goals are achieved.

Extensive experience in development and support of applications in a

heterogeneous environment that includes IBM mainframe (MVS) Z/OS and RS6000

AIX(UNIX).

Accomplished in the areas of application development, maintenance and

enhancement of application software, data manipulation, analysis and

reporting using SAS, product evaluations, design and implementation of APIs

for emerging technologies, technical management of on-shore and off-shore

projects and on-call support.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- Develop and implement business applications using CICS, IDMS and DB2 on

MVS platform

- Provide consultation and code review for developer on usage of APIs

and models

- Perform data analysis and reporting using SAS, SAS Macro, Proc SQL and

SAS ODS.

* SAS Certification - Base Programming *

* SAS Certification - Advanced Programming *

- Development of auto processes for IT Audit requirement compliance Web

self services

- Perform applications software support and enhancements; 24X7 on-call.

- Technical Project management of on-shore and off-shore teams - self

directed team player

- Consultation and Train new hires & developers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

American President Lines (APL) Ltd. Oakland, CA 1988 - Oct 2009

$9 Billion - Global Container Shipping Company with over 10,000 employees.

Responsible for the corporate mainframe application infrastructure of APL.

Maintained and enhanced the complex COBOL, IDMS, SAS, ADSO and Assembler

based application that manages the integration and interactions of

applications implemented in CICS, IDMS-DC, ADSO, IDMS DB, DB2 and Walker

Financials on IBM Z/OS (MVS) mainframe platform.

Designed, developed, tested, implemented and maintained many business

related applications using full SDLC methodology with created/updated

proper user documentations.

Performed Technical project management role on many projects including SAS

software, involved with many off-shore and on-shore teams providing 24 x 7

on-call support and the required user trainings.

Senior Application Developer (2003 - 2009)

. Designed, developed and implemented mainframe Identity management

Security framework projects to streamline the management of user ids

and improve the process audit. The benefits of these projects include

resource savings, improvement of the environment security and

compliance of internal IT audits.

o Designed, developed and implemented mainframe Security database

data analysis and reporting to clean the data discrepancy using

SAS, SAS macro, ODS, Proc SQL, DB2 and JCL resulting quality

security data, access privileges, clear user/group roles and

responsibilities.

o Designed, developed and implemented auto processes for mainframe

ACF2 user id and password management using MQ series, SAS macro,

SAS SQL, Proc report, JES, MVS JCL and CICS COBOL. This included

the ability for the user to update, grant/revoke access as a self-

service function from the web. Achieved quality improvement on

security authentication and authorization, reduction in response

time from days to minutes and reduction on costs previously

incurred by the support/helpdesk to manage these functions.

o Created and implemented data analysis and reporting of very large

mainframe data of online CICS transactions response time details

using Base SAS, SAS macro, SAS ODS, Excel, Email and CICS. This

enabled identifying the problem and helped to improve the

performance by 15% across many applications.

. Developed and implemented automated system to audit user access grants

and cross reference database view/update of user and role based model-

set access as IT audit compliance project using IDMS, COBOL and CICS.

This project provided valuable access grant audit data to IT auditors

and Security team.

. Maintained and enhanced various company's systems, applications,

transactions, programs, maps and etc components automatic cross

reference datasets and reports using CICS, SAS macro, PROC SQL, JES,

COBOL and MVS JCL. These cross references improved visibility of

infrastructure application and improved the performance and quality of

developers while developing business applications.

Application Developer (1998 - 2002)

. Participated in development and implementation of a mainframe adapter

architecture using IBM CICS Gateway and IBM MQ Series to provide

integration of legacy OS/390 based applications with J2EE platform

hosted on AIX (Unix). The project enabled the company to provide many

self-service functionality via APL's award-winning internet site.

. Industrialized the usage of APL's file transfer software CONNECT :

DIRECT (NDM). Created various models, templates and Unix scripts to

provide standardized methods of transferring files between and within

IBM mainframes and RS6000 machines. This benefited many developers to

quickly use the software instead of non-standard FTP.

. Performed a key role in APL's Year 2000 project by providing SAS

software technical support to analyze Y2K compliance and changes. Acted

as the liaison between the Architecture team and the Y2K Team. Provided

guidance and recommendations on techniques for resolving the

application issues

Senior Systems Analyst (1991 - 1997)

. Enhanced report architecture and faxing infrastructure using IDMS,

COBOL and JCL to support increasing usage due to APL merger with NOL

which prevented costly system and database changes.

. Performed technical team lead role in migration/conversion of 6 major

applications from ADS/O and IDMS-DC COBOL to CICS COBOL.

o Enhanced code conversion tool for migrating code from IDMS DC to

CICS.

o Coordinated testing, performance review and implementation

activities of onshore and offshore teams, including CICS systems

and application developers.

. Performed analytical interpretation, manipulation and reporting of

large online CICS transaction processing data using SAS, SAS Graph and

PROC reporting tools to identify problematic high CPU intense

transactions. This analysis was communicated to the Migration project

sponsors, senior management and application team to improve the

performance of converted code acceptable level.

Systems Analyst (1988 - 1990)

. Provided support and enhancement of Eastbound load system, APL's core

business applications and special projects like Dangerous & Hazardous,

BL number expansion and Shipment/BL consolidation, inventory data

online reporting using IDMS, COBOL, SAS, JCL, VSAM, MVS and ISPF.

UNISYS LDD Ltd. Sunnyvale, CA 1986 - 1987

Large Disk Drive manufacturing division - Subsidy of Unisys Corporation.

. Developed and supported reporting and forecasting sub-systems for the

core MRP Manufacturing system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology/Methodology Applications development, SAS data access,

analysis and reporting,

Project Management, IT Security framework and

Technical leadership

Languages COBOL, Base SAS, SAS Macro, PROC SQL, SAS

ODS, REXX, XML

TP Monitors CICS, IDMS-DC, ADS/O

Tools/Libraries IBM MQ Series, Endevor, SAR, CONNECT: DIRECT

(NDM), VPS, VTAM,

SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, ISPF Dialog, MVS JCL, PROC,

ACF2, JES2,

BMS, OLM, CA-7, Fileaid, Syncsort, Smarttest and

IBM utilities

DBMS IDMS-DB, DB2, VSAM

Applications Microsoft Excel, Word, Power point, Outlook,

Visio

Hardware IBM ES 9000/Z series, RS6000, Windows PC/Server

O/S IBM Z/OS (MVS), AIX (Unix), Windows 95/NT

EDUCATION

. Two years Computer Systems Training (in Computer Science department),

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India.

. M. S., in Mathematics, Loyola College, University of Madras,

India.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and CERTIFICATION

. SAS Certification - Advanced Programming for SAS 9, 2010

. SAS Certification - Base Programming for SAS 9, 2010

. IBM MQ Series MVS/ESA System Administration, 2006

. DB2/SQL Application Programming, 1992

. Effective oral communication, UC Berkeley, 1991

. CICS Advanced Programming Techniques, 1991

. Effective Written communication, 1990

. CICS Command Level Programming, 1990

. SAS Basics for Developers, 1987

. IDMC-DC/UCF Application Development, 1986

AWARDS

. Individual Achievement Award for preventing BL/Shipment data loss

during natural disaster.

. Two Team Achievement Awards for CICS Migration/Conversion and CPU usage

improvement.

NOTES

. US Citizen; with more than 23 years of mainframe experience.

. Willing to move closer to the client/work site, if required

. Willing to do face-to-face interview with the client/employer

. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

. Pro-active, self directed, independent study, team player

. Customer focused, technical trouble shooter with full SDLC

experience

. Excellent 'Recommendations' by previous job colleagues, peers and

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