Project Manager
Resume:
SHASHIDHAR G.C
Ph. No: 860-***-**** (Res)
309-***-**** (Cell)
************@*****.***
Experience
. Twelve plus years of total IT Experience in application development as
IBM Mainframe Analyst/ Sr Programmer / Developer and also as a team
coordinator. Extensive experience as leading multiple projects in
onshore-offshore model and participated in all the implementation of
systems during the career, leading clients through complex system
conversions.
. Industry experience includes Utilities, Insurance, Retail
. Strong Analytical, Programming, Communication and leadership skills
. Well acquainted with System Analysis, Design, Programming, Testing and
support, all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
. Having vast experience in Migration / Implementation of code from test
(unit) environments to Demo (QA) and finally to Production
environments.
. Experienced in analysis of application development making
recommendations to enhance system performance and software
architecture. Efficiently coordinated with various team members and
stakeholders in order to drive successful results.
. Expert in leading projects with good written and verbal skills. Strong
focus on end uses needs. Strong experience in handling multiple
projects simultaneously.
. Have Motivation to take independent responsibility as well as ability
to contribute and manage to be productive in reaching goals for the
Team.
. Experience with all the phases of project development life cycle
including analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation &
maintenance.
. Worked for major Insurance clients like The Hartford, United Health
Group, American Insurance Group,Axa Insurance, Allied Insurance &
banks like Bank of America.
. Strong Knowledge on mainframe applications using COBOL, PL/1, DB2,
CICS, Ideal, Datacom, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, JCL and Expeditor, Control-M
. Expert in leading projects with good written and verbal skills
. Possess working knowledge of XML, Websphere, IIS, UNIX Shell
Scripting, Rational Rose Tools, Telecom Protocols, C
. Have motivation to take independent responsibility as well as ability
to contribute and manage to productive in reaching goals for the Team
. Ability to work well with users and understand the requirements.
. Possess Leadership qualities and ability to mentor a large team.
. Well versed with all quality standards of CMM Level 5.
Education and IT Training:
. BS (Computer Science, Bangalore University, India).
. Attended Corporate CMM Quality Standards training.
. Undergone Project Leadership qualities program
. 2-day workshop on Six Sigma Training.
. Preparatory Work Shop on PMI.
. 1 day Program on Account Management
Technical Skills:
Operating : Windows NT, Unix, MS-DOS, MVS/ESA, OS/400,
System
Languages : COBOL, C, PL/1, SQL, JCL, COBOL/400, CL /400, REXX
, CLIST
Tools & other : Cics, Vsam, TSO /ISPF, Telon, Expeditor, JCL, File
s/w Aid for IMS/DB2, PVCS, MFE, QMF, Endevor, Spufi,
MF-Revolve, BMC Remedy, HP Quality Center, BMC
Catalog Manager for DB2,
Utilities : : TSO / ISPF, VSAM, FILE AID, XPEDITOR
TSO / ISPF,
VSAM, FILE AID,
XPEDITOR
Front End : CICS
Middleware : MQ Series, CICS Gateway
Databases : DB2, IMS DB,
EXPERIENCE
Employer: Wipro Limited, USA
Client: The Hartford
Mainframe Developer
Mar 2007 - till Date
Project: Sky Auto Policy Admin
Founded in 1810, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG) is
one of the largest investment and insurance companies based in the United
States. The Hartford was ranked 88th on the 2005 Fortune 100 list. The
Hartford is a leading provider of investment products - annuities, mutual
funds, college savings plans - as well as life insurance, group and
employee benefits, automobile and homeowners' insurance, and business
insurance.
Sky Program is a development project which deals with replacing of current
Legacy Auto Policy Admin system with Exceed product. This program is based
on Onshore/Offshore model and planned date of deployment to production is
March 2010.
This project also involves integrating other existing Internet applications
with Core Policy Admin System which is mainframe based application.
There are webservices like Current carrier & Billing Projection & Payment
which are intergrated with Mainframe Host.API Contracts are signed for
Request & Response messages and invocation of webservices is through BPEL
to create SOAP Requests/Response for data exchange between Webservices and
Mainframe applications.
Roles & Responsibilities
1. Analyzed the system for the functionality required and interacting
with the business end users in gathering the requirements
2. Actively attended the review meetings with the business end users in
preparing the Tech design document.
3. Working with the project team (Located off-shore) to implement the
change including code development, peer reviews and preparation of
test data and execution of the test.
4. Coding programs in COBOL and DB2, IMS DB as databases
5. Creating the new JCL's and PROC's for the new batch programs
6. Involved in designing the modification of the existing tables and
creating new DB2 tables. Extracting the data and populating the new
DB2 tables
7. Coordinating the Testing process between the users and the team
8. Working with Off-shore and On-site model on multiple tasks by
interacting with off-shore team on daily basis
9. Provide resolution for any technical issues during different phase of
the project
10. Provide/Coordinate/Facilitate solution to a problem (Design,
Development, Testing, Environment)
11. Involved in weekly Client Status meeting.
12. Monitor Development & Testing
13. Involved in Defect Management for different Phases of testing.
14. Coordinating/Facilitating RCN (Requirement Change Notification)
Environment: Cobol, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Xpeditor, DB2, IMS DB, DC,MVS/ESA,
TSO/ISPF
Websphere Application Server, XML, ACORD, IIS, Websphere,
MQ Series, Stored Procedures,
SOAP Rq/Rs, Webservices WSDL
Employer: Wipro Limited, USA
Client: The Hartford
Mainframe Developer
Oct 2005 - March 2007
Project: PLA Home Owners Application
Founded in 1810, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG) is
one of the largest investment and insurance companies based in the United
States. The Hartford was ranked 88th on the 2005 Fortune 100 list. The
Hartford is a leading provider of investment products - annuities, mutual
funds, college savings plans - as well as life insurance, group and
employee benefits, automobile and homeowners' insurance, and business
insurance.
The Project is about Maintenance & Major Enhancements to PLA Homeowners
Application.
Roles & Responsibilities
. Actively attended the meetings and interacting with the system / Business
users for the requirements
. Analyzing the system for the functionality required as per the
requirements and involved in the preparation of initial requirement
documentation
. Prepared the final Tech design document for the Business users.
. Involved in Coding Conditional Programs for each state based on
requirements using Toolbox and Startool.
. Created reports for business users using COBOL, SQL and DB2 as back-end.
. Involved the with the business end users Testing process.
. IBM utilities like IEBBGENER, IEBCOMPR and IEFB14 were used in JCL's.
. Responsible for the migration of code from the Testing environment to QA
and Production Environments.
Environment: VS-COBOL II, DB2, SQL, ENDEVOR, Telon, Toolbox, Startool,
JCL, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF,
OS/390, MS-Word, Windows 2k, MS-Word, MS-Excel
Employer: Wipro Limited
Client: Dun & Bradstreet
Mainframe Developer
Aug 2004 - Oct 2006
Project: Match Data Mart Application
D&B is the leading provider of global business information tools, and
insight, has enabled customers to decide with Confidence for over 160
years. Wipro is currently catering to D&B needs across its IT applications
both in terms of Production Support & Maintenance activities. One of the
applications currently being supported involves 24/7 production support and
catering to any enhancements requests. A project is being initiated to
automate & redesign the entire application to improve upon the execution
life cycle time & to optimize the usage of DASD space, CPU time, Automation
of the application etc.,
Roles & Responsibilities
15. Actively involved in design and analysis of population and
synchronization
16. Analyzed the system for the functionality required as per the
requirements and involved in the preparation of requirement
documentation.
17. Actively attended the review meetings and interacting with the system
users for the requirements
18. Identifying the Programs affected by the expansion and increasing the
size of the data field involving the flat files.
19. Re-written the effected Sort's due to Expanding the record size of the
flat files used for input and output for JCL's.
20. Converted the Easytrieve Programs to COBOL Programs by using JCL
utility
21. Written COBOL DB2 Stored Procedures and also SQL Stored Procedures by
using IBM DB2 Stored Procedure Builder.
22. Loading data to DB2 by extracting Terradata and by using DB2 Utilities
like Fastload.
23. Generating reports by using Queryman from Terradata and converting
them into flat files to load into DB2.
24. Involved in developing new Programs using MQSeries for data transfer
by reading Queue's on Mainframes and writing on to Mainframes and AIX
Box.
25. File-aid was used to browse VSAM files and DB2 Tables.
26. Created new on-line CICS Screens using SDF II for store Guest
Services.
27. IBM utilities like IEBBGENER, IEBCOPY,IEBCOMPR,IDCAMS, IEFB14 were
used in JCL's
28. Responsible for the migration of code from the Testing environment to
Demo and Production Environments
29. Documented the jobs for the final approval and functionality
Environment: VS-COBOL II, Easytrieve, CICS, DB2, Terradata, SQL, IBM DB2
Stored Procedure Builder, MQ-Series, File-Aid, SDF II, Queryman, JCL, VSAM,
MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, OS/390, Panvalet, MS-Word, Windows 2k
Employer: Accenture Private Services, USA
Client: United Health Group
Developer
March 2003 - August 2004
Project: PRIME Admin Application
The Project deals with Client's Small Group Business accounts. The Project
dealt with Production Support for PRIME Applications. This deals with
handling batch jobs and Case Installation, Maintenance and Administration
of Prime Policies. The List of activities includes the Primary On call
Support for Batch jobs and the Service Requests raised through Peregriene
tool. The requests are categorized into the Severity levels which ranges
from 1-4. PRIME Application has total of 14 sub applications.
Role
. Was involved in leading a team of people in Production Support team.
. Handling a team of 15 people for Onsite and Offshore Model.
. Looking into the Quality related activites, Metrics Collection
. Technically guiding the Team members for production issues for
temporary fixes and root cause analysis for permanent code fixes.
. Coordination with End Business Users and the Client for prioritizing
of the issues for resolution.
. Monitor Development & Testing.
. Involved in developing, testing of Screenless IMS DC Programs.
Environment: Cobol, IMS DB, DC, Rexx, Clist, Z/OS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File
Aid, QMF
Employer: Polaris Software Labs
Client: American Insurance Group
Team Leader
May 2002 - March 2003
Polaris is catering to AIG needs in Enhancements and Production Support for
their Annuity Business.
I am currently involved in leading a team of 6 people (Offshore team) for
Production Support. This project is based on an Offshore and Onsite model.
The Service requests raised by the end users are off loaded to offshore
team and to meet the deadlines set by the users for the completion of the
Service Requests.
Critical & time constraint SR's are to be handled by the Onsite team. We
are in the process of having the on call support to be done from Offshore.
Role
Was involved in leading a team of people in Production Support team.
Maintaining the quality procedures related to the project. Assigning work
to team members, prioritizing the work and to monitor and track the work.
Co-ordination with the Onsite team, talking to the Users directly from
offshore incase of Queries obtained by the team members.
Environment: Cobol, IMS DB, DC, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File Aid, QMF, EasyTrieve,
CA-7
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Client: AXA Insurance Germany
Team Leader
April 2002 - May 2002
This was a pilot project being executed for client called AXA Insurance in
Germany. The scope of the project is to re engineer unstructured cobol
programs into a well documented and structured cobol as per the guidelines
set by the client. The main challenge of this project was to interpret the
client documents and interactions which are in German into equivalent
English one. There was not test environment or test cases given by the
client and the project duration was very less. The cobol with IMS calls had
to be restructured well, tested and delivered to the client. The client is
very happy with the work and we are expecting a big chunk of work from the
client, which will involve re engineering, migration of applications into
Z/OS operating system.
Role
Was involved in handling of quality documents. Was involved in preparing
the strategy document of the project process and also with client
interactions. Took Initiative in handling of complex cobol programs
conversion and setting up the test environment and preparation of test
cases. Is now in the process of writing a REXX routine to keep to automate
the conversion process to atleast 30% of manual work.
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Client: Allied Insurance Systems
Team Member
Jan 2002 - March 2002
This project is a migration of IMS database to DB2 database. It is still in
the pilot phase and the initial study and inventory phase is over. We are
in the process of preparing a Mapping document of IMS segments and fields
into corresponding DB2 tables and Columns. I have written a REXX routine,
which does atleast 30% of the conversion process of IMS to DB2.
Role
Currently involved in preparing the cookbook for migration of IMS to DB2
Database. Setting up the environment
And involving in Inventory Analysis. Rexx routines are developed which will
reduce the manual work of conversion and other inventory analysis work.
Planning to migrate some of the clients IMS programs into equivalent DB2
calls and testing the programs with the results of IMS and DB2 calls.
Environment: Cobol, IMS DB, DC, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File Aid, QMF
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Client: Bank of America
Team Member
Aug 2001 - Jan 2002
Project: Global Banking System
The Global Banking System (GBS) is comprised of a number of integrated
systems on IBM compatible mainframes, which provide on-line banking
services for branches during business hours through a worldwide network of
terminals. It also provides automated links between departmental functions,
branch processing, the telecommunications network and corporate customers.
Payments, Funds Transfer and Accounting are main sub-systems. IMS DB/DC,
COBOL390, JCL, VAX/ VMS and MVS are currently used by this system.
Role
The work involved in working at the client's place for the said duration
above. Involved in Maintenance, enhancements and development of new
programs. Quality procedures were followed based on the Clients CMM
procedures. Had to sometime work to co-ordinate the work done in London
with Users of Clients branches based in South America.
Environment: Cobol, IMS DB, DC, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File Aid, QMF
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
Aug 2000 - April 2001
Project: Bluetooth L2CAP Protocol Stack
Bluetooth is a de-facto open standard for short-range digital radio. It is
designed to operate in the unlicensed ISM band.Bluetooth can replace
cables. It supports voice as well as data. There are four basic parts to
any Bluetooth system: a radio (RF) that receives and transmits data and
voice, a baseband, link management software and supporting application
software.
This Project involves developing the L2CAP Protocol Stack of the BLUETOOTH
wireless technology. This protocol supports higher-level protocol
multiplexing, packet segmentation and reassembly, and the conveying of
quality of service information. This layer resides in the data link layer.
The simulation of higher layer and lower layers of L2CAP layer is simulated
by using message-based interfaces. For testing purposes GUI's will be
developed for the user level interaction with the L2cap layer code.
ROLE
Was involved in the design of l2cap layer of the bluetooth stack and also
coding some of the modules and testing and quality procedures.
Environment: JAVA, C, UNIX, Shell scripting
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
March 2000 - August 2000
Project: EPOC Development
Involved in the design and development and implementation of SNMP
application on EPOC devices. The application consists of two modules,
Manager and Agent. The Manager runs on the hand held device and passes SNMP
requests to the Agent. The Agents which remains active constantly responds
to the Manager's request. It looks similar to the SNMP prototype. UML
notation was used to represent the class diagrams.
ROLE
Designed and implemented the sample Agents for use in the projects. Also
worked on the manager side developing the data structures used to store the
details of different agents. This internal project had standards of CMM
specifications and was involved in the quality procedures
Environment: C, EPOC Symbian, JAVA, VC++
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
March 1999 - March 2000
Client: European Financial Data Services (UK)
This project work was executed on behalf of DSQ to the above client in
London.The project was mainly a financial package, which was developed in a
client server technology. The project works with C++ as the front end and
the back end was AS/400.Most of the unit trust companies in London uses
this package and job of EFDS was to provide the services to the client. The
languages used were COBOL, SQL and C++ the backend had around 1,000 cobol
programs and the system was very complex to understand.
Role
The work involved in support team at the client's place and mainly involved
in fixing up the bugs according to the queries raised from the users.
Involved even in development of new programs at times.
Environment: AS/400, SQL/400, CL/400, Cobol/400, RPG
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
June 1998 - Feb 1999
Client: SOFTLAB (AT&T) UK
Executed for Soft lab (a sister concern of AT&T), UK. It consists of two
applications namely (LMF- Land Rover Master File Maintenance) & (CMR -
Reject & Defect System). LMF consists of 30 COBOL Programs & 12 PL/I pgms.
CMR consists of around 183 programs, which are PL/I, and around 50 COBOL
pgms. The main challenge for this project is it involves a lot of IMS
Databases, which are tested in MF WORKBENCH. Conversion of all the Programs
are over & Testing is going on. The technique that is involved is sliding
window technique.
ROLE
Was responsible for Analysis, Conversion & Review of the Programs. Written
a number of Rexx routines for the project, which has cut the manual Labour
to great extent. Responsible for testing of all the programs both non IMS
related & IMS related Programs. Also responsible for giving training for
other team members regarding the strategy to be followed for the project
work.
ENVIRONMENT : COBOL, PL/I, IMS on ES 9000
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
May 1998 - Jun 1998
Client: BOEING (USA)
Executed Y2K Conversion for Boeing, UK, following the File Expansion
Technique. There are two systems, TIMS and MILS. It is an inventory
management system, which maintains the inventory of Boeing product. There
are two phases in which we have to deliver analysis report and converted
code to the client. There are 145 programs in Phase I and 183 programs in
Phases II got impacted. Expansion as well as Windowing logic was used in
this project as required by the client. Phase I onsite testing was over
and Phase II testing is going on.
ROLE
Was responsible for Impact Analysis, Conversion, Review, Documentation and
attending conference calls with the client regarding upto date issues and
clarifications. Also responsible for preparing conversion document,
preparing weekly status report etc.
ENVIRONMENT: HP-COBOL, MF-REVOLVE on WINDOWS / NT and IBM ES/9000, MVS,
ESA.
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
Mar 1998 - May 1998
Client INGERSOLL RAND (MELROE)
Executed for Ingersoll Rand - Melroe, USA. This project involved analysis,
review, code conversion using compression logic. The actual system which
the client using is Honey Bull. Using Revolve Tool, we are doing base line
estimation and analysis and review. Code conversion will be in Mainframe.
There are 73 programs and 375 copybooks, from these 73 programs all the
programs got impacted by date field.
ROLE
As a Team Leader, was responsible for base line estimation, conversion
strategy, preparing project-related documents, assigning works to team
Members etc. Also responsible for communication with client regarding
issues and other related functionality.
ENVIRONMENT: MF-REVOLVE, REXX on WINDOWS / NT and IBM ES/9000, MVS, ESA.
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
Dec 1997 - March 1998
Client: Toyo Information Systems
Executed for TIS, Japan. The project involved migration of HP-COBOL
(under HP9000-Unix) to MF-COBOL (under AIX/RS6000). The programs were
analyzed and a tool was developed in MF-COBOL, which would convert HP-COBOL
to MF-COBOL. The programs are compiled in RS6000 AIX UNIX SYSTEM with MF-
COBOL compiler. The programs are then rectified for any errors and shipped
to the client.
ROLE
Was responsible for analysis and tool development that converts HP-COBOL
programs to MF-COBOL. Subsequently became leader in this project. The most
critical part of the project was developing the tool and a rigorous testing
has to be done before implementing the tool in actual process and
establishing the conversion process. After the review process, he did the
comparison of the converted and source programs through SUPER C utility of
MAINFRAME. Was responsible for ensuring quality in compliance with quality
standards
ENVIRONMENT: MF-COBOL on AIX/RS 6000
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
Oct 1996 - Dec 1997
Client: Securicor Trans IT System
Executed for Securicor, UK. The main objective of the project is to study
the Year 2000 impact, prepare conversion specifications and provide
suggestions in the SECURICOR TRANS.IT. The system was to suit the current
level of operations in the year 2000 and beyond. The environment of the
project was ES 9000 MAINFRAME. REVOLVE TOOL was used for Year 2000 impact.
ROLE
Was responsible for impact analysis, conversion and testing of this system
ENVIRONMENT: MF-COBOL, MF-REVOLVE on WINDOWS / NT and IBM ES/9000, MVS,
ESA.
Employer: DSQ Software Ltd,
Team Member
Jun 1995 - Oct 1996
Client: Toyo Information Systems
Executed for Toyo Information System, Japan. This project dealt with
conversion of year field from two digits to four digits i.e.. The process
of conversion includes the identification of date fields, which have year
2000 problem. This is done using VANTAGE year 2000 TOOL. The programs are
downloaded from UNISYS mainframe (TIS JAPAN) to local servers and
conversion is done.
ROLE
Was responsible for conversion and testing in this project
ENVIRONMENT: HP-COBOL, MF-REVOLVE on WINDOWS / NT and IBM ES/9000, MVS,
ESA.
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