Insurance Developer

Venugopal Duddela

Cell: 201-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. More than 9 years of IT experience in software development with

excellent skills in Requirement gathering and Design & Development

of Mainframe Technology in the areas of Insurance, healthcare,

Financial, Brokerage & Mutual Funds and Government domain with Good

Knowledge in COBOL, JCL, CICS, REXX/CLIST, EASYTRIEVE, CICS, SAS,

VSAM, DB2, Oracle, VA Gen and IMS DB. Worked extensively on Insurance

Billing product COGEN.

. Experience in Gathering business requirements, Development,

Maintenance & Support, Integration and Enhancement and

Conversion/migration

. Good working knowledge of Property & Casualty Insurance, Life and

Health insurance, Group insurance, Financial industry, Brokerage &

Mutual Funds and Social Security administration

. Proficient in Coding, Unit, integration, regression and System

Testing.

. Accurate code modification ensuring optimal performance, rigorous

testing procedures at various levels viz. Unit / Integration and

system testing and special care to ensure quality standards.

. Worked as technical lead for various projects and managed up to 8 team

members.

. Excellent capability in handling multiple projects and reaching

project deadlines in minimum timeline.

. Familiar with current industry standards, such as HIPAA, SOX, ISO, Six

Sigma, and Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

. Good Exposure to tools like ENDEVOR, Change MAN, FILEAID BATCH/ONLINE,

FILEMANAGER, XPEDITER BATCH/ONLINE and CA INTERTEST BATCH/ONLINE etc.

. Exceptional training, communication, leadership and Interpersonal

skills. Good work ethics Committed to schedule and fast learner.

. Possess Public Trust Position Clearance issued by Social Security

Administration (SSA).

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:

Platform: IBM-3090 Mainframe, Desktops & Workstations, MS Project 2003

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, Windows NT/Vista/ XP/98/95, UNIX

MS-DOS Servers: Windows 2005 Server, MS SQL Server 2005,

Languages: VS COBOL II, CICS, PL1, MQSeries, Natural, ADABAS, VAGen, IMS

DC, IMS DB, DL1, SQL, JCL/PROCS, Easytrieve, Rexx/Clist, SAS, C, FORTRAN IV

Database & File Systems: DB2, Oracle, IMS DB, VSAM, MS SQL DB

Industry Standards: HIPAA, SOX, ISO, Six Sigma, CMM

Automated Testing Tools: Quality Center

Screen Mapping Utilities: SDF, MFS, BMS

Software/Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SYNCSORT, Xpediter, Rexx, Abend Aid, SPUFI,

QMF, Platinum, File-Aid, Changeman, Finalist, Unitech ACR Balancing,

Ascential, MS Visio 2003, CA7, CA1, Ca11, Data stage, STONE BRANCH, IPC,

Panvalet, Gentran 6.0, EDI 850, 810, 856, 852, Queryman, Endevor, CSV, CA-

Librarian, FIX Protocol, ACR Balancing, IEBGENER, SDSF, ZEKE, SDF II,

Intertest, work bench, FTP, IDCAMS, Infopac, Syncsort, MKS, Hyperion,

Visio, File Manager

Desktop & Networking: MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), Lotus Notes, Local

Desktop Active Directory

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Company: BlueCross & BlueShield, Providence, RI

Position Title: Team Lead

Date of employment: Nov 2009 - Till date

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Involved in Leading a Team for running the Job flows for Test Minor

and Test Major Environments.

. Extracted, modified and loaded the Job flows from PPMO (Pre-Prod)

Environment to Test Minor and Test Major.

. Created new job flows for HIPPA 5010 for claims processing

. Created New Control cards to point to the new environment.

. Created New Reports for Test Minor and Test Major in EOSPROD.

. Created and tested all the ACR Balancing jobs for Test minor and Test

Major using RUNBOOKS.

. Resolved job abends for Balancing and FTP Jobs.

. Added/Updated triggers for the new and existing jobs.

. Coordinated with Trizetto (Facets), Clear cycle (UCDS) and CSC (JCAPS)

teams to resolve issues.

. Created new jobs for the STONE BRANCH to point to Secure FTP the text

files to the UNIX Servers.

Company: Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD

Position Title: Senior Developer/Business Analyst

Date of employment: July 2009 - Oct 2009

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Designed and developed a batch module that processes all the pending

transactions and writes into a report.

. Designed and developed a batch module that purges the records from MES

for pending transactions with no activity for 365 days.

Company: Edward Jones, St Louis, Missouri

Position Title: Senior Developer

Date of employment: March 2008 to June 2009

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Designed and developed a batch module that writes the F55 Activity

file from NSCC to PFPC.

. Added MFDSUIT & LISTFUNDAC fields in the LINK Map using CICS tool.

. Utilized Service center to log and track defects with the testing

team.

. Created test plans and tested them in the CLONE (System Testing)

environment

Company: Nationwide Insurance/Financials, Columbus, Ohio

Position Title: Technical Lead/Senior Developer

Date of employment: Aug 2003 to Feb 2008

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Coded a new Interface program that converts the FPS format to Billing

format. Changed the conversion program to include the changes for fire

policies. Change the interface module to handle Direct Bill

Cancellations. Made changes to Reinstatement rules to be in sync for

both Auto & Fire. Resolved the dual bind issue for modules calling in

other systems

. Created new transactions for all the regions in the COGEN environment

. Involved in the implementation of the state roll outs - Switching ON

the Pilot control cards and Conversion of 130 to 830 diaries.

. Migrated the SA(service advantage) policies to BA(Billing Advantage)

. Involved in creating reports for EFT(Electronic Fund Transfer)

payments state wise and Region wise

. Involved in the conversion of existing REXX programs to Equivalent

Cobol programs for the ISO (Insurance Service Office) application.

. Involved in data processing of messages using MQ series during the

Coding and Unit testing of COBOL-DB2-CICS programs.

. Developed complex JCL for manipulating huge volumes of file data using

utilities such as SYNCSORT, FILE-AID and ICETOOL. Built DB2 components

to unload and load the database tables.

. Fixed Defects related to Ascential software. Run the Finalist jobs to

validating the data for US and foreign address.

. Created JCLs for separating Conversion jobs for Auto & Fire policies

for $0 and Renewal Conversions. Changed the JCLs for Collection

processing. Made changes to Letter job to handle the Letter generated

for Fire. Included a new step to FTP the collection agencies files.

. Responded to special requests for Adhoc jobs and file purges.

. Changed the PREC032 Report to include all the flex accounts that got

converted

. New Stored Procedures were coded to access the interface modules from

different systems

. Responsible for Mainframe job scheduling, monitoring, identifying,

resolving and escalating job failures, problems, application and

system alerts that could impact the timely completion of batch

schedules critical path.

. Escalated to network operations center any major problems or delays as

well as environmental impacts to the data center environment.

. As part of the Mainframe Production Support group was responsible for

1st and 2nd level support for Mainframe batch job schedules including

setting up new jobs, changing existing jobs and performing one-time

overrides. Provided 24/7 on-call Production Support on rotation basis.

. Took ownership of a problem from its start to successful completion.

Handled problems via phone, email, Test Director, Peregrine and job

scheduling monitoring interfaces.

. Involved with the System Testing Flow Support - reviewing defects,

clarifying questions with System Testing Team & Running Spufi SQL

Queries. Utilized Quality Center to log and track defects with the

testing team.

Company: Dun & Bradstreet, Bangalore INDIA

Position Title: Developer

Date of employment: May 2003 to Aug 2003

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Design, code & test new COBOL- Db2 programs for PCSMART.

. Splitter program was coded to split the files based on the SMART

system

. Design, code and test new batch COBOL programs for the EUROSMART

System.

Company: AETNA US Healthcare, Bangalore, INDIA

Position Title: Programmer

Date of employment: Oct 2002 to Mar 2003

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Code, debug and test new and existing batch COBOL programs for Rating

System.

. Create test data and verify test results using SPUFI, Platinum & File-

Aid. Assist analysts in modifying program specs. Maintain and revise

existing production programs.

Company: Garimella Systems Inc, Bangalore, INDIA

Position Title: Programmer

Date of employment: Dec 2001 to Sep 2002

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Set up new trading partners in Gentran 6.0 on UNIX for SAP

application.

. Created MAPs using Visual Mapper for 850, 810, 856 and 852

. Developed MAPs to and fro from trading partner's to Internal Order

Management applications (SAP IDOC's) in supporting Delivery Order,

Goods Receipt, ASN etc

. Translated the data from XML to ANSI X12 format.

. Extensively involved in the creation of Test data procedures, testing

the transactions for volume and functionality both on PC and

mainframes and fixed the errors in Maps, type trees, input data and

JCL

Company: Legal and general Assurance, Bangalore, INDIA

Position Title: Programmer

Date of employment: Apr 2001 to Nov 2001

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Convert B-trieve programs to COBOL. Program wise change specification

document was prepared and programs were converted.

EDUCATION:

BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore Institute of technology,

Bangalore, India

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