Sales Project

Jahangir Kabir

**** ** ****** **,#***, Bentonville, AR, 72712

Home: 479-***-****. Cell: 281-***-**** abm4am@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

IT leader with strong analytical skills, people skills, self-motivated,

very well organized, strong leadership skills, detailed oriented, fast

learner and effective communicator. Trained colleagues on different

functionalities and technical skills.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Programming Languages COBOL, CICS, JCL, Proc, STORED

PROCEDURES

Database Systems DB2

Connectivity Software DB2 CONNECT

Hardware IBM MAINFRAME Z/OS, PC

Services & Tools TSO,DB2 Admin,Change man,IDCAM,

Infoman,QMF,SPUFI,Fileaid,WEBSPHERE,

Control-M,CA-7,OPC,SDSF,File Mgr,Expediter,

Smarttest,Internet,Word,Excel,DFSORT,Remedy,

VISIO, ACCESS, OUTLOOK, FTP,

MS OFFICE, MS Project,DB2 Utility,SDLC

EXPERIENCES

Wal-Mart Information Systems Division,Bentonville, AR

2009- Present

Programmer Analyst

. Maintain Batch and Online (CICS) program using in a COBOL/DB2/VSAM

environment. Analyze programs to evaluate modification impact,

communicate findings with senior personnels and customers and provide

timeframe to accomplish tasks.

. Modify Job Schedule, create new new JobSchedule to be setup in CA7.

. Act as SME for Fuel Quest system.

. Responsible for coordinating resources, conducting walkthroughs in

order to implement changes.

. Technical Lead for 'Fuel Quest' related changes and installation.

. Track Tickets created thru Remedy, propose fix for breaks.

. Conduct change impacts for external vendors when their (external

vendor) product that interacts with in house products are upgraded.

. Build TEST environment using production data to conduct Tests of

enhanced Applications.

. Participate in Change Walk Through to describe impacted changes and

explain results to senior members of the team.

. Setup TAX related parameters as that will be used by Applications as

new TAXes become available from external Vendor Fuel Quest.

. Provide 24/7 support on a rotational basis which includes extensive

research, coordinations that involves Data Center Personnels, multiple

teams.

. Completed PM College PM101 training.

Jack Henry & Associates, Houston, TX

2007-2009

Application Support Specialist

. Installed and tested DB2 Connect Personal edition V 8.2 and fix pack

16 to accommodate for DB2 V 8.1 upgrade.

. Testing multiple applications(Mainframe, Web, Delphi Client) and

coordinating progress with DB2 DBA due to DB2 V 8.1 upgrade.

. Created detailed project plan using MS project in order to implement

vendor(Efunds) provided change packets. These include

programs(vendor provided) and DB2 table changes.

. Providing Application Support to end-users.

. Updated configuration related parameters to accommodate for new

versions.

. Technical Lead for Installing vendor provided software in WEBSPHERE

environment.

. Streamlined implementation process by gathering information from

multiple sources and documenting them.

. Installing VENDOR(Efunds) provided software and change packets in PC

and Mainframe. Responsibility includes creating project

plan,upgrading Vendor(Efunds) provided software to a different

version including performing DB2 table backups and table changes, JCL

changes moving codes to different libraries and coordination change

related issues with vendors. The components that are impacted are

Mainframe, WEB, WINDOWS GUI Client.

. Prepared Batch Cobol/DB2 program to manipulate data and update DB2

tables. This is a new approach (COBOL/DB2) with CAF option as it

never existed in this environment.

. Coordinated implementation approach with change management

administrator and DBA in order to set up COBOL DB2 DCLGEN, Binds,

JCLs. Also,prepared a step by step guide using MS Word pertaining to

steps involved in COBOL/DB2 batch programs.

Gulf States TOYOTA (Consultant for PSG), Houston, TX

2006-2007

Programmer /QA/Analyst

. Modified both CICS and BATCH programs due to requirement

changes. Also, Created

Test scripts for various Batch & Online systems written in

COBOL, VSAM, DB2 that

were targeted for conversion to 'DB2' database architecture.

Handled issues

raised by conversion team pertaining to test data and

proposed appropriate course

of actions. The VSAM to DB2 conversion was being performed

by an offshore team.

CITIGROUP, Houston, TX

1999-

2006

Systems analyst/Sr. Analyst

Responsible for ownership of systems which included back-end COBOL/DB2

Stored Procedures, Infrastructure related decisions, approvals, UAT

environment ownership, mentoring of lesser experienced colleagues,

providing peers related performance feed back to upper managements.

. Technical lead for data mapping & data conversion program for ATM

part of the system which had to be provided to VISA DPS for ATM

transactions processing using BATCH COBOL. This included taking

files with data from multiple sources and reformatting (expanding

fields, adding logic to substitute values) them for external source.

. Coordinated loading of data with VISA DPS.

. Responsible for representing Houston site for company wide Change

control meetings.

. Technical lead for UAT environment.

. Used INFOMAN along with CHANGEMAN to setup NEW JOB along with run

instructions.

. Used INFOMAN along with CHANGEMAN to request approval of changes for

new and modified COBOL programs.

. Acted as a Liaison between the development team and Infrastructure

Team.

. Reviewed change records and approved them as needed using INFOMAN.

. Responsible for planning and running BATCH JOBs in UAT environment.

. Researched, analyzed, informed internal DBA about the requirements for

converting the 'Stored Procedures' from 'Shadow Direct' to 'DB2 Stored

Procedures' due to data center migration.

. Converted Stored Procedures from 'Shadow Direct' to 'COBOL/DB2'

environment.

. Documented programs, created flow charts for jobs, prepared

program specifications for 'one card' system, which was turned

over to US Bank when VOYAGER Fleet card system was sold.

Book-of-the-Month Club (AOL Time Warner company),

Mechanicsburg, PA 1998-1998

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for creating interface programs for Sales Reporting system and

rewriting most of the sales reporting programs due to new standard.

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TX. Dept. of Criminal Justice, Huntsville, TX

1997-1998

Programmer IV

. Developed COBOL/CICS/DB2 system to aid Chaplaincy Services Department

to track enrollment in faith based programs by inmates.

EDS, Plano, TX

1997-1997

Systems Engineer Associate

Maintained various Online Health care accounts.

. Duties included maintaining COBOL programs in CICS and VSAM

environment for various Health care systems.

TX. Dept. of Criminal Justice, Huntsville, TX

1995-1997

Programmer II

. Developed online system to track Hepatitis B among inmate

populations by

learning CICS, DB2, JCL, COBOL, and QMF.

EDUCATION

BS Computer Science, Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro, PA

Attended ONLINE course on SQL Server Queries.

Earned 30 PDU(professional development Units) towards PMP

through PM College.

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