Project Insurance

Balasuseela Dasari

************@*****.***

Ph no: 703-***-****

SUMMARY

Over 5 Years of IT experience in mainframes applications.

. Good knowledge in Maintenance and development projects for IBM Mainframe

systems in Insurance domain.

. Conversant with Structured Design and Development Methodologies and QMS.

. Good knowledge in Property and Casualty Insurance Applications

. Proficiency and extensive experience in MVS, PL-1, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB,

JCL, VSAM and CICS.

. Expertise in production support, fixing production defects and giving

permanent solution

. Good knowledge in developing host business services for .com projects

. Expertise in Onshore - Offshore Model, acted as Onsite Coordinator and

SME support.

. Good Knowledge in Defect Prevention Analysis

. A motivated person with strong analytical and communication skills and

good team player. Proficient in adapting to new software applications and

products.

WORK EXPERINCE

. Worked as a Senior Software Engineer in HCL Technologies, from March 2005

to November 2009.

. Worked as a Programmer Analyst in Syntel India Ltd, from March 2004 to

February 2005.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages : PL-1, COBOL, C, C++, SQL

Databases : DB2, IMS DB, VSAM and Oracle 8i/9i

OLTP : CICS

Tools : SCM, QMF, SPUFI, TSO, ISPF/PDF, Fileaid, Workbench, XPEDITOR,

SDSF, DATAVAN, STAR TEAM, Princeton Softech DB2 Tools, Changeman

and Infoman

GUI : VB 5.0/ 6.0

Operating Systems : OS/390, MVS/ZOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, UNIX

Hardware platform : IBM 3090, IBMPC compatibles

EXPERIENCE

Project #1:

USAA (United Services Automobile Association), San Antonio, USA

Responsibility: Technical Consultant

USAA a fortune 500 Company, with a working strength of 20,000 plus is one

of the leading Property and Casualty Insurance Company serving the US

Defense Personnel and their dependants in the US and abroad, and is a

leading provider of Life Insurance, Financial and Banking service. The

Company is in the process of doing regulatory and non -regulatory business

changes to its existing system due to changes in law specific to the states

in US. On addition to that they have regular maintenance and enhancement

support activity going on regular basis.

. Worked as onsite coordinator for BPMP(Business process management

projects) and LRP (low risk projects)

. Involved in preparing PDR/CDR (Design report)

. Participate in status meetings and project release meetings

. Involved in assessment, coding and unit testing new BPMP's and LRP's

. Involved in fixing production discrepancies

. Providing traceability for the various requirements to the customer

. Participate in release meetings to migrate all new/affected elements

into production.

1. VPP Rewrite (USAA) Nov 2007 -

Nov 2009

This project had rewritten the entire VPP system which is one of the

Lines of Business in the Property and Casualty insurance in USAA. The VPP

insurances include the valuable personal property like jewelry, cameras and

coin/stamp collections, etc., in the home and the protection taken against

that property with the help of insurance. This project has changed the

entire legacy VPP system and made a revolution to enter into the insurance

policies to be keyed online in dot com applications including e-signature

forms. The backend and batch related works had been undertaken by the host

(mainframe) modules and whereas the front end environment is JAVA

applications.

. Requirements gathering through business user interaction

. Documentation of business user requests

. Analysis of business requirements and interaction with system experts

. Participating in preliminary design and critical design review meetings

. Estimated the efforts of the requirements given by the client, by using

Function Point analysis.

. Assist offshore team in coding, unit testing and in resolution of

technical problems during unit testing

. Code review and coding standards compliance

. Participate in status meetings and project release meetings

. Analysis and design of each of the impacted items

. Coding and testing

. Technical Support during system testing

2. Refined Homeowner Risk Tiers (USAA) Jan

2006- Oct 2007

This project is to increase the number of Homeowners Tiers and make changes

to the criteria used in USAA's tiering model. The new tier placement

criteria will include introducing new factors and new rules in tier

derivation. These new factors and rules will make the homeowner's policies

to get a more appropriate rate for each risk so that policies can be rated

with more appropriate premiums.

These changes include introducing new Business service utilities (To

introduce new factors and rules), Online Screen changes (Underwriter review

screen) and document changes (To send Notice to the policyholder regarding

changes to the premium calculations).

. Helped Subject Matter Expert (SME) to collect the requirements, by

discussing with Business, and helped in preparing High Level Documents

(HLD)

. Estimated the efforts of the requirements given by the client, by using

Function Pint analysis.

. Involved in all the phases starting with analysis, Design, construction

and creation of test plans and testing.

. Performing Unit and Integration Testing by creating Unit and

Integration Test plans

. Technical support during system testing

3. Homeowners on .COM (USAA) Jun 2005 -

Dec 2005

Homeowner policies are counted as one among the 3 major dwelling Line of

Business that USAA does for military people. This project is developed to

purchase homeowner policy over internet.. This application was implemented

in two phases based on the features. First Phase covered all issue of home

owner's policy, and phase two to get a Quote on the policy information and

there by user was given the option of either to buy the policy or to

customize according to his requirement.

. Estimated the efforts of the requirements given by the client, by using

Function Pint analysis.

. Involved in creation of Requirement specification Matrix according to

client requirements.

. Identify the impact of functional requirements across the system.

. Analysis and design of each of the impacted items

. Reviewing the analysis and design documents

. Coding and testing

4. USAA Staff Augmentation (USAA) Mar

2005- May 2005

This project is to add new companies GIC and Garrison so that the high-risk

members can be rated different premiums. The changes include infrastructure

changes (To have flexibility for the programs by calling an adaptor that

will avoid future code changes to the programs) and field expansion for the

company code.

. Gathering user requirements, analyzing, developing and

maintaining programs as per specifications.

. Customization to existing functionalities and processes as per

business requirement.

. Contributing towards 24 hours uptime of application for providing

reliable, robust and user friendly system to end users.

. Active participation in process improvement initiatives and

reviews.

. Technical Support during system testing

. Contributing towards documentation of all processes and changes

made to system

. Contributing towards maintenance of versions of changes made to

application.

Environment: PLI, COBOL-85, COBOL-74, JCL, VSAM, IMS (DB/DC), PST, PLITEST,

WORKBENCH and SCM

Project #2: Global Network Services (GNS)

American Express

Mar 2004 - Feb 2005

American Express with headquarters in New York is a global travels,

financial and network service provider. Founded in 1850, the company serves

individuals with charge and credit cards, traveler's checks and other store

value products. Through its family of corporate card services, AMEX helps

companies and institutions to manage their travel, entertainment and

purchasing expense.

Global Network Services (GNS)

This project is undertaken for American Express based in Phoenix. This is a

maintenance and production support project. The GNS & TEU are applications

in Clearing and Settlement system. The purpose of Clearing and Settlement

(C&S) is to process transactions from the American Express card products

issued (Network Issuers) or accepted (Network Acquirers) by Network

Participants (GNS). GNS (Network Capture) is the 'gateway' to Network

Partners and TEU (Transaction Exchange Utility), which is the 'gateway' to

Proprietary Partners. Acquirers and Issuers are both the upstream and

downstream systems to GNS. The data received from Acquirers will be

validated and sent to Issuers and the data received from Issuers will be

sent to Acquirers. GNS receives different types of messages or transactions

from these partners. Transactions made at merchants will be sent to GNS by

Acquirers and Issuers send only dispute messages to GNS

The support provided by Syntel includes production support and executing

enhancement change requests. Production support involves fixing the

production problems that occur during the normal operations of the Client.

The enhancement change requests involve requests from the Client for

development of new programs or systems or modification of the existing

programs or any other subsystem that are essential for supporting ongoing

business of the Client.

Responsibility: Programmer Analyst

. Preparing Analysis and design documents and test plans

. Coding and testing for enhancement projects.

. Reviewing the design documents

. Providing solutions for production issues and giving permanent

solution.

Environment: Cobol-370, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, OS/390, Z/OS

Education:

M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

2001 - 2003 Osmania University Hyderabad, Andhra

Pradesh, India

B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

1997-2001 J.N.T.University, Hyderabad, Andhra

Pradesh, India

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