Project Sales

Visala Parimi

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Ph: 248-***-****

Summary:

• Over six years of experience in IT industry with excellent exposure to all

the phases of software development life cycle.

• Extensively worked on IBM Mainframes and different phases of software

development life cycle (Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing).

• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients during the complete life cycle

of the project.

• Worked in Manufacturing, Financial and Automotive domains and with fast

learning skills was able to deliver projects that delighted the customers.

• Proficient in writing test cases, performing unit testing, system testing and

integration testing.

• Worked on US projects outsourced to India, and well versed with the processes

involved in such projects.

• Highly effective in cross-functional and global environments to manage

multiple tasks & assignments concurrently.

• Experienced with developing, testing and delivering high quality software in

a corporate environment.

• Strong technical and analytical, problem solving, communication and

documentation skills.

• Conversant with ISO 9001 quality procedures and software engineering

methodologies.

• Strong analytical and communication skills. Ability to work in high pressure

and fast paced environment.

Education:

M.B.A. Systems

*University Topper and Gold Medalist for M.B.A 2000.

Software/Hardware:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, TSO, ISPF, Xpediter, QMF, File Aid, SPUFI, CA-Ideal,

CA-Datacomm, CA-7, Changeman, Panvalet, MVS, OS/390, Ms-DOS, PL/SQL, MS Access, MS

Word, MS Excel and MS Windows family.

Project Experience:

Caterpillar Corporation, Peoria, IL July 2008 – Current

Mainframe tester

Caterpillar is the largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and

natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines in the world. Caterpillar has been

building world infrastructure and thus helped to drive positive and sustainable

change on every continent.

Caterpillar SME project deals with expanding the Sales

Model number from its current size of 4 or 5 positions to 9 positions in all COBOL

programs, JCLs and files. This demands changes to program in error handling as a

consequence of expansion. Developed new module as part of application enhancement.

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The project also involves modification of impacted programs to expand the sales

model number in the existing files so that they could be used for testing the

impacted programs.

Responsibilities:

• Performed Impact analysis/requirements analysis in a timely and qualitative

manner.

• Agreed on effort and schedule for deliverables, resolving issues and

clarifications with clients / users.

• Performed detailed design and developed technical design specifications to

the satisfaction of all the stakeholders involved in the project.

• Received appreciations for coding the programs within the timelines and at

the same time maintaining high quality.

• Prepared Unit Test Cases and executed them to verify the program

functionality.

• Fixed the bugs that were encountered in testing and made sure the

functionality was developed as per the requirements.

• Reviewed detailed design specifications and technical design specifications

prepared by other team members.

• Closed defects in Review Test Defect Form and tracked the rework efforts.

• Prepared delivery documents and made timely deliveries.

• Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducted reviews as well as

formal walkthroughs amongst various teams, and documented the proceedings.

• Documented the purpose of tasks / program changes so as to facilitate the

personnel to understand the process and incorporate the changes as and when

necessary.

• Helped the other team members in all the life cycle of the project to ensure

that the project get delivered within timelines and with high quality.

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Environment:

COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Panvalet, Xpediter, QMF, File-Aid, SPUFI, MVS, CA-7, OS/390,

Endeavor, Xpeditor.

GlasTrac and CAB systems, Pittsburgh Paint and Glass, Pittsburgh July 2005 –

June 2008

Team Lead

PPG is one of the prominent manufacturing companies in US dealing with glass and

paints. GlasTrac system is developed to track customer orders and Inventory. This

application allows dealers and sales personal to take the orders from customers,

place the orders, view the existing inventory and tracking the status of the

order.CAB system involves Invoicing and Pricing.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Project Start-up, Support and Management.

• Manage a team of 4 programmers to ensure productivity and career development.

• Customer Interaction through conference calls and status reports.

• Metrics collection on effort hours, defect analysis and effort variance.

• Resource allocation, Planning, scheduling and coordinating with team.

• Analyze work Request, develop Design document, Coding, Testing and

Implementation.

• Unit testing, system testing and assist customer at UAT.

• Implementation at client site.

• Review of the Quality procedures.

• Create, Implement and Promote Internal Standards.

Environment:

CA-IDEAL, CA-DATACOM, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Xpediter, QMF, File-Aid, SPUFI, MVS,

TSO, ISPF, Endeavor.

Credit Suisse First Boston, USA Sep 2003 - June

2005

Software Engineer

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is a leading global investment bank serving

institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. CSFB provides

solutions and innovative products to its clients over 50 countries

This project involves developing applications to support banking and Insurance

functions. Involved in development of Cobol / DB2 programs.

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements analysis to facilitate clear understanding of the

scope so that a good design can be built upon the analysis framework.

• Developed prototypes to get a seamless understanding of the customer’s

requirements.

• Agreed on effort and schedule for deliverables, resolving issues and

clarifications with clients / users.

• Designed and developed the database completely enforcing all constraints

necessary to maintain the integrity of the application.

• Tested the screen functionalities.

• Reported the bugs that were encountered in testing and made sure the

functionality was developed as per the requirements.

• Reviewed detailed design specifications and technical design specifications

prepared by other team members.

• Prepared delivery documents and made timely deliveries.

• Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducted internal and external

reviews as well as formal walkthroughs amongst various teams, and documented the

proceedings.

• Prepared User manual for end users to understand the functionality of the

system.

Environment:

COBOL, DB2, JCL, COBOL, PL/I, NATURAL, ADABAS and HPS CA-7, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR,

PANVALET,ENDEAVOR.

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