Project Manager

Sridevi Koraganji

ph: 732-***-****

Summary

Versatile IT professional with 7 years of Mainframe experience having hands-on

experience in software development programming (Analysis, design, coding, testing,

deployment) with a unique blend of technical and management skills equally suited

for either type of position and for Onsite-Offshore model too. Excellent

communication and interpersonal skills help facilitate productive interactions with

clients, colleagues and superiors. Dedicated, motivated and detail-oriented with a

strong commitment to consistently delivering a quality product in a timely manner.

Certified Health care professional worked for more than 4 years in Health care

domain. Certified in HIPAA Overview-Healthcare Insurance Portability-

Accountability Act

Proficient in TSO/ISPF, COBOL,DB2, MQSERIES, JCL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, BMS,

VSAM, CICS- DUMP READING, WIP, STORED PROCEDURES, REXX, SYNCSORT,

eZtrieve, QUICKJOB, ASSEMBLER

Proficient in tool/Utilities such as CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, REGEN

COPYBOOK, MASS REGEN, ACMQ, OPC, CODE MIGRATION, XPEDITOR

ONLINE & BATCH, SQL, NDM, SPUFI, DCLGEN, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, QMF,

NATURAL, CHANGEMAN, DB2 CONNECT, CA INTERTEST, CA INSIGHT, IBM

FAULT ANALYZER, IBM DEBUGGING TOOL, IBM FILE MANAGER, CA-7.

Over 5 plus years of diverse experience in software analysis, design,

development, enhancement, debugging, documentation, and testing for

both on-line and batch applications having exposure to all stages of SDLC.

Working Knowledge in Onsite Offshore Delivery Model.

Extensive Onsite work experience & HEALTH INSURANCE domain

knowledge and proven track record of meeting aggressive deadlines for

clients Highmark BCBS and United health group.

Highly expertise in CLAIM SETUP and UNDERWRITING concepts.

Got 5 years of experience in DB2, COBOL, CICS, DB2 UDB, DB2-

CONNECT, SQL, SPUFI and QMF and worked extensively on Mainframes

database applications in wide variety of projects ranging from Development,

Enhancement and Maintenance/Production Support. Got good experience in

stored procedures, table functions and triggers.

Worked in various domains like Health Insurance, Banking and Credit

cards.

Ability to handle multiple tasks, development, implementation of new systems

and major enhancements to existing systems, supporting programs and jobs

in test and production.

Very dynamic with positive attitude, excellent learning and communication

skills. Self-discipline and ability to work independently, as well as within a

group.

Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills and a team

player.

Review business requirements and prepare functional specifications, test

plans and test data in support if requested changes and prepare test result

documentation.

Experience in multiple data conversion efforts in support of large, complex

systems.

Worked with Subject Matter Experts (SME), a requirements development

team, software architects and programmers.

Preparing Hard book Lockdown estimates and soft book lockdown

estimates based on the analysis of client requirements.

Education

M.Sc in Computer Science from Nagarjuna University, AndraPradesh, India

(2000-2002)

B.Sc in Computer Science from Nagarjuna University, AndraPradesh, India

(1997-2000)

Technical Skills

MVS, Windows 98/2000/NT

Operating Systems :

Languages : MFCOBOL, JCL, PL/I, VS COBOL II,

Databases : DB2, IMS, VSAM, Oracle 8

DC Control Systems : TSO, CICS

File System : VSAM

Utilities & Tools : CHANGEMAN, NDM, MQSERIES, Mercury Test

Director 8.0, SQL, Endevor, REGEN, ACMQ,

SCL Commands, CODEMIGRATION, XPEDITOR,

IDCAMS, BMS, QMF, FILE-AID, CA-7, Abend-aid,

ISPF, NATURAL, SDSF, OPC (Job Scheduler),

SPUFI, JCLCHECK, DCLGEN, SDF, EZETRIEVE,

QUICKSORT, ASSEMBLER, SYNCSORT, CA

INTERTEST, REXX, IBM FAULT analyzer,

IBM Utilities, MS-Excel, MS-Word,

MS- PowerPoint, MS-Visio, Lotus Notes

Certifications

IBM Certified Database Associate- DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family (700)

Certified in HIPAA Overview: Healthcare Insurance Portability-Accountability Act

Brain Bench certified - JCL certification, VSAM certification

Tec check certified - COBOL, DB2 Certification

Health care domain certification (HC101)

TOPS Beginner level certified (Project related)

Assignments

Highmark - BCBS Health Group, Harrisburg, PA

Client

Accenture Services

Employer

Jan 2008 –till date

Duration

Development Lead, Senior Developer

Role

Environment COBOL, CHANGEMAN, IMS, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM,

XPEDITOR

Highmark is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

which is a national organization of 38 independent regional health insurance

companies in the United States. Both organizations trace their histories to health

plans that were created around the same time in two different parts of the U.S. The

evolution of managed health care in the United States is intimately linked to that of

the Blue Cross-Blue Shield plans.

Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield insurance companies are franchisees, independent of

the association (and traditionally each other), offering insurance plans within defined

regions under one or both of the association's brands. Main objective of the project is

strategy by centralizing data into a DB2 repository for access by multiple

applications, Drive down cost by eliminating expensive licenses for LEGACY

database management systems and related tools thereby reducing the risk and

workload associated with system rewrite and manual conversion. The project is a

conversion project from IMS to DB2, involves conversion of IMS calls to DB2

calls

Responsibilities:

Involve in gathering Requirements and estimations.

Involved in programming and development with COBOL, JCL, IMS- Identified

the IMS Calls and type of call in 209 COBOL programs and converted the calls

into DB2. Successfully unit tested major chunk of the Release “TO GO LIVE”

online DB2 programs.

Identifying IMS Extracts based on Parent-child relationship defined in the IMS

database definitions.

Successfully designed and developed DCLGENS for COBOL LAYOUTS for the

replaced IMS variables in application

Maintenance of the application with Re-engineering workbenches such as

Element rename workbench, Data conversion work bench, Data cleaning

workbench, Record redefinition workbench, Key renaming and re-mapping

work bench, Parent-child workbench

Worked vigorously on COBOL-IMS programs - Date Finder program and Key

Identifier program which generate reports that ensure that team members can

preview selected fields and columns to ensure that the migration addresses all

requirements for date conversion and key mapping.

Application Maintenance & Control – successfully retrofitted all the enhanced

modules impacted by the conversion of IMS calls to DB2.

Source Analysis & Documentation – pick to point analysis on the types of IMS

call and constructing a DB2 TABLE with list of IMS calls

Migration & Conversion – Migrating the code from dev region to test region

Audit & Second Opinion- Performed Audit every 3months

Submission of POC & Proposals.

Coordination with team in onsite/offshore on all the activities. Assigning and

prioritizing tasks to the Team.

Co-ordination between Client and Team. Project Status Meetings with

Clients/Business users.

Process management activities. Involving in associate engagement programs.

Enumerating the requirements for enhancements in the system and translates

the business applications into technical solutions. Designing the work in the

programming level based on the Requirement Analysis. The design challenge was

to fit the requirement in most efficient way.

Involved in Planning and Estimation of manpower hours by analyzing the

requirements and updated the client about the tentative User acceptance test,

system test release dates.

Worked as Quality co-coordinator, reviewing technical specifications, Unit test

plans and unit test reports, review checklists and review report. Creating,

executing and documenting the tests in Unit test plans and unit test reports Work

with SQA of the project, maintaining and following all the quality standards.

Identification of impacted IMS modules and converting the IMS CALLS to DB2

calls.

Extensively used ENDEVOR SCL language commands for

deploying/Promoting/Packaging COBOL, DB2, CICS, COPYBOOK, JOB and PROC

elements.

Modifications of COBOL-VSAM into COBOL-DB2 program.

Preparing Test and Production JCLs/Procs/Parms and conducted unit testing with

both SUBX, XPEDITOR on new and old versions of code.

Preparing the test JCL’s and running the both versions of the code.

Unit testing of the program so that the old and new code produces the same

result.

Fixed Defects on time at System Testing Phase.

Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the

team.

Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle

and all documents are version controlled and maintained as per QA requirements.

Worked a quality analyst auditing the documents for various change request

teams.

Prepared Code review sheet, Defect review sheets, Unit test cases, Unit

test Plans, Unit test Results.

Created successfully DCLGENS by used File-aid for COBOL-DB2 program.

Involved in Configuration and deployment by Identifying and implementing

configuration changes to the application in order to deploy the application both

technically and functionally.

Involved in Support and Maintenance by Maintaining and tuning the application to

keep it performing according to the specifications without changing functionality.

Responsible for Co-ordination /Allocation of work among team members.

Key achievements:

Apart from development activities, helped my supervisor in MPP (Project

management plan)

Had gained the trust of my client team and my project manager.

Had been the crucial resource in Build-4 Release of Highmark, had faced many

challenges and able to deliver the components within the stipulated time.

United Health Group (UHG), Basking Ridge, NJ

Client

Network Management Fee

Project

Development Lead

Role

April 2007 - Dec 2007

Duration

Environment CICS, BMS, SDF, COBOL, DB2, JCL, XPEDITOR,

REMEDY, ENDEVOR, QMF, FILE-AID

The Client is a National Health Leader in offering comprehensive Health Management

services through organized health systems and insurance products. United Health

Group (U.S.A) is the state’s largest Health Insurer. UHG renders medical coverage

and pre-paid hospital services to 1.8 million Americans. Since a NMF billing process

is offered on the COSMOS platform, United Health Group, by offering the NMF billing

process on the United Platform, will allow MEDICA ASO customers to continue this

service as they move from COSMOS to the United Platform. Not only will this allow

the continued use of the NMF process but will also allow the seamless reporting of

NMF banking reports to ASO customers for charges relative to the NMF and the

associated claims.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing the requirements for new screens and prepared Technical Specification

required for new business

Designed and developed COBOL-CICS screen (user interface) programs/modules

from scratch which includes the physical and symbolic maps. Designed and

developed programs for the maps which access the database with CICS

transactions which are predefined and retrofitted the existing ones.

Extensively used BMS macros and maps for designing the CICS-DB2 screen

programs (front end – CICS, COBOL, Backend – db2 tables) from scratch

and enhancement of existing modules and completed unit testing far ahead of

the planned date.

Modified all the impacted COBOL/DB2 batch & online programs

Coded and unit tested enhanced online and batch programs using XPEDITOR

Created new MAPS by using BMS for CICS Programs

Identified the maps, copybooks, programs impacted under this project and

prepared Lockdown estimates and came up with no review defects from the

client.

NDM various Mainframe production files to test regions

Created and edited Datasets by using TSO/ISPF

Posed the SQL's by using SPUFI, QMF to check the data correct or not

Successfully resolved the defects at System testing, Integration, end-to-end

testing of newly developed modules

Fixed the defects on time, update the status in Mercury Test director, move code

after defect fix to system test environment through Endevor.

Involved in preparation of functional and technical design documents using MS-

Word

Knowledge Acquisition from the SME and disseminate the same to the team

Involved in preparation of Lockdown estimates using MS-Excel

Working as Quality co-coordinator, reviewing technical specifications, Unit

test plans and unit test reports, review checklists and review report.

Creating, executing and documenting the tests in Unit test plans and unit test

reports simultaneously worked with SQA of the project, maintaining and following

all the quality standards.

Identifying and implementing configuration changes to the application in order to

deploy the application both technically and functionally.

Maintaining and tuning the application to keep it performing according to the

specifications without changing functionality.

Responsible for Co-ordination /Allocation of work among team members.

Key achievements:

Helped the System Analyst with my findings in the preparation of System

specifications for this project. Appreciations from the client for being a part of

requirements gathering apart from development.

Developed 2 new screen programs (front end – CICS, COBOL, Backend – db2

tables) from scratch and coded 33 existing modules and completed unit testing

far ahead of the planned date.

Handled critical defects in system testing phase effectively

Achieved zero review defects through the monthly audits on the quality process

followed.

Updating the status to the client on daily basis as development lead for this

project

United Health Group (UHG), Basking Ridge, NJ

Client

National Provider Identifier

Project

Feb 2007 – April 2007

Duration

Senior Developer

Role

Environment COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, XPEDITOR, OPC,

ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, FILE-AID

The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance

Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated the adoption of

standard unique identifiers for health care providers and health plans. The purpose of

these provisions is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the electronic

transmission of health information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

(CMS) has developed the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

(NPPES) to assign these unique identifiers. This project deals with unique identifier-

NPI to be incorporated in the whole system of United Health Care.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the BRD requirements, Designed and developed three online STBK-

NPI screens using COBOL, CICS, BMS maps, JCL and came up with zero defects

in system testing phase.

Designing screen requirements with BMS Macros, coding BMS Maps, symbolic

copybooks, compiling and accessing the maps with CICS transactions.

Solved both online and batch defects on time.

Worked as QC (Quality Coordinator) for entire release.

Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for entire release.

Knowledge Acquisition from the SME and disseminate the same to the team

Coordinated with MVS team for getting RACF-ID and ensured the id’s

Enhancement of batch programs using COBOL, CICS, and DB2 as per business

requirements.

Loading data and unloading data into VSAM files

Assigning the files to test regions.

Widely used Standard Copy Books for COBOL-CICS Programs

Coordinated with admin team to resolve the DB2 region issues

Coordinated with DBA team to resolve the constrains issues

Prepared jobs for running the COBOL-DB2,COBOL-DB2-CICS Programs by using

JCL/PROC’s

Interactive debugging with XPEDITOR for both online and batch programs..

Setting JCL/PROC for running batch programs with old code and new code and

comparing the results in sysout.

Involved in the Unit testing, UAT and System testing and deployment.

Fixed the defects on time right from UAT till the code deployment.

Responsible for Co-ordination /Allocation of work among team members.

United Health Group (UHG), Basking Ridge, NJ

Client

Service Alliance Project

Project

July 2005 – Jan 2007

Duration

Senior Developer

Role

Environment COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR,

XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, MERCURYTESTDIRECTOR,

SMART TEST, OPC, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID

Service alliance project includes new service codes to the existing system

which had 77 service codes. This project enables the doctor to identify the new

disease reports with special service codes. This includes the design of 3 new screens

which receives the patient information from the user and assign service code to his

treatment and the data passes through files and read/write the files and finally the

information navigates to the billing procedure.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing the requirements for new screens and prepared Technical Specification

required for new business

Designed and developed COBOL-CICS screen (user interface) programs/modules

from scratch which includes the physical and symbolic maps. Designed and

developed programs for the maps which access the database with CICS

transactions which are predefined and retrofitted the existing ones.

Extensively used BMS macros and maps for designing the screens

Preparing relevant functional and technical documents for different applications

Designing the test plan, Unit testing, preparation of Unit test cases

Updating existing database through FILE-AID for newly incorporated products

Performed Impact analysis of the system as part of enhancement work.

Involved in analyzing the clients requests.

Worked out with business analysts to come up with new solutions.

Directly interacted with the client, Knowledge Acquisition from the SME and

disseminate the same to the team

Prepared a detailed document which contains the enhancement work done and

the areas which were impacted by the change.

Involved in learning the application and documenting the same for future

migration.

Involved in the Unit testing, UAT and System testing and deployment.

Fixed the defects on time right from UAT till the code deployment.

Responsible for Co-ordination /Allocation of work among team members.

Awards/Rewards:

Achieved “Super trooper performance Award” for the development expertise

for Service Alliance project in Accenture (2005).

Achieved “SMILE appreciation award” as a Quality Coordinator in

Accenture(2006).

Achieved “SMILE appreciation award” as the best mentor for mentoring 14

junior software engineers for 100% pass percentage in their beginner level

exams (2007).

Key member in Entertainment committee and GPTW(great place to work)

committee Organizing Monthly birthday bashes, sending birthday greetings to

whole project mates, organizing Bay games events, organizing team outings.

ANZ, Melbourne

Client

Auditor Request Project

Project

August 2004 – June 2005

Duration

Team member

Role

Environment MQSERIES, CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM,

FAULTANALYSER, EZETRIEVE, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR

The main purpose of this project is to populate auditor certificate for each customer

of ANZ Grindlays upon request. The project is developed for ANZ itself.This involves

extraction of data from DB2, which is a large database for cache accounts and last

business day of month, data is extracted from VSAM database for external accounts.

Audit certificate consists of nine sections for which data is extracted from DB2 and

VSAM individually depending on the input which we get from MQSeries into

Commarea and extracted data is put into Commarea from where MQSeries takes

the data.

Responsibilities:

Involved in the development of login module for authentication of the customer

Streamlined the batch cycle, by adopting various methods, on long running

batch jobs. E.g. Split long running jobs into parallel processes wherever possible.

Fixing remedy tickets. Remedy is a defect notification, assignment and effort

tracking tool used by users to raise issues regarding system bugs and

malfunctions.

Involved in requirement gathering as per Client Specification for MQSERIES

channels

Analysis and general design document about the CR involving MQSERIES

receipt of messages transferred through MQCICS Bridge.

Involved in the generation of Daily report the output of the daily jobs.

Preparing test cases and documentation. Designing the test plan, Unit testing,

preparation of Unit test cases

Inventory consolidation from individual analysis of the team and Performed

Impact analysis of the system as part of enhancement work.

Updating existing database for newly incorporated products and involved in

analyzing the clients requests.

Directly interacting with the client and worked out with business analysts to come

up with new solutions.

Prepared a detailed document which contains the enhancement work done and

the areas which were impacted by the change.

Involved in learning the application and documenting the same for future

migration.

Involved in Unit testing and UAT till the modules get migrated successfully into

production.

MBNA (American Express), NY, USA

Client

AMEX-EE

Project

Sep 2002 – July 2004

Duration

Developer

Role

COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, XPEDITOR,

Environment

CHANGEMAN, ABEND-AID

MBNA AMEX processes Visa, Master card and UBS accounts. The new proposal is the

Introduction of AMEX cards. This project involves changing of 950 MBNA PROGRAMS.

All the programs that identify the Bank type using the account number should be

modified. Verification of check digit for security is an added feature. Programs that

use the first digit of the account number to determine the product brand among

different product types are to be modified. On the whole, the objective of AMEX-EE

project is to eliminate hardcode and parameterize account processing.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities involved in this project are Analysis, Estimation, Design, Coding,

Testing and Implementation

Involved in modification(code changes) of Bank Type module (modify all the

programs that define bank type based on account number)

Preparation of detailed design document on Impact Analysis on the modification

done on Bank Type module

Analyzed and resolved the production problems in time to meet SLA.

Involved in test case generation for the Bank Type module.

Participated in the requirements gathering, design and documentation

Executed Development, Enhancement and Implementation projects

Expertise in requirements collection, application design, coding, testing,

implementation and project management

Expertise in executing all phases of test plans preparation and testing (Unit

testing, system testing)

Expertise in preparation of user documentation and user training

Interacting with the business users in addressing the issues and concerns.

Maintaining project related documents as per the Quality procedures.

Supporting the business needs of the customers.

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