Team Lead System

Venkata Paruchuri

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OBJECTIVE

Software Engineer with 15+ years of solid IT experience in Legacy Systems

seeks challenging position in program management, system analysis, system

engineering, system support, or related area with dynamic organization that

rewards initiative and dedication with advancement opportunities.

Sponsorship not required for working in USA.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

. SDLC Methodology

. System Development, Maintenance, Implementation and Production Support

. System Testing

. Knowledge of Java Concepts

. Strong Analytical/Problem Solving Abilities

. Expert level Legacy System Knowledge

. Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills

. Leading ONSITE/OFFSITE Model

. SEI CMM LEVEL 5

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Overview Years Overview Years

Mainframe OS390/ MVS/ESA 15+ ISPF 15+

COBOL 15+ VSAM 15+

PL/1 03+ EASYTRIEVE 04+

JCL 15+ INTERTEST 03+

DB2 10+ ENDEVOR 10+

HP EXSTREAM 04+ SHARE POINT 03+

IMS DB/DC 05+ CA7- SCHEDULER 03+

CICS 10+ IDMS 03+

XPEDITOR 10+ SPUFI 10+

PRODUCTION SUPPORT 10+ SEI CMFSM LEVEL 5 10+

ONSITE/OFFSITE LEAD 05+

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

. May 08 to Till Date as Specialist for Mutual of America.

. Apr 07 to April 08 as a Contractor for Briljent/Tek Systems at State

Of Indiana.

. Jan 05 to Mar 07 as Associate Consultant for Cambridge Solutions at

Liberty Mutual Insurance.

. Oct 03 to Dec 04 as Systems Analyst for HCL Tech at USAA Insurance.

. Jun 01 to Sep 03 as Systems Analyst for Patni Computers at State

Farm Insurance.

. Jan 98 to May 01 as Offshore Team Lead for Tata Consultancy/Kale

Consultants at GE Capital.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering at NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY, INDIA (1997)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

May 08 - Till Date as Specialist for MUTUAL OF AMERICA, Boca Raton, FL

Environment: IBM MAINFRAME, HP EXSTREAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM,

XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, FILE AID.

Project: Contracts/Certificates/Mailing Team

When Employer Enrolls in Group Retirement Plans with Mutual of America

Retirement Products, Our Team is responsible for sending Contract Documents

to Employers and Certificate Documents to all of their Employees, When

Individual Participants Enrolls in Individual Retirement Products

Participant receive the Contract Document for the product. Also all the

eligible participants will receive the Retirement products prospects and

updates to the policy agreements as per regulations.

As Specialist Major Responsibilities are:

. Working with Business Account Executives in preparing requirements

related to systems issues and new products

. Preparing Analysis/Design and Unit/System Test Documents as per

requirements

. Writing/Modifying Programs in (COBOL/DB2/CICS)

. Performing Unit/System testing/Production Acceptance testing

. Participating in Quality control measures including Peer code reviews

. Providing data to users by writing SQL queries in SPUFI

. Creating Contract/Cert/Mailing Documents in HP EXSTREAM tool

. Working with various structured data formats (CSV, Fixed Length,

Database, etc.) in EXSTREAM

. Providing production support including on-call responsibilities

Apr 07 - Apr 08 as a Contractor for STATE OF INDIANA, Indianapolis, IN

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, JCL, TELON, VSAM,

TSO

IBM Debugger, FILE AID, TELON, ON-CALL Prod Support and SHARE

POINT

Project: Modernization of Indiana Client Eligibility System

State will introduce the conversion of county offices operations into

Service and Help center business operations. They will use ICES Client

system to schedule client interviews.

As a Contractor main responsibilities are:

. Preparing Design, Unit and Integration test case documents for the

requirements

. Writing new batch programs in (COBOL/DB2/IMS DB)

. Writing new Online programs in (COBOL/ IMS DC)

. Modifying existing programs to make the system compatible for handling

new help centres

. Executing Unit/Integration test cases

. Writing new JCL's

. Over see the migration of components to System Test and Production

regions

. On call support for migrated programs

Jan 05 - Mar 07 as an Associate Consultant/Onsite Team lead for LIBERRTY

MUTUAL INSURANCE, Indianapolis, IN

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, TELON, VSAM,

ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, FTP, CA-7 Scheduler, FILE AID, LOTUS NOTES,

ON-CALL Production support and SHARE POINT

Project: Liberty RAM Publishing system receives files from Commercial

and Personal Lines of Business for printing the various forms

using DOCUMERGE/DOCUMAKER tools

As onsite Team Lead in publishing system my main responsibilities are:

. Coordinating/Delivering work to Offshore Team

. Preparing Design Documents for the projects

. Modifying COBOL/DB2/CICS programs to handle the special forms

. Creating and modifying the JCL's

. Loading and maintaining the DB2 tables

. Debugging programs to solve abends in PROD/TEST cycles

. Running/supporting batch cycle jobs in various regions

(TEST/PREPROD/PROD)

. On-call (24/7) support for PROD cycles

. Scheduling Jobs using CA7 Scheduler

. Coordinating all release activities as a release coordinator

. Extensive work on Documerge tool to handle the printing of policies of

the customers for the commercial lines and the personal lines

Oct 03 - Dec 04 as an Systems Analyst/Onsite Team Lead for USAA INSURANCE,

San Antonio, TX

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, PLI, IMSDB/DC, JCL, VSAM,

File Aid, CA-EASYTRIEVE, SCM (release), BTS (testing), CMS,

SPUFI, PVCS Tracker and STARTEAM (Defects Management) and

PANVELET

Project: Involved in various projects for Property Team, as a team lead

and onsite coordinator delivering the work offshore, as well

as playing major role at on site

As Onsite Team Lead my Major Responsibilities are:

Requirements gathering, documentation and preparing estimates

. Prepared Analysis and Design, Test plan, SDP (Soft Ware Development

Plan) documents, also reviewing and getting approvals with client

. Developed new programs using COBOL, DB2, PL1, IMS DB/DC and CA-

EASYTRIEVE

. Developed numerous Exceptions programs using CA-EASYTRIEVE, DB2,

IMS/DB to generate reports to business users, managers, and to correct

data in database due to defect in code which impacted many customers

. Involved in Unit/System Testing

. As a team lead, onsite coordinator addressed quality issues and

delivered work to offshore

Jun'01 to Sep'03 as a System Analyst for STATE FARM INSURANCE, Bloomington,

IL

Environment: VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, PLI, IMS DB, IMS DC, PLI, JCL,

SPUFI, DB2

Command Centre, QMF, XPEDITER, IMS Menu, TRMS, SFDEV,

Production

Support, DCLGEN and RMS

As Financial Systems Support team member:

Involved in service support and maintenance of the Financial Systems,

Accounting Benefits and People Soft General Ledger business units

As Systems Analyst my Contributions are:

. Requirements gathering, documentation and preparing estimates

. Preparing Analysis and Design Document

. Making the code changes in COBOL, DB2, CICS, PL1 and IMS DB/DC

programs in accordance to the design

. Performing unit and integration testing to the code changes

. Used XPEDITOR tool to perform debugging

. Issued changed code to production using RMS and BLDISS tools

. If there are any reports to be printed in the programs used TRMS

reporting tool to send reports to business partners

. Provided Production support for the application

Jan' 98 to May' 01 as an Offshore team lead for GE CAPITAL, Bombay, INDIA

CLIENT: General Electric ED & C / GE Capital Card Services, Stamford,

C.T/ GE Capital Panther, Danbury C.T.

Environment: OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II, PL1, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, JCL,

SPUFI, QMF,

CCCA, APC, INTERTEST, DCLGEN, ENDEAVOR, HOURGLASS and Production

Support

As Offshore/Onsite Coordinator my Contributions are:

Involved in COBOL Conversion from OS/VS COBOLII to VS/COBOLII, played a key

role in system testing and involved in support after the conversion. Worked

in integration and support of Financial Systems of GE Capital

References available upon request.

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