Project Lead Mainframe technology
Resume:
Suresh Kumar Dangeti
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Summary
More than 10 years of experience in various Technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, REXX, DB2, IMS, CICS-Web services, ECL
Experience in Project Scheduling, Project Tracking and Team Management
Experience in leading team of 16 members for around 6 years through all phases of the project
Experience of over 8 years in business, functional and system analysis
Experience of over 9 years in General Insurance, Banking, Welfare and Healthcare systems
Experienced in Welfare domain and very good knowledge in Social Welfare Programs like CalWorks, CalFresh, Medical, CalHeers, etc.
Experience in interacting with clients to gather requirements, use case preparation, onsite coordination and implementation
Experience in reviews and walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, test results
Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – requirements gathering, analysis, high-level design, low-level design, coding, unit testing, system integration testing user acceptance testing in Development, Maintenance and Enhancement projects
Experience in all phases of Testing, including Preparation of Test data, Testing environment set-up, Creation of Test cases, Unit Testing and System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing
Proficient in Six Sigma, SEI CMMI and PCMM Quality processes and in execution of projects involving CMMI level 5 processes
Experience in production support activities
Experience in configuration management
Experience in training and mentoring team members on insurance domain, mainframe technology and client's system
Certified ‘Associate in General Insurance’ (AINS) on completion of INS21, INS22 and INS23 certifications
Award of Appreciation for CalHEERs development from Unisys, Awarded ‘Recognizing Excellence’ by client (Zurich UK) and ‘Certification of Achievement’ by CSC
Strengths include being a quick learner with excellent analytical and problem solving skills; being a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills; effective handling of concurrent responsibilities and good presentation and documentation skills
Skills
Languages COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, ECL, REXX
Data Base DB2, IMS, RDBMS
Operating Systems MVS OS/390, Unisys 2200, Z/OS
Tools & Utilities MS Access, Powerpoint, excel;, ms project, Changeman, Endeavor, Bagman; Xpeditor, IBM debugger, Intertest, Control-M, OPC, $AVRS, SDSF; SPUFI, SQL, QMF, FILE-AID DB2, BCM, DB2; FILE-AID, TSO-ISPF, FTP, Abend-aid, QW, INFOPAC; XML, SOAP, Data Manager, COGEN; DB2 PowerBuilder, Eclipse
Client : County of Los Angeles
Role : CalHeers project Lead
Duration : Nov 2012 till Jan 2017
Team Size handled : 16
Project Size : 70
Project Description:
California Health Benefit Exchange (Affordable Care Act) or CalHEERs - Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) have jointly sponsored a new system, California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System (CalHEERS), for the exchange. CalHEERS will include various Applicable State Health Subsidy (ASHS) Programs. Los Angeles county welfare system (LEADER) needs to be enhanced to communicate with CalHEERs system to receive and send case information for a unified case view.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Application development Mnagement, Requirements analysis and design of new module for eligibility determination request that needs to be sent to CalHEERs from LEADER
doing preliminary analysis and testing of implementing XML based communication through MSMQ for LEADER system
assisting other modules in design and overall design improvement of the project.
Assigning tasks to the development team and providing answers for business queries and resolution for technical issues faced by them
Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
Acting as quality coordinator for the project to implement quality standards in the project including but not limited the coding checklist, promotion checklist, defect tracking and CAR analysis on defects.
Recommending and implementing process improvements
Estimating development effort required for change requests
Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
Monitoring the progress of the tasks assigned and reviewing the deliverable s from the development team
Coordinating with other team leads in existing LEADER system to analyze the impact on current system and suggesting changes to minimize the impact.
Supporting client in training activities to user on the new system.
Maintenance and improvement of the subsystem.
Requirements gathering through JADs and system analysis.
Client : Royal Bank of Scotland
Role : Team Lead
Duration : Feb 2011 to Mar 2012
Team Size handled : 8
Team Size : 120
Project Description:
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one of the oldest banks in UK and offers wide range of banking services across the world. RBS required development of a new system of mainframe web service operations which could be supplied by the host telephony platform to its newly introduced applications – CRM based Chordiant and IVR.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Requirements gathering through direct client interaction, performing business and system analysis based on requirements and preparing use cases for them
Application designing of CICS-Web Services using Channels and Containers and testing XML SOAP messages generated by various applications
Assigning tasks to the development team and providing answers for business queries and resolution for technical issues faced by them
Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
Acting as Release Coordinator for production releases
Recommending and implementing process improvements
Estimating development effort required for change requests
Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
Budget planning for change requests through walkthrough and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams
Providing status updates to project manager and preparing Monthly Quality Reports
Monitoring the progress of the tasks assigned and reviewing the deliverables from the development team
Reviewing and maintaining quality related documents prepared by team members in appropriate configuration libraries during all phases of SDLC
Managing team members and appraising them on their performance
Client : TryggHansa (RSA group)
Role : Onsite Coordinator and Team Lead
Duration : Feb 2009 to Nov2011
Team Size handled : 6
Team Size : 60
Project Description:
TryggHansa, one of Sweden's largest insurance companies, offers comprehensive coverage for non-life insurance for private persons and companies. TryggHansa's applications are maintained, enhanced and provided with base and production support.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Subject matter expert of client's data warehouse application - Facit
Requirements gathering through direct client interaction, performing business and system analysis based on requirements and preparing use cases for them
Modification, development and testing of batch programs and jobs using COBOL, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve and JCL
Introduced REXX to the team member by attending trainings and knowledge transferring to team to create utilities in REXX for most repetitive tasks.
Performance tuning of complex SQL statements to reduce CPU time of batch jobs
Coordinating with production DBA’s to handle the system performance issues
Estimating hours and resource planning for tasks
Coordinating effectively between multiple application owners and offshore team
Assigning tasks to the development team and providing them with business and technical support
Mentoring team members and reviewing their deliverables
Providing status updates to project manager and preparing quarterly Quality Reports
Participating in walk-through of functional requirements, system designs, program specifications, coding, use cases, and test results
Preparing of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
Base support activities to provide resolution to tickets raised by client
Supporting production incidents and performing abend analysis of production jobs
Additional Activities –
Completed INS22 and INS23 certifications
Won the CSC Chennai Snooker Championship, 2011
Client : Zurich UK
Role : Software Analyst
Duration : Jan 2007 to Feb 2009
Team Size : 12
Project Description:
COGEN is a major Underwriting and Claims system within Zurich, one of the world’s largest insurance groups. COGEN’s applications are provided with maintenance, enhancement and base support.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Subject Matter Expert for COGEN application
Performing business and system analysis on use cases to prepare detailed design
Modification, development. testing and debugging of online programs, batch programs and jobs using COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL
Preparation of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
Estimating hours for tasks
Base support activities to provide resolution to tickets raised by client based on priority
Timely escalation of issues to immediate supervisor
Conducting knowledge transfer sessions for new team members
Additional Activities –
Completed INS21 certification
Client : Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia
Role : Analyst Programmer
Duration : May 2005 to Jan 2007
Team Size : 60
Project Description:
BCBSGa is the largest insurance provider for the State employees, Employer Groups and the people of the State of Georgia, US. BCBSGa’s applications are maintained, enhanced and provided with production support.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Modification, development, testing and debugging of online programs, batch programs and jobs using COBOL, VSAM, CICS and JCL
Creating fresh test regions as part of NPI implementation
Scheduling of jobs in test environment using Control-M
Monitoring of batch jobs and solving abends in minimal possible time
Preparing test cases and test plans and performing peer review
Preparation of quality related documents during all phases of SDLC
Providing oncall production support on rotational basis
Participating in Disaster Recovery exercises for mainframe applications
Additional Activities –
Developed a HTML based knowledge Portal for the project and received appreciation
Represented as Internal Auditor during Project Audit
Underwent BS7799 training
Education and Training
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
IBM Mainframes Training
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