Lead Mainframe Consultant

PREET PRAKASH SINGH LIKHARI

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Objective:-

To associate myself with a professionally driven esteemed organization in a make-a- difference role coupled with high growth prospects, which offer an intellectually stimulating environment to put my abilities, experience & qualification to optimum use.

Professional Summary:-

11 years of excellent hands-on experience in application development, maintenance and enhancements using SDLC methodology in mainframe applications including Industry Verticals like Banking (Retail),Healthcare (Plans and Providers), Automotive (After Sales) and Energy systems (Bill Generation for FIT customers).

Have excellent experience in working with mainframe technologies like PL1, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC, VSAM and IDMS.

High proficiency in Mainframe technology with relevance to the different phases of Analysis, Design, Programming, Debugging, Testing and Implementation of various application systems.

Involved in the preparation/maintenance of the traceability matrix to keep track of the effects each change recommended by the client would have on the initial requirements on the analysis, design, coding, and testing phases.

Expertise in using the Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool for creating and maintaining the components eg Endevor, CLMS.

Having very good experience in using MQ series queues to read the messages and write the messages.

Have very good experience in Healthcare, Auto and energy and utilities domain.

Have solid planning and organizational skills in all aspects of development.

Strong Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.

Hands-on Experience in creating test plans, test strategies, test data.

Hands-on experience in analyzing the test data.

Participate in daily meeting with the team, walkthroughs and defect tracking meetings

provided support for system testing and implementation.

Expertise in using the SDF2 tool to modify the CICS BMS online screens.

Experience in TSO, VSAM, SPUFI, Endevor, XPEDITOR, CODE370, ABEND AID, File Master,BMC,DVAN,CA7.

Involved in meetings to gather information and requirements from the clients

Education:-

Bachelors degree in Engineering (ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION) from (PUNE UNIVERSITY) with 60% aggregate in 2006.

XIIth ISCE Board (New Delhi) from St. Xavier’s School, Bokaro Steel city, with 73% aggregate in 2002.

Xth ICSE Board (New Delhi) from St. Xavier’s School, Bokaro Steel city, with 79% aggregate in 2000.

Certifications:-

ITIL Foundation certification in 2015.

External Health Care Certification - Fundamentals of Health Insurance (AHIP - Part A) Cleared the AHIP(America Health Insurance plans) - Part A certification with 87% marks in November 2007.

External Health Care Certification - Fundamentals of Health Insurance (AHIP - Part B) Cleared the AHIP(America Health Insurance plans) - Part B certification with 84% marks in October 2008.

Technical certification on 730 IBM certified database Associate DB2 fundamentals.

Technical certification on 733 IBM certified Application Developer DB2 9.

Technical Skills/Specialties:-

System/Hardware: IBM Personal Communications

Operating System: MVS, OS/390, z/OS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, PL/1, REXX

Database: DB2, IMS-DB, IDMS

OLTP: CICS-BMS, IMS-DC

Middleware: MQ Series

Debugging Tools: Batch/Online XPEDITER, CODE370,INTERTEST,OPC/TWS

Configuration Tools: Endevor, CLMS

Utilities and other: TSO/ISPF, VSAM, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, Abend AID, FileMaster, Rational Developer for System z, FTP,Beyond Compare,BMC,CA7,TWS.

Professional Experience:-

Employer- Tieto Software Technologies Ltd (Pune/Stockholm) Aug 2014 to Till date

Client – Nordea Bank AB Designation- Lead Software Engineer

Role: - Lead Application Developer

Description of the project: Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic region. Nordea holds leading positions in corporate and institutional banking as well as in retail and private banking. Responsible to look into Retail banking and maintain Accounts application in legacy systems.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Involved in development activities in Banking application(Private and corporate Banking accounts), which included detailed Analysis of requirements/High level Design and deliveries with high quality for Change Request raised by clients.

2.Involved actively in the system analysis, coding, unit, regression and integration testing of various complex modules

3.Performing peer code review for team members to ensure the accuracy and alignment as per technical design specification.

4.Peer Review in developed specifications and coding of new programs.

5.Participated in all testing activities with the team from Unit testing till UAT testing.

6.Took responsibility of all the software developed by me.

7.Work with Project Teams and IT Operations to translate the design into a fully working Environment

8.Prepare, arrange and Conduct meetings and Presentation.

9.Data setups as per Testing needs

10.Discuss the release requirements with the project team, assess impacts, and raise required changes to release the components.

11.Test Data Management, including Data Refresh, Data Masking.

12.Coordination and communication with key stakeholders.

13.Setup Links/Interfaces from Mainframe to Other Systems (Front end and Backend).Setting up MQ, Db2 tables, Job Scheduling, CICS Routings, Files, and Endevor Setups etc.

14.Resolve environment related issues during Batch and Online testing

15.Provide Development Environment support for all types of Environmental issues

16.Environment planning scheduling and allocation

17.Proactive and reactive Performance Monitoring

18.Data setups as per Testing need\

19.Endevor Code Moves, Maintenance of DB2 environments and Intercept

Domain : Manufacturing

Tools : Endevor, RDz, OPC, TWS

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – z/OS, COBOL, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, DB2, ENDEVOR, XPEDI TOR, File Manager, REXX,TWS, Fileaid.

Employer- IBM India Pvt Ltd. (Pune) Oct 2013 to July 2014

Client – Scottish Southern Electrical Designation- Senior System Engineer

Role: - Senior Application Developer

Description of the project: - SSE plc is a British electric utility company headquartered in Perth, Scotland. The project involves maintenance and enhancement of Customer System. Customer System (CS) is one of the many systems which make up the overall “Business Solution” for Scottish and Southern Energy. CS supports the business functions of providing, maintaining and expanding a Customer Database and an Energy Supply and Distribution Network.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Involved in creation of new COBOL sub routines for the processing activities for Smart Meter to generate bills for Feed in Tariff customers.

2.Involved actively in the system analysis, design, coding, unit, regression, integration testing, and implementation of various complex modules

3.Involved in detailed Analysis of requirements, Design preparation, and Impact

Assessment.

4.Analyze the Client requirement document received from the client and prepare the

the low level design document and shared with team after baseline.

5.Participated in all testing activities with the team from Unit testing till UAT testing.

6.Involved in Idea initiative.

Domain : Energy and Utilities

Tools : CODE370, BMC, OPTIM, CLMS.

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, Stored Procedure.

Employer- IBM India Pvt Ltd. (Pune) Mar 2010 to Sep 2013

Client – General Motors North America Designation- Senior System Engineer

Role: - Senior Application Developer

Description of the project: - GM Service Parts Operations (SPO) procures controls and distributes spare parts to end-users (dealers/ whole sellers etc.). As per the current process, GM spare parts reach to the customers as per the following process:

Suppliers Processing Centers (PC) Parts Distribution Centers (PDC) Customers

Wherein the Processing Center (PC) and Parts Distribution Center (PDC) are types of facilities and each have separate functionality and operations tools/systems.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Involved in detailed Analysis of requirements, Design preparation, Impact

Assessment/Estimation and share with clients.

2.Analyze the Client requirement document received from the client and prepare the

high level and low level design document and shared with team after baseline.

3.Performing peer code review for team members to ensure the accuracy and alignment as per technical design specification.

4.Used SPUFI for extract the data from existing DB2 tables while doing system analysis.

5.Peer Review in developed specifications and coding of new programs

6.Conducted walkthrough’s to review the program parameters by Product Managers to

ensure that the new program matches their business intent prior to the program be

promoted into production.

7.Participated in all testing activities with the team from Unit testing till UAT testing.

8.Took part in quality audit and processes like Metrics and CM baseline activities.

9.Knowledge Management Activities.

Domain : Automotive

Tools : Rational Team Concert, Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Quality Manager, IBM Rational Asset Manager, ISM/TSRM, DVAN,Remedy

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – z/OS, COBOL,PL1, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, DB2, Stored Procedure, MQ Series, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, File Manager, REXX,DVAN,CA7

Employer- Infosys Technologies Ltd.(Pune) October 2009 to February 2010

Client - WELLPOINT Inc. USA Designation- Senior Systems Engineer

Role: - Senior Application Developer

Description of the project :- Providers system facilitates entry of provider details called demographics and reimbursement of claims to providers in different states in US.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Prepared High Level and Low level Design documents for the client requirements.

2.Involved in Analyzing requirement document and converting them into design and

further developing programs based on user requirements.

3.Developed specifications and coding of new programs using COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2.

4.Modified existing JCL programs to fit into the environment and system requirements as per user requirement.

5.Developed SQL Queries to extract the data from the table for the range of program codes during technical design.

6.Participated in program review coded by other team members.

7.Conducted Unit/Regression and System/ Integration test for all Programs.

8.Status Reporting.

9.Created REXX Tools and used existing tools to enhance the day to day productivity of

Production support work.

Domain : HealthCare

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – z/OS, COBOL, IMS DC, JCL, DB2,Stored Procedure, MQ,

ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, Fileaid, CA7.

Employer- Infosys Technologies Ltd.(Bhubaneswar) October 2006 to Sep 2009

Client - AETNA Inc. Hartford, CT, USA Designation- Software Engineer

Role :- Application Developer

Description of the project :- GROUPS/PSIL As a part of the Plan Installation and Group Administration, HMO Groups serves as a system for Plan Installation in the HMO side of Aetna’s business. GROUPS processes quotes from Plan Sponsor Admin (PSA) and HMO GUIDE to create plans for the HMO customers. The plans hence installed by GROUPs are used for HMO Enrollment, Contract fulfillment and quality audits.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Involved actively in the development activities which include system analysis, design, coding, unit, regression, integration testing, and implementation of various modules.

2.Involved in the preparation of technical specifications and test plan documents for the development of new programs.

3.Involved in creating the new COBOL, CICS and DB2 programs to support the library management online CICS screens.

4.Online Screens are developed using Basic Mapping System (BMS)

5.Used Xpeditor for unit testing the source components created/modified.

6.Used Endevor to check in and to modify the source components.

7.Used QMF for extract the data from existing quote and policy DB2 tables while doing system analysis.

Domain : HealthCare

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – OS/390, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, Stored Procedure, MQ,

ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, STARTOOL, INFOX

Description of the project :- PE/RS (“Policy Entry and Reporting System”) facilitates the entry and maintenance of policy information for plan sponsors. The policy information is required in the execution of processes like New Business, Benefit Inquiry and Claims Adjudication.

Contributions:

Responsibility :

1.Enhanced existing on-line screen functionality to allow users to add new Healthcare plans as per business need and standard.

2.Analyzed, designed, developed, coded and debugged on-line screens and batch reports using Xpeditor.

3.Trained all the new joiners about the domain and application knowledge through power point Presentations.

4.Participated in code review activities.

Domain : HealthCare

Hardware : IBM Mainframe, Desktop PC

Software : Mainframe – z/OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IDMS,MQ, Stored Procedure,

ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, STARTOOL, INFOX, ZEKE scheduler

Hobbies:-

Hobbies include playing Cricket, Learning New Things, and Listening to Music.

Personal Details:-

Date of birth: 9th April 1984

Languages : Excellent written and spoken English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Beginner in French.

Preet P.S. Likhari

DATE- 12-Aug-2016 SIGNATURE

PLACE- Pune

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