Mainframe Developer with State Experience
Resume:
Kalaignar Selvakumar
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Immigration Status: H1B (Valid till Jun ‘2020)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalaignar-selvakumar-a3603a5a
Professional Summary
Software Engineer having over 11 years of experience in IT Industry, including experience in Development, Enhancement, Production support, Data Migration, Conversion (VSAM to DB2 and DATACOMM to DB2), MIPS Reduction and Legacy Modernization Projects.
Strong knowledge of mainframe technologies COBOL, MF COBOL, PL/I, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, SYNCSORT, XPEDITER, INTERTEST, Changeman, File-AID, File-Manager, RDZ and REXX.
As part of my assignments, Involved in interacting with clients, Analysis, Planning and Scheduling, Effort Estimation, Design, Development, Testing, Quality and Delivery activities.
Worked with Banking, Financial, Securities, Insurance, Retail, Automotive, Utilities and State clients
Worked with technologies like Power Builder, Visual Basic 6.0, Sybase and Web Focus.
Experience in web application development using HTML, ASP, ORACLE and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Worked with databases DB2, ADABAS, Oracle, MS-Access, SQL-SERVER and SYBASE
Experienced in Working with SQL stored procedures and MQ Series.
Basic knowledge in JAVA and CICS Web Services
Having good exposure in company’s quality process and methodologies.
Good Business Acumen, Team player, Mentor, fast learner, Independent worker.
Flexible to work at any capacity (Developer thru Project Management)
Proficient in understanding new technologies, strong problem solving, troubleshooting skills, highly motivated and ability to work as an individual and also as a dynamic member in a team
Exceptionally well organized, strong work ethics and willingness to work hard to achieve employer objectives
Involved in the Technical interview process for hiring technically talented and capable individuals
Wipro Certified Project Lead / Project Manager
Received Employee of the month From SCE&G (Client of Covansys), GEM award from Polaris software labs and Bravo award from Nationwide Insurance (Client of Wipro Technologies)
Education
M.C.A From Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India (April 1998 - 2001)
B.Sc From Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India (April 1995 - 1998)
Technical Skills
Operating System
Z/OS, Windows9X/NT, UNIX
Database
DB2, ADABAS, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access
Internet Tools
HTML, ASP, CSS, VB Script
Languages
COBOL, MF COBOL, JCL, PL/I, NATURAL
OLTP
CICS
Others
VSAM, REXX, Expeditor, Intertest, ENDEVOR, File-Aid, File Manager, PVCS, Insync, Apptune, Strobe, Systematics ALS, Easytrieve, RDz, RTC, IBM-CQM, CA-7, ESP, CONTROL-M, NDM, Visual Basic 6.0, Power Builder, DATA STUDIO, CMOD and Remedy
Project Management tools
ECube, Iplan, JIRA and Confluence
Summary of Projects
Commonwealth of Massachusetts – FMCS Modernization, Boston, USA Jul’17 to till date
Organization / Role: Kyyba INC / Mainframe System Analyst
Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, File-AID, Adabas, Natural, Easytrieve, Confluence & JIRA
Summary:
The batch part of the FMCS (Financial Management Control System) is being redesigned into Java from Mainframe. This is being accomplished in multiple phases.
Responsibilities:
Analysis of the COBOL / Natural / Easytrieve Modules for preparing Program Specification Document
Preparing analysis documentation of the Reports / Programs in Mainframe Environment
Preparing Process Flow Diagrams and saving the I/O files from the batch run for Java team
Provide the input files to the Java team on request and other similar professional responsibilities as needed
Interacting with JAVA Team members and BA to clarify the queries
State Street – Resiliency, Quincy, MA Feb’15 to Jun’17
Organization / Role: WIPRO Technologies / Senior Developer cum Project Lead
Environment: PL-I, COBOL, DB2, CA-DATACOM, CICS, JCL, File Master, RDz, Debugger, IBM-CQM,
Summary:
This project involves the performance improvement changes on the State Street mainframe system which has COBOL, CICS, VSAM, PL-I, DB2 and CA-DATACOM. Also involved in the Major / Minor bug fixes as well as enhancements and Multithreading of the critical batch jobs.
Responsibilities:
Involved in requirement analysis, impact analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
Modified many COBOL, PLI batch as well as online modules for converting DATACOMM calls into Native SQL for better Performance.
Converted Many single Jobs into multithreaded jobs for better performance
Batch monitoring on the day installation to make sure that the changes are running fine
Responsible for coaching, and mentoring junior members in the team
Onsite-offshore coordination. Also managed a team of 6 members
Nationwide Insurance – TBS, Chennai, India Aug’13 to Feb’15
Organization / Role: WIPRO Technologies / Senior Developer cum Project Lead
Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, File Master, Changeman, NDM, IBM-Debugger, ESP and ECUBE
Summary:
Claims associates use TBS to create claims, log notes, view policy coverage's, set reserves and issue payments. The TBS system interfaces with various third-party vendors and desk-top applications to process salvage and subrogation, receive estimates of damage, re-price medical payments, and report required data to outside entities.
Responsibilities:
Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Modified COBOL-DB2 programs and created test batch jobs.
Resolved many JCL abends during batch job testing.
Converted few WEBFOCUS programs into COBOL-DB2 modules
Managed a team of 4 members
SCB – Systematics ALS Upgrade, Bangkok, Thailand Jul’12 to Aug’13
Organization / Role: WIPRO Technologies / Senior Developer
Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Eazytrieve, Intertest and Systematics-ALS
Summary:
The objective of this project is to convert ALS 203 files to ALS 212. Files include data files and PARMS files. PARMS files have already been completed by the bank as it is required for Phase1. Conversion programs for data files have been provided by Fidelity and its needs to be customized to account for SCB changes.
Responsibilities:
Prepared and executed Conversion / File Fix JCL’s
Prepared test plan and results for the fixed files
Created extract and deletion programs using Easytrieve
Impact analysis of list of programs / Fields affected
BBH – CCS Modernization, Chennai, India Nov’11 to Jul’12
Organization / Role: WIPRO Technologies / Team lead
Environment: COBOL, CICS, Web Services, DB2, REXX, JCL, VSAM, Intertest and Changeman
Summary:
In this project, the existing presentation layer which contains CICS 3270 screens shall be converted to a web based user interface on Java Platform.
Responsibilities:
Impact analysis of the Existing COBOL-CICS-DB2 Programs
Prepared CSD’s Document (Cobol Specification Document)
Created wrapper modules using Cobol-CICS-MQ Series, which will act as in Interface between Web pages and Mainframe
Prepared REXX tools for internal usage
Preparing status Report on weekly Basis
Helped the other team to convert VSAM KSDS files into DB2. Also
Managed a team of 6 members
CITI Bank, Chennai, India Jun’08 to Nov’10
Organization / Role: Polaris Software Labs / Team Lead
Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Changeman, Intertest, iPlan and VSS (Visual Source Safe)
Summary:
Data Collection Retirement:
To combine the functionality of the Data Collection and Client Control applications into a single system to avoid duplication of effort, inconsistencies in the account setups between two applications, erroneous entries, etc.
SMAC SECORE Conversion
This project is for migrating SMAC data into SECORE system with the help of conversion programs and it also involves the conversion of SMAC Country specific functionality of Safekeeping account, Broker Account, Depository Account, Message Address, Message Delivery and security details into SECORE System.
Responsibilities:
Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Involved in Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
Modified many COBOL-DB2-VSAM and COBOL-CICS-DB2-VSAM modules
Created COBOL Conversion programs for Loading SMAC data into SECORE
Involved in Code Review & Test Plan Review
Prepared REXX Tools for Internal Usage
Managed a team of 4 members
Nissan-Vehicles, Chennai, India Dec’06 to Feb’08
Organization / Role: Satyam Computer Services / Senior Developer
Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Smarttest, Panvalet, Adabas, Natural and CA-7
Summary:
Vehicle System allocates factory vehicle orders to the Nissan and Infiniti dealers. It also provides the Dealer Sales Plan, a planning tool used to predict future allocations. It is used to setup model line information in system so that data can be propagated and to set up wholesale/retail prices.
Responsibilities:
Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Involved in Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
Modified many COBOL-DB2 and COBOL-CICS-DB2 modules
Responsible for Providing Solutions to the Issues that Arise on Production Batches
Converted some of the Natural-ADABAS modules into COBOL-ADABAS for
SCE&G – CSR, Chennai, India Jul’05 to Aug’06
Organization / Role: Covansys India LTD / Developer
Environment: COBOL, DB2, Power Builder, DB2 Stored Procedure
Summary:
The Main objective of this project is to convert all the Sybase stored procedure and COBOL RPC to DB2 stored procedures and change the stored procedure call in the CSR Desktop panels to call DB2 stored procedure.
Responsibilities:
Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
Modified many Power Builder modules to call Cobol-DB2 Stored procedures instead of Sybase Stored procedures.
Citibank – AFEWS, Chennai, India Dec’04 to Jun’05
Organization / Role: Covansys India LTD / Developer
Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, APPTUNE, Changeman and Intertest
Summary:
Advanced Fraud Early Warning System (AFEWS), a part of ICC is a post authorization fraud detection system. The primary objective of this ongoing project is to maintain customer details & their transaction details happening in both the Credit Card and Retail transactions of Citibank.
Responsibilities:
Involved in analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
Coded COBOL-CICS-DB2 online programs that synchronizes the db2 data across different subsystems
Coded COBOL-DB2 batch programs for housekeeping activities and reporting purposes.
Involved in volume testing and also tuning system performance when required
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