Rajesh Kasturi

Mainframe Developer

Email: ac7awe@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +1-971-***-****

Portland (OR), USA

Summary:

8+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application Software in Mainframe platform.

Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.

Good Domain knowledge in Automotive services.

Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, QMF, SYNCSORT, FTP, SFTP, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, MQ, SPUFI, Panvalet, Panapt IBM UTILITIES.

Developed projects and products using SDLC (Software development life cycle), from initiation, planning, designing, execution, implementation and Support/Maintenance.

Primary contact person for Production support and system availability.

Tracking all the change requests and Incidents using CISM tool

Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.

Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

Z/OS

Programming Languages

COBOL, IMS, JCL

Databases

DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, VSAM

Business Process tools:

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook

Professional Experience:

Currently working in Syntel Inc from Mar 2010 till date.

Work Permit:

Holding valid H1B visa.

Work Summary:

Daimler Trucks North America Oct’14– Till date

Project: - Enginnering Application

Role:-Project Lead

Location: Portland Or

Project Description:

Freightliner provides customized trucks. Based on the customer requirements, sales applications generate DB code, which will give idea about the part and BOM associated with it. Engineering system will prepare design to the parts to be used. Manufacturing system deals with various application supporting the manufacturing and assembly of trucks by freightliner. Vehicle specification and frame punch information are initial inputs for manufacturing process. Based on detailed vehicle specification, a BOM is prepared which is passed as an input to material planning system

Responsibilities:

Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS

Requirements gathering, business analysis, preparing functional design documents and creating test cases and providing software development services.

Convert business requirements into functional, non-functional and technical requirements.

Gathering business requirements and creating functional design specifications. Provide first response to reported production incidents followed by resolution or escalation as necessary and status reporting.

Creating internal and external design documents & defining and maintaining of interfaces to external applications.

Issue resolution with external teams, work assignment and tracking, conducting status review meetings, defining and maintaining of interfaces to external applications and involved in issue resolution, and co-ordination with customer

Responsible for documentation of Impact analysis document, Effort Estimation plan, preparation of Developer’s and operation’s guide, along with test case result documentation.

Implementation of system in production.

Technologies & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Endeavor, MQ, SFTP, Syncsort, Stored Procedure, IBM Utilities

Daimler Trucks North America Dec 13 – Sep 14

Project: - Glider Invoicing

Role: Project Lead

Location : Chennai India

Project Description:

Glider are part of trucks for which the invoicing system was not streamlined and manual.

Changed the existing sytem to automate the invoicing process for Gliders.

Responsibilities:

Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS

Identified all the programs and changed the existing system for to automated the invoicing process for Glider

Follow coding standards and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, IMS, DB2.

Responsible for documentation of Impact analysis document, Effort Estimation plan, preparation of Developer’s and operation’s guide, along with test case result documentation.

Implementation of system in production.

Technologies & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Endeavor, MQ, SFTP

American Express Oct ’10– Nov’13

Project: - AMEX GMS SDM

Role:-Project Member

Location: Chenai India

Project Description:

Fincads (Financial Capture and Distribution system) is a capturing system which receives financial data specific to card Members and Merchants.

Fincads processes the financial data received and distributes to Card Member billing system and Merchant payment system after validation. The workstation programs are developed in MF-COBOL. The Mainframe programs are written in VS-COBOL II and Database used is IMS.

The task involves application maintenance, enhancements and supporting the system by providing timely resolutions to the problems specific to application, problems reported to the Help desk.

Fincads creates daily, weekly and monthly reports for the processed feeds which will be used for tracking the financial data processed and business analysis.

Responsibilities:

Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS

Requirements gathering, business analysis, preparing functional design documents and creating test cases and providing software development services.

Convert business requirements into functional, non-functional and technical requirements.

Gathering business requirements and creating functional design specifications. Provide first response to reported production incidents followed by resolution or escalation as necessary and status reporting.

Creating internal and external design documents & defining and maintaining of interfaces to external applications.

Issue resolution with external teams, work assignment and tracking, conducting status review meetings, defining and maintaining of interfaces to external applications and involved in issue resolution, and co-ordination with customer

Responsible for documentation of Impact analysis document, Effort Estimation plan, preparation of Developer’s and operation’s guide, along with test case result documentation.

Implementation of system in production

Other Achivements:

Simple Award : Received Simple award for providing simple solutions for complex problem and executing it effectively.

Thank you, Rajesh Kasturi

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