Wasim Bargir

ac83st@r.postjobfree.com

502-***-****

Summary:

Professional skills

Software professional with over 10 years of IT experience in diversified fields of Big Data Analysis in Hadoop and Mainframe Development.

Worked extensively in Mainframe – COBOL, JCL, DB2,IMS, Telon, Chageman, Control-M,

IBM Utilities (IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SYNCSORT) and VSAM .

1+ years of extensive experience in Bigdata and Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, HDFS,Map Reduce, YARN, Hadoop Ecosystem and Shell scripting

In depth understanding of Hadoop Architecture and various components such as Name node, Data node, Resource manager, Application master, Node manger, job tracker, Task tracker etc.

Highly capable for processing large sets of Structure, semi-structure and unstructured dataset and supporting BigData applications.

Hands on experience with Hadoop Ecosystem components like MapReduce (Processing), HDFS (Storage), YARN, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, Oozie, ZooKeeper for data storage and analysis.

Experience in transferring data between a Hadoop ecosystem and structure data storage in a RDBMS such as MY SQL and DB2 using sqoop.

Experience in NoSQL databases like HBase.

Migration from different databases (i.e DB2) to Hadoop.

Proficient in end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation.

Adept at mapping the requirements, custom designing solutions.

8+ Years of strong hands on experience in Mainframe as developer in Development/Maintenance and

production support projects.

Distinction of working with global teams in an onsite-offshore delivery model.

Analyzing, designing and programming of large systems using CA-Gen.

Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities

Busyness system analyst experience.

Project Management

Project Operations

Conducting System Analysis / Process Study for project scoping and tracking.

Implementing project plans within deadlines.

Defining best practices for project support and documentation.

Project Planning & Management

Understanding the technical & functional specifications.

Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the application.

Provide post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application.

Resolving all the concerned issues upon getting approval from concerned authorities.

Aware of the processes needed to be followed in a CMM level5 company. Aware of the process to be followed in any project life cycle

Production Technical Support

Extending high-end technical support on Mainframe server and ensuring high customer satisfaction levels through prompt redressal of their problems.

Analyzing and fixing defects.

Develops technical designs that will meet system objectives and minimize the impact on operations

Have total responsibility for the creation, migration, and ownership of the schedules, JCL and PROC's and other batch resources.

Perform project management of estimating, scheduling, and monitoring tasks.

Ability to follow recovery procedures to restart a batch workload that was interrupted by a system failure

Provided support for the daily batch production cycle which included JCL changes, restart and recovery procedures and notification of the appropriate application programmer to resolve batch abends.

Preparing Abend Logs and Checkpoints, Monitoring Test cycles.

Point of contact to maintain the Web applications used by users for DB2 stored procedures..

Technical skills

OS : Z/OS.

Language : JCL, COBOL, Eazytrieve and CICS, CA Gen Version 8.5

Database : DB2 and VSAM,IDMS

Tools : File Aid, CA-7, Change Man, Panvalet, Platinum, Dialogue Live, Dialogue, MQ

Series, XML, Document Direct, Mainframe Express, Systar, Stored Procedure,

Expediter,Endevor, Biztalk

No SQL Databases :Hbase

Hadoop ecosystem :Hadoop and MapReduce, Sqoop, Hive, PIG, HBASE,HDFS,

Zookeeper, Flume, Oozie,

Profess

Technosoft Corporation

Client - State of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN Sept ’2015- Till Date

Sr. Bigdata / Mainframe Developer

Description

ICES

Indiana Client Eligibility System

State of Indiana, This is an automated system that support the operations of the family and social service administration, Division of family and children. It is doing by integrating most of the public assistance program

Under single client-based, online system that provide fully integrated processing in the determination of client

Eligibility, issuance of benefits and management support.

ICES is made up of twenty-seven components (System). Twenty one of these contain screens which ICES users can potentially view online. All of these sysbstem contribute to providing better client system and more accurate delivery of benefits, in a more efficient, cost effective manner.

Subsystem : Data Exchange (DE)

Responsibilities:

Worked on a live 60 nodes Hadoop cluster running CDH4.4.

Worked with highly unstructured and semi structured data of 90 TB in size (270 TB with replication factor of 3)

Extracted the data from RDBMS into HDFS using sqoop.

Developed Hive scripts for end user / analytic requirement to perform ad hoc analysis.

Very good understanding of Partitions, Bucketing concept in Hive and designed both managed and external table in Hive to optimize performance.

Solved performance issue in Hive and pig scripts with understanding of Joins, group and aggregation and how does translate to Mapreduce jobs.

Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing

Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.

Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, IMS, JCL and VSAM.

Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing

Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.

Create weekly status report and participation in team meetings.

Modifying batch programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes

Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.

Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support

Transfer files to Biztalk server

Client - State of West Virginia, Charleston,WV Oct’2012- Aug 2015

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Description

Rapids

Recipient Automated Payment and Information Data System

State of West Virginia, The Development Center is responsible for providing application software development and support to state agencies. The staff of programmers, analysts, and database administrators utilizes an extensive array of tools to offer a variety of services. While many of our customers are smaller agencies that do not have their own programming staff, we also provide assistance to larger agencies.

RAPIDS(Recipient Automated Payment and Information Data System) is used by Dept of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) in Charleston, West Virginia. This is in essence the Eligibility Determinaton and Benefit Issuance System for the Core Economic Services Programs

Subsystem : MMIS, DX, Inroads, Periodic reporting

Responsibilities:

Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.

Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.

Create weekly status report and participation in team meetings.

Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.

Modifying batch programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes

Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.

Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support

Involved in development of stored procedures for Inroads.

Syntel Consulting INC

Client - Humana Inc., Louisville, KY June’2011- Oct’2012

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Description

Output System Support

Humana supports various types of Output system.

Smart Summary –

Smart summary is a report generated each month for the member giving him an overview of his account. It contains details of his personal health record, health saving account, claims he had last month, amount he has spent by Humana, prescription details etc. This would also provide him with ways of saving money. Smart summary is generated by Dialogue Application (IX)

Dialog Application-

It is a two part graphical reporting application (ENGEXE and PUB – A non-mainframe VB application) used for printing statement and building Mobius. It deals with creating smart statement for Medicare, commercial, Billing, commission

Responsibilities:

24x7 production support, provide resolution to production job abends, attend conference calls with business operations, system managers if any issues in batch stream.

Gather requirements via discussions/meetings with business users and IT Management.

Involved in batch cycles monitoring and ABEND fixing which part of production support is and creating ABEND logs for future reference. Providing the permanent fix the frequently getting abends.

Participate in Client/Team meetings send regular status updates and Task assignments to the Team members.

Full time first level production support for mainframe applications and always given high priority for the production issues. Analyze the production problems and take the action immediately. Perform code changes or data patching if necessary and all the QMS documents to be updated accordingly. If the issues due to other teams, co-ordinate with the other teams to follow up to solve immediately. And inform management on up-to-date status.

Serve on on-call rotation, handling overnight problem calls.

Analyze problems and solve on a day to day basis with appropriate 360-degree user communication.

Working with CICS, IBM MVS, SPUFI, ISPF, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SQL & File-Aid, Panvalet, Xpediter, Intertest, CA/Db2 tools, TSO, FileZilla for FTP and Connect Direct etc.

Experience programming in CA Gen version 8.5

Analyzing, designing and programming of large systems using CA-Gen.

Created regressive test plans and conduct unit testing.

Work with Client IT Management & staff for co-ordination of System and end user testing.

Participate in Client/Team meetings send regular status updates and Task assignments to the Team members.

Assess user inquiries and work with IT management to determine priorities.

Create weekly status report and participation in team meetings.

Providing class room training related to technology & application to the team and new joiners.

Co-ordinate with off-shore team

Responsible for writing Stored Procedures.

Environment: COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,Cool gen,VSAM,TSO/ISPF,SPUFI,QMF,MS-OFFICE,FILEAID,XPEDITER, SAVERS, SHARE and PACKMAN

Automated Enrollment June’2010- May’2011

Automated Enrollment (AE) system receives Groups and Membership feeds from Badger and Metavance platforms and processes the same It provides an integrated solution using the AE system to systematically receive, scrub and feed enrollment data to the CI Badger and MTV platforms. AE has the functionality to feed customer eligibility data with cross-platform lines of business, which includes the plan, benefits, division, coverage etc.

Responsibilities:

Building COBOL Batch and Online application programs using TELON

Converted the Batch programs from IMS database to DB2 database.

Coordinating between and Childcare tracking application system and consolidated

Preparing the Various types of reports for analysis purpose using the JCL, EASYTRIEVE and SORT

Performance tuning the DB2 SQL quires.

Preparing the test plans and test cases.

Trouble shooting any issues while implementing new application programs.

Environment:COBOL,JCL,DB2,IMS,VSAM,TELON,TSO/ISPF,SPUFI,MSOFFICE,VISIO,File-Aid, Panvalet and Xpediter

Cap Gemini, India Aug’2008-June’ 2010

Client - HSBC

Mainframe Developer

Projects Executed

INTERIM DEBIT CARD SERVICES

Description : The objective of this project is to integrate a process that would allow HSBC Card Services to accept Debit Card payments through a desk top application. Collection and Customer care receive numerous requests on a daily basis from customer requesting the option to make a payment via their debit card. Care and Collection can only process Check-By-Phone or savings Accounts payment from customers through desktop application.

Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.

Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.

Enhancements, Maintenance & system testing activities which include formulating the testing strategy, preparing the test plans and identifying key business scenarios.

Work planning, allocation & prioritization in coordination with client & offshore team.

Provide production support and see that the issues were solved within the time limit specified in SLA.

Provision of technical and business solutions to clients.

Provide process, data and object modeling in a variety of application and database environments.

Provide design, development, enhancement as well as management and coordination of changes to existing applications.

Provide production support to Existing modules.

Provide post-production support to Developed modules.

Analyze requirements and discuss them with the client and the end users of the system.

Environment : Mainframes (COBOL, JCL and VSAM)

UNIVERSAL DMP

Description : The objective of this project is to build process to assign Collection Product Indicators (CPI) and CPI Counters on FDR similar to those currently in production on Whirl. These CPI and CPI counters will separately track the number of times that an account has been placed on an Internal or External Hardship program respectively.

1ONE HSBC

Description : This Project is for HSBC. The purpose of this project was to upgrade the current system to a common base code layer so that there is uniformity of code and processing across all the BU’s of HSBC. The project involved analyzing the GAP and then proposing, designing, and implementing the approach to fill the GAP.

24x7 support to production, provide resolution to night-time production job abends, attend conference calls with business operations, system managers if any issues in batch stream.

Interacting with the users regarding user queries

Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.

Modifying batch programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes.

Code review, Review of Deliverables

Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.

Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support.

Involved in resolving the job abends or any kind of problems that are faced by the client in production environment.

Involved in running the entire batch cycle in test region with the new modifications which are going to be turned into production with the test data provided by the testers

Conducting brain storming sessions on the defects identified.

Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests and maintaining application and technical support and documentation

Preparing High Level, Low-level Functional Specification documents.

Effort estimations based upon the requirement analysis.

Review and rework on the review comments.

Interaction with business users to get the business requirements.

Writing the DB2 stored procedures and maintain the COBOL, DB2 applications

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IDMS, JCL, VSAM, ENDEAVOR, INTERTEST, CONTROL-M, CONNECT DIRECT, SPUFI, QMF, NDM and SYNCSORT.

2QUICK HIT: CREDIT BALANCE REFUND REPORT

Description : This project is all for accounts in the Near Prime portfolio (NPMF) on the FDR database. The purpose of this project was to provide early warning report displaying FDR account with Credit balance $5000 (for which suspicious activity reports are required) this would ensure no oversights of large-item credit balances. It does not display items until credit balance has been present more than 6 months and the report will create on weekly basis.

Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.

Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.

Enhancements, Maintenance & system testing activities which include formulating the testing strategy, preparing the test plans and identifying key business scenarios.

Work planning, allocation & prioritization in coordination with client & offshore team.

Provide production support and see that the issues were solved within the time limit specified in SLA.

Provision of technical and business solutions to clients.

Provide process, data and object modeling in a variety of application and database environments.

Provide design, development, enhancement as well as management and coordination of changes to existing applications.

Provide production support to Existing modules.

Provide post-production support to Developed modules.

Analyze requirements and discuss them with the client and the end users of the system.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, FILE MASTER, ALCHEMIST, CICS, IMS/DB, DB2, EASYTRIVE, ESP and HP OPEN VIEW

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