Nevethitha Kalaivendhan

acen53@r.postjobfree.com

317-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging and progressive career in a well established

organisation that offers professional growth and ample opportunity to learn

and enrich my competencies in my profession.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

. 6.8+ years of professional IT experience in application

development(System design,

Development,Testing,Integration,Documentaion and Implementation),

Software Quality Assurance and Change Management in Mainframe

platform with Full Project Life Cycle participation and relational

Database management.

. Proven knowledge in Analysis, design, coding, testing,

debugging,documentation and production support of computer software.

. Creating, maintaining, supporting user interfaces and database

systems.

. Well acquainted with testing methodology relative to Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and exposure to all phases of SDLC.

. Strong programming skills in COBOL in writing new and enhancing

existing on-line and batch programming with IBM MQ-Series.

. Good interpersonal skills combined with problem solving ability and

technical proficiency.

. Creating and Executed JOBS, PROCS and Control Cards in Test

environment.

. Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability

to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.

. Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic

planning skills

. Very good exposure to all Quality procedures complying with ISO 9002

standards and CMM - Level 5

. Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal

skills.

. Good knowledge of testing techniques for Web based

applications,Standalone application and Client server application on

windows.

. Experience on various testing phases like component

integration testing, technical integration testing, system testing

and performance testing.

. Proficient in MS Word,Excel and Outlook.

. Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure and co-ordinate

multiple tasks in a work / project environment operated on

Onsite-Offshore model.

. Good knowledge in MQ series.

. Versatile team player with excellent communication,

analytical,presentation and inter-personal skills.

. Facilitating Induction Training for the new members into the

account in Processes, Procedures and Standards.

. Good Domain knowledge in Retail(CPG) Payroll,Healthcare Insurance

(Customer privacy) and Logistics and Transportation.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

. Languages - COBOL, JCL,CICS,REXX,NATURAL,C

. Database - DB2,IBM DB2

. File Management - VSAM

. Environment - TSO/ISPF

. Operating System - MVS/ESA,Z/OS(390),Windows XP/Vista/7

. Hardware - IBM Mainframe(TN 3270)

. Networking Tool - MQ Series,IMS

. Tools - Endevor, Changeman, Apptune, Job History, Xpediter,

IBM File

Manager,IBMUtilities,Infoman,SPUFI,QMF,CA-7,SUPER-

C,File-Aid,Abend-Aid,IMSDB/DC,SDSF,Easytrieve,Control-

Mand SMART-TS

. Process tools - Microsoft Outlook,Ms Word,Excel,Powerpoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway,Fortworth,TX June 2011

- Dec 2013

Equipment Distribution Optimization

Technology Analyst, Technical Programmer

Project Type: Application development/Maintenance

Project Profile:

BNSF is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with

33,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The

objective of this project was to supply cars/equipments to its Customers

for transportation. In order to meet their Customer's demand(Equipment

Request) for cars,most railroads have a comprehensive Demand/Supply

management system that ensures effective and efficient utilization of

Supply(Cars).

EDO is one such system that makes decisions of empty supply allocations

based on a global view of supply and demand and regularly reconsiders those

decisions as the situation dynamically changes. This also involves in

managing profiles of Customer who place orders, Order Management, Supply

Management, Equipment Classification and Assignment.

Responsibilities:

. Involvement in Requirement Analysis, Design, Build, Testing,Test paln

preparation and Implementation.

. Designing (Functional Specifications) and coding (Technical

Specifications) the most cost-effective and flexible Logic for

programs on order processing applications where frontend application

like JAVA,SWING.

. Designed detail design and prepared Program specification document for

a new customer interface in Web application and Standalone

application.

. Developed the code from scratch for a customer interface in web

application.

. Testing the developed code from Unit Testing up to System Integration

Testing. Create system test plans and follow through with the testing

and documenting of the test results.

. Implementation of the Code into Production.

. Involved in Impact analysis on the production systems(environment) to

identify the change management that are required to change as part of

the enterprise application.

. Involved in Impact analysis on the production systems(environment) to

identify the change management that are required to change as part of

the enterprise application.

. Involved in Impact analysis on the maintenance modules to identify the

impacted programs that are required to change as part of this new

Servicing Interface on the Standalone application.

. Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out

walkthrough meeting with the Onsite & project managers.

. Frequently coordinating with Onsite coordinator to gather

requirements, heavy documentation of technical and functional

specifications, code and test programs while following SDLC.

. Provided time estimates and control progresm of assigned projects.

. Providing optimal solutions to the issues raised by the client and

provides the same while handling the new requirements.

. Created and Executed JOBS, PROCS and Control Cards in Test

environment.

. Involved in evaluating user specific reports on BATCH applications.

. Involved in Review of Design documents, code and test plans to

implement organization standards.

. Involved in estimating hours for component changes.

. Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases.

. Involved in Unit, System, End & User Acceptance Testing executions.

. Execution of regression test cycles.

. Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.

. Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

. Handled a team and ensuring that deliverables are of high Quality and

Standards.

. Follow up Production problem tickets raised.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS,IMS DB/DC transaction, JCL,MQ series.

Tools used: Change man, Xpeditor, SPUFI,QMF,SUPER-C,IBM DB2,IBM File

Manager,Abend-Aid,File-Aid, IBM DB2,SDSF And Smart-Ts

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Jan 2010 - May

2011

COST (Pricing)

Senior programmer

Type of project: Maintenance

Company: Infosys Technologies Limited

Project Profile:

BNSF is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with

33,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The

objective of COST project is to collect daily events from cars and

intermodal and get the associated waybill information to create cycles.

Each cycle represents all the events that take place to get from Origin to

Destination. Generates the Pricing information by gathering

Drain,Locomotive,flat statistics, calculating miles and time between

events. This COST system handles all the daily, weekly, monthly Batch jobs.

Responsibilities:

. Involvement in Requirement Analysis, Design, Build, Testing,Test paln

preparation and Implementation.

. Designing Functional Specifications with the most cost-effective logic

to generate COST for the events in daily batch coming through various

front-ends.

. Developing the Technical Specifications and code which included

necessary programs and jobs.

. Developed standards and best practice for test and production

environments, as this helps to optimize the batch job code and

schedules in test before they are in production.

. Implementation of the Code into Production

. Used IBM utilities for DB2 table maintenance, including loading,

Unloading and DML modifications.

. Experience in load/unload data with DB2 databases using JCL's.

. Involved in estimating hours for component changes.

. Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases.

. Involved in Unit, System, End & User Acceptance Testing executions.

. Execution of regression test cycles.

. Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.

. Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

. Preparation of restore jobs that will create the test datasets from

the production data snapshots which will be consumed by the run JCL.

. Preparation of test data using File-Aid/Insync.

. Preparation of the VSAM and GDG datasets by defining the corresponding

control cards for the IDCAMS.

. Execution of MVS runs and capturing reports into data sets for the

comparison.

. Running file compares before and after execution of Input/Output files

to make sure they are in sync.

. Root cause analysis of the non matching reports.

. Fixing the application programs for any non-compliance.

. Documentation of the report analysis and file compare analysis results

to be

approved by the client.

. Handled a team and ensuring that deliverables are of high Quality and

Standards.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL,VSAM

Tools used: Change man, Xpeditor, SPUFI,SUPER-C,IBM DB2,IBM File

Manager,Job History, File-Aid, Abend-Aid.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway July 2008 -

Dec 2009

RPMS - Rate price Management system

Technical programmer

Project Type: Maintenance

Company: Infosys Technologies Limited

Project Profile:

BNSF is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, with

33,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The

objective of this project is to maintains all the price details of

transporting commodities from an origin to destination using both internal

and external carriers.

Responsibilities:

. Involvement in Requirement Analysis, Design, Build, Testing,Test plan

preparation and Implementation.

. Developing the Technical Specifications and code which included

necessary programs and jobs.

. Testing the developed code from Unit Testing up to System Integration

Testing.

. Implementation of the Code into Production

. Providing optimal solutions to the issues raised by the client and

provides the same while handling the new requirements.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, IMS transactions

Tools used: Change man, Expeditor, SPUFI, SUPER-C,IBM DB2, IBM File

Manager, Job History, File-Aid, Abend-Aid.

KRAFT Foods Jan 2007 to June 2008

KRAFT Foods (HR, Benefits and Payroll)

System engineer( Technical Programmer)

Project Type: Maintenance

Company: Infosys Technologies Limited

Project Profile:

KRAFT is one of the largest Consumer Package Goods (CPG) industries

operating in USA. The objective of this project was to create, maintain and

support HR(Payroll and Benefits) information for the employees.

Responsibilities:

. Involvement in Requirement Analysis, Design, Build, Testing, Test plan

preparation and Implementation.

. Involved in Handling Change Requests raised by clients in the

application.

. Developing the Technical Specifications and code which included

necessary programs and jobs.

. Testing the developed code from Unit Testing up to System Integration

Testing.

. Implementation of the Code into Production

. Providing optimal solutions to the issues raised by the client and

provides the same while handling the new requirements.

. Follow up Production problem tickets raised.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL,CICS

Tools used: Endevor, SPUFI, IBM File Manager.

CERTIFICATIONS

. Mainframe certification(Internal)

. Logistics and Transportation(Internal)

EDUCATION

V.M.K.V. College of Engineering, Salem

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology(2005 passed out)

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