lead programmer analyst

SIMLA JOSE

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Summary

** ***** ** ********* *********** experience in Credit Card Industry.

Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge and experience in

COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Statement Designer tools (Exstream DIALOGUE and Custom

Statement Formatter).

Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support projects in User

acceptance (UAT), Verification region (Client Test Region) and Production environments.

Successfully designed Credit Card Statements using EXSTREAM DIALOGUE and Custom

Statement Formatter.

Adept at documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of

software development and implementation.

Excellent knowledge of testing tools and coding techniques.

Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of coworkers in

team environment.

Extremely well organized, with the ability to multi task and prioritize workload.

Technical Skills

LANGUAGES

COBOL, CICS, JCL, RPG/400, Java, VB

DATABASES

IMS, DB2, ORACLE, DB/400

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Microsoft Windows NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, OS/390, OS/MVS, OS/400, Linux

TOOLS:

ENDEVOR, FILE AID, FILE MANAGER, TEST DIRECTOR, QUALITY CENTRE, SYNCSORT,

TSO/SDSF, CA7 (Job scheduler), Service Manager (issues tracking tool) and IBM Utilities

Experience

Total Systems August 2003 to March 2014

Lead Programmer Analyst

Columbus, GA

Responsible for producing and delivering fully tested computer programs from business

requirements and/or program specifications on time, and according to specifications. This

includes creating appropriate program documentation in accordance with client requirements

and departmental standards.

Assist with managing all facets of project life cycle, including analysis, design, development,

testing, and implementation.

Assist with production support of the daily, weekly and monthly running of batch statement

programs.

Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walk through meeting

with the IT & Business managers.

Monitor the credit card holder's transactions listed on statements to ensure the statements are

designed according to clients requirements.

Work directly with QA testers to make sure the requirements of the projects are thoroughly

tested before moving to production.

Design statements using the designer tools EXSTREAM DIALOGUE and Custom Statement

Formatter.

JCL job creation and maintenance.

Documenting and coordinating project activities for internal knowledge base.

Scheduling of Jobs via CA 7 scheduler.

Create JCL ‘PROCs' (cataloged procedures).

Powertel January 2000 to June 2001

Systems Engineer

West Point, GA

Involved in PPAS large configuration upgrade, SCP processor 212 30 Upgrade, Louisville area

code split and Prepaid 3.0 migration.

Acceptance testing of Short Message Service for pre paid subscribers and Standard PAMI.

Involved in the installation of IVR, SDP and Mini IVR.

Regression analysis of SCP 212 30 processor performance and performance analysis of IVR,

PPAS and MSC.

T.V.S Limited December 1998 to November 1999

Programmer Analyst

Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Customer Redress System The software is developed on platform AS/400, RPG/400, DB/400 to be

used by branches of the company to attract customers and to reduce complaints of the customers

about the services. Responsibility includes coding, testing and debugging of programs written in

RPG/400 against specifications.

Education

Ramakrishna College 1997

Masters Degree in Computer Applications

Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Maharajas College 1994

Bachelors degree in Maths

Kochi, Kerala, India

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