Developer Insurance

NILAB SADHUKHAN

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Email

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Objective

To go into knowledge driven career involving creative and analytical

thinking where, I would have an opportunity to apply my skills that is

acquired through my education and work experience.

SUMMARY:

. 8 Years of extensive experience on IBM mainframe as developer/tester

on Insurance domains.

. Have worked on many enhancements involving the design of technical

docs, walk through etc.

. Have also been involved in the system testing and in the

implementation and checkouts of new products.

. Have good knowledge of admin engine in insurance like wmA, Vanatage

and also of DSS (Commissions)

. Have worked on many value add which helped the cost optimization.

. Have also worked on the mainframe LPAR migration.

. Strong Communication skills of written, oral, interpersonal and

presentation.

. Have good work experience in IBM Mainframe, especially on COBOL, JCL,

TWS, DB2, REXX, VCS-VSAM, EZYTRIVE.

. Have been involved in the Production support activities on mainframe

involving the nightly batch support, meeting online SLA's.

. LOMA-280 Certified.

TECHNICAL SUMARY:

MAINFRAME :

Operating System : OS/390, Z/OS

Database : DB2, VCS-VSAM

Languages : JCL, COBOL, REXX, EZETRIEVE

Tools : File-A d, Xpeditor, Startool, ISPF and MVS, SPUFI,

TWS,ZEKE,,File Manager, CA7

EDUCATION:

. B-Tech in Comp. Science from Uttar Pradesh Tech. Univ. in 2006

67.5%.

. Intermediate (10+2) from C.B.S.E. in 2002

75%.

. High school (10) C.B.S.E. in 2000

80%.

PROJECTS SUMMARY:

AXA EQUITABLE, NJ

Nov2012 - Present

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer

AXA Equitable is a leading financial protection company and a premier

provider of life insurance, annuity, investment products and services. The

project involves Enhancement requests, Production Support and Application

Maintenance

Responsibilities:

> Working on defects reported in production as well as Test environments

> Running Test Cycle on different QA regions which is for the testing of

the defects as well as the for new annuity products.

> Was also responsible for the production support activities which

involved solving any abends in the nightly batch cycles and also

supporting for the issues faced by the business users during the

daytime.

> Worked on migration of the mainframe LPAR. This was initiative taken

to in source it's wmA application to in-house mainframe. This work

involved in migration of database, code and then running test cycle

in new LPAR to ensure that all functions are same as in the old LPAR.

> Adhoc request which involves in working on compliant cases, legal

issues and resolving the issues within committed time lines. This

involves analysis of the corrupted policies with the BA's and then

analyzing its data from in the past and getting that corrected.

> Also worked on annual scan such as FINRA which are annual reports for

the all the policies in the admin and is required by FINRA

organization.

> Played a crucial role in meeting the online availability SLA during

the critical cycle such as the year end.

> Worked on automating the test cycle through the CA7 scheduler. This

involved in creating the JCL, preparing the Job flow and the auto

triggering of the jobs.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, MFE .

ING, Hartford, CT

Oct 2009 - Oct 2012

Role: Mainframe Developer

ING-IDA: The project is to support and maintain a suite of insurance

applications for ING-IDA Systems. The application processes the Ad-hoc,

Scheduled participant and sponsor financial statements for Annuity, Pension

and Retail systems. The module extracts data from Vantage database and

generates financial statements. The applications are based on IBM mainframe

and are written in COBOL. It involved in the commission calculation of the

agents.

Responsibilities:

> Full ownership of all the reporting program design for the new modules

which were required for the new extract creation. These were extracts

were input the downstream cycles.

> I was also responsible for end to end ownership of ST, acceptance test

by the QA teams and also its final implementation in production.

> I also had the responsibility of designing of the high level technical

specifications and doing a walk through with the BA's and other team

to get the final sign off for work.

> Also worked of SSR and SPR's for fixing the production. These were

some minor changes in the JCL and sometime design level requested by

the business.

> Worked with end to end owner ship for the archival project for fine

tuning the batch performance.

This was to skip the daily processing of the non active policies in

production, which improved the run time of the nightly batch cycles.

> Worked on value add's such deletion of the huge unused files, fine

tuning the long running jobs.

> Was also responsible for the weekly and daily task which involved in

getting the commission paid for the agents which were erroed in the

batch cycles.

> Was also responsible for taking care of the abends in batch cycles.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, ASSEMBLER, fileaid, TWS,

Xpeditor, EZTRIEVE.

NIIT Tech Ltd, India

Sep 2006 - Jul'2009

Role: Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

> I was the on call person for the nightly batch cycle support, which

involves taking care of the abends and also meeting the online SLA.

> Also worked on the scan requirement from our onsite business user.

This involved in writing new code to fetch the data from the

database as per the required conditions.

> Also worked in creating some automated tools using REXX, some of

which were automated cycle run, tape file deletions.

> Also worked on writing some JCL's from scratch, such as for the

automated email notification for some checkpoints, FTP'ing files to

required locations.

> Also worked on fine tuning some to the long running jobs which

improved the runtime and hence improved the batch completion times.

> Also worked in analyzing the access methods of the VSAM file in the

COBOL module and hence finding out a way to improve the system

performance.

Environments: COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, fileaid, CA7, Xpeditor .

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Father's Name Mr. N.C. Sadhukhan

Date of Birth July 6th, 1985

Sex Male

Marital Status Single

Nationality Indian

(Nilab Sadhukhan)

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