Project Management
Resume:
Amit Kumar
Infosys Limited, Bangalore Mobile: +91-966******* E-Mail:
Professional Objective:
To collaborate with project team, interface with clients, and use
technology to deliver effective and efficient solutions. Keep abreast
with latest technologies for working on fast paced, ever-changing and
demanding organizational and client IT requirements.
Experience Summary:
. SAS programmer with mainframe having around 10 plus Years of vast
experience in Data Analysis/programming/Application Development and
Application management.
. Recipient of 'Certificate of Excellence' award from L10NBridge
Technologies and 'Spot Award' from Infosys Limited for achieving
customer delight.
. Worked as onsite coordinator at US Arkansas and as a Team lead at
Ireland.
. Good experience in Source code Development using Base SAS, SAS/MACRO,
SAS/ODS (including HTML, RTF, PDF, Printer, and Listing), and SAS/SQL.
Also exposure to SAS/STATS.
. Good experience in developing SAS procedures such as PROC TRANSPOSE,
PROC FORMAT, PROC SUMMARY, PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, PROC REPORT, PROC
SQL, PROC PRINT etc.
. Exposure to various statistical regression models and fundamentals.
. Advanced expertise in data handling and reporting by using SAS data
and PROC steps, Informats/Formats, MERGE, SET, SAS functions etc. and
also exposure to regression models.
. Developed automated tool in SAS on mainframe to reduce One Person
Month effort.
. Hands On experience on ORACLE database, PL/SQL, INFORMATICA and
SYBASE.
. Worked on diverse skills and have excellent knowledge on RDBMS, DB2,
and CICS etc. Good knowledge on MRO and having exposure to SOA, SOAPUI
and web-services.
. Experience in writing test cases, executing test cases, defect logging
and defect tracking, Incident Management, CMDB, Efforts estimations
. Proficient in producing accurate, timely analysis reports meeting
stringent SLAs and business guidelines.
. System code Optimization, Debug, Revamp conversion to other
technology/Platform
. Project management skills including the ability to track multiple
projects at once while keeping customers and management informed on
status.
. Strong analytical/quantitative/mathematical skills including the
ability to collect, interpret, organize and manipulate data, while
consistently delivering work on time and meeting desired quality
expectations.
. Strong communication and negotiation skills and the ability to
interact effectively with data consumers and Technologies.
. Strong analytical, diagnostic skills and ability to work in a fast-
paced and team-oriented environment.
. Excellent learnability with lower learning curve and ability to garner
bigger picture of application at the same time keeping hawk eye on
smaller tasks.
. Extremely client focused and inclined to identify client value
addition like application tuning and achieve client delight.
. Excellent team player and mentor, proactively work in identifying the
knowledge gap areas and develop training plans.
Key Achievements:
. Reduction in batch window of production applications by tuning the
application.
. Automation of ad hoc business processes saving person hours of
efforts.
. Breaking down of complex business requirements and communicating
effectively to technology implementers by providing efficient design.
. Learning SAS by self and delivering key project deliverables within
stipulated time.
. Automated manual process using SAS and SQL saving 1 Person Month
effort.
. Developed Smart tool to compare two application output saving 4 Person
Month effort.
. Recipient of 'Certificate of Excellence' and SPOT award.
. Fine tuning SQL queries and programs to reduce MIPS for mainframes.
Tools/Technologies:
. Operating Systems: Z/OS (Mainframe), Unix
. Database: DB2, Oracle, Sybase
. SAS Software: SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ODS, SAS/SQL and exposure to
SAS/STAT
. Financial Products: GEAC Application, ProPay Payment system
. Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, REXX, EAZYTRIEVE, SQL, PL/SQL,
JCL, STORED PROCEDURES, and INFORMATICA.
. Access Methods: VSAM
Education:
B.E. (Instrumentation & Control) 1st Position in 1st year and 2nd
Year
Assignment History:
1. Infosys Limited 12/2010 to Till
date (4 Yrs.)
Designation: Technology Lead
Project: CRM Project, Lead Management System, Investment Management
Responsibilities:
. Use of SAS/BASE and SAS/MACROS to generate various weekly and
monthly reports.
. Use of SAS/SQL to automate ad hoc processes for reporting in
spreadsheet format and mailing to end-users.
. Predominantly assigned to breakdown complex business
requirements and transform into system requirements
. Prepare use cases and solution design
. Provide inputs for Project execution and tracking
. Provide inputs for Schedule planning and resource planning
. Pro-actively identify risk and mitigation plan for the project
. Continuous health check of projects
. Pro-actively involved in mentoring team and troubleshooting
knowledge gaps.
. Status reporting to stake holders (viz. SVPs and Directors)
. Instrumental in building cross application awareness and all
hands meet for project.
Tools/Technologies:
. UNIX, BASE-SAS, SAS MACROS, Oracle, SVN, Mainframe, Informatica
2. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
10/2009 to 11/2010 (1 .2 yrs.)
Designation: Project Lead
Project: Banking Payment System including SEPA
Responsibilities:
. Develop/Modify SAS code for automation of regular ad hoc manual
processes.
. SAS reporting for critical applications.
. Reduced the frequency of abends by providing root cause analysis
and fixing the problem areas.
. Project scheduling, execution, tracking and control and team
mentoring.
. Weekly status report creation to stakeholders.
. Received accolades from client managers for the tasks delivered
in efficient and timely manner.
Tools/Technologies:
. Mainframe, Base-SAS, SAS MACROS
3. United Health Group
12/2007 to 09/2009 (1.9 yrs.)
Designation: Associate Lead
Project: Claims processing System
Responsibilities:
. Lead for release management from India and lead for claim
processing system.
. Instrumental in building client relationship.
. Effectively managed team co-ordination.
. Involved in weekly status report creation, team mentoring.
. Extensive knowledge of healthcare system including Medicare,
Madicaid.
Tools/Technologies:
. Mainframe, Assembler
4. Lehman Brothers 11/2006 to
11/2007 (1.1 yrs.)
Designation: Software Developer
Project: Investment Management Application
Responsibilities:
. Worked as a developer in Investment Management division.
. Responsible for development of new projects.
. Involved in Unit testing and bug fixes.
Tools/Technologies:
. Mainframe, DB2, VSAM, CICS.
5. L10NBridge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
07/2004 to 10/2006 (2.3 yrs.)
Designation: Systems Analyst
Project: Health Care provider Financial Applications
Responsibilities:
. Base/SAS and SAS/MACROS implementation for generating report for
accounts receivable and General Ledger.
. Developing Macros for re-using it across various source codes
example - Date routine.
. Generating formats for various facility names across Beverly
Enterprises Inc.
. Lead team for successful completion of the GEAC HRMS and GEAC GL
migration.
. Worked as on-site coordinator for 6 months based out of
ARKANSAS, FORTSMITH.
. Upgraded GEAC HRMS from 11.00.53 to 12.00.54.
. Acquired extensive functional knowledge of the GEAC HRMS system
owned by 'Extensity' now.
Tools/Technologies:
. Base-SAS, SAS Macros, Mainframe, VSAM.
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