Amit Kumar

Infosys Limited, Bangalore Mobile: +91-966******* E-Mail:

acn738@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn

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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