Project Engineer

Mohana Anil Kumar Manepalli

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Profile Summary

Around 12 Years of Work Experience in Mainframes and distributed applications design, development, migration and testing.

More than 2+ years of Onsite experience in Singapore and Belgium.

Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile Methodologies.

Excellent knowledge on Mainframe Migration projects. Worked on various platforms migrations.

oPorting of applications from Siemens Mainframe to IBM Mainframe.

oMigration of application from Hitachi Mainframe to IBM Mainframe.

oConversion of IDMS database to DB2/Oracle Environment.

Well versed with creating High Level Functional Specification and Application Designs.

In depth experience of programming using COBOL, Oracle, DB2/CICS, IDMS/ADSO, CICS. Webservices, SQL, Hibernate, Junit, J2EE and Maven.

Good knowledge on CICS Web services.

In depth knowledge of Banking domain and exposure to Health care and Insurance domains as well.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Good Leadership qualities and capable of handling large teams.

Involved in various roles across the organization including Onsite coordinator, Onsite Test manager, Module lead, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Certified Associate on banking and financial services from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) from Scrum Alliance.

Work Experience

Company

Designation

Duration

Projects handled

CA Technologies

Technical Specialist

Jun’ 2014 – Till date

DBA Center - Legacy Modernization

RBS IDC, India

Technical Lead

Nov’ 2011 – May 2014

Core Accounting

HCL Technologies Ltd, India

Project Lead

Sep’ 2008 – Oct’ 2011

Belgacom Business Continuity

Volvo Migration

AIG – Voltage Implementation

CPF Board, Singapore

System Analyst

Oct’ 2007 – Sep’2008

IT Revamp

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

Sr. Software Engineer

May’ 2003 – Sep’ 2007

GE – Healthcare

GE – Power Systems

GE – Mortgage Insurance

achievements

National Merit Scholarship from Central Government of India.

College Academic Scholarship, from K.B.N College Andhra Pradesh.

University 34th Rank holder in the BCA Common Entrance Test.

Part of GDC club at Satyam Computers for receiving 3 continuous STAR performance awards.

Part of O2 League at HCL Technologies for receiving 2 continuous OUTSTANDING awards.

technical skills

Operating Systems

MVS, z/OS

Languages

COBOL, JCL, Core Java, Easytrieve, Assembler, Visual Basic

Databases

ADSO/IDMS, CICS/DB2, Oracle & VSAM

Tools

TWS, Endeavor, FILE-AID, SPUFI, CA7, Changeman, MQ Series, Voltage, JUnit

Other(s)

CICS Webservices, Hibernate, Maven

professional experience

CA Technologies India Jun 2014 – Till date

Technical Specialist

Project Name: DBA Center – Legacy modernization

DBA Center, provides common browser UI, tightly bound to the technology of the CA XNet platform, using Java UI, running in the Unified workspace. Disciplines restricted to and dependent on using Platform provided widgets/components. It defines data model for Mainframe products via extensive metadata and code translators to surface the respective product data into the DBA Center for consumption by disciplines.

Contribution

As Technical Specialist, responsible for:

Communicating with stakeholders in response to concerns at all levels.

Analyzing and troubleshooting issues with the system to problem solve or develop solutions.

Providing higher level / focused technical support customer service to end users.

Reviewing and recommending approval of technical deliverables.

Meeting with customers to gather and evaluate business requirements.

Mentoring team members engaged in supporting application development, requirement development, testing and documentation.

Working with scrum teams and performing design walk through.

Assisting product manager in sprint reviews with customers.

Environment: Java, JSP, REST APIs, C++, DB2, Endeavor, Maven, SPUFI and z/OS.

Royal Bank of Scotland Nov 2011 – May 2014

Technical Lead

Project Name: Core Accounting

CAUSTIC, part of Core Accounting in RBS Bank stands for Customer Account Updates, Statements, Interest and Charges. It is the core of RBS Bank which has an interface with all the other important Batch systems and processes most part of the Core processing of the bank. It is predominantly transaction driven systems and is a legacy system coded in Assembler.

Contribution

As Technical Lead, responsible for:

Understanding the Business requirements

Creating of Functional Specification document.

Creation of High-level and low level application design documents.

Performing design walk through.

Managing vendor teams.

Co-ordination with Central Test Environment teams for ST and UAT.

Change control implementation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Assembler, DB2, CICS Webservices, Endeavor, J2EE, Hibernate, WebSphere, z/OS

HCL Technologies Ltd., India

Client: AIG, USA March 2011 – Oct 2011

Project Lead

Project Name: Voltage Implementation

American General Life Companies, AGLC is a subsidiary of American General Financial Corporation, which is one of the largest consumer financial services organizations in USA. Headquartered in Houston, American General Financial Corporation is a leading provider of retirement annuities, consumer loans and life insurance.

As per the US Government, all the Personal Identifiable Information (PII) should not be accessible to unauthorized users. All the PII data should encrypted and should not be in a traceable format. AIG had acquired Voltage Product for the encryption, which is deployed to provide various encryption and substitution mechanisms which helps in adhering the Government regulations.

The scope of the project includes

Installing the Voltage production on z/OS.

Understanding the product and its various encryption techniques.

Doing impact analysis to freeze the scope and inventory.

Planning and Inventory analysis.

Designing the strategy for Implementation

Preparing the PII templates for all impacted elements

Implementation of Encryption modules.

Cleaning and refreshing the test database and application files.

Contribution

As Project Lead, responsible for:

Understanding the product architecture and its encryption techniques

Participating in technical reviews and proposing technical solutions

Project tracking and updating AIG on the project progress

Coordination between team members.

Change control implementation

Review with AIG on Project status

Testing (Unit & Integration)

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Voltage, Endeavor, z/OS.

Client: Volvo, Japan May 2010 – February 2011

Project Lead

Project Name: Volvo IT-Hitachi Migration

The Volvo Group is one of the leading suppliers of commercial transport solutions providing products such as trucks, buses, construction equipment, engines and drive systems for boats and industrial applications as well as aircraft engine components. The project involves conversion of of PDM II/DCCM3 database from Hitachi mainframe to DB2/CICS of IBM z/OS.

The scope of the project includes conversion of all applications from Hitachi to z/OS.

Database migration from PDM II to DB2.

Hitachi Cobol(85) to IBM Cobol (Enterprise)

Application code conversion of PDM II batches and online to access DB2.

DCCM3 Maps migration to CICS.

Application code migration of PDM-2 Assembler programs to access DB2.

Hitachi Q programs to Cobol migration.

Creation of data migration routines for PDM II to DB2 Tables.

Successful post conversion testing post migration.

Contribution

As Project Lead, responsible for:

Coordination between team members.

Project support activities (Back-up, version controlling, quality documents preparation and maintenance)

Participating in technical reviews and proposing technical solutions.

Obtain clarifications and feedback from VolvoIT.

Organize peer reviews and team meetings.

Team member task assignment.

Change control implementation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, z/OS, MQ Series, Websphere and J2EE

Client: Belgacom, Belgium Sep 2008 – April 2010

Onsite Engineer

Project Name: IDMS Business Continuity

The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium. It is primarily state owned. The project involves porting of IDMS database from Fujitsu-Siemens mainframe BS2000 to IBM z/OS and re-engineering of application interfaces.

The scope of the project includes migration of all applications from BS2000 to z/OS.

Setting up and configuring IBM mainframe hardware and z/OS operating software.

Migration of application portfolio that currently runs on BS2000/IDMS platform to IDMS on IBM Mainframes z10.

All the interfaces/gateways that are currently available to BS2000/IDMS platform will be replaced as per the need with compatible interfaces/gateways for IBM Mainframes Z10 series.

Migration of COBOL programs, conversion of jobs.

Customization of Tivoli Workload Scheduler and automization of batches.

Development of migration tools for Online and Batch components.

Contribution

As an Onsite Engineer, responsible for:

Coordination between Belgacom and HCL offshore team

Understanding the system architecture

Participating in technical reviews and proposing technical solutions

Project tracking and updating Belgacom on the project progress

Review with partners and Belgacom resources

Testing (Unit, Integration, End-To-End) & Bug fixing

Change control implementation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO, TWS, CA-SPOOL, QCT, z/OS, Websphere, J2EE

CPF Board, Singapore Oct 2007 – Sep 2008

System Analyst

Project Name: ITR (IT Revamp)

The Central Provident Fund Board is a statutory board under the Ministry of Manpower. The Board was established in 1955 by an Act of Parliament to administer the Central Provident Fund (CPF). CPF is a social security savings scheme jointly supported by employees, employers and the Government.

As part of the IT Revamp, CPF Board is migrating there Mainframe application existing in IDMS/ADSO environment to a new DB2/CICS environment.

Scope of this project includes migration of mainframe application to a new environment. Migration includes the following major tasks:

Determine inventory baseline

Code & Data Analysis

Determining mapping rules & define data model

Generate Data migration programs

Carry out codes & Jobs conversion

Unit, System & User Acceptance Test

Codes Refresh

Preparation for Implementation

Parallel Test

Contribution

As a System Analyst, responsible for:

Understanding the Business Processes.

Analyzing the existing MF applications.

Preparation of Technical Design documents.

Development of Data Synchronization process.

Preparation and Execution of Test scenarios for Unit Testing, SIT and UAT.

Review of converted programs.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS, DB2, ADSO, CICS, Core Java, Endeavor, MVS

Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India

Client: GE-Healthcare, France Jan 2006 – Sep 2007

Project Lead

GE Healthcare (GEHC) is a world leader in manufacturing and sales of medical and diagnostic equipments. MUST is the application installed across USA, Europe, Africa and Asia for after sales services of GE Healthcare medical systems.

The scope of the project includes Production Support & Maintenance.

Contribution

As a Project Lead, responsible for:

Maintenance & Enhancement of the existing programs in order to meet the changing business requirements.

Analyze & Incorporate changes if any to solve the problems faced by business users.

Daily Production support from Offshore, special monitoring and schedule changes of batches during month end and year end financial closings include monitoring of jobs and fixing problems if any.

Update Relevant Documents & Report Progress on Maintenance.

Conduct reviews and other quality related procedures as per the CMM Level 5 and SOX standards.

Capacity planning, estimations, work allocation and other Project Management related activities.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO, AVISO, MVS

Client: GE-POWER SYSTEMS, Schenectady, USA May 2005 – Dec 2005

Software Engineer

GEPS – TIM (Maintenance and Production support)

TIM stands for Time sheet Input Management. This system is used to capture the timings for all the GE Power system employees and contractors who work in the organization. This helps in preparing the paychecks of each of the employee in GE Power Systems. Users should enter the time sheet details on the day-to-day activities. It records hours put in by each employee and calculates overtime and total hours put in by each employee. It records hours put in by employees on each activity or Shop Order or Task. This information helps in product cost estimation.

The scope of the project includes Production Support & Maintenance.

Contribution

As a Team member responsible for:

Need to do the Root Cause Analysis of the problem reported.

Doing the impact analysis of the changes.

Design approach for modifying existing & developing new programs.

Preparing testing & review documents as per the quality procedures.

Facilitate onsite in UAT.

Moving the code changes to the Production.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS, DB2, ADSO, Endeavor, MVS

Client: GE-Mortgage Insurance Company, Raleigh, USA Sep 2003 – May 2005

Team member/Module Lead

Project Description

GEFMI (GE Financial & Mortgage Insurance Company), which represents the Mortgage and Insurance Business of GE, has retained SCSL for Maintenance and Development of its Short Cycle Projects. GEFMI requires that more features /functions to be added to the software product being used for conducting its business, which would be executed on the basis of the SLA framed for such Short Cycle Projects.

Satyam offshore will be providing required maintenance & Development for GEFMI's software product at NC, Raleigh, and USA. This is also a conversion project from Mainframe to Open System (Web Technology) as the existing Database is in IDMS is going to be obsolete after some period.

Scope of this project includes migration of existing Mainframe application to a new web based environment. Migration includes the following major tasks:

Understanding the Business Processes

Analyzing the existing MF applications (Batch and Online)

Analyzing data accessed by the entire Application

Design of database for the target application

Design and Development for the Data Synchronization processes

Modifying the already developed Web applications to incorporate changes in the database design, if any.

Conversion of existing MF online applications to Web-Applications

Conversion of existing batch applications from MF to the target environment

Changes in the interfaces with external interfaces

Contribution

As a Team member/Module Lead responsible for:

Understanding the Business Processes

Preparation and approval of Technical Design documents.

Reporting project status to PL and Client.

Coding and Testing - unit testing / system testing.

Getting the inspections/reviews done as per the plan.

Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.

Customer Communication.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS & ADSO, DB2 & CICS, APC, MVS, Visual Basic, Oracle, NDM, IIS

personal information

Father’s Name

M.Ch. Srinivasa Rao

Date of Birth

9th June 1981

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Languages Known

English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil

Passport Details

Expires on 25/02/2024

Visa

H1-B for USA, expires in Sep/2017

B1/B2 for USA, expires in Jul/2024

Communication Address

25572 Soft Mist Terrace, Aldie,

VA-20105, USA

educational background

Bachelor in Computer Applications in the year 2002 from Nagarjuna University, A. P, India with 80%.

Intermediate in the year 1999 from the Board of Intermediate Education, A. P, India with 80%.

trainings

Six Sigma Green Belt trained.

Well trained on QMS++, Function Point Estimates and ASSeT methodology.

Participated in workshops on KYC – AML, Requirement Management.

Completed PMI-ACP workshop.

certifications

Certified on banking and financial services from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF).

CSPO Certified by Scrum Alliance.

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