Project Manager
Resume:
Sahaya Arockia Felcia Soundararaj
TX-75024
Phone: 1-612-***-**** ******.******@*****.***
Career Overview
Highly motivated Mainframe specialist with over 10 years software design and development experience in
mainframe architecture with extensive experience in Vision Plus Credit cards domain and Healthcare.
Qualifications
Mainframes Senior mainframe developer
COBOL Strong analytical skills
VisionPlus Excellent problem solving skills
Technical Skills
Skills Experience Total Years
Mainframes COBOL 10
CICS 8
JCL 10
VSAM 7
Vision Plus 5
DB2/SQL 6
File-aid 8
Endeavour 4
IMS 6
Accomplishments
Software Development
Wrote programs for complex requirement in a short span of time.
Leadership
l Served as a project lead of the BA team.
Client Satisfaction
l Ensured client satisfaction by providing 24/7 support when required.
l Received tremendous appreciation from the client in every project.
Training
l Initiated the training program in the team to enhance their technical skills and created assets to the
account.
l Actively mentored, trained and groomed new mainframe developers for several months to improve
COBOL, VSAM, JCL, credit cards knowledge, debugging and general professional skills.
Work Experience
Technical Lead Consultant
October 2012 to Till date
Deebecon - Express Scripts Inc Bloomington, Minnesota, US
l IBM z/800, z/OS, JCL, CICS, COBOL, DB2, XPEDITOR, FILEAID, File Manager, CRA, PTS, Dob
l As a technical lead, involved in the data history load (DHL), 1/1 Report generation and Claims Research.
l DHL – Involved in on-boarding and off-boarding of clients, which involves review of intake forms and
requirements, review of files and coordinate with Implementation and Account management teams to load data
into production using tools such as CRA, PTS and Dob.
l Gather requirements and create technical specification documents.
l Create a DHL request for the client using Client Requirements Assistant (CRA) tool which feeds requirements
and file dataset names directly into the Dob Application.
l Create functional and technical documents for custom requests and guide the development team.
l Analyze and review the file as part of pre-edit checks, manage the workflows in data on-boarding and load
the file.
l Provide production support for every implementation.
l 1/1 Report Generation – Successfully implemented the report generation for business to validate the
regulatory changes that are effective 1/1.
l Claims Research – Involved in system analysis for claims research which is essentially to validate systemic
behavior.
l Assigned tasks to the team members based on the priority and ensured on-time deliverables .
Senior Associate Projects
November 2009 to April 2011
CTS - AMEX BSDC Globestar – Chennai, TN, India
l IBM z/800, z/OS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, COBOL, DB2, XPEDITOR, FILEAID, File Manager, OPC, Changeman,
Vision Plus.
l As a module lead, involved in the requirement analysis, preparation of TSD, coding, unit testing and
providing support.
l Analyze the code changes in VisionPlus 8.35 and incorporated these changes in Globestar system in
accordance with AMEX business.
l Participated in the on-site meetings on a daily basis from offshore during the KT process .
l Led the Upgrade team and Change Request team and coordinated with the client from the requirements
until IST support.
l Created the design object document and had walk-through with the client until sign-off.
l Created the technical specification document for the impacted component .
l Designed new map, modified existing map and involved in the coding, unit testing and providing support until
IST.
l Wrote new and enhanced existing programs and job execution procedures for system enhancements .
l Assigned tasks to the team members based on the priority and ensured on-time deliverables .
Associate Projects
March 2008 to November 2009
CTS - JPMC MYTSYS INSOURCING PROJECT – Chennai, TN, India
l H/w: IBMOS/390 O/s: MVS S/w: TS2, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS.
l As a Business analyst and project lead, responsible for all deliverables from the BSG team offshore.
l Involved in the preparation of FSD and DES for Cardholder functionalities which includes IRIS.
l Created functional specification documents for new screen and its impacted components.
l Guided the offshore development and QA teams in the development and testing phases respectively.
l Involved in the knowledge sharing with the QA team and guided them in the test script preparation, and
reviewed the test script.
l Provided 24/7 support during the implementation and participated in the daily QA call with the on-site team.
l Ensured deliverables were reviewed and quality process followed before delivery.
l Faced delivery audits successfully with minimal NCR’s.
l Initiated the training program in the team to enhance their technical skills and created assets to the account.
l Reviewed the code and documented the functionalities as part of reverse engineering activity.
TCS - Assistant System Engineer
April 2006 to March 2008
CFNA Private Label Systems – Chennai, TN, India
l H/w: IBMOS/390 O/s: MVS S/w: VISION PLUS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM Tools: Changeman, Intertest.
l As a technical lead involved in the preparation of TSD, coding and unit testing and review of code.
l Responsible for test scripts, data setup, test execution, and status reporting to onsite.
l Involved in the enhancement of posting module, ARD140.
l Modified master files copybook elements and their impacted components.
l Involved in the complete cycle of ALSO project with respect to CMS components.
l Designed new map, modified existing map and involved in the coding, unit testing and providing support.
l Wrote new and enhanced existing programs and job execution procedures for system enhancements.
l Actively mentored, trained and supervised new mainframe developers for several months to improve COBOL,
VSAM, JCL, credit cards knowledge, debugging and general professional skills.
Programmer
September 2005 to April 2006
CITOS - AUSTRALIA DINERS CMS – Chennai, TN, India
l H/w: IBMOS/390 O/s: MVS S/w: VISION PLUS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM Tools: Changeman, Intertest.
l As a team member involved in the development of new programs whenever change request comes.
l Also includes the analysis of the programs for the bug fixing and modification of the programs accordingly.
l Modified master files copybook elements and their impacted components.
l Wrote new and enhanced existing programs and job execution procedures for system enhancements.
l Involved in the data validation, the development of JCL for testing and maintaining the programs in
Changeman.
Programmer
March 2005 to August 2005
Perot Systems - BOIALNOVA Interfaces Testing – Noida, India
l H/w: IBMOS/390 O/s: MVS S/w: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM Tools: Expeditor, Endevor.
l As a team member involved in the analysis of the programs for bug fixing and modification of the programs
accordingly. Also includes the development of new programs whenever change request comes.
l Involved in the data validation, the development of JCLs for testing, maintaining the programs in Endevor,
setting up the environment in DB2 & Endevor and reporting the bugs, if detected.
Programmer
December 2003 to January 2005
DSRC - CAMEX – Chennai, TN, India
l IBM z/800,z/OS, JCL, IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
l The scope of this project is to develop a Mainframe based Code Analyzer, Metrics, & XREF tool to help in
generating metrics for a project (Function points, SLOC, McCabe metrics), and provide useful cross referencing
amongst all artifacts of a project library (Source code, Data files, JCL, PROC, Copy books, Control Cards, SQL
statements).
l Responsible for coding the batch programs to generate a report on the number of Input Output records
present in an input source program and the length occupied by these record layouts.
l Involved in unit testing and documenting the test result of the above module.
Education and Training
Alagappa University 2006
Chidambaram, TN, India
Business Administration
MBAHR (Part-time)
Madras University 2003
Chennai, TN, India
Computer Science
B.E
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