mainframe Project Manager

Uma Tamilarasan

***-**** *********** *** *-Mail : ****.******@*****.***

Mississauga, ON L5M 7R9 Phone: 647-***-****

Dedicated IT Professional with extensive background in Mainframe development and system analysis

Worked on Development, Enhancement, Support projects

More than 15 years of experience in Mainframe development and System Analysis that includes 8+ years experience as Technical Systems Analyst

Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Developed Stored Procedures, new Batch and Online applications in Mainframe using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and JCL

Worked on ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, QMF, Easytrieve, ISPF, File-Aid, Xpeditor, Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint and Visio

Excel in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Enhancement and Support

Worked on Insurance, Telecom and Automobile domains

Worked 5 years in USA with client and business users

Worked on Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Engineering Graduate with distinction from Madurai Kamaraj University

Certified in LOMA 280 & 290, PMP and Six Sigma

CAREER TRACK:

Associate Manager - Technical

Computer Sciences Corporation Sep 2006 - Mar 2015

(50 years old organization with around 80,000 employees working all around the world. Providing solutions to industries in various sectors in almost all the technologies)

Activities

Insurance Renewal Process Automation - Designed & Developed new Application for Guardian Life Insurance Corporation to Improve persistency & profitability on in-force and new cases by enhancing their renewal process

Insurance Claim Process - Done wide range of enhancements in Claims Processing applications. Technologies used for enhancements are COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM. Also performed Technical Systems Analyst, Project Leader and Technical Manager Roles on the enhancement projects.

Performance Improvements – Have done performance improvement on Claim processing application by reducing Mainframe Jobs CPU time by logic changes and fine tuning DB2 queries. It resulted cost saving of US 50,000 per annum to the client.

Project Management Activities - Performed project estimation using COSMIC methodology, Project tracking, status reporting and team development by mentoring junior & new resources.

Performed following activities as part of development - Requirement gathering from Business users and vendors; Creation of business requirement and technical design documents; Implementation plan development, Unit & System test cases creation and testing; Peer Reviews; Offshore-Onsite coordination and leading the offshore team; Coding programs in COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and JCL; Level 2 production support; Knowledge sharing; Risk Analysis & Tracking; Casual Analysis & Issue Resolution; Reporting SLAs; Provide value additions to clients.

Consultant

US Technology, Chennai, India Sep 2005 - Aug 2006

(Since 1987 US Technologies (UST) has been providing the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art, component level electronics repair service in the industry)

Activities

Enhanced WellPoint Customers Core Billing System to Implement the Mail Utilization tool.

Worked as Technical Systems Analyst and Performed following activities as part of Enhancement – Impact & Risk Analysis; estimation; Creation of technical design documents; Implementation plan development, Unit testing; Peer Reviews; leading offshore team; Coding programs in COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and JCL.

Systems Engineer

Verizon Data Services India Private Limited Jan 2004 – Sep 2005

(Verizon Data Services India, VDS India for short, is a complement of Verizon, the network company and a global leader in delivering innovation in communications, information and entertainment.)

Activities

Enhancement & Maintenance projects – Done wide range of enhancements in ECHOS (Enhanced Collection Handling Online System) Application developed in COBOL, CICS and DB2 technologies. Also worked as Project Leader on the enhancement projects.

Performed following activities as part of Enhancement - Creation of business requirement and technical design documents; Implementation plan development, Unit & System test cases creation and testing; Peer Reviews; Offshore-Onsite coordination and leading the offshore team; Coding programs in COBOL, CICS and DB2.

Project Leader

iNautix Technologies India Private Limited May 2003 – Jan 2004

(iNautix Technologies India Private Limited is a group company of Bank of New York Mellon - a leading financial services provider.)

Activities

Trading Settlement - Developed new Application to accept an ‘Enriched Trade’ message from TPS in a real-time environment to achieve T+1 settling.

Performed following activities as part of Development - Creation of technical design documents; Unit & System test cases creation and testing; Peer Reviews; Offshore-Onsite coordination and leading the offshore team; Coding programs in COBOL, CICS, and DB2.

IT Consultant

Ciber Inc. Mar 2000 – Apr 2003

(30 years old International IT outsourcing and software implementation & consultancy organization with around 8,000 employees working all around the world.)

Activities

Implemented DaimlerChrysler’s initiative to deploy a strategic new Business Center organization restructuring, to empower the dealer group throughout the U.S and Canada.

Designed and Developed Dealer-to-Dealer Referral process and Supported the Production jobs and handled enhancement requests

Performed development activities that include Requirement gathering; Document Business Requirements; Develop test cases and Functional testing; Create high level and detailed design documents; Unit and System testing of the applications; Development of batch and on-line programs in Mainframe technologies using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, Easytrieve and JCL

Programmer Analyst

Whale Corporation, Inc., USA Sep 1998 - Feb 2000

(Consulting company provided technical solutions to multi region vendors)

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