App Tech lead/Developer

Manish Patel

Camp Hill, PA C: 860-***-****

acv502@r.postjobfree.com www.Linkedin.com/in/manishpatel11

summary

Experienced mainframe Technical Lead/Sr. Application Developer with experience in partnering with customers to understand business requirements to deliver technical solutions leveraging years of Information Technology knowledge to significantly enhance product quality, decrease operational costs and increase customer satisfaction. Utilize a hands-on approach while working on the projects to deliver results in a defined timeframe. Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading onshore/offshore team members effectively to achieve objectives. Core competencies include:

Strong Analytical Skills

Customer Focused

Performance Improvement

Collaborative Problem Solving

Leadership

Team Player

Self-Motivated

Strong Interpersonal Skills

Deadline Sensitive

Cross Functional Coordination

Detail Oriented

Resource Management

key accomplishments

Worked on modification of several COBOL/DB2 batch programs on the premium waiver claim reserve project which required to change several actuarial formulas and decreased the reserve by 23.7 million dollars which reflected in Aetna’s first quarter 2002 for which received an “Employee of the Quarter Award – Best Performance” for the first quarter 2002.

As part of the performance improvement effort, worked on the tuning of the SQL and modifications to design of the batch program which resulted the job to complete within 50 minutes from 23 hours.

Managed a team of two to four onshore/offshore team members at various times on several projects.

Several years of experience working as a Sr. Application Developer/Technical lead leveraging COBOL/DB2/JCL/VSAM/Stored Procedures and AdvantageGen (Cool:gen application development case tool) technical skills on several projects. Core competencies include: Requirement analysis, Program analysis, design, development, Unit and Integration testing, QA testing support, Production Implementation, Problem Solving, Troubleshooting, Root Cause analysis.

Over two years of BI developer and data analysis experience using SAP Business Object Web intelligence 4.0 and universe design software tools including ETL process to extract data from mainframe DB2 tables, reformatted and populated 22 DB2 tables which were used by the business users to create Webi Reports.

Worked on two small web development projects for the provider smart front end (SFE) and Provider Directory Reporting (PDR) applications for which, developed and maintained several java classes, methods and JSPs using Web sphere Application Development tool.

Excellent system documentation skills including translating business requirements into functional specifications, detailed system design and unit testing plans.

Excellent DB2 performance improvement skills.

Completed Scrum Master training of Agile methodology.

Excellent Release Management skills

Excellent critical thinking, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

Highly effective communication skills, and respected by colleagues.

Well organized, detail-oriented, focused and goals driven.

Strong work ethic.

Very patient and well-developed sense of independence.

technical skills

COBOL

DB2

JCL

MQ

SQL

Easytrieve

CICS(Basic level)

VSAM

IMS(Basic level)

TSO

FILEAID

QMF

ENDEVOR

Xpediter

IBM Mainframe

SAP Business Objects Universe Designer and Web Intelligence Reports developer

JAVA

API Interfaces

professional experience

Department of Labor and Industry, Harrisburg, PA

Sr. Application Developer 2015 – current

Responsible for development and maintenance of unemployment compensation system.

Currently, working as a Sr. Application Developer for an unemployment compensation claim system leveraging COBOL/DB2/JCL/VSAM/EASYTRIEVE/AdvantageGen (Cool:gen application development case tool) technical skills. Core competencies include: Requirement analysis, Program analysis, design, development, testing, QA testing support, Production Implementation, Problem Solving, Troubleshooting, Root Cause analysis.

Aetna, Hartford, CT

Technical Lead/Sr. Application Developer 2001 – 2015

Responsible for development and maintenance of Data Migrator, Member, Provider, Disability, Defined Benefits systems.

Worked as a Sr. Application Developer/Technical Lead on several projects for several systems leveraging COBOL/DB2/JCL/VSAM/Stored Procedures and AdvantageGen (Cool:gen application development case tool) technical skills on several projects. Core competencies include: Requirement analysis, Program analysis, design, development, testing, QA testing support, Production Implementation, Problem Solving, Troubleshooting, Root Cause analysis.

Managed several onshore and offshore team members to support several application development projects tasks. The tasks included requirement analysis, design, coding, unit testing, user testing support and implementation of the software programs into production.

Worked as a developer and as a technical lead to manage onshore/offshore team members to develop business intelligence reports by designing and developing universes using SAP Business Object Web intelligence 4.0 and universe design software tools including ETL process to extract data from the mainframe DB2 tables, reformatted and to populate 22 DB2 tables which were used by the business users to create Webi Reports..

Worked on the system infrastructure projects to support new development environments using Endevor software tool. Worked on the several service requests to improve the performance of the online transactions and stored procedures for which, analyzed several access paths and implemented various solutions to make them run efficiently.

Worked as a release coordinator and coordinated several releases involving multiple cross functional applications.

As part of the performance improvement effort, worked on the tuning of the SQL and modifications to design of the batch program which resulted the job to complete within 50 minutes from 23 hours.

Worked on the two small web development projects for the of provider smart front end (SFE) and Provider Directory Reporting (PDR) applications for which, developed and maintained several java classes, methods and JSPs using Web sphere Application Development tool.

Worked on modification of several COBOL/DB2 batch programs on the premium waiver claim reserve project which required to change several actuarial formulas and decreased the reserve by 23.7 million dollars which reflected in Aetna’s first quarter 2002 bottom line result for which received an “Employee of the Quarter Award – Best Performance” for the first quarter 2002.

Travelers Insurance Inc, Hartford, CT

Information Systems Consultant 1999 – 2001

Responsible for development and maintenance of CDE application system.

Worked as a consultant on the personal lines system leveraging COBOL/DB2/JCL and AdvantageGen (Cool:gen application development case tool) technical skills. Core competencies include: Requirement analysis, Program analysis, design, development, testing, QA testing support, Production Implementation, Problem Solving, Troubleshooting, Root Cause analysis.

education and training

MBA, Computer and Information Science, West Haven, CT

Diploma, Computer Science, Computer Processing Institute, East Hartford, CT

Scrum Master (Agile)

Advanced DB2 programming

Software Project Life Cycle

Release Management

Visual Basic 4.0

PowerBuilder 5.0

Microsoft C++

SAP Business Objects universe design and Web Intelligence 4.0

Advanced JAVA

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