Anitharaj S

Phone: 469-***-****

Email: acwiqz@r.postjobfree.com

Status: L2- EAD

Profile

Worked as Senior Associate – Projects for MetLife Insurance Company – Cognizant Technology Solutions, India.

IT industrial experience of 9 years in Mainframe Application Development/Production support services with Insurance Admin processing system for Group Life and underwriting system application for Retail Life &DI portfolio.

Have worked in Niche platforms like Ingenium and Vantage one in Group Life Admin systems (ATLAS, GUL and GVUL and Manu Life Japan).

Worked in developing whole Life and Term Life products and DI products in the Underwriting system for MetLife-CAS.

Worked in development of MetLife strategic initiative projects like Project Flag, Corvair and Fury.

Have experience in overseeing high priority projects and independently manages components of the projects such as Scheduling, Risk, Cost and Issues.

Experience in handling all quality related aspects of Project Management – Estimation, Staffing and Resource Management, DP analysis, Knowledge management.

Expertise in all Mainframe technologies – COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2.

Experience to effectively navigate teams through all the stages of SDLC – requirements gathering, analysis, design, project planning, coding, testing, implementation and support.

Result Driven, self-directed, highly motivated with strong Interpersonal, Problem solving, Decision making & Leadership skills.

Performance Milestones

Received ‘STAR AWARD’ from Cognizant Insurance practice in 2009 for having closed huge number of Incident and problem tickets raised in a short span of time by providing crystal clear analysis in business term to the client to ease their understanding. Got appreciation from MetLife client too.

Received ‘STAR AWARD’ award from Cognizant Insurance practice in 2015 to recognize my outstanding performance in delivering the complex project with stringent deadlines during Natural calamity in Chennai.

TECHNICAL PROFILE

Operating Systems

OS/390, Windows

Languages/Technology

Cobol, JCL, SQL, CICS.

RDBMS

VSAM, DB2.

Application Servers

IBM Mainframes

Development Tools

TSO, ISPF, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, MF-UTILITIES

Domain

Insurance – Policy Admin, Underwriting

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Organization

From

To

Designation (Role)

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd

Feb 2007

Mar 2016

Senior Associate-Projects

ACADEMICS

Course

Institution

% Marks

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication)

Sethu Institute of Technology, Anna University

77

HSC (Std – XII)

St Joseph Girls Hr. Sec school

91

SSC(Std –X)

Rajan Matriculation School

88

CERTIFICATIONS

No

Name of Institution

Certificate

Year of completion

1

Cognizant Academy

Life Insurance (level 0)

2008

2

LOMA

LOMA 280

2008

3

Cognizant Academy

Certification on Ingenium (Level 0)

2008

4

Cognizant Academy

Certification on Vantange one (Level 0)

2008

5

Cognizant Academy

Training - Microsoft Project Professional

2015

PROJECTS

MetLife – CAS eNew Business Underwriting

Client

MetLife

Duration

June 2012 to Mar 2016

Technologies

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2

Tools

TSO, ISPF, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR, EZETRIEVE QMF, Change Man

The application demanded a Highly Generic and Futuristic Design. The system was designed as an enterprise level web based system, which had generic framework in the Presentation and the Business Layers so that future requirements can be met with very minimal changes to the application.

The application is based on automating the Underwriting System.

It handles the Term and whole Life products currently whereas the Underwriting will be done based on the system rules in Single Session.

Responsibilities:

As a Project Lead in development team: -

Understanding of the requirements

Preparing HLD and LLD, Traceability Metrics etc

Estimations for the project development and testing depending on the complexity, resource availability and Work Allocation

Work Coordination at offshore and with onsite/client.

Reviewing the deliverables and ensure the Quality Processes in execution of a project.

Engaged in Audit Reviews.

Ensuring code qualities

Sharing System as well as business knowledge.

As a Senior developer in the Team

Coordinated with Onshore Predictive team to maximize the value created for client engagements.

Communication with US Business Team during Design review, Status meeting and defect call and expectation management.

Involved in all phases of the entire project from Estimation till Implementation.

Ensure to complete the Project Artifacts and participation in Audit reviews.

Guiding the team in understanding the functionality

Generate reports for New Business Reporting Applications where micro strategies are used for various statistics.

Delivering the project at difficult timelines meeting the expectation of the business.

To assign the tasks to team members and supporting them through ‘on-the-job’ training.

Cooperated with other service teams to maximize the value created for client engagements.

2. MANULIFE JAPAN (Manufacturer Life Insurance Company)

Client

MANULIFE - JAPAN

Duration

Jan 2011- July 2011

Technologies

VS COBOL II, Rexx

Product

Ingenium 6.1

ManuLife key business goal is to effectively prepare for projected growth in the Life Products area.

As part of the offshore team, the goal was to customize the existing Policy Administration processes to fit the requirements. The project involved major modification of all the critical processes such as Enrollment Processing & Coverage processing/Billing. Technical Specification documents were prepared at offshore after thorough analysis of the Functional documents, which formed the basis of coding and Unit testing.

Responsibilities

As a Developer at offshore: -

Design, development and rework of Ingenium components such as P-steps, S-steps, Flow files, Process/Function drivers, IO modules etc.

Unit testing of these components

SIT support for changed components

3. METLIFE – Group Universal Life/Group Variable Universal Life

Client

MetLife

Duration

April 2008 – Dec 2010

Technologies

COBOL, MF JCL, VSAM, CICS, Vantage one

Tools

Change Man, XPEDITOR, File-Aid and QMF

Responsibilities

As a Production Support Offshore Team lead: -

Generate periodic dashboards and reports for the management

Worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) at offshore for Policy Enrollment, Policy Fund Administration, Accounting and Billing.

Mentor team members for resolving issues assigned to them

Ensure compliance with Cognizant quality processes. Perform quality related activities like DP, SCM etc.

Participate in audits and take preventive/corrective actions in case of observations/suggestions.

POC ( Point Of Contact) at offshore for GUL/GVUL project.

As a Production Support Team member: -

Support Daily production batch and online systems

Resolve Mainframe related user queries and issues

Investigation and RCA of production abend /issues.

Develop and Implement production support bug-fixes and enhancements service request.

Provide implementation related support to enhancement team as required.

Direct interaction with Client and Client Business counterparts.

3. METLIFE – ATLAS

Client

MetLife

Duration

August 2007 – Mar 2008

Technologies

COBOL, MF JCL, VSAM, CICS, Ingenium 6.5

Tools

Change Man, XPEDITOR, File-Aid and QMF

Responsibilities

As a Developer at offshore: -

Design, development and rework of Ingenium components such as P-steps, S-steps, Flow files, Process/Function drivers, IO modules etc.

Unit testing of these components

SIT support for changed components

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 15-May-1985

Sex : Female

Nationality : Indian

Current Address : 10200, Independence Pkwy, Apt 2204, Plano - 75025, TX

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