Technical Lead with 6 years of experience

Punima Sharma Phone: 917-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Technical Lead with 6 years of experience in AS400 with RPGLE/RPG400 and SYNON 2E.

Domain expertise in Healthcare, Casino Management, Investment Banking and Supply Chain Management.

Successful project deliveries implementing Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Interacted with clients directly for gathering requirements, preparing estimation and technical specification documents and end-to-end support.

Successfully led team and coordinated project activities in Onshore/Offshore model.

Delivered critical compliance projects: HIPAA, Client Money and Clean Share Classes fund conversion.

Work Experience

Infosys Ltd /Technical Lead Jan 2016 - Present

Project: Nordstrom Supply Chain Management

Nordstrom is a high end fashion retailer . Project scope involves production support and major/minor enhancements. Data flows through various interfaces like RMS, EPM, COM (Customer Order Management), Tibco and OS/390 to AS/400. Manhattan’s WMS is used to manage inventory, productivity, labor and space.

Responsibilities:

Work with business stakeholders and other technology teams for requirements and design discussions.

Coordinating activities with Onshore/Offshore for day to day work.

Resolving issues and performing root cause analysis.

Analyze trend of incidents and provide fix for the repetitive issues.

Participating in process improvement and evaluation of technical alternatives solutions.

Preparing and maintaining technical reference documentation.

Coding, Test plan review and testing support.

Mentoring and knowledge sharing to team members.

Fidelity Investment /Sr. Analyst Programmer July 2012 – Dec 2014

Responsibilities:

Coordination with business stakeholders and vendors for requirement gathering.

Preparing SDS, TSD, Traceability matrix, Production Acceptance Checklist and Application support handover document.

Project planning, risk tracking and reporting.

Communicating project expectation/challenges to team member s and business stakeholders.

Test plan review and supporting QA/UAT/PERF testing.

Coding /testing/defect tracking and fixing /peer code review

Key Skills

Programming Language:

RPGLE, RPG/400, RPG Free Format, CLLE, SYNON, Embedded SQL, RPG/400, CL/400, JAVA

Database & OS

DB2/400, SQL, OS/400, Windows

Tools/Utilities

Aldon, Turnover, MKS

Robot Scheduler, Control-M

X-Analysis, Hawkeye, Eclipse

HP Quality Center, Star Team, BMC Remedy, eSmart, ServiceNow

PKMS/Manhattan Associates WMS, Supply Chain Intelligence, PM reporting, iSeries Navigator, IBM Rational Clear

JIRA, Crucible, Confluence

Core Competencies

Requirement Analysis and High Level System Design

Application development and support

Incident and Problem management

Project management

Change management

SDLC

Capable of handling multiple projects and responsibilities

Excellent inter-personal and communication skills

Project: Client Money Reporting on Statement and Valuations

The aim of this project was to report client money held by Fidelity on the behalf of client on the periodic regular S&V letters as per FCA regulations.

Modified report programs to send client consolidated holdings and deal transactions details.

New jobs (ETL) were created to receive AutoRek monthly client money feed on GFAS staging area and from GFAS staging area to S&V application on GFAS.

Created a NEP to receive trigger from AUTOREK to start GFAS bank reconciliation.

Send the in-scope ledger feed from GFAS (AS400 based fund management system) to AUTOREK by SFTP

Developed functionality to reconcile Ledgers by GFAS thereby eliminating manual reconciliation process.

Created Control-M jobs to extract data from Informatica and third party AutoRek, generate S&V letter feed

FTP data to another third party MIDAS/PReS to process S&V feed and generate S&V letters.

Project: U.K. Pricing

The scope of the project was to make FIL system complaint with the FCA regulations i.e. both PI and FNW businesses of Fidelity need to levy a separate service fee to client if any new investment is made to clean share classes.

The project was implemented in time box framework using Agile methodology.

Development of AS400 screens utilizing Web Service Program for service fee rate set up for clients as well as advisers.

Developed functionality for Migration of Funds to clean share classes, NFM fee rate and quarterly interest rate calculation, HMRC tax deductions.

Generation of daily Funds Buy/Sell/Switch reports for business stakeholders.

Development of Web service Programs (interface I-series programs call SOAP Web service) for address verification and to get the territory for given address/zip code, advisor migration.

Created service program, binding directory, subfile programs, job queues and stored procedures to charge service fee for any new investments.

Project : Retail Pension

The aim of this project was to offer a simple and competitive Retail Pension product. This pension product provided an investment wrapper that was in effect identical to existing stocks and shares ISA but could be managed under pension tax regime. Third party tool Composer was chosen to maintain retail pension accounts.

Created new process to send Client accounts data feed to Composer and vice versa.

Creation of new functionality for account creation, customer update, dividend calculation and consolidated holdings.

AML verification process for Retail Pension Clients.

Designed Screens for setup of Omnibus accounts, funds, stops and block codes.

Online report generation screens for deal corrections, ad-hoc monthly Statement and Valuation.

Generation of daily reports for customer update, broker link delink, AML verification, Statement and Valuation letters, stops/blocks applied to clients using GFAS (AS400 based fund management system).

Bally Technologies /Associate Software Analyst Feb 2012 – July 2012

Responsibilities:

Analyse the requirement, coding, testing and post implementation support.

Unit testing and System testing.

Tracking defects in Star Team, defect analysis and bug fixing.

Project: ACSC - CMS

Project (ACSC-CMS: Advanced Casino System Corporation – Casino Management System) mainly works on the change requests (bug fixing) from product management team. It also deals with adding new functionalities to the system.

Develop new functionalities for slot machines, table games and sweepstakes.

Data migration from version 11.5 to 12.0.

Unit testing and System testing.

Providing technical support to the Application.

Cognizant Technology Solutions /Programmer Analyst Feb 2012 – July 2012

Responsibilities:

Responsible for maintenance and development of the application.

Resolving issues and performing root cause analysis.

Analyze trend of incidents and provide fix for the repetitive issues.

Writing of Manual Test Cases.

Coding/Debugging/Testing.

Project: Healthnet

Health Net is U.S. healthcare insurance provider. Federal regulations required healthcare providers to make their system compliant with HIPAA regulations.

10 % reduction in incidents by fixing Out of Balance claims determination programs.

Modified Claims extraction and adjudication process to make it complaint with HIPAA.

Developed new functionality to receive data feed from S/390 and EDI systems.

Modified weekly Institutional/Encounter/Institutional Claims extraction process.

Modified EOB, COB and remittance advice letters to incorporate HIPAA changes.

Education

M.Tech (Biotechnology), Anna University Chennai 2009

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