RESUME

Venkata Surya Kiran Reddy Velagala

Email: acybbm@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 402-***-****

Over 9.5 years of IT experience in resource management and developing software in Mainframe Technology in

Retail and Banking Domains

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Expertise in handling the team, managing the team workload, maintaining client relationship,

developing a vendor transition plan

Experience in developing various spreadsheets to manage the team workload, track current and future

projects and to track the IR queue

Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process following Agile and

Waterfall software development methodologies

Strong experience working in Onsite Offshore model

Experience in developing a vendor transition plan and reviewing the SOW for contracting firm

Strong Experience in Design and Development of Multi-Tenant Payments Platform capable of

processing more than $1 trillion every year with strong focus on Security, Scalability, Portability and

Configurability

Lead the Design and Development of Core financial applications like Credit Bureau, Commercial Card,

Security Fraud, ACH and Auto Billing.

Spearheaded the development of Issuing module to help banks to receive payments through FED using

various channels POS, E-Commerce, telepayments and Mobile applications

Good understanding of Acquiring and Issuing life cycles helped me translate Business requirements

into Technical Problems with ease there by improving the quality of development

Good Development Experience with mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM,

REXX, CA-7, INFOGIX

Experience in utilizing the mainframe utilities like File-Aid, File-Master, ISPF, Endevor, INFOMAN,

QMF, SPUFI, Xpeditor, Intertest.

Experience working in application maintenance, enhancements and developing applications from

scratch

Experience with Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodology with Test Driven Development (TDD)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with 76.7% (Distinction) from

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India in 2007

Certification Program in Entrepreneurship Development from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning,

Pune, India in 2010

CERTIFICATIONS

IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 -700 Family Fundamentals) in 2008

IBM Certified Application Developer (DB2 703 Application Developer) in 2009.

AWARDS

Awarded Key to Success award in October 2011 by the client

Catalyst Individual Award in Accenture Q3, 2011 for going Above & Beyond in project deliverables

Catalyst Individual Award in Accenture Q4, 2011 for going Above & Beyond in project deliverables

Going Extra Mile Individual Award in Accenture Q4, 2012 for going Above & Beyond in project

deliverables

Awarded with ACE award - Numero Uno in Accenture FY12 in Individual category

Awarded with Propel Award in Financial Services Zenith Award in Accenture FY13

Awarded as an Architect in Project Excellence award in Accenture Q4, 2013

Received Owner associate of the week award in FS CORE Application Development in Accenture in

2016

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Skills COBOL, JCL, CICS, C, HTML

Database DB2, VSAM

Design/Build Tools File-Aid, File-Master, ISPF, Endevor, Xpeditor, CA-Intertest,

Roscoe Editor, SPUFI, QMF, CA-7, INFOMAN, INFOGIX, MQ-

Series, IBM Rational Developer, CA-Service Desk, CA-Clarity

Operating Systems MVS, IBM OS/390, IBM Z/OS, Windows

Microsoft Tools MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PPT, VISIO

Web Services SOAP XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

First Data USA, Omaha, Nebraska Sep15 - Current

Application Analyst

First Data Corporation is a provider of electronic commerce and global payment technology solutions

company that handles about 45% of US Credit and debit transactions including private label cards, prepaid gift

cards providing Fraud protection and authentication solutions and mobile payment solutions. It processes over

$1 trillion annually in card transactions and has a global footprint of about 6 million merchants.

Contributed in development and maintenance of various financial applications Cardholder reporting, Security

Fraud, Credit Bureaus, Commercial card, Chronicle Memos, Collections and Payments, ACH and Auto Billing

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities are managing and assigning work to the team, mange offshore team, participate

in IT Capacity for slotting the projects in various releases, and develop a plan for vendor transition.

Developed a plan for vendor transition to save about 3500 development hours with smooth transitioning

Developed a workload/ capacity spreadsheet at the team level used to drive planning and tracking of

current and future projects and resource allocation by application

Designed and Implemented a SharePoint site to serve as a single point of access to the team and

application information (application documentation, on-call toolbox, tools and tips related to mainframe

technology, etc.). Site serves as a single repository for all pertinent information needed for the daily

work plan.

Designed and developed a weekly IR (Incident Requests) status report to track the IR queue using

Microsoft SQL Report builder.

Involved in reviewing the designs, performing code reviews to functional and technical programming

standards

Responsible for providing solutions for various projects during major/ minor releases for enhancements

and maintenance for existing applications

Developed the process maps in VISIO for FED Cardholder ACH process

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MS-Excel, MS-PPT, VISIO

Accenture LLP, USA Dec13 - Sep15

Software Engineering Team Lead

First Data Corporation

Contributed in development and maintenance of various financial applications Cardholder reporting, Security

Fraud, Credit Bureaus, Commercial card, Chronicle Memos, Collections and Payments, ACH and Auto Billing

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities are managing the offshore team of 10 and coordinating with the client and the

team for successful completion of deliverables.

Responsible for design, solution discussions along with Product, and team responsibilities including

code reviews, performance review and appraisals.

Utilize in-depth knowledge of Functional and Technical experience in conjunction with industry and

business skills to deliver solutions to customer.

Spearheaded the development of Issuing that comprises of Cardholder reporting, Credit Bureaus,

Commercial Card, Chronicle Memos, Collections and Payments, Automate Clearing House and Auto

Billing applications

Involved in solution discussions with the client to solve their business problems

Created dashboards to report the important metrics that helps client processes and business

Responsible for all the outcomes in meeting the quality of deliverables, reviewing and tracking the

changes for various phases of software development performed by team

Adhere to the SDLC process to deliver the product to customer satisfaction level.

Responsible for maintain the issue logs during implementation and reporting the issues and status report

to management.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MS-Excel, MS-PPT, VISIO

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India Sep10

Dec13

Software Engineering Team Lead

First Data Corporation

Contributed in development and maintenance of various financial applications Cardholder reporting, Security

Fraud, Credit Bureaus, Commercial card, Chronicle Memos, Collections and Payments, ACH and Auto Billing

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities are leading a team of five and working on Run the business providing support

to client raised defects and cycle issues.

Actively participated in the complete life cycle of development, from the design phase to

implementation phase

Responsible for doing the impact analysis and providing the fix for the incident requests in production

within the specified SLA time

Responsible for coordinating between the onshore team and offshore team

Responsible for managing the offshore team workload

Responsible in preparing and reporting the Weekly Status Report to onshore manager

Mentoring the team under me and help them out in all aspects of SDLC.

Code Review of team members and maintaining the WPR log

Worked on the post-production operational issues and get them resolved within SLA.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2

IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India Jul07

Sep10

Application Developer

Macys is one of the largest department stores in USA with a large portfolio of private bands in retail

industry.

Contributed in major releases that involve Process Fulfilment logic for Shipment Consolidation, Multi-channel

Selling Channel Controls, My Macys Division Consolidation, International Shipping functionality

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities are design, development and testing.

Responsible for developing Technical Specification document and design based on Component

Requirement Specification.

Involved in developing new programs and modifying the existing programs as required

Responsible for different levels of testing activities consisting of Component level, System Integration,

System Regression and Performance testing

Responsible for preparing the test cases for various phases of testing bases on SRS (system requirement

specification)

Responsible for raising the defects in bug tracker

Adhere to SDLC process and deliver the product at Customer Satisfaction level.

Developed CICS code to communicate to other modules using XML based SOAP

Involved in providing production support

Environment: MVS, OS/390, Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SOAP

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