Project Developer

ABHIJIT ARGADE

Cell: +1-201-***-**** Email: aczarv@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Mainframe Developer having 7+ years of experience in leading Mainframe Development and support Projects with skill-set across COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, REXX and NDM along with knowledge in Unix Shell scripting.

Strong functional knowledge of Utility Domain including billing, payment, check processing.

Hands-on experience in handling transaction processing in finance domain.

Thorough experience in batch job scheduling, monitoring and maintenance through CA7 and IBM TWS.

Excellent skills with version control tools like Changeman, Endevor and other tools like TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, QMF, DB2 and SPUFI.

Demonstrated experience in creating and scheduling applications based on Mainframe and Unix using CA7.

Good experience in troubleshooting production issues, root cause analysis and system performance tuning.

Proactively involved in enhancement works to fix recurring issues as well as design new procedures to improve system performance.

Excellent with building various reporting application programs for On Demand/Systemware/Easytrieve as per the business user needs.

Received numerous client appreciation awards for handling critical issues and various ideas implementation which resulted in the faster execution of code in production environment.

Have Good knowledge on the Bank Administration Institute formats (BAI Formats).

Extensive experience in the IT industry with experience of end-to-end implementation of the SDLC, including requirement analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance.

Worked with business and functional teams to gather requirements, design quality solutions, and create Functional and Technical specification document.

Involved in implementing Test Plans, Documentation, Production implementation and support turnover.

Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure and coordinate multiple tasks in a work/project environment operated on Onshore-Offshore model.

Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities, ability to work independently or work cross-functional teams.

An excellent problem-solver, able to quickly grasp complex systems and identify opportunities for improvements and resolution of critical issues.

Excellent documentation skills to keep the knowledge repository updated.

Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills with demonstrated abilities in customer relationship management.

Skills

Operating Systems : OS 390, Z/OS, Unix, Windows.

Programming Languages : COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, MQ, SQL, Shell Scripting

Database Technologies : DB2, SQL Server 2008, 2012.

Tools/Technologies : TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, QMF, DCLGEN, File AID for DB2, File AID, Systemware for Reports, Endevor, Xpeditor, InterTest, CA7, TWS, TOM, INFOX, FTP, Easytrieve, TSO/ISPF, IBM utilities, Connect:Direct NDM.

Business Process tools : MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Service Now, Quality Center.

Version Control tools : CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Pittsburgh National Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 05/2014-Present

Project: PINACLE

Role: Mainframe Developer

•Pinacle is a suite of applications which helps PNC Corporate Customers manage their investments and provides various reports to investment managers for providing insights and assisting for making critical business investment decisions.

•The project involves developing and supporting the PINACLE application to ensure proper functioning of the customer business.

•It also includes processing of payments data from various outsourced vendors into Pinacle system.

•Responsible for ensuring correct payments are posted against customer’s account, business total’s tie up against million dollars collected in the bank and handle issues encountered during this process.

•Coordinating and setting up the schedule for all payment batch jobs as per in compliance with the vendor, federal and non-federal holidays.

•Coordinating with various payment vendors to ensure that large amounts of payments are easily processed after holiday/long weekends.

•Generating Easytrieve reports for various business requirements for PNC line of business.

•Working in preparation of estimates for various tasks, assigning to various team members at onsite/offshore, tracking progress and responsible for requirement gathering meetings.

•Independently handled production support issues for day-to-day system operations including data loading using process chains, reversal of incorrect/double posting of payments against accounts, correcting data load failures along with fixing root cause of load failures.

•Handled user tickets generated through Service Now. Never missed the company SLA for highly significant banking processes.

•Worked on various project releases as per project plan and developed highly optimal solutions for business requirements.

•Interacted with business users to understand the issues in application and resolve them as per business needs.

•Implemented optimal production fixes in short span of times in existing applications to avoid the greater impacts to business.

•Maintained and created documentation for all the Support Activities.

Project: EFX Replatforming Project

Role: Mainframe Developer

•This project involved migrating the existing Connect: Direct NDM jobs to PNC EFX platform which in turn transmits data files to outside customers.

•Requirement gathering – Involved in all the discussions with the business during the requirement phase.

•Analysis & Architecture – Involved in analyzing the existing distributed servers, mainframe jobs for migrating Connect: Direct jobs to PNC EFX platform.

•Identify batch JCLs that transmit files to customers and make changes in them.

•Prepare mainframe test files and transmit them to customers through mainframe test JCLS using overriding principles for testing purposes.

•Connect with Business testers to identify issues on the new platform and ensure necessary action is taken to fix them.

Project: Green Field Bridge Data Center Migration

Role: Mainframe Developer

•The project involved migrating the PINACLE Applications from existing data center of PNC to new data center.

•It involved data migration, CA7 Migration, NDM migration and Disaster recovery activity.

•The project involved extensive impact analysis and configuration changes along with the code changes.

•The challenging project was successfully carried out wherein more than 600 batch jobs were migrated (CA7 Migration) to new data centers in various phases with minimal business impact in production.

•Migrated more than 500 Connect: Direct NDM jobs in phases to send files to new servers located on new data centers.

•Involved in fail-over, fail-back activities for mainframe/distributed data center migrations.

Morgan Stanley, New York, USA. 09/2009-04/2014

Project: Money Movement

Role: Mainframe Developer

•The project involved creation and support of Money Movement Cash flow system, with focus on applications pertaining to issuing various types of money transfers (ACH, Wire, Internal transfers), approvals processes such as OFAC, On Demand reporting for end users.

•As part of this project also developed and maintained batch/online systems, stored procedures for various business processes such as SOD, EOD, database updates, various application reporting programs etc.

•Worked with end-users to assess requirements and create feasible solutions.

•Worked with end-users to generate various On-Demand reports through COBOL-DB2 application programs.

•Analyzed existing JCLs, procedures and their functionality.

•Developed and managed daily transmissions of customer data such as account transfers, cash transfers, checks to business partners, email notifications, alerts etc. through Connect:Direct NDM.

•Identified batch JCLs that connect to server and make changes to them.

•Scheduled mainframe batch jobs and transmission jobs.

•Modified existing COBOL modules to generated monthly reporting data into new DB2 tables and designed new SQL queries to be integrated into COBOL-DB2 application programs to fetch data from DB2 tables and populate it in easy to manipulate excel format.

•Designed QMF procedures and integrated them into JCL to pull monthly count reports for the business users.

•Analyzed and fixed critical payment, billing and reporting jobs to improve the system performance.

•Performed unit testing, QA testing and End-to-End testing of transmission and critical payment jobs.

Project: Morgan Stanley-Smith barney Merger

Role: Mainframe Developer

•The project involved the bringing in existing customers of Smith Barney on the same platform of Morgan Stanley. There was large data migration involved and multiple systems were impacted.

•The project involved working out the impact analysis and preparing a project plan to carry this data migration with minimal impact to the systems.

•Performed smooth implementation of code deployment to production (Release management).

•Performed Integration and Unit testing of all impacted modules.

•Data migration and other changes were carried out successfully with minimal impact.

•This was very well known large merger project which received numerous accolades for swift implementation.

•Provided knowledge transition to new members of the team.

Project: Check writer & Check History

Role: Mainframe Developer

•Check Writer is a current day issuing and reporting service of Morgan Stanley.

•The Check History reporting service allows you to inquire on the status of checks issued on any reconciled demand deposit account and depending on how your account is setup, you can have 30, 60, or 90 days of history information available with this service.

•The Stop Payments service of check writer allows users to place Stop Payment requests (stops) on checks issued from Morgan Stanley bank for processing locations through CICS interface.

•Involved in all discussions with the business for requirement gathering.

•Created reporting programs which eliminated erroneous and redundant issuance of various types of checks.

•Automated alerts for issues with batch processing so that timely action can be taken by the support team and applied a fix to the JCLs.

•Prepared detailed design document and test cases.

•Built new JCLs, Procs and COBOL modules to create the various reports on MVS for business users regarding check processing.

•Carried out COBOL-CICS online, COBOL-DB2 Batch Program changes as per the user requirements and testing the changes as per test plan and preparing the test case documents.

Professional Activities and Awards

‘On the Spot’ Award in Oct 2010 for analyzing, designing and implementing the complex solution independently for Check Writer application.

‘Best Team’ Award in Oct 2011 for efforts to achieve the Grand Success of integration project for Morgan Stanley-Smith Barney.

‘Star Performer of the Month’ award in March 2013 for successful implementation of Money Movement Project.

Received numerous appreciations for effective and successful project enhancements and was part of Hall of Fame which enlists employees with monthly achievements.

Received ‘Star Performer of the Month’ award in June 2015 for creating a value addition for PNC business users by saving huge amount of time by automating a manual ad-hoc BAI file creation task.

Achieved ‘Best Team’ Award in July 2016 for efforts to achieve flawless execution of GFB migration project of PNC Bank.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Walchand College of Engineering, Maharashtra, India 2009

Workshop, Trainings and Certifications

IBM Certified (000-730) DB2 9 Family Fundamentals Certification

NSE-NCFM Financial Markets: A Beginner's Module Certification

Attended trainings on Basic Financial Concepts, DB2 Stored Procedures, CA7, ChangeMan and TWS Concepts.

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