Project Developer

Shitanshu Bajaj Email: aczb5f@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 949-***-****

Sacramento, California, USA

SUMMARY:

Over eight years of experience with focus on application design, development, implementation and maintenance of legacy applications under IBM Mainframes System.

Worked on all phases of the project development life cycle right from Feasibility Study to Post-Implementation support.

Effectively translated complex customer requirements, recommended system solutions.

Having working domain experience in the areas of Banking, Leasing, Financial and Insurance.

Extensive knowledge and work experience in Mainframe Technology – COBOL, JCL, DB2,CICS

Technically proficient in TIBCO product Objectstar.

Completed (000-700) IBM DB2 UDB Family Fundamentals certification.

Undergone Six Sigma Green Belt training.

Proficient in Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOPs).

Experience in leading a team of software developers and work with senior management.

TECHNICAL SKILL SUMMARY

Programming Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, MQ Series C, C++, JAVA, SQL, TIBCO OBJECTSTAR

Databases : IBM DB2, IMS-DB

Operating Systems : MVS, Z/OS, Windows XP/2003/2007

Tools/Utilities : TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, INFOMAN, File-Aid, Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), FTP, Connect-Direct, IBM Utilities, OPC Scheduler, CA-View, CA-PENVALET, IBM File Manager, REMEDY, JIRA

PC Applications : MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Visio

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science [RKDF Institute of Science and Technology, RGPV, Bhopal, India]

WORK EXPERIENCE

IBM – Mainframe Developer (Sacramento, California, USA) – Oct 2015 to Till Date

Family Sabbatical - Nov 2014 to Sep 2015

Satyam/Tech Mahindra, Mainframe Developer/Technical Lead (India/Melbourne, Australia) – Jul 2007 to Oct 2014

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Client: California Department of Health Care Services/IBM, Sacramento, CA (USA)

Oct 2015 – Till Date

Mainframe Developer

Project Overview:

DHCS is the backbone of California’s health care safety net, helping millions of low-income and disabled Californians each and every day. The mission of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is to provide Californians with access to affordable, high-quality health care, including medical, dental, mental health, substance use disorder services, and long-term services and supports.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Receiving the business requirements from the client.

Design and development of programs and jobs.

Involved in system testing, integration testing and pre-production testing.

Involved in UAT, implementation and post implementation support activities.

Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.

Involved in Code review, Test results review and documentation.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Endevor, Panvalet, File-Manager, RTC

Client: National Australia Bank, Melbourne (Australia) / Tech Mahindra Ltd (India)

May 2012 - Oct 2014

Mainframe Developer/ Technical Lead

Project Overview:

LOIS (Leasing One Integrated System) is one of the products offered by National Australia Bank (NAB). LOIS is a comprehensive lease management system of NAB that helps users track, account for and efficiently manage lease portfolio. It provides complete solution for all lease accounting, asset management and operational needs. LOIS is a support and maintenance project which also handles enhancements on regular basis on medium and complex level and delivers solutions to business.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for High Level Assessment for the new project proposals.

Receiving the business requirements from the client / Onsite.

Write and review technical specifications based on requirements and functional specifications.

Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, DB2, Objectstar, CICS.

Involved in system testing, integration testing and pre-production testing.

Involved in UAT, implementation and post implementation support activities.

Work involved providing production batch support, fixing issues in case of batch abends within the SLA.

Worked on root cause analysis for the Problem records.

Handling ad-hoc requests from the client including business query, data extracts.

Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.

Involved in Code review, Test results review and documentation.

Involved in the conditioning of the team with regular knowledge sharing sessions.

Responsible for Project Planning, Tracking, Status reporting and Quality

Involved in the regular system upgrades and conversion projects from BMC to IBM equivalents.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, TIBCO Objectstar v6, Endevor, Infoman, File-Aid, ALM

Client: National Australia Bank, Melbourne (Australia) Feb 2011 – April 2012

Mainframe Developer

Project Overview:

The Personal Properties Security Act (PPSA) is a new federal legislation passed by the Government of Australia in Dec 2009. The legislation covers all non real estate security. The legislation provides for the establishment of the Personal Properties Security Register (PPSR) where all security interests must be recorded to perfect interest. This single register replaces over 30 existing State & federal based registers. The aim of the PPSR reform is to implement a single legal framework for taking & enforcing interests in personal property, thereby increasing certainty in relation to the law & practice on personal property securities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements from the business users and involved other asset teams.

Converted business requirements into technical requirements and developed design based on the requirements.

Coordinated development effort with different asset teams.

Performed peer reviews on code, test results, test plan etc.

Developed new and modified existing front-end screens using CICS and Objectstar.

Performed Unit testing, System testing and System Integration testing and upload test cases / results into ALM.

Performed integration testing with the external vendor - VEDA.

Worked on various Change Requests for the additional requirements came from the client.

Worked in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Pre-production testing.

Deployed Software solutions in Production environment and supported Post deployment activities.

Provided warranty support post implementation.

Provided support documentation for the batch jobs.

Accomplishments:

Awarded GBS Recognizing Excellence for the quarter.

Received numerous appreciations on successful implementation of PPSR.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, TIBCO Objectstar v6, Endevor, Infoman, File-Aid, ALM, VSAM

Client: National Australia Bank, Melbourne (Australia) / (India) Sep 2008 - Jan 2011

Mainframe Developer

Project Overview:

LOIS (Leasing One Integrated System) is one of the products offered by National Australia Bank (NAB). LOIS is a comprehensive lease management system of NAB that helps users track, account for and efficiently manage lease portfolio. It provides complete solution for all lease accounting, asset management and operational needs. LOIS is a support and maintenance project which also handles enhancements on regular basis on medium and complex level and delivers solutions to business.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzing the requirements and prepared technical documentation.

Written new programs and changed existing programs using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Objectstar.

Worked on adhoc requests like work requests for data query and extracts.

Prepared Impact Analysis Document before changing the existing programs.

Prepared unit test cases and system test cases and upload them into Quality centre.

Performed unit testing and system testing.

Involved in UAT.

Worked on Incidents and ensure it to complete within SLA.

Worked on root cause fix of the problem records.

Developed Online screens through CICS and Objectstar.

Monitor batch during implementations.

Involved in internal reviews and code walkthroughs.

Involved in knowledge sharing.

Environment: TIBCO Objectstar v6, COBOL, DB2, JCL, Endevor, Infoman, File-Aid, QC, VSAM, IMS-DB

Client: Best Health Life Insurance, India Dec 2007 – Aug 2008

Mainframe Developer

Project Overview:

The project basically dealt with the whole business process involved in Best Health Life & Insurance domain (Insuring an insurance company) against life, health, property and casualty. It included various types of reinsurance, different plans, claims and premiums paid by the customers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Key associate for the New Business module.

Understanding and gathering requirements from the coordinator.

Involved in analysis, design and testing on service requests and enhancements.

Developed front-end screens using CICS

Involved in developing of the preprocessor, scheduling utility.

Performed peer reviews on code, test results, test plan etc.

Worked closely with technical support teams to ensure objectives are met in timely manner.

Actively involved in providing training to the new support team members.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2

SATYAM - ENTRY LEVEL TRAINEE PROGRAM (ELTP), Hyderabad, India Jul 2007 – Nov 2007

Entry level fresher training was provided by Satyam in Hyderabad on Software development concepts and on Mainframe skill (COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS and VSAM) with the case study to work on at the end of the training.

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