A.L.S Chandrakala E-mail:ad3ypt@r.postjobfree.com
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Experience Profile
Having around 7 years of experience in Mainframe development
Having 1 year experience in Unix and Cobol
Certified in DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals
Extensively worked in Finance & Banking domains
Worked in various phases of software development life cycle
Extensively worked on mainframe development projects with various skill set like COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM UNIX and TELON
Worked on DB2 Stored Procedures
Good experience on version control tools like Endeavor and Changeman
Good experience in preparation of TS and LLD’s
Preparation of Software Requirement Analysis for the Change Requests
Preparation of Test Plans for Quality checks and also User Testing
Have done the FTC Certification: Certificate Program in Retail Management Competency (CPRMC)
Organization
Duration
Designation
TATA Consultancy Service, Kolkata
TATA Consultancy Service, Bangalore
2006-2010
2010-2016
Asst systems Engineer
Software Engineer
Achievements
Completed Six Sigma awareness Training.
Certified in DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals
Certified in FTC Certification
Educational Qualification
University
Percentage
M.C.A.(Master in Computer Applications)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Campus) - A.P.
78
Expertise
Platform
IBM Mainframe
Operating System
OS /390, MVS, DOS, Windows 2000/NT & Unix
RDBMS
DB2, SQL Server2000,
Programming Languages
OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II, RM-COBOL JCL, Easytrieve
Online Subsystem
TSO/ISPF
Tools and Utilities
Telon, File-Aid, SIMS, Changeman, Endevor, Insync, File manager, Platinum.
Special Software
Vision Plus, Card Pac
OLTP
CICS
Mainframe Skills
Having Good Skills in VisionPlus, CARD PAC and TELON
Having experience on CICS regions like CICSA6, CICSA8, and CICSOY.
Developed and Modifying Programs/JCL’s
Worked on file handling programs in COBOL
Worked on DB2 Stored procedures using Platinum Tool
Trainings
Attended VISION PLUS, Easytrieve Trainings
Attended GE Security awareness Training
Attended Oracle PL/SQL Training
Attended Unix Training
Experience Summary:-
Title
IDMS- Enhancement of China Dormant Account validations
Period
Jan, 2015 –Jan2016
Client
DEUTSCHE BANK
Role
Team Member
Project
Description
Roles&
Responsibility
Deutsche Bank Group, one of the world's leading financial service providers to corporate, institutional and individual clients.
Enhancement of China Dormant Account: Current Account: Currently, a current account is considered as dormant after six months of inactivity. Account interest postings are not considered as account activity. As per the new China regulation, a current account should become dormant after one year of inactivity
Savings Account: Currently, a savings account is considered as dormant after two years of inactivity. As per regulation, savings account should become dormant after a year of inactivity
Enhancement of Block Funds phase: As part of this enhancement Mumbai custody services want to achieve client reporting and regulatory reporting for blocked funds. A feed to dbCRIS should be sent with the details of blocking/unblocking. This will be used by dbCRIS and dbDI to present the details of blocking to the clients.
Developed many scratch programs in the online feed dbcris successful for blocking and unblocking.
Generates XML format blocking and unblocking messages and end of feed generated messages successful for blocking and unblocking
Enhanced many programs as per requirement of Dormant account validations, Block funds, Library changes and ASM changes
Developed new scratch program for Dormant account report, Block funds.
Created new scripts as per requirement through Unix.
Involved in the following activities in this project.
Analysis, design and development work by using COBOL, UNIX scripts
Unit testing and prepared unit test case plan
Prepared Low level design and Unit test Result documentation.
#3
Title
MPD-MG
Period
Jan, 2013–Oct 2014
Client
TARGET
Role
Team Member
Project
Description
Target Corporation has undertaken a key initiative – MPD Adjacency Automation Merchandising Grid – which will develop a new system to maintain Target’s Adjacency Hierarchy and automate the manual Adjacency process with the purpose of Store Specific Adjacencies to improve the merchandising process. This initiative will create a business process which will ensure that the right merchandise, plan grams, signing and fixtures arrive in the store in the right quantity, to the right location and at the right time to support store change events.
Merchandising Grid (MG) is a web based application used by MPD Adjacency Analysts/users for creating, viewing and managing Merchandising Grid for a Transition.
Few of My development includes:
Developed many COBOL Stored Procedures in MPD-MG.
Developed many DB2 stored procedures as per requirement on different
tables Manipulations on Merchandise Grid, Action sequence, Action
sequence header and action sequence value and audit table etc.
Roles
&Responsibility
Involved in the following activities in this project.
Analysis, design and development work by using COBOL, DB2 stored procedures and Endevor
Created routines.
Unit testing and System testing
Prepared Technical Specification documentation and UTP documentation
#4
Title
MM-Stock Management
Period
June, 2011 –May, 2012
Client
TESCO(CLIENT PLACE)
Role
Team Member
Project
Description
The Tesco Hindustan Service Centre (HSC) is the Global Services Arm for Tesco. The centre sits at the heart of the Tesco group, and provides IT and Business services to Tesco operations across Europe, Asia and America. Tesco is the first major international retailer to have a fully-owned support centre in India.
The CR-FINAL ORDER–Data warehouse project released on September-2008. Few of my development includes:
Developed an extraction report to extract min/max of thresholds’ of
Departments on date wise and generated the department’s thresholds’
limits file which will be used by data warehousing section.
Developed a program to extract Details of Store safety parameters for
Product areas hardlines, SOFTLINES and generated Store safety
Parameters output file which will be used by data warehousing section.
Developed a program to eliminate duplication of allocation volumes from
the inclusion and exclusion file of base product numbers
Roles
&
Responsibility
Involved in the following activities in this project.
Analysis, design and development work by using TELON, DB2 and Files
Coded JCL’s
Unit testing and System testing
Prepared Technical Specification documentation and UTP documentation
#5
Title
CBA-BLR-MLRB-Payments
Period
May, 2010– May, 2011
Client
CBA, Sydney
Role
Team Member
Project Description
Roles &
Responsibility
CBA-BLR-MLRB-Payments are an Onsite/Offshore Model Support Project for CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia), Sydney. This project is now under transition phase from another vendor to TCS
I have played an active role in Knowledge Transition and aware of below processes/Applications in CBA
Common Transaction Switch (CTS )
Electronic Fund Transfer At Point of Banking (EFTPOB)
Group Account Payment Authorization (GAPA)
Direct Entry system (DE)
Responsible for preparation of TOD (Technical Oriented Document) for :
Electronic Fund Transfer At Point of Banking (EFTPOB)
Group Account Payment Authorisation (GAPA)
#6
Title
SuperXpress System
Period
Jan, 2007 –Aug, 2009
Client
GE-Money, UK
Role
Team Member
Project Description
Offshore Originations team is currently providing the service of developing the projects that are required for the Enhancement of the SuperXpress system.
The E-apps/Originations April release will consist of a number of projects all tied into the same implementation with a delivery date driven by the Competition Commission (CoCo) change requirements,
It has been identified that two of these projects will have an impact on
Toys R Us in-store account opening (SuperXpress system):
E-apps SuperXpress System
Comet
The following projects are being delivered as part of this release:
CoCo Direct Debit Full Balance Option – This part of the CoCo project
will ensure all credit applications/agreements with a Direct Debit mandate include the option for the applicant to request that their Direct Debit is set-up to take the full balance on the account each month instead of the current default of the minimum payment amount
CoCo Direct Debit Tick Box – ensure all credit applications/agreements
Without a Direct Debit mandate include a tick box to register the applicant’s interest in setting up a Direct Debit for their account.
CoCo Insurance/Other Insurance Requirements – clients offering Account
Cover insurance during account opening will be able to offer the Balance Cancellation Cover as a separate product i.e. applicant’s can chose between Account Cover (which includes Balance Cancellation Cover), Balance Cancellation Cover only or no insurance.
Roles &Responsibility
Involved in the following activities in this projects
Analysis, design and development works for Different clients for the
Different Projects,
Enhancement work is done in Cardpac (Batch programs, Online Programs,
New Fields are added in the Maps, Copybooks changes, some added
functionality).
Modifying Files and Coding JCL’s
Prepare applications and testing results
Unit testing, SIT Results,
Prepared Technical Specification documentation, Combined UTP &
UTR’s and Implementation Plan.
& In this project my responsibilities has given some Support to that Projects. Analysis for different projects, as well as maintenance and enhancement for SuperXpress Application, end-to-end activities for SuperXpress Project works, client liaison, Solution Design / Construction and implementation
#7
Title
Tactical Development (GECF) – BHS & EVANS project
Period
July, 2006 – Dec, 2006
Client
GE Consumer Finance UK
Role
Team Member
Responsibilities
Project Description
Involved in the following activities till date
Analysis, design and development work for BHS and EVANS module
Development work is done in Vision plus (Batch programs, Copybooks,
Some added functionality
Prepare Application and Report Generation.
Prepared Technical Analysis documentation, Combined UTP & UTR’s
and Implementation Plan.
Unit testing, system testing and UAT of all converted objects and
getting approved by the client.
A credit card solution seeks to achieve the following:
Enhance revenue and generate higher spend in store
Generate and capture external spend to drive higher balances
Give customers more reason to visit the retailer’s stores
Provide added benefits to customers, including loyalty programming.
Provide additional information of customer spending behavior to enable
direct marketing
Modifications will be done to the existing loyalty system. New loyalty will be setup for BHS PLCC and EVANS PLCC ORG/LOGO.
BHS – 121 /200
EVANS – 103/200 and 103/202
Current loyalty setup for BHS and Evans Master cards will be amended as per the new requirement in V+ Coding to generate the reports.
Two reports to be produced on the first of each month. One for points redeemed and the other for points earned.
The redemption report would show totals by Org/logo:
Total points redeemed in the preceding month - split by internal/external spend number of customers receiving redeemed points
The points earned report would show totals by logo:
Total points earned for all customers during their last complete cycle (e.g. the period up to the last cycle date for each customer) - split by internal/external spend
Total points brought forward from the previous cycle (summation of all BFD totals)
Total point carried forward at end of cycle (summation of all CFD totals).
Bonus points would be included with internal spends.
Statements and letters setup will be done for EVANS GOLD PLCC org/logo i.e. 103/202.
#8
Title
SII High Effort Project
Period
Jan’ 2006 - Jun’2006
Client
GE-Global Consumer Finance, Australia
Role
Team Member
Description
Roles &Responsibility
The GECF Australia Vision PLUS support group has a dedicated effort aimed at continuous improvements and optimization of the existing processes used within the GECF V+ system. These improvements maybe in the batch or the online, as and when an issue or irregularity is noticed. As part of this effort, several items are identified and tracked through tools such as Traffic Light Reports etc.
Some of the items identified are items requiring high effort, and some of these high-effort changes were clubbed together to be implement in the SII High Effort Project. The changes included items to reduce CPU utilization, increases parallelism in the batch, optimization of I-Os etc.
The final result of these changes is to reduce IT spending on capacity infrastructure and also to have a smoother and leaner background processing.
Involved in the following activities in this projects
Analysis, design and development works for SII High effort project
Development work is done in Vision plus and Easytrieve (Batch programs, Copybooks, Some added functionality).
Modifications are done in existing code to improve the Performance and Reducing CPU Utilization.
Report Generations and testing results through SUPERC
Unit testing, System testing
Prepared Technical Analysis documentation, Combined UTP & UTR’s and Implementation Plan.