Software Developer Senior

ASHOK KUMAR, NAGESWARA RAO

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OBJECTIVE

With more than 15 years of Software Development experience, I am seeking a position where I can work in a challenging environment with zest to achieve organizational as well as personal goals. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

● Strong domain experience in Banking & Capital Management, Credit Cards, Retirement and Mutual Fund Industries.

● Experience in working on DB2, C, C++, JAVA, COBOL, SQL, JCL, VSAM and IMS/CICS Screens along with ISPF, SDSF, MVS and MQ series.

● Well versed in Application Development with C/C++, Mainframe Technologies, Java technologies, Distributed and Client- Server Architecture environments.

● Noted for outstanding research and impact analysis which leverages ability to work individually and as a team to solve critical issues.

● Solid in Core JAVA concepts such as Collections framework, advance java, Multithreading & Object-Oriented concepts.

● Proficient in understanding job schedules, monitoring the cycles and scheduling new jobs /modifying schedules through Jobtrac and ESP (Broadcom tools).

● Worked extensively in development of stored procedures, Dynamic SQLs, Cursors, and embedded SQLs.

● Experience in the deployment of multi-tiered web-based enterprise applications and Server-side Business logic using Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC & Java Beans.

● Hands on experience working with Web and Application Servers such as Apache Tomcat & IBM WebSphere and experienced in generating logs by Log4j to identify the errors in production test environment.

● Extensive development experience on different IDE's Eclipse, STS, Visual Studio for debugging and using java coding standards.

● Experienced in Pair Programming, Waterfall model and Agile Methodologies with SCRUM.

● Competent in building webpages and maintaining websites through basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript or JSP.

● Pioneer in using REXX or CLIST to automate tasks and building tools to reduce manual effort.

● Experience in using JIRA, Remedy, ServiceNow & Clarity tools.

● Knowledge of SSIS, SSRS in Microsoft SQL server, XML and SOAP tester.

● Highly motivated to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.

● Experience in mentoring new associates and providing business/technical training. EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Louisiana, Lafayette (Dean’s List, Honor’s Convocation) with a GPA of 3.91/4.0, Merit Scholarship (May 2013)

Bachelors in Electronics and Communications from JNTU, India with a GPA of 7.5/10 (May 2008) EXPERIENCE

Visa Inc

Sr. Staff Software Developer (August 2016 – Present), Clearing & Settlement Services

Collaborate with business units, product, architecture, and technical staff to define requirements/modifications for use in designing appropriate solutions alongside evaluating options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop solutions.

Define Architectural and coding standards and ensure the development team follows them.

Optimize application performance, oversee new development for performance impact and ensure the distributed system is highly available for transaction processing.

Creating design documents, code, unit/functional test document, implementing new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.

Work with vendors and systems team to get necessary tools/software to ease up development activities.

Lead architecture meetings to review design documents, technical questions, and share valuable comments.

Building and maintaining effective relationships across functional areas to provide superior product support. ASHOK KUMAR, NAGESWARA RAO

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Support and deliver on resulting initiatives from the Business Plan and Technology strategy leveraging re-use, eliminating duplicative components, architectural design, and use of innovative products.

Schedule and host meetings with business team and project teams to understand requirements, discuss gaps, review test plan, and discuss possible roadblocks.

Lead maintenance/business releases for a successful install by supporting, validating, and handling issues and/or questions. DST Systems

Senior Software Developer (July 2013 – Aug 2016), Client Services Support Team

Interacted daily with business partners and other stake holders for analysis of the technical aspects and planning of the migration activities.

Handle small client specific projects from analysis phase to the post implementation phase in both waterfall and agile methodologies based on client need.

Researched root cause for technical issues, determined impact and discussed them with concerned authorities and guided a development team to fix the issue.

Was part of discussions with SMEs and System Architects to analyze the issues/client requirements, documented high level requirements for business and technical teams.

Mentored new Associates in both domain and technical aspects of the systems.

Scheduled and hosted meetings with business team and project teams to understand requirements, discuss gaps, review test plan, and discuss roadblocks.

B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration

Graduate Assistant (Jan 2012 – May 2013) at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Designed & developed university website for College of Business using HTML, CSS by gathering information for the website from professors, processed and posted it to the local media.

Provided technical maintenance of computer labs, software installations, backups and managed the Servers. DST Worldwide Services (a subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc) Software Engineer (Oct 2010 – Dec 2011), Client: DST Systems

Developed software to warehouse mutual fund transactions for various retirement plans like 401k.

Analyzed, designed, and developed the system components with the best approach ensuring there is no cross impact to the system and delivered quality deliverables.

Interacted with onshore development lead and business teams to gather requirements.

Built end-to-end modules for loan-enhancement projects to provide users with GUI for loans on Retirement plans by converting CICS modules to java-based programs that trigger mainframe and populates information on GUI. Infosys Technologies Limited

Systems Engineer (May 2008 – Oct 2010), Client: American Express Company

Developed software to calculate rebates, points for cobranded cards and loyalty cards.

Developed gaming logic for promotional offers for cobranded cards.

Performed various phases of Waterfall Methodology; analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of Projects.

Developed SQLs, SQL Stored procedures and CICS programs that can interact with the front-end high-level languages for best performance.

Scheduled jobs to carry out batch processing for rebate & point calculations. CERTIFICATIONS

PR101-Mainframes certification & Infosys quality certification.

Advanced Mutual Fund Industrial Concepts certification. LEADERSHIP SKILLS & AWARDS

Enhancement of ACAT transfers processing project was nominated for yearly best projects and was picked as an honorable mention in the Internal Services Section (2014).

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SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

LANGUAGES TOOLS OPERATING SYSTEMS DATA-BASES VERSION CONTROLLERS COBOL IntelliJ (IDE) Windows XP MY SQL Git

C/ C++ ECLIPSE (IDE) Linux MS ACCESS Microsoft Visual Source Safe Java Script Visual Studio (IDE) Windows NT MS SQL Server Broadcom Endevor XML Visual Studio Code (IDE) Windows 2000 DB2 BMC ChangeMan HTML MS Office IBM MVS FoxPro

Assembler Blaze Rules Engine OS360

JCL/Proc MQ Series Z/OS

Other Mainframe tools: SPUFI/QMF, FILE-AID/File Manager, Syncsort, DFSORT, ICETOOL, Debug Analyzer, Fault Analyzer, Performance Analyzer, NDM, BMC Infoman, Personal Tables, BMC Apptune, SQL Explain, Abend-aid, FTP, CA7/ESP (Schedulers), IBM utilities, BMC utilities, ZOWE, Easytrieve, CLIST ACADEMIC PROJECTS & VOLUNTARY WORKS

Implemented IEEE paper to analyze the flow of data packets with a “Flow-aware algorithm on On-chip Network”.

Implemented a Document retrieval model using Vector Space Modelin java as part of Information Retrieval System course.

Implemented a Recursive Descendant Parser that breaks the input into tokens and recognizes the characters which were given in the input.

Programming of Dimensional meshes (filling holes, sub-division, smoothing and morphing on 3-dimensional meshes).

Android App (2013): A user friendly app designed using Google Auth which checks a registered user with other users who have similar interest in activities such as Tennis within the same time slot with an intention to play and make friends with them.

Post event validation (2013): Project used to detect onset of events using Twitter. Built using Google and Bing news API’s, the app validates if an event is detected through twitter/Face book.

Keywords in Tweets (2013): This project detects keywords with more Importance from Tweets which can be used in the Event Detection Process.

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