Software Maintenance

Name : Chetan Dasharat

Employer details:

Mob : +1-469-***-****

Email : *******@***********.*********:***********@*****.***

Experience Summary :

Trained Mainframe professional with overall 8+ years of experience across various domains like Banking/Insurance/Manufacturing/Healthcare etc. Undergone training-cum certification programme in mainframe application at the start of career, thereby involved in various other trainings/participation in different skills related to mainframe technology.Served as Technical professional in companies like IBM, GENPACT,NTT DATA and also attained a Advanced skill development programme – z/OS Administration while my service tenure in IBM.

1. Company : Brillio LLC (Current)

Designation : Senior Software Engineer – Systems Administration – Mainframes

2. Company: NTT DATA Inc

Designation: Senior Consultant – Systems Administration – Mainframes

3 Company: IBM

Designation: Senior Operations Professional – Systems Administration - Mainframes

4. Company: Genpact

Designation: Technical Associate – Systems Administration - Mainframes.

Qualification Details:

Sl. No.

Degree

Branch

Year of

Passing

Name of the

College /

Institute

Name of

the

University

Percentag

e / cgpa /

Grade

1

BE/BTECH

Computer

Science/STEM

2008

Vijayanagar

Engineering

college, Bellary

VTU,

Belgaum,

Karnataka

First class

2

PUC/12th

Physics/Chemistry/Maths/Biology

2004

Best

Pre-University

College, Bellary

Karnataka

Board

First Class

3

SSLC/10th

N/A

2002

Dr E.A

SeamandsSchool

, Hutti gold

mines

,Karnataka

Karnataka

Board

First Class

Technical Expertise:

Primary Skills

z/OS systems administration, z/OS Security- RACF, z/OS CICS systems administration, z/OS COBOL, Control-m Administration/Scheduler,CA-7/11 Scheduler,

Operating Systems

OS/390, z/OS,Citrix,Win 97/00/XP

Languages

JCL,REXX,COBOL

Development Tools

Change man, Expeditor TSO/CICS, File Aid tools,RACF

Database Connectivity

DBDC, VSAM access methods

Databases

DB2

Configuration Tools

z/OS products configuration techniques

Domain Knowledge

Banking,Insurance,Healthcare,Manufacturing,Retail

Legacy Systems

OS/390,z/OS

Networking

z/OS Networking – TCP/IP,SNA etc.

Schedulers

CA-7/CA-11, Control-m

Experience Details :

Sl. No.

Name Of The

Organization

Designation

Joining Date

Relieving Date

1

Brillio LLC.

Senior Software Engineer

11-13-2017

Present

2

NTT Data Inc.

Senior

Consultant

09-14-2015

11-11-2017

3

IBM India Pvt Ltd.

Senior Operations Professional

05-02-2012

09-09-2015

4

Genpact.

Technical

Associate

03-03-2010

04-30-2012

Project 1:

Company

Brillio LLC

Client

Walmart Stores Inc

Domain

Retail

Role/Responsibility

Daily Activities: CICS Systems Programmer

CICS :

Attention to detail on multi-complex tasks and having considerable initiative and judgment relative to problem determination / resolution.

Ability to interpret documentation and create checklists and maintain technical documents.

The ability to implement CICS customer requested changes.

CICS Systems Programmer knowledge specializing in CICS Performance and Tuning.

Familiarity with CPSM Web User Interface Experience with BMC Mainview (MVCICS) as monitoring tool.

Configuration and support experience of CICS regions on z/OS platform – preferably utilizing CICSPlex SM.

Installation and maintenance experience of CICS system software products for all CICS systems.

Strong Mainframe operating system support experience(IBM Mainframe) .

Knowledge of Mainframe Subsystems(DB2,IMS,MQ series).

Knowledge of JES2 and JES2 command level knowledge for global and local system configurations.

Install,customize,update and administer mainframe CICS/Transaction Server,Software and tools.

Administer a large CICS production environment(Sysplex Mainframe Environment) across multiple data centers.

Ability to build and Execute Jobs for Various CICS RDO installations in production and development environments.

Ability to effectively make use of z/OS Explorer for CICS for various administrative installations.

Basic Understanding of UNIX system services and other IBM utilities

Project 2:

Company

NTT DATA Inc, USA

Client

Global Atlantic Financial Group

Domain

Insurance/Finance

Role/Responsibility

Daily Activities: Z/OS systems programmer

RACF :

Security changes support – assists Help Desk with RACF/Ingenium/Control-M security issues

On-call 24x7x365 (BMC Remedy Control-M Admin/Database Admin/Mainframe Admin groups

Remedy/Service now tickets resolutions

Control-M – Daily monitoring of schedule, force complete jobs, correct daily scheduling issues, job re-runs, ad-hoc schedule requests

System Healthchecks

Security changes support – assists Help Desk with RACF/Ingenium/Control-M security issues

IBM hardware support issues

TRMS reprint/archive processes

Elixir overlay upload requests

Daily offsite tape processing – monitor daily jobs, assist with tape issues

Printing issues – working with print room personnel with printer issues, printer re-starts

DR:

Mainframe DR – annual test

DST time changes activity :

Mainframe DST time change – IPL (2 times per year)

Year-end activities –

Control-M calendars, ChangeMan ZMF calendars,

Control-M offsite folders database maintenance,

TRMS tape setup year-end activities

Change Request processing: Approve and install ChangeMan ZMF/DS packages

Mainframe Software license updates

Monthly Activities :

Month-end processing: IBM SCRT/SMF processes

Month-end processing: CICS CMR processes

Dalily Change Request processing:

Database requests:

DB2 requests

Optim requests

TRT/TRH load requests"

Change Request processing: Control-M scheduling requests

Change Request processing: File change requests

mainframe Software Upgrades:

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: z/OS 1.13

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: DB2 V10

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: CICS 4.1

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: ASG-PRO JCL

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: BMC CATALOG MANAGER/CHANGE MANAGER/DASD MANAGER

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: BMC Load Plus for DB2/Unload Plus for DB2

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: BMC Mainview for CICS/DB2

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: BMC Control-M

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Computer Associates Quickjob/Vision Reporter

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: ChicagoSoft Quickref

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Cincom Mantis

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Compuware FileAid/MVS, Xpediter TSO, Xpediter CICS

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Pitney Bowes Streamweaver

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Software Engineering of America $AVRS/TRMS

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Serena ChangeMan ZMF/ChangeMan DS

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Software Diversified Services IPCP

Mainframe Software upgrades/maintenance: Solcorp Ingenium

Audit tasks:

SOX ITGC audit requests

Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4 Re-certification audit requests

Scheduler tasks :

Control-M Weekly reporting - Weekly Execution reports

Control-M Weekly reporting - Weekly Usage reports

Control-M Monthly reporting - Failed Executions report

Control-M Monthly reporting - Schedule Modifications report

DB2 tasks :

DB2 Tables re-org project

DB2 Table cleanup project

DB2 Bufferpool analysis project

Database Administration: Optim - Data port into Tables

Database Adminisatration: DB2 Query executions - SPUFI/QMF

Database Administration: DB2 TRT/TRH Uploads

Projects :

Project: iConvert Konica Minolta printer migration project

Project: BMC Remedy – Service Now ticket migration project

Project: DB2 PII project

Project: Mantis 6.4 upgrade project

Project: z10/z13s migration project

Project: z/OS 2.2 OS upgrade project

Project: TRMS Report cleanup project

Project: Server decommission project – migrating Control-M jobs

Project: Tape library migration project

Project: FTP Accellion migration - PHASE 1 DMZ

Location

Batesville, Indiana, USA

Project 3:

Company

IBM

Client

Anthem Inc., Legal and General Inc., Bank Of Ireland, Tata Steel

Domain

Banking/Insurance/Healthcare/Manufacturing – Mainframe Services

Role/Responsibility

Daily Activities : MVS Systems programmer

Specialties: zOS, JES2, Sysplex, IBM products, ISV products,Tivoli Netview, ISPF, IPCS ( basic dump debugging skills ), ISV products upgrades / installation, Disaster recovery planning / execution, SMPE, USS, RACF, DFHSM,MVS Catalogs, AFRemote,HMC( Hardware management console),S/W Licensing & Auditing.

Installing and upgrading IBM and ISV products in mainframe.

Periodic refresh of OS and also applying maintenance to

mainframe

Doing Health check of the system regularly to provide

continuous service to clients.

Keeping track of Security level standards across the systems.

Doing IPL’s every weekend as part of OS maintenance.

Handling Severity level Incidents tickets and resolving it in a

timely fashion.

Location

Bangalore,India

Project 4 :

Company

Genpact

Client

SABIC Innovative plastics, US ( Earlier GE Plastics)

Domain

Manufacturing/retail

Role/Responsibility

Daily Activities : CA7/CA11,Control-m Scheduler,MF Operations

Scheduling CA7 training and systems based training for the team.

QCAL of the team, identified and submitted lean Projects for the team.

Representing team in all the Organisation events.

Handling the requests on scheduling of the jobs as requested by the customer through Service-now.

Adding & deleting of jobs to Ca-7.

Configuring Date-based scheduling for jobs.

Configuring Event based triggering for jobs like job-triggerences .

Executing Special requests which are raised by clients to run the jobs or streams.

Preparing Calendars for the yearend scheduling work.

Resolving the Base Calendars.

Updation of prose from test dataset to production

Adding and deleting the schedules as per the analyst requirement.

Changing the timelines of the jobs.

Adding successors and predecessors to the schedules.

Analyzing & solving the flow of jobs to complete the batch cycle on time.

Effectively handling CA7 Up Gradation for scheduling support Lpars.

Defining new jobs and new schedules as per the yearend requirement.

Coordinating critical Operations procedures like Disaster Recovery.

Deleting all the unwanted jobs from CA7 Database.

Ensuring the Timeliness of the batch cycle is one of the important CTQ's.

Ensuring the timely availability of online regions.

Timely execution of one time RFS (Request for Service) request on web based tool.

Performing the maintenance work at weekly, monthly and yearly processing.

Communication with the onsite personnel at Cincinnati, USA to analyze and implementation of the requests.

Monitoring the special critical processing during the Weekend, Month end, Quarter end and Year-end batch Cycles.

Assisting in the reporting work which normally done weekly and monthly basis.

Working with application support teams to resolve abends.

Ensure the adherence of the process to the SEI CMM and SIX SIGMA Quality standards.

Location

Hyderabad,India

Certifications :

Course

From

To

1. Mainframe application

programming

09/09

01/10

1. ITIL

03/11

04/11

2.LEAN and Six Sigma

training

05/11

07/11

4. Advanced Mainframe

System administration level

certification programme

04/14

07/15

Personal Information :

Name: Chetan Dasharat

Nationality: Indian

Languages : English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi

Passport:: Yes,

VISA : Yes, Currently in US with H1B work permit ( VALID H1B VISA until – 03/31/2020)

Contact : +1-812-***-**** (Anytime)

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