Developer Data

Experienced IT professional with proven success in roles ranging from Developer to Systems Analyst will bring to any organization exceptional technical expertise. Excellent interpersonal skills have trained and nurtured strong teams.

Has 11+ Years of experience in the IT industry that includes the complete system life cycle (SDLC) from Requirement gathering, Impact Analysis, Estimation, Design and developing solutions, Creating proof of concepts, Integrating with existing systems, Executing implementation and Conducting production monitoring of complex Mainframe applications.

Created new Daily Mainframe Batch applications for Customer Letter and Statement processing using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SAS and DYL280 and created new UNIX BOX to execute daily to design Customer Letter and Statement using HP Exstream Dialogue, XEROX and Advanced Function Printing (AFP).

Experience in working with DB2 table accessing through SQL query in both Batch and Online programs, IDMS and involved in legacy IDMS conversion to DB2 projects.

Extensive hands on experience and developed Mainframe Online screens and communicating with JAVA web services through queues such as MQ, TDQ and Containers using CICS and CTG.

Experience in Technology Migration projects and worked under multiple environments such as Mainframe, UNIX and Windows for the upgradation of document rendition process using HP Exstream Dialogue and Unix Shell Scripting.

Experience in understanding cross platform requirements as working in a Team where Mainframe data need to be transferred to the need of Documents Rendition Process using different data formats such as XEROX, CSV, Text, PDF, AFP, JPG and XML.

Major experience in Banking and Finance, Retail, Credit Card, Credit Bureau Reporting and Investment Banking Domain.

Thorough understanding of SDLC, both Waterfall and Agile Scrum.

Proficient in tools like JIRA, Servicenow, HP Quality Center, Fileaid, Intertest, SQL Assistant, Omegamon, Abend-Aid, CA-View, Web-View, NDM, SSH Tectia Client and AFP.

IBM

Good knowledge of version control tools like IBM Rational Developer RDz, Changeman and WorkBench and scheduling tools like CA-7, TWS and Autosys.

Proficient in interacting with end-users and business analysts, interpreting business needs and creating technical specifications.

Identified bottlenecks, repetitive process in the system and worked in process improvement in terms of CPU savings, improve the SLA.

Worked as Technical Lead of a team of 15+ people and involved in creating Project Plan, Estimates, status tracking and publishing Dashboards on regular basis.

Good experience in Offshore and Onsite coordination and also a good team member.

Expertise in creating runbooks for production implementation and data conversion on implementation day, ability to coordinate with multiple teams to understand the dependencies with them and drafting the execution plan accordingly.

Efficient in debugging, trouble shooting and provide timely prod support.

Attitude in learning new technology and accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results within timelines by constantly self-motivating and motivating the Team to deliver the best possible.

Professional Experience

Senior Programmer Analyst – Compunnel Software Group (Edward Jones) Oct 2019 – Till now

Location: Maryland Heights, MO

Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., simplified as Edward Jones, is a financial services firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It serves investment clients in the U.S. and Canada, through its branch network of more than 14,000 locations. The company currently has relationships with nearly 8 million clients and $1 trillion in assets, under management worldwide. The firm focuses solely on individual investors and small-business owners. Edward Jones is a subsidiary of The Jones Financial Companies, L.L.L.P., a limited liability limited partnership owned only by its employees and retired employees and is not publicly traded.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements

Analyze the existing system to capture the requirements to convert the batch mode of Net Asset Value calculation of Funds to real time or calculating the data short term.

Identify platform needs and downstream system dependencies like IBM Message queues, Database conversion from legacy file read to relational database DB2 utilization.

Apply the BAU rules for NAV calculation of Fund with the available online data from Mark to Market process real time instead of identify and applying the calculation overnight.

Test the new changes to perform MTM changes and calculation of fund NAV in real time and compare the results against existing Legacy system to make sure the desired result is achieved.

Track all the tasks and implement the project in multiple phases on time using Kanban Agile methodology without any issues.

Build reusable API and DB2 stored procedures to make data layer accessible for the front end to integrate with service layer in swift manner.

Identify the opportunities and capture requirements to build cross platform data layer code to enhance the possibility of removing the duplication of work in multiple layers the same code logic.

Build CICS modules and web services to build the framework which acts as base and on top of this future enhancement will be easier to consume and customize based on their needs.

Document the design and publish for protocol of data access for the dependent teams to consume the data securely.

Capture the requirements from the end users and SMEs to come up with the list of repetitive tasks on their daily routine and build automated tools or service to enhance user experience.

Tasks like journal posting or cancellation requires user intervention in case of improper posting of data entered by the user. Build the system to notify the user automatically and alert the users to make system mistake proof.

Build the CICS screens where it can act as self-service feature where user can generate the data from the backend and he can analyze or customize the reports without need of IT intervention.

Constantly monitor the query monitoring tools and interact with database administrators to improve the performance of DB2 query of slow processing mainframe jobs.

Enhance the code for better performance to ensure the BAU process is intact by capturing all business rules to get unit tested and review test scripts with testers to ensure story covers all the business rules and acceptance criteria.

Estimate the CPU MIPS saving after make the code change and perform cost benefit analysis to enhance CPU savings for the firm and also reduce the delay on the batch cycle and reduce the elapsed timings of the jobs.

Senior Developer – TCS (Citi Cards N.A) May 2018 – Sep 2019

Location: Irving, TX

Citi Cards, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is part of Citi group, which is the largest bank in the world. Citi Cards is the largest issuer of Visa, MasterCard and American Express and has more than 200 million customers in 105 countries. Citi Cards has recently diversified into retail card business with acquisition of Sears’s credit card business and Home depot’s private label business. It currently uses International Bankcard System (IBS) for their core card processing.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements

Designed and let implementations of highly critical and Legal & Compliance KYC projects. KYC is a bank regulation which enforces financial institutions and regulated companies to perform all that they need to identify, document and validate the authenticity of the customer prior to any engagement. The objective of KYC guidelines is to prevent banks from being used, intentionally or unintentionally, by criminal elements for money laundering activities. This helps them manage their risks prudently. As per Government guidelines for all KYC projects, involved in keeping a check of limit on Single time transaction value, number of high value transactions, number of payments being made on Account, number of Cash payments and Cash payment amount, cross border transactions – Physical and online transactions and Overall quarterly, half yearly and yearly transaction amounts.

Working on a critical core system named Account Receivable (AR) which has interfaces with all systems of card processing and provides feed to all the downstream systems since AR team is the data warehouse for all account information

Designed and led implementation of introducing new card products that involves starting from identifying the customers eligible till issuing the new plastic card as well as sending the feed to downstream system to communicate the customer as well

Involved in a compliance project that identifies the accounts which causes loss to CITI due to wrong identification of delinquency bucket and implemented this highly visible project on time without any issues. It involved complex design and code changes in core payment processing modules of Citi Credit card system

Have been working on CIT (Change in Terms) project that involves updates to existing customers terms such as change in late fee, Minimum payment due, Annual fees (if applicable) and so on. It also involved in sending feed to downstream system informing Customers about their product changes

Conduct weekly team conference call with all onsite and offshore resources to review project status, discuss issues, share information, and promote teamwork.

Review and provide estimates for all projects

Design/review scripts and support data center Continuity of Business testing and validation

Senior Developer – TCS (OneMain Financial) Jun 2017 – Apr 2018

Locations: Baltimore, MD

OneMain Holdings, Inc., its subsidiaries, and affiliates voluntarily furnishes customer account information to the national Consumer Reporting Agencies including Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis (collectively the “CRAs”). In addition, the Company furnishes information to Clarity, a data specialty company. The Company ensures accuracy and integrity of its Credit Bureau Reporting (CBR) process by complying with the regulatory and industry standards.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements

Designed and implemented one-time migration of OneMain Financial former customer history, a critical requirement for the divestiture of OneMain Financial from Citi. Former customer data was located in several applications on multiple platforms at Citi. Researched data sources and access methods to design and develop a solution utilizing HP Exstream to generate multiple report types in PDF format for approximately 3.5 million former customers, providing index information to access documents by Account #, Customer Unique ID, Name, SSN and Date of Loan.

Designed, developed, and maintained application to generate the Source file for Credit Bureau Reporting application. As part of this migration, I recreated the whole process which was written in Assembler to COBOL so that team can easily make the changes on their own instead of depending on external source and reading old technology

Designed and developed new automation process with COBOL and DB2 as a background as per Legal and compliance request. By doing this, Errors in reporting data to Credit bureau reduced to permissible level of 1% from 20% before this implementation. In addition to this, 57% of business hours are saved on every month

Involved in transferring of account performance information or data to a consumer reporting agency.

Responsible for all user acceptance testing based on business requirements before implementing CBR enhancements

Application Programmer Analyst – TCS (Citi/OneMain Financial) Jan 2009 – May 2017

Locations: Chennai, India (Jan 2009 – June 2014)

Baltimore, MD, USA (July 2014 – May 2017)

Document Rendition System is a proprietary system from CitiFinancial that processes account statements for multiple business brands that includes CitiFinancial Canada, Puerto Rico and OneMain Financial. It is a very flexible and adaptable system, which acts as an interface with receivable system ACTION. It provides a format for business owners to communicate with their present borrowers in a targeted, cost effective and timely manner. This is accomplished through: (a) Statement design, (b) Selective messaging, and (c) Selective insertion (inserts & 2nd page letters).

Key Responsibilities and Achievements

Designed and led implementations of OneMain Financial/CitiFinancial Letters & Statements migration from a proprietary mainframe application to industry standard Exstream running in a UNIX environment. Conducted considerable research to consolidate letters and achieve a single letter template instead of simply migrating letters one for one to Exstream. Leveraged the power of Exstream to reduce 200+ letters from the original system to just 34 in Exstream, thereby guaranteeing text consistency and reducing ongoing maintenance. Similarly, statement messages were consolidated, and a single message template achieved for statements. Extensive research, detailed planning, thorough test preparation/execution, and effective coordination with other teams resulted in on-time, error-free implementations and immediate cost savings for the organization.

Designed, developed, and maintained application to generate a variety of tax forms for all Citi LOB’s. Worked with representatives across the corporation to identify specific requirements by LOB.

Designed a single intranet application to replace multiple reporting tools used by legal, compliance, marketing groups to view customer documents and obtain statistics such as message, letter and insert summaries.

Successfully migrated all the letters to One CITI format for better handling of letters and in cost reduction

Successfully implemented Statement redesign project as per Business requirement which involved creation of new Statement batch cycle in Mainframe

Improved the ability of the business to service more diverse customer base by designing and implementing efficient multiple language capabilities in statement processing system. Multiple languages had previously been supported by replicating components for each language. New design used a single set of components with multiple languages supported therein, simplifying updates and significantly reducing batch runtimes.

Designed and developed Solo letter Process (one time Adhoc letter process) to support business need quickly.

Responded expeditiously to an emergency, high profile business request to generate over 2 million custom apology letters informing customers of a double debit transaction.

Requirement analysis, preparation of technical specification and approach procedure, coding, integration and system testing

Effectively handled multiple batch systems for Letters, Statements, Tax letters etc. for delivering the customer documents

Helping team members in necessary code changes and fixing bugs/abends wherever necessary

Handling overall coordination of Offshore/Onsite teams

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Karthick Puttasamy

CURRENT ROLE

Mainframe Lead Developer

ENVIRONMENTS

IBM Mainframe Z/OS

Windows

UNIX

LANGUAGES

COBOL

JCL

DYL280,SAS,REXX

ASSEMBLER

SQL

Basics of UNIX Shell Scripting

DATABASES

DB2,VSAM

IDMS

USER INTERFACE:

CICS

CTG

Development Tools

HP Exstream Designer

IBM Data studio

Flow /Data reporting software

MS Visio

Messaging systems:

MQ,TDQ,Container

Domain

Banking and Financial Services

Credit cards, Credit Bureau Reporting

Investment Banking

CORPORATE AFFILIATIONS

CITI Group

OneMain Financial

Edward Jones

Change Management Tools:

IBM RDz

Changeman

Work Bench

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical, Anna University 2008, Chennai, India.

CERTIFICATIONS

NSE-NCFM Financial Markets:

A Beginner’s Module

DEG-ECoE: Software Estimation

IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 9 Fundamentals

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