Sreeletha Palakunnath Kannambath
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Ph: 864-***-**** (Mob) 864-***-**** (Home)
Email: adcs8s@r.postjobfree.com
CORE COMPETENCIES:
11+ years of extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including identification of business needs and constraints, collection of requirements, architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
3 years of Offshore experience and 8 years Onsite experience.
Proven track record in IDMS/ ADSO / DB2 technologies.
Experienced in developing IDMS /ADSO screens, Cobol batch programs.
Experienced working in AGILE based development environment and participated in Scrum sessions.
Experienced with JIRA for Agile Scrum board, Task tracking, Problem tracking & Issue tracking.
Experienced using the Service Now & IBM Maximo ticketing tools to track the issues, releases, production deploy management.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and to work independently as well as in a team, Expertise in interacting with Business users/leaders & Technology groups.
Strong Knowledge in Supply chain / Order to Cash platforms.
Strong Technical skills in Mainframe and its utilities.
Hands on Experience in Various Development, Maintenance Projects and Migration Projects.
Excellent Interpersonal, Analytical and communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Key Skills
Tools
Databases
DB2, VSAM, IDMS
Operating Systems
MVS, WINDOWS 98,2000,XP
Technologies
Mainframe
Tools
ENDEVOR, SPUFI, FILEAID, SORT, IDCAMS, OLAS, EDI-Gentran, IBM-Sterling
Application
Order to Cash and Supply chain, Retail Financial (Modules: AP, BR), Telecom
Languages
COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO
Communications
TCP/IP, FTP, PELICAN, CFT
Education:
• Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala, India.
Professional Activities, Certifications and Training:
IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 Certified.
IBM Mainframe Certified Programmer from CDAC.
CGI trained professional in IDMS-ADSO
Experience:
1.Michelin Project
Date
08/2012 to till date
Company
CGI Inc.
Client
Michelin Tires
Place
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Project
Order Entry Systems, Michelin
Technical Skills
COBOL, IDMS/ DB2, JCL, VSAM, Endevor
Michelin Tires is one of the largest worldwide tires manufacturing company over 170 countries. The project is to support the Information Systems Department in maintaining the computerized applications and re-engineer many of the applications in the Commercial and Corporate functions. The activities are preparation of new enhancements to the existing applications like Order Entry, Customer-product-pricing, Claims and Invoicing, preventive maintenance activities and bug fixing.
Responsibilities:
Current responsibilities include: Working as a team member in agile squad – Gather requirements from business, refine the user stories created, analysis and design, development, unit testing, user acceptance testing, production installation support and validations.
Previous responsibilities included: Communicate the workflow with offshore on a day to day basis thru calls & emails. Work with CGI back office team for the projects. Work with Michelin business team for the day to day support issues. Support the production go live activities.
2.TOPS Migration Project
Date
4/2008 to 04/2009
Company
Software Paradigms International (SPI), Atlanta
Client
AHOLD
Place
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Project
TOPS migration from AHOLD systems
Technical Skills
z/OS 1.4, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Endevor, Insync, OLAS
TOPS is a group of quality supermarkets based in the Buffalo, United States who provide an easy, convenient and appealing shopping experience through continuous customer focus.
The Project was to separate TOPS from AHOLD and to be a stand alone company. TOPS Financial Audit deals with creating extensive reports running Batch programs, Financial SR’s contains complicated SR’s related to the Finance Department of TOPS, and this mainly involves quick turn around time and one-day code deliverables. This Project Involves Supporting multiple applications like Accounts payable, General Ledger and Bank ReconNet (Universal Account Reconciliation).
Responsibilities:
• Lead the Migration project from onsite.
• Communicate the workflow with offshore on a day to day basis thru calls & emails.
• Work with AHOLD team in the migration of elements, programs, JCLS, data etc.
• Lead the Unit testing, Assembly testing and integration testing.
• Lead the Interface testing with BANKs and VENDOR servers like BANK OF AMERICA, WESTERN UNION, National City BANK etc.
• Participate in the UAT, provide proper assistance for users.
• Lead the mock Go-Live activities and real Go-Live activities.
• Lead the PRODUCTION support after Go-Live.
3.Cendant Car Rentals
Date
12/2006 to 02/2007
Company
MINDTREE Consulting
Client
Cendent Car Rentals
Place
Bangalore, INDIA
Project
Team lead of supply chain systems
Role / Skills
Team Lead / JCL, IDMS, ADSO
Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc., subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD), is the largest general use car rental company in North America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand. Through its subsidiaries and franchisees, the company operates the Avis Rent A Car System, the industry leader in customer service, and the Budget Rent A Car System, the leading value-oriented rental car brand.
Over a million dollars of reservations go through Avis.com and Budget.com, so the application [sitting in front of] the back-end, mainframe-based engine that does the reservations and rates. The business is critical and if the websites / Mainframe are down, the company does not take reservations. Mindtree does the support and Maintenance of this project.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Assigned as the team lead for the group of 6 members.
4. BellSouth Corporation
Date
06/2005 to 12/2006
Company
CGI Information Systems
Client
BELL SOUTH
Place
Bangalore, INDIA
Project
Genesys Rating System
Role / Skills
Lead Developer / z/OS 1.4, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM
The system GENESYS is comprised of several subsystems, each of which addresses a particular facet of BSLD’s business. The Rating System is one of the key subsystems of GENESYS and as a result interfaces with many of the other “parts” of GENESYS. Rating System is the “engine” that pulls in all customer and usage information, applies rates and pricing structures to it, and sends the resulting information to BST to be placed on the customer’s bill. It is the component of GENESYS that performs pricing related functions.
Roles and Responsibilities:-
• Analysis, Design and coding the changes needed.
• Developing test cases and conducting multiple rounds of unit testing.
• Communicate the workflow with onsite on a day to day basis thru calls & emails.
• Documentation of each phase as and when completed.
• Delivering the results to onsite.
5.BellSouth Corporation
Date
12/2005 to 12/2006
Company
CGI Information Systems
Client
BELL SOUTH
Place
Bangalore, INDIA
Project
Data Def Project
Role / Skills
Lead Developer / z/OS 1.4, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM
The Genesys Usage Pricing Plan Interface (GUPPI) application is used to create and maintain BSLD’s pricing plans. The GUPPI system serves as the data definition tool for the Genesys Rating System’s Usage Pricing subsystem. The application is designed to support the volume of pricing-related work generated in a competitive long distance marketplace. It facilitates a robust process for managing the testing and deployment of pricing plans. The process of managing price plan deployment is through a direct database interface with the Rating System’s Usage Pricing data repository.
This Evaluation and Implementation Model is for the development and delivery of Competitive Response Work Requests only. All other Work Requests are developed and delivered via the standard release development methodology.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing the requirements in the Pricing shell sent by the client.
• Communicate the clarifications needed with onsite during the pricing shell review call.
• Building Pricing Plans and Promotions and send a copy of the Profile Report to the BCPS Finance Analyst for review.
• Communicate the workflow with onsite on a day to day basis thru calls & emails.
• Lead the pricing worksheet review once the building of plans and promotions are done.
• Review test case packets prepared by the testing team.
• Provide testing support.
6.Mellon Financials
Date
09/2004 to 06/2005
Company
CGI Information Systems
Client
Mellon
Place
Bangalore, INDIA
Project
Mellon Conversion Project
Role / Skills
Programmer / z-OS 1.4, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, ADSO
This project is a migration of Mellon's Defined contribution Plans from Mellon's existing Omni Plan environment to Mellon's Omni plus V5.2 environment.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of Specifications from the client
• Design, Coding and Testing.
• Reviewing the Conversions.
• Unit Testing: Create Transactions in both omni plan and plus and compare data in Master files and Interface files.
• Production Turnover activities and Implementation.
• Provide support for Change control process.
7. Michelin Tires
Date
06/2004 to 09/2004
Company
CGI Information Systems
Client
Michelin Tires
Place
Bangalore, INDIA
Project
Sales and Information systems, Michelin
Role / Skills
Programmer / COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Db2, IDMS
Michelin is world’s second largest tire producers in the world. Michelin’s world headquarter is at Clermont Ferand France and the North American headquarters is at Greenville, South Carolina. North American Michelin systems manage US / CA and MEXICO Operations. Marketing and Sales (M&S) and Supply chain are the two main domains in Michelin. M&S handles the Orders from Customers, the customer invoices, the claims information and
the accounts receivable operations. It also handles the Db2 repository (SIS) for all transactions. SCM handles the distribution and deployment of tires within North America as well as Global ( Imports and Exports ). It also involves the logistics which handles the warehouse applications like WICS / WMS.
Responsibilities:
• Worked for a short period in M&S application ( SIS )
• Analysis of Specifications from the client
• Design, Coding and Testing.
Academic Profile:
Course
College
Year of Study
Percentage
B.Tech
N.S.S. College of Engg., Palakkad. 1998-02 72%
1998-02
72%
Pre-degree
East Hill Higher Secondary School, Calicut, Kerala.
1996-98
75%
SSLC
BEM Girls High School
1995-96
79%
Personal Profile:
Name : Sreeletha Palakunnath Kannambath
Date of Birth : 6th August 1980
Sex : Female
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Permanent Address : Sreyas House, Nellikode PO, Calicut, Kerala, India, 673016
Current Address : 31 Dauphine way, Greer,SC,29650.