Archana Achalpurkar

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ARCHANA ACHALPURKAR

Email: addjrf@r.postjobfree.com

Professional strenghts

** ***** ** ********** ** project related roles across various domains. Broad exposure to the corporate IT&C environment. Ability to view projects from a user and supplier perspective with understanding of projects fit to business. Good at building relations with internal and external stakeholders. Understanding the drivers behind stated objectives, recognising the requirements for success, driving out dependencies and risks mitigation. Demonstrated skills in assimilating new knowledge, time management and team focus.

Experience Summary

Experience in the analysis, design, development, implementation and management of full life cycle commercial Mainframe applications.

Functional experience includes design & development of software solutions in Financial, Insurance and telecommunication domain.

Technical skills – Assembler, JCL, Cobol.

Work History

Duration Organization Designation

April 2010 -Jan 2017 TechMahindra Ltd. Tech Leader August 2007 – April 2010 Wipro Technologies Ltd. Senior Software Engineer March 2006 - July 2007 Syntel Ltd Software Engineer Technical Summary

SKILLS TOOLS

Language High Level Assembler (HLASM), Cobol, JCL, MFCOBOL, REXX, MYSQL Database(S) VSAM, DB2, IMS DB

Mainframe tools

Panvalet, ISPW, Chgeman, Managnow, Workbench, Expeditor, File Aid, TSO, ISPF, STS, LCS

Mainframe front ends IMS DC, CICS

Non mainframe tools Quality Center, Xmanager3, Micro Focus Net Express 5.1, soapUI 2.5.1, HeidiSQL, SQLyog, VIM 7.2, VSS, WinSCP, Lotus Note, LINUX emulators Operating System Z/OS, Redhat Linux

References

1) Avijit Dasgupta – Delivery Manager (TechMahindra) – addjrf@r.postjobfree.com 2) Alok Ranjan – IT Director (TechMahindra)- addjrf@r.postjobfree.com Archana Achalpurkar

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Project profile

Tech Mahindra Ltd. (February 2010 – January 2017)

Project 1- Development and Support for CCB SE BILLING – AT&T SE Billing, US Business Office Customer Record Inquiry System (BOCRIS) is a mainframe based application that allows authorized users to access customer data and billing information. The application also provides update capability to the customer records. 12 designated IMS Control Regions throughout BellSouth.

Role: Technical Lead.

Responsibilities –

Define & prioritize system requirement scope with business analysts.

Work with System Architects to translate the business requirements into application design by conducting feasibility studies and providing solutions/alternatives.

Assist project manager in creating estimates, WBS, project delivery schedule and project status.

Lead technically in all project delivery phases – requirement gathering, application design, coding and testing, implementation.

Mentor a team of developers and testers for project deliveries.

Assist team in understanding project scope and requirements, quick root cause analysis and fixing of production live defects that impact business or end users. Achievements –

Delivered solution optimization for a project which lead to reduced code inventory and less delivery effort thereby resulting in $ saving for the client.

Lead the effort of implementing IBM Tivoli Unified Process for project delivery within the engagement.

Represented Tech Mahindra in client’s knowledge sharing meetings/project kick off meetings.

Recognized with various awards for technical coordination by AT&T client.

Recognized with “Associate Consistently Excel” award by Tech Mahindra.

Recognized with “Valuable team Player” award by Tech Mahindra for the leading new initiatives in BOCRIS team.

Recognized with “Pat on the Back” award by Tech Mahindra for the leading complex projects successfully.

Project 2- Development and Support for CRIS USBC – AT&T SW/MW Billing, US Usage Arrangement & Bill Update (USBC) are two subsystems of ACIS to support AT&T’s Customer Billing in Midwest region. The Usage Arrangement subsystem processes the long distance and local usage for the customer's bill that have already been rated and priced by another subsystem known as CAMPS.

Role: Teachnology leader.

Responsibilities -

People management for a cross functional team of 13 programmers, testers and systems analysts for medium size projects with an onshore-offshore delivery model.

Technical lead for IT delivery of system enhancement and support projects. Archana Achalpurkar

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Assist developers in understanding project scope,requirements and project delivery phase.

Assist senior project managers in creating estimates, activity list, WBS, project delivery schedules and status reports.

Manage forecast for pipeline projects and monthly invoices in collaboration with PMO.

Ensure PMO compliance through processes like program/project governance, resource planning,resource allocation, project delivery framework, project reporting standards. Achievements –

Lead implementation of IBM Tivoli Unified Process for project delivery within the engagement.

Improved application & technology expertise by identifying in-house experts and organizing formal trainings.

Delivered robust financial, business and service results management including forecasting, budget tracking, l project delivery.

Wipro Technologies Ltd. (August 2007 – April 2010) Project 1 : Batch-CIF - Fifth Third Bank US

Fifth Third Bank ranked number 287 on the Fortune 500 (April 2004). Fifth Third provides a broad array of products and services through four primary businesses: Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Investment Advisors and Bank Processing Solutions. Batch CIF is a data processing system that performs the extract, split (Split, sort & distribution) and maintenance of RAFT online customer/account information. Project challenge included identification of key points in the other systems to which Batch CIF distributes the data and map all the business processes and technical aspects. Project task included understanding processes happening in the source system and rectify/justify unexpected behavior from system to business users.

Role: Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilites:

Understanding of detailed application functionality and various inputs outputs.

Analysis for required work around to patch existing system without hampering required functionality.

Coding in Assembler and COBOL as per requirement and analyzed amendment

Preparation of unit test case plan and environment.

Execution and support to unit testing and system testing.

Code reviewing and Document reviewing.

End to end support from impact analysis to code maintenance.

Defect resolution.

Analyze the impact of amendment on the other interacting systems with the source system. Project 2: LIC FEAP Modernization – LIC, India

LIC is the largest insurer in India maintaining with a market share of 74 %. LIC has built an in- house application named FEAP over a period of 15 years. FEAP is a monolithic application having a character based user interface with ISAM file system. FEAP application written in Microfocus COBOL and is running on Redhat Linux platform. Telnet terminal emulators are used to access the FEAP application from individual PC’s. A need for modernization was realized and an ambitious Archana Achalpurkar

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Transformation project to modernize FEAP application was undertaken. This project transforms the monolithic application to an n-tier architecture with Browser based Web UI, J2EE application server for presentation layer management, Microfocus Server for SOA for COBOL Business logic and database access layer development and REBMS as database. FEAP Modernization Objectives:

Adoption of up to date software development standards and practices.

Reduction in sites - more efficient administration.

Centralized implementation of software update and patch deployment.

Role based authentication system.

Enhancement in data purity and integrity.

Management of growth in data volumes.

Setting up a Software Testing Centre.

Role: Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilites:

Understanding of detailed application functionality and various inputs outputs to it.

Analysis and design – Preparation of High and low level design.

Coding in Microfocus COBOL as per guidelines mentioned in detailed design document.

Preparation of unit test case plan, unit test cases and unit test environment.

Execution and support to Unit Testing, System Testing, UAT testing and Live Commissioning.

Code reviewing and Document reviewing.

Impact analysis.

Defect tracking and fixing at system testing, UAT. Project 3: MECH, Bank of Montreal (BMO), Canada

MECH is a core offline banking system coded and maintained in Assembler language. It is used to extract the data from online system to synchronize online and offline database. It also used to maintain the customer information in database system and generating reports for business needs. Role: Consultant

Responsibilites:

Analyze the applications, sub systems and transactions

Create Low Level Designs (LLD)

Develop the application code according to the designs

Analyze dumps created by failed transactions

Debug errors in the existing applications

Resolve Emergency Fix Change Requests (CR)

Create Unit Test Plans (UTP) and Unit Test Cases (UTC)

Execute the UTP and create Unit Test Results (UTR)

Create and execute Integration Testing plan and document results

Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and Regression Testing performed by QA

Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Mentor team members

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Syntel Technologies Ltd. (March 2006 - July 2007)

Project: Ameriprise Insurance – OB09, Ameriprise Financial, USA Ameriprise Financial is a company with over two million clients and one of the largest advisor networks in the US.

The 34-year old Traditional Life System is one of the major applications for retail insurance and annuity administration within AEFA. It processes annuities, traditional life insurance, such as whole life and term insurance, disability income and long-term care products. The Traditional Life system is a mainframe-based system developed internally with Assembler code and sequential files. Given the numerous enhancements over time, the system is now approximately 60% Assembler and 40% COBOL. ECR: The Entity Consolidation & Re-branding project was to consolidate, through merger, the five separate insurance entities into two. Business as usual project was to solve the Work Request to fix the business issues and enhancement in the system to add new feature in products.

Role: Analyst/Programmer.

Responsibilites:

Involved in analyzing the code and preparing the design document according to the requirements specified.

Preparing the Low Level Design and the Unit test plans for the same.

Involved in Coding in COBOL and Assembler for the inclusion of the product.

Involved coding in Easytrieve for displaying the values present in the VSAM file whose lengths ranges from anywhere from 70 bytes to 18000 bytes.

Involved in System testing of the system.

Completing the WR and PTR.

Communication with the Client regarding deliverables.

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