Assistant Project

Location:

Phoenix, AZ

Posted:

July 21, 2020

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Resume:

SELVAGANABATHY RAMALINGAM

Phoenix, AZ, *****, / **************.*@*****.*** / +1-602-***-****

Experience Summary

Over 19 years of experience with proven expertise in system development activities including requirement analysis, design, build and implementation with emphasis on Mainframe & Informatica

Extensive experience in working across different domains and managing client interactions

Extensive work experience in Agile and waterfall methodologies, skilled in CA Agile Central tool

More than 1 year of experience as a Scrum Master

More than 14 years of experience in Banking & Financial services applications

More than 9 years of onshore experience which includes UK and USA

Extensive working experience in mainframe technologies using COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS, Changeman, REXX, Easytrieve and other mainframe tools

Experience in Data warehousing & ETL development using Informatica

Experience in working with Relational Database (RDBMS) concepts, database designing, Stored Procedures, extensively worked with DB2

Very Strong mix of academic and professional experience in the related area, demonstrated through the implementation of successful projects with diverse roles

Customer/Client Summary

Employer

Customer /Client Name

Atos Syntel Inc

American Express

Virtusa

Standard Charted Bank

IBM

Development Bank of Singapore

Tata Consultancy Services

Marks & Spencer

AXA PPP Healthcare

Bank of America

Experian, UK

Employment Summary

From

Duration

Company Name

Designation

Role

Oct-2014

Till date

5 Years 4 months

Atos Syntel Inc

Consultant

Technical Lead

Oct 2012

Sep 2014

2 Years

Virtusa Software Services Ltd

Senior Consultant

Technical lead

Nov 2009

Apr 2012

2 Years 6 Months

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Advisory System Analyst

Project Lead

Nov 2000

Sep 2009

8 Years 11 Months

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Assistant Consultant

Project Lead

Education

Graduation/Post Graduation

Specialization

Month/Year Of Passing

College Name

University Name

Final %age / Grade Obtained

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Information Technology

Apr 2000

AVC College, Mayiladuthurai

Bharathidasan University

73%

BSc

Mathematics

Sep 1997

St. Joseph’s College, Cuddalore

Madras University

68%

Summary of Skills

Skill Category

Skill Type

Skill Detail

Level

Proficiency

Years of Experience

Domain

Banking

Cards and retail banking

Primary

Expert

14 years

Domain

Insurance

Health care

Secondary

Advanced

2 years

Domain

Retail

Secondary

Advanced

1 year

Technical

Mainframe

COBOL

Primary

Expert

19 years

Technical

Mainframe

CICS

Primary

Expert

8 years

Technical

Mainframe

JCL

Primary

Expert

19 years

Technical

Mainframe

DB2

Primary

Expert

7 years

Technical

Mainframe

IMS

Primary

Expert

4 years

Technical

Mainframe

VSAM

Primary

Expert

8 years

Technical

Data warehouse

Informatica

Primary

Experienced

2 Year

Project management

Scrum Master

Agile

Secondary

Experienced

1 Year

Training Undergone & Certifications Acquired

Certification Name

Institution

Certification No

Certified Date

Validity Date

Certified SAFe Agilist (SAFe SA)

SAFe

216*****-****

Jun-10-2018

Jun-10-2019

Certified SAFe Practitioner (SAFe SP)

SAFe

026*****-****

Mar-01-2018

Mar-01-2019

Certified scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

000480099

Dec/04/2015

Dec/04/2017

Project Experience

Atos Syntel Inc

AMEX Financial capture from Oct’ 2014 – Till Date

Project Name

Customer

/Client Name

Team Size

Designation

Role

Technologies

/Skills Used

Global AR Non Spend

American Express

Consultant

Technical Lead

Mainframe, Informatica & Project Management Tools

Project description & Responsibilities

Creation of a Global AR Non-Spend POA (Point of Arrival) solution will enable American Express to deliver Business capabilities 2-5 times faster with a 60-75% reduction in costs compared to POD (Point of Departure) Financial capture systems and enable streamlined, automated, & efficient processing of CM Non-Spend transactions. New Capability will help in eliminating Manual processes in POD and provide enhanced automated controls for transaction processing through Global AR Non-Spend solution. AMEX decided to do away with regional POD applications and move to a global POA application thereby achieving the below:

Flexible infrastructure

Faster time to market

Reduce development/maintenance cost

Standardized data submission formats

Global settlement processing with very high availability

As a Tech Lead, my responsibilities included:

Provides technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration across multiple client engagements from definition phase through implementation

Suggests alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and / or longer life

Create a regression test suite for comprehensive set of test cases to be executed for each deployment

Execute regression test cases in Arena environment (production mirror) for code certification

Code Deployment Automation for Global AR Non-Spend (Continuous deployment) using LARA automation tool

Build a common UI/Portal where team member can collaborate and use links to all automation tools

Build a capability to download files from PROD to TEST region and scrub production data

Facilitate Agile ceremonies like Sprint backlog refinement, Sprint planning and coordinate with product owner to translate business needs to technical user stories

CA Agile Central tool knowledge to create user stories and link it appropriate features/capabilities for product delivery

Perform Code reviews on all sprints and ensure to maintain the code quality in production

Identifying performance improvement needs of the system and improve the efficiency of the existing systems to meet productivity, quality and customer goals

Coordinate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and prioritize project requirements

Work with offshore technical lead, senior programmer and programmer for project deliverables

Clarify offshore development teams’ queries on the Business requirements and design documents

Participate and co-ordinate code build, identify build dependencies and deploy code in production

Validate code build with informatica power center tools

Report and track the issues occurred in the project through CA Agile Central defect tracking tool

Review work objects delivered from Offshore before sending to client

Ensure projects are executed using the appropriate methodologies and best practices in accordance with the SDLC agile methodology

Oversee implementation of production rollout of the project

Prepare required user-level and program-level documentation

Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients

Recognizes system deficiencies and implements effective solutions

Attending bi-weekly meeting with the senior managers

Generating Monthly reports and presentations to present it to the Atos Syntel leadership team

Brainstorming sessions with the project stakeholders to understand the new reporting requirements and perform Gap analysis to identify any additional data needs to satisfy the business request

Coordinate with both onsite and offshore teams and ensure a smooth communication between them

Projects prior to Atos Syntel Inc

Organization

Customer

/Client Name

Designation

Role

Technologies

/Skills Used

Virtusa Software Services Ltd

Guardian Life Insurance- LCS

Senior Consultant

Technical Lead