Asif Bargir
IT professional
Chandler, AZ
**********@*****.***
Cell: 480-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A passionate and motivated achiever and dedicated to delivering quality and efficient products and services. Articulate communicator who can fluently speak the language of both business and technology. Blending this expertise with exceptional interpersonal skills while interacting effectively with people at all levels of the organization, including with stakeholders, customers, and executive management. Exceptional Technical Skills on IBM AS400/iseries and excellent Technical Lead successful at directing and leading management and customer initiatives requiring fast-paced execution. About 20 years of IT experience during which I worked as a programmer, analyst, Technical lead, Project lead capacity has allowed me to efficiently provide value to financial, mobile, manufacturing, and semiconductor industries.
SKILLS
●IBM iseries, AS/400, OS/400,
●RPG III, RPG/400, RPGLE, RPG IV
●CL/400, CLLE, COBOL, SQLLE
●SDA, RLU,QUERY/400, QMQUERY
●DB2400, XQUERY, QMQUERY, XML
●FTP, Aldon, Turnover,Robot,HawkEye
●Microsoft Office, MS Project, and Visio
●Python, Numpy, Pandas, SKlearn, Keras, Tensorflow
●Waterfall methods/framework of software development and delivery
●Project Management life cycle (PMLC)
●Software development life cycle (SDLC)
●Leader, Problem solver, Team player, Mentor, Decision maker, and Excellent Soft skills
●Analytical, Personable, Dependable, and Flexible
●EDI, RosettaNet,SAP Client and SQL client tools
●Client/Server and Web based applications
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Amkor Technology
Tempe, AZ
July 2006 – August 2018
Sr. Analyst - EBiz
The overall role included but was not limited to write Technical specs, coding for iseries/AS400, Analyze the Business requirements, provide Technical direction on AS400/ iseries platform and lead the project. Used my Technical expertise and experience in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to develop, maintain, scope and implement appropriate business and technical solutions.
●Designed and developed in RPGIV, RPGLE, SQLLE, CL and CLLE in OS/400 and ILE environment for B2B.
●Provide code review and Test Plan.
●Provided Technical directions for global rollouts of new B2B interface for top Semiconductor companies.
●Analyze Customer and business user requirements and prepare requirement analysis documents.
●Successfully led Developers and directed all phases of projects.
●Prepared program specifications for developers, document business requirements and programs.
●Plan and enable production support handover after successful project deploy.
●Interact with customers on a regular basis to understand open issues and new requirements.
●Managed communication for all business and technical aspects of the project.
●Provided Technical directions for global rollouts of new B2B interface for top Semiconductor companies.
AT&T (TechMahindra Inc)
Wilkes-Barre, PA
November 2004 – June 2006
Technical Lead.
Managed Technical team and lead development projects on IBM As/400 billing application for AT&T. The billing application had client server architecture where As/400 was the backend and Visual basic was the front end. The database was DB2/400 and all program logic was in RPGLE on AS/400. The billing application development had an onsite-offshore model. Successfully delivered projects by managing the development team, understanding the business requirement, and providing technical solutions.
●Designed and developed in RPG, RPGLE, CL and CLLE in OS/400 and ILE environment.
●Managed coordination between functional team and developers.
●Create and document user test cases based on business requirements.
●Create and document technical test cases.
●Coordinated between all stakeholders and project team.
●Managed and monitored all project deliveries and milestones.
●Defined and coordinated tasks for the application development team.
●Managed coordination between onsite and offshore team.
●Solved problems through systematic analysis of processes with sound judgment.
●Successfully delivered all projects on time.
American Express(Syntel Inc)
Houston, TX and Brighton, UK
June 2001-October 2004
Senior Analyst Programmer.
As a Senior Analyst and team lead handled enhancement and maintenance of American Express billing system for Finland and Sweden market, and for American Express travel related reporting system in IBM AS/400 environment. Delivered quality products by understanding the business requirements and converting them into Technical specifications that involved a team of developers.
●Worked on production support and small enhancement projects.
●Designed and developed in RPG, RPGLE, COBOL/400, CL/400 and DB2/400 in an OS/400 environment.
●Handled coordination between onsite and offshore team.
●Exceeded client expectations by delivering projects on time and with high success rate
●Stabilized the system by fixing the open issues or bugs to near zero, exceeded client expectations.
DSQ Software limited
Mumbai, India
January 1999-June 2001
MAPICS ERP Technical consultant
As a Technical consultant was part of ERP MAPICS implementation team with all the transactional, inventory management, sales order management, planning modules, and cross application support (CAS). Responsible for integration of localized module EXMAP (for local tax law) with MAPICS and data flow from EXMAP to MAPICS. MAPICS is an ERP package developed by Mapics Inc. USA.
●Provided technical support for a full implementation project at various customer sites.
●Handled upgrade of ERP systems.
●Designed and developed in RPG, CL/400 and DB2/400 in OS/400 environment.
● Successfully provided support for data migration from existing system to new ERP system.
NON IT Work Experience September 2018 - December 2019
Established new business entity Car planet Auto sales LLC that buys used vehicles online from Vehicle leasing companies and sells them online along. It is a small establishment and is now handed over to my partner. It is now time for me to move back to my core expertise which is information technology which I have worked on for 20 Years. For this new business that we created, I handled all aspects of business that included but was not limited to Purchase, Sales, Financing, Taxes, Advertising and customer relations. This new business is now handled by my Partner.
This experience helped me enhance my decision making skills, people relation, communication, and negotiation This experience will be handy when I work on projects that have tight deadlines and budget constraints as I learned how to work efficiently with limited resources.
EDUCATION
Bachelor Of Engineering, Industrial Production 1995
Mumbai University; India
CERTIFICATIONS AND DESIGNATIONS
●Certified and trained on IBM DB2 400 and IBM iSeries programming, RPGLE, RPG III, CLLE, COBOL400.
●Trained in Python.
●XML Certificate course
●Certified on IBM DB2 400 and IBM iSeries programming
●Trained on CMM, Capability maturity model.
AWARDS
●Amkor Technology: Appreciation award; outstanding support and delivery solutions for B2B integration with SAP in 2012.
●Amkor Technology: Excellent customer support award for IT support to maintain the number 1 vendor status in 2015, 2016, 2017.
●Best Team Award for our team from Amkor Sales for IT Projects in 2017