Mohammad Iqbal eMail: adgvcr@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 682-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An Information Technology professional with 15+ years of experience in application programming. Over

** ***rs in Mainframe and three years in MS technologies. Strong experience of SDLC, System design, development and testing.

Experience in Health Care and Finance Domain in Banking background and worked with Boston based Fidelity Investment a Mutual Funds company. Strong knowledge of Lock Box, clearing payment, stopping payment. It is a single file is having all kinds of records for stopping payment and wire transfer etc. known as Lock Box file, involving ACH transactions for bank to bank business.

Worked on all phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC) implementation support. Strong working skill with FILE MANAGER.

Strong programming skills in COBOL in writing new and enhancing existing on-line and batch programming with IBM MQ-Series.

Strong experience in BMC which offers checkpoint/restart and error handling routines to help ensure consistent application execution and data integrity. The routines are prewritten and tested to allow developers to spend more time on business solutions. The product's open environment allows for custom extensions and third-party software.

Strong experience in JIRA which is an online application to keep track of designed to automate the management and assignment of end-user activities.

Extensive working knowledge of CICS, DB2, IMS/DB-DC and VSAM ESDS, KSDS and RRDS.

Strong business knowledge and working knowledge of Financial industry like ACH and all kinds banking transaction.

Expertise in using various version controlling tools like CHANGEMAN, INFOMAN, PANVALET, ENDEVOR and good working knowledge of CLIST, STORED PROCEDURES.

Experience in working with debugging tools like XPEDITER, VIASOFT.

Experience in writing report using EASYTRIEVE, SORT utilities.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

OPERATING SYSTEMS

MVS, OS/390, WINDOWS 98/2000/XP, z/OS, Unisys ClearPath (1100/2200 series)

LANGUAGES

MF-COBOL, COBOL II & VS COBOL, JCL, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, XML, XSLT, VB, ECL with RDMS (SQL), TIP, UDS, CPFTP, QED, IPF, SAM.

DATABASE

DB2, M204, IMS/DB-DC, ORACLE, SQL, BAS, ACCESS

OLTP

CICS, IMS-DB/DC

TOOLS

XPEDITER, VIASOFT, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE, POWERPOINT, FTP, SDF II, PLATINUM, FTP, SPUFI, QMF, MOBIUS, SDSF, TSO/SDSF, ABEND AID, INFOPAC, INTERTEST, TEST DIRECTOR, JES2, QUALITY CENTRE, FILE-AID, BMC, JIRA, INFOMAN, DFSORT, SYNCSORT,

ICE-TOOL, CONTROL-M, INSYNC.

ACCESS METHOD

GSAM, QSAM, VSAM

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES/

SCRIPT

MS-WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, ACCESS, VISIO, VISUAL BASIC, COM, DCOM, MTS, MQ-Series, WEB SERVICES, CRYSTAL REPORT, VBA, JAVA SCRIPT, .NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CLIENT : Vanguard (Malvern – PA)

ROLE : Senior Developer (From 07/19 To Present)

PROJECT TITLE: Enterprise Investment Product (EIP).

The purpose of Enterprise Investment Product (EIP) is to provide a standardized (Enterprise) view of Vanguard Investment Products, Securities and Benchmarks. The enterprise approach to data management offer many advantages from the perspectives of Data Quality, Data consistency, Standardized Data Delivery, Data Delivery method re-use.

The EIP data cycle consists of 3 distinct stages:

Data Acquisition, EIP data is acquired from a variety of internal applications and external data vendors, Data maintenance EIP data maintained from variety of batch applications. Online maintenance support is limited. Online maintenance support can be performed only indirectly using the Lighthouse desktop. The information data management team ha UI to maintain SRM and Organization Data distribution, EIP data is distributed using a variety of methods.

The primary method are batch file extract and stored procedures called by host or mid-tier processes.

Responsibilities:

Participate in brainstorming sessions with business teams and other stakeholders (Product Manager, Program Manager, others) for business requirements gathering and their implementation feasibility analysis.

Participate in daily Scrum call activities to discuss work done yesterday/doing today/will do tomorrow.

Perform Impact analysis of the business requirements to understand their implications on existing application modules and Coordinate with stakeholders to resolve all the Technical issues hindering their implementation asap.

Provide necessary support to the business analysts for the creation of functional documents in alignment to the business requirements.

Perform quality reviews on Development team deliverables (code changes, unit test & integration test results) and suggest the necessary changes MF-COBOL, DB2, JCL etc.

Perform quality reviews on QA (Functional, Regression & Performance) Teams deliverables (Planned Test Cases & executed results) and suggest the necessary changes.

Provide necessary support to Development and Testing Teams for quick turnaround of the defects using Agile methodologies.

Create and Execute own test cases for critical functionalities of the project in different testing regions and work with development and testing teams for quick turnaround the issues.

Proactively monitor the application systems for any operating in-efficiency and other potential issues upon Production implementation of the project and turnaround ASAP.

Work with Helpdesk & Business teams to analyze and fix the production Incidents, reported by End-Users and turnaround the issues asap, to ensure better customer experience.

Provide RCA (Root Cause Analysis) document to senior Management for Production & QA defects.

Fix the repeated Production Job abends and also Automate the repeated tasks so as to improve the productivity of the system.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL, MF-COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, JIRA, ABEND-AID, EXPEDITOR, TSO/SDSF,

:DBVISUALIZER, ENDEVOR, MICROFOCUS ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER, IBM DATA-

:STUDIO, SMART TEST, GIT.

CLIENT : U.S. Bank (Minneapolis – MN)

ROLE : Senior Developer (From 06/18 To 07/19)

PROJECT TITLE: Automated Credit Application Processing System(ACAPS).

The ACAPS system is supported by credit scoring, credit bureau report retrieval, documentation preparation, application decisions as well as interest rates and accounting functions. A few of the main support programs are: Bureau Link, Strata, RMS and ACAPS CLAS. Bureau Link is a credit bureau request and summarization module used to request and retrieve credit bureau reports on applications that pass certain prescreen credit criteria. Strata is a rule-based decision engine comprised of functions responsible for the execution of underwriting strategies, pricing, line assignments and queue routing.

RMS or Relationship Management System is the system that manages customer and account level data and determines actionable results deemed at assessing customer value.

ACAPS CLAS is the group responsible for the web functions that interface with ACAPS as well as responsible for maintaining the macros used in automating aspects of application processing.

US Bank’s Automated Credit Application Processing System or ACAPS is the computer system that supports all phases of consumer credit operations. ACAPS is an instant, on-line response system supporting the capture, investigation, approval, closing, documentation and booking of consumer products and banking credit applications.

Responsibilities: -

Various activities associated with the design, development, testing support and production support (maintenance) of the application.

Communication with business consultants, project managers and other stakeholders of the Project.

Design, Code & Test the Complex Projects.

Allocate the Work to the Team Members based on their Work Scope.

Review the Deliverables (design, code and test results) of the Team.

Review QA (Functional, Regression & Performance) Test Cases & Results.

Attend Defect Review & Project status meetings to Turnaround the defects and other issues hindering the project progress ASAP.

Handle all Prod Issues during the Post Production Implementation of the Project.

ENVIRONMENT : MVS, COBOL II, DB2, JCL, IMS-DB/DC, CICS, FAULT ANLAYSER, EXPEDITOR,

: ENDEVOR, TSO/SDSF, FILE MANANGER.

CLIENT : Anthem/Deloitte (Woodland Hills – CA)

ROLE : Senior Developer / Programmer Analyst (From 03/17 To 05/18)

PROJECT TITLE: Enrollment And Billing System .

Anthem business will be transition Individual (does not include Medicare Supplementary) and small Group

Off-exchange membership on 2017 ACA Plans to Off-exchange 2018 ACA compliant plans.

This project is for Individual membership and billing data transition from 2017 Off-exchange plan to a 2018

Off-exchange Plans. This will be done by developing process for systematically validating and transitioning eligible members on 2017 Off-exchange Plans to 2018 Off-exchange Plans using a three-step systematic process viz. Extraction, Transformation and Load that includes various reconciliation points to ensure that all the pre-requisite conditions have been satisfied.

‘Extraction refers to pulling of source data (eligible Individual businesses on ISG), ‘Transformation’ refers to the process by which the extracted data is transition as per mapping rules to the new plans and ‘Load’ refers to the process of final loading of transitioned data into the target system (ISG).

Responsibilities:

Extensive experience in JCL, COBOL-II, DB2, Mainframe Testing (Manual and some automation), File-Aid, Easytrieve, SPUFI, Z-OS etc.

Communicating with the client business to understand the functional requirements and coordinating with the Onshore/offshore team to translate the functional need to Technical need.

Responsibilities include solution development, work specification, effort estimation and ensuring timely delivery of works.

Domain experience in Healthcare, P&C (Auto and Home) and LIFE Insurance.

Involved in the agile process like daily stand up meetings, sprint review and planning meetings.

Deliver the deliverables based on Business request and related functional/technical information on time.

Good logical, analytical & debugging skills.

Worked in the Testing phase as a Tester.

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ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL II, DB2, JCL, IMS-DB/DC FAULT ANLAYSER, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN,

:TSO/SDSF.

CLIENT : Highmark/Deloitte (Dallas – TX)

ROLE : Senior Developer (From11/16 To 02/17)

PROJECT TITLE : Bundle Payment Application System (BPA).

Bundled payment is a single payment to providers or health care facilities for all services to treat a given condition or provide a given treatment. The existing Claims Adjudication System - OSCAR has been designed in a way that the Claim is processed at line level. Any Claim coming in for adjudication is picked up from the data base on IMS based on the input Trigger File and is loaded into Claims Work Database on IMS. The Claim is then passed through each Module from Validation through Finalization. Once finalized the Claim is copied back from Claims Work Database to Claims Pending Database.

The new system for Bundled Claim determination is designed in a way that it integrates itself into the existing Claims Adjudication system. The new process is integrated with the existing Claims Adjudication system – OSCAR in the Base pricing Module.

Responsibilities:

Attend client meetings and assist with determination of project requirements

Working closely with Tech lead / Lead SME to ensure the project meets business needs.

Preparing knowledge documents for system related issues and performance tuning issues

Analyse the Business request, other functional documents and Preparing Technical specification documents and review with clients.

Providing status reports to the project sponsor.

Performed the following activities like Impact and Casual Analysis, documentation (Functional), Test case Preparation, Unit/ Integration Testing

Track the progress and quality of work being performed by team

Providing technical support and understand requirements for Enrollment in batch and online applications

Leading and coordinate the onshore, offshore development and testing teams.

Planning, reviewing, approving and executing the project define deliverables and ensure timelines.

Validate the business functionality in production on the date of implementation and Proving production support after implement of the project during warranty period

Ensuring the overall quality along with corrective action with respect to analysis.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL II, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, JCL, TRACEMASTER, TSO/SDSF, ENDEVOR.

CLIENT : Maryland State Government (Elkridge – MD)

ROLE : Senior Developer/Programmer Analyst (From 05/14 To 10/16)

PROJECT TITLE: Child Support Enforcement System (CSES)

Child support is a court-ordered payment requiring the noncustodial parent to pay child support to the custodial parent for the care of the child. A court may also order child support to be paid when parents share custody of a child. Child support payments help pay for the costs associated with raising the child. Children have the right to benefit from the incomes of both parents. Child Support exists to raise the standard of living for children by enforcing their right to receive financial support from both of their parents. The child support program assists families with collecting much needed child support from parents who are not in the home.

Gathered the existing child support data elements being used by the current CSES IVR and

making them available to the IVR system via web service.

Set up a SQL Database to house the CSES data to be accessible by the IVR System

Set up a process to refresh the mainframe child support data on SQL server on a daily basis to

ensure the IVR DB is current with CSES case information.

In addition to the existing child support data, provide the following enforcement information on

the CS cases: Past Due amount, Intent to garnish wages, Intent or will report to credit bureau,

drivers, licenses suspension, Professional licenses suspension

Set up an authentication method for callers accessing the CSES data using the existing 9-digit case

number and last 4 digits of SSN, as well as creating an alternate mode of authentication using the

Date of Birth (DOB) and last 4 digits of SSN.

Analyzed, Designed, developed whole system and developed test plan.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, MF-COBOL, DB2, JCL, ABEND-AID, EXPEDITOR, TSO/SDSF, ENDEVOR.

CLIENT : Missouri State Government (Health Care Insurance) (Jefferson City – MO)

ROLE : Senior Developer / Programmer Analyst (From 10/12 To 04/14)

PROJECT TITLE : Missouri Medicaid System (MMIS) (Phase II)

The Missouri MMIS system is the project which was done in Portland – OR that was Phase-II, the Phase-I was done in Portland - OR by Wipro Infocrossing.

Responsibilities:

Wrote high level technical specification for ICD-10 changes. Modified programs to make ICD-10

compatible. Created detailed exhibits documents with test results.

Main duties include new development and maintenance of legacy systems.

Analysis, design, programming, testing, implementing and maintaining the systems reliability and

functionality.

Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.

Worked with ANSI X12 EDI Standards 835/ 837 claims

Mastered EDI processes-Setup, to test and implement all mandatory EDI mapping.

Identify and resolve end user EDI issues in a timely manner.

Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

Preparation of restore jobs that will create the test datasets from the production.

Production data snapshots which will be consumed by JCL.

Consist largely of On-Line and Batch applications converting them from VSAM files to DB2.

Preparing exhibit documents after converting code of On-line/Batch program from VSAM files to

DB2.

Preparation of testing and implantation strategies for modified components

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL II, DB2, JCL, VSAM, BMC, JIRA, ABEND-AID, EXPEDITOR,

: TSO/SDSF, DBVISUALIZER, CICS, ENDEVOR.

CLIENT : Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (Los Angles – CA)

ROLE : System Analyst (From 11/10 To 10/12)

PROJECT TITLE : Leader

The LEADER System is based on a very robust design that supports many aspects of eligibility determination and operations for multiple County departments. The functions performed by the LEADER System include, without limitation, the following.

Eligibility Intake and Registration:

Case Assignment, Eligibility Processing and Determination, Benefit Processing

Programs Description:

CALWORKS opportunities and Responsibility to kids, Greater avenues for independence (GAIN), CAL-LEARN,

Food stamp, general relief(GR), General relief opportunity for work(GROW), Cash assistance program for immigrants(CAPI), MEDI-CAL, In home supportive service(IHSS), Foster care programs, Adoption assistance program(AAP)

Maintained LEADER system, LEADER is IV/A (welfare payments),

Worked on Homeless assistance, Medi-cal and other Human services applications.

Worked on Inter County Transaction system.

Worked on the Fraud detective system.

Designed, Developed and tested.

ENVIRONMENT : UNISYS CLEARPATH (1100/2200 SERIES) OVER TCP/IP ON OS/1100 IN COBOL,

: (ANSI 85), ECL WITH RDMS (SQL), TIP, UDS, CPFTP, QED, IPF, SAM, SSG,

: PC CLIENT USE, MICRO FOCUS COBOL /POWER BUILDER FRONT ENDS,

: PROJECT, MANAGEMENT IS VIA RATIONAL CLEARQUEST, CLEARCASE AND

: REQUISTIEPRO, TOOLS.

CLIENT : Missouri State Government. (Health Care Insurance) (Portland – OR)

ROLE : Senior Developer (From01/09 To 11/10)

PROJECT TITLE: Missouri Medicaid System (MMIS) (Phase – I)

The Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) is the mechanized claims processing and information retrieval system that all states are required to have. All states operate an MMIS to support Medicaid business

functions and maintain information in such areas as provider enrollment; client eligibility, including third party liability; benefit package maintenance; managed care enrollment; claims processing; and prior authorization. This was a conversion project from VSAM to DB2.

Responsibilities:

Main duties include new development and maintenance of legacy systems.

Analysis, design, programming, testing, implementing and maintaining the systems reliability and

functionality

Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.

Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

Worked with ANSI X12 EDI Standards 835/ 837 claims

Mastered EDI processes-Setup, to test and implement all mandatory EDI mapping.

Identify and resolve end user EDI issues in a timely manner.

Preparation of restore jobs that will create the test datasets from the production.

Consist largely of On-Line and Batch applications converting them from VSAM database to DB2.

Preparing exhibit documents after converting code of On-line/Batch program from VSAM files to

DB2.

Preparation of testing and implantation strategies for modified components

ENVIRONMENT: MVS, COBOL II, DB2, JCL, VSAM, BMC, JIRA, ABEND-AID, XPEDITOR, TSO/SDSF,

: DBVISUALIZER, CICS, ENDEVOR.

CLEINT : Unum ( Insurance) (Bombay – India)

ROLE : Senior Developer (From 03/07 To 12/08)

PROJECT TITLE : Common Customer Platform (CCP)

Unum http://www.unum.com formerly UnumProvident, is the largest provider of group and individual income protection insurance, and one of the leading providers of employee benefits products and services in the United States and the United Kingdom. Through its subsidiaries, Unum insures more than 21 million people and provided $6 billion in total benefits to customers in 2006 Unum is a publicly owned insurance holding company formed by the June 30, 1999 merger of UNUM Corporation of Portland, Maine and Provident Companies, Inc., of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This merger was the culmination of combining the three leading disability carriers into one Paul Revere, Provident and UNUM, each with over a century of Insurance industry leadership and experience.

Responsibilities:

Preparation of high Level and technical design documents based on business requirements.

Preparation of testing and implantation strategies for modified components and was involved in

estimation

Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases and their results.

Execution of regression test cycles.

Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

Preparation of restore jobs that will create the test datasets from the production data snapshots

which will be consumed by the run JCL

Preparation of test data using File-Aid/Insync.

Execution of MVS runs and capturing reports into data sets for the comparison.

Running file compares before and after execution of Input/output files to make sure they are in

sync.

Root cause analysis of the non-matching reports.

Fixing the application programs for any non-compliance.

ENVIRONMENT : COBOL II, IMS/DB-DC, DB2, JCL, VSAM, ABEND-AID, EASYTRIEVE,

: PANVALET, INFOPAC, MOBIOUS, EXPEDITOR, TSO/SDSF, CONTROL-

: M, QSAM, MVS, CICS, TEST DIRECTOR, DATACOM.

CLIENT : Humana Inc. (Health Care Insurance) (Bombay – India)

ROLE : Senior Analyst (From 11/04 To 02/07)

PROJECT TITLE: Product Database – Maintenance

The Company's segments include Retail, Group, Healthcare Services and Other Businesses. The Retail segment consists of Medicare benefits, as well as individual commercial fully insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits, including dental, vision, and other supplemental health and financial protection products. The Group segment consists of employer group commercial fully insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits, including dental, vision, and other supplemental health and voluntary insurance benefits, as well as administrative services only (ASO) products.

Responsibilities:

Was involved requirement/technical specification documents, design and development.

Developed unit test plan and executed Unit test cases.

Implementing the specs and unit testing of new and affected modules.

Involved in maintenance of existing programs as per user requirement.

Involved in estimating hours for component changes.

Involved in preparing and reviewing Unit and System test cases.

Involved in Unit, System, End-End & User Acceptance Testing executions.

Documenting and capturing Unit and System test case results.

Preparation of test data and execution of report JCL.

Preparation of restoring jobs that will create the test data sets from the

Production data snapshots which will be consumed by the run JCL.

ENVIRONMENT: MVS/ESA, COBOL-II, CICS, JCL, IMS-DB, DB2, TSO, QMF, XML, XLST, MQ-SERIES,

: WEB SERVICES, XPEDITER, TSO/SDSF, PANVALET

CLIENT : Fidelity Investment (Financial) (Boston – MA)

ROLE : Associate Consultant (From 02/01 To 08/04)

PROJECT TITLE: Global Plus

Identified required JCLs based on existing test regions. Identified dataset names

required for running test cycles. Created new test JCL with proper naming convention Copied files using File-Aid to run the test schedule. Monitored jobs and reported bugs. Discussed impact of abend during team meeting and their solution. Coded new programs for reports.

ENVIRONMENT: JCL, PROCs, FILE-AID, COBOL-II & VS-COBOL, Z/OS, DB2, XML, XLST, CICS,

: EXPEDITOR, VBA, ENDEVOR.

EDUCATION

MS in Business Management, Management Accounts, Management of Public Enterprises in India, Direct Taxes and Sales Tax from Hindu College Moradabad in UP – India.

Post Graduate Degree in Computer Application and programming Bombay.

Undergone two months intensive training on ES/9000 at GEBBS India Ltd., an IBM recognized institute.

Undergone training on VB .NET.

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