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Prashant Shivankar

Profile

Certified Scrum Master and DevOps Foundation. IBM Certified Database Associate, IBM Certified Level 1 IT specialist.

Thirteen years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.

Extensive experience with analysis, design, development and implementation of software applications in legacy system.

Experience working in z/OS, z/OS web enablement tool kit to expose mainframe APIs to distributed environment and also accessing distributed systems APIs in mainframe.

Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements.

Identify and provide solutions to increase performance of the system. Provide solutions to business problems and user concerns.

Managed to stabilize project from average 40 production issues per month to average 2 issues per month in last 4 years.

Strong development knowledge as well wide experience of production support for mainframe applications.

Executed software projects for banking industry as well for the logistics industry.

Ability to work effectively and manage teams with minimum or zero KT, and exceed expectations.

Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

Skill Set

Mainframes: z/OS Connect, z/OS web enablement tool kit, TSO/IPSF, COBOL, COBOL-DB2/ORACLE, IMS, COBOL-CICS, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, Assembler, REXX, EAZYTRIEVE, Natural.

Development Tools: FILE-AID, ENDEVOUR, Change Management, Endevor, IDz, Compuware workbench/TOPAZ, ELIPS,IBM’s QMS, predict,

Infosys’s IPM+, VSS, Toad, IBM Tivoli, IBM DB2 Command Line processor.

Functional Modules: Finance, Logistics.

RDBMS: IBM DB2, Oracle 8.1, IDMS

Languages: COBOL, REXX, C

O/S: z/OS, MVS OS390, Windows.

Processes: Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, BM’s QMS (Quality Management System) and ALM (Advance Lifecycle Management) Process.

Infosys’s IPM+ (Infosys Project Management)

Certifications: Certified Scrum Matser, DevOps Foundation, IBM Certified Database Associate, IBM certified Level 1 IT specialist, IBM certified panelee for IT speciliast certification.

Badges: Travel and Transportation industry solution Bronze level, Design Thinking, Architectural Thinking, IBM Automation Practioner, IBM Mentor

Education:

Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering - 2006, Pune University, India

VISA Status:

Approved H1-B VISA till Feb 18th 2022.

Professional Experience

Apr 2010 – Till date, Technical Team Lead IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Roles & Responsibilities

1.Requirement gathering and application designing for Quantum View Data, My Choice, Customer Alert Request Engine, TradeAbility, Quantum view Notify and Host Distribution applications in every enterprise release.

2.Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.

3.Responsible for creating and reviewing various project artifacts including high level designs, traceability matrix, coding, code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, product testing and error resolution.

4.Responsible for analysis of business requirements, creation of design documents, coding, unit testing for the requirements provided, system testing, providing support for product test and implementing changes to production and providing post implementation support for RFCs, RFWs and enterprise releases.

5.Use agile methodology for RFCs and RFW items, working on user stories and migrate changes to production in short duration.

6.Responsible for creating estimates and project plan according to effort required for development and maintenance activities.

7.Responsible in analyzing and providing technical details on the RFPs proposed.

8.Responsible for analyzing and decide on the path to create APIs to expose to distributed platforms, create them and develop new interfaces with applications.

9.Update existing applications to get data from migrated applications thru REST APIs using z/OS connect.

10.Onsite coordination, resolve queries and issues of offshore team members and client. Also responsible for effective communication between offshore project team and customer.

11.Coordinate with Database Administrators to get tables and databases set-up before unit/system/product test begins.

12.Coordinate with MQ support groups to set up/change parameters of necessary MQ’s.

13.Provide post-production support to end-users.

14.Communicate activities/progress to offshore project managers and clients.

15.Responsible to attend the meeting with clients to gather the requirements, to review the business needs and provide solutions which satisfies performance, cost and timelines criteria.

Project 1 Name : Quantum View Data

Client : UPS

Start Date : 5th April 2010

End date : TILLDATE

Role : Project Lead

Project Description

As team lead responsible for leading and guiding team members along with analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of back end applications for various products and upgrades for our IBM US customer United Parcel Services (UPS).

Key Highlights

Successfully worked on developing mainframe back end application for UPS My Choice Product, which has over 3 million customer base all over world.

Developed architecture for new product Customer Alert Request Engine (CARE) for UPS, this product have shown significant growth in UPS My Choice business.

Successfully created REST APIs for interfacing applications using z/OS connect. Used various methods to get data from migrated applications thru REST APIs.

Successfully created ICE chain transactions using CICS to get data from other interfacing applications in the real time. Also developed screens for user representatives to query DB and get required information for the end user queries.

Project Responsibilities

Responsible for leading a project team and application development in delivering solution to our customer in the logistics sector.

Work with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents

Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that conclude in client acceptance of the results.

Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and technical experience in mainframe technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.

Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact on the existing system and if necessary make the necessary changes.

Coordinate and communicate tasks with team mates.

Ensure that development is performed as per requirements

Work with QA to create test scripts and scenarios for enhancements testing and products testing

Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and clients

Develop implementation and test plans, build software acceptance criteria, coordinate and work with clients to oversee the acceptance and dissemination process

Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer and management.

Key projects handled so far for UPS client includes development of back end applications for new product called UPS MyChoice, Customer Alert request Engine, enhancements such as Special launch, Alerts process, Branded Visibility, developing APIs for interfacing applications, accessing data thru REST APIs from migrated applications.

Environment: MVS OS: COBOL-DB2, z/OS Connect, JCL, MQ Series, and VSAM

Team Size : 10 to 15

Feb 2007– April 2010, Senior Systems Engineer Infosys Tech. Ltd.

Roles & Responsibilities

1.Worked on Design of various developments which involved Requirement Capture, Preparing Requirement and Design Specifications, Impact Analysis and Estimation.

2.Worked as team leader and this role involved design and estimation, resolving queries and issues of team and monitoring and resolution of system testing errors.

3.Worked as Technical Lead from August 2009 to April 2010 for Bank of America’s MS services project development activities.

4.As Technical Lead, work involved preparing HLD and LLD documents, Coding, code reviews, Unit testing and Error resolution, managing priorities of tasks, scheduling and tracking progress.

5.Also coordinating with onsite team members to resolve queries and Issues.

6.Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements.

7.Worked as Configuration controller for 2 years in the Bank of America which involves maintaining the document and perform the monthly quarterly audits.

8.Worked as the defect prevention anchor which involves collecting the defect prevention data and arrange.

9.Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business analysts and clients.

10.Worked as knowledge management anchor which included arranging KM session amongst the team across various projects.

Project 1 Name : Merchant Services

Client : Bank of America

Start Date : Feb 2007

End date : April 2010

Role : Senior System Engineer

Project Description

Merchant services and national settlement application which deals with transaction processing and settlement of the transactions.

Project Responsibilities

I was working as software engineer and then senior systems engineer with Infosys Technologies my tasks basically include analysis and design of client’s requirement, coding, unit testing, reviews, and implementation.

As senior systems engineers responsibility I was responsible for

oEnsure that development is performed as per requirements

oWork with QA to create test scripts and scenarios for enhancements developments and defects fixes.

oCommunicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, and business analysts.

oDevelop system test plans, integration test plan, analyze and assign the defects (tickets) in the team. Give tickets status to project manager as well to the onsite leads.

As a software engineer I was responsible for

oAnalysis of business requirements from client

oDesign - high level as well as low level as per the business requirement documents

oReviews of –detail design as well as low level design documents, code, unite test results document, system and integrations test results documents

In addition to this I was involved in additional responsibilities in various projects

oProject configuration controller who has the responsibility to maintain the project artifact, prepare for the monthly audits with quality analyst, maintain the project standards, maintain the version control of the configurable items, and make sure that every team member follows the SDLC and CM plan.

oDefect prevention anchor this responsibility basically includes the collection of defects data on monthly basis, arrange a team meeting with project manager to find out the root cause of the defect, mentor this meeting, categories the defect, prepare the minutes of meeting and share them with the team.

oKnowledge Management anchor, am KM anchor I have to perform activities such as arranging the KT sessions on the application the particular team is working on. Prepare and share the outcomes of the sessions with project mates.

Environment: MVS OS390: COBOL-ORACLE, JCL, C, REXX, ASSEMBLER, EASYTRIEVE, COBOL-DB2, COBOL-CICS, VSAM, And FILEAID.

Team Size : 8 to 12

References: Available upon request

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