CICS, CICSplex, REXX

RESUME

Rajesh Ravindran Mob: 91-961*******

Email : ************@*****.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE :

To be part of an organization that gives me scope to enhance my skills and knowledge and work towards the growth of the organization.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

12+ years of experience in CICS & CPSM System Programming

IBM Certified CICS L4 programmer

Expertise on CICS, CICSPlex SM Installation, Upgrade, Maintenance and Administration.

Expertise on CICS ISV products installation, upgrade, customization and maintenance.

SMP/E maintenance for CICS T.S. and z/OS program products.

Performed application problem determination using Abend-Aid, Traces, System Dumps

Developed disaster recovery blueprints and planning models

Good Experience in Core business applications in Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Health Care

Good knowledge on Websphere MQ.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

BANK OF AMERICA (BA Continuum India Pvt Ltd),Hyderabad (2nd Apr 2018 – Till Date)

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO., Bangalore (23 Jan 2017 to 16 Mar 2018)

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, Bangalore (8th June 2015 to 17th Jan 2017)

IBM INDIA, Bangalore: ( 16th dec 2009 – 3rd June 2015)

TATA CONSUTANCY SERVICES( TCS), Chennai: ( 26th Dec 2006 – 10th dec 2009)

HDFC Bank and other startups ( May 2004 – Dec 2006)

CERTIFICATIONS:

IBM Certification in CICSPlex Installation, Configuration and Administration.

IBM Certification in Z/OS Basics and Programming

IBM Certification in REXX Programming

IBM Certification in CICS Web services and CICSPlex

IBM Certification in Advanced CICS system Programming

IBM Certification in CICS debugging Techniques

IBM Certification in VSAM Programming and Techniques

IBM Certification in JCL Programming

IBM Certification in Assembler Programming

Trained on IBM L2 activities – Dump analysis and Trouble Shooting.

IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 9 Fundamentals

ITIL v3 Certified.

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor of Science in Physics from University of Madras

Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering (ADSE) from APTECH

WORK EXPERIENCE :

BANK OF AMERICA, Hyderabad Designation : Lead Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing CICS Application support for the Bank CICS regions.

Problem determination and troubleshooting CICS issues in Production and test environments.

Tuning of CICS environment for better application performance and assisting CICS application team to optimize their code by providing various metrics.

DUMP and Trace reading with tools like FA and IPCS.

Create and manage CICS resources for new and existing CICS applications.

Provide CICS support during Application releases and other z/OS subsystem upgrade and maintenance activities.

Create new CICS regions, new CICSplex definitions including WLM setup for new applications.

Expertise in CICS-DB2, CICS-MQ, CICS-IMS,CICS and CICS Web services.

Decommissioning and cleanup of obsolete applications from CICS regions.

Automating CICS related jobs through REXX.

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO, Bangalore Designation : Associate

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating and maintaining the CICS SMP/E Environment.

Order the CICS Product during CICS upgrades and build new SMP/E environment.

Order the RSU maintenance for CICS and other ISV products.

Handle all the SMPE process like RECEIVE, HOLDDATA ANALYSIS, APPLY etc for CICS and other ISV products

Prepare the Maintenance and plan the Maintenance implementation in Product environment.

Create and deploy Maintenance automation process through REXX

Problem troubleshooting for CICS and ISV products

Mentoring the Junior team on CICS and CPSM Skills

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, Bangalore Designation : Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

1)Cloning and modifying the entire CICSPlex from production to test systems for providing Testing Environments

2)Supporting Projects through out their lifecycle starting from UNIT testing till production deployment

3)Creating and Managing CICS resources in BAS for complex environment of more than 50 CICSplexes.

4)Creating and Managing Work Load Management functionality of CPSM.

5)Generating Performance reporting for Projects during testing phase and providing CICS fine tuning.

6)CICS & CPSM Troubleshooting.

7)CICS Webservices.

IBM INDIA, Bangalore

Designation : CICS and CPSM System programmer on z/OS platform.

Projects and Clients handled:

1.Captialone Bank

2.Chubb & Sons Insurance

3.Standard Insurance

4.WellPoint

Roles & Responsibilities:

1)Installed and configured CICSPlex SM 3.1 in the current environment

2)Configured and implemented WLM feature of CPSM.

3)Configured and implemented RTA feature of CPSM.

4)Upgraded ISVs (CICSVT, CAFC,ABENDAID)

5)Implemented a complex project which involved the creation of new 150 CICS regions using CICS web services with Dynamic transaction routing in CPSM based on WLM specs.

6)Implemented the Alert mechanism in Environment using OMEGAMON

7)Implemented the DYNAMIC RPL management in CICS TS 3.1 using the CAFC product

8)Applied many PTFs in CPSM based environment.

9) Performed the CICS activities during the CPU, z/OS upgrade and bi yearly maintenance.

10)Mentored the juniors in CICS and CICSplex skills.

11)Configure and support CICS-DB2 Environment and also troubleshoot the related issues

12)Configure and support CICS MQ environment and also troubleshoot the related issues.

13)Monitor the CICS systems with monitor tools such as Mainview, Omegamon and CPSM WUI. Diagnose and troubleshoot the issues with the help of these tools.

Highlights:

Upgraded CICSTS 5.1 from CICS TS 4.2

Upgraded CICS TS 4.1 from CICS TS 3.1

Upgraded CPSM 4.1 from CICS TS 3.1

Expertise in trouble shooting CPSM issues including WLM & RTA features

Basic trouble shooting of Transaction & System abends with IPCS

Performance tuning of CICS system with PD tools.

Basic TRACE reading

Basic ASSEMBLER knowledge.

Basic Rexx programming skills.

TATA CONSUTANCY SERVICES( TCS), Chennai: ( 26th Dec 2006 – 10th dec 2009)

Designation: CICS Administrator on z/OS platform.

Projects and Clients handled:

1.Prudential Financial

Tools used:

Changeman, Remedy, Tivoli Business Systems Manager(TBSM), CICSplex, Omegamon, IOF, SAVERS, CYBER FUSION, JCLPLUS, ABEND-AID, System State Manager(SSM) & Jobtrac

Responsibilities as CICS System programmer :

1)Checking out file availability in online regions after the batch process within SLA.

2)Defining, altering, deleting the RDO entries in the region using CEDA and also using batch jobs.

3)Trouble shooting the issues in the region using ABEND-aid and SAVERS

4)Monitoring the parameters like High CPU usage, Storage limits, looping transactions using tools like OMEGAMON.

5)Installing the changes, vendor software upgrades.

6)Region cleanup, new region creation.

7)Adding the region to SSM, changing and overriding the region schedules using SSM.

8)Creating a change ticket and implementing the changes in the production region.

9)Performing Business continuation(BC) activities for CICS regions etc.,

Responsibilities as a Job Scheduler Administrator :

1)Taking care of Master Scheduling changes for all Client Business groups

2)Creating New Job Locations

3)Updating Holiday Calendar yearly for all locations

4)JMF variables update in the table every week

5)Monthly Jobtrac history file reorganization.

6)Maintain/update Exclusion Table

7)Maintain ADR & AMR tables

8)Create Jobtrac Schedules for many business groups as per their requirement with multiple dependencies.

9)Fix Schedule, checkpoint & AMR table abends

10)Updating Exclusion Parm tables for avoiding contention

11)Business Continuation testing & Maintenance of both the schedulers (OPC & Jobtrac) in multiple LPARS.

12)Auto beep table updates for multiple Client groups

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name : R. RAJESH

Date of Birth & Age : March 9th 1982, 34.

Marital Status : Married

Father’s Name : R. Ravindran

Nationality and Religion : Indian, Hindu

Languages Known : English, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi

VISA : U.S B1/B2 (Valid till 2027)

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