Mainframe Developer

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Bharathkumar Asokkumar Mainframe Developer

Email **********@*****.*** Tel:074******** (UK)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ø Perform requirement analysis with business team and understand the technical and non-technical requirement.

Ø Assists in development and improvement of application maintenance plans, processes, procedures, standards and priorities

Ø Creates and maintains reports on the status of application maintenance issues and activities Ø Involved in Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, and Unit testing, Support for Integration and UAT Testing. Ø Performs performance tuning to improve performance across multiple systems. Ø Responding to issues and resolved in a timely manner. Ø Review of code and deliverables.

Ø Ticket management in service now, creation CRQ’s and clarity timesheets. Ø Being a point of contact in onshore, Lead and mentor the offshore team toward the project and organization goals.

Ø Report project status such as Weekly status & consolidated Monthly status report to the management/business team.

Ø Delegate work and coach junior team members to code, Test and debug the requirement. Ø Having 8+ Years of Development Experience in IBM Mainframe Environment. Ø Proficiency in Mainframe: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS, Rexx, SQL, Oracle DB, MQ, TSO/ISPF, RACF, Z OS. Ø Have experience in Banking and Retail projects.

Ø Worked in IMS to DB2 migration project, Merchandise operations, and Master data migration Projects. Ø Proficiency in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (Requirements Study, Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Support)

Ø Involved in Defect Prevention and Quality activities of the project. Ø Good experience in leading and handling multiple and complex projects Ø Hands on experience in the following tools: CA-7, File-Aid, BMC, SPUFI, QMF, Platinum, Changeman, Librarian, Eclipse, Xpediter, CICSplex, Jira, Servicenow, DbVisualizer, SQL Developer. Ø Basic knowledge on Natural Adabas & Core Java.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR DEVELOPER at MerchOps/Waitrose (UK)

Work Location: Bracknell, UK

Duration: Sep2019 –Till Date

Legacy systems are rightly aligned with the new solution (Oracle and JDA) in operations. Responsibilities:

● Maintenance of legacy applications connected with the Mainframe.

● Deployment in various applications & Mainframe.

● Production Implementation Support – Bug Fixes, Process Support & Assistance.

● Handover of projects.

● Offshore team support.

● Constructs complex application programs according to specifications meeting all internal programming standards in order to meet a business requirement. SENIOR DEVELOPER at IMS Decommission / Wal-Mart

Work Location: Chennai, India

Duration: May2018 – Sep2019

Replacing programs containing IMS Database with DB2 codes. Responsibilities:

● Impact Analysis and estimation.

● Preparation and reviewing of Technical Design document.

● Coding, Unit Test and regression testing.

● Reviewing the deliverables.

● Production Implementation Support – Bug Fixes, Process Support & Assistance.

● Handover of projects with proper documentations.

● Acting as Mainframe offshore point of contact for the application.

● Taking ownership of project planning, estimation, and deliverables. ASSOCIATE at Data Migration / Wal-Mart

Work Location: Chennai, India

Duration: Aug 2014 – June 2017

Wal-Mart Store Inc. is the largest retailer and the largest company in terms of revenue. Each week more than 245 million customers and members visit its nearly 11,000 stores under 71 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries.

MDM Data Migration: In Wal-Mart System, the data is maintained on Different databases like WCC/Legacy DB2 database/Informix HOBUS. As an upgrade they moved to Cassandra Database. This Project MDM is 3

Master Data Management, going to migrate all the data from various database WCC/Legacy DB2 database/Informix HOBUS to Cassandra through legacy. Impact Analysis and estimation. Responsibilities:

● Requirement gathering/analysis.

● Preparation of Technical Design document for the impacted modules.

● Coding, Unit Test and regression testing.

● Preparation of unit test cases.

● Review activities.

● Support during QA & Team testing.

● Production Implementation Support – Bug Fixes, Process Support & Assistance.

● Preparation of Handover document.

● Acting as Mainframe offshore point of contact for the MDM application.

● Taking ownership of project planning, estimation, and deliverables. ASSOCIATE at Citi Chemistry-Secure / Citi Group UK Work Location: Chennai, India

Duration May 2012 - May 2014

Citi Group performs various services like maintaining securities, Custodian, Trade Life Cycle etc. Asset Servicing is a core ongoing service provided by Custodians. Citi provide Asset Servicing through both its Global and Direct Custody platforms. Global Custody (GC) network covers 93 markets and offers numerous value- added services such as Assured income, Auto-FX.

Responsibilities:

● Requirement Analysis.

● Coding, Unit testing.

● Implementation and Implementation support.

● SIT/UAT Job monitoring.

● Quality activities in project – DPA (Defect prevention Analyst) ASSOCIATE at Pricing and Billing Sys - IMS to DB2 Conversion Work Location: Chennai, India

Duration May 2012 - May 2014

Harland Clarke intended to convert their Pricing and Billing system from IMS DB to DB2. The system has both online and batch programs. System is used by Harland's customers such as Banks and Credit unions to order checks

Responsibilities:

● Analysis of code.

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● Conversion of COBOL / IMS related code to COBOL / DB2.

● Unit testing of batch program after conversion.

● Fixing of issues / defects.

● Provided required support for the onsite team.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Ganapathy Tulsis Engineering College/Anna University 2009

Diploma in Electricals and Electronics Engineering Direct Rate of Technical Education

2006

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Employer Designation Duration

HCL Technologies Limited Software Engineer MAR 2011 – MAY 2014 Cognizant Technology Solutions Associate Aug 2014 - June 2017 Cognizant Technology Solutions Associate May-2018 - Till Date PERSONAL DETAILS

● Date of Birth : June-1988

● Sex/Gender : Male

● Nationality : Indian

● Martial Status : Married

● Languages Known : English. Tamil, Telugu

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