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Life Insurance Project

Location:
Syracuse, NY
Posted:
January 20, 2021

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SRINIVASKAMESH RALLAPALLI

Project Lead @ TCS **+ years of Experience Project Delivery Client Communication Business Analysis & Technical Implementation Production Support Mainframe Technologies Agile

Dedicated IT Professional with vast experience in all phases of Software development - Client Requirement gathering, Project Planning, Feasibility Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, UAT and Production support. Proven experience in handling Project delivery for critical applications in the Banking Auto Insurance domain to ensure data security and seamless data processing. Proficient in Client requirement gathering, Project Planning, steering the direction of development efforts by providing direction to the team to meet the project timelines and specifications. Expertise in working with Mainframe technologies - NATURAL, JCL, COBOL, ADABAS, DB2, VSAM and scheduling tools.

Contact Details : adjkuq@r.postjobfree.com +205 - 578 – 9696 linkedin.com/in/srinivaskamesh-rallapalli/ New York

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Project Delivery Lead @ Tata Consultancy Services (Dec ‘12 – Present)

Domain : Banking Auto Insurance

Projects : CADS application, Death Claims application, Credit application, Regulatory Reforms application

Clients : Insurance one, Equitable Life Insurance, Protective Life Insurance, Transamerica, Common wealth bank of Australia

Responsibilities :

Leading and directing the Project team members to achieve the Project delivery within timelines and according to client’s requirement.

Working closely with the clients to understand their requirement and suggesting the best possible solution.

Planning Project timelines, tracking them via Kanban boards and setting expectations with the team on the Project deadlines.

Conducting Standup meets on a daily basis and communicating client requirements with the offshore team.

Working in an Agile based development methodology and communicating with Business Analysts,

Project Delivery Lead

Product Owner, SMEs on a daily basis for all the work requests and updates.

Project : CADS Application

Delegating and managing work distribution to reach the project deadlines within the planned

(April ‘17 – Present)

timeframe and with less amount of re-work.

Ensuring the Project release timelines (UAT, Production) are followed for business availability.

Project Lead

Ascertaining that critical Banking applications are up & running at all times

Project : Death Claims Application

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Focused on the critical areas and automated several manual processes for the clients to reduce time.

(Dec ’15 - Mar ’17)

Project Management Tools :

Involved in multiple discussions for audits, recertification & ensuring completion as per standards.

Azure Kanban Board

Worked on the Service requests from Product Support and delivered them on time.

Senior Developer

Programming Languages : NATURAL,

Deploying the code after the sign off and supporting implementation in Client environment.

Project : Credit Application

REXX, COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, C

Contributed extensively on project maintenance and change requests for the batch & online systems.

(Dec ’13 - Nov ‘15)

IDE : CA Gen

Worked extensively on Production Support for Mainframe projects & strong hold on Mainframe

Job Scheduler : CA7, Control-M

based technologies and tools.

Team Member

Scripting languages : JCL, HTML,

Worked on the proposals for Business critical systems to have better architecture/tech platforms.

Project : Regulatory Reforms

JAVASCRIPT

Trained in end to end JSOX quality process

(Dec ’12 - Nov ‘13)

Database : DB2, ADABAS, IMS-DB,

Worked in all phases of SDLC – Client requirement gathering, analysis, coding, unit testing, UAT and Production support for projects.

IMS-DC, SQL

Worked on Crosbie, ACE, GAP systems extensively for all the work requests, having good understanding and have worked in

Mainframe Tools: PEEK, N2O,

Investment banking and Superannuation products.

PREDICT, PAR and ICETOOLS

Release Management Tool : Endevor

Team Leader @ Tech Mahindra (May ‘08 - Nov ’12)

File Management System : VSAM,

IBM File Manager

Domain : Automotive

Operating Systems : Windows NT,

Project : Marketing and Sales modules, Admin and Finance modules

IBM Mainframe ZOS, Windows XP,

Modules worked on : Type approval Registration and Administration (TARA), Incentive Management System(IMS), Central Specification

Vista

Management(CSM), Integrated Finance Management(IFM), Sales Order Invoicing(SOI), Self-billed Invoice System(SIS),

MEGA for creating ER diagrams and

General Ledger System(GLS),Facilities and General Supplies(FGS)

data modelling

Client : Nissan Europe

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Responsibilities :

Contributed technical expertise for software development, optimizing the code for incorporating enhancements and maintenance.

Excellent Communication skills

Provided Production support for Marketing and Sales applications with more than 10 business users.

Prioritization & Decision Making

Worked closely with Citi Bank and Natwest bank in the UK to create payment interfaces to pay foreign suppliers.

Analytical & Problem-solving skills

Worked with more than 5 business users in complete Admin and Finance support project

Delegation skills

Assigned the support tickets to offshore team members and delivered them after thorough review and testing.

Team player & Mentoring skills

Dealt with Business users in TARA+ projects on understanding and resolving their issues on priority basis post analysis.

Effective Interpersonal skills

Used to provide support every month-end with complete applications on NMUK Finance.

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

ACHIEVEMENTS & INITIATIVES

CERTIFICATIONS/ COURSES

Automated nearly 15 processes in the current support role to reduce Business work around and also reduce any IT recurring efforts

which saved almost 6PM/year collectively on all these tasks.

Completed online courses on Cloud

Received appreciation from several Client Managers and Business for quick turnaround on solving critical problems.

platforms - AWS & Azure from Udemy

Identified pain points in the processes, streamlined the delivery aspects by initiating standup meets/retrospective meetings and always

Completed ‘DB2 Fundamentals

worked towards achieving highest client satisfaction rating.

Certification’ from IBM

Provided solution to reduce mainframe job run times, which has saved considerable dollar amount and time.

Completed ALMI certification for

Contributed technical expertise in Production support for around 20 modules and available for 24*7 callout.

Insurance Domain from Loma

Provided several solutions with optimum costs to ensure good quality.

Organization

Worked in the analysis of DCA Cobol to extract Business rules with the help of Master craft tool & successfully implemented the project.

Worked on the analysis of Easytreive modules in DCA and provided the analysis documents.

EDUCATION

Contributed Product Support efforts on the development of Mainframe and cool gen applications.

Chosen for Onsite experience of around 10 months in Sydney.

Bachelor of Engineering ‘07

Trained in end to end JSOX quality process and conducted knowledge sharing sessions on the same for many associates in the team.

INTERESTS : Social Service & Mentoring people

Project Delivery Management

Project Requirement Gathering

Planning & Estimation

Software Design & Development

Mainframe Technologies

Client Communication

Production Support

Team Management



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