Engineer Customer

V. M. MAHESH

Plot No. ***, Dev Apartment, LIC Nagar,

6th Main Road, Madipakkam

Chennai 600 098

TAMIL NADU

Phone: 91-984*******

*********@**********.***

Experience Summary

Currently working in Ensono Technologies as Senior Mainframe Systems Programmer and have total experience of 14 years of experience as a storage/system administrator, excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels. Setting up Meeting with clients to know about the entire environment setup and building relationships with clients to get information and prepare SOW, Runbook, documents related to run the business.

Also was managing entire offshore team in both Chennai and Pune as infrastructure lead with problem solving capabilities and ensuring solutions within SLA, Metrics report creation, workforce management, Shift roster preparation, Work Assignment among the offshore teams in BNYM.

Technology

Hardware

Software Products

Tools

Methods

EMC,IBM Mainframe S/390

Intel Pentium III, Pentium IV

Operating Systems- MVS/ESA-Version 5.2.2, OS/390-V2R7, WINDOWS,Z/OS

Programming Languages - JCL, REXX,SAS

ISMF, FILEAID, Assyst, HITACHI,CA1,OPC,CONTROL D, SAVERS,CU,EVT, INSYNC,SRS,SAMS,FDR,Remdey, Servicenow

Qualification

Degree and Date

Institute

Major and Specialization

Master in Science (Mathematics) April-2002 (With 86%)

Loyola College, Chennai

Mathematics

Bachelor in Science (Mathematics) April-1999(62%)

Loyola College, Chennai

Mathematics

Higher Secondary March-1996(64%)

Alagappa Matriculation Higher Secondary School,Madras

Computer Science

10th/SSC April 1994(64%)

CSI Ewarts Matriculation (Boys) School, Madras

Assignments

Project

Ensono Technologies Pvtd Ltd

Customer

Securian Financials and Thrivent

Period

June 2020 - till now

Client Description

Securian Financial Group, Inc. is a mutual holding company that provides a range of financial products and services for Insurance; Annuities; Retirement; Wealth management.

Thrivent is a Fortune 500 not-for-profit financial services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Appleton, Wisconsin, and founded by Lutherans.

Thrivent delivers solutions for banking, investments, insurance.

Project Description

Setting up Meeting with clients to know about the entire environment setup and building relationships with clients to get information and prepare SOW, Runbook, documents related to Storage to run the business.

We look after the Storage provisioning and Maintenance of Storage and tools used in all the LPARS.

Provide Support for Job abends that are related to Mainframe Storage.

Provided Business Continuity Support and participate in DR Tests.

Role

Senior Mainframe Systems Programmer

Responsibility

As a Storage Administrator the responsibilities were:

●DASD Monitoring and Provisioning

●Business Continuity using SRDF and DS8000

●Tape Monitoring and tape allocation

●SMS administration and ACS routine changes

●HSM administration.

●Handling Backup, Recovery and dataset deletion related request using CA Disk, FDR

●Catalog Management (Creating ALIAS, VTOC, VVDS, USER Catalog).

●Month end and Capacity Report Generation.

●Provide solution for space abends.

●worked as onsite co ordinater(USA) for data migration project and monitored offshore team.

●Worked on IBM DS8k series flash copy and troubleshooting.Provisioning of zlinux volumes,rank and ckd volumes.

●Active participation in Disaster Recovery exercise using both EMC and IBM DS8k.

Interaction with stakeholders:

Interacted with various stakeholders

●Interaction with system owners, Different categories of Requesters

●Onsite-offshore coordination

Solution Environment

Programming Languages: JCL, REXX,SAS

Operating System : IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Tools

Fileaid, ISMF, Assyst, HITACHI,CA1,OPC,CONTROLD,SAVERES,CU,EVT,INSYNC,SRS,SAMS,FDR,Remdey,Servicenow

Assignments

Project

BNYM Technology India Pvt. Ltd

Customer

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Pershing LLC

Period

Jan 2009- June 2020

Client Description

BNY Mellon is an investments company. We provide investment management, investment services and wealth management that help institutions and individuals succeed in markets all over the world.

Project Description

From these LPARS.

Provide Support for Job abends that are related to Mainframe Storage.

Provided Business Continuity Support and participate in DR Tests.

Role

Lead Engineer(Storage Administrator)

Responsibility

As a Storage Administrator the responsibilities were:

●DASD Monitoring and Provisioning

●Business Continuity using SRDF and DS8000

●Tape Monitoring and tape allocation

●SMS administration and ACS routine changes

●HSM administration.

●Handling Backup, Recovery and dataset deletion related request.

●Catalog Management (Creating ALIAS, VTOC, VVDS, USER Catalog).

●Month end and Capacity Report Generation.

●Provide solution for space abends.

●worked as onsite co ordinater(USA) for data migration project and monitored offshore team.

●Worked on IBM DS8k series flash copy and troubleshooting.Provisioning of zlinux volumes,rank and ckd volumes.

●Active participation in Disaster Recovery exercise using both EMC and IBM DS8k.

Interaction with stakeholders:

Interacted with various stakeholders

●Interaction with system owners, Different categories of Requesters

●Onsite-offshore coordination

Solution Environment

Programming Languages: JCL, REXX,SAS

Operating System : IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Tools

Fileaid, ISMF, Assyst, HITACHI,CA1,OPC,CONTROLD,SAVERES,CU,EVT,INSYNC,SRS,SAMS,FDR,Remdey,Servicenow

Project

NUITS (Tata Consultancy Services) - Contract

Customer

Norwich Union (AVIVA Plc)

Period

May 2007- Dec2008

Client Description

Aviva is the worlds fifth-largest insurance group and the largest insurance services provider in the UK.

They are the leading provider of life and pension products in Europe and are actively growing our long-term savings businesses in Asian markets, Australia and the USA.

Their main activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance*.

They have premium income and investment sales of £41.5 billion and £377 billion of assets under management**. They have 59,000 employees serving over 40 million customers.

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Project Description

NUITS was a new engagement of AVIVA with TCS. Where all Mainframe Infrastructure related activities were offshore to TCS. As part of this project TCS is now involved in DB2 Administration, CICS administration, MVS administration, Mainframe Storage administration, Mid range and SAN storage administration, MQ Series administration, Tivoli NetView administration and Oracle administration.

There were 24 LPARS in the mainframe for which support was provided. Some LPARS were in sysplex environment and some were acting as stand alone LPARS.

Role

Storage Administrator

Responsibility

As a Storage Administrator the responsibilities were:

●DASD Monitoring and Provisioning

●DASD Provisioning for Shadow Image and Flash Copy Backup

●Tape Monitoring and tape allocation

●SMS administration and ACS routine changes

●HSM administration.

●Handling Backup, Recovery and dataset deletion related request.

●Catalog Management (Creating ALIAS, VTOC, VVDS, USER Catalog).

●Weekly Metrics Report Generation.

●Provide solution for job failures

●24*7 Stand By Support.

Interaction with stakeholders:

Interacted with various stakeholders

●Interaction with system owners, Different categories of Requesters

●Onsite-offshore coordination

Solution Environment

Programming Languages: JCL, REXX

Operating System : IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Tools

Fileaid, ISMF, Assyst, HITACHI,CA1, OPC, CONTROLD, SAVERES, CU, EVT, INSYNC, SRS, SAMS, FDR

Project

Maples

Customer

Maples ESM Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Period

Dec-2006 to April-2007

Client Description

Maples ESM Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a global IT Infrastructure and Application Solutions Consulting company. Maples focus on removing the burden of managing IT infrastructure and effectively manage Heterogeneous IT Infrastructure to ensure enhanced profitability for clients.

Maples is a professionally managed company offering IT Infrastructure Management solutions. Maples service offerings include Server Management, Application Management, Desktop Management, Network Security Management and Remote Server Management etc.

Description

Maples as a global infrastructure company provide support to multiple Indian and foreign companies. Maples have its server of its own, that needs to be administered. This requires storage administration, MVS administration, DB2 Administration, CICS administration.

Role & Responsibility

As a Storage Administrator the responsibilities were:

●DASD Monitoring and Provisioning

●DASD Provisioning for Shadow Image and Flash Copy Backup

●Tape Monitoring and tape allocation

●Handling Backup, Recovery and dataset deletion related request.

●Catalog Management (Creating ALIAS, VTOC, VVDS, USER Catalog).

As a System Administrator the responsibilities were:

●IPL (Initial Program Load)

●Shutdown process

●Issuing system commands to list out the user.

●Issuing JES commands

●SPOOL Operations

●Clearing dump datasets

As a RACF Administrator the responsibilities were:

●Creating Users and groups

●Defining dataset and general resources profile

●User-id management

●Connecting user to a group

●Removing user from a group

●Resetting of password & resuming user ids

Solution Environment

Programming Languages: JCL, REXX

Operating System : IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Tools

Fileaid, ISMF, Assyst, HITACHI,CA1, OPC, CONTROLD, SAVERES, CU, EVT

Assignment Not as a Storage/System Administrator

Project

CPL(Counter Party Link)

Customer

Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd

Period

April-2005 to July-2006

Client Description

Counterparty Link, Ltd. provides global legal entity data, collected and maintained with processes consistent with the stringent standards required by today's risk management and regulatory compliance legislation.

Description

This Project dealt with market and history analysis of different companies in the market. This was designed to provide customer of CPL, just in time, accurate information about any company customer want to invest in. CPL has its own database where its registered customer can see all information that CPL has about the company he/she is interested in.

Detailed information on legal entities, which include corporations, governments and funds, is collected in centers around the world, from primary sources and registration documents, with all data supported by an audit trail back to the source.

Role & Responsibility

As a Research Specialist the responsibilities were:

●Maintenance of global corporate entities information on daily basis which includes populating, validating & cleansing of reference data.

●Monitoring and tracking corporate action that includes name change, merger & acquisition, bankruptcy etc.

●Identifying corporate hierarchy and mapping the related entities in the company tree.

●To seek and review the quality of record in the database and ensure Client Service Requirements are met.

●To Quality check the records and prepare error reports.

Other Achievements and Extra Curricular activities

1.Received merit scholarship in M.Sc., Mathematics

2.An active participant in the Loyola Extension Awareness Program (LEAP) in the rural areas

3.Done social service for 60 hours in NGO.

Career Profile

Dates

Organization

Role

Jan-2009 - June 2020

BNYM Technology India Pvt. Ltd

Storage Administrator-Lead Engineer

May-2007 Till Dec 2008

TCS, Bangalore(Contract)

Storage Administrator

Dec-2006 Till April-2007

Maples ESM Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Storage/System Administrator

Apr-2005 Till July - 2006

Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd

Research Specialist

Personal Details

Date of Birth

02-06-1979

Nationality

Indian

Marital Status

Married

Passport

Yes

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