Project Life Insurance

Location:

Towaco, NJ

Salary:

100000

Posted:

March 03, 2021

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Resume:

Objective

Catch up with the latest trends, implement them with creative and positive attitude in the best of my perspective, and work assiduously towards achievement of common group goal.

Professional Summary

Good working experience on Mainframes (JCL, COBOL, DB2 and Easytrieve) for 11 years.

Good working experience in Development, Maintenance, Enhancement and support activities.

Strong data extraction/manipulation with the aid of SQLs.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.

Hard working and capable of picking up the latest technologies with fast learning.

Educational Qualification

Degree

University

Year of completion

Master of Computer Applications

Andhra University, INDIA

May 2009

Technical Skills

Technologies

Mainframes

Tools

DB2 File aid, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor

Programming Languages

COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL

Version Controller

Endeavor, Changeman

Database

DB2, IMS

Certifications

DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals issued by IBM.

DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administrator issued by IBM.

DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer issued by IBM.

Certificate of Lean Six Sigma Proficiency issued by TCS.

Professional Experience

Projects Profile

Client: AVIS BUDGET – Parsippany, NJ July 2018 – Till date

Role: Mainframe Tech Lead

Project description:

Avis Development and Maintenance Services is an enhancement, maintenance and support project done for Avis Budget Group. The project team handles strategic and tactical projects and production support. The applications are very complex in nature with minimal documentation.

Rentals and Reservations system is the core Business Critical system at Avis Budget Group, which is used worldwide in a single instance. The Reservation system is used by Customer Support personnel to interact with the clients and make the reservations for check-out and check-in of cars at the thousands of locations worldwide. The Rental and Reservation systems run on mainframe and are interfaced by the web applications. Avis Budget Group also maintains a back office system to support their business. The back office systems consist of accounting, reporting, Fleet, sales & marketing applications.

Responsibilities:

Capture Business Requirements

Conduct feasibility study and analysis

Conduct risk and impact analysis

Prepare estimation/effort

Prepare high level design

Prepare low level design

Prepare system requirement specification, project definition document

Prepare Unit Test Plan (UTP) and create environment for user acceptance testing

Designing the Solution and Construction for the change

Conduct Unit and System testing for the new enhancements

Performance monitoring to measure query & system performance in the project

Prepare implementation strategy and assessing the feasibility of the implementation procedures

Deploy application in both staging and production environments

Prepare/Update System/User Manual and SOX compliance documents

Working on Production Support Calls

Carrying out severity analysis of reported bugs

Client: Travelport – Denver, CO February 2017 – July 2018

Role: Mainframe Tech lead

Project description:

Ticket Settlement and Reporting (TSR) is to provide settlement services and financial transaction between travel agents and airlines. Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) is a third party vendor who take cares of financial transaction between travel agencies and airlines. The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) provides ticket transaction settlement services between airlines and travel agencies.

There are many applications like Management reports, Translog (Utility to display I/P messages) and UDARS (User Daily Activity Report) included with Ticket Settlement Reporting (TSR) to support all Ticketing applications with the Apollo and Galileo core systems and TSR feeds data to these applications.

Responsibilities:

Ensure smooth flow of Business by prioritizing the issues and addressing the critical issues with priority.

Close interaction with the Business and understand the Business requirements.

As part of Production Assurance ensuring timely review of all the associated developmental activity at the end of all the phases of SDLC.

Co-ordinate with Development Technology Leads on Project

Handovers and Business impact analysis.

Debugging, modifying and testing existing Application

Client: American Express (AMEX) – Bangalore, India January 2015 – January 2017

Role: Mainframe Tech lead

Project description:

World Wide Credit Collections provide global Customer and rules based credit and inventory control for Consumer and Corporate accounts. WCC will work as downstream system for GRMS and CAS .WCC will decide what are the action we are going to take against a particular account as per the updates it received from its feeder system GRMS and CAS, by taking action will set a Case, this will decide thru Rules which is defined in WCC system. Once the Case is setup, activities needs to be follow, these activity code also defined in WCC system

Responsibilities:

Ensure smooth flow of Business by prioritizing the issues and addressing the critical issues with priority.

Close interaction with the Business and understand the Business requirements.

Ensure proper communication and Co-ordination with various teams involved during resolution of an issue involving multiple applications in GSAM bridge calls.

All production issues are handled considering AMEX security policies like email encryption, authorized production access, data masking, data scrubbing etc.

As part of Production Assurance ensuring timely review of all the associated developmental activity at the end of all the phases of SDLC.

Active participation in RFC execution calls to aid the development team in deploying their changes into production.

Track and Resolve the Information Management Records (IMRs) in respective Service now Queues.

Fix problems (Application & Operation) in accordance with the Service Level Agreements.

Co-ordinate with Change Management team for smooth deployment of changes to production.

Co-ordinate with business groups for Problem resolution and Circumvention.

Peer reviews, Quality review, Demand Management and Process improvement activities.

Co-ordinate with Amex Technology Leads on proposed implementations and Process Improvements to the Production Environment.

Co-ordinate with Development Technology Leads on Project

Handovers and Business impact analysis.

Drive and execute Disaster Recovery exercises bi-annually on all the key applications.

Client: Bank of America (BOA) – Hyderabad, India April 2014 – December 2014

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project description:

CRIS Statements The objective of system is to assist its clients to understand their financial positions by capturing and maintaining purchase and sale information, provide them with the capital gain/loss information and in understanding their current financial position by sending a regulatory document called statement.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing the business requirements and preparing the Design document.

Study the existing environment, draft the Design document for the expansion project and prepare the Impact Analysis document.

Revise the Requirement Specifications with the users for better customer service and feasibility

Document the design specifications, installation instructions, and other system-related information

Co-ordinating of deliverables with Onsite team.

Debugging, modifying and testing existing Application

Client: United Services Automobile Association (USAA) – Hyderabad, India March 2012 – April 2014

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project description:

Direct Company Merger into USAA LIFE Current business model is not sustainable for USAA Direct as lack of sales causes regulatory issues. There are multiple areas where USAA Direct Company is not operating within the guidelines established by the Insurance regulatory Information system (IRIS).

This project will merge current USAA Direct company book of business into USAA Life Insurance Company.

Evaluate and solve the following:

Company code

Forms and contracts

GL reporting (PeopleSoft)

Reinsurance impact (TAI system)

Violation/reserving

Ability to track/audit USAA Direct company book of business

PEP+

Creation and mailing of endorsement and cover letter

Updates to usaa.com to remove references to Direct life company, starter life and Simple life for home

Responsibilities:

Understand existing business model and customer requirements.

Responsible for the evaluation of design and development of the project life cycle.

Consider the performance and cost of execution, while coding a COBOL program.

Give inputs to subordinates for coding programs and validating the same.

Create and update system's reference documentation.

Create Unit Test cases and System Test cases for the changes in Mainframes.

Offer support during the testing phase.

Preparation of unit test plan and execution of testing

Quality Assurance activities

Carrying out Code Walk through and Review of Testing and confirming the programs to USAA coding standards.

Carrying out root cause analysis of the defects for defect prevention.

Creating checklists for various requirements/processes to ensure that 100% perfect code is delivered.

Providing the Minutes of Meeting effectively for the internal and onsite formal discussions by describing the action items and discussion points.

Project description:

ClaimFacts Replacement The scope of this project is to Negotiate/approve contract with TPA to perform the health care claims payment processing.

This system performs conversion of claims data (current and historical) from USAA's system to the new vendor system.

Providing necessary interfaces for a smooth transaction for Check processing, Claims data, Contract administration...etc

Establish new business rules for the TPA to follow in payment processing of claims

Establish critical service level objectives for the TPA to meet

Establish an audit process for the claims process.

Responsibilities:

Understand existing business model and customer requirements.

Responsible for the evaluation of design and development of the project life cycle.

Consider the performance and cost of execution, while coding a COBOL program.

Give inputs to subordinates for coding programs and validating the same.

Create and update system's reference documentation.

Create Unit Test cases and System Test cases for the changes in Mainframes.

Offer support during the testing phase.

Preparation of unit test plan and execution of testing

Quality Assurance activities

Carrying out Code Walk through and Review of Testing and confirming the programs to USAA coding standards.

Carrying out root cause analysis of the defects for defect prevention.

Creating checklists for various requirements/processes to ensure that 100% perfect code is delivered.

Providing the Minutes of Meeting effectively for the internal and onsite formal discussions by describing the action items and discussion points.

Client: American Insurance Group (AIG) – Chennai, India January 2010 – March 2012

Role: Mainframe Tech lead

Project description:

Claims Data Warehouse is a Data Warehouse System for CHARTIS Claims Processing department which serves as a single repository of all information belonging to various Claims systems, produces detailed claim and financial information Reports, Quick Status reports. A customizable, printable Dashboard provides several metrics and filter options for instant viewing of critical claim data, with hyperlinks to details.

Numerous report formats generated and scheduled for automatic distribution. Claim costs compared to the Policy Premium limits, integration of self-administered claim information are available. Claim data from worldwide locations is consolidated for easy viewing and ad hoc reporting.

Data Services

Stores historical loss information, Recovery information from Claims Processing / Recovery systems to Commercial Insurance host systems, for viewing of complete loss history through the Claims Data Warehouse Reporting.

The project also involves in conversion and re-engineering process and development of new modules in Claims Data Warehouse, Cognos Reports. Yet another value adding feature of the project is considerable cost reduction by performance tuning of jobs, cleaning-up database and archival of unused jobs and datasets.

Responsibilities:

Understand existing business model and customer requirements.

Responsible for the evaluation of design and development of the project life cycle.

Consider the performance and cost of execution, while coding a COBOL program.

Give inputs to subordinates for coding programs and validating the same.

Create and update system's reference documentation.

Take up Reporting activities in COGNOS Report Studio.

Create Unit Test cases and System Test cases for the changes in Mainframes, COGNOS and Datastage.

Offer support during the testing phase.

Preparation of unit test plan and execution of testing and Quality Assurance activities

Carrying out Code Walk through and Review of Testing and confirming the programs to CHARTIS coding standards.

Carrying out root cause analysis of the defects for defect prevention.

Creating checklists for various requirements/processes to ensure that 100% perfect code is delivered.

Providing the Minutes of Meeting effectively for the internal and onsite formal discussions by describing the action items and discussion points.

Achievements

• Completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification in 2011

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