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Resume:
Vennila Arunkumar (Mainframe Developer)
Email: ****************@*****.***
Phone: 602-***-****
Professional summary:
• 6 years of experience in analysis, design, coding, testing, Implementation, documentation and support of IBM Applications Mainframe in Insurance, Retail, Banking and Financial services.
• Having experience in Development, Maintenance, Testing and production support of Applications in IBM Mainframe related functional areas such as COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM.
• Hands on experience on IBM tools like FILEAID, Xpediter IBM debugging tool.
• Extensive work experience in COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2,Oracle, Teradata Scripts.
• Excellent understanding and work experience in DB2 stored procedures and Teradata scripts.
• Have experience in implementing CI/CD pipeline by migrating Changeman to TOPAZ and XLR.
• Involved in Enhancements, Maintenance and Development, support projects.
• Documented the functionalities of the complex projects with flow diagrams and functional specifications.
• Work involves developing Technical Design documents, Analysis documents, Coding to accomplish the requirements, Developing and Executing Unit Test Plan and Developing Unit Test Results.
• Good analytical, communication skills with the ability to interact with end users.
• Excellently productive both as a team player as well as an individual.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines, and set priorities without close supervision.
Technical skills:
Elements
Particulars
Primary Skills
COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM
Operating Systems
MVS, WINDOWS
Development Tools
FILE MANAGER, INTERTEST, CNTL-M (Job Scheduler), FILE-AID, TSO, SPUFI
Scripts
Unix Scripts, Windows Scripts
Databases
DB2, VSAM, Oracle, Teradata.
Configuration Tools
CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, XLR
Domain Knowledge
RETAIL, INSURANCE, Banking and Financial
Legacy Systems
MAINFRAME
Education:
B.Tech (IT) from Madras University, India
Work Experience:
Role: Mainframe developer
Client: American Express, Phoenix AZ.
Project: Smart Gamification Sep 2019 to Till Date
Description: The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered at 200 Vesey Street in New York City. Smart Gamification is an innovative American express product that drives Card Member engagement by rewarding customers for repeat spend at their preferred merchant locations. This application introduces the concept of ‘Champion Spender’. From among other local American Express card members, the one with most number of tracked spend transactions at a merchant location, is selected as the Champion Spender at that location and rewards bonus points
Responsibilities:
• Creating new stored procedures and changing the existing stored procedures based on the requirement.
• Based on Requirement working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
• Responsible to ensure the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Responsible to update program specification document.
• Responsible for code reviews and Unit Test Documents Reviews.
• End to End testing for application.
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, DB2 Native Stored procedures.
Role: Mainframe Developer
Client: APL Logistics June 2019 to Sep 2019
Description: APL Logistics Ltd. (APLL) is a Japan-based freight forwarding and transportation company. APL Logistics trades in more than 60 countries, serving the automotive, consumer, industrials, and Retail verticals, as well as providing transportation as a service. My project is ACS123 deals with interfacing customer files, Invoice files, PO details to SAP via MQFTE and updating customer information’s and Vendor information in table using ADHOC queries.
Responsibilities:
• Monitoring the Batch schedule to ensure the successful completion of the batch schedule.
• Resolving the JOB Abends.
• Working on emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Work on root cause analysis and give permanent fix for the abends.
• Provide L2 support.
• Working as an onsite coordinator.
• Based on Design Document working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, Teradata.
Role: Mainframe Developer
Client: Scintel Technlogies – Chennai, India.
Project: MACYS – Small ticket May 2015 to March 2016
Description: Macy’s System and Technology (MST) is one of the FISCAL agents of Macy’s Stores. Macy’s Store is one of the biggest organizations in retail and departmental stores. It maintains 850 branches in various places in U.S. MST are responsible for maintaining all operations in Small Ticket maintenance. The Small Ticket system incorporates all the merchandise movement functions needed for totally online unit control operation. The small ticket system manages the movement of the merchandise from vendor to store through the Distribution centre (DC). This process is done by five sub-systems namely RCV, FLO, EDI, FLR, MAN.
Responsibilities:
• Supporting the night batch jobs and Unix scripts and giving temporary fix for abends.
• Working on emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Work on root cause analysis and give permanent fix for the abends.
• Worked on severity 1 and 2 business tickets.
• Based on Design Document working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
• Responsible to ensure the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Responsible to update program specification document.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with Business User/Technical Lead as required ensuring program deadlines are met.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, ORACLE, DATACOM.
Role: Mainframe developer
Client: Cognizant technology solutions – Chennai, India.
Project: ST. PAUL– Claims production support Mar 2007 to April 2009
Description: It involves maintenance of the APL claims processing system – IMPACT – both personal and commercial. Support also includes – CPCS – Legacy system. Some of the Claim areas still uses this application for Claims processing. Maintenance includes enhancements, bug fixes and production support to the IMPACT front end and back end processing modules. Apart from maintenance activities there is a defined list of support tasks – PS tasks phase I include daily/weekly reporting on the production activities, quarterly self-assessments.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing Production discrepancy tickets and giving the resolution.
• Creating month end checkouts.
• Creating one time program to load the data in the Database.
• Automation testing for enhancements.
• Based on Design Document working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
• Responsible to ensure the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Responsible to update program specification document.
• Based on severity, coordinated clients and business users to resolve the Production issues.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with Business User/Technical Lead as required ensuring program deadlines are met.
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMSDB, VSAM, SPUFI, INTERTEST, CHANGEMAN.
Role: Jr. Mainframe Developer
Client: MetLife US- MIDAS-
Metlife Integrated debit authorization system. July 2005 to Feb 2007
Description: MIDAS is a pre-authorized debit authorization system which takes care of the payments of base and rider premiums, loans, mutual funds and annuities via a pre-authorized ACH debit directly from a client’s checking, savings or mutual fund account.
Responsibilities:
• Monitoring the Batch schedule to ensure the successful completion of the batch schedule.
• Resolving the JOB Abends.
• Working on emergency Bug fixes in production environment.
• Work on root cause analysis and give permanent fix for the abends.
• Worked on severity 1 and 2 business tickets.
• Based on Design Document working on new programs/existing programs.
• Responsible to prepare Unit test Plan documents.
• Responsible to prepare unit test data in test environment and prepare unit test results.
• Responsible to ensure the Quality standards and work within the specified time frames.
• Responsible to update program specification document.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with Business User/Technical Lead as required ensuring program deadlines are met.
• Communicated with the users and resolved the issues in timely manner.
• Responsible for code reviews and Unit Test Documents Reviews.
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, ORACLE.
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