Mainframe Cobol
Resume:
Nalin Kaushal
Mobile: +1-980-***-****
Email: *******.*****@*****.***@gmail.com
Work Experience
●5+ years Mainframe Support/Development currently working in US holding valid H1-B visa valid till 2023.
● Professional Product-1 Developer-DXC Technologies HPE-CSC Merger) – Client AXA Life Insurance.
·Professional Summary
Summary
●Mainframe Developer having 5+ years of experience in all areas of software construction and programming with a solid track record of performance in managing highly complex system in Assembler, Cobol, VSAM and JCL. Adept at troubleshooting, ensuring quality at every stage of development as well as management process.
●Involved in full lifecycle of various projects, including requirement gathering, system designing, application development, enhancement, deployment, maintenance and support.
●Expertise in understanding the business requirements and converting them into Technical specifications and reverse engineering the existing systems for documenting and bug fixing.
●Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, IBM Utilities and CA-7.
●Good knowledge on Agile Methodology and the scrum process.
●Lights On activities for production abends, adhoc requests, break fix implementations.
●Superior proficiency with mainframe application built with ASSEMBLER, COBOL, JCL, VSAM.
●Hands on with XPEDITER, File Aid, IBM Utilities, Azure Devops, HP Quality Center, ServiceNow, Librarian, Z/OS
●Experience working in Life Insurance Domain.
●Extensive experience in Life70 policy administration system. PKF (Product functional knowledge certified)
●Experience in dealing with various Data sources like Flat files and VSAM on Mainframes.
●Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator attending the project review meetings with Clients gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
●Experience working with 3rd party vendors.
●Experienced in ITIL process implementation, Service Delivery, PMO/ IT Governance processes.
●Testing skills include performing regression, integration, volume and maintenance of test plans, test specifications and test scenarios.
●knowledge and concepts for subsystems including disk, virtual tape.
●Performed coordination of user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure and software development deliverables through iterative evolutions.
●24x7 production support, provide resolution to production job abends, attend conference calls with business operations, system managers if any issues in batch stream.
●Good experience with Client Interaction, Onshore – Offshore working model.
●Good experience of DR (Disaster Recovery) best practices and high-level mainframe infrastructure architecture.
●Strong understanding of SDLC and Business Analysis practices.
●Excellent communication, presentation, project management skills, a very good team player and self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team. Have proven to be highly effective in interfacing across business and technical groups.
Experience Detail
1) AXA Life Insurance:
●AXA Equitable Life Insurance opened its headquarters at the Equitable Life Building in 1875 near Wall Street. It had an excellent location with three entrances on Broadway (Manhattan).In 1985, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, then the U.S.'s third largest life insurance company, formed Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, a subsidiary used by Equitable Life to develop and finance new real estate projects and manage the US$20 billion worth of real estate under Equitable’ s control.
Responsibilities:
●Coding of different level programs in COBOL, Assembler, Easytrieve. Implementation of new functionalities.
●Worked in department of Production Support for LIFE70 and LifeComm Team for Universal Life, Variable Universal Life, Indexed Universal Life and Survivorship products for AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company.
●Managed Production support requests and problems from onshore involving communicating with external clients to determine specific requirements and expectations in the final product to be delivered to the customer.
●Creation of JCL, PROCs for compiling and debugging the programs.
●Proper self, peer review of any activity done.
●Delivering on time by following strict internal processes and clients' guidelines.
●Good communication with the team and client.
●Knowledge transfer of different functionalities with the client at the time of closure.
● Other Programming skills in Basics of C and C++.
Qualification:
●B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Noida with 73%.
●HSC from ICSE board with 70 %.
●SSC from ICSE board with 76 %.
Strengths
●I am self-motivated person having Hard-working, good communication and time-management skills.
●Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills.
Extra Curricular Activities:
●Core member of the event organizing team of DXC-Tech.
●Co-ordinated a gaming event “Gears of War” in Annual Fest “AMIPHORIA” held in 2013 2014.
●Member of the B.Tech CS&E (2011-15) football team.
●Worked as a head coordinator in the placement cell of B.Tech-CSE (2011-15) branch.
Declaration:
●I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Place: Charlotte, NC-USA Nalin Kaushal
Address: 7515 Marchand Lane Apt #605 Charlotte North Carolina - USA 28262
Technical Skills
Languages: JCL, COBOL, File-aid, Assembler, Ca7, Expeditor, VSAM, Easytrieve.
Technologies: Mainframe
Operating Systems: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP
Other: MSOffice Office, Silva Service Desk
Domain: Insurance.
Personal Detail
Date of Birth: 3-07-1993
Marital Status: Single
Father: Mr. Kaushal Krishna Saxena
Mother: Nalini Saxena
Permanent Address: 417/205 Niwaz Ganj Thakur Ganj Chowk,
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
226003.
Current Address: 7515 Marchand Lane, Apt 605 Charlotte NC – 28262.
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