Mainframe consultant
Resume:
Career Objective
I aspire to become a successful professional by being a part of a dynamic and growth oriented organization. I want to nurture my career by working on challenging assignments and ensuring continuous learning. Confident and poised in interactions with individuals at all levels.
Experience Summary
10+ years of IT Experience as Mainframe developer and Tester working in the maintenance and Deep Dive Documentation Projects.
Currently working for L&T Infotech from the inception of my IT career.
As a Technical expertise in Mainframe, FOCUS, Teradata, VB Macro and Mainframe SAS delivered complex items within timeframe and provided technical solutions for various issues. Win the confidence of Business and Clients by giving quick turnarounds and did automations.
As a Mainframe expertise, helped many other teams within LTI to solve the issues and provided knowledge transfer to them.
INS24 and INS21 domain certified from American Institute CPCU. Also completed IKM1 Mainframe and Agile Internal Certifications.
Skills Summary
Domain
Insurance
Programming Languages
COBOL, JCL, DB2, FOCUS, Mainframe SAS, VB Macro, Teradata
Operating System / ERP Version
Windows 98,2000, XP, 2007 and 2010
Tools / DB / Packages / Framework / ERP Components
Endevor, Smart test Debugging tool, BMC Catalog Manager, CAFM, Teradata SQL
Hardware Platforms
Mainframe, Windows XP
Professional Certifications/ Trainings
Completed INS24 and INS21 certifications from American Institute CPCU.
Completed IKM1certification for Mainframe.
Completed Internal trainings n Mainframe JCL, COBOL, DB2, FOCUS.
Completed Leadership Journey Man (LEM) Training.
Taken training for SET’s on Mainframes and helped them to understand/adapt the technology and the IT environment quickly.
Attended National conferences during my college days.
Work Experience
Project 1
Project Name
MI-PORTFOLIO (Residual Market Division)
Team Size
10
Start Date
June 2016
End Date
Till Date
Project Description
RMD (Residual Market Division) deals with involuntary worker’s compensation policies. Constitutes of AMDMI (Alternate Market Division) and Pool reporting.
AMD-MI is a Management Information system to provide various data feeds and reports to RMD’s Financial, Compliance, Actuarial and Pool Settlement business groups, external Travelers' clients and state agencies. The entire application is written in FOCUS language.
Role & Contribution
As a SME, currently working as a technical and Application lead from onsite managing the team to provide the defect free deliverables within timeframe.
Involved in all PDLC Activities from Estimation till implementation and monitoring.
Estimating and Resource allocation is handled properly to see all deliverables are in time without any fall back.
Prepared detail test plan and test cases by understanding business logics and user agreements. Also check the test results are delivered with high quality.
Providing quick solutions for RMD Business and clients. Maintaining good Rapport with them.
Guided the team with proper Knowledge transfer and guiding them to improve in both technical and personal skills.
As a FOCUS SME, helping various team to analyze FOCUS programs for POC’s and helping them to finding out solutions.
Technology & Tools
Mainframe – JCL, Cobol, DB2, Focus, Mainframe SAS, Teradata SQL
Project 2
Project Name
MI-PORTFOLIO (RMD Deep Dive)
Team Size
03
Start Date
September 2015
End Date
May 2016
Project Description
RMD (Residual Market Division) deals with involuntary worker’s compensation policies. Constitutes of AMDMI (Alternate Market Division) and Pool reporting.
Role & Contribution
Worked as a System Analyst and Onsite lead for a System documentation project. My roles and responsibilities include:
Played an important role with estimation and work planning for the system documentation project.
Designed templates for system and process documentation.
Mentored team members on documentation approach and FOCUS
SME for the RMD applications and mentored offshore team on business terms
Obtain knowledge on business functionality of the application from business team.
Prepared data dictionary and system architecture diagrams
Review of process documentation and Job flow charts from offshore.
Status update on documentation progress to client manager and tracking of budget.
Guided the team well and Co-ordinate with team members on document activities.
Identified discrepancies in the application and offered suggestions for improving the application.
Technology & Tools
Mainframe – JCL, Cobol, DB2, Focus, Mainframe SAS, Endevor, Smart test debugging tool, BMC catalog Manager, CA
Key Achievements
Got appreciation mails for understanding the business concepts quickly and successfully documenting the key aspects of application.
Project 3
Project Name
MI-PORTFOLIO (Property Management Application)
Team Size
10
Start Date
March 2012
End Date
September 2015
Project Description
Property Management is a system developed to gather all the property data in one place. It also supports risk management area to do catastrophe protection balancing and possible losses against what is reinsured. It has a DB2 database that is refreshed every month. This database contains most of the Commercial accounts written at a location level. Data is gathered from different lines of business (like HOP, Agri, Omni, MPAC, and Upbeat)and reports are given to downstream areas such as Actuarial, Risk Management, Florida Hurricane fund.
Role & Contribution
As a Project Lead leading the team of 10 members from offshore, SME and application lead from offshore, participated in all activities of the team with great enthusiasm and contributing many technical and nontechnical ideas for the improvement the project.
Enhance the application according to business customer needs.
Involved in all PDLC activities such as Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation.
Directly involved in communicating with the clients.
Involved in DB2 program changes.
Estimate effort & Resource.
Guided the team well and Co-ordinate with team members on development activities.
Setting up environment for System and Integration testing.
Implementation / Production turnovers.
Respond to business customer’s ad-hoc queries.
Prepared knowledge capture document for couple of applications.
Mentor/Train the new team member.
Additional Roles/Responsibilities played in the project:
Defect prevention Group, Internal quality lead
Metrics champion(creation of MAP (Metrics Action Plan) and giving causal analysis for any deviation from the organization/project goal)
Running PPM for the Work item to check whether the work item can be delivered as per the scheduled
Coordinating with the quality team for Providing Proof/Documentation for the ISAE 3402 Audit(previously it is termed as SAS 70)
Technology & Tools
Mainframe – JCL, Cobol, DB2, Focus, Mainframe SAS, Endevor, Smart test debugging tool, BMC catalog Manager, CA
Key Achievements
Got appreciation mails from customers for the quick responses and clear delivery of Work items. Completed IKM Mainframe 1 certification.
Project 4
Project Name
MI-PORTFOLIO (Financial Application)
Team Size
12
Start Date
August 2010
End Date
March 2012
Project Description
MI Portfolio is a portfolio of 12 management information applications. Applications under this portfolio are classified into 3 main groups.
1.Residual Market Division
2.Actuarial
3.Financial applications
Residual Market Division mainly deals with Involuntary Worker’s Compensation Insurance for the employees. We deal mainly with report generation which drives the business customer in taking vital decisions. Project is a SAS-70 certified project.
Actuarial applications collects policy exposure and premium information required by the downstream applications for rate revision and Catastrophic modeling and forecast
Financial applications collects loss and premium information from upstream feeds to downstream including CMI warehouse for profitability and rate analysis.
Role & Contribution
As a Team Member participating in all activities of the team with great enthusiasm and contributing many technical and nontechnical ideas for the improvement of the team and the project.
Enhance the application according to business customer needs.
Involved in all PDLC activities such as Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation.
Estimate effort & Resource.
Co-ordinate with team members on development activities.
Ensure work items are on schedule by proper tracking.
Ensure bug free deliverables by proper quality process.
Respond to business customer’s ad-hoc queries.
Prepared knowledge capture document for couple of applications and also updating it on an ongoing basis.
Mentor/Train the new team member.
Technology & Tools
Mainframe – JCL, Cobol, DB2, Focus, Endevor, BMC catalog Manager, CA
Key Achievements
Got appreciation mails from customers for the quick turnovers.
Other Experience
Title
Worked as Teradata developer in Ratemaking POC project
Start Date
May 2016
End Date
June 2016
Role & Contribution
Learned Teradata concepts with in limited time without any help and worked with business.
Analyze large complex SQL queries and provided fixes.
Got appreciations from Business for quick turnarounds.
Personal Details
DOB
Aug 21 1986
Sex
Male
Nationality
Indian
Marital Status
Married
Address
121 Ivy Lane, South Windsor, CT – 06074
Phone/Mobile
Visa status
H1B valid upto April 2021
adm8o4@r.postjobfree.com
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