System Engineer Cobol

Vijayasanthi Pilavadian

+1-201-***-**** ****.******@*****.***

Professional Profile

12+ years of experience in Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, Testing, Maintenance and Production Support in Mainframes.

5+ years of experience as a Senior Programmer Lead and Onsite Coordinator.

Extensive experience with different domains within the industry such as Finance (Pricing, Portfolio and Accounting) and Logistics

Proficient in monitoring, analyzing, testing and implementing the performance and efficiency of the existing production environment with respect to Lean and Six Sigma processes.

Strong knowledge on development, database management skills under various methodologies such as Traditional Waterfall and Agile.

Strong knowledge in running Scrum projects and coordinating retrospective analysis with the team and management.

Extensive experience as Lead Engineer in design and coordinating the deployment strategy for converting Mainframe applications into modernization.

Experience in creating SCM Process, policies, procedures and Release Notes to follow Development and allow QA teams to Release and/or deploy the highest quality product for the enterprise.

Experience in analyzing, designing and developing ETL strategies and processes

Have good interpersonal, communicational skills, strong problem-solving skills, explore/adopt to innovative technologies with ease and a good team member.

Versatile and flexible; quickly adaptable to new roles, responsibilities, technologies and environments.

Skills and Abilities

Languages : COBOL, COBOL/JDBC/SQLJ Stored Procedures, PL/I, JCL, JCL Skels, VSAM, CICS, SQL, NativeSQL, EGL, Easytrieve, MQ series, Java, J2EE

OS : ZOS, CICS, Windows, Mac

Database : DB2, IMSDB, MySQL, Postgres DB

Application Servers : Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, TAP (Based on Kubernetes)

Tools and Utilities : SPUFI, QMF, OPC, QM, PM, BTS, Changeman, Endeavor, Xpeditor, Omegamon, CA7, RC Update, FileAid, DB2 Datastudio, BMC, Syncsort, FTP, RTC, RDZ, RQM, ESP, GIT, Topaz Workbench, Drone, Docker, Apache Kafka, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Gradle, Maven, Artifactory

(Target).

Library Controls Tools : TSO/ISPF, SDSF, FileManager, GitHub Enterprise Page 2

Education and Professional Certifications

B.Tech., Information Technology, Institute of Road and Transport Technology. (Anna University, Chennai, India) with 81%.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified as DevOps Foundation Engineer (DevOps Institute)

Certified as IBM Lean Change Agent -CTM certification

Certified in IBM DB2 UDB Family Fundamentals (Exam: DB2V9-730)

Certified in IBM DB2 UDB Family Application Development (Exam: DB2V9-733)

Certified in IBM DB2 UDB Family Database Administration (Exam: DB2V9-732)

Certified in Programming with IBM Enterprise PL/I (Exam: 000-041) Professional Experience

Company: Mastech Digital Inc. Role: Senior Software Developer July 2019 – Till Date Client: Target Brooklyn Park, MN

Role: Contractor – Development Engineer July 2019 – Till Date The Red Card Collections product team supports the FRS Recovery Collections team and the file processes for Certegy Check Collections, a third-party check collection processor platform. FRS Recovery Collections is tied in with Recovery Operations including the Collection & Strategy Execution department of FRS and encompassing the legal and agency side of the post charge off accounts. The Legal Recovery Operations, Recovery Operations Agency & Collection Loss Recovery

(CLR) teams drive collections performance on post charge off accounts using a network of Collections agencies, law firms, debt buyers, and internal collectors.

Participate in software construction, automation, and implementation activities while leveraging architectural and operational requirements and best practices.

Support and development Mainframe related issues, changes and enhancements for the RedCard collections Vendors.

Swiftly provide resolutions for the high priority issues during 24/7 support for both Mainframes and Distributed Environments.

Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and technical experience in mainframe technology in conjunction with J2EE full stack and DevOps tools.

Assist with any application testing for Mainframe that uses CICS online screens, DB2 Tables, COBOL programs and JCL Jobs and also assist with any issues that are encountered on the current legacy to modern migration process and migrated applications

Design and implement enhancements to RedCard Collections platform, this also include implementing new open source solutions that have been developed around the platform, Page 3

improving the architecture, improving the monitoring capabilities, introduce data tracking, and developing and possibly open sourcing an API ecosystem that disrupts how it is done across the industry

Help drive adoption of new technologies within the team and across Target

Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues

Environment : ZOS, COBOL, Stored Procedures, DB2, SQL, NSQL, JCL, MQ, CICS, CA7, Changeman, ESP, Expeditor, Omegamon, RC Update, FileAid, DB Admin Panel, BMC, GitHub, Java, Apache Camel, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, Grafana, ELK, Gradle, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, Drone, Slack, and PostgreSQL

Team Size : 8 to 12

Company: IBM Role: Senior Programmer Lead Apr 2009 – July 2019 Client: United Parcel Service Parsippany, NJ

Role: Senior Programmer Lead July 2013 – July 2019 United Parcel Service, commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world.

Customer Profile System, which does support for UPS.COM online system 24*7. CPS is a critical backend mainframe database used to support the web user Front-end application interface to MyUPS.com, Registration Services, MyChoice and Campus ship as well as Back-end applications such as QVD and QVMI. CPS is utilized to login and validate User Ids, authorize and secure users and accounts, store customer privileges and preferences, maintain customer profile and billing info, as well as personal and company address books. CPS is a dual datacenter and most challenging project which is highly DB2 intensive application and incorporates lot of research.

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 team.

Involve in code reviews and also conduct code walk through with the other developers within the team.

Create Proof of Concept of converting Legacy Mainframe applications to modern platforms like Java/J2EE and other latest tools.

Created an API to enable Z/OS to connect to up / downstream applications to collect data from legacy application processes.

Responsible for continuous review of disaster recovery plan to insure completeness and accuracy to quickly restore all applications in the event of a disaster or other interruption of processing.

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Responsible for preparing implementation plan and communicate all groups.

Provide production support of the application – 24x7 support in case of outages and escalations, since any downtime to front end users is unacceptable.

Prepare test data, test cases, test reports, regression testing and participate in test review meetings with QA team.

Provide prompt work around for the critical work requirements and production issues.

Have automated manual jobs which saved the CPU and revenue for the client and got highly appreciated.

Used performance tuning to simplify processes and reduce CPU Utilization.

Mentored the team to transfer the experience and knowledge of both the business and the applications to other team members and ensure succession planning/smooth handover

/transition.

Review all CPS reports as part CPS GD team, Update and sending CPS Production Job failure Report to business clients.

Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in CPS and other leading- edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.

Environment : ZOS, COBOL, Stored Procedures, DB2, SQL, NSQL, JCL, MQ, CICS, Java/J2EE, Changeman, ESP, Expeditor, Omegamon, RC Update, FileAid, DB Admin Panel, BMC, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins.

Team Size : 10 to 15

Client: International Customer Financing System Chennai, India Role: Senior System Engineer April 2009 – June 2013 International Customer Financing System (ICFS) is a strategic application of IBM that performs the Leasing and Loaning business for IBM Global Financing. About 65% revenue of IBM Global Financing is run through ICFS. This mainframe application is deployed in four geographies, namely, US, Americas, EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) and Asia Pacific. This application supports the core business processes of Leasing/Loaning such as Pricing, Contract management, Accounting and Billing, for IBM Global Financing.

Perform a developer role and simultaneously act as a SPOC mentoring a team of 10 member in Accounting and portfolio functionality.

Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Review the High-level and Low-level design documents prepared by the team.

Implement the solution by developing the code and Reviewing the Code and test cases being created by the Team.

Ensure Quality work products being delivered to the customer on schedule.

Mentor and Guide to new joiners in Project.

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Responsible for technical growth and development of team.

Support the system testing and User acceptance testing.

Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.

Environment : ZOS, COBOL, Stored Procedures, DB2, SQL, NSQL, JCL, IMS DB, MQ, CICS, Changeman, ESP, Expeditor, Omegamon, RC Update, FileAid, DB Admin Panel, BMC. Team Size : 30 to 45

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