Dharmendran Thirumal

Mob. +1-862-***-****

Email: admvph@r.postjobfree.com

Technical Expertise

Technology

Skills

Emulators

Quick 3270, P-Com, Xtra-Personal, Rumba, Chamelion, Passport, Reflections.

Software Products

COBOL, CICS, JCL, MVS, Unix

Database

VSAM, DB2, IDMS, Sybase

Tools

Jira, MQ, Endevor, Panvalet, Control-M, CA-7, QMF, A-Auto, Jobtrac, Spool, Expeditor, IBM Debugger, IBM fault Analyzer.

TSO/ISPF, Platinum tools for db2, INSYNC, Fileaid for VSAM, File manager, DB2, SQL, QMF, Stored procedures, SAR, Easytrieve, SDF II, Spufi, Command Editor, Abend Aid, Librarian, Dump master, Test director, Confluence, RACF, working knowledge of Web Services, SOAP UI, WSDL.

HP Quality center, RTC, RRC, Remedy, SDLC, Expertise on Agile methodology.

Hardware

IBM-OS/390, IBM-Z/OS

Certification

Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer

Professional Experience

Client: National General Insurance, OH

Employer: Piorion Solutions Inc.

Title/Role: Technical Lead Duration: Apr 2020 to till date

Job duties:

Work on Mainframe technologies such as JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IDMS, DB2, z/OS on IBM Mainframes, TSO/ISPF, Panvalet, File manager, Jira etc.

Working on Heat ticketing system which are Mainframe tickets on CCS modules.

As part of Legacy modernization, day to day work includes analyzing Legacy modules thoroughly and documenting the Business rules involved.

Prepare and Represent the Technical Design document.

Analyze/Review the complete architecture of the CCS application.

Client: Honda North America Inc, OH

Employer: Wipro Limited.

Title/Role: Technical Lead Duration: Sep 2019 to Apr 2020

Job duties:

Working on Mainframe Technologies such as Cobol, VSAM, JCL, CICS, DB2, SOAP UI, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, QWS3270 as Emulator, Agile Methodology, RTC etc.

Working on Agile Methodology model which comprises of biweekly iterations, sprints etc.

Working on Story cards and Technical cards which involves, impact analysis, high level design preparation, coordinating with stake holders, presentations, coding, testing and supporting the application.

Conduct Retrospective meetings and Daily stand up meetings to understand, analyze and provide solutions for blockers, defects & persistent issues in project.

Providing Legacy modernization solution plan where ever required.

Being a part of Project planning, Reports and representation at Stake holder meetings.

Providing daily status updates in scrum meetings.

Responsible for planning and prioritizing multitude of tasks.

Prepare documentation for moving project modules to production environment.

Identify customer's business flow, gap analysis and provide recommendations in application performance improvements.

Coordinating testing efforts with UAT (User Acceptance Testing) teams.

Responsible for Design, Coding, Testing and Implementing of the project.

Client: Schneider Electric North America, KY

Employer: Wipro Limited. Jul 2016 to Jul 2019

Role: Technical Lead (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Worked on Mainframe technologies such as JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Spufi, Quick 3270, z/OS on IBM Mainframes, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, Abend Aid, Xpeditor etc.

Working on remedy which are Mainframe tickets that span various applications on Schneider like Q2C, COSBI, Product Management, etc.

Day to day works include Requirement gathering, Impact analysis, High level design preparation, Development, status reviews, Unit & Parallel testing, etc.

Prepare and Represent the Technical Design document in order to get approval from Customer.

Responsible for Development and Reviewing of the Integration design of the project.

Analyze/Review the complete architecture of the application periodically.

Acting as an SME for the application MMIS.

Involve in Project planning, Reports and representation at meetings.

Responsible for Design, Coding, Testing and Implementing of the project.

Supporting the Customer for Project Implementation, Code movement and providing Post-validation support.

Sending daily & weekly Status reports.

Design Technical Specification documents and take ownership of them.

Perform Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.

Analyze new requirements or change requests on the existing programs initiated by the client.

Client: Mastercard, MO

Employer: Wipro Limited. Nov 2015 to Jul 2016

Role: Technical Lead (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, WSDL, WEB SERVICES, VISION PLUS, STORED PROCEDURES, FILEAID, ABEND EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.

Have worked on below VisionPlus module customization

1.Credit Management System (CMS)

2.Collection Tracking Analysis(CTA)

3.Rewards System(RWS)

Perform Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.

Prepare and represent the Technical Design document in order to get approval from Customer.

Performed functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using Intertest set up.

Responsible for architecture review for the application and project.

Analyze and debug the production issues.

Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.

Involved in support for the bi-weekly and bi-monthly releases.

Send weekly status reports to customer.

Monitor and review the offshore deliverables on a daily basis.

Responsible for planning and prioritizing the task.

Develop and review new Cobol-DB2 components.

Client: Bank of New York Melon, NJ

Employer: Wipro Limited. May 2015 to Nov 2015

Role: Architect (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Creation of high and detail level designs for CICS, COBOL, & JCL

Perform Design preparation and review

Creation micro level business process models using advanced process mapping software like visio to detail out both functional and technical process flow for coding into language that can be processed by computer.

Facilitating Automation Testing using HPE Unified Functional Testing(UFT) Software and Wipro's Assure NXT.

Monitoring & tracking progress of Unit testing, SIT Testing & UAT defects on HP Quality center(QC)

Data mining using advance SQL queries to validate and to analyses, data residing in various DB's(Data Warehouses) and ODS(Operation Data Source).

Provide solutions to user requests.

Client: Schneider Electric North America, KY

Employer: Wipro Limited. May 2012 to Apr 2015

Role: Technical Lead (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Creation of high and detail level designs for CICS, COBOL, & JCL

Understand application architecture and function

Requirement Analysis to develop interfaces to migrate data from the legacy system to SAP system.

Design preparation and review.

Performed and oversaw Development.

Unit Testing & System Testing.

Provided solutions to user requests.

Client : Medco Health Solutions, USA.

Employer: IBM India pvt ltd. Jan 2012 to May 2012

Role: Senior Software Engineer (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, FILEAID, ABEND AID, INTERTEST, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOUR, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.

Designed the Technical Specification documents.

Reviewed coding and testing for offshore team

Managed the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis.

Involved in Environment set up for Customer for User testing.

To set up new jobs using Tivoli Work scheduler.

Monitor and Review the deliverables on a daily basis.

Monitor specifications to find any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness.

Client 1: Telstra, Australia.

Client 2: Mitsubishi Fuso Bus and Truck Corporation, Japan.

Client 3: Axis Capital, USA.

Employer: Infosys Limited . Jul 2006 to Dec 2011

Role: Senior Software Engineer (Mainframe)

Job duties:

Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, VISION PLUS, ENDEVOUR, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, ABEND EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.

Analyze Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) with business Stake holder.

Prepare and represent the Technical Design document and procure approval from Customer.

Develop/Review the Integration design of the project.

Acting as a SME for the application.

Involve in Project planning, Reports and representation at meetings.

Work on performance tuning on DB2 stored procedure and Mainframe jobs.

Design new Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.

Perform/Review unit testing for batch and online programs using DB2 load/Unload utility.

Schedule and set up in conditions/Out conditions in job using Control –M.

Responsible for Project Planning and prioritizing the tasks.

Responsible for supporting all the production support with Sev1, Sev2, Sev3 and Sev 4 issues.

Providing the daily status updates in scrum meeting.

Date: May 2021 Dharmendran Thirumal

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