Shalini Elankovan

Senior Mainframe Developer/Tech Lead/Safe Agilist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalini-elankovan-72a7a31a4

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Highly experienced and skilled Mainframe Developer with a strong record of excellent teamwork and exceptional skills in all areas of software construction and programming. Adept at troubleshooting and ensuring quality control at every stage of management process. Able to function independently or as part of a team. Specializes in problem identification and proposal of alternative solutions. Organized and results driven, with the ability to constantly reevaluate customer priorities while delivering timely outcomes. Excellent communicator with active listening skills.

Over 13 years of IT industry experience in IBM mainframe applications with extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation, and maintenance.

Strong technical expertise in COBOL with good understanding in Binds (Plans and Packages), Stored Procedures & Subprograms.

Extremely competent in DB2 Database Coding with Cursor based processing.

Good Knowledge in SQL & CICS Concepts.

Proficient in Job Control language (JCL) includes coding of conditional JCL and PROC.

In depth knowledge of data storage file types like Sequential, VSAM & DB2.

Good exposure to use of Generation data groups and manipulation of tape and disk files.

Legacy mainframe skills in Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) panels.

Experienced in Endevor Code Migration Tool.

Experienced in IBM CA7, ESP and Control-M Scheduling Application.

Expertise in IBM Utilities like SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER & IEBCOPY

Extensive knowledge and experience FILEAID, INSYNC, ABEND AID, Expeditor, SPUFI, QMF, SAR, VSAM, Dump master, EAZYTRIEVE.

9+ years of experience in RETAIL industry and 4+ years of experience in TRAVEL industry.

Facilitated UAT testing by working with business partners and ensured UAT testing is completed.

Created Implementation/ Backout Plans and Support Handover Document

Well versed in ITSM Management tools (ServiceNow)

Proficient as long-time liaison between business and technology with competence in Software Development life cycle (SDLC) process with Waterfall concept and AGILE methodologies.

Have experience in working in JIRA and AHA tools.

Focused on software delivery and support, working in scaled agile framework (SAFe) environment.

Conducted & managed weekly and bi-weekly agile sprints.

Designed, built, and maintained Kanban board for project tracking.

Adept at working on multiple projects simultaneously collaborative with clients to exceed expectations.

Skill Set

Mainframe Developer and Production Support

Operating System

IBM Z/OS, UNIX, Windows 2016

Programming Languages

COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, REXX

Databases

DB2

Tools

Endevor, Endevor QE, FILEAID, INSYNC, ABEND AID, Expeditor, SPUFI, QMF, RMM, SAR, Dump master, EAZYTRIEVE, TSO ISPF, SORT SYNCSORT DFSORT, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities, PowerBuilder

Job Scheduler

CA7, ESP, BMC Control-M

Project /Test Management

Quality Centre 11.0

Collaboration Tool

Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Skype, Trello, SharePoint

Methodologies

Agile Waterfall Methodologies

Business Process Tool

MS Word Excel Outlook Power Point Visio

Scaled Agile - Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner

International Scrum Institute - Scrum Master Accredited Certification

ITIL 2011 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

IBM Certified Solution Developer -- WebSphere IIS DataStage Enterprise Edition V7.5 Certification

IBM –DB2-700- V8 Family Fundamentals Certification

IBM –DB2-703-V8.1 Family Application Development

Client: Travelport, CO

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS,DB2, ENDEVOR, File-Aid, XPEDITER, FILEAID, INSYNC, ABEND AID, SPUFI, QMF,

RMM, SAR, Dump master, TSO ISPF, SORT SYNCSORT DFSORT, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities

Project Name: Ticket Settlement and Reporting & Enterprise Corporate Systems (ECS)

Ticket Settlement and Reporting Provides settlement services and financial transaction between travel agents and airlines.

Enterprise Corporate Systems (ECS) are the heart of Travelport’ s daily business processes. They provide the sales funnel, provisioning, contracting, customer relationship management, billing, financial process, data governance, internal process, and customer intelligence capabilities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked as a top-level technical expert with clients, analysts, programmers, and other team members to develop technical solutions to complex business problems.

Developed 500 JCLs and Parm’s to migrate transmission method of RET/ SPRF handoff jobs from iiNET to ACCA/Accelya for 150 Airlines in the travel industry which saved more than $250K Annually for Travelport.

Created an "Automation tool" to reformat RET data needed for Ticketing Settlement & Reporting (TSR) validation process which reduced the validation efforts from 7200 hours to 600 hours per year using this automation tool.

Implemented 3D secure Payments for all cores in travelport which provided secure way of credit card processing and prevented the fraudulent transactions. I was involved in the development of several complex COBOL programs and new COPYBOOK layouts.

Implemented the Industry Mandate project Dish 23.0 upgrade for 160 BSP RET file which involved 600 hours of effort with 150 JCL and 70 control file changes and rolled out in several phases.

Worked in Travelport+ project to replace three legacy systems, Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan as a single environment called GLOBAL GALIEO which involved development of new COBOL programs and performance tuning for mainframe programs due to large volume of data in flow. Worked closely with DBA for DB2 table restructure. Reconstructed the 80 Mainframe programs & jobs to handle the empty file processing which comes from Apollo and Worldspan core. This project reduced Customer Complexity and $$ of cost savings to Travelport.

Participated in the NextGen IDEATHON 2020 and implemented the idea of MQ processing for all the transaction types used in Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD’s) in Travel Industry.

Migrated the Billing information Data Tapes (BIDT) files transmission method for 50 carriers from CD ROM to sFTP via MFT in couple of months successfully. Much appreciated by Vendors for Quick turnaround.

Automated 25 Business As usual (BAU) activities in Galileo, Apollo & Worldspan core like RCB and Ancillary revenue data, Hotel Revenue data, Axess JALPAK data in the ECS Billing area which saved travelport an effort of 3000 hours Annually.

Writing/Reviewing test cases and performs testing to verify if the final product is as per the specification and follow quality management system processes as per IBM standard.

Lead the deployment of new modules upgrades and fixes to the production environment as needed. Make modules production-ready by moving them to libraries, completing forms and version control documents, following procedures, etc. Validate deployment.

Regularly led daily standup meetings, planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions and retrospectives.

Ensured user experience considerations are incorporated into the program design and delivered solution.

Client: Target Corporation, MN

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, ENDEVOR, File-Aid, XPEDITER, FILEAID, INSYNC, ABEND AID, SPUFI, QMF,

RMM, SAR, Dump master, TSO ISPF, SORT SYNCSORT DFSORT, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities

Project Name: FDC (Food Distribution Center) & UDC (Upstream Distribution Center)

Food Distribution Center (FDC) is a Distribution Center specifically dedicated to transporting and storing fresh and frozen foods and deliver inventory to all types of stores across the United States based on the store request to DC.

Upstream Distribution center (UDC) is an inventory positioning study led by Merchandising and distribution. The objective is to purchase smaller quantities of slow-selling and volatile merchandise and hold it further upstream in the supply chain, allocating it specific areas of the country as demand materializes.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in all phases of software development life cycle like design, development, documentation, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance of Application Software.

Implemented three new Food Distribution Center (FDC) Denton, Rialto & West Jefferson for target. It involved development of several new mainframe jobs for 3 FDC’s and setting up the same in CA7 and in Control-M environment. Deployed the changes in Non-Production Environment (NPE Region) and successfully implemented in Production.

Upstream Distribution center (UDC) Worked on 3 brand new UDC build and implemented the changes into PROD. Worked with multiple teams for smooth PROD cutover, reviewed the changes after cutover and provided PROD support during go-live testing.

Worked on de-commissioning two Food distribution centers in Target which involved Obsoleting of several JCL’s and Scheduler changes in the CA7 and cleanup of unused files.

Replaced the Target's current version of Prospace (Planogram Tool) with JDA's most up-to-date planogram software as Prospace is not compatible with Windows 7 and it is not supported by the vendor.

Involved in development/enhancement of applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and tested as per the requests of business departments.

Contributes to releases with high quality code and unit tests, having challenges in complexity or deadlines. Implements and verifies a complete unit test.

Solved db2 testing problems and trained team members to use db2 interactive utilities.

Assisted in production support. Troubleshoot existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develops solutions.

Perform reviews and walkthroughs of all major project deliverables to ensure the quality and completeness of functionality, meeting high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.

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Client: Target Corporation, MN

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, ENDEVOR, File-Aid, XPEDITER, FILEAID, INSYNC, ABEND AID, SPUFI, QMF,

EAZYTRIEVE, TSO ISPF, SORT SYNCSORT DFSORT, ICETOOL, IBM Utilities

Project Name: Enterprise Support Services (ESS)

Enterprise Support Services (ESS) Projects Division is a specialized group which caters to small - medium type of system enhancements across all the business processes and will take care of supporting all the production applications in Target Corporation by 24/7.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Receiving the business requirements from the client / Onsite

Analyzing the functional and Detailed Design specification.

Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, DB2.

Used Endevor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages into production site.

Used CA7 (Mainframe Production Control Scheduling) to schedule jobs.

Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).

Work involves fixing abends such as Space abends, File contention errors, VSAM space abends and DB2 abends.

Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and Work package testing.

Testing the Applications for the business requirement and responsible for delivery from offshore.

Analyzing the issue mentioned in Ticket and applying appropriate solution.

Provided 24/7 on-call support and resolved technical issues.

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering in VIT University, India

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Experience and Project Details

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer/Safe Agilist Duration: Jan 2019 – Till Date

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer Duration: Apr 2013 – Dec2018

Role: Mainframe Developer/Support Duration: Aug 2007 – Mar 2013

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