Devi Priyadharsini Thirumalaiswamy

CICS System Programmer

ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

IBM System Z Mastery Certified

E-mail: admyje@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +91-953******* (India )

Summary:

A Mainframes Professional, with 14 years of experience in CICS System Programming with skills to rightly match the position of a CICS Support. The individual holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering (specialised in Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and is a highly self-motivated individual with willingness to always continue learning and apply the knowledge in activities that support the job role. The key facts include the ablility to effectively schedule and implement changes, participate in CICS TS Upgradation Plans, build CICS Regions, apply maintenance in the CICS environment, Participate in Disaster Recovery Plans, Utilizing the appropriate Change and Problem Management tools for managing the CICS environment, and the skill to proactively analyze and resolve issues that arise in the environment. The individual has wide knowledge and experience working with the following versions of CICS TS for z/OS: V2.2, V 3.1, V3.2, V4.1,V5.2,V5.5. The individual also have done a year of the Two years Diploma in Masters Programme in International Business from PSG Institute of Management, which is a course offered by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and recognized by the Ministry of Commerce in India. The knowledge gained in this regard has been applied whenever required – in maintaining Scorecard, preparing the highlights reports, in documenting the CICS services as work instructions. The individual also has undergone Mainframe System Programming Course from a premier institute in Chennai. The individual also has traveled to UK to the client site for knowledge transfer.

Trainings, Certifications and Workshops:

Trainings:

Mainframe System Programming

Customer Service Skills

IBM Tivoli Omegamon II for CICS Basics

Effective Communication Skills

Business English

Ownership, dependability and accountability

Presentation Skills

Basics of Project Management

Certifications:

ITIL v3 Foundation certified

IBM System Z Mastery Certified

Edward De Bono – Lateral thinking

Skillset:

CICS, JCL, VSAM, RACF, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, HSM, CPSM, MQ administration, Change and Problem Management Tools and processes, Omegamon for CICS, Abendaid, Fault Analyzer, FileMaster, IPCS, Symdump, Mainview for CICS, CA-Librarian, ROSCOE, Datacapture,Sysview

Building/Cloning CICS Regions

Performing General Installation Verification in the CICS environment

Applying maintenance to the CICS environment

Participating in the CICS TS upgrade plans

CPSM BAS, WLM, RTA

Participating in Disaster Recovery Plans

Basic JCL Coding Skills, Ability to submit jobs and find output

Ability to use the ISPF options and SDSF functions

Ability to execute MVS display and CICS commands, to view the LOG to find information on the system, to find information on the status of the jobs

Knowledge about dataset structures and utilities

Knowledge on CICS Supplied transactions, MVS display commands, TSO commands, RACF security commands

Ability to define and manage resources in the CICS environment

Knowledge on establishing inter region communication

MQ administration activities

Knowledge to perform 3rd party product upgrade

Ability to issue CICS region dump, ability to use Fault Analyzer to find information from a formatted dump for basic problem determination, ability to use other source of information for problem analysis

Ability to use HSM commands to migrate, backup, recall, recover and delete datasets

Ability to define various queues in MQ ; Ability to start/stop CICS MQ Connection

Knowledge on using change and problem management tool to find, create, update, maintain records of changes to proactively manage the CICS environment.

Maintaining CICS documentation to find information on LPARs and Regions, documenting CICS services as work instructions

Participate in meetings

Knowledge on using tools like FileMaster, Mainview for CICS, Omegamon for CICS, Fault analyzer, HP Service Desk (for change management) and Peregrine (for Problem Management)

Task accomplishments:

Building CICS Regions and support in setting up of environment

Rolling CICS CST maintenance on LPARs

Participation in CICS TS v2.2 to 3.1, v3.2 to 4.1 upgrade

CICS Changes for the MQ and Oracle upgrade

CICS Changes for ADABAS/NATURAL Upgrade

Enabling NATURAL logging facility under CICS

Using CPSM BAS for resource management, real time analysis

Doing validation, problem analysis and resolution for CPSM

Extracting CICS SMF and Omegamon SMF Statistics

CICS Storage Pool review as part of CICS TS v3.1 upgrade

Identification of OS/VS COBOL coded programs in the CICS environment as part of the CICS TS v3.1 upgrade

Daylight Saving Time validation for the CICS environment

Performing general installation verification(validation) in the CICS environment after an IPL or after any major upgrade

Participation in Disaster Recovery Plans, offer support in datacenter migration activities

Decommissioning of CICS regions identified to be done so

Create, update and maintain change records.

Attending required meetings – everyday status meeting, Change Approval Board(CAB) meeting to get necessary approvals for the change records in order to implement changes

Handling oncall support in the environment.

Analyze, resolve or reroute the tickets assigned to the CICS support team

Open an ETR with and Send dumps to IBM for problem determination

Maintain scorecard and create monthly and yearly highlights report.

Document the CICS region specific information and work instructions to be maintained in the internal team room and audit database.

Educational qualification and Professional experience:

Class/Course

% Secured

Year of Passing

X Std

83.8

1997

XII Std

74.67

1999

B.E.,(Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

76.025

2004

Employer/Client/Projects

Duration

Maples/ IBM/ Capitalone

April 2006 to March 2008

HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd

May 2008 to June 2009

J.P. Morgan Chase India Ltd

July 2009 to June 2011

RBS India Development Center

June 2011 to Feb 2012

Mphasis Limited

April 2012 to March 2014

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd

March 2014 to August 2016

IBM India Pvt ltd

October 2016 to August 2017

Cognizant

October 2017 till date

Personal and Contact Information:

Name : Devi Priyadharsini Thirumalaiswamy

Date of Birth : 06-12-1981

E-mail : admyje@r.postjobfree.com

Father’s name : Thirumalaiswamy G

Mother’s name : Thangamany T

Address for communication: # 54/80 J G Nagar, 2nd Street

Kumaranandhapuram,

Tiruppur-641602

India

Mobile: +91-953*******

Preferred Contact : Mobile +91-953*******)

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