Cobol Mainframe

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Rakesh Patil

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Professional Summary –

● 15+ years of experience in IT primarily in Application Development, Application Support (Level3) and project management with IBM Mainframe skills such as COBOL, JCL, DB2, Stored Procs, VSAM, REXX, CLIST, CICS & PowerBuilder.

● Strong business knowledge around Post Trade Services in Investment Banking.

● Substantial exposure in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with traditional Waterfall & Agile methodologies.

● Experience in Mainframe (Legacy) modernization with solutions focusing on platform rehosting, Data migrations using AWS & Data streaming using Kafka, batch optimizations & application simplifications.

● Proficient in translating business requirements into technical requirements with emphasis on maintaining Architectural equilibrium and adhering to optimization standards.

● Functional expertise in Clearing and Settlement, Ledger Postings, Fails reporting and Cash management areas in real time trade management systems.

● Well acquainted with Settlement messaging platforms like Swift, Euroclear & Crest, etc.

● 40+ months of client facing experiences in countries like USA & UK. Skills –

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: Mainframe(Z/OS), Unix, Windows

Language: JCL, COBOL, PL1, Store Proc, CLIST, REXX, CICS, XML Database: DB2, VSAM

Development and Testing tools: SPUFI, QMF, ISPF, File-Aid, File-Master, HP QC, Xpeditor, Intertest, IBM MQ, NDM

SCM Tools: ChangeMan

Other tools: Sybase PowerBuilder, VBA, Jira, Oddessy, ServiceNow Professional Experience –

Wipro Technologies for Credit-Suisse (Client) Aug 2006 to Present Credit Suisse is Switzerland based multinational financial services company that operates the Credit Suisse Bank and other financial services investments. The bank is organized into three divisions, Investment Banking, Private Banking and Asset Management. Investment Banking offers execution services over Capital Markets, Convertibles, Equities, Fixed income, Fund Linked products and Prime Services.

New Trade Processing Architecture (NTPA) is the primary back-office settlement processing platform for a wide range of securities and money market products traded throughout CS broker/dealer. On an average it handles 5 million trades/transactions per day. It is an integrated collection of Reference data, firm's position keeping, Trading, Settlement and Financial Reporting. The NTPA application supports all the functional entities such as Online Trade Process (OTP), Mortgage Backed Services (MBS), Clearance, Affirmations, Margin, Cash managements systems (CAMS), Receipts & Deliver (RCDC), General Ledger reporting, Asset Servicing, etc. 50+ applications are integrated to form this Public

settlement engine with technical landscape includes HPS(High Productivity System), COBOL, Panvalet, DB2, JCL, REXX, CICS Gateways with MQ connectivity & Operational users screens with PowerBuilder.

I played various roles in this engagement, outlined the major ones below. Project - Mainframe Sustainability Dec 2018 – Till Date Location – Raleigh (USA)

Mainframe Sustainability project is a firm’s strategic initiative to reduce the TCO, Maintain the production environment stability and achieve audit compliances for NTPA applications. My responsibilities as Onshore lead/Scrum Matser are detailed as -

• Orchestrate various scrum ceremonies i.e. planning, refinement, daily scrum, review

& retrospective.

• Responsible to identify the potential risk items, recurring failures in batch, optimizations opportunities which can improve system’s performnace or stability. Formulate such stories and plan their deliveries.

• Act as pivotal point of contact for design & development needs of team.

• As application owner responsible to support the SOX or other compliance audits.

• Perform technical work products reviews.

• Represent releases in Change Advisory Boards.

• Formulate testing strategies, prepare test data & Support User tests & Integration tests.

• Provide warranty support.

• Provide application level 3 support for any outages.

• Build the functional & technical capabilities of the team. Project – CSI (Brexit) Jun 2017 – Dec 2018

Location – Pune (India)

CSI (Brexit) entity setup project. CS Europe Ltd entity was operating from London, to support the Brexit a new entity was established operating from Dublin. All the settlement processes were modified to support this need.

My responsibilities as Subject Matser Expert are detailed as –

• Interact with business users to gather requirements /enhachments needed for new entity and traslate them to business documents.

• Responsible to convert business requirements into technical design documents.

• Provide project updates to stakeholders.

• Prepare use cases for testing purpose and Support User tests & Integration tests.

• Provide warranty support.

• Provide application level 3 support for any outages.

• Build the functional & technical capabilities of the team. Project – London NTPA Batch Optimization Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Location – London (UK)

London NTPA is a EMEA instance of NTPA which is used for settlement of securities trades on EMEA markets. London NTPA’s EOD settlement activities are performed by 2000+ night cycle (batch) jobs. At the end of cycle Generela Ledger extracts are derived which are used by Ops team for reconcillation purpose. Ops team was planned to migrate from London to India as cost reduction meansures. This project was foucused to reduce the oevrall night cycle completions by 2 hrs.

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My responsibilities as Technical architect are detailed as –

• Interact with different support groups (DBAs, CICS Admins, Production Support groups) to identify the opprortunities for optimizations.

• Do the Critical path impact assessmnt and design the technical solutions.

• Create Technical design documents.

• Perform technical work products reviews.

• Represent releases in Change Advisory Boards.

• Formulate testing strategies, prepare test data & Support User tests & Integration tests.

• Build the functional & technical capabilities of the team. Syntel LTD for Humana Inc (Client) Mar 2006 to Jul 2008 Humana Inc is leading health care provider in USA. PDB (Product Database) application built with rules which defines the product details, Client offers and what elements may go together. It stores essential information such as state of issue, co-payments, limits, deductibles, etc. It also holds the master record of all benefit package Ids. I was responsible for technical development of software solutions.

• Develop code snippets as per the Technical design documents.

• Prepare unit test data & execute unit test cases.

• Prepare all release documents.

Educational Summary –

2005 Pass out Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Tele-Communication from ADCET, Aashta, Maharashtra, India

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