Vijay Karthick Vidhyapathi

+1-347-***-**** advhcn@r.postjobfree.com 2012 Scissor Tail Road, Pearland, Texas

Summary

15+ years of experience in IBM Mainframe Technologies. Extensive experience in Enhancement, Maintenance, confined in conversion. Production Support activities in Mainframe Technologies.

Worked in areas of IBM Mainframe Technologies. Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall Software Development Life Cycle (Requirements Study, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation)

Technical Expertise in handling software projects running on IBM Mainframes (in COBOL, SAS, JCL, DB2, VSAM). Have good hands-on experience in CA-7 tool, Changeman, Filead, TSO, ISPF. Good in executing the commands in CA-7 for verification of scheduling, triggering and requirements of batch jobs.

Familiar knowledge in the Insurance Domain.

Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

Currently taking care of Release Manager role as well and coordinating with engineering teams and work with Product owners and deploy the changes into production using Changeman.

Extensive knowledge in Jira (handling stories) and Service now (handling tasks and deployment).

Experience

HCL America, Inc. Houston, TX

Mainframe Programmer Analyst 07/2007 - Present

Client-1: Northwestern Mutual - 13/Dec/2021 to Till Date

Project -1: Risk Servicing and New Issue systems

Role: Release Manager

Responsibilities:

Coordinate with Product owners, business and engineering teams and plan for deployment date for each release.

Handle off-Schdule release on daily basis. Securing approvals from Batch processing team for any critical jobs or applications. Using Agile methodology and using Jira for tracking stories.

Use Changeman for Mainframe deployments and Gitlab Pipeline for Java/Dev ops deployments.

Client-2: AIG - Date: 10/28/2007 to 12-Dec-2021

Project-2: RICOH, Vantage Fund Merger, PAC, BENE, Claims, Connext, DSS, SMART, CDB and NIPR Applications

Roles and responsibilities:

Understanding Business and Functional Specifications for Maintenance and Enhancement requests from the End User/Business Users.

Analyzing, coding, testing of SAS, COBOL programs, Perl, SQL Developer for many adhoc-requests

Execution of SQL DB2 and Perl SQL queries for Trouble reports

Performing in-depth study of the existing system functionality.

Execution of ABC phases and Rejected Payment process and sending files to SAP.

Create Contracts for new applications and load the policy information for Mainframe system.

Migrating Lifecomm systems to DXC and sending the required files.

Testing for ensuring conformity to business requirements

Interacting with offshore coordinates and offshore Manager during weekly status teleconferences and getting status updates

Team Size: 6

Tools and Technology used: Mainframe (SAS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL Developer, PERL)

Domain : Insurance

Duration : 1 Year 6 Months

Client : AIG - Project-3: Project Charger

Award: Best Team player and successful implementation award

Roles and responsibilities

Migration of Lifecomm systems by moving jobs, source and parm components to DXC.

Analyzing and understanding existing Lifecomm86 and Lifecomm 90 systems

Coding, testing of SAS, COBOL programs for many adhoc-requests

Writing COBOL/SAS/ programs for Adhoc requests

Execution of multiple cycles to make sure all the files are getting transmitted to DXC.

Preparation of Test Plans and designing Test Cases

Development of new code or modification of existing code

Testing for ensuring conformity to business requirements

Team Size: 12

Tools and Technology used: Mainframe (SAS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2)

Domain : Insurance

Duration : 1 Year

Project-4: AIG Life AE – DSS15.0, Lifecomm 86, Lifecomm 90 and WSM K46 Maintenance and Production Support

Roles and responsibilities:

Understanding Business and Functional Specifications for Maintenance and Enhancement requests from the End User/Business Users.

Analyzing, coding, testing of SAS, COBOL programs for many adhoc-requests

Worked on SAS to COBOL conversion and COBOL to Java conversion project.

Played a Critical Release Manager role in Conversion projects; where I was responsible for understaning user final output and gathered all requirements from business and other state holders, coordinated and worked with all enginderring teams for almost 1 year and successfuly completed the project.

Worked on NOMAD to COBOL Conversion project.

Worked on Mainframe Migration projects.

Pasticipate in Disaster Recovery activities.

Execution of SQL DB2 queries for Trouble reports

Writing COBOL programs for User requests, Audit reports.

Resolving the business process anomalies that are raised during the testing phase by the business users

Translation of Functional Specifications into Technical Specifications and Detailed Design

Providing estimates for work requests to the client

Preparation of Test Plans and designing Test Cases

Development of new code or modification of existing code

Providing support for user test cycles

Implementation of the changes in the production cycle and job monitoring.

Team Size: 8

Tools and Technology used: Mainframe (SAS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2)

Domain : Insurance

Duration : 1 year and 5 months

Project-5 : AG-Dallas - ULA Maintenance and Production Support

Roles and responsibilities:

Providing real-time production support in timely manner and fixing the production issues.

Analyzing, coding, testing of COBOL programs for many adhoc-requests

Writing COBOL programs for User requests, Audit reports.

Performing in-depth study of the existing system functionality

Preparation of Test Plans and designing Test Cases

Ensuring Project process compliance

Interacting with Onsite co-ordinator and Onsite Manager during weekly status teleconferences and giving status updates

Training New (Experienced/Fresher) team members

Team Size: 8

Tools and Technology used: Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2,DYL 280)

Domain : Insurance

Duration : 6 years and 2 months

Client : Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), UK

Date: 07/02/2007 to 10/27/2007

Project 6 : Assembler to COBOL conversion

Roles and responsibilities:

As a Offshore Team Member, involved in

Converted the Copybooks associated with the programs

Involved in converting the programs

Handled the Unit testing

Fix the abend occurred during the Integration testing.

Team Size: 9

Tools and Technology used: Mainframe (COBOL, ASSEMBLER, JCL)

Domain : Banking

Duration : 3 months

Skills

COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, Changeman, DB2 SQL, TSO, ISPF, FileAid, Jira, Agile, SDLC, Proterm Script, NOMAD, DYL 280, CA View, CA Deliver, CA products, JHS, SPUFI, Panvalet

Education

Anna University Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Master of Computer Applications 07/2007

Bharathiyar University Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Bachelor of Computer Applications 05/2004

Devanga High School Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

12th 04/2001

Devanga High School Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

10th 04/1999

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