Financial Services Credit Card

Ravi Sankar Nethi

**********.*****@*****.*** +1-416-***-**** North York, ON, M4A 1L9

Professional Summary

Ravi Nethi is having 20+ years of total IT experience and worked on various projects in Mainframes application development, Maintenance and Support projects.

Also having more than 16+ years of Banking and Financial services domain experience.

He is currently employed with Tech Mahindra, Canada in their Banking and Financial Services Group. Operating currently from Toronto, Canada and working for one of their biggest Banking client Bank of Nova Scotia.

Currently working for projects in Credit Card division of BNS.

Attained the Credit Card domain knowledge.

He is having extensive knowledge in IMS DB, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, COBOL, Neteron and Mainframe tools.

Participated in Estimation, Design, Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Reviews, Check List preparations, Walkthroughs for Code - Design, Deployment, Job Monitoring, First Occurrence Validations (FOV), File-repairs, Service Now tickets resolution, Application Support and supported Internal and External Audits.

Worked on DevOps pipelines including Jenkins and Bit Bucket

Having experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment.

Conversant with Agile Methodologies & Scrum

Having Effective analytical, organizational and communication skills and maintains relationship with co-workers in team environment.

Well organized, with excellent in multi-tasking and prioritizing the work.

Strong analytical and communication skills - exposed to working with clients directly and converting challenging business requirements into technical solutions.

Experience in leading a project, working with clients to gather requirements, scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).

Individually can handle the projects assigned, capable of handling multiple tasks, allocate task to team members and review the results.

Experience Details

Organization

Designation

Duration

Tech Mahindra (Formerly known as “Satyam Computer Services Ltd”)

Sr Programmer Analyst

Apr 2006 – Till Date

Infosys Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad – India

Programmer Analyst

Oct 2004 – Apr 2006

TATA Consultancy Services., Mumbai – India.

Systems Analyst

July 2003 – Sep 2004

Codelinks Data Services., Hyderabad – India

Programmer Analyst

Jan 2003 – May 2003

DSQ Software, Chennai - India

Programmer

Mar 2000 – Dec 2002

Skills

Hardware

IBM S/390, IBM PCs and compatibles

Operating Systems

MVS/ESA, Windows NT / 95, MS-DOS

Languages

COBOL, JCL, SAS, C, SQL,

Databases

IMS DB, DB2

GUI

CICS

Tools & Utilities

HOGAN, NETRON, FILE-AID, INSYNC, PLATINUM, SPUFI, QMF, DUMP MASTER, ABEND-AID, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, Pan valet, Endeavor, CHANGEMAN, File Manager, CICS web-services Tolls (Eclipse & Soap Tool), TMS(CA-1, ISPF),SAR, Princeton, STAR,CONNECT: Direct (DTF,API,IUI,EUI,DMBATCH), Bit Bucket, Jenkins, File Manager

Domain Knowledge

Banking, Financial services, Insurance, Transport & Logistics

Work Experience

#1. KS (Credit Card Service VISA and AMEX - Application Development)

Project Type

Application Development

Project Domain

Banking & Financial services

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

Bank Of Nova Scotia

Organization

Tech Mahindra Limited

Duration

Offshore: Jun 2016 – Dec 2016

Onsite: Jan 2017 – Till Date

Team Size

Project : 30

Module : 10

Environment (with skill versions)

Languages:

COBOL, JCL, SAS

Database :

DB2, IMS DB, VSAM

Tools :

NETRON, Endevor, File-Manager, CA-View, Dump Master, Jenkins, Bitbucket

Functional

Design, Application Development and Maintenance

Project Description:

KS is a host-based backend application that does all the major processing for revolving credit (Visa and AMEX) and Line of credit accounts. It interacts with other internal and external applications to accomplish the various activities related to a revolving credit product such as process transactions, print statements etc.

Involved in various projects in this application that includes Major Application Development and Enhancements. Recent changes include migration of VISA and AMEX accounts to TSYS platform and adding a new Insurance Plans for Credit Cards and LOC Products, Setting-up new promos, Installment plans for customers for payment (SLICE), awarding tiered structured points (2x,3x,4x) for eligible customers, migrating Student Credit cards to Regular cards, APR and PBP rate changes, automation for Cross Product Switches and Sub-Product Transfers, BIN number expansion, creating/dispatching new Statement Messages etc.

Contribution:

Interacting with Business Analysts and getting the requirements.

Review requirements, Estimation, and preparation of Design Documents

Walk-thrus of the artifacts prepared

Creation of User stories and participated in Scrum Meetings

Coding, Unit testing, Support for the QA Testing

Deployment, FOV validations, Job Monitoring

Check List preparation and walk-thru of the same

Peer reviews

Automation of Migration activities and creation of new reports

Warranty support after the implementation

#2 . Asset Management

Project Type

Development and major enhancements

Project Domain

Banking & Financial services

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB)

Organization

Tech Mahindra Limited

Duration

Offshore: Apr 2006 – May 2016

Project Description:

MSSB was a leading Financial Services company in USA. It is a joint venture of Citi Group Inc and Morgan Stanley Inc. and looks into the business-like Stock Broking, strategic advisor for the other companies etc.

The Advisory Asset Management Applications includes several applications including below in managed Accounts world.

Web Managed: Web Managed or WEB MGD is a web-based application used for Opening Managed Accounts. Managed Accounts provides a common facility for the entry of Consulting Group (CG) accounts.

A customer opens a Retail Account with Morgan Stanley. A Retail Account can be a Checking/Savings/Brokerage Account. While opening a Retail account, the demographic details of the customer are captured with the type of account. The Account Number is then assigned to the customer. Once a retail account is set up, a managed account can be created on the retail account. Managed Accounts support multiple products.

Contribution:

Was responsible for

Prepare specs, Design, Estimation

Resolve maintenance items.

Design, Coding, UAT for DB2 SPs

Preparing unit test / system test plans.

Analysis / Coding / Unit & System testing

Task allocation to team

Peer reviews

#3 . Airborne Shipping

Project Type

Development and major enhancements

Project Domain

Transport

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

DHL

Organization

Infosys Technologies

Duration

Offshore: Oct 2004 – Mar 2006

Project Description

Airborne Express is an express delivery company and cargo airline. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, its hub was at Wilmington, Ohio. In 2003, Airborne, Inc. was merged with DHL of Brussels, Belgium.

The system deals with the various physical movements and Revenue data entry of shipments. The primary responsibility of the applications in the shipping domain is to maintain and integrate the various shipments data stored in the system during the different field operations taking place in the lifecycle of the shipments. The lifecycle of a shipment includes a request for pickup, actual pickup, revenue entry by customer, movement of shipment through flights and trucks, arrival and departure at origin and destination stations, delivery to the customer etc.

#4 . PCSS (Private Client Support System)

Project Type

Development and major enhancements

Project Domain

Financial Services

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

Merrill Lynch

Organization

TATA Consultancy Services., Mumbai

Duration

Offshore: Jul 2003 – Sep 2004

Project Description

Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies.

PCSS provides the technology support for many varied Advisory Division Sales Force policy programs focusing on Financial Advisor Performance Measurement & Compensation. Some of the primary functions are: Monitoring Financial Advisor Performance, Branch Office Performance, Production Credit Collection with a centralized firm repository, ML Revenue Collection from the various product areas with a centralized firm repository, Traditional FA Cash Compensation, FA Stock Options, Mortgage Guarantee Program, and Production Growth Award.

#5 . CS 01 (Customer Support 01)

Project Type

Development and major enhancements

Project Domain

Insurance

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

Conseco Inc

Organization

Codelinks Data Services, Hyderabad

Duration

Offshore: Jan 2003 – May 2003

Project Description

CS01 is a Customer Service System used by CONSECO Inc, USA. It is the Mainframe based Online System that serves as front end to various Policy Administration and Claim Systems. Customer Service Representative (CSR) uses CS01 to identify information necessary to answer Queries from Policyholders, Agents, Medical Providers and Group Benefit Administrators. CS01 provides a common interface to use the various systems used in the Insurance Company.

#6 . ACES

Project Type

Development and major enhancements

Project Domain

Insurance

Service Offering

Development and major enhancements

Client

Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston

Organization

DSQ Software Ltd., Chennai

Duration

Offshore: Mar 2000 – Dec 2002

Project Description

Executed for LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE, BOSTON, USA. ACES is automated claim entry system which is a mainframe based application system developed for claim processing of Liberty Mutual PAL (Property, Auto and Liability) claims. The claims handled by ACES are personal and commercial market automobile, general liability, property liability, environmental, fire losses and miscellaneous claims. The client will send the maintenance work requests for the ACES system to offshore. The work requests are analyzed in the offshore and based on the request appropriate program changes or JCL changes are done. Testing will be performed for the changed programs/ JCL’s at the test system and client Test system.

Education

Degree

University

Year of Passing

M.B.A

(Marketing Management)

Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India

Aug, 1998

B.Tech

(Civil Engineering)

Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India

Jul, 1995

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