Life Insurance Health Care

Subramani Krishnasamy https://www.linkedin.com/in/subramani-krishnasamy-1b69271b5/ : 267-***-**** ********@*****.***)

Development and Integration Manager at Ameritas Life Insurance Corp, Lincoln, Nebraska

SUMMARY

Technical Manger and Senior mainframe Consultant with 15+ years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle. Expertise in Mainframe Legacy applications with experience in Health care and Retail domains along with Experience in JAVA, IBM Integration Modules, and Cloud Computing Skills.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics, Vickram College Of Engineering (Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai), Madurai, TN-630561 May 2006

SKILLS

Mainframe Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, IBM utilities, MQ, CICS, Web services.

Mainframe Tools: IBM RDZ, ISPW Topaz Continuous Development & Integration tool, Ezytrieve, XPEDITOR BATCH & ONLINE, QMF, DB2 PLATINUM, FILE MANAGER, CHANGEMAN, FILE AID, TOAD DB2, ZOS CONNECT, IBM API Manager

Other technology: JAVA, Python, KAFKA messaging Platform, SSIS Data Integration Platform tool, Data Pipeline and data integration Developer using Streamsets or Tibco BC/BW apps.

Domain Skills: 2.5 years of Health care knowledge on Claims processing and Cap Funding applications,

8.5 years of Retail Industry IT applications, and 4.5 years of Banking and Insurance applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Development & Integration Manager Ameritas Life Insurance Corp July 2021 – Present

Responsible for the analysis, design, deployment, support, and security of Ameritas information technology to ensure efficient management of technology and data-related assets in accordance with market best practices and external regulations. Developing improved and innovative ways to utilize current systems software, application system development, and programming productivity aids. Performing COBOL coding and code reviews. Developing and maintaining application systems within a self-organizing and self-managing environment. Developing, testing, and automating in order to meet sprint and product goals. Investigating and recommending new methods, procedures, tools, and technologies. Collaborating with IT management, EA, BA, and team members to evaluate, design, and provide technical solutions that support the ongoing development of the product. Other duties as assigned. This is a work-from-home position reporting to Ameritas’ headquarters in Lincoln, NE.

Technical Architect/Technical Manager Eapps Tech LLC Client: Humana Inc March 2020 – July 2021

To work with Business partners and capture the system requirements/Enhancements and create requirement Documentation and work with project PM’s to create Change order for the Enhancement request to Prthe oject team

Work with Service Fund Business team and construct rule and interface level documents for all captured requirements along with Business partners.

Analyze and create High-Level Design Documentation and get it presented in Design meetings with Senior Architects.

Created a new Integration platform to plug into existing Claims processing Legacy Mainframe application for new Claims vendor for 2 markets (South Carolina and Florida).

Played a major role in handling the Kafka messages thru Streamsets – a streaming event tool to design and enable the Edge claims to receive thru Kafka events to Humana existing Claim processing application Interface.

Prepare Technical Design Documentation to be used by Developers and mentor the team with required knowledge on requirements and approach of the development work and its efforts.

Manage the Offshore team members deliverables, technical code walkthrough, Co-ordinating SIT/UAT Support and giving technical support for any open issues/questions.

Prepare Implementation plan for project migration and responsible for Client Change Management project production migration plan and documentation and approvals submission.

Estimating/slicing the User stories for Epics created by product owner specific to business needs and coming out with the strategic plan for development and implementation timelines and resource capacity needed.

Project Manager/Onsite technical Lead Cognizant technology Solutions Client: QVC Retailer Jan 2017 - Mar 2020

First Point of contact for any priority incidents in Supply Chain production support and ensure the application is available 24/7 to customers being an SME on Order Management System.

Communicating the production Support Challenges and addressing the enhancement/ problem fixes on the Supply Chain area to clients weekly and monthly. Daily Standup Calls with clients on support priority tickets and coordinating the challenges faced on system bugs, application enhancements/maintenance activities to other stakeholders

Provide solution to production issues, perform troubleshooting.

Work on data migration scripts, perform code fixes, and coordinate with change management to schedule a meeting with technical/Functional changes along with QA testers/UAT business team to schedule a migration date with well-planned date to avoid any business impacts.

As part of QVC maintenance portfolio, performed additional role as scrum master between Cognizant and QVC team

and facilitated the team with daily scrum calls, Jira user stories and doing any follow-up calls for Deign/technical

discussion.

Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.

Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

Senior Associate projects Cognizant Solutions Pvt Ltd Client: Walmart Stores Inc Jan2013 - Jan2017

Played role of a Senior tech lead on Gathering requirements and documenting the business stories in technical documentation for Mainframe applications.

Involved in Design committee and prepared High System Design Documentation for tech Modernization stack and de-commission/migration of Legacy Mainframe applications to Web service-oriented Architecture.

Prepared Milestones along with project charter with resource utilization and resource planning and integrated the proposal with various other interfacing systems changes and work involved to allow scaling up this interface to next technology.

Associate Projects/Cognizant Technology Solutions (India & UK) Client: Marks and Spencer’s plc Nov 2012 – Jan 2013

As a Lead my Role includes involving in Estimations and Plan, Reviews of Design, Unit test cases,

Code and Unit test results, Conducting Status meetings, Coordinating with Onsite & offshore delivery team, Planning and supporting integration testing. Responsible for the Quality procedures related to the project and Status reports.

As a Senior developer my Role includes involving in Requirement Analysis, design, Coding, testing and documentation. Being an application SME able to resolve the complex in a quick interval of time.

Played a key role in providing Onsite peak support on 2013 such as 24/7 Support, part of key initiatives in the peak support and ensured Dollar savings to clients by implementing Monitoring Automation tools In Operations.

Associate Projects/Cognizant Technology Solutions India Client: AMEX Cards and Banking Dec 2010 – Oct 2012

primary contact for any priority incidents in production/maintenance of Amex card applications. Provide solution to production issues, perform troubleshooting.

Coordinate with offshore team and prioritize their work.

Perform Database queries fine tuning, performance improvement.

JAVA and Mainframe related issue resolution in integration layer.

Write Functional and technical documents for application enhancement or upgrades.

Work on data migration scripts, Perform code fixes, coordinate change management

Software Engineer/Synova Innovative Technologies Client: IBM India Mar 2010 – Dec 2010

Cobol Developer for TD Bank mainframe CICS Applications.

Java Spring Boot Developer for Integrating Mainframe CICS and JAVA Batch responder applications for Credit card check submitted thru Online portal.

Analyze, prepare Test cases, Code, and develop the Online and batch components for customer maintenance

and portfolio project for migration of customer numbers between 2 portfolios.

Created DB2 Stored Procedures for Common SQL Functions for re-usability and performance-oriented.

Worked in production migration and warranty support of software code implemented.

Software Engineer/Value Source Technologies Client: KBC Bank Sept 2007 – Mar 2010

Code and Unit test results. Responsible for the Quality procedures related to the project and Status reports.

As a developer my Role includes involvement in Requirement Analysis, design, Coding, testing and documentation.

Played a key role in Developing CICS/JAVA IDE supported Driver programs to pick-up the messages from IIB and process them to Mainframe CICS program and

Update the products based on Business inputs.

Worked in developing a front end Java/ASP.NET Supported product by re-engineering the OLD Mainframe legacy platform of the Insurance applications on KBC Insurance

Portfolio’s.

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