Software Engineer Technical Lead

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around **+ Years of IT experience in Software Development and Maintenance.

• Having rich domain knowledge in the areas of Healthcare, Insurance, Banking and Finance and Manufacturing and 5 years’ experience in USA

• Involved in complete SDLC which includes analysis, designing, coding, testing Deployment and production support.

• Expertise in COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IMS DB, SQL and MQ- Series,ADABAS, NATURAL

• Extensive experience working with JVM, MVS, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, ACF & RACF.

• Proficient in IBM utilities such as SPUFI, QMF, FTP, SDSF, SORT & Icetool.

• Efficient in using tools like File-Aid, Smart test, Panvalet, Endevor, Expediter, Syncsort, Changeman, Procedures,, CA-7, CA-11 & Abendaid.

• Worked in migrating Mainframe Applications and Legacy Systems and good knowledge in claim processings.

• Knowledge in development of product changes using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and Production Support.

• Involved in Automated and improved productivity of the Pre-production test process.

• Good knowledge of both on-line and Batch Systems in Mainframes.

• Knowledge in Rexx, CList, Easytrieve, DB2 stored procedures.

• Exposer in Databases like DB2, IMS, Mysql, Teradata and Oracle.

• Participated in Pre-Software Release Communication with all involved stake- holders including the Implementation team.

• Proficient in Unit testing, Integration and system testing and other testing methodologies with use of tools like Test director, Expeditor, Endeavor, and smart test.

• Best practice of software development and process like Gitlab, Agile, Scrum, ServiceNow, SDLC and JIRA.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

Master of engineering (Mechanical engineering), College of engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India

Bachelor of engineering (Automobile engineering), IRTT, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner (2023-2027)

Certified AWS Cloud Architect (2024-2027)

Brain bench certified COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS Programmer. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : IBM Z/OS, OS/390, MVS/ESA/XA, DOS, Windows. Languages : COBOL, CICS,JCL, SQL, MQ series, HTML, SQL, Easytrieve,C, python

Databases : DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, Teradata, Oracle, and MySql. Tools & Utilities : TSO/ISPF, RACF, SDSF, Panvalet, FILEAID, REXX, Dump master, SYNCSORT, Endeavor, Changeman,

SPUFI, QMF, DB2 Connect, MQ-Series, FTP, NDM,MS-Visio, HP-ServiceManager, AbendAid, CA-7, Postman.

Chandrasekaran Vadaman Pidaran

Sr Mainframe Specialist

Pittsburg, PA,

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Awards

• Information Technology Sector Recognition Award (2004-2005) for Print Mail Vendor Project from Bank of New York (Pershing LLC) (2005-2006).

• Pursuit Of Excellence Award from Satyam Computers for the VIMS Project(2007- 2008)

• Winner of the BFS Applause - Star Award-BFS R&R, Q4 08

• Certificate for achievement – from Kathy Grady (Unum CIO) for Unum AMS

(2014-2015).

• Spot award - Opal PCES fixing broker compensation issue (2015-2016)

• Top performer award – Managing the team effectively with zero escalation/defect

(2018-2019)

• People of the week award - Exemplary dedication and Commitment on executing the one of the enhancements works and saved 20 hours of manual efforts per month (2021-2022).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elevance Heath, Pittsburgh, PA Feb 2025 – Till Date Senior Mainframe Developer

Elevance Health Delivers services include medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans through affiliated companies. The application used to create a new plan and maintain the existing plans. Responsibilities:

• Working and guiding the team in Requirement gathering, Desing, Analysis and development of new components and enhancement of existing components.

• Provide production support in fixing the jobs to make sure the cycles won't effect to complete the business requirements without delays.

• Work on Adhoc process to generate reports and to fulfill the requirements.

• Do a Data/break fix and Make changes to resolve the tickets created by business and application users.

• Converting DYL280 modules to COBOL modules

• Analyze the business requirements and prepare system requirement documents.

• Prepare Design documents of High level to Low level projects. Environment: COBOL, IMS, JCL, Endeavor, Trace master, SQL, SPUFI, CICS Stellantis, Chennai, India July 2021 – Jan 2025

Senior Mainframe Developer

Stellantis (FCA Chrysler automobile) Delivers business solutions to Mopar vehicle protection application. This application mainly provide a service contract to the Canadian Stellantis vehicles. The application used to create a new plans and maintain the existing plans. Once the plan convert to a Contract, its takes care of maintenance of the service contracts.

Responsibilities:

• Working and guiding the team in Requirement gathering, Desing, Analysis and development of new components and enhancement of existing components.

• Provide production support in fixing the jobs to make sure the cycles won't effect to complete the business requirements without delays.

• Work on Adhoc process to generate reports and to fulfill the requirements.

• Do a Data/break fix and Make changes to resolve the tickets created by business and application users.

• Conducting self and peer reviews and ensuring adherence of Quality Standards in deliveries.

• Involved Migrating the IMS DB in to DB2 database

• Analyze the business requirements and prepare system requirement documents.

• Prepare Design documents of High level to Low level projects. Environment: COBOL, Adabas, Natural,DB2, CICS, IMS DB/DC, JCL, Panvalet,DCCS, Abend AId, Trace master, Easytrieve, SQL, SPUFI,

Cognizant technology Solutions (CTS),Chennai,India May 2008- June 2021

Client: Liberty Mutual insurance, Dover,NH,USA Feb 2017-June 2021 Responsibilities:

Policy admin application(eCLIQ) support and Safeco Commercial Lines (COMLINE) Developed and supported commercial insurance policies, covering various lines of business like Automobiles, Workers’ Compensation, and Business Owners across the US. Enhanced legacy applications and provided solutions for improving functionality

• Hands-on Mainframe experience with rich technical expertise on Mainframe, customer-facing and pre-sales experience, and good understanding of new-age Mainframe languages and tools.

• Strong application programming experience in JCL and COBOL

• managing a 20-member team that supports Legacy MF and Go Forward applications.

• Identifying the CSI opportunities and creating a problem ticket to address the issue permanently

• Review all the development works approved as part of L4 Core and L4

• As part of L2 activity, supporting and fixing the complex problems faced in different portfolios in Liberty/Cognizant scope applications

• Peer review of all the deliverables going into production

• Generate various adhoc and critical reports as per the requirement of the business. Environment:

Tools: JCL, Xpeditor, File-AID, IMS, Endeavor, Cobol, ESP Scheduler, PC rates, VSAM Unum insurance – Portland, Maine,USA June 2014 – Jan 2017 Sr Mainframe module lead

Unum specialized for the disability insurance and we started apporting the applications belongs to policy administration and marketing.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Functional specification documents and technical specs.

• Prepare impact analysis documents and listing out the elements.

• Analyze various programs as per the impact analysis document.

• Develop Application Programs for CARS Applications. Also involved in preparing Production and Test JCL for testing and deploying the production version JCL.

• Modify COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM programs as per the technical docs.

• Effectively using Smart Test for Debugging and testing.

• Working with IMS Commands and system definition including DBD, PSB, ACBGEN and online IMS commands.

• Work on IMS Environment for new Applications / Transactions, IMS Recovery Procedures in Batch mode.

• Involved in Business management process.

• Recording the sessions using camtasia for future reference and training.

• Generate various adhoc and critical reports as per the requirement of the business. Environment:

IBM Z/OS Mainframes, TSO/ISPF/PDF, COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL,REXX PL/SQL, VSAM, IBM MQ-series, SQL, SPUFI, File-Aid, SmartTest and Identity Manager. MEDCO, Franklin Lakes, NJ Nov 2011 – May 2014

Sr Mainframes Developer

256 BRT services -NRx application

256 BRT services project started to work on the 450+ backlog items under order processing COE. A group of services was taken for each sprint based on the priority from the business. All the backlogs belong to the NRx application, which was the core application for order processing end, and it was written in mainframe sprint based on the priority from the business. All the backlogs belong to the NRx application, which was the core application for order processing, and it was written in mainframe. I worked around 4 sprints, which consisted of 120+ backlogs. Also, support the services in all the testing environments, like QA, UAT regions, until they move to production. The support includes the clarifications and mapping questions from the Data Power and Pega teams. Also worked on integration projects between two different applications of MEDO and express scripts.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Functional Design and documenting Interface requirements.

• Design new Batch and online application interfaces for Account Payable system.

• Modifying the COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, JCL and CICS programs.

• Enhanced the existing CICS online dialogs to handle the new requirements for sup plier data conversions.

• Create and Execute the Unit, Integration and Systems Testing Plans using Expeditor and Test Director.

• Maintain or prepare the test data for testing the jobs by using INSYNC tools.

• Participate in Peer Specifications and Code Review to establish Quality standards and procedures.

Environment:

IBM OS/390 Mainframes, MVS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, DB2, CICS, RACF, JCL, ADABAS, NATURAL ISO/ISPF, BMS, Panvalet, Smart test, File-Aid, MQ-series. Key Bank Cleaveland, Ohio April 2010 – Nov 2011

Sr Mainframes Developer

General ledger and Marketing applications

supporting admin (GLJ and NXG), Core customer applications and lending applications. The project was initiated to support 6 Marketing applications (Automated opportunity marketing, Prospect part of Siebel implementation, Household engineering, Web campaign registration, Affinium, Marketing premium fulfillment) round the clock in production. The production region was monitored, and the abends were fixed upon getting the call from batch support. I am the team Lead for these all four mainframes and two Web based applications and we are supporting as a team with the help of two mainframe and two Java associatesAlso, support the services in all the testing environments, like QA, UAT regions, until they move to production. The support includes the clarifications and mapping questions from the Data Power and Pega teams. Also worked on integration projects between two different applications of MEDO and express scripts.

Responsibilities:

• Involve in business analysis coordinating and collaborating among the team members according to the business requirements.

• Involved in the meeting with Business Process Owners, SMEs and developing business process flows for Application Overview Document.

• Review and finalize pre-migration requirements and action plan.

• Developing and changing COBOL, DB2, CICS programs as per the Impact Documents in Development region.

• Perform optimization of SQL queries to improve throughput and performance.

• Analysis and scheduling of JCL’s

• Creating new services and modifying existing ones in order to gain access from the Pega end.

• Peer review of all the deliverables going into production

• Test case preparation, review, and execution

Environment:

IBM OS/390 Mainframes, MVS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, DB2, CICS, RACF, JCL, TSO/ISPF, BMS, Panvalet, Smart test, File-Aid, MQ-series, Clearcase and clear quest. Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Chennai. April 2006 – March 2008 Client: Nissan North America

Sr Software Engineer,

Dealer incentive systems

The project was initiated to support 6 critical retail applications (dealer financial statements, Host router, Dealer-KPI and Dealer-KAGS, VIMS and CDB) round the clock in production. The production region was monitored and the abends were fixed upon getting the call from Operation I am the team Lead for these all four applications and I am supporting with all this six

application and training the Three Software Engineering trainee associates.

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Responsibilities:

• Analyze of VIMS and DIC system and preparing the business requirement documents.

• Design new Batch and online application interfaces for DIC (Dealer Incentive system) system.

• Worked as a team Lead handled a 3-member mainframe team.

• Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing of COBOL/CICS/DB2/NATURAL programs

• Reviewing the documents prepared manually by the Team

• Designed a standard restart technique in the application programs and guiding the changes in JCL for restart.

• Monitoring the batch jobs and resolving the abends by using AbendAid.

• Creating/modifying the JCL’s for rescheduling/restart the jobs. Environment:

IBM Mainframes, MVS, COBOL II, DB2, CICS, JCL, SQL, VSAM, SPUFI, ADABAS,Natural, AbendAid, Expediter, Endevor and INSYNC Tools.

Senior Application Developer, iNautix technologies India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Client: Pershing LLC (BNY Mellon). NJ, USA

Feb 2004– April 2006

Baseline production support.

The project was initiated to support 146 applications round the clock in production. The production region was monitored and the abends were fixed upon getting the call from I/O control. The timely unresolved abends were raised as per the escalation procedure. All abends were issued with severity 1 ticket through Remedy. These issues will be fixed overnight by an

Emergency turnover. The number of applications was reduced to 36 after two years as each DPG was assigned with their system.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing various programs according to business specs.

• Providing temporary and permanent solutions for job ABENDS in production

• Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing of COBOL/CICS/DB2 programs

• Analysis and scheduling of JCL’s

• Reviewing the documents prepared manually by the Team

• Proficiency in developing test plans, test cases scenarios

• Implement Software Installation procedures and Perform Production monitoring and initial support.

Environment:

IBM Mainframes 3090, MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF/PDF, COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, VSAM, expediter, Endevor, FileAid.

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