Project Supply Chain

Summary

• Having **+ years of experience in the IT Industry

• Expertise in Application Maintenance, Custom Development, IT solutions & functional design

• Domain Expertise in Insurance Domain knowledge

• Global work experience

Worked as an onsite coordinator in USA for 9 Months

Worked as an onsite coordinator in Switzerland from October 2007 to December 2010.

Working as a Subject Matter Expert in a Client Team from June’ 2012 to till Date in Switzerland.

Professional Summary

• Working for Accenture Technologies, as a Sr. System Analyst from Jan’04 to till date.

• Worked for Satyam Computer Services Ltd., as a Business Associate from Aug’2002 to Dec’03

• Worked for Sri Balaji Infotech as a programmer from Sep’01 to July’02.

Academic background

• 2000 – S.V.University, Tirupati, India – Master of Computer Applications

• 1995 – S.V University, Tiruapti, India – Batchelor of Science

• 1992 – Board of Intermediate, Hyderabad, India – Intermediate

• 1989 – SSC Board, Hyderabad, India – School of Secondary Education

Areas of expertise

• Application Development

• Application Design

• Application Maintenance

• Production support

• Host centric languages e.g. Cool:Gen 6.5 and 7.6, Cobol, PL1, DB2, JCL, IMS.

Technical Expertise

• Expert : Cool:Gen 6.5 and 7.6, COBOL, DB2, JCL

• Trained : PL1, IMS, Java

Relevant professional experience – Extracts

AXA Winterthur – (Apr 12 – Till Date)

Project description

AXA Winterthur is the one of the largest Insurance Company in Switzerland. I have been worked as a Onsite Application Cluster Lead and technical expert for Cool:Gen applications VLB, TRS, RSI and MFF. Client has requested Accenture to bring me back for one of the major project, which is totally messed up and it supposed to go live by last year. I am working as a SME for the project and making good progress on the project, client has an impression that project can go live without any issues as per the projected date.

NAGE (National Australian Group - Europe) – (Feb 11 – Mar’ 12)

Project description

National Australia Bank is one of the world's top 30 financial services companies with assets over 180billion pounds. Globally National is organized around regional businesses in Australia, Asia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Accenture supports suite of applications for the bank's Europe division in varied technology landscape including Siebel, Tandem, Lotus Notes, AS/400, Mainframes etc

As a Resource & Capability Lead (RCL), my responsibilities are,

1. Create and maintain skills matrix.

2. Create and execute skill improvement/cross training plans.

3. Succession planning.

4. Work with SDL (service delivery lead) to manage the correct level of staffing within the portfolio.

5. Work with DL to agree and identify the Build Lead and Technical Lead for each piece of work.

6. Work with recruitment and other support groups (PMO, HR etc.) to identify and secure resources to meet demand.

7. Ensure property checks are completed as per NAG and Accenture requirements.

8. Ensure time reporting is completed accurately and on time.

9. Support any relocation of employees by coordinating with support groups (RMS, HR etc.).

10. Ensure compliance to all performance management activities.

11. Work with SDL on plans to improve people engagement.

12. Actively manage attrition mitigating any issues that may arise.

13. Facilitate supply & demand reviews with NAG.

14. Work with SDL and NAG to manage downtime.

15. Coordinating Resource Augmentation requests including work order creation and demand fulfilment.

16. Work with SDL to ensure continuous engagement with the team and have plans in place to understand and address any issues that may arise.

17. Network with and leverage the appropriate technology and capability groups

AXA Winterthur – (Oct 07 – Jan 11)

Project description

AXA Winterthur is the one of the largest Insurance Company in Switzerland. As a Onsite Application Cluster Lead and technical expert for Cool:Gen applications VLB, TRS, RSI and MFF, my role is

1. Leading Offshore Cool:Gen Team

2. To analyze and understand the change requests and incidents.

3. To prepare adequate test cases according to the specification.

4. To code, test and deliver according to the specifications.

5. Follow the Quality process defined for the project.

6. Mentor team members.

7. Conducting the trainings for new joiners.

8. Report to the management on a weekly basis about status and all issues of the applications.

9. Document new learning’s; provide timely and consistent inputs to the team.

10. Follow strong review process on offshore deliverables.

11. Assure a smooth switch from onsite to offshore between transition and stabilization phase.

12. Coordination to resolve all technical and functional related issues, between the offshore application cluster team and onsite

13. Support the setting up of the processes for maintenance phase.

14. Resolving Production Incidents all Cool:Gen applications.

15. Maintaining the Periodic tasks in Cool:Gen applications.

16. Responsible for Migration Deployment in the Encyclopedia Model and Migration process to Acceptance and Production.

Technology: Cool:Gen 6.5 and 7.6, COBOL, PL1, JCL & DB2.

Scheduled Auto – (Aug 05 – Sep 07)

Project description

The Commercial Line segment of the company offers a broad array of property casualty insurance and insurance related services to Clients which range from small “main street” business to Fortune 100 corporations.

The Scheduled Auto application supports all business processing functions: New Business, Endorsements, Renewals, Renewal Conversions (from prior Auto systems), and Rewrite New, Rewrite Same, Cancel Notice, Final Cancel, Cancel Flat/Change Not Taken. It provides integrated policy processing capabilities to field office employees, service/processing center employees, and agents.

Technology: COBOL, JCL, IMS & DB2.

Role and tasks description

:Offshore Team Lead

As an Offshore Team Lead for Scheduled Auto Forms & Rating application, my responsibilities include estimating the tasks, task allocation, analysis, technical design, coding, testing, peer-review, resource utilization, status reporting and production support. I have also been involved in taking technical interviews of candidates, imparting training to new joiners etc.

:Onsite Team Coordinator.

As a onsite team coordinator for Rating & Forms application, my role is involving in cost estimation meetings, business walk through meetings, discrepancy meetings with clients and attending daily calls with offshore team to make sure offshore is in sync with client requirements, solving offshore doubts in business requirements.

Grant Marsh – STMR3 – (Aug 04 – Aug 05)

Project description

The Client is a leading provider of a wide range of insurance products, has undertaken an enterprise-wide initiative to bring to market a new Personnel Lines Product. A significant component of this initiative is the development, testing and implementation of the Homeowners System.

Technology: Cool:Gen 6.5, COBOL, DB2, Guardian and Endevor

Role and tasks description

As a Lead & Developer, the basic involvement in the project is in understanding the requirements of the business, estimating the tasks, task allocation, analysis, design, developing Advantage:Gen 6.5 Components, Preparing Unit Test Plans, testing, integrating the components, helping team members in Issue resolution, Conducting peer reviews, and trainings for the new Joiners and coordinating with the onsite team.

I am the Quality Coordinator for the team and I have actively participated in all the Quality activities for the project including conducting defect prevention meetings.

Creative Constructs (Jan 04 – Jul 04)

Project description

Creative Constructs is the second largest chemical firm in the world. It has many business units like Electronic & Communication Technologies, It Performance Materials etc .It has several applications.AGNR3DD is one of the application. NR3DD is a replacement of the former AG Supply Chain System. AG Supply Chain also referred to as SCDB or AGSC. NR3DD is the system that receives data from various global sources then reformats, validates and sends it to SAP R3 for processing. Data enters the system from several sources: User Spreadsheet, SAP R2, and MOS. NR3DD leveraged, used, the Format & Validation processing from the retired AGSC and added a Collector process to complete the data for SAP R3 readiness. This data then FTPed via DUFTS to SAP R3.

Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2 and Insync

Role and tasks description

• Design and Build – DTD, Program Specification & Coding

• Preparation of NR3DD monthly reports.

• Giving Access & Revoking the access to the all 4 applications.

• Unit Testing & Subsystem Testing

HSSFI (Aug 02 – Jan 04)

Project description

The insurance system processes over 1.2 Million Policies in force. The bulk of the processing takes place in the 10 zonal offices and the processing in the corporate is confined to Group Medical Insurance (GMID) & certain Reports generation. The system can be broadly classified into Policy & Claims. The Policy system aids in issuance of new policies, maintaining the history of the policyholders, and the changes pertaining to policyholders.

The Claims system's function is to process the claims raised & print the checks and the associated explanation of benefits. The Claims system also maintains the history of claims. The primary language used for the system is COBOL. The system utilizes DB2 to manage & process the Data. The two phased processing - online for the daytime & batch during the nights put the data into the DB2 databases & utilizes it.

Technology: COBOL, JCL and DB2

Role and tasks description

• Requirement gathering

• Analysis and Development

• Testing Strategy

• Code Walkthrough

Pension Payment Information System (Sep 01 – July 02)

Project description

Pension Payment Information System acts as an interface for generating reports for pensioners belonging to State and Central government. This paid to the pensioners through the National Bank in India. The System includes all activities required for the maintenance of data belonging to the pensioners also provides an interface for the arrears issuing as and when the State or Central Government issues them. Pensioners Dearness Allowance is changing according to the Central Government Policies, Based on the change in DA, the system take cares the appropriate action for particular center government pensioners and issues the pension with new DA.

Technology: Core Java

Role and tasks description

• Requirement gathering

• Analysis, Design & Development

• Testing Strategy

• Unit Testing & Subsystem Testing

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