Vinay Chamoli
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Profile:
An IBM Mainframe professional with over 5.0 years of experience in COBOL, DB2, MVS, JCL, SQL, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF along with Microsoft Office 2010 and IBM Mainframe tools for turnkey projects.
Summary:
• Over 5.0 years of experience in Analysis, design, development, testing of Mainframe-Hosted application-systems
• Extensive experience on Core development Projects in Health Care Domain, experience in working in AGILE methodology
• Extensive experience on 24x7 Production Support and Maintenance Projects in Health Care Domain.
• Expertise in all stages of the Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) namely Requirement Analysis, design specifications, coding, debugging, testing (test scenarios, test plan, test cases, execution of test cases, unit test plan and unit testing, integration and system testing) and documentation and maintenance application programs.
• Extensive experience on Performance Tuning Projects and Disaster Recovery.
• Expertise in giving live demos to product owner senior business people handling their requirement.
• Project Management experience. Handling team of 7 Onshore and 28 Offshore.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients, business users and providing Co-ordination between onsite and offshore. Excellent communication skills.
• Expertise in COBOL, DB2, SQL, CICS, VSAM , JCL, MVS.
• Expertise in tools like CA7, SPUFI, PLATINUM, PANVALET, QMF, SDSF, DCLGEN, SORT, DFSORT, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID, i-STROBE, EXPLAIN, DETECTOR, Version1, eRoom, CA Service Desk (For Incident, Problem and Change Management), Clarity, IBM DB2 Workbench, Info Pac, Document Direct and reporting language Eztrieve for data manipulation and Data cleansing. Experience in PeopleSoft Finance and PeopleSoft HRMS.
• Involved in QC and QA activities
• Good Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new Tools and Software quickly, as required.
• Experience working with Humana Inc & Syntel Ltd.
• Developed many Medicare process in Humana Inc. which covers many CMS regulation related scope.
• Performance tuning effort in 2010-11, lead to annual savings of $60,000, and was one of the feature in Humana Annual Report.
• Ranked 2nd in Syntel’s Mainframe training programme.
• Awarded Syntel Synergy and Speed star award.
• Effective in cross-functional and global environments to manage multiple tasks & assignments concurrently.
• Strong technical and analytical skills, problem solving, communication and documentation skills. Strong Project leading skills.
• Worked on Stored Procedures.
Technical Proficiency:
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, WINDOWS NT, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, OS/390, z/OS
Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, Eztrieve.
File system: VSAM
Database: IBM - DB2, IDMS
OLTP: CICS, MQ Series
Environment: TSO/ISPF, MVS/ESA, Windows
Utilities: DFSORT, SYNCSORT, SuperCE
Tools: SDSF, QMF, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid for MVS, File-Aid for DB2, Expeditor, CA7, INFOPAC, Panvalet, EZtrieve, Platinum, Detector, SPUFI, Visitrac, Strobe, Viasoft, Expeditor, Dumpmaster, Abend-Aid, Sort, DFSort, SyncSort, Stored Procedures, Quickjob, Quickstart, Citrix,
HP -Metavance Launchpad, Metadata Analyzer, Code Coverage, Program Analyzer,CA Service Desk (For Incident, Change and Problem Management), Version1
Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft office 2010, 2000
IBM Tools: Lotus Notes, Personal Communication, DB2 Connect
Educational Qualification:
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications with Honours from GEIT affiliated to H.N.B Garhwal University.
• E1 certified – Syntel’s Health Care Domain Knowledge Certification.
• Mainframe Training in COBOL, JCL, MVS, DB2, VSAM and CICS in Syntel Ltd. India.
• Training on other third party tool like Expeditor, iStrobe.
• Mainframe Training faculty in COBOL, JCL in Syntel Ltd for fresh recruits.
Professional Experience:
Sept 2010 – Till date
AE development (Automated enrolment)
Humana Inc, Louisville KY
Project Description:
AE(Automated Enrolment) Devp. – project is designated to develop and perform the maintainace related activities for the, Enrolment System, Inbound and Outbound Applications of Humana for backend Processing. Here, Project is totally based on the AGILE methodology here we got the requirement to Implement the new applied business rule in the enrolment area.
Did many Medicare and MTV (Commercial projects)
1. OPERS (Ohio public enrolment retirement system)
2. ERS of Texas
3. Medusupp Underwriting, Scope of appointment project.
4. Letter process for Medicare denied members
5. Implementation of enrolment process newly acquired KMG America Payer Company by Humana
Inc.
6 .BMI Conversion for loading he commercial members.
7. Many Medicare project related to make CMS compliant project.
Role: Project lead / Sr. Programmer Analyst
I am leading the team which Develop and maintains the Enrolment process and applications in COBOL, JCL, CICS, EZTrieve, DB2, VSAM, IDMS, Stored Procedures and flat files in MVS environment, both in Batch and Online, as one of the Project leads for a team of 7 (onsite) and 28 (offshore).
This involved
• Daily stand up calls status update
• Preparing fro Live demos to business users
• As its Agile so by own self need to gather the requirement, design , coding testing and finally implementation of functionality
• Quick resolution of the user tickets as well as the system detected abends.(Defects raised while SIT and UAT)
• Resolution of Business queries.
• Proposal for the enhancement and improvements of the existing system.
• Root Cause analysis of the detected abends and impact analysis for proposed improvements in existing system..
• Detail design for the impact.
• Coding strategy as per the requirement for maintenance tasks as per business standards.
• Code review.
• Test scripts preparation for Unit and System Integration testing.
• Process and technical documentation.
• Co-ordination with End-users and Subject Matter Experts in Requirement analysis, planning and preparing Functional and Technical specifications
• Client confirmations and meetings.
• Preparation of daily and weekly reports and presentations.
• Working on Break-Fix Requests, Ad-Hoc Requests, Permanent Fixes.
• Performance tuning activities for above for all applications, within scope of this project.
• Cross system business transition and training.
• Execution of System Testing cycles and UAT test cycles.
• Preparation of Knowledge Documents for System related issues and Performance tuning issues, preparation of Seminars/Proposals for Performance related techniques.
• Taking care of Quality related tasks.
• Identification of Critical files and addition to Disaster Recovery.
• Turnover of Cobol programs, JCLs in production environment.
• Handling of enterprise wide production turnovers for enrolment systems.
My other responsibilities involved timely delivery and management for a team of 07 (onsite), 28 (offshore) along with prompt issue resolutions. Distribution and Delegation of the tasks among the team members. Guiding and grooming new team members to get them acquainted quickly with production environment and internal processes.
Tools & Technologies:
MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, VSAM, CA7, iStrobe, EZTrieve, Panvalet, Sort, DFSort, Platinum, Detector, SPUFI, File-Aid, Visitrac, Abend-Aid, Dumpmaster, Viasoft, XPEDITER, Infopac, JMR, MS-OFFICE 2010, MS Windows, IBM DB2 Connect, Citrix,HP Metavance launchpad, Stored Procedure, Quickjob, SAS, Infra Enterprise, CA Service Desk
Jan 2010 – July 2010
BECC – Billing, Enrolment and Customer Care
Humana Inc, Louisville KY
Project Description:
BECC – project is designated to support the Billing System, Enrolment System, Inbound and Outbound Customer and Member feeds, and Customer Care Applications of Humana for backend Processing. Here, we deal with Maintenance activities and production support activities for all above mentioned applications, along with Performance tuning activities across the system. Below is the brief description of various applications within BECC.
Role: Tech Lead / Programmer Analyst
I am leading the team which supports the BECC applications in COBOL, JCL, EZTrieve, DB2, VSAM, IDMS, Stored Procedures and flat files in MVS environment, both in Batch and Online, as one of the Project leads for a team of 7 (onsite) and 28 (offshore).
This involved
• Project management activities.
• Daily support activities
• Quick resolution of the user tickets as well as the system detected abends.
• Resolution of Business queries.
• Proposal for the enhancement and improvements of the existing system.
• Root Cause analysis of the detected abends and impact analysis for proposed improvements in existing system..
• Detail design for the impact.
• Coding strategy as per the requirement for maintenance tasks as per business standards.
• Code review.
• Test scripts preparation for Unit and System Integration testing.
• Process and technical documentation.
• Co-ordination with End-users and Subject Matter Experts in Requirement analysis, planning and preparing Functional and Technical specifications
• Client confirmations and meetings.
• Preparation of daily and weekly reports and presentations.
• Working on Break-Fix Requests, Ad-Hoc Requests, Permanent Fixes.
• Performance tuning activities for above for all applications, within scope of this project.
• Cross system business transition and training.
• Execution of System Testing cycles and UAT test cycles.
• Preparation of Knowledge Documents for System related issues and Performance tuning issues, preparation of Seminars/Proposals for Performance related techniques.
• Taking care of Quality related tasks.
• Identification of Critical files and addition to Disaster Recovery.
• Turnover of Cobol programs, JCLs in production environment.
• Handling of enterprise wide production turnovers for enrolment systems.
My other responsibilities involved timely delivery and management for a team of 07 (onsite), 28 (offshore) along with prompt issue resolutions. Distribution and Delegation of the tasks among the team members. Guiding and grooming new team members to get them acquainted quickly with production environment and internal processes.
Tools & Technologies:
MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, VSAM, CA7, iStrobe, EZTrieve, Panvalet, Sort, DFSort, Platinum, Detector, SPUFI, File-Aid, Visitrac, Abend-Aid, Dumpmaster, Viasoft, XPEDITER, Infopac, JMR, MS-OFFICE 2010, MS Windows, IBM DB2 Connect, Citrix,HP Metavance launchpad, Stored Procedure, Quickjob, SAS, Infra Enterprise, CA Service Desk
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
Enrolment On Call (EOC)
Humana, Louisville, KY
Project Description:
Enrolment On Call (EOC) project is designed to support the Enrolment system of the Humana, this includes taking care of all forms of enrolments for the new and existing customers i.e. Web Enrolment, Paper, Customer EDI Files, Partners and Third Parties.
Enrolment system performs the business edits checks and converts the data in the format, which is acceptable to different platform. All the erroneous data would be sent to the Pend Database and correct data would travels through multiple applications before it reaches the final destination i.e ODS.
Role: Tech lead / Programmer Analyst
I am leading the team which supports the Enrolment Systems in COBOL, JCL, EZTrieve, DB2, VSAM using VSAM and flat files in MVS environment, as a tech lead for a team of 2 Onshore and 9 Offshore.
Responsibilities-
• Daily support activities
• Quick resolution of the user tickets as well as the system detected abends.
• Proposal for the enhancement and improvements of the existing system.
• Root Cause analysis of the detected abends and impact analysis for proposed improvements in existing system..
• Detail design for the impact.
• Coding strategy as per the requirement for maintenance tasks as per business standards.
• Code review.
• Test scripts preparation for Unit and System Integration testing.
• Process and technical documentation.
• Co-ordination with End-users and Subject Matter Experts in Requirement analysis, planning and preparing Functional and Technical specifications
• Client confirmations and meetings.
• Preparation of daily and weekly reports and presentations.
• Working on Break-Fix Requests, Ad-Hoc Requests, Permanent Fixes.
• Taking care of Quality related tasks.
• Identification of Critical files and addition to Disaster Recovery
• Turnover of Cobol programs, JCLs in production environment.
• Handling of enterprise wide production turnovers for enrolment systems.
My other responsibilities involved timely delivery and management for a team of 09 along with prompt issue resolutions. Distribution and Delegation of the tasks among the team members. Guiding and grooming new team members to get them acquainted quickly with production environment and internal processes.
Tools & Technologies:
MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CA7, EZTrieve, Panvalet, Sort, DFSort, Syncsort, Panvalet, Platinum, SPUFI, File-Aid, Visitrac, Abend-Aid, Dumpmaster, Viasoft, XPEDITER, Infopac, JMR, MS-OFFICE 2000, MS Windows, Infra Enterprise, CA Service Desk
Jan 2008 – Dec 2008
Auto Enrolment (AE)
Humana, Louisville, KY
Project Description:
Auto Enrolment (AE) project designed is to expand the Automated Enrolment (AE) system to receive and process customer's membership enrolment into subsequent systems. It provides an integrated solution using the AE system to systematically scrub and feed enrolment data to other platforms.
Role: Team Member / Programmer Analyst
I have developed three Core Modules, multiple other codes, maintained core modules for Auto Enrolment in COBOL, EZtrieve JCL and DB2 database using SQL, VSAM, GSAM files in MVS environment, as an analyst programmer in a team of 6, at offshore, Mumbai. This involved
• Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Estimation
• Coding and Coding strategy as per the specification and COBOL standards.
• Code review.
• Test Case preparation for Unit and System Integration testing.
• Doing Quality Assurance activities as per SEI-CMM Level 5 standards..
• Guiding team members in resolving technical problems
• Process and technical documentation.
• Co ordination with clients and Onsite Coordinators for issues resolutions.
• Client confirmations.
My other responsibilities involved timely delivery assuring 0% defects as a team member for a team of 6 along with prompt issue resolutions.
Tools and Technologies:
MVS, COBOL, DB2, SQL, QMF, JCL, VSAM, SPUFI, Panvalet, Platinum, File-Aid, Sort, Viasoft, Infopac, CA-7, MS-OFFICE 2000, XPEDITER, MS Windows, Panvalet, Cobol, Infra Enterprise, CA Service Desk
Oct 2007 – Dec 2007
Enrollment System Testing
Humana, Louisville, KY
Project Description:
Enrolment System Testing project involved execution, monitoring of various system testing cycles for Auto Enrolment in four different regions (Unit testing region, Integration testing region, Stress testing region and UAT-QA region) and MTV Enrolment in Test region and QA region.
Role: Programmer/Tester
I have worked in a team of 6, as a programmer/tester with below responsibilities.
• Execution of test cycles.
• Resolution of System abends and Code related abends.
• Logging of abends
• Preparation of Batch Cycle flow – Visio Diagrams
• Documentation of various processes
• Test environment region building for future releases.
• Retrofitting of codes in test environment with production versions, to keep them updated.
Tools and Technologies:
MVS, COBOL, DB2, SQL, SDSF, JCL, VSAM, SPUFI, Panvalet, Platinum, File-Aid, Sort, CA-7, Microsoft Visio , MS-OFFICE 2000, XPEDITER.
Aug 2007 – Sept 2007
ITP (Initial Training Program)
Syntel Ltd, Pune, India
Description:
Initial Training Program, was a Mainframe training program organised by Syntel Ltd., India to familiarize trainee with IBM Mainframe concepts, Database concepts, ISPF editor training, MVS/z-OS concepts, Cobol concepts, training on IBM Mainframe tools, soft skills and presentation skills.
This training also required a candidate to prepare a case study using Cobol programming concepts and DB2 concepts. I did a case study on Driving School Management in Cobol, CICS with use of DB2.
Role: Trainee
Tools & Technologies:
MVS, COBOL, DB2, SQL, SDSF, JCL, VSAM, SPUFI, Panvalet, Platinum, File-Aid, Sort, CA-7, MS-OFFICE 2000, XPEDITER, MS Windows.