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Project Manager

Location:
Bentonville, AR, 72712
Posted:
June 15, 2011

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Resume:

Venkatesh Nallapillai

Email: *********.******@*****.***

Cell: 479-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

To seek a position that will establish myself as a valuable team member of your reputed company and contribute to consistently achieve corporate IT goals.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

I specialize in MVS, JCL, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, IMS(DB-DC), CICS , IDMS(DB–DC), MGEN,OLQ,DMLO,SQL and TELON and have substantial experience in Retail industry business processes & Logistics.

Hold H1B Visa valid till Mar 2013 & B1 Visa Valid till Oct 2017.

Having 6 years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Production Support of IBM Mainframe-hosted Application systems.

Strong Technical skills - IBM Mainframe using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, IDMS, IMS DB, MQ Series.

Expertise in reporting tools like CULPRIT and EasyTrieve Plus.

Domain exposure in Insurance, Logistics and Manufacturing Applications.

Excellent working experience in On-line system CICS utilities like MRO, CEDF, CECI, CEMT, TSQ, TDQ, CICS Tables, CWA, TWA, DYNAM, XREF, LINK etc.

Proficient in IBM utilities and Tools like XPEDITOR, CHANGE-MAN, ABEND-AID, ENDEAVOR, SYNC SORT.

Expertise in SPUFI, QMF, FILE MANAGER and FILEAID as testing tools and for data manipulation and Data cleansing.

Proficient in using MQ-SERIES, It does the message communication to the client and server system or any legacy system.

Experience in job schedule tools CA-7.

Proficient in conducting code reviews, creating Test Plans & Test scenarios.

Good interpersonal and analytical skills. Highly successful in developing synergistic relationships to bring projects to completion on time and within budget.

Involved in all the stages of software development life cycle namely Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, Maintenance and Documentation.

Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively as a team as well as independently.

Good Communication and Presentation Skills.

ACADEMIC DETAILS:

MBA (Systems) from Madurai Kamaraj University.

B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineering, M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL , EASYTRIEVE

Hardware: IBM S 390, WINDOWS

Files/Utilities: SYNCSORT

Technologies: MAINFRAME

Operating Systems: MVS/XA, WINDOWS

Tools: APCA ,FILE-AID, XPEDITER, PANVALET, OLQ, DMLO, MGEN ,QMF, Endevor , MQ Series , Changeman

Databases: IMS (DB-DC), IDMS (DB-DC), DB2 , NATURAL

Communications: CICS, TSO/ISPF, TELON

Industries: Retail, Pharmacy, Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: HEB, Antonio, TX Feb 2009 – Apr 2011

Howard E. Butt Company (abbreviated H-E-B) is a privately held San Antonio, Texas-based supermarket chain stores throughout Texas and northern Mexico. H-E-B is one of "America's Largest Private Companies" with revenue of $16 billion. The major part of business for HEB is food and drug which is now expanding into general merchandizing. It has employee strength of 80,000. Most of client system is mainframe based. At present the client is focusing in mainframe revitalization for betterment of business

Responsibilities:-

Study Work Request and check Completeness.

Consolidate and raise queries/clarifications.

Specified modifications to existing programs and coding new program using Structured Programming Techniques. Complete Unit testing and Integration testing.

Responsible for overseeing the quality procedures related to the project.

Coordinating with onsite coordinator for moving the work request into production.

Estimating the development efforts and preparation of technical design document.

Providing Support during User Acceptance Testing.

Document the Work Request as per Procedure.

Environment: MVS S/390

Software: JCL, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, IMS (DB- DC), DB2, MQ, SYNCSORT ,NATURAL

Tools: File-Manager, QMF, SPUFI, Changeman

List of Project handled in HEB

MFR IMS to DB2 Conversion

MQ Performance Tuning Architecture Project

RCGP Weekly close Project

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable , Collections

BDM Number Expansion

Project Title: (BDM) Business Developer Manager Number Expansion

Duration: 6 months

Mainframe Environment: COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, NATURAL, DB2

Project Description:

BDM is part of Mainframe Revitalization (MFR) of the client activity. As part of business development the number of Business Developer Manager for the items were exhausted. The objective of the project was to expand the BDM# to add more Business Developer Managers. This enhancement required change in database schema and to remediate all impacted programs, screens.

Responsibilities:

1) As a part of COBOL was responsible for remediation, set up JCL for unit testing and performs impact analysis. Provide guidance to team members on COBOL part.

2) Point of contact for NATURAL development at offshore.

3) Responsible to create Detailed Design Document for NATURAL components, remediate the impacted components, perform unit testing.

Project: American President Lines, Scottsdale AZ Sep ‘06– Feb ‘09

Support applications in Drayman,CCMS and Terminal application, which takes care of inland transportation of the container.

Description

APL is the leader in shipping industry. APL Liner is a premier ocean carrier, offering around the world a full range of container transportation services through an integrated network of operations and state-of-the-art information technologies. APL Logistics is a full service logistics provider, offering supply-chain management services to customers worldwide.

Drayman application runs on an IBM mainframe and uses COBOL, JCL, IDMS, DB2 EASYTRIEVE, ENDEVOR, CICS and ADSO [APCA architecture], CA7. The Drayman system automates and consolidates all trucking activities into one application. Orders for container pickups and moves are automatically extracted from CCMS and ETC. Dray carriers’ access drayman to receive orders and then enter details when moves are completed.

Responsibilities:-

Study Work Request and check Completeness.

Consolidate and raise queries/clarifications.

Specified modifications to existing programs and coding new program using Structured Programming Techniques. Complete Unit testing and Integration testing.

Responsible for overseeing the quality procedures related to the project.

Coordinating with onsite coordinator for moving the work request into production.

Estimating the development efforts and preparation of technical design document.

Providing Support during User Acceptance Testing.

Document the Work Request as per Procedure.

Environment: MVS S/390

Software: JCL, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, IDMS (DB- DC)

Tools: File-aid, DMLO, OLQ, MGEN, Endevor, APCA

List of Project handled in APL

GFF Drayman Pipeline project

Excel Upload project

CCMS LTD qty enhancement project

CCMS DNH ltd qty prevention project

CCMS eagle link project

CCMS email booking confirmation

VERS enhancement project

MPDB2MQ conversion project

Fleet file re-engineering project Inbound and Outbound

APCA architecture enhancement project

Project: W. W. Grainger Inc, Chicago IL June ‘05 – Sep ‘05

Description

Grainger is a 5 billion dollar company with 2.75 million customers which specializes in the supply of electric motors. It is a Fortune 500 company and has been an industrial leader for the past 75 years. With 600 locations through out North America, 200 in Canada and with 1900 customer service associates, Grainger is selling nearly 450,000 items making daily sales to around 15 million dollars. It has several branches throughout the world and this project is a maintenance project involving the production support and the maintenance of the following sub systems:

Conducted Support applications in Supply Chain such Inventory Network, Freight ,Item Database, Sales Promotion.

Customer Sales – Maintains Customer details, Sales, Commission etc.

Supply chain – Deals with Items and orders related to the items

Finance – Any money transactions and their management

Responsibilities:-

Solving Production Problems and subsequent analysis

Analysis & Design of Source Code / Data Base Segments

Preparation of specifications for the impacted components

Coding the enhancement logic & Change request

Preparation of Test Plans

Unit & Integration Testing

Implementation of the changes applied

Taking part in QA Activities

Updating Disaster Recovery Scripts

Environment: MVS S/390

Software: JCL, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, IMS, IDMS, SYNCSORT, TELON

Tools: File-aid, Expediter, Panvalet, QMF



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