IT Application Development Lead/Manager

Satheesh Kumar

515-***-****-Mobile

v54l0o@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

• 15 years of experience in IT Application Development and Support experience in IBM Mainframe Systems.

• More than 8 years of management and coordination experience with onsite, offshore & remote office project models.

• Currently working as IT Application Development Manager and Tech Lead.

• Extensive application development experience in Mainframe environment using DB2, COBOL II, JCL and CICS technologies; domains include Finance, Payroll, Accounts Payable & Receivables, Billing & Revenue, Insurance, Agent Services and Logistics.

• Excellent leadership and coordination skills with teams at local, offshore and satellite locations.

• Proven track records for technical and analytical skills.

• Efficient verbal and written communication skills to work with IT and non-IT personnel.

• US Citizen and can work for any employer.

Technical Skills

Hardware Platforms: IBM z/OS, IBM ES/9000, IBM 3090, IBM S/390, IBM PC Compatibles

Operating Systems: Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000 & 1998

Languages: COBOL II, JCL, Visual Basic, C

Database/OLTP: DB2/CICS

Tools and Others: WinSQL, QMF, SPUFI, ISPF, SDSF, JCLPLUS, ProJCL VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedures, Expediter, IBM Debugger, InSync/FileAid, IBM Platinum Tools, CA-7 & ZEKE Schedulers, CONNECT:Direct, SCLM, ProJCL, SOLA, WB2, MS Outlook & Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project & ProjecTrack, Primavera, eTracker, eRoom, MS Visio, Microsoft Office Pro 2007 & 2003, Mercury/HP Quality Center & Rational ClearQuest, Microsoft SharePoint

Education

Bachelors Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering

Bharathiar University, India

Work Experience

Employer: Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA

Duration: Jan 2007 - Present Day

Project Title: Renovation Program, Commissions & Tailoring for Marketer Services Dept

Job Title: IT Analyst Lead / IT Application Development Manager

I currently work for the Renovation Program as Tech Lead / IT Application Development Manager for Marketer Services (Agent Services) Department of PFG. This program is a development project and focuses on overhauling all the existing compensation processes across all business units under one unifying system. In the current job, I perform both my own technical tasks and leadership duties including the below:

Technical Responsibilities

• Collaborate with onsite BAs, SMEs, Tech Leads, QA Leads, Architects, Data Modelers, DBAs and BU customers (e.g. JAD sessions) for gathering requirements to prepare Functional Requirements Doc, High Level Design and Detail Level Design documents, design walkthroughs, code reviews for offshore App Dev teams and my own technical tasks.

• Lead and organize teleconferences with resources from offshore & remote locations for status updates, reviews, Q&A, defect resolution, migration and retests.

• Manage & track timeline of tasks using Microsoft Project, SharePoint tool, Assignment Metrics and excel spreadsheets.

• Assure the quality of the deliverables by performing 5 stages of reviews and logging corrections in HP Quality Center tool.

• Design & development works include batch programs with DB2, JCLs, stored procedures and table handlers; also develop common modules that interface with JAVA UI screens, Informatica and TrueCOMP systems; use CA-7 to schedule daily, weekly and quarterly jobs.

• Hold periodical review meetings to ensure designs and test-results are well documented for future reference; check to assure deliverables meet corporate standards & legal requirements and also follow SDLC methodology.

• My own hands-on technical tasks gather business requirements, prepare functional requirement documents, prepare HLD & DLDs, task allocation, coding, testing, reviewing, documenting and QA processes. Staging necessary data in Test, QA, Pilot and Prod environments and running cycles are also part of day-to-day work. Follow thru DMRs, CRs and also create & process PCMs when deliverables are ready for migration.

• My own designs include Balance & Control and Tolerance Check mechanisms. This requires producing summary level B&C report and transaction level details for high volume daily/monthly/quarterly data files from internal customers.

• Provide after-hour support for PROD and Pilot environments. Also, work with PFG to assign 3rd level support tasks to offshore teams.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Coordinate with offshore managers to forecast resource-availability and gather estimates from tech-leads & senior developers and factor them into project schedules.

• Assist onsite teams to schedule JAD meetings, design walkthroughs for offshore development teams.

• Work with Project Managers and onsite tech-leads to re-baseline project schedules when scope and designs require updates.

• Generate Weekly Status Report, Monthly Utilization Report, Dashboard Report, Quarterly Assignment Metrics Report, and Performance Level Report from HP QC Tool and provide to project stakeholders at PFG.

• Collaborate with PFG leadership to implement High Level Initiatives from PFG organization for improvement of App Dev and QA processes (e.g. PGS Node of Quality Center Tool).

• Participate and organize project-related presentations and video conferences for App Dev & QA teams in partnership with SMEs & BAs at onsite to provide overall business knowledge and broader picture of program level info, which are not usually covered in JAD discussions and in tech designs with scope to increase CODC Contribution Level by offshore teams.

• Conduct research on emerging application development software products, new tools, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts for App Dev and QA teams at offshore.

• Play the liaison role between teams at PFG Satellite office, Offshore and PFG offices for Marketer Services Dept Business Unit; address & resolve concerns & issues.

• Provide periodical feedbacks towards performance evaluation for team members. Often conduct interviews for hiring contract and fulltime resources.

• Often conduct interviews for hiring contract and fulltime resources; provide evaluation towards performance reviews.

• Collaborate with peers and managers to mitigate attrition rate in teams. As the DM is the mentor and coach for PFG App Dev Team, I prepare and implement cross-training opportunities and multi-skill training plans for team members.

• Initiate and manage security access control and permissions for team members; process and approve timesheets for contracted staff.

• Proactively use resource-forecast reports (Primavera) to queue up development tasks ahead. Worked diligently and to bring bench-time down to 0-hours in 2008 and 2009 for a team size of 18.

• Day-to-day tasks include interacting with Program Managers, Project Managers, BA Leads, QA Leads, Tech Leads, Architects, DBA Managers, Data Governors and Environment Coordinators at PFG and also Relationship Managers, other Development Managers, QA Assignment Managers & QA Testers from PFG organizations representing my App Dev team in my DM role.

• Manage technical tasks for two teams of mainframe developers (total size of 15) and play the liaison role for additional 10 resources from JAVA, BO and QA Teams.

Client: Ford Motor Credit Company, Dearborn, MI

Duration: Oct 2004 – Dec 2006

Project Title: Recovery Management System (RMS)

Job Title: Senior Consultant

• Worked as part of RMS-ITO Team supporting RMS-Bankruptcy Filing and RMS-Collections applications at FMCC.

• Responsibilities included developing batch & online programs and also maintaining existing processes in IBM Mainframe environment.

• Projects include successful implementation of several new CONNECT:Direct processes for safe & secured file transfers between FMCC and its vendors, followed by automation of these jobs in CA-7; such vendor names to mention are Western Union, Experian, TransUnion, Equifax and Dunn & Bradstreet.

• Maintained system documents and workflow charts using MS Visio.

• Other duties were support-email box, providing after-hour on-call support and coordinating the project developments with internal, remote and offshore customers; generate and process PCMs.

Client: Federated Department Stores, Atlanta, GA

Duration: Jul 2004 – Sep 2004

Project Title: Macy’s Home Store Division Conversion Project

Job Title/Role: Senior Consultant

Federated Systems Group is the IT Division of Federated Department Stores that operates more than 46 stores in 33 states, including Bloomingdales, Macy’s, Rich’s and Burdines etc.

• Worked as a Lead Programmer on this conversion project for the new Home Store Division of FSG. This project was to convert CICS and BATCH programs for accommodating new numbering method for all departmental stores under FSG.

• Responsible for analysis, preparation of tech designs along with managing offshore team and their development efforts.

Employer: Allied Holdings, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Duration: Mar 1998 – Mar 2004

Job Title: Senior Programmer Analyst

North America’s largest automobile distribution company specializing in car-hauling and logistics with revenue over $900 million. Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai and Kia are major customers.

Project Title: Billing and Revenue System, Oct 2000 - Jan 2004

• Supported B&R system for over 3.5 years and functioned as single point-of-contact for App Dev, DBAs and Business customers.

• Proactively used DB2 Utilities, ZEKE, SCLM, JCLPLUS, IBM Platinum Tools and multi-LPAR environments for this project to improve the performance of large volume purge jobs.

Accounts Receivable (A/R) Purge Process

• Developed two new processes to perform logical purge and physical purge for fast growing ARDET (Accounts Receivable Deductions Earnings Taxes) database.

• Used DB2 fast unload utilities, such as INZUTILB, to unload ARDET data from DB2 tables into DASDs volumes to speed up the READ process of 40 millions rows. Added FTP procedures to send delimited summary level reports to shared network. Generated a special set of reports for Ford every month.

• Designed batch programs and procedures using COBOL II, SQL, DFSORT utilities to identify eligible rows. Automated these purge jobs in ZEKE to keep minimum amount of data in production database, purging about 10 millions rows each month.

• Used SYSIN control card parameters to change the commit counts and run the process for selected companies within Allied’s group of companies. This improved the response time by 65% to access A/R database.

A/R Benchmark Reports

• Designed and developed a new set of jobs for Age-Trial Balance Reports for Billing and A/R departments.

A/R Monthly Reporting Process

• Formerly took two days for IT and Accounting Department Business Analysts to manually close month-end accounts for Allied group of companies (about 15).

• Redesigned this process by automating report-jobs for every company in Allied’s group. 15 batch jobs are submitted every morning but month-end status switch determines whether it is a dummy run or month-end.

• This enhancement eliminated the work of 6 people during every month-end close and prevented job abends.

• Improved job run time by 18 hours after A/R close.

• Designed a CICS screen to logically close the accounts for that month, which in turn, sets the flags to trigger month-end reporting process.

Approval Posting Process

• Different kinds of bills for same vehicles were being cross-posted, resulting in incorrect reporting of revenue and lots of A/R Adjustments later.

• Accomplished a one-to-one matching between Allied’s bills and shippers’ vouchers and achieved 100% accuracy in approval posting for Chrysler and import accounts.

• Designed CICS screens, using SDF and SQL, to select and deselect bills for deferring retransmission to shippers.

Project Title: Payroll System, Mar 1998 - Sep 2000

• Developed a new system, Brokers Payroll, and supported this and also the existing system regular Payroll System.

• This system pays over 6000 teamster employees (drivers) and 1000 broker employees (owner-drivers).

• Scheduled batch jobs to run and pay in weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly and monthly cycles.

• Used DB2 Utilities, ZEKE, SCLM and JCLPLUS tools during development and in prod environments.

Other important projects are Brokers Payroll System and Drivers Payroll System.

Brokers Payroll System

• Designed and developed new payroll system for Allied and its subsidiaries. Brokers (owner/operators of trucks & trailers) had to be paid with a different pay scale than non-union driver-employees, but there was not a separate payroll system.

• Designed a new system based on existing Payroll System that has 7 stages of jobs and 15 PROCs that are run for 4 different pay cycles.

• Added capability to recognize & access data from different sources like Mile Maker Package (product of Rand McNally), PeopleSoft and DB2 data and also the CICS Data entered by terminal users.

• Designed an improved version of pay earning statement, which is the pay-stub for brokers.

• Automated lots of QMF reports that are printed at Allied’s terminals and payroll departments.

• Designed CICS screens for performing adjustments and corrections to pay-rates.

Drivers Payroll System

• Maintained this payroll system for employed drivers, which is run in multiple pay frequencies.

• Required to do frequent SQL updates when pay-rates, loading methods, routes and vehicle types changed.

Employer: Dream Makers Consulting Company, Chennai, India

Duration: May 1995 – Feb 1998

Job Title: Consultant-Programmer Analyst

Worked on several projects for this offshore consulting firm that included Sales and Purchase System,

Purchase Order System, Management Information System and Trouble Management System.

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