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DinaK - Mainframe

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Location: Irving, Texas, USA

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CAREER OBJECTIVE Intend to build a career with leading corporate of hi-tech environment with committed & dedicated people, which will help me to explore myself fully and realize my potential. In addition, I am willing to work as a key player in a challenging & creative environment. EXPERIENCE SUMMARY My total experience is 14 years 5 month of experience in ERP GLOBAL INC ,4 years 1 month of experience in FIS Global, 6 years 1 months of experience in BACI, 3 years 8 months of experience in Bank of New York Mellon. My main areas of experience are project delivery of various sizes, supporting the live production systems as a production support Lead. I have worked primarily in the banking domain (Advanced Loan system and Account services). My technological forte is Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, ALS) My recent role is Mainframe app support engineer. I am responsible to support systemically important applications like CNS, EPIM, CTS, FFS,EPIM,CMU,IMS,ATP. I am responsible for making sure the production batch cycle is completed without any issues and ensure the files are delivered to the downstream systems as per the agreed time. Apart from that I must attend the agile scrum meetings, Story grooming meetings. Worked in ALS initiative project team for 4 years 1 month as an individual contributor in FIS. As a developer I am responsible for creating low level design documents, presenting them in project meetings, creating/changing the modules, unit testing and addressing the issues in SIT/UAT testing. Apart from that I must attend the agile scrum meetings, Story grooming meetings and offshore team meetings. Worked as an offshore team leader for 6 years 1 months in BACI responsible for addressing production issues in ALS group of applications like Indirect ALS, Direct ALS. As an offshore lead I am responsible for discussing with onshore and prioritizing the issues, triage the issues, implementing the production fixes, addressing the technical issues faced by offshore team. Also, responsible for making sure the production batch cycle is completed without any issues and ensure the files are delivered to the downstream systems as per the agreed time. Apart from that I must attend the agile scrum meetings, Story grooming meetings and offshore team meetings. Worked as a senior application developer in Bank of New York Mellon account services for 3.8 years. As a senior application developer, I have led a team of 5 and successfully completed projects. As a senior application developer, I have attended requirement gathering meetings, created high level and low-level design documents, present them in project meetings, review the modules created/changed for the project, unit testing and address the issues in SIT/UAT testing. SKILLS PROFILE Special Software: ALS, FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN, CA7, NDM, SAR, MAXIMO, ENDEVOR, JIRA, CONFLUENCE. Data Bases: VSAM, DB2. Languages: COBOL, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, REXX. Online: CICS. Software Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall Monitoring tools: Splunk. Other tools : Autosys, Postman, Snowflake (to extract historic data) Educational Details Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi - Anna University - 2005-2009 Employment Summary Dates Organization Role October 2023 Current ERP GLOBAL INC MAINFRAME APP SUPPORT ENGINEER July 2019 August 2023 FIS Global Business Solutions India Private Limited Senior Lead Engineer Development June 03, 2013 July 2019 BA Continuum Private Limited Analyst I Apps Prog. Sep 30, 2009 May 31 2013 Inautix technologies private limited (Bank of New York Mellon company) Senior Application developer Work experience DTCC Oct 2023 to Current Mainframe App Support Engineer. Responsibilities Responsible to support settlement and clearing applications like CNS, EPIM, CTS, FFS,EPIM,CMU,IMS,ATP. Responsible to monitor and fix critical batch issues from mainframe and distributed systems. Responsible to address RITM requests on production issues and adhoc requests. Prepare DB2 queries to extract the data requested from business. Participation and coordination of DR activities. Responsible to create KB articles for the production issues. Responsible to fix the batch issues in UAT environments. Responsible for daily health checks and Sunday checkouts. Responsible for effective iteration demonstration. Responsible for adhering to agile ceremonies like sprint planning, review, retrospective and backlog refinements. Responsible to work with scrum masters, developers to ensure backlog strategy and execution alignment. Tools: - JCL, Proc, DB2, CICS, EAZYTRIVE, COBOL, Changeman, Rexx, Remedy, VSAM, CA7, FTP, JIRA, CONFLUENCE, Splunk, Snowflake, Message Queue, Autosys Post man(Test API). USAA July 2019 to August 2023 Senior Lead Engineer Development Individual Contributor (Agile methodology) Key Projects: - Worked on Initiative projects like SCRA Redesign, ACF Maintenance for charged off accounts, Develop eservices to bankruptcy notification and subsequent notice of bankruptcy. Description: - ALS is a system of recording for loans originated by the Consumer Vehicle Lending (CVL) line of business. This includes both indirect (dealer) and direct (banking center) loans. Primarily these are automobile loans, but also includes other vehicle loans. ALS also supports Home Loans /HELOCs. Also has unsecured & secured LOCs/loans. Responsibilities Responsible for programming well designed, testable, efficient code in COBOL, CICS,DB2. Responsible to create/enhance SRC,APC,API,APA,RPI modules based on the business requirements. Develop and execute unit tests to validate the application changes that meet technical specifications. Responsible for the identification of issues / bottlenecks in the method / code level using IBM debugger. Prepare installation components, production checklists, and provide post implementation support. Responsible to do GN migration for production and test regions. Responsible to design, execute UNIT test cases in QTEST and link the unit test results to JIRA. Responsible for ensuring that the necessary and relevant reviews, audits are performed for the developed modules. Performance monitoring of the jobs and enhancing the performance of the system with various testing and deployments. Responsible for effective iteration demonstration. Responsible for adhering to all coding standards and agile development methodology. Responsible for adhering to agile ceremonies like sprint planning, review, retrospective and backlog refinements. Responsible to work with scrum masters, developers to ensure backlog strategy and execution alignment. Analyzing and Resolving Mainframes related issues. Work with downstream applications like ETL and PRE-SCRUB to ensure the data from mainframe is loaded in their systems. Tools: - JCL, Proc, DB2, CICS, EAZYTRIVE, COBOL, Endevor, Rexx, Remedy, VSAM, ESP, FTP, Trace master, ALS, JIRA, CONFLUENCE, Web services, Post man(Test API). Bank of America June 2013 to July 2019 Technical Analyst/Offshore Team lead Key Projects: - Providing Incident fixes for Indirect Advanced Loan system application, Direct Loan system application (Fidelity ALS). Worked on initiative projects like Individual Rate Adjustment Program, create statements for Bankrupt accounts, Process to identify invalid customers to purge them from ALS system and Loan sale process. Description Indirect ALS is a system of record for loans originated by the Consumer Vehicle Lending (CVL) line of business. This includes both indirect (dealer) and direct (banking center) loans. Primarily these are automobile loans, but also includes other vehicle loans. Direct ALS primarily supports Home Loans /HELOCs. Also has unsecured & secured LOCs/loans. Responsibilities Responsible for programming well designed, testable, efficient code in COBOL, CICS,DB2. Responsible to create/enhance SRC,APC,API,APA,RPI modules based on the business requirements. Develop and execute unit tests to validate the application changes that meet technical specifications. Prepare installation components, production checklists, and provide post implementation support. Provide fixes to the Issue which occurs after the project moves to Production environment for Indirect ALS and Direct ALS applications. Address report requests and worked in project requests. Provide level 3 production support for the IALS and DALS batch cycle. Responsible for ensuring that the necessary and relevant reviews, audits are performed for the developed modules. Performance monitoring of the jobs and enhancing the performance of the system with various testing and deployments. Responsible for effective iteration demonstration. Responsible for adhering to all coding standards and agile development methodology. Responsible for adhering to agile ceremonies like sprint planning, review, retrospective and backlog refinements. Responsible for disaster recovery exercises for ALS applications. Tools: - JCL, Proc, DB2, CICS, EAZYTRIVE, COBOL, Endevor, Rexx, Remedy, VSAM, ESP, FTP, Trace master, ALS, JIRA Pershing September 2009 to May 2013 Senior Application Developer Key Projects: - Providing Incident fixes for CID application ,, Mass Rep update Large Trader Identifier, Assigning Group ID for service reps IP Mass Update tool. Description Worked as a senior application developer in initiative projects and also provided Level 3 production support for CID application (Customer information database). Responsibilities Analyze the Project request (PR) Prepare the design document for the project considering the impact for the existing flow in production environment. Participate in various requirement gathering meetings for the project. Coordinate with QA-testers and fix the defects on the test regions. Level 3 production support for the CID batch and online cycle. Analyze online and batch DB2 modules to find the solution for the incidents. Create UTP for the fixes which is provided and promoted the changes to the test regions. Participate on bridge calls to provide a permanent solution for the issues which happened on the production environment. Provide RCA to the Senior Management on a weekly basis. Review the coding and testing results. Assign Remedy tickets to the developers and assist them on the same. Create Endevor packages and SCCB Turnovers Tools: - JCL, Proc, DB2, CICS, EAZYTRIVE, COBOL, Endevor, Rexx, Remedy, VSAM, ESP, FTP, Trace master, Data shopper, Omegamon Achievements Received multiple awards for providing value additions, suggestions, and business ideas. Received award for the cost saving idea that provided savings of $1,00,000 per annum. Received appreciation for the successful implementation of initiative projects and critical production fixes. Keywords: quality analyst business analyst access management Idaho