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Sam omega - Mainframe developer

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Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Visa: H1b

Gayathri Kumaran 847-474-3369 [email protected] PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:- Senior Developer and Techology Lead with hands-on experience on most Mainframe technologies with over 10 years of experience. Adept at troubleshooting and ensuring quality control at every stage of management process. Worked on the major and the minor enhancements with the COBOL II, IMS DB, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS , Eazytrive and MQ-SERIES. Used ChangeMan/Panapt/SCLM to stage modified components and copybooks to test and develop environments. Performed code review, unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, and documentation of test results. Involved in internal reviews like code walkthroughs, unit-test review of modified programs, copybooks and JCL's etc. and quality control documents. Prepared Unit test cases as per the new code and comparing the test results before performing the test and after performing the test. Used FTP and NDM for transfer the files from one region to another region. Monitored the batch jobs and provided support on implementation. Coordinate the activities with team members. Managed the onshore and offshore Support team resources Worked with Business team very closely for Business requirement changes in Agile Methodology. Possess training knowledge on DEVOPS, SELENIUM, CUCUMBER, SOAPUI and Groovy, as a part of Hexaware corporate training. TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:- Languages COBOL, JCL, Eazytrieve Databases SQL, IMS,DB2,Stored Procedure Financial Software VisionPLUS Methodology Waterfall model, Agile methodology OLTP CICS File Management VSAM Tools TSO/ISPF,Load Runner, Control M, Test Director, VisionPLUS, MS Project, File-Aid, Changeman, PANAPT,SCLM,DTCN,SPUFI, QMF,RPC,Informatica Powercenter 9x, Quality Center,HP ALM,Beyond Compare, Data compare, DOORS, WinSCP, RapidSql,IBM Datastage,Pagecenter,Jira,IBM Data Studio,CISM Operating System ZOS, MVS, Windows 8, 10, UNIX/Linux Utilities IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEFBR14, IEBGENER EDUCATION:- Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science & Engineering) 2002-2006 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:- Truist Georgia Dec 2021 to till now Mainframe Developer PROJECT: Tsys credit card conversion Truist is migrating heritage credit card portfolios from First Data and FIS to Tsys. As a mainframe developer responsible for coding multiple COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs to support conversion. Responsibilities: Managed end to end projects; starting from requirements, implementation to testing, UAT, go live Analyzed the business requirement and Preparation of preliminary systems document which will be the input for the further development process. Translated requirements into system solutions and develop high-level estimates, implementation plans, and schedules. Developed new and modified existing COBOL programs, PROC's, JCL's. Created test cases ,perform defect analysis and worked on defect of the new system Demonstrate experience of being able to work to very tight timelines on multiple detailed activities simultaneously Ability to coordinate on onsite offshore model Followed Agile methodology- user story, plan sprints, scrum meetings Environment:- Z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, Changeman, SPUFI,Rally, Document direct, Esp scheduler. Mercedes Benz USA Georgia Feb 2020 to Dec 2021 Technology Lead PROJECT: Vehicle Information Sales,Tracking and Analysis System VISTA is nucleus and core of Vehicle Sales and Distribution system consisting of Online and Batch processing developed on Mainframe with CICS as front end for Online screens and IDMS DB as backend for DB(Later migrated to DB2) and Batch processing. Mercedes Benz USA Georgia Jan 2020 to Sep 2020 Technology Lead PROJECT: Vehicle Information Sales,Tracking and Analysis System VISTA is nucleus and core of Vehicle Sales and Distribution system consisting of Online and Batch processing developed on Mainframe with CICS as front end for Online screens and IDMS DB as backend for DB(Later migrated to DB2) and Batch processing. Within three months be able to pick up and work on any existing application, contribute directly to technical and business discussions that affect the current and future state of the applications. Essentially, contributing to the team at full capacity Answers technical support queries and implements fixes for application problems. Works on cross-functional teams to proactively address issues and collaborate with customers for resolution Creates and maintains documentation for supported applications Customize the system or database for permanent error resolutions Assist in the development of several applications that allowed new platforms to work in conjunction with legacy systems. Reviews and analyzes change requests to determine the scope of work and estimate the level of effort for application changes. Writes detailed technical specifications for changing application components based on business requirements and high level designs Develops unit and unit integration test plans and procedures. Validates that developed/enhanced components meet application requirements and performance goals Prioritized business beneficial work promptly and accurately. Facilitated project delivery under strict timeline restrictions and coordinated with Business Leads to formulate solutions for effective production delivery Have experience in working in Zos operating system. Environment:- Z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, MQSeries, SPUFI, QMF,JIRA Delta Airlines - Georgia July 2019 to Jan 2020 Mainframe Developer PROJECT: MIRS This project is to maintain the aircrafts parts with respect to its utilization during the flying time. An aircraft engine is only heavily utilized during takeoff.On taxi in and out,it may be shutdown.On descent,it may only be idling. Rolls Royce has done some calculations and determined the greentime on the engine. This project utilizes the greentime on the engine parts life time. Responsibilities:- Responsible for development and maintenance of COBOL, DB2 programs Experience with Agile Methodologies (SCRUM/Kanban) required Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and innovative approach to finding resolutions Expert in programming language like COBOL, JCL Database like DB2, IMS Environment:- COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, MQSeries, SPUFI, QMF Freddie Mac- Georgia Jan 2018 to April 2019 Mainframe Consultant PROJECT: Affordable Housing and Duty to Serve AHDR This project is for Affordable reporting and implement a new system on corporate approved architecture that supports the ability to perform the current quarterly and annual reporting in addition to supporting new reporting requirements resulting ne new FHFA duty to serve rules. This project accomplishes the establishment enterprise architecture and sf data governance standards and establish business rules in a business decision management system, so that the rules change management can be handled entirely by the business area. Responsibilities:- Develop new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM and CICS. Debug and implement the system using Debug tools Prepare test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing. Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed. Worked in Version One for managing daily tasks along with User Stories in Agile Methodology. Environment:- Enterprise COBOL, CICS, DB2, DB2 stored procedures, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, Xpeditor, File-Aid for DB2, Endevor, IBM Utilities, MQSeries, SPUFI, BMC, QMF,Unix,Autosys, Doors, HP Quality Center, Rapid SQL, Putty, DB2, DataStage Informatica 9.1 Training Education Informatica 9.X Use PowerCenter 10 Designer to create assignments that extract data from a source to a destination, transforming it as necessary. Implement the PowerCenter transformations to clean, format, join, aggregate and route the data to the appropriate targets. Perform error handling / capture with PowerCenter assignments. Use PowerCenter 9 Workflow Manager to create and execute workflows that execute sessions associated with an assignment and to control data transformation processes. Design and build assignments and simple workflows based on the essential needs of the business. Solve basic problems using the PowerCenter registers and the debugger. Citi Bank Chennai, India Jul 2014 to Dec 2017 Senior Software Engineer Citibank s Advanced Dispute System (ADS) is a dispute tracking and processing module. The primary objective of the project is to offer cost-effective business and technical solutions to provide the ability to process incoming and outgoing chargeback transactions for visa master cards and for some associations. Responsibilities:- Gather business requirements from the client and translate them into technical specifications JCL standardization for Vision PLUS Implementation. Run test batches and resolve abends of all types Perform unit testing, System testing/ Collaborate with stakeholders for SIT & UAT Develop programs to create or customize new reports and screens Code batch programs, compile and test programs using COBOL, Easytrieve, CICS, JCL, and DB2 in Mainframe ZOS. Set up jobs for DB2 utilities Code and configure Production jobs Conversant with the communication processes in terms of problem requests/change requests Production support - On call rotation supporting the application 24/7 Run weekly client meetings to determine new needs and ongoing issues that need to be resolved Environment :-MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, CICS, File-Aid. Citi Bank Chennai,India Jul 2013 to Jun 2014 Senior Software Engineer Transaction Management System (TRAMS) module accepts multiple transaction types and prepares them for any destination. The primary objective is to offer cost-effective business and technical solutions to provide extensive job tracking, settlement, warehousing, reporting, and online rejection handling capabilities Responsibilities:- Responsible for development and maintenance of COBOL, DB2 programs Develop and support batch programs Load data from production to test environments to test COBOL, DB2 programs Prepare System Integration Testing (SIT) plans and SIT results Test DB2 applications using SPUFI from TSO and ISPF Develop application programs for the system enhancement, Unit testing and Reviews Fix bugs Environment :- MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, CICS, File-Aid. VIT Consultancy Pvt Ltd /Aara technology - Chennai, India Jul 2007 to March 2010 Role: Software Engineer AFEWS and TRAMS module. AFEWS is a advanced fraud enhancement systems which accepts multiple transaction types and fraudulent transactions from different subsystems and process them for any destination. AFEWS interacts with various channels like transaction management system and advance dispute system. Responsibilities:- Developed Batch and Online Programs as per the requirement. Developing application programs for the system enhancement, Unit testing and Reviews Setting up JCLs according to the requirements. Involved in Implementation activities. Abend analysis and resolution. Prepare System Integration Testing (SIT) plans and SIT results Environment :- COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, CICS, File-Aid. Keywords: message queue database zos information technology golang hewlett packard microsoft Nebraska