Experience in COBOL , CICS, JCL, VSAM, MVS, TSO, ISPF, File-aid, Sort and

similar IBM tools / Utilities, Changeman, Panapt, CA-11, Scheduler, Expeditor, DFSORT, IDCAMS. Experienced working with archival and retrieval systems like SAR, COLD and $avers. Experience in report generation using Easytrieve. Experienced with file transfer protocols NDM and FTP, and Management Queue (MQ). Extensive and diversified experience in performance enhancement of Batch and Onlines Extensive experience on skill like JCL, COBOL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, DB2, VSAM, IBM DEBUG TOOL, STAR TOOL, DUMP MASTER, ABEND AID, ENDEVOR, CONTOL-M, SCLM, CLEARQUEST, XML technologies and tools. Experience in working on data bases like DB2 and also run SQL queries using INSYDB2 on IBM Mainframe. Experience in writing SQL queries with SPUFI /QMF. Experience in Cyberlife and Ingenium policy life cycle administration experience. Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Over 6 years of experience working under 24x7 Production support projects with stringent SLAs and extensively massive system. ~4 years of experience working as Onsite Project Co-coordinator at client location (USA). Strong problem solving and interpersonal skills, Open to Learning, Receptive to Challenges. Strong relationship building skills with customers, colleagues and team. Excellent Team Building, Project handling, Analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.

Core Technical Skills: Languages Database Tools and Utilities COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, CICS VSAM, DB-2 Utilities: DFSORT, SYNCSORT, File Aid and IDCAMS Scheduler - CA-11, CA-7, Xpediter (Program debugging tool), TSO, ISPF, ELIPS, Tape Management - CA1, SAR (SYSOUT Archival and Retrieval system), COLD, $avers, NDM (Network Data mover), Management Queue (MQ), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Version controls - PANAPT, Changeman (change management and control tool), Microsoft Suite - Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook Mercury Quality Center. Informatica MS-OFFICE MVS/ESA, Z/OS 390, Windows

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Professional Experience: Client: Genworth Financial, Richmond, GA

Feb 2012 Till date Project: Ingenium Roles: Mainframes Tech Lead Genworth Financial is a global family of consumer-focused insurance and investment business committed to helping consumers understand and solve their financial needs. Genworth helps consumers create and preserve personal wealth, protect assets, and enhance their lifestyles with offerings that include products in area of Life, Annuities, LTC, Mortgage, etc. Headquartered in Richmond, VA, Genworth serves more than 35 million customers worldwide in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico and 12 European countries. INGENIUM is a Real-time system that has Client oriented architecture for the Administration of Individual Investment and Insurance products. It involves making enhancements to the system, to implement changes in business processes, report creations, developing Interfaces for various other subsystems and 24x7 production support monitoring & activities. Key Responsibilities: Gather, develop, and maintain various business requirements from initial phase to final implementation. Developed both Batch and Online (COBOL, DB2 and IMS DB) programs as part of enhancements Effectively coordinate and prioritize development efforts with other system initiatives to implement projects. Make Possible changes to the COBOL Programs for Change Requests (CR) on time to time basis on the application end Demonstrate knowledge in programming techniques, estimation, system analysis, unit testing and documentation standards. Run SQL Queries on QMF and INSYDB2 utility on IBM Mainframe to check the desired data on DB2 Preparing test case documents and test plans. Responsible to start the MQ Manager and MQ channels on production and Test systems Construction of code based on technical specifications. Unit testing of completed modules. Effectively prioritize development efforts with other system initiatives to effectively implement projects Create technical & functional specification documents. Worked on MQ Series for the applications we support - where we start, stop and check the MQ series channels to make sure they are running and data is flowing. Generate ADHOC reports as per business requirement. Mentoring team members in improving the performance/delivery of task. Work coordination with offshore, onsite, QA, scheduling, change management, business, actuaries, primary users and Cross functional teams. Create Problem management tickets for possible application outages and also create the Change management tickets (IR Implementation Requests) for the Software Code installation on Production. Carried out manual testing of application in production region to ensure desired results are expected and also have done UAT testing. Worked as IT Project Coordinator for both at onshore and offshore teams and also Shift coordination at offshore on month to month basis. Knowledge sharing sessions are conducted at the team level for both onshore and offshore teams Provide 24x7 Production Support monitoring and activities involving cycle monitoring, performance monitoring and improvements, resolution to abends, tickets & incidents,
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handling business concerns and communications, handling cross-dependency concerns and communications Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, CICS, Informatica PowerCenter, DB2, Sort, FILEAID, IDCAMS, CA-11, Xpeditor, TSO, ISPF, ELIPS, CA1, $avers, NDM, FTP, Panapt. Client: Genworth Financial (USA) Lynchburg, VA Sep 2009 Jan 2012 Project: CyberlifeTM- Life Application Maintenance and Production Support (LAMPS) Roles: Sr Mainframes Developer CyberLife is one of most important Life Insurance Software products of Computer Sciences Corporation. CyberLife has a very large customer base in the USA & is being used by some of the top Life Insurance companies. CyberLife automates the processing of individual life, annuity and health products from application processing through death claim or final payout of the contract. Cyberlife administers over 35 million Life insurance policies throughout their complete Lifecycle for Genworth Financials. It is a mainframe based system. Genworth LAMPS project involved addressing CyberlifeTM post conversion issues, making enhancements to CyberlifeTM system, to implement changes in business processes, report creations, developing Interfaces for various other subsystems and 24x7 production support monitoring & activities. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for change in COBOL programs, Application Production Support, Maintenance, Testing and Analysis Applications Interaction with the clients for requirement gathering for the various maintenance and deployment activities in the project which helps the project deadlines are met without any problems with respect to product deliverables. Compile the COBOL programs and generate the LOAD Modules and place them on TEST Environment. Gather, develop, and maintain various business requirements from initial phase to final implementation. Experience on Oncall Support for the Mission critical applications across 24X7. Changes to the COBOL Programs are done via Change Request from Clients. Change in JCL , PROC and update the Control Cards in Production Environment on Mainframes Deployment of the applications that runs on IBM Mainframe, UNIX and LINUX. Effectively coordinate and prioritize development efforts with other system initiatives to implement projects. Work on MQ series to start the channels and verify the data flow between interfacing systems. Demonstrate knowledge in programming techniques, estimation, system analysis, unit testing and documentation standards. Preparing test case documents and test plans. Construction of code based on technical specifications. Unit testing of completed modules. Effectively prioritize development efforts with other system initiatives to effectively implement projects Implemented MQ jobs to transmit data from Legacy systems to front end systems. Create technical & functional specification documents. Generate ADHOC reports as per business requirement.
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Mentoring team members in improving the performance/delivery of task. Work coordination with offshore, onsite, QA, scheduling, change management, business, actuaries, primary users and Cross functional teams. Provide 24x7 Production Support monitoring and activities involving cycle monitoring, performance monitoring and improvements, resolution to abends, tickets & incidents, handling business concerns and communications, handling cross-dependency concerns and communications

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, CICS, Assembly, MVS/ESA, Win2007, VSAM, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, FILEAID, IDCAMS, CA-11, Xpediter, TSO, ISPF, ELIPS, CA1, SAR, COLD, $avers, NDM, FTP, MQ, Changeman.

Client: Genworth Financial, Mumbai, India Feb 2008 Aug 2009 Project: Unified Annuity Systems Roles: Senior Programmer Genworth-UAS is an annuity-based enterprise solution that caters to complete business needs of Genworth annuity products, from product administration through customer service support. The main functions involved are issuing of contracts, contract administration, check generation and benefit payment, calculating commissions for the agents etc. The scope of this project covers the tasks and activities involved in maintaining the existing application, enhancement of the online, batch programs as per the requirements, report generation and production support activities. Key Responsibilities: Detailed analysis of user requirements. Developed both Batch and Online (COBOL, IMS DB/DC, and DB2) programs as part of enhancements. Provided production support for both mainframe and web portal applications. Developed analysis and design documents as part of enhancements Wrote Batch Report Using COBOL II, SYNCSORT and involved in project documentation. Understanding the functional specifications and converting it to technical specifications. Preparing Detail Design document. Preparing test case documents and test plans. Construction of code based on technical specifications. Unit testing of completed modules. Generating Reports as per requirements using Easytrieve Production Support activities Monitoring the Batch Cycle and Incident Management.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, MVS/ESA, Windows, VSAM, DFSORT, FILEAID, IDCAMS, CA7, Xpediter, TSO, ISPF, ELIPS, CA1, SAR, COLD, FTP, Panapt

Client: Genworth Financial, Mumbai, India Dec 2006 Feb 2008 Project: Cyberlife - New Product Implementation Roles: Sr Mainframes Developer The objective of the project is to implement new products for Genworth within the targeted time period. The Scope of this project includes Development tasks, based on the
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specifications/requirements received from the client. The team shall follow the established quality processes for the project to ensure deliveries of quality work product on schedule. Key Responsibilities: Construct programs based on program specifications, as per applicable language standards Implement and test fixes (for bug reports) and changes (for Change Requests) to programs Create and execute unit test plans Document all program changes. Capture raw data (time spent on various activities and defects observed) Handle relevant technical communication with client Mentoring team members in improving the performance/delivery of task Capture all project-related learnings, document them

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, MVS/ESA, Windows, VSAM, COBOL, IBM Assembler, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, Easytrieve, Changeman, NDM, FTP

Client: Genworth Financial, Mumbai, India Jul 2005 Dec 2006 Project: CyberlifeTM- Life Application Maintenance and Production Support (LAMPS) Roles: Programmer, Defect Prevention Representative, Quality Control Member Key Responsibilities: Detailed analysis of user requirements. Understanding the functional specifications and converting it to technical specifications. Preparing Detail Design document. Preparing test case documents and test plans. Construction of code based on technical specifications. Unit testing of completed modules. Mentoring team members in improving the performance/delivery of task Production Support activities Monitoring the Batch Cycle and Incident Management Understand the defects logged by team members and categorize the defect on basis of the root cause and the kind of defect. Conduct Defect Prevention (DP) Meeting monthly to discuss Defects, Pareto Charts, Parameters related to Costing, Trend of defects Ensuring if action items raised for preventing the defects are implemented successfully Maintain a quality check in all the deliverables moving out from offshore. To make the team aware about quality procedures and standards. Also responsible for a smooth delivery of the task by coordinating with the OSC/client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, MVS/ESA, Win2007, VSAM, COBOL, COBOL, IBM Assembler, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, EASYTRIEVE, CA- SCHEDULAR