Prakash Gamini

Email: prakashgamini.career@gmail.com
Phone: +91- 83799 36277, +91 8888 24 0008

Career Objective:
A Seasoned Technical consultant with 11 years of experience in IT Technologies with a good
understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Worked in different business domains
such as Banking & Insurance. Extensive experience in all phases of SDLC lifecycle, including
Requirements Gathering, Development, Unit Testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, Defect
Tracking, Implementation, Maintenance and Documentation.
Experience Summary:
 IT Team Leader with 11 years of end-to-end software delivery management. Demonstrated
track record for successfully managing and delivering multiple small to large projects. Highly
motivated and effective leader in enlisting the support of the team and aligning with the
project and organizational goals.
 Have total 8 years of professional experience in the Mainframes Development, Batch support,
Testing and Environment Support with a strong knowledge in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM,
CICS, CA-7, Control-M and Endeavour
 Have total 3+ years of professional experience in the CA-Plex.
 Have good experience mainly on Environment Management, Release Management and also
experience in Implementation Management, Configuration Management, Change
Management, and Mainframe Applications Development.
 Experience working in Agile Scrum Software Development Life cycle with respect to
delivering Operations, Development, Testing and Maintenance.
 Have good experience for playing the Team Lead activities.
 Have good experience on Mainframe batch and environment support.
 Perform quality analysis, preparing Specification documents, Coding, Unit and Integrating
testing, test cases and test result evaluation.
 Ability to prepare Tech Specs., Project planning on time management etc. Pro-active
solutions to client based on rigorous analysis.
 Deep understanding of the Quality Management, Configuration Management, Change
management, Release Management and Testing Processes
 All round management experience in project budgeting (SOW), Cost and revenue
management, Quality management, stakeholder management, communications management
(weekly, monthly, Quarterly Status Reports, metrics, test completion reports), customer
engagement, time management.
 Having good knowledge on Blue Prism and RPA.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS:
 Received Long Service Award for completed 10 years with Capgemini.
 Completed the Certificate for ITIL® Foundation in IT Service Management in Feb 2015.
 Attended AGILE Certification training.
Professional Experience:
Worked as a Sr.Consultant with Capgemini Ltd, Pune from Apr2010 to Sep 2021
Educational Qualification:
Shivaji Science College, Nagpur, M.Sc in Computer Science, 2004.
Areas of Strength:
 Provides encouragement to team members, including communicating team goals and
identifying areas for new training or skill checks
 Understanding the technical & functional specifications.
 Good in communications skills.
 Handling smooth implementation and testing of the application at client location.
 Involved in Batch Run Support activity.

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  Ability to interact with customers would be added advantage
Skill Summary:

Languages  COBOL, JCL, SQL, REXX.

Tools/Interface  SPUFI, CICS, TSO ISPF, QMF, SPUFI.

RDBMS  DB2, MySQL

File System  VSAM

Debugging Tool  Expeditor, Intertest, CEDF

Scheduler  CA-7 , TWS, Control-M

Configuration Tools Changeman, Endeavour.

Other Utilities  File Aid, File AID DB2, Endeavour, Changeman, File-Manager, QC
Managenow, Easytrieve

Application Tools Scrum, JIRA, FocalPoint, Coolgen Remedy, Rally, QC, CA-Plex

ITSM ServiceNow, ITIL

Projects Summary:

Project # 1

Project Name Mainframe Dataware House and ETL

Client MetLife Insurance

Duration Jan 2018 to Sep2021

Team Size 8

Environment COBOL, JCL,VSAM, File AID, CA-7 and Endeavour

Description:
MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, better
known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance,
annuities, and employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries.
Mainframe development project which takes care of different systems’ Auto & Home (A&H)
policy level data. Transfer of multiple upstream systems’ data to different downstream Big Data server
which changes/modifications where ever required. Formatting of Raw Policy Extract data through
Trillium processing.
Key responsibilities:
 Ability to prepare Tech Specs., Project planning on time management etc. Pro-active
solutions to client based on rigorous analysis.
 Deep understanding of the Quality Management, Configuration Management, Change
management, Release Management and Testing Processes
 All round management experience in project budgeting (SOW), Cost and revenue
management, Quality management, stakeholder management, communications management
(weekly, monthly, Quarterly Status Reports, metrics, test completion reports), customer
engagement, time management.
 Adhoc Requests for Data Masking and File Processing.
 Keeping track of code promotion.
 Involved in preparation of Configuration management related documents

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  Involve in Batch support activities for various modules in the project.
 Regulate the Client Meetings and Conferences.
 Have maintained of Dashboard creation and SLA maintenance.
 Agile and Scrum processing expertise.

Project # 2

Project Name BARCARD Environment and Batch Support

Client Barclays
Duration Jan 2018 to May 2019

Team Size 13

Environment COBOL, JCL, DB2, File-Aid, Control-M and Changeman

Description:
Barclay’s Group deals with various domains and credit cards is one of them. This account is
responsible for managing the cards system for 13 countries across the world. These countries are
divided into 3 groups.
1. Africa – Egypt, Mauritius, Kenya & Botswana.
2. SEC – Spain, Italy and Portugal.
3. Germany and to cover all these countries, 9 individual batches were defined which runs on
daily basis.
Key responsibilities:
 Code promotion and Execution of Adhoc jobs.
 Keeping track of code promotion.
 Involved in preparation of Configuration management related documents
 Involvement in Management related documents preparations (SLA Metrics & SOE).
 Responsible for Approval and execution of Adhoc tracker Request including endeavour
package creation for code movements and DB2 Bind requests.
 Involve in Batch support activities for various modules in the project.
 TWS Scheduling
 Regulate the Client Meetings and Conferences.

Project # 3

Project Name Global Trade and Receivables Finance

Client HSBC
Duration Jan 2015 to Dec 2018

Team Size 12

Environment Mainframe with CA-Plex

Description:
Effectively managing global trade and supply chains is critical for sustainable growth. And achieving
that requires sufficient working capital to support everything from strengthening supplier networks
around the world, to establishing reliable sales chains across multiple countries and regions. That’s
why HSBC’s Global Trade and Receivables Finance solutions offer a more holistic approach to trade
and supply chain finance.

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HSBC's comprehensive suite of over 100 products and services can be combined into a customised
solution that could make it easier for you to manage trade risk, process trade transactions and fund
trade activities. This includes helping you replace unstructured lending arrangements with more cost-
effective, flexible trade and receivables finance options. Plus, with more than 5,800 trade specialists
on the ground in 56 countries, HSBC has access to 87 per cent* of the world's trade flows, which
means we can help you connect with new partners in new markets to meet your growth objectives

Key Responsibilities:

 Testing Specialist.
 Coding.
 Test cases and Test plan.
 SAT and UAT.
 QC- Defects Fixing.
 Objects Promotion

Project # 4

Project Name Shared Services

Client DLG(Direct line Group)

Duration Oct 2013 – Dec 2014

Team Size 12

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid, Endeavour, Easytrieve and CA-7

Description:

DLG Insurance has two different regions for developing and Managed testing. BAU SHARED
SERVICES is responsible for test batch execution in managed testing (M-plex) Environment and
Configuration activities in Development (Q-plex Environment. Configuration team deals with creating
Endeavour packages for production migrations (Fix on fail and minor issues) and M-plex Migrations
where the code first developed in Q-plex part of enhancement and then moved to M-plex for testing
purposes (system test). Batch execution team deals with running of over nightly Insurance batches
and logging over nightly issues in Test Director (Defect management tool) and Provides resolutions of
those failure jobs in M-plex.

Key Responsibilities:

 Design the Flow as per the Requirement.

 Prepare a technical specification and unit plan.
 Have been involved in Environment planning activities.
 Help new team member to understand the application and environment flow.
 Responsible for Configuration Management Activities including region build/refresh activities.
 Responsible for Batch run Support in SIT Environment.
 Involved in CA–7 Scheduling Tuning.
 Involved in enhancements and bug fixes and code retrofitting.
 Involved in support activities for various modules in the project.
 Handled large number of users across the globe.
 Have experience of Dashboard creation and SLA maintenance.
 Test Director Migration and Administration was also being handled independently.
 Ensure that defects are identified and reported on time and fixed are tested fully.
 Attending the Triage call and the Test control meeting.
 Ensure that defects are identified and reported on time and fixed are tested fully.

Project # 5

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Project Name BAU Shared Services

Client RBS insurance

Duration May 2011 to Sep 2013

Team Size 8

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid, Endeavour and CA-7

Description: RBS Insurance is one of the major insurance companies in UK, currently it is DirectLine.
Their products and services include Home Insurance, Motorcycle Insurance, and pet Insurance. In
RBS Insurance our configuration team, Configuration management team involved in manage and
configure various version control tools, define releases and projects for the RBS Insurance division.
Code is migrated to various regions be it production or model as per requirements given through an
automated tool, PVCS tracker used to communicate between the development teams and operations.
New code added to various regions is monitored by this team on a daily basis. Development teams
are notified about retrofit clashes so as to prevent any serious modification changes. It is also
responsible for guiding and educating various users regarding procedures/forms to be followed for the
many requests generated every now and then.

Key Responsibilities:

 Involved in maintenance of the version control tool, Endeavour, providing authority for various
access levels, generating exceptions in various tools and notifying users, and notifying.
 Involved realignment of code between various regions so as to help maintain a streamlined
version of it across all regions.
 Involved in preparation of Configuration management related documents
 Involved in Batch Run Support activity.

 Strong brands are those brands that have their own client file.
 Involved in Defects analysis and resolution.

 Regulate the Client Meetings and Conferences.

 First level Escalation Point of Contact for any query/issue for the team.

Project # 6

Project Name HTSE – RPS

Client HSBC

Duration Apr2010 to Apr2011

Role Team Member

Team Size 12

Environment COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid and Endeavour

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Description: This PGP broadly addresses the HTSE project and specifically addresses individual
projects included within the overall program. Due to the ongoing dynamic nature of funding decisions
related to the overall HTSE Project, this PGP has been written to address the overall HSBC HTSE
project and is not limited to any particular project included in the program. Specific deviations from
the PGP on a project level will be addressed by the individual projects. Specific project details are
assumed to fit within this overall program level PGP.

DPS (also known as DPU) is the system to compose all the customer correspondences
/documents which is send by HSBC Bank across UK Region to their customers. The documents
include statements, letters, policies, and forms across multiple streams such as Credit Cards,
Mortgage, Retail and Auto finance. As part of this project, Capgemini will be supporting the
development and support on document composition using HP Dialogue product.

Key Responsibilities:

 Gathering functional requirements.

 Preparing Program Process specifications (LLD).
 Preparing Unit Plans.
 Coding the Components according to the process specs.
 Preparing Test Data and doing Unit Testing with all possible Test Cases.
 Conducting peer reviews.

Personal Details:
Name : Prakash Gamini
Father’s Name : Venkata Ramanjaneyulu Gamini
Date of birth : 03rd June 1978
Address : Manasorowar Apartment, FlatNo: 605, B wing, Sukhsagar
Nagar, Katraj, Pune-411046.
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu

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