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Sridevi
Professional Summary:
5.5+ years of Strong experience in Estimation, Analysis, designing, developing, deploying, maintenance and production support of application software running on IBM Mainframes.
Thorough understanding of system development life cycles (SDLC) and having very good knowledge of CMM Levels.
Extensively worked with mainframe technologies JCL, COBOL 370, COBOL II, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, PL1,VSAM on MVS/ESA/JES2, OS/390 and Z/OS systems.
Very good working knowledge on Utility programs SORT, MERGE, JCL PROC and CLARIFY.
Good working knowledge of batch FTP processing, NDM, and the use of CA-7 for scheduling.
Extensively used the tools such as XPEDITOR, QMF, REXX, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, File Aid, TSO, ISPF, SYNCSORT.
Good exposure on relational databases DB2,Oracle and SQL.
Very good working knowledge on Change Management procedures/Processes.
Performed Code changes based on the Specification given in High Level Design and Low level
Design
Creating Move Request through Pegasys for required Components (Change Management)
Was involved in Walkthrough and Review Meetings.
Attended training session in Function Point.
Trained in IMS DB/DC, Natural and Adabas
Obtained IBM Certification in DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family
Excellent Team Player and committed to excel in performance as an Individual and at group level.
A self-starter with excellent Communication, Interpersonal, Analytical and presentation skills.
Technical Skills:
Operating System OS/390, z/OS, MVS/ESA/JES2, Windows NT/XP,Unix
Programming Languages COBOL, JCL, SQL, C, C++, Java, Cold Fusion
OLTP CICS
Databases VSAM, DB2, SQL Server
Tools & Utilities BMC-Catalog Manager, File-Aid for DB2,SPUFI,File-Aid,Endeavor, Xpeditor, SAR, Infoman, Pegasys
Professional Projects:
Project Name: Carrier Billing System (CBS) Title: Programmer Jun '06-Aug '07
Client: Sprint, Overland Park, KS
Description: CBS (Carrier Billing System) is comprised of 3 subsystems: CBS - Verifies carrier access charges, eliminates access over-billings, authorizes timely payments and provides access cost information.
Carrier Online Billing Reporting and Auditing (COBRA) data warehouse - stores bill information for Access Verification to develop reports and queries for LEC invoices and payments. e-Examination And Verification of Invoices Electronically Received (XAVIER) - receives LEC billing information and process charges, facilitates in-depth analysis of LEC data and provides verification of Access Billing Information.
Responsibilities:
Analyzed, Developed, Tested and implemented Projects related to system.
Responsibility included interaction with business, resolve and test bugs raised on Production errors, coordinate with team about issues for quality development of system.
Estimated LOE for several SRs and CRs.
Monitoring the Daily and Weekly cycles.
Involved in writing Embedded SQL queries in programs, Perform explain function on SQL queries. All Programs in system had embedded SQL queries for database interaction
Support system if any abends without missing any SLA.
Create AWO or PSR if required for immediate production fix and execute them.
Feasibility study and impact analysis of the new requirements
Developed Job flow diagram for the entire application using Visio.
Prepared high level and low level design.
Created Design to replace ADABAS statements with its equivalent statements in DB2.
Involved in System, User Acceptance Testing and Pre Production Testing of system.
Project Name: Access management Information System (AMIS) Title: Programmer Jun '05-June '06
Client: Sprint, Overland Park, KS
Description : The Access Management Information System (AMIS) is a decision support data warehouse of dedicated and usage access information used for Cost and Capacity management, facility assigned directions (ART), financial reporting, and pricing analysis. Data is extracted from systems such as FMS, CEAS, and ARS and from client interfaces and is populated in AMIS using applied business decision rules. COBOL and DB2 are used for maintaining these applications. Telecommunication Access Information are maintained in these applications. DB2 batch programs are used to maintain the Telecommunication Access information in the DB2 tables.
Responsibilities :
Reviewing the requirements sent by the Client.
Preparing the Impact Analysis (IA) Document, Application Architecture Blueprint (AAB), (Application Design document (ADD), Enhancement & Bug-fix Report (EBR) and Unit Test Plans (UTP).
Coding, Unit testing, system testing and E-region testing.
Prepared Implementation plans, Pegasys header, Change records and AWOs.
Involved in Production Migration
Involved in status reporting and prepared LMR (Local Metrics Repository)
Estimated LOE for several projects
Monitoring the Daily and Weekly cycles.
Support system if any abends without missing any SLA.
Create AWO or PSR if required for immediate production fix and execute them.
Prepare Application Support Resolution (ASR) documents.
Analyzed, Developed, Tested and implemented Projects related to system.
Responsibility included interaction with business, resolve and test bugs raised on Production errors, coordinate with team about issues for quality development of system.
Did knowledge Transfer to new members in the team
Involved in System, User Acceptance Testing and Pre Production Testing of system.
Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Pegasys.
Client: HSBC Buffalo, NY Aug '04- May '05
Project Name: Limit Monitoring System Title: Programmer
Description:
HSBC Connect is an OLTP (online and Batch) Application running on Mainframe used for validating, transforming, extracting and routing of Payments/Instructions send by Corporate customers. These Payments/instructions are generated through ERP systems or HSBCnet portal provided by HSBC to Customers. These payments are received in Files from clients either through Internet using FTP or Client Gatewayύs using X25 network. HSBCnet interfaces with HSBC connect application using distributed system architecture. Files formats can be EDI, SWIFT, EDIFACT, and other customer strategic formats. These instructions after validation and transformation are loaded into Data warehouse for advice generation and routing to different back offices. All Programs used embedded SQL queries for Database interaction. Acknowledgments are sent to customers and interfacing applications after every stage of customer file processing. Acknowledgment formats are BANSTA, FINSTA, CONTRL, CSV, XML and other customer specific formats. Processed payments are sent to back-office either using JCL (Low value or ACH payments) on scheduled times or MQ technique (high Value Payments), based on priority of Payments.
Responsibilities:
Analyzed, Developed, Tested and implemented Projects related to system.
Responsibility included interaction with business, resolve and test bugs raised on Production errors, coordinate with team about issues for quality development of system.
Developed Copybooks and DCLGENS used in passing information from Program-Program and Database- Program.
Involved in writing Embedded SQL queries in programs, Perform explain function on SQL queries. All Programs in system had embedded SQL queries for database interaction.
Developed Online JCLs using CICS TDQ IRDTR (Internal Readers, used for runtime JCL submissions) for Automated Report generation using Files.
Involved in setting up CICS regions for application testing, raising CRS, MDC, Raising Queue request for message routing in development as well as Production environments for Application interfaces.
Involved in Testing and Testing Support using Project Management tool (PMO), Quality Center.
Implementation, Version control and Change control of programs using Endeavor and MKS integrity.
Involved in Performance analysis of system under System Improvement program as additional responsibility.
Tuning and monitoring of programs using STROBE.
Written test cases for testing and implementation under Risk based Project management.
Involved in System, User Acceptance Testing and Pre Production Testing of system.
Worked on FTP, Connect Direct (C:D) process used in receiving/sending files from clients and other banking systems
Worked on Regression/Contingency Testing in Production
Prepared implementation and back out procedure plans during system migration
Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, Java and Distributed Systems, EDI formats, Mainframe utilities and tools.
Project Name: VAC Server Support Title: Programmer
Client : Verizon ,Waltham, MA Sep '03-Jul '04
Description:
Verizon Adjustment and Claims Server is a central repository for Verizon customer billing claims/disputes, adjustments and payments as well as a single source of distribution for adjustments to Verizon billing systems. Project supported all the components including batch and on-demand interfaces, db2 design and maintenance ,stored procedures that allowed each verizon business unit to develop customized front-end to use VAC as a single interface into all of the Verizon billing systems.
Responsibilities:
Liaison with business partners for the design, development and support of Batch
Provided on-call support to Batch billing applications, which have several daily, weekly and monthly cycles.
Analyzed and troubleshoot program code and corrected errors as required.
Perform analysis to provide permanent solutions for the problems encountered during batch cycle and on-line issues logged by users in Production.
Created and maintained user, technical and operational documentation that describes program code, logic, changes and corrections for Reinsurance system.
Trained new team members with the application and system knowledge to bring them to speed quickly. Assisted in analyzing batch and on-line programs to study the system flow.
Assisted in Regression and parallel system test runs to help in implementing new billing module
Used Abend-Aid, Expediter, File-Aid (VSAM & IMS) and Interest for debugging and problem resolution.
Provide on-call support for the application.
On-demand interfaces as well as Db2 Stored procedure
APIs that serve as an interface into VAC database.
Responsible for design and maintenance of all DB2 tables, views and stored procedures.
Lead role in Impact analysis, change control management and coordinating migration of code to production.
Successfully accomplished performance tuning on many of the programs
Time improvement was considerable in instances where run time was reduced from more than 1000 min to less than 1 min.
Environment: OS/390,PL/I, DB2, JCL, Stored Procedure Builder, Endevor Change Manager
Client: Motorola, L&T Infotech, India Dec '01-May '03
Project Name: Inventory Title:Team member
Description:
The project is owned by US- South SBU and is executed by Application Maintenance and Development SBU. The direct client is Motorola. We maintain the legacy application for the Motorola SPS (Semi conductor Product Service). ACS outsources the project and implemented by L&T infotech.
The L&T Infotech team had reviewed the ACS requirements for the services and has proposed solutions and specified benefits in the management, development, administration, implementation and support of the services.
The Work packets from ACS are categorized as
PR - The term PR means the problem report. Whenever there is a production problem or when the users need clarification on their reports, the application coordinator/application manager creates a problem report on the POWR site- web based database, which is owned by the client to track the status of PR/WR.
WR - The term WR means the work request. Whenever there is a change in configurable item ignored to fix the problem report or when an enhancement request comes from the users, the application coordinator/ application manager creates a work request on the POWR site.
Areas of work involved:
The project includes Maintenance, Enhancements and supporting activities of Inventory and other applications. Objective of the project is to provide support, which encompasses the day-to-day maintenance and enhancement support of the licensed materials of the client. This includes responding to problem reports/calls that are raised by the IBM Operations group and also by the users. The problems will be fixed according to the service level agreement (SLA) between the company and the client. The scope of the work also includes a 24 Hours a Day and 7 Days a Week support to various production systems.
The inventory module is used to track of inventory recording and movements of devices from TANDEM to MVS systems and stages of the particular lot, products. Was involved in creation of customer invoice preparation and loading the MVS data to UNIX Based Oracle system and creation of Reports.
Responsibilities :
Involved in handling the users and clients queries.
Handled serious abends interposing the production run.
Had regular correspondence with the clients.
Involved in Analysis, Design, code development and testing of enhancements requested by clients.
Attended various knowledge transfer sessions with the client..
Coding, Unit testing, system testing.
Involved in status reporting and monitoring.
Estimated LOE for several projects
Monitoring the Daily and Weekly cycles.
Production Support and working on problem tickets.
Prepare Application Support documents.
Analyzed, Developed, Tested and implemented Projects related to system.
Responsibility included interaction with SMEs, resolve and test bugs raised on Production errors, coordinate with team about issues for quality development of system.
Did knowledge Transfer to new members in the team
Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM
Academic Qualification/Training/Certifications:
MCA (Master in Computer Applications).
BS in Mathematics.
Diploma at NIIT,India.
Mainframe Course from Lemuria Technologies,India.
Attended training session in Function Point.
Trained in IMS DB/DC, Natural and Adabas and can work if provided opportunity.
Obtained IBM Certification in DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family.
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Operating System OS/390, z/OS, MVS/ESA/JES2, Windows NT/XP,Unix
Programming Languages COBOL, JCL, SQL, C, C++, Java, Cold Fusion
OLTP CICS
Databases VSAM, DB2, SQL Server
Tools & Utilities BMC-Catalog Manager, File-Aid for DB2,SPUFI,File-Aid,Endeavor, Xpeditor, SAR, Infoman, Pegasys
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MCA (Master in Computer Applications).
BS in Mathematics.
Diploma at NIIT,India.
Mainframe Course from Lemuria Technologies,India.
Attended training session in Function Point.
Trained in IMS DB/DC, Natural and Adabas and can work if provided opportunity.
Obtained IBM Certification in DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family.
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I would like to network with you regarding a position our executive search firm has been retained to fill. It is for a great company in Chicago.
Perhaps someone in your network might be interested in a Senior Exchange Messaging Engineer position. Please see the job description below. Im happy to answer any questions. Feel free to forward on to anyone you like.
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Position Specification
Title: Senior Exchange Engineer
The Team
Technical Architecture The position is a part of the Research and Development department and fills a senior role in our messaging systems development group. The teams involved consist of managers/staff, Communications Department, Operations, Application Development, contractors, and vendors.
Position description
As a senior member of our messaging R&D department, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving the companys state of the art global messaging environment with some cross platform (Microsoft/Cisco) unified messaging design and support.
The candidate will work with SMTP, Microsoft Exchange Server, Presence, SonicWall, and related email concepts, protocols and methods along with the opportunities to perform major upgrades to our messaging platforms. The candidate will work alongside our Communications department to help design and support our unified messaging environment.
Person
The candidate shall have a broad background in messaging technologies and shall have demonstrated proficiency in the following areas:
Exchange 2003\Exchange 2007
Live Communication server (LCS)\Office Communications Server (OCS)
Mobile Messaging Technologies (Active Sync, BlackBerry, Good Technologies)
Remote Messaging Technologies (OWA, RPC over HTTP)
Anti-Spam Technologies
Anti-Virus Technologies (messaging specific)
Messaging DR best practices
Storage technologies (SANs, FC Switches, HBAs)
Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007
Active Directory
Windows 2003 Server
DNS
SMTP
Understanding the principles of UM (Cisco\Exchange)
Job Responsibilities
The candidate will have the following responsibilities with the potential of expanding:
Researching and developing solutions to meet enterprise wide messaging needs.
Researching, architecting, testing and planning the integration of new messaging technologies and upgrades to existing platforms.
Staying current with new technologies, and industry best practices; particularly those dealing with messaging and storage.
High level maintenance and troubleshooting of the current Exchange 2003 messaging environment based on industry best practices. (Responsibilities include but are not limited to troubleshooting and resolving high level mail routing issues, public folder issues, mailbox issues, Exchange server\services issues; adding\removing messaging servers, configuring servers, services, routing policies, etc., establishing maintenance procedures based on current industry BP).
Maintaining and troubleshooting SMTP internet gateway issues (Currently SonicWall).
Maintaining and troubleshooting Live Communications server 2005.
Establishing DR procedures for all relevant messaging servers. (Exchange, LCS, Blackberry, Good etc).
Maintaining and troubleshooting BlackBerry and Good Technologies servers.
Maintaining and troubleshooting Outlook Web Access \ RPC over HTTP
Maintaining and Configuring EMC SANs and FC Switches.
Working with Communications group to troubleshoot Cisco Unity issues.
Keeping documentation up to date for the messaging environment.
Testing and deployment of upgrades, hot fixes and other updates.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 7 to 10 years of relevant experience.
Excellent problem solving, written and oral communication skills.
Deep knowledge of SMTP, Microsoft Exchange Server, and related email concepts, protocols and methods are required. |
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