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As a Senior Mainframe Programmer I was working for a Ford Vehicle Invoicing and Drafting application in a mainframe environmentAs an Senior mainframe Programmer, below are the list of activities involved to satisfy the customer with quality deliverables. Responsible for gathering the business requirements from Clients and prepare the technical solutions. Working with business users and Subject Matter expert for any clarity on the requirement Estimating the effort… Show more As a Senior Mainframe Programmer I was working for a Ford Vehicle Invoicing and Drafting application in a mainframe environmentAs an Senior mainframe Programmer, below are the list of activities involved to satisfy the customer with quality deliverables. Responsible for gathering the business requirements from Clients and prepare the technical solutions. Working with business users and Subject Matter expert for any clarity on the requirement Estimating the effort required for accomplishing the business requirement Reviewing the estimate and the technical strategy with the Subject Matter experts and with the team. Involved in the complete software development life cycle. On approval of the estimate, I will be working on a design document and test case strategy  Involved in Coding, Unit testing, System Testing, Integrating testing and User Acceptance testing. Working with deployment checklist and prepare the Endeavor package for moving the code change to production environment.  Involved in post deployment verification based on the standard checklist.  After deployment, will provide a warrant support until the code get stabilize.  Once the code is stabilize, I will follow up with business users to get signoff for post deployment. Environment: Vehicle Invoicing and Drafting, IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, EZYTRIEVE, REXX & CICS Show less

As an Onsite Project Lead, below are the list of activities involved to satisfy the customer with quality deliverables. Working with business users to understand the business requirements Providing estimation for the given requirement Allocating and distributing the resources to work based on the requirements Responsible to extract quality deliverables from allocated resources. Identifying the area of process improvement in the application Responsible for… Show more As an Onsite Project Lead, below are the list of activities involved to satisfy the customer with quality deliverables. Working with business users to understand the business requirements Providing estimation for the given requirement Allocating and distributing the resources to work based on the requirements Responsible to extract quality deliverables from allocated resources. Identifying the area of process improvement in the application Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.  Providing day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer. During production incident, involved in interaction with various interface application team and end users. Prioritize the work for offshore and onsite team Reviewing the deliverables before sharing with clients  Sharing Business knowledge to the entire team. Finding the business opportunity in the client place and sharing the same to IBM management  Providing 24/7 support to the client for any production problem.  Followed IBM standard quality processAs an offshore lead, below are the list of activities involved• Working directly with clients and getting the requirements• Providing Estimation for the given requirement• Allocating and distributing the resources to work based on the requirements• Providing all deliverables within in SLA• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.• Apart from client coordinationo Involved in Data Security & Privacy process for the UPS accounto Involved in maintaining Business Continuity Plan process for UPS account• Mentoring new resources on boarded to the account• Providing 24/7 support to the client for any production problem.• Followed IBM standard quality process Environment: Enterprise Billing System, IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, EZYTRIEVE, REXX & CICSHandled team size of 6 Show less

A.G. Edwards, Inc. is a financial services holding company which operates as a full-service securities broker-dealer in the United States and Europe. The firm provides securities and commodities brokerage, investment banking, trust services, asset management, financial and retirement planning, private client services, investment management, and other related financial services to individual, governmental, and institutional clients. Work with Business Analyst in translating business… Show more A.G. Edwards, Inc. is a financial services holding company which operates as a full-service securities broker-dealer in the United States and Europe. The firm provides securities and commodities brokerage, investment banking, trust services, asset management, financial and retirement planning, private client services, investment management, and other related financial services to individual, governmental, and institutional clients. Work with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents  Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact  Involved in Migrating the codes from Bull Mainframe to HP-Unix system  Played major role in Unit and Assembly testing of migrated codes.  Providing Fixes to the migrated code. Work with QA to create test scripts and scenarios for enhancements and customizations to the core product  Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and clients  Develop implementation and test plans, build software acceptance criteria, coordinate and work with clients to oversee the acceptance and dissemination process Environment: HP-Unix, COBOI, JCS, Rational Tools, Shell ScriptsTeam Size : 4 to 5 Show less

Worked with client AMEX in credit card statementing projects. Implemented several change requests to customize functionality in USCRS application Designed and developed interfaces to legacy systems  Developed, validated and tested the entire application Designed and setup batch jobs. Provided technical and investigative support for functional users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues, testing, service pack upgrades and adhoc report… Show more Worked with client AMEX in credit card statementing projects. Implemented several change requests to customize functionality in USCRS application Designed and developed interfaces to legacy systems  Developed, validated and tested the entire application Designed and setup batch jobs. Provided technical and investigative support for functional users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues, testing, service pack upgrades and adhoc report requirements Continued support for production issues as third level production support specialist. Supported user community in defining Service Level Agreements (SLA) Investigated causes of SLA non-conformance with profilers, Oracle traces and SQL-LAB.  Performance tuning, SQL query enhancements, code enhancements to achieve performance targetsEnvironment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL II, DB2, JCL, VSAM, DOC1, PCE scripts Show less