Prakash D. Email & Phone Number

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Responsibilities:●Responsible for managing the entire lifecycle of the recruiting process, from initiation to completion. This includes preparation of job description, post on Job Boards, sourcing of resume, short-listing and screening, Interviewing the shortlisted candidates, compensation and benefits negotiation followed by final selection●Worked four countries USA, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico Job requirement●Targeting on IT requirements.  USA (H1B, H4EAD, GC, GC EAD, Citizen- (W2, 1099 & Corp to Corp(C2C)),  Canada (Close Work permit, Open Work permit (OWP), Permeant Resident (PR), Citizen). Costa Rica (Citizen)  Mexico (Citizen).  Brazil (Citizen)● Worked on Contract, CTH and FTE. Primarily catered niche requirements.● Understanding of client needs and hiring conditions external and internal.●Researching niche requirements to collect data and information. Team management & weekly review with the team on recruitment activities.●Building relationships with Vendor, business partners, IT staff, senior management, and third-party companies for fulfilling requirements.● Taking responsibility for interacting with Vendors & Candidates regarding the requirements and pay rate and payment terms as per the need and for executing the full processes from initial sourcing to scheduling interview.●Requirement Analysis. Sourcing largely via – LinkedIn Recruiter (Linkedin RPS) / Monster / DICE / Indeed / Ceipal.● Gathered a pool of candidates by passive recruitment and referrals for future prospective needs.●Familiar with various Applicant Tracking Systems – ATS in handling an automated Recruiting process - Ceipal Talent Hire●Maintaining the relationship with vendors and candidates by proper networking and rope potential profiles.● Negotiating the right candidates in terms of rate and closures.●Prepared and maintained reports like open recruitment report, availability pool report, critical and open positions report, closed vacancy report,

Remote

Responsibilities:● Virtual Assistant for admin assistant.● Unique market research, web research, online research.● Gathering invoices, statements, reports, personal details, documents, and information from employees, other departments, and clients.● Collecting and entering data in databases and maintaining accurate records of valuable company information.● Correcting errors and organizing the information in a manner that will optimize swift and accurate capturing.● Creating accurate spreadsheets.● Entering and updating information into relevant databases.● Ensuring data is backed up.● Book and arrange online meetings for the clients.● Live chat to respond to customer questions quickly and effectively.● Scanning through information to identify pertinent information.● Note the Minutes of the meeting and store them for further reference.● Make a travel plan for Business heads and managers as per their request.● Storage all the documents safely confidentially, date, weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, and Yearly wise.● Post the client content on Linkedln/Instagram/Facebook.● Work with business unit managers to understand project scope, suggest possible alternatives, and document each step of the design● Work with the Security division to design and manage IAM roles for users, vendors, and other third-party vendors.● Creation of Google My Business (GMB) & Reinstate suspended Google My Business GMB local listing for worldwide various clients as a freelancer service.

Tesco Bank is the trading name of Tesco Personal Finance plc, a telephone and internet based commercial bank in the United Kingdom owned by Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket. Until 2008 it was a 50:50 joint venture between Tesco and the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the UK's largest banks and remained under the Tesco Personal Finance plc (TPF) branding until 2010. Tesco is able to use its large customer base to cross sell financial services products. Customers can accumulate Tesco Clubcard points when they purchase finance products. Tesco Bank currently have two Tesco Bank in-store branches in Coventry Tesco Extra and West Durrington Tesco Extra in Worthing.Responsibilities:• To find out a solution for reusing existing code to reduce development effort.• Security feature, error handling implementation for the new interface• Relatively new development team• Responsible as team lead for test cycle support.• Knowledge on IBM Mainframe Backup and Restore procedures.• Monitoring schedules, batch JCL jobs and resolving abend jobs using Jobtrac scheduler.• Support mainframe disaster recovery (documentation and testing) plans.• Support on-site application development team for their implementation activities.• Modified and enhanced existing batch COBOL programs for various Emergency• production fixings using version control tool EASYTRIEVE.• Responsible for defect fixing in DB2 tables and IMS/DB and resolving defect fixing in Cobol programs users through HPQC tools Coordinate with on-site team on weekly basis and discuss on the current issues.Environment: Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2, XML, ECLIPSE, Spufi, EASYTRIEVE ,QMF, File-Aid, Quality center, Z/OS ,MS-Office, Windows-XP, IBM Utilities, Intertest.

Pittsburgh Usa

A primary testing objective is to ensure that RBCB customer and account information is converted to PNC CIF resulting in minimal to zero errors in the conversion of data. The accuracy of converted CIF data helps result in minimal impact to branches and call centers by lessening number of question or issues that would escalate to them from impacted customers. .An additional testing objective for the CIF team will be to successfully test the mailfile(s) that will be mailed to the converting customers. The goal of testing is to ensure the correct customers receive the correct mailers with the correct customer and account related data as dictated by the requirements for the mailing. A final primary objective is confirming that the implementation of relaxed edits results is significantly lower number of defects, while also ensuring that there are no unintended or negative customer due to the relaxed edits.Responsibilities:• Responsible to test cycle support for bank conversion one banks RBC bank and flag start Bank to PNC bank.• Responsible for executing bank conversion jobs(JCL) • Provide the error customer status to clients using system ware. • Provide the output put files to the client for further process.• Modified the COBOL according to new requirements • Responsible for defect fixing in DB2 tables and IMS/DB and resolving defect fixing in Cobol programs users through HPQC tools for the error customers before going to production.• Modified and enhanced existing batch COBOL programs for various Emergencyproduction fixings using version control tool Endevor at time of testing bank conversion one bank to another bank. • Responsible for bank conversion at Production RBC bank and flag start to PNC bank.• Modified the JCL according to new requirements. • Responsible for develop new COBOL program from scratch.• Responsible for tape extensions using Infoman for GDG Versions.

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Codan Corporation is a publicly owned insurance holding company. Codan help protect individuals from the financial effects of illness, injury, death or long term care needs, enable them to stay at work or to return to work after an illness or injury. Also, help employers better manage their overall benefits program, enhance productivity, and provide for their employees welfare.Based on business requirements of Codan can be classified into the following major modules like Enrollment, Policy Admin System, Billing System, Claims processing etc.Responsibilities:• Smooth Release management in a multi-vendor environment• To find out a solution for reusing existing code to reduce development effort.• Security feature, error handling implementation for the new interface• Relatively new development team.• XML Parser was implemented in CICS Pipeline to eliminate third party parser module use in the interface programs and hence reduced the coding effort drastically.• A XML Schema Auto generation program was built in JAVA to create XML schemas automatically out of data model and considerably reduced the XML Schema development effort. Also effective use of tools like ECLIPSE, XML SPY for XML developments.• Testing phase: Use of ECLIPSE 3.5 (Freeware) to create test data and input XML string to reduce the effort for test data preparation.• Automation of MQ Upload and Download programs to be used by all developers to reduce time on test environment preparation using JCL(jobs).• Effective use of HP Quality center for defect tracking, evaluation and delegation.• Release Management: Integration of Subversion tool into ECLIPSE 3.5 resulting in effective control of XML development and release to third party vendors as well as project document control.Environment: Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS/DB, EASYTRIEVE, Spufi, QMF, MQ series, File-Aid, HP Quality center, MS-Office, Windows-XP, IBM Utilities, Control-M.

Pune Area, India / Australia

MEGA is mainframe application to cater the following business requirement like order management, Account management, Rating and billing application for AAPT business processes. It also supports various data transfer and data back up services between various interfaces like REBILL, INBILL, and SWITCH DATA.The majority of users access MEGA via a web-based interface SSWEB and the native CICS screen, the MEGA batch invoice cycle process mainly rate the calls using CDR(call detail records) from various interfaces for various range of service types like landline, mobile, dial up, ADSL, ISDN etc. then the rated calls details are delivered to InBill (for Inter-carrier billing), Australia Post, Direct Debit , Credit Card processing, data backup and MEGA sends data to the Secure Mail Services (SMS) Company for traditional printed invoices.Responsibilities:• Responsible for on call production support 24*7 for the MEGA batch system.• Monitoring schedules, batch JCL jobs and resolving abend jobs using CA-JOBTRAC scheduler.• Support on-site application development team for their implementation activities.• Modified and enhanced existing batch COBOL programs for various Emergencyproduction fixings using version control tool Endevor.• Responsible for production data fixing in DB2 tables and resolving service request raised by the MEGA application users through CAMS tools• Coordinate with on-site team on weekly basis and discuss on thecurrent issues.• MVS Systems Programming, Mainframe Operations & Systems Monitoring.• Onsite explore: 2 months oncall production support handled at Australia (Sydney).Environment: Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2, ENDEVOR, Spufi, QMF, File-Aid, CAMS, MS-Office, Windows-XP, IBM Utilities, Job-trac.

Bangalore

IBM Global Service India, Banglore (Melstar Information Technologies – SEI-CMM Level III)The Corporate Tax System collects, organizes, and distributes current and historical tax data used for billing AT&T customers. This includes the tax rates, rules about what taxes apply to AT&T customers, and rules about what taxes apply to the services and products AT&T provides. It is used corporate-wide by AT&T billing applications. The Corporate Tax System includes jobs to update and unload these databases, an IMS ADF online system for updating and retrieving tax data from the databases, callable modules to return tax data to other modules, jobs to process tax compliance data produced by AT&T billing systems and a system for collecting and reporting on tax compliance statistics.• Involved in COBOL program analysis.• Involved in effective coding for tax module programs using database IMS/DB.• Modified the JCL according to new requirements • Changed effected documentation preparation.• Unit test plan preparation.• Involved in review and testing.Environment: Cobol, JCL, IMS/DB, ENDEVOR, Spufi, QMF, File-Aid, CAMS, Z/OS, MS-Office, Windows-XP, IBM Utilities.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General