I am one of those guys who started their career with IBM Mainframe. Just with couple of months of training on COBOL, JCL, DB2 I was put into production. The journey starts from there as associate system engineer with IBM.A 2006 pass out with Master in Computer Application degree from Odisha started career with IBM Mainframe in 2006.Now with 15+ years of IT career,12+ years of application development and enhancement experience with Mainframe batch applications. One and half years worked in USA at the client facing role.I also have 3+ years of experience with business analyst role at client side in France for a frontend application which is used to manage the contract of vessels of a shipping company.Now working as Technology Lead in a mainframe modernization project which is for migrating all the client application hosted on Mainframe to Microfocus Cobol on Azure cloud platform.My responsibility include managing the delivery of contractual deliverables to client ,get the development and testing done from team within the SLA agreed, involve into analysis, coding and testing as and when needed, manage status call with onsite team, provide the estimation, manage the team and their performance with periodic feedback.I have worked in all phases of software development life cycle starting from project kick off to post-production support and transition to application support team both in waterfall and agile methodology.Coming to technology I am very good at COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM which are the must to have for working in mainframe projects and worked for more that 12 years in these skillset and still continuing. From last one year I am working on Microfocus COBOL which is currently used as a replacement for IBM Mainframe in some organizations.As a mainframe guy I have worked on tools like SPUFI, FILEAID, FILEMGR, Connect Direct,CA7,ChangeMan,JobTrac, CTLM, Endevor, Expeditor,git-hub,PL/SQL Developer, Enterprise Developer for Microfocus Cobol.I also have undergone trainings on Java,Python,Big data using Hadoop,Hive,HBase,Pig,automated testing using selenium,Function Point calculation using IFPUG and NESMA.But never got an opportunity to work on these technology.With enough experience with IBM Mainframe, looking for a suitable opportunity for utilizing my skillset and experience to get the best out of it.