Sidhant Sharma Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minnesota, United States

Director of Business Architecture, leading a team of business architects who help translate strategy into operational needs and IT enablement. We create business capability maps, value streams, and methods for compliance architecture to ensure the efficiency and security of the organization. We also drive the digital transformation by leveraging emerging technologies such as automation, robotics, data lake, process improvement, AI, and business models and strategies. We are the key catalysts for enterprise transformation and alignment of business and technology at a foundational level.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minneapolis

I am working as a Tech/Project Lead @ Syntel for client Ameriprise Financials. I worked on a very critical I/O projects in SYNTEL. As a Project/Tech Lead I am responsible for below activities:• Participate in requirement meetings, understand the requirements, do a feasibility study, help freeze the business and system requirements and provide signoff for the requirements.• Provide ROM / high-level estimates for each phase of the project.• Prepare functional data flow and High-level design documents based on the system requirements.• Review detail design documents and provide signoffs and approvals.• Lead all the development and testing activities related to Mainframe and OpenText Exstream development throughout the lifecycle of the project.• Conduct reviews of all the deliverables delivered by team to ensure quality standards throughout the project lifecycle.• Perform version/change control management activities and make sure that team is following proper coding standards and version control steps and then provide final approval to packages/change components before promoting the code to next level. • Representing team in Client Calls and status meetings.• Sending consolidated status of the project to the client and stakeholders.• Raise timely concerns to the Program/Project manager on identification of any risk and suggest appropriate solutions to resolve/mitigate those risks.• Worked closely with Project Manager for all project management related activities. • Review project implementation plan and support in implementing the changes in production and post install validations.

Sacramento, California Area

I worked as a Mainframe Application Programmer for IBM on contract basis for Department of Health Care Services California. •Worked on Design, Coding and Unit testing of various applications of CAMMIS Systems like Claims, Reporting, Online Data Entry and Inquiry Screens. •Worked on designing part includes Identifying and documenting the code changes required in the existing programs (Online/Batch), copybooks, JCLs PROCs, Screens etc., As well as creating design for new programs (Online/Batch), copybooks, JCLs PROCs, Screens etc. and finally create a application based Technical Specification Design (TSD) Document to be merged in master TSD.•During the coding phase I worked on code changes required based on the TSD created by others as well as by me. The code changes vary from single line changes to writing new COBOL/CICS programs creating new Online screens and writing programs to control navigation of those screens.•Prepared test cases covering each and every requirement in the requirements sheet. Created Mock data needed for the testing, Performed Unit testing of all the component changes done by me, Taking test evidences and documenting the results.•Worked in all different phases of testing UIT (Unit Integration Testing), SIT (System Integration Testing) & UAT (User Acceptance Testing). Testing changes in the MOCK production environment, Supporting Test cycles, analyzing the abends, and work on any defects raised.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Working as Onsite Coordinator / Mainframe Application Developer for Client Trans America (Aegon). Basic Responsibilities were Participating in Requirement Capture Meetings with the Business Analysts for the enhancement projects. Creating Technical Specification Documents or High Level Designs for the projects, based on the Requirements. Working on Performance Improvement and Cycle Improvement Activities which Include reducing the CPU time of Jobs and Job Scheduling. Involved in Environment Support and Production Support of Daily Production Cycles. Providing permanent solutions for the Cycle Abends making Daily Cycle Stable and Abend Free. Working on Environment Support activities and Ad-hoc requests from Clients.Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS and DB2. Vantage One

India

I Worked in Computer Sciences Corporation India for 1 Year 8 Months as Mainframe Program Analyst in Insurance Domain for Client Trans America (Aegon). Basic Responsibilities were Participating in Requirement Capture Meetings with the Business Analysts for the enhancement projects. Creating Technical Specification Documents or High Level Designs for the projects, based on the Requirements. Working on Performance Improvement and Cycle Improvement Activities which Include reducing the CPU time of Jobs and Job Scheduling. Involved in Environment Support and Production Support of Daily Production Cycles. Providing permanent solutions for the Cycle Abends making Daily Cycle Stable and Abend Free. Working on Environment Support activities and Ad-hoc requests from Clients. Worked as Onsite Coordinator and Point Of Contact for the Offshore Production Support Team, supporting Daily Night Cycles. Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS and DB2.

Pune

I worked in Tech Mahindra for almost 3 years for client AT&T as Mainframe Application Developer in Telecom Domain. My basic responsibilities were, Preparing High Level Design and Application Design.Working on Live Defects, the process involves- analyzing the root cause, providing the fix, testing the fix and doing the pre/post production validations for it. Worked on application enhancements and basically the complete SDLC from requirement meetings to Production Deployment. Worked as Onsite Application Architect for my Application at Clients Location in San Ram California.Environment: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS and DB2.