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Venkat - Sr.Mainframe developer_Relocate

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Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

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Venkat Kayam Senior Mainframe IT Consultant e-mail: [email protected] Mobile Ph: + 1 (585) 505-6972 Professional Summary: 17 + years of experience in IBM Mainframe technologies, including in DB2 DBA LUW, Postgres (Netezza) DBA,DevOps technologies and Mainframe QA Testing Skills. Having experience in Mainframe Development Technologies (COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS-DB/DC,PL/I,Assembler) Handled roles such as DB2 DBA,Technical Lead and having work experience in domains such as Telecom,Finance, Retail, Banking, Healthcare, Life Insurance,Manufacturing and Energy and Utility . Successfully managed teams of 10 to 15 developers,testers and delivered quality results for the projects. Worked for Organizations such as Verizon,Persistent Systems Ltd,Vanguard,Techmahindra,Tetra Soft and KPIT Cummins Having experience in all the SDLC phases such as like Requirement gatherings, Impact analysis,Development, Testing(Unit/System/Integration), Manual testing and Production support of Applications in IBM Mainframe related technical areas such as COBOL, Assembler, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, REXX, Micro focus Cobol, Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server. Experience in onsite/offshore team coordination, strategic planning and mentoring of resources and setting up daily priorities including sizing/estimation. A quick learner and mentor with the ability to make solutions-oriented, creative and innovative contributions in highly demanding situations. Excellent understanding and work experience in DB2 stored procedures. Involved in the migration of native SQL stored procedures from COBOL. Extensively used tools like Xpediter to interactively analyze the programs and debug the issues. Good analytical, communication skills with the ability to interact with end users. Overseas assignments Working in Cary, USA, since Feb 2023 with Verizon , Sr.Mainframe Technical Lead. Worked in Pennsylvania, USA, for 2 + years with Vanguard, Sr.Software Analyst. Worked in Canberra, Australia, for 12 Months with DVA Sr.Mainframe Developer. Education Profile B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, College of Engineering, Tirupati,Andhra Pradesh, India Technical Skills: Languages : COBOL, JCL, Core Java, Python Database : DB2, IMS/DB/DC,Postgres Technologies/Tools :Data Studio, ESP, Endevor, Changeman, Panvalet, Control-M, SAR, File-Aid/DB2,Fault-analyzer, Xpediter, Remedy, HP QC, SPUFI, QMF, Easytrieve, Abend-Aid, FTP/SFTP,IDCAMS, SYNCSORT, Intertest, CA7,MQ series, Jobtrac, Micro focus Cobol workbench, Service Now, Linux, Github, Ubuntu, Jira, IBM Slack, Service Now, Zen hub, PagerDuty, Chai portal, Grafana, QC(HP-ALM),QTP, Hogan and Db2 Stored Procedures,Native Stored Procedure,Qtest Version Control Tools : Endevor, Changeman and Panvalet Platforms : Linux, Windows, TSO/ISPF, z/OS, MVS/VSE/ESA, RACF, SDF Domain Knowledge : Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, Life Insurance, Health insurance, Telecom Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance Work Experience: Verizon Feb2023 to Till date Sr. Mainframe Technical Lead Client: Verizon Team Size:06 Description: Verizon communications deals with telecommunications company that offer voice,data and video services. Verizon was formed in 2000 through the merge of Bell Atlantic Corp.and GTEP.Verizon offers wireless and wireline communications services,video and data service.Verizon services nearly all of the fortune 500 and millions of customers worldwide.Verizon s mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Vision is the billing process applications,which deals with customer billing/invoice process/generation based on the billing cycle Responsibilities: As a Mainframe technical lead,will involve in code promotion requests(CPRs),which is having different user stories. Involving in analysis of the Vision Billing applications for the bill calculations and billing for the customers by generating invoices depends on bill cycle. Attending daily status calls to share the status of each CPR and also involve in grooming calls to understand the user stories testing requirements. As a senior Mainframe lead involve in daily and weekly status calls and interacting with offshore teams. Involving in Analyzing existing mainframe applications to understand their architecture, dependencies, and performance metrics. Develop a migration strategy tailored to specific business needs. Act as Re-engineer or rewrite code from legacy languages (like COBOL, PL/I) into modern languages (such as Java, C#, or Python) while ensuring functionality and performance are maintained or improved. Involving in Migrate data from mainframe databases (like DB2 or IMS) to modern database systems (like PostgreSQL, Oracle, or cloud databases). This includes data mapping, transformation, and validation. Involving in Create and execute test plans to validate the functionality and performance of migrated applications and databases. Ensure that all aspects of the applications work as intended in the new environment. Involving in Maintaining comprehensive documentation throughout the migration process, including architecture diagrams, code changes, and operational manuals. Involving in Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, system architects, and quality assurance teams to ensure successful migration outcomes. Involving in Optimize the performance of newly migrated applications and databases to meet or exceed the benchmarks established in the mainframe environment. Software and Tools: COBOL,DB2,JCL,VSAM,CICS,MVS,MQ,Endevor,CA-7,Xpediter,Jira,Qtest,GITHUB,IBMSlack,ACSS,B360,My Biz,VDRT,IFE Persistent Systems Limited May 2021 to Oct 2022 Sr. Mainframe Technical Lead Client: IBM Team Size:20 Description: Persistent Systems is a technology services company, which was incorporated on 16 May 1990 as Persistent Systems Private Limited. Persistent Systems is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. Netezza Performance Server (NPS, Netezza), previously named IBM Performance Server for PostgresQL, is a purpose-built, standards-based, data, and AI system that integrates database, server, storage, and advanced analytic capabilities into a single, easy-to-manage platform. It is built on IBM Red Hat OpenShift and is optimized for High-Performance Analytics. It is a powerful and highly parallelized Data Warehousing system that is simple to administer and to maintain.NPS handles different clients of data like health insurance and banking. Responsibilities: Involved in analysis of the NPS applications for process and handling daily batches. Attending daily sprint stand up meetings to update on assigned user stories. As a technical/team lead involved in weekly status calls and interacting with offshore team. As a Mainframe technical lead,will be involved in testing requirements ,which is having different user stories. Involved in analysis of the applications for the claim process and billing for the customers by generating invoices depends on bill cycle. Attending daily status calls to share the status of each testing requirement and also involve in grooming calls to understand the user stories testing requirements. As a senior Mainframe technical lead involve in daily and weekly status calls and interacting with offshore teams. Collaborating with other team members, developers, analysts, and testers, to ensure that programs meet business requirements and technical specifications. Performing code reviews and providing feedback to other programmers to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Optimizing code for performance and efficiency. Diagnosing and resolving system issues related to assembler programs. Participating in the design and development of new system features and enhancements. Providing technical support and guidance to other team members and end-users. Ensuring that programs comply with security and regulatory requirements. Software and Tools: COBOL,DB2,JCL,VSAM,CICS,MVS,MQ,Changeman,Xpediter,Easytrieve,PagerDuty,ServiceNow,Jira,DataStudio, ESP,Linux,Ubuntu,RedHatOpenshift,Jenkins,GIT,GITHUB,IBMSlack,DataStudio,Db2 Stored Procedures. Vanguard MF and VBS Applications, PA, USA Mar 2018 to June 2020 Sr. Mainframe Technical Lead TeamSize:10 Description: The Vanguard Group is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with over $5.3 trillion in assets under management. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after Blackrock s iShares.In addition to mutual funds and ETFs.Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services. Vanguard is processing mutual fund and brokerage taxes for their clients based on the cost basis. Vanguard advanced service technology (VAST) is validated and processed taxes and sent to Cost Basis Application (CBA) to calculates to determine gains and loses for any share sold taxable. Then CBA sends to Scivantage/Maxit.Scivantage, it provides an automated cost basis and sends to CBA to generate reports and statements and to DTC (Depository Trust Company). VBS also deals with insurance and health care of their customers. BETA manages the street side of the trade and record keeping for VBS. Responsibilities: Involved in maintenance and enhancement, support of the VAST application. As a Mainframe technical lead,involved in code ,which is having different user stories. Involved in analysis of the applications for the claim process and billing for the customers by generating invoices depends on bill cycle. Attending daily status calls to share the status testing statuses and also involve in grooming calls to understand the user stories testing requirements. As a senior Mainframe technical lead involve in daily and weekly status calls and interacting with offshore teams. Prepared Unit Test Plans for these programs and Unit testing the programs. Involved in creating packages and web forms for requesting to execute the UAT/Stage packages with Endevor source code management tool. View and closing the incidents using defect management process with HP Quality Center. Collaborating with other team members, developers, analysts, and testers, to ensure that programs meet business requirements and technical specifications. Performing code reviews and providing feedback to other programmers to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Optimizing code for performance and efficiency. Diagnosing and resolving system issues related to assembler programs. Participating in the design and development of new system features and enhancements. Providing technical support and guidance to other team members and end-users. Ensuring that programs comply with security and regulatory requirements. Software and Tools: COBOL,DB2,JCL,VSAM,CICS,Assembler,MVS,MQ,Changeman,Xpediter,Easytrieve,PagerDuty, ServiceNow,Jira,QTP,DataStudio,ESP,Db2 Stored Procedures, IMS-DB/DC,Sync Sort. Project: Scotia Bank, Tech M, Hyderabad, India Oct 2015 to Mar 2018 Role: Sr. Mainframe Technical Lead Team Size: 05 Description: The Bank of Nova Scotia, operating as Scotia bank, is a Canadian multinational bank. Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) core processing has changed the way banks do business and it can change the way your bank operates, too. Core processing system for banks creates an integrated, high-performing infrastructure. Responsibilities: Involved in analyzing the Hogan core banking IDS(Integrated Deposits System) and CIS(Customer Information System) application to capture all business requirements related to core banking application. Involved in analyzing the Hogan Umbrella, Processing Environment Manager(PEM),CDMF, Logical Environments( Data Groups, Activity, Program Linking to PEM). Involved in understanding the existing Custom Build Hogan application. Involved in creation of requirement understanding documents based on client requirements. Involved in preparation of detailed design documents based on business functional requirements. Involved in code changes in COBOL, DB2, JCL, and VSAM for the impacted components. Involved in weekly status calls and interacting with onsite coordinator to provide daily updates. Involved in analyzing the assembler code to understand the business logic to make changes. Involved in deriving the Test Scenarios and designing the manual test cases. Involved in generating the test data and preparing the consolidated daily defect status reports. Software and Tools: COBOL, Assembler, JCL, DB2, MVS, IMS-DB/DC, VSAM, CICS, MQ, Changeman, Sync Sort, File-aid, Xpediter, Intertest, SAS, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Hogan and Control-M Project:MP & L(Ford Motors),Tech M Chennai, India Aug 2013 to Sept 2015 Role: Sr. Mainframe Developer Team Size: 05 Description: Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The Material planning and logistics is traditionally Legacy based (COBOL and DB2). OBSO is an application to process the claims for suppliers as well as plant parts. Responsibilities: Involved in analyzing, understanding the application to support and resolving production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications using COBOL, VSAM, JCL, IMS-DB/DC, DB2. Involved in code changes in COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS-DB/DC and VSAM for the impacted components. Prepared Unit Test Plans for these programs and Unit testing the programs. Involved in creating packages and web forms for requesting to execute the UAT/Stage packages with Endevor source code management tool. View and closing the incidents using defect management process with HP Quality Center. Coordinate with the Share point team to review the flow and processing of the term reinstatement policies. Software and Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, VSAM, CICS, MVS,MQ, Endevor, File-aid/DB2, Sync Sort, Fault analyzer, SPUFI, QMF, Xpediter, Abend-aid, Service center and z/OS Project: DVA, Tech M, Australia May 2011 to Aug 2013 Role: Sr. Mainframe Developer Team Size: 10 Description: The Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA), Australia is a department of the Government of Australia. This is processing the veteran s pensions and financial systems. Objective of DVA is Rapid Re-plat forming to transform DVA s unsustainable legacy applications in aging technologies into applications based on sustainable technologies. Responsibilities: Involved in analyzing the applications MI, FI and SH to capture all functional and business requirements. Involved in analysis of the payment processing like lump sum amount, annuity applications. Involved in enhancement and development of the ITS application. Involved in code changes in COBOL, DB2, JCL, and VSAM for the impacted components. As modules lead to attend meetings to interact with SMEs to get the clarifications. Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) which will be the key artifact for rebuilding the applications in distributed platforms. Identified and documented the business rules, business process flows. Software and Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MVS,MQ, Endevor, Sync Sort, File-aid, Fault analyzer and Xpediter, SPUFI, QMF Micro Focus work Bench (MW) and z/OS Project: ITS (BCBS), Tetra soft, Hyderabad, India July 2009 to May 2011 Role: Sr. Mainframe Developer Team Size: 15 Description: ITS is a vendor package, which is created by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA). It processes the claims for blue members receiving services in/out of the network. When a Blue member obtains services from an out-of-network provider, the two blue networks communicate with each other through the ITS software during the processing of the claim. Responsibilities: Involved in impact analysis for the technical changes based on the client/business functionality requirement. Involved in code changes in COBOL, DB2, JCL, and VSAM for the impacted components. Involved in enhancement and development of the ITS application. Responsible for resolving the production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications. Involved in providing the support for the ITS system on a 24/7 basis. Software and Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, CICS, MVS,MQ, VSAM, Endevor, File-aid, Sync Sort, Fault analyzer, Abend-Aid, Xpediter, SPUFI, QMF and CA7 Project: Warranty System, KPIT, Pune, India Dec 2005 to June 2009 Role: Mainframe Developer Team Size: 05 Description: Cummins is an American Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. The warranty system is developed for processing the claims of the distributors and dealers Cummins. It processes the claims in different levels and validates them based on general and business validations generating acknowledgement and activity reports to send the users. Responsibilities: Involved in maintenance and enhancement and support of the warranty application. Involved in code changes in COBOL, DB2, JCL, and VSAM for the impacted components. Involved in system testing, resolving production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications. Performed Unit Test Plans for these programs and Unit testing the programs. Software and Tools: MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Panvalet, File Manager, Xpediter, Remedy and TOAD Keywords: csharp quality analyst artificial intelligence message queue database zos information technology hewlett packard procedural language California Michigan Pennsylvania