MIS 2000, Inc.

Description

Rohit Prasad

Westlake, Ohio, 44145

901-246- 2293

rohitprasad412@gmail.com

 

Mainframe Project Lead with CICS, Cool Gen (CA Gen), COBOL, Z/OS, MQ

 

Professional Summary:

• More than 8.7 years of IT experience in Software development with experience ranging in Mainframe development, enhancement, testing and support, Cool Gen and CICS development, ab initio development and testing.
• IT experience on IBM Mainframe technology with extensive proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, IDMS, VSAM, Easytrieve, REXX, CICS, ADSO, CA Gen, Changeman, ISPW, Endevor, InterTest, Xpeditor, FILE-AID, CA- File Master, InSync, SCLM, DFSort, Syncsort, CA7, SPUFI, QMF, MQ Series, PLATINUM.
• Prepared detail design, unit test plan for the new COBOL programs and JCLs.
• Utilized Changeman, ISPW and Endevor for configuration management.
• 5 years of experience in developing Cool Gen/CA Gen codes for Banking and Finance
• 5 years of experience in developing CICS screens for Banking and Finance
• 3 years of experience in Control-M for Banking and Finance industry.
• 2 years of experience in developing ab initio xfr and testing online screens and batch programs for logistics industry.
• Extensive experience in developing COBOL codes from scratch involving DB2, IMS, IDMS and VSAM.
• Good working knowledge of major Z/OS, TSO/ISPF Operating Systems
• Worked in various capacities such as Lead Developer, SME, Individual contributor and Team Member.
• Solid working experience of testing throughout the test cycles and releases.
• Solid understanding of complete SDLC workflow and Agile Technology.
• Strong extensive experience in version control tools like Changeman, Endevor and ISPW.
• Strong Working Knowledge in Platinum, Xpeditor, File-Aid, CA File Master, InSync and InterTest
• Worked on File Aid, CA File Master, InSync & HP ALM Quality Center 11.0
• Proficient in creating Training Manual & User Guides.
• Corporate training in Micro Soft Business Intelligence MSBI
• Presently designated as Senior Developer with TCS, Westlake with responsibilities of Project Lead.

 

Technical Background:

 

Key Skills                       :         Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, IDMS, VSAM, cool gen/CA Gen, CICS, ab initio

Operating Systems         :         Windows, Z O/S

Tools                              :         Change man, ISPW, Endevor, XPEDITER, InterTest, cool gen CA Gen, ab initio GDE,

HP ALM QC, File-Aid, CA File Master, InSync

Databases                      :         DB2, IMS, IDMS, VSAM

IBM Mainframe Software:

• JCL IBM UTILITIES
• SYNCSORT CONTROL M  (SCHEDULER)
• ENDEVOR VSAM
• SDLC REXX
• TSO CA-7  (SCHEDULER)
• PANVALET CICS
• CHANGEMAN XPEDITOR
• QMF NDM
• DB2/SQL IDCAMS INTERTEST (BATCH)
• JEM SPUFI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Work experience:

American Greetings                                                                                                                 Westlake – USA

Project Lead                                                                                                                             Nov 2016 – Present

Domain: Retail

Team Size: 12

 

Responsibilities:

• Astute Leader with exemplary communication, relationship management, analysis & organizational skills.
• Performed the role as System Analyst and primarily as Mainframe Lead Developer.
• Managed a team of 12 as onsite coordinator between Client SMEs and offshore.
• Worked with the different interfacing teams as a team lead with other vendors as point of contact.
• Developed COBOL code integrated with IDMS and worked on online screen changes using ADS/O
• Worked on enhancing the existing ADS/A structure to customize the existing menu structure at American Greetings to tailor screen access by user type.
• Developed COBOL code integrated with IDMS DB and worked on online screen changes using ADS/O
• Modified IDMS tables using DMLO and Debugged the screens using
• Used Sharepoint as Project Repository tool.
• Worked on REXX to automate the changes to be done to JCLs for different environments.
• Coordinated with offshore and assigned
• Develop technical design document (TDD) to provide an architectural direction which gives an overarching solution considering an end to end integration view across create/maintain, data interfaces, hierarchy workflow, phased approach.
• Perform code-reviews and test case reviews and ensure timely delivery.

 

Software/Tools: COBOL, IMS, DB2, ISPF, HP ALM QC, MQ, IBM Mainframe, VSAM, JCL, Eazytrieve, REXX, Panvalet, Endevor, IDMS, ADSO, DMLO, AFP

 

 

FedEx,                                                                                                                                      Memphis – USA

Project Lead and Sr. Developer                                                                                                Apr 2015 – Nov 2016

Team Size: 9

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Led, architected and participated in the design, testing and deployment of multiple applications.
• Expertise in handling project end to end solution, i.e. from inception till completion & overall resource planning.
• Performed Peer code review
• Created the high level design document for the project
• Defined the business process workflows for user management by working with onshore project lead.
• Worked with the test team lead to define overall testing strategy and write test cases
• Developed codes from scratch and enhanced codes to enable the requested functionality involving DB2 and IMS DB.
• Understood the complete Architecture and provided knowledge transfer to peers about the same for the ongoing migration project.
• Developed COBOL code and JOB from scratch to capture the logs of mainframe data into IMS DB.
• Worked on REXX to automate the changes to be done to JCLs for different environments.
• Played the role of a lead developer to migrate the IMS and DB2 data to ab initio oracle database.
• Tested the Online screens for the changes done and compared the results in Mainframe and ab initio; in case of discrepancy, enhanced the xfr, ab initio code.
• Demonstrated the requirement and architecture to peers

 

Software/Tools: COBOL, JCL, File-AID, Cool gen/CA Gen, REXX, SPUFI, ISPF, ab initio GDE, ISPW, InterTest, CA7 File Master, HP ALM QC,

 

 

 

 

 

 

FedEx,                                                                                                                                      Pune, India

Sr. Lead Developer                                                                                                                   Dec 2013 – Mar 2015

Domain: Logistics

 

Role/ Responsibilities:

• Coordination between Client SMEs and offshore.
• Used TeamForge as Project Management and Repository tool.
• Design – Prepare the Technical Design as per functional design
• Development – Developed COBOL programs with DB2 and IMS DB using
• Tested the Online screens for the changes done and compared the results in Mainframe and ab initio; in case of discrepancy, enhanced the xfr, ab initio code.
• Test – Available in case any issue comes in assembly testing.
• Worked with the test team lead to define overall testing strategy and write test cases
• Supporting the test cycles during the overall Testing phase till implementation.
• Did online screen changes using IMS DC.
• Written and executed DB2 Queries to extract data from DB2 tables.
• Developed and designed COBOL programs to change data from different clients and input into a DB2 database.

 

Software/Tools: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2, VSAM, ISPF, ab initio GDE, ISPW, InterTest, CA-File Master, HP ALM QC, CA-7.

 

American Express (AMEX) – (Multiple Projects)                                                                          Pune, India

Developer & Sr. Developer                                                                                                       Oct 2008 – Nov 2013

Domain: Banking & Finance

 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements and translated them into functional and technical requirements
• Led solutions engineering that involved process automation & functionality enhancement. Replaced time-consuming, error-prone manual processes with elegant and automated solutions documented under DM Saves activities.
• Developed COBOL code from scratch with DB2 and IMS DB.
• Coordination with onsite lead to finalize the Design document specifications based on Requirement Analysis.
• Involved in preparing the sizing for the project.
• Worked on Business Rule Extraction & Developed several ief codes using cool gen/CA Gen tool for Jumar Rewrite.
• Responsible for supporting the complete business flow for various impacted teams and working directly with project management and business teams.
• Used Clarity as Project Management tool and Sharepoint as Project Repository tool.
• Gained experience on MQ Series used to send messages through queue between Mainframe and Distributed systems and Control-M as Job scheduling tool.
• Worked on MQ Series transferring data through QM Queue Manager.
• Developed XML parser module to parse string of data passed from Mid-tier application
• Developer new COBOL/CICS–DB2 programs based on existing code using Dynamic SQL and CICS
• Modified screens using CICS.
• Provided knowledge transfer to production support team after implementation.
• Apart from being involved in peer reviews to ensure the quality of the deliverables, also lead two resources for the Unit Testing and logging the results & Creating CMRs as well as SSRs regarding the implementation.

 

Software/Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS, CICS, SQL, Changeman, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Cool Gen/CA Gen, MQ Series, XML, HP ALM QC, Control-M, .

 

Education qualification:

Bachelor of Technology – EEE

VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) Vellore, India

 

Certification:

CICS certified.