Candidates About

Vijay Vinood William Thomas

Around 8 years of experience in Mainframe. Have good experience on IBM z/OS and IBM 3270 terminal. Have good knowledge on Assembler, COBOL, C, IMS DB/DC and DB2.

·         Have good working experience on IMS and DB2 databases and in depth understanding of assembler instructions.

·         Active contribution through all the phases of Software Analysis, Design and Development.

·         Possess good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle.

·         Extensive experience and actively involved in Analysis, Design, Test plan Reviews, Coding and Code Reviews and Testing.

·         Ability to learn quickly and to adapt to any work environment and start delivering the results in the short period.

·         Have been involved in full life-cycle projects.

·         Have good knowledge on IBM Info-sphere Data stage 9.1 and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

·         Have successfully completed the proof of concept in “ASM to C” conversion (Language conversion) and integrating DBCS (double byte character set) in z/OS.

·         Have involved on “disaster recovery” programs.

·         Possess good knowledge in SQL (DB2), IMS DB/DC concepts and also mainframe-MQ connectivity.

·         Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal organizational skills, outgoing personality, Self-motivated, Initiative, hardworking, ability to cooperatively work in a team and quick grasping power.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Working as Computer Systems Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services from Sep’09 to till date

IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals 0000-0700

• Technical Excellence from TCS – Avis Budget Group
• Received “certification of Kudos” from TCS – Avis Budget Group for most of my projects
• Received customer appreciation for most of my technical work

Projects Information

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in reverse      chronological order

Project #1:

Avis Budget Group [Steady state IT team], USA Jun’14 - till date

Avis Budget is the leading general-use vehicle rental company in North America, Europe, Middle East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company's headquarters are located in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States. I am a Senior developer of application development team and scope of my work includes the new applications to be built without any issues, resolve experienced application problems, give support to the Application users and Maintain and further develop the Application.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Working with end-users to assess requirements and creating feasible solutions.
• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfil the user requirements.
• Creating new functionalities as per business requirements.
• Knowledge sharing within the team.
• Preparing system test plan and coordinating system test across multiple teams.
• Debugging and implementing the system.
• Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Developing new online/batch systems.
• Enhancing existing applications.
• Working on rental queries from end users and return back to them correct remedies.
• Working closely with other team members (both from US and non-US) and engaging them to translate functional/technical specifications into end user product.
• Conducting mainframe performance tuning, troubleshooting, support, and capacity estimation.
• Conducting thorough testing of application code changes to ensure quality of data produced.
• Monitoring performance statistics using Omegamon and BMC (Bool/Babbage) tools.

Skills used:

IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, C, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2, Rational Developer for System z/OS, z/Linux, OMEGAMON, MQ iSeries, QMF, SPUFI, Data stage 9.1.

Project #2:

Wizard One source, Avis Budget Group [strategic IT team], USA Mar’ 14-May’14

Wizard One Source project was to deliver a brand neutral integrated Rent-A-Car system. This is in alignment with ABG's long term vision to operate multiple brands using a single generic code base with brand specific add-on components where necessary. The objective of the project was to create the generic source code base for an integrated system and migrate the existing Avis and Budget systems to execute using the generic code base.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analysis and identifying the functional/technical gaps across brands (Avis and Budget). Create an impact analysis and share it with business.
• Preparation of technical specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Create JCLs to run in both Batch and DLI mode.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and project requirements.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Perform peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Status reporting and responsible for the final delivery.

Skills used:

IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL (Both Batch and DLI mode), IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2, z/Linux, OMEGAMON, QMF, SPUFI.

Project #3:

Avis China, Avis Budget Group, USA Dec’ 13 – Feb’14

Avis China project is to have a proper global RAC system in China. China is very likely to become one of the largest self-drive RAC markets in the world. The main objective of this project was to integrate Chinese language in existing RAC system Wizard.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Working with end-users to assess requirements and creating feasible solutions.
• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfil the user requirements.
• Enhancing existing systems to support DBCS (double byte character set). This includes all online (IMS DB/DC)/batch (JCL) systems and MQ.
• Knowledge sharing within the team.
• System testing of programs.
• Debugging and implementing the system.
• Working on rental queries from end users and return back to them correct remedies.
• Working closely with other team members (both from US and non-US) and engaging them to translate functional/technical specifications into end user product.
• Conducting mainframe performance tuning, troubleshooting, support, and capacity estimation.
• Conducting thorough testing of application code changes to ensure quality of data produced.
• Monitoring performance statistics using Omegamon and BMC (Bool/Babbage) tools.

Skills used:

z/Linux, IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, MFS, DB2, MQ iSeries, OMEGAMON, QMF, SPUFI

Project # 4:

Avis Budget Group [Steady state IT team], USA Mar’13 – Dec’13

Avis Budget is the leading general-use vehicle rental company in North America, Europe, Middle East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company's headquarters are located in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States. I was a team member of application development team and scope of my work was to build new applications without any issues, resolve experienced application problems, give support to the Application users and enhance the application as per business requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked with end-users to assess requirements and created feasible solutions.
• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfil the user requirements.
• Created new functionalities as per business requirements.
• Knowledge sharing within the team.
• System testing across multiple teams.
• Debugging and implementing the system.
• Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Developed new online/batch systems.
• Enhanced existing applications.
• Worked on rental queries from end users and return back to them correct remedies.
• Worked closely with other team members (both from US and non-US) and engaging them to translate functional/technical specifications into end user product.
• Conducted mainframe performance tuning, troubleshooting, support, and capacity estimation.
• Conducted thorough testing of application code changes to ensure quality of data produced.
• Monitored performance statistics using Omegamon and BMC (Bool/Babbage) tools.

Skills used:

IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2, OMEGAMON, MQ iSeries, QMF, SPUFI

Project # 5:

Avis Budget Group [Steady state IT team], India Sep’09 – Feb’13

Avis Budget is the leading general-use vehicle rental company in North America, Europe, Middle East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company's headquarters are located in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States. I was a team member of application development team at offshore. Scope of my work was to communicate with onsite team and provide updates. Also was to maintain and further develop the application as per business requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked with onsite team to assess requirements and create feasible solutions.
• Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfil the user requirements.
• Created new functionalities as per business requirements.
• Knowledge sharing within the team.
• Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Developed new online/batch systems.
• Enhanced existing applications.
• Prepared test data and conducted unit testing.
• Conducted thorough testing of application code changes to ensure quality of data produced.
• Monitored performance statistics using Omegamon and BMC (Bool/Babbage) tools.

Skills used:

IBM z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, DB2, OMEGAMON, MQ iSeries, QMF, SPUFI