Candidates About

Experience Summary

• 13+ years of extensive IT experience in development and implementation of complex IBM Mainframe projects including Analysis, Design, Development, Debugging and Testing.
• Strong background in developing applications using COBOL, Assembler, JCL, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI and ChangeMan on MVS and Z/OS systems.
• 2+ years of experience on Mutual, Property and Casualty Insurance domain. Worked on transformation of legacy mainframe statistical reporting for policy application to Guidewire PolicyCenter application. Have a very good understanding of ISO and Bureau statistical reporting of Policy and Claims data. Have a good understanding of Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimCenter.
• 7+ years of working experience on Healthcare Domain. Worked on HIPAA 5010 remediation for HIPAA 835 (Payment remittance advice) transactions. Also involved in implementation of Real time claim adjudication processing using SOA architecture.
• Experience in handling teams both at on-site and off-shore in geographically spread teams. Worked as onsite technical lead for 8 members team.
• Good Analytical, Technical skills and experience interacting with Clients. Provided value-add to Client by proposing and implementing ideas to automate routine day-to-day work. Proposed innovative ideas to handle complex tasks in easier and most effective way.
• Has proven problem-solving skills with excellent team building and interpersonal skills.
• Completed BigData Application developer course as part of IBM Internal training. Worked on two case studies using Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Pig and AQL (Annotation Query language). Have a good understanding of Apache Sqoop, HBase and Apache Spark. The details about the case studies will be provided if requested.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as well as independently.
• Self-motivated, innovative, hardworking and flexible with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• A self-starter and team player with ability to plan and execute complex tasks.

Education:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering (Year of passing 2003) from Visveswaraya Technological University, Belgaum with an aggregate of 79.84%

Training:

• 700 - DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals

• IBM BigData Application developer
• Healthcare concepts
• ISO and Bureau statistical reporting for Policy and Claims data for Mutual and P&C.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience

Project           : Amica Mutual Insurance company

Employer       : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Client              : Amica

Term               : Mar 2015 – Till Date

Location         : Lincoln, RI, USA

Role                : Onsite Technical Lead

AMICA is in the process of transforming its legacy policy application to Guidewire PolicyCenter application. As part of this effort, we are involved in transforming statistical reporting system processing from legacy to Guidewire PolicyCenter application.

Responsibilities:

• As an onsite technical lead, involved in the design and implementation of statistical and financial reporting system in-support of Guidewire PolicyCenter implementation. It involved analysis of existing business and functional requirement of statistical and financial reporting; Identifying source for building the statistical and financial reporting from PolicyCenter database; Designing of the new system using the new source for Policy data and building with existing business requirement.
• Work with client and project stakeholders to gather functional and technical requirements.
• Perform Impact Analysis of requirements. Created High Level Design (HLD) document and Technical Solution Document (TSD).
• Provided value-add to Client by proposing and implementing ideas to automate routine day-to-day work. Proposed innovative ideas to handle complex tasks in easier and most effective way.
• Build mainframe components using COBOL, Assembler, JCL and DB2.
• Perform peer review of the code changes to make sure they are done as per requirement and design document.
• Handled 8 members off-shore team. Allocate the work requests to the respective team members and provide status update to the client on timely basis.
• Take daily calls with the offshore team to clarify any queries with respect to technical solution and design document.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in Mainframe technologies in conjunction with Insurance industry and statistical reporting skills to deliver solutions to customer.
• Engage with customer to carry out User Acceptance testing smoothly.
• Carry out unit testing and Integration testing to ensure correctness of deliverables.
• Carry out System testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing and production deployment of developed software components.
• Perform software documentation applying business and application knowledge.
• Provide quick fix for production job abend. Also, carry out root cause analysis to identify cause and provide permanent fix for the issue. Ensure Service Level Agreements are met for applications supported.
• Log the defects in Clear Quest tool and provide fix for the logged defects.
• Received top contributor award from client for year 2015.
• Received IBM-Bravo award for the contribution towards “dividend changes for Billing center project” for year 2016.

Environment: IBM-S/390, COBOL, Assembler, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS

Applications: Guidewire PolicyCenter, Guidewire BillingCenter, Guidewire ClaimCenter

Other tools: Visual sync-sort, FTP, FILE-DB2, Xpeditor, IBM rational ClearQuest

Concepts: ISO and TICO statistical reporting

Project            : AMS Support for NASCO

Employer       : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Client              : NASCO (National Account Servicing Company)

Term               : Sep 2006 – Mar 2015

Location         : Atlanta, GA, USA (and) Bangalore, India

Role                : Mainframe Senior developer and Technical team lead

As a SME (Subject Matter Expert) responsible for Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of Health care projects in NASCO Processing system. My role was as follows:

·         Work with Customer in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents

·         Perform Impact Analysis of requirements. Created High Level Design (HLD) document and Technical Solution Document (TSD)

·         Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and document functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact 

·         Present and defend product designs review to clients.

·         Coordinate and communicate tasks with developers 

·         Ensure that development is performed as per requirements

·         Work with developer to create and execute unit test case scenarios for enhancements. Verify the test results.

·         Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and customers.

·         Develop implementation and test plans, build software acceptance criteria, coordinate and work with clients to oversee the acceptance and dissemination process

·         Got the Spark award and delivery excellence award for my contribution to HIPAA 835 system area.

Environment: IBM-S/390, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2

Other tools: File Manager, FILE-DB2, Xpeditor, SCAM, EDS utilities, NDM, FTP

Concepts: HIPAA, basic concepts of SOMA

Project            : AMEX Life insurance

Employer       : CGI Bangalore

Client              : AMEX Life insurance

Term               : Dec 2004 – Sep 2006

Location         : Bangalore, India

Role                : Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities as a team member:

·         Modify the conversion programs delivered by CSC to include AMEX unique changes.

·         Define DB2 tables using the table definition given by CSC and modifying it to include AMEX unique fields.

·         Convert the data and load data to DB2 table.

·         Verify the converted data.

·         Running development cycles and validating the transactions entered by BSA.

·         Running production parallel cycles and verifying important output files.

·         Fixing bugs during Regression testing, pre-UAT and UAT stages of the project.

·         Creating ChangeMan packages to install the changes in production.

·         To provide 90 days support after installing the changes in production.

Environment: IBM-S/390, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, VANTAGE

Other tools: FILE-AID, FILE-DB2, Abend-aid, Xpeditor, Changeman, Easytrieve and JHS

Project            : Michelin Maintenance project

Employer       : CGI Bangalore

Client              : Michelin

Term               : Sep 2003 – Dec 2004

Location         : Bangalore, India

Role                : Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities as a team member:

·         Analysis over Business and System Requirements.

·         Application Design and Development.

·         Preparation of unit test plans and Unit Testing.

·         Fixing bugs during Regression testing, pre-UAT and UAT stages of the project.

·         Coordination and communication with team lead and onsite coordinator to clear Business and system requirements.

Environment  : IBM-S/390, COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO

Other tools    : FILE-AID, Endevor