Divakar

IBM MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Contact: 09193225794
[email protected]

Career Conspectus
• 4 years of experience as a Software Professional with expertise in Mainframe technologies like COBOL,
JCL,VSAM, DB2, CICS etc., methodologies and Real Time Application Development.

• Having very good exposure in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS.

• Presently associated with Arcad Technologies Pvt Limited, Noida.
• An effective communicator with excellent relationship management skills and strong analytical, leadership,
decision making, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Experience Details

Total Experience (Months) 48 Months

Work Experience:
• I am currently working as a Software Engineer with Arcad Technologies Pvt Ltd, Noida.
• I have 3.8 years of relevant experience in development, debugging, testing and
maintenance of software applications using Mainframe technology and Micro Focus
COBOL, Which includes knowledge of Insurance and benefits domain . In my current
role I am working as a software product developer for US all state Life insurance Project.

Knowledge Purview
• Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge of COBOL, JCL, IBM Mainframe
Systems.
• Develop new programs and enhancement in existing as per clients need.
• Diagnosed technical problems on a large scale Mainframe environment.
• Supported and responsible for all batch break / fix.
• Support application / system issues impacting the SLA`s of batch schedules.
• Monitored, defined, and worked with Vsam files.
• Maintained all Qsam files, Partition Data Sets, and Generation Data Sets.
• Managed heavy requests via email from applications staff.
• Handling Service Request, which involves creation of new jobs issues where the turnaround time is
pretty less.
• Handling Client Daily Service Review call
• Attending Internal and External Audits.

Domain Expertise

Experience
Domain Specific Area in Domain
(Months)

Insurance U.S All States Life Insurance 38

Defined Contribution Benefits 12

Technical Expertise
Technologies
Operating Systems MVS/ESA, Z/OS, Windows Family

Languages JCL, VS COBOL

RDBMS DB2, MS-SQL

File Management VSAM

OLTP CICS

TOOLS SPUFI, QMF

Others TSO/ISPF

Employment Recital

• Working as a Software Engineer in Arcad Technologies Pvt Limited, Noida. From March 2014
to till date.
Employment History
Organization Duration Designation

Arcad Technologies Pvt Limited, Noida March 2014-Till Associate

Date Professional Product
developer

Project Details
Project 1:

US all states Life Insurance:

US all states life insurance(Wealth Start

Project Name 01/6/2015
Management Accelerator) Date

Client End Date Till Date

Project Description: This WMA (Wealth management accelerator) project is company’s own
product. This project involves development and enhancement of requirement given by
company’s clients. Development involves coding new modules as required by enhancement.
Testing involves Unit testing, Running daily batch cycle and generated reports used for
verification.
Role / • Running daily batch cycle.
Responsibilities
• Resolving abends in daily batch cycle.
 • Coding new programs as per requirement.
• Resolving and fixing tickets assinged by Ba. Which
involves finding bug and making resolution.

Environment: Mainfame Express, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, GDG

Operating System:OS-390

PROJECT 2:
Conversion of CA-Fileaid to CA-Filemaster:

Description: This project includes the replacement of FILEAID utility to a newer version
FILEMASTER by CA. CA File Master Plus is a full function z/OS and OS/390 file/data management
product that provides enhanced capabilities for sequential, partitioned, and VSAM files in an online
ISPF interface and through batch commands.
CA File Master Plus provides a set of powerful and easy-to-use tools for manipulating z/OS data files.
Many of the functions support specified record filter/selection criteria and allow data to be displayed and
modified using COBOL or PL/I copybooks.

Role: Programmer

Environment: IBM Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, VSAM

Tools: Endevor

Team Size :8

Contribution: Responsible for analysing, modifying and testing of codes to incorporate new
functionalities as prescribed by CA. Code movements to different stages to make the product live on
board

PROJECT 3:
OMNI Development and Support :
Description: The project is a running project that involves Application & Production Support for OMNI
Core System. OMNI is a record keeping system for Defined Contribution. The main activities involved in
the project are Maintenance for OMNI core production environment, Application Support for Legacy
Systems Harmony & Cash Management System, Production Support for OMNI Core processing,
Harmony Batch Processing&Cash Management System Batch Processing.

Role: Programmer

Environment: IBM Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS.

Tools: Endevor, FILEMASTER

Team Size :5

Contribution : Responsible for solving Software Problems or Enhancements, providing support for
designing and developing new programs, development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs, preparing
Weekly & Monthly Quality Reports, fixing & Resolving Abends faced during Production Cycle, creating
Technical/ Functional Documents for solving TSR's (TDD Service Requests), monitoring the MHRS
Support mailbox for various requests during the off US hours.
Certifications:

1. Obtained Master certification in JCL from Brain bench (2011)

2. Obtained certification in VS COBOL II from Brain bench (2011)

IT Skills

• Skills : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS

• Operating Systems : Windows 98 / 2000 / 2007 / 2003, Windows XP Professional
• Tools : FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, DITTO

• Scholastics

Technical Qualification
1. Bsc Shri Krishna devaraya 2009 52%
computer university
Academic Qualification
2. XII Hyderabad board 2005 72.0%
3. X Hyderabad board 2003 60.0%

Personal Dossier
Date of Birth: 16/05/1988
Present Address D-195 New Ashok nagar, New Delhi
Languages Known: English and Hindi

(Divakar)