Vijay Ch

Email: vijayreddymainframe@gmail.com
Mobile : 732-564-6105

Experience Summary:

 12+years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of

application software in Mainframe platform.
 Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
 Perform code and design reviews
 Perform unit testing and System testing
 Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for
issues
 Participates as a developer in team environment
 Build Programs JCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
 Participate pre and post deployment activates
 Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test
plan
 Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.
 Tracking all the production related incidents via ESP and working directly with client to
provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.
 Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,FILE-AID,
TSO/ISPF,CA7,ESP (Scheduler) tool, CHANGEMAN,RACF,SPUFI,IBM UTILITIES ,
Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system
replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
 Good domain knowledge of the Telecom
 Responsible for creating and deleting user id’s.
 Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple
projects and prioritize workload.
 Developed expertise in client interaction.
 Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills
 Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
 Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint(Charts, tables,
graphs),Visio(Flowcharts)
 Strong commitment towards quality, experience in Agile and waterfall methodologies
while ensuring compliance to coding standards and review process

Certifications

 ITILV2 Foundation Certified Professional

Key Roles and Responsibilities

 Analyze, Design, Develop & test activities in Cobol,CICS,DB2

 JCL job creation and maintenance
 Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
 Perform code and design reviews
 Participate as a developer in team environment
 Perform unit testing and System testing
 Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability
 Working directly with client and other teams to meet the SLA’s.
 Documenting and coordinating project activities for internal knowledge base.
 Escalation of issues within OPAS(incident tracking tool) as appropriate
 Scheduling of Jobs via ESP scheduler
 Resource planning
 Production support

Education
Master of Computer Application
Sriram engineering College INDIA

Skills Summary

 Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL

 Databases: DB2,IDMS,VSAM,SQL Server 2000,UNIX HP
 Application web servers: Web logic 7.1 ,Jboss
 Operating Systems: MVS/ESA Windows 98/2000/XP/2003
 Business Process Tools - MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, Lotus
Notes
 Tools & Technologies: ESP(Job scheduler), CICS, FILE-AID,FILEZILLA,MFT

INFOMAN, SPUFI, QMF, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, ABEND-AID

, XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN,

Projects Handled

EVERTEC INC (Aug 2019 – Still date)

Project: EBA
Location : San Juan ,Puerto Rico

Company Overview:

Billing Payment Applications (EBA) is the core banking system of EVERTEC, Inc. serving the
retail and commercial banking customers of EVERTEC Inc. The Primary driver for the EBA re-
architecture initiative undertaken by EVERTEC, Inc. is to move the current retail and
commercial banking platform from a pre-
dominantly Batch Oriented System to a Real-Time System transfers.

EBA application is a custom built solution developed using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, Eazytrieve
and Assembler. To improve its operational efficiency and provide superior service levels to its
customer, EVERTEC Group LLC. has planned to revamp its legacy EBA application into
modern banking platform using new technology products.

Responsibilities:

 Understand business Requirements (BRD) communicating with the business users,

project requirements definition of enhanced customer options development, PRD
impacts on the current systems and the application areas involved in development.
 Develop design documents for the development and enhancement initiatives to upgrade
the system.
  Integrate and manage the design process for the development and enhancement
initiatives of the various application systems.
 Effective client communication for the requirement changes value adds the project.
 Develop effort estimates for build and test phase of the development and enhancement
initiative.
 Perform code changes based on the requirement changes.
 Attend /initiate project estimation/design/code review and status meeting with client as
well as offshore team.
 Perform unit testing, System and integrated testing.
 Resolve incidents problem reported and perform root cause Analysis (RCA) for issues
 Support for pre and post deployment activates
 Support for user Acceptance testing
 Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test
plan

STATEWIDE IDAHO,
Location: Boise,ID
Dec 2017 – July 2019

Project: DHW
Company Overview:

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s programs and services are designed to help people
live healthy and be productive, strengthening individuals, families, and communities. From birth
throughout life, we help people improve their lives.
Responsibilities:

 ESP job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding

 Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling
 Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
 Escalation of Technical issues within EPAS as appropriate
 Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing
regardless of platform.
 Abend resolution and job restarts
 Automated inserting and mail scheduling
 Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.
 Coordinate ad-hoc mailings
 Vendor mail
 Automated mail
 Mail Support Services
 Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software
Releases:
 Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (cataloged procedures)
  Create Documentation and run instructions
 Develop and implement Automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

AT&T (Aug 2009 – Aug 2017)

Project: EPAS
Location: Saint Louis,MO
Company Overview:

AT&T is one of the world's leading providers of communication solutions serving customers in
America and Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include network IT services, local, national and
international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products
and services..
Project Overview:

This is a level alert support system for production. As a part of production operations, Enterprise
Production Application Services supports the business by continuously providing support to
Applications of the processes of Billing Cycles for the Southwest, West, National Local and
SNET on MVS mainframes.

Responsibilities:

 Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications

 Perform code and design reviews
 Perform unit testing and System testing
 Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for
issues
 Participates as a developer in team environment
 Build Programs JCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
 Participate pre and post deployment activates
 Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test
plan
 ESP job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding
 Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling
 Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
 Escalation of Technical issues within EPAS as appropriate
 Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing
regardless of platform.
 Abend resolution and job restarts
 Automated inserting and mail scheduling
 Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.
 Coordinate ad-hoc mailings
 Vendor mail
 Automated mail
 Mail Support Services
 Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software
Releases:
 Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (cataloged procedures)
  Create Documentation and run instructions
 Develop and implement Automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

BT (Dec 2006 – Aug 2009)

Project: Integrated network system(INS)

Company Overview:
BT Group plc (trading asBT) is a holding company which owns British Telecommunications
plc a British multinational telecommunications services company with head offices in London,
United Kingdom. It has operations in around 180 countries
Project Overview:
INS is an amalgam of two earlier systems – MANUS and JNS. MANUS for the network
joining main nodes and JNS for network out to smaller exchanges. INS does not cover the
‘Local Lines’ from exchange out to the customer. Most INS sub-systems deal at the
exchange to exchange level, ECS, the newest development looks at the contents of the
station itself. INS is used to view the current utilization of the network, in terms of circuits
and routes, and also allows planning for future use.
.
Responsibilities:

 Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
and Implementation phases
 Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough
meeting with the IT & Business managers.
 Modified and tested COBOL and CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests of
business departments.
 Take new scheduling requests from programmers, set up CA-7 job definition,
schedules, triggers and requirements.
 Monitor and ABEND resolution of MVS CA-7/CA-11 batch processing.
 Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system
replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
 Extensive coding using COBOL, JCL and VSAMs.
 Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.
 Gathering Signoffs from Business.
 Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the team.
(Both offshore and onsite) at the end of the schedule.
 Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, CICS, CA-7, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID,
FILE-AID, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN