Ashmitha Kamesh

Mobile: +6583500246
Email: ashmitha.kamesh@gmail.com

Over 10 years of experience in analysis, design, development and implementation of various software fixes in many
programming languages and also with over 4 years of experience in techno functional role which includes business
system analysis, functional/business requirements gathering, preparing functional specifications, change
management, user training, system integration and production support.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Company Designation Years of Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd Associate Nov 19 2007 – Jun 30 2011
Larsen & Toubro InfoTech Ltd Sr Software Engineer Aug 30 2011 – Oct 10 2014
Hewlett Packard Developer Lev 2 Oct 22 2014 – Aug 20 2015
Peoplebank Singapore lte ltd Application Developer Aug 28 2015 – Feb 5 2018
Manpower Staffing Services S Pte Ltd Application Developer Feb 8 2018 – Jul 31 2019
Optimum Solutions Pte Ltd Application Consultant Aug 5 2019 – Aug 5 2021
Recruit Express Pte Ltd Application Support Analyst Aug 5 2021 - Present

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, COBOL400, CL, RPG

Databases & Tools: IMSDB/DC, DB2, SQL, VSAM, PLATINUM, FILE AID, SEQUEL

Hardware: Mainframe OS390

Operating System: MVS/OS390, AS400

CERTIFICATIONS:

ITIL Foundation V3 Certified.

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 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CURRENT PROJECT:

United Overseas Bank (UOB) is one of the largest multinational banks in Singapore. FITAS application is part of
the TROC. TROC is the trade financing and remittance services. FITAS supports many of the important
products of the bank.

Project Title FITAS

Duration Ongoing project

Hardware AS400

Programming Languages COBOL400,RPG,CL

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

FITAS handles trade products for Import and Export.

Import: Letter of Credit Issuance, Import Bills settlements, Inward bills for collection, Shipping guarantee, Trust
Receipt and performance/Banker’s Guarantee

Export: Letter of credit advising/confirmation, Letter of credit transfer etc.

There are Quarterly releases and also projects being handled under FITAS. There are four quarterly releases being
rolled out. Projects are being delivered based on the estimate prepared. Apart from development team there is also
production support team which handles incidents and day to day production support activities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Actively involved in all phases of SDLC cycle for project development, implement software solutions for
new projects and change requests. Design, construct, test and maintain the software to meet the business
needs.

 Responsible for gathering requirements from the users for new project or change request. Perform impact
analysis and propose man efforts needed for the change.

 Responsible for translating business requirements to functional specifications by performing analysis on

both upstream and downstream impacts. Prepare technical design document based on the functional
specifications which involves detailed description of the changes by means if flowcharts and code level
changes.

 Involved in development of new software solutions based on the technical design document by following
the programming standards. Troubleshoot and debug if necessary.

 Responsible for system integration testing and provide support for user acceptance testing. Participate in
developing test plans, including regression tests for the new change.

 Responsible for installing the solutions to production and provide [re and post install support. Maintain
document in SharePoint for future use.

 Provide suggestions for the improvement in operational efficiency. Improve understanding of business by
attending training sessions.

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  Consult with customers and or other department on project status, proposal and technical issues such as
software system design and maintenance.

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

SKF Group is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems and services which
include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF develops
tailor-made offers for each customer segment, helping customers improve performance, reduce energy use and
lower total costs, while bringing increased added value to SKF.SKF was founded in 1907 and grew at a rapid rate to
become a global company. As early as 1920, the company was well established in Europe, North and Latin America,
Asia and Africa. Today, SKF is represented in more than 130 countries. SKF has more than 100 manufacturing sites
and also sales companies supported by about 15,000 distributor locations. SKF also has a widely used e-business
marketplace and an efficient global distribution system.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title ICSS Central SKF

Duration Ongoing project

Hardware AS400

Programming Languages COBOL400,CL,RPG

ICSS is the international customer service system that supports international distribution of products. The
application is supported by mainframe. Many Problem tickets, change tickets are raised for which solutions are
analyzed and built. ICSS interfaces with Customer Order Handling for which the support is provided by AS400.
Tickets for the incidents and changes will be raised and solved.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Responsible for interaction with clients to understand the business requirements for new changes.

 Responsible for finding the solutions to the problem or change requests that are raised.

 Responsible for building the code fixes and testing the same

 Responsible for distribution of the code fixes to other local systems that are supported by the main interface

 Responsible for writing the technical specs and getting approval from the system owners.

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

Unitrax is the product held by Citi Fox which is used by many of the Banking sector in Canada for maintain the
investor records. Unitrax is a SaaS-based, transfer agency record keeping system that enables mutual fund and
insurance companies to manage the complete administration of their wealth management products, including mutual
funds, fixed income, structured notes, annuities, and insurance investment products. Designed specifically with the
investment fund and asset management sectors in mind, Unitrax provides a number of solutions to handle common
fund industry and transfer agency issues, including maintaining client records and facilitating the associated

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administrative processes. These maintenance and processing procedures include transaction entries, generating
account investment values, interfacing with external systems and producing various client communications, such as
tax receipts, reports, letters, statements and transaction confirmations.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title Legacy Defects and Fast Track

Duration Ongoing project

Hardware AS400

Programming Languages COBOL400,CL

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, ALDON,SEQUEL

Legacy Defects and fast track is an important project of FSTI. There are 6 releases for a year and each release will
have 20 to 40 RFS going for the implementation. There are defects reported by the client for the RFSes that have
been installed. If the defects are reported with 6 weeks then they are considered as warranty defects and if the time is
more than that the defects are considered as Legacy defects. Additionally there are also fast track projects developed
which is means the particular RFS has high priority and it will go implementation with 30 days. The Requirements
will be given by onsite and the entire development and implementation will happen at offshore.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Responsible for attending the requirement walkthroughs and writing technical specs and provide tech
spec walkthrough.
● Responsible for providing the estimation.
● Responsible for development and support testing and implementation
● Responsible for providing technical solution for the defects
● Individual responsibility of fast track items(total effort required will be less than 30 days)
● Take ownership of the post implementation defects.
● Responsible for providing KT and training sessions to the new buddies.
● Responsible for providing project documents and place it in portal for the future usage.
● Responsible for reporting the daily status of the team to onsite through daily calls.
● Part of Quality audit team to check whether the documents are in place for the projects that are
installed for the quality purpose.

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

Fidelity Investments is among the most diversified financial services companies in the world, offering a full range of
product solutions for individual investors, employers, institutions and intermediaries. Our fundamental mission is to
help customers and clients achieve their financial objectives. Fidelity is one of the largest mutual fund companies1,
the leading provider of workplace savings plans2 in the U.S., clients achieve their financial objectives. Fidelity has
$3.5 trillion in assets under administration, including managed assets of $1.6 trillion, as of December 31, 2010.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title CPAY METLIFE ANNUITY (PNC)

Duration 12 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages COBOL,JCL,CICS,VSAM

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, Endevor, Rexx

Database DB2,VSAM

MetLife can only store an 8 character brokerage account number for a block of approximately 3,000 PNC annuity
contracts. These contracts are currently being rejected by NF’s posting application due to the incomplete brokerage
account link information provided by MetLife. NF will modify our posting process to identify the designated
MetLife contracts numbers when they come in from the DTCC and reference the list to update the brokerage
account link numbers prior to running our annuity posting data load process. The correspondent (PNC) will provide
an accurate full list of MetLife contract numbers and the associated PNC brokerage account numbers that NF is to
include in the proposed list. Thereafter, PNC will notify NF of changes to apply to the list. Two new View Direct
reports are required: An audit report detailing the corrections to the inbound account number for these contracts will
be produced and an audit report detailing change activity to the contract/account number reference list on List
Manager will be produced.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Taking individual responsibility of the project from design to implementation and post implementation
defects.
● Responsible for understanding the requirements and writing the technical design document.
● Responsible for getting approval for the design document and providing estimation.
● Responsible for supporting SIT and UAT.
● Responsible for providing support during the installation of the project.
● Take ownership of the post implementation defects.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title NF (National Financial)

Duration 12 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages COBOL,JCL,CICS

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, Endevor

Database VSAM

BPS E2E Multi-Account History Bookkeeping Transmission phase 2 deals with making some fixes to the new
International Bookkeeping transmission process and add some new fields to the transmission for the expanded
Symbol fields pertinent to Options. Also restructure the "mother" file process to run more efficiently. Performance
tuning of certain jobs that take more time to run.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Able to understand the current system more effectively and got appreciation from the clients for the
same.
● Individual responsibility of handling the project.
● Complete responsibility for install of the project
● Direct interaction with the clients
● Given valuable ideas for performance tuning.

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

BNYM was established in 2007 from the merger of Mellon Financial Corporation and The Bank of New York
Company, Inc., The Bank of New York Mellon is a leading asset management and securities services company,
uniquely focused to help clients manage and move their financial assets and succeed in the rapidly changing global
marketplace. Headquartered in New York, The Bank of New York Mellon has $22.1 trillion in assets under custody
or administration and $966 billion under management.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Project Title SWI (Small Work Items)

Duration 8 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages PL1,JCL

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, Changeman, IMSDB , IMSDC,FOF

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Database IMS

SWI generally involves Changes to the online screens, Fund launches, Fund activations, Fund name changes and
development of new update programs for different databases and also involves development of REXX utilities to
automate certain processes. This also involves generation of contract notes using FOF.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Responsible for giving the deliverables on time and have received appreciation from onsite.
● Responsible for week by week implementation activities and keeping track of issues in
implementation.
● Responsible for developing utilities using REXX to automate certain monotonous tasks.
● Undergone training in FOF and delivered contract notes as requested by the clients.
● Responsible for maintaining delivery checklist, Implementation checklist, Review checklist
● Responsible for end to end coding and testing of new modules based on the work package requests.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title Repurchase Settlement by BACS

Duration 5 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages JCL,PL1,COBOL

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, Endevor, IMSDB , IMSDC

Database IMS

This project deals about introducing a new payment method BACS in the repurchase of funds. In addition, there is
currently an option within UTAS to stop a payment that is on the TT payment file. However, this automatically
transfers the funds involved to client money. This transfer to client money is not always required and therefore
Operations would like the option to stop a TT payment and not have the funds automatically transferred to client
money.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Undergone effective training about the business behind the Banking domain and have grasped the concepts
so fast and have become a billable resource within 2 weeks
● Development of online screens to accommodate the new payment method and maintaining a track of query
log and discussing the same with onsite.
● Responsible for inventory control and scheduling software for deliveries.

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 ● Worked with good team spirit in testing of modules and delivered unit test logs.
● Involved in system testing and fixed the system testing defects.
● Involved in implementation activities and solved end user problems in a production support capacity.

CLIENT DESCRIPTION

Howard E. Butt Grocery Company (abbreviated H-E-B) is a private held company- having retail stores throughout
Texas and northern Mexico. H-E-B ranked No. 11 on ' 2006 list of "America's Largest Private Companies" based on
2005 revenue of $12.4 billion. The major part of business for HEB is food and drug which is now expanding into
general merchandizing. It has employee strength of 56,000. Most of client system is mainframe based. At present the
client is focusing in mainframe revitalization for betterment of business

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title H-E-B Migrate to DB2

Duration 8 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages COBOL, JCL,CICS

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, Change man, File Manager, SCODE

Database DB2, IMS

The project involves retiring IMS DB/DC and 52 selective VSAM from HEB Mainframe by Converting all IMS
databases and 52 selective VSAM files into DB2 tables and Converting all IMS DC screens into SCODE/COBOL
screens and replacing IMS Checkpoint/Restart logic with DB2 Checkpoint/Restart logic and by retiring the old data
stores (VSAM/IMS/DB2) that were consolidated as part of Item Master Enablement project and converting
ADF/IMS DB platform to SCODE /COBOL/DB2 platform.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Created document which explains complex screens & UPC map screens and provided KT to my team
members
● Have guided team members on IMSDC and I have always helped in analyzing some of the toughest parts in
the screens.
● Received appreciation from onsite for analysis of complex screens and splitting them into different
modules so that they can be coded as a single routine
● Keeping track of changes made to the complex modules and  open issues

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title Migrate off ADF

Duration 8 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages COBOL, JCL,ADF

Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, Change man, File Manager, SCODE

Database DB2, IMS

In HEB, employee payroll application is maintained in ADF (Application Development Facility) system. The
objective of this project is to retire the old ADF system which uses the IMS database into COBOL with DB2 for
employee system with service oriented architecture (SOA).
This is aimed at further expansion of the application for additional requirements and to improve mainframe
application maintainability, speed of issue resolution and reduce dependency on skilled labor.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Responsible to perform the analysis of ADF system for gathering the requirements, propose
solutions, prepare Application Design Document.
● Prepare documentation as defined under standards and templates.
● Responsible for Providing KT to testing team on some complex Employee Payroll screens.
● Responsible for developing online screens in SCODE according to user expectations.
● Assist with fixes to issue during SIT and UAT phase.
● Involved in implementing the system into production environment and solving the post
implementation issue fix.
● Involved in Post implementation issue fix.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Project Title TRIP

Duration 12 months

Hardware Mainframe OS 390

Operating Systems MVS/OS 390

Programming Languages COBOL, JCL,

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Mainframe Utilities & Tools IBM Utilities, Changeman

Database DB2,VSAM

This project is aimed at development of transport related details for H-E-B batch processing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● This was my first project and learning the HEB system and mainframe languages was my
responsibility.
● Responsible to perform the analysis for enhancements, perform impact analysis to find out the
systems/programs that could be potentially affected by proposed change(s).
● Coding and testing and implementation activities.
● worked in the development of online screens and coding
● Good interaction with the onsite.

Responsible to analyse and define detailed functional specifications based on the functional and non-functional
requirements documents.
1. Collaborate with Functional Business Analyst to clarify functional and non-functional requirements.
2. Responsible to create technical design
3. Ensure technical design adheres to architectural road map, Development practices and security
requirements.
4. Collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to clarify functional specification and technical
design during build, test and deployment phase.
5. Collaborate with production support to establish IT operations procedures and document as part of Tech
Design
6. Clarify test findings escalated by Test Manager and classify the findings accordingly (either as a defect or
change request)
7. Perform impact assessment and estimation for Project Change Request
8. Responsible for installing the solutions to production and provide [re and post install support. Maintain
document in SharePoint for future use.
9. Provide suggestions for the improvement in operational efficiency. Improve understanding of business by
attending training sessions.

I have been involved with many change requests and projects in Trade Finance. I have been part of many merger
activities that took place in UOB Singapore. I have played a system analyst role in many critical projects in the trade
like SWIFT, NTP, and BOT Thailand. I have provided valuable and cost-efficient business solutions for the projects
that I have worked on. I have handled many change requests from end to end. I have also provided prompt solutions
to the production incident.

Actively involved in all phases of SDLC cycle for project development, implement software solutions for new
projects and change requests. Design, construct, test and maintain the software to meet the business needs.

Responsible for gathering requirements from the users for new projects or change requests. Perform impact analysis
and propose man efforts needed for the change.

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Responsible for translating business requirements to functional specifications by performing analysis on both
upstream and downstream impacts. Prepare technical design document based on the functional specifications which
involve a detailed description of the changes by means of flowcharts and code level changes.

Involved in the development of new software solutions based on the technical design document by following the
programming standards. Troubleshoot and debug if necessary.

Responsible for system integration testing and provide support for user acceptance testing. Participate in developing
test plans, including regression tests for the new change.

Responsible for installing the solutions to production and provide [re and post install support. Maintain documents
in SharePoint for future use.

Provide suggestions for the improvement in operational efficiency. Improve understanding of business by attending
training sessions

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