Summary
Having 10+ years of experience in the IT Industry
Expertise in Application Maintenance, Custom Development, IT solutions & functional design
Domain Expertise in Insurance Domain knowledge
Global work experience
Worked as an onsite coordinator in USA for 9 Months
Worked as an onsite coordinator in Switzerland from October 2007 to December 2010.
Professional Summary
Working for Accenture Technologies, as a Sr. System Analyst from Jan04 to till date.
Worked for Satyam Computer Services Ltd., as a Business Associate from Aug2002 to Dec03
Worked for Sri Balaji Infotech as a programmer from Sep01 to July02.
Academic background
2000 S.V.University, Tirupati, India Master of Computer Applications
1995 S.V University, Tiruapti, India Batchelor of Science
1992 Board of Intermediate, Hyderabad, India Intermediate
1989 SSC Board, Hyderabad, India School of Secondary Education
Areas of expertise
Application Development
Application Design
Application Maintenance
Production support
Host centric languages e.g. CoolGen 6.5 and 7.6, Cobol, PL1, DB2, JCL, IMS.
Relevant professional experience Extracts
NAGE (National Australian Group - Europe) (Feb 11 Till Date)
Project description
National Australia Bank is one of the world's top 30 financial services companies with assets over 180billion pounds. Globally National is organized around regional businesses in Australia, Asia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Accenture supports suite of applications for the bank's Europe division in varied technology landscape including Siebel, Tandem, Lotus Notes, AS/400, Mainframes etc
As a Resource & Capability Lead (RCL), my responsibilities are,
1. Create and maintain skills matrix.
2. Create and execute skill improvement/cross training plans.
3. Succession planning.
4. Work with SDL (service delivery lead) to manage the correct level of staffing within the portfolio.
5. Work with DL to agree and identify the Build Lead and Technical Lead for each piece of work.
6. Work with recruitment and other support groups (PMO, HR etc.) to identify and secure resources to meet demand.
7. Ensure property checks are completed as per NAG and Accenture requirements.
8. Ensure time reporting is completed accurately and on time.
9. Support any relocation of employees by coordinating with support groups (RMS, HR etc.).
10. Ensure compliance to all performance management activities.
11. Work with SDL on plans to improve people engagement.
12. Actively manage attrition mitigating any issues that may arise.
13. Facilitate supply & demand reviews with NAG.
14. Work with SDL and NAG to manage downtime.
15. Coordinating Resource Augmentation requests including work order creation and demand fulfilment.
16. Work with SDL to ensure continuous engagement with the team and have plans in place to understand and address any issues that may arise.
17. Network with and leverage the appropriate technology and capability groups
AXA Winterthur (Oct 07 Jan 11)
Project description
AXA Winterthur is the one of the largest Insurance Company in Switzerland. As a Onsite Application Cluster Lead and technical expert for CoolGen applications VLB, TRS, RSI and MFF, my role is
1. Leading Offshore CoolGen Team
2. To analyze and understand the change requests and incidents.
3. To prepare adequate test cases according to the specification.
4. To code, test and deliver according to the specifications.
5. Follow the Quality process defined for the project.
6. Mentor team members.
7. Conducting the trainings for new joiners.
8. Report to the management on a weekly basis about status and all issues of the applications.
9. Document new learnings provide timely and consistent inputs to the team.
10. Follow strong review process on offshore deliverables.
11. Assure a smooth switch from onsite to offshore between transition and stabilization phase.
12. Coordination to resolve all technical and functional related issues, between the offshore application cluster team and onsite
13. Support the setting up of the processes for maintenance phase.
14. Resolving Production Incidents all CoolGen applications.
15. Maintaining the Periodic tasks in CoolGen applications.
16. Responsible for Migration Deployment in the Encyclopedia Model and Migration process to Acceptance and Production.
Technology CoolGen 6.5 and 7.6, COBOL, PL1, JCL & DB2.
Scheduled Auto (Aug 05 Sep 07)
Project description
The Commercial Line segment of the company offers a broad array of property casualty insurance and insurance related services to Clients which range from small main street business to Fortune 100 corporations.
The Scheduled Auto application supports all business processing functions New Business, Endorsements, Renewals, Renewal Conversions (from prior Auto systems), and Rewrite New, Rewrite Same, Cancel Notice, Final Cancel, Cancel Flat/Change Not Taken. It provides integrated policy processing capabilities to field office employees, service/processing center employees, and agents.
Technology COBOL, JCL, IMS & DB2.
Role and tasks description
Offshore Team Lead
As an Offshore Team Lead for Scheduled Auto Forms & Rating application, my responsibilities include estimating the tasks, task allocation, analysis, technical design, coding, testing, peer-review, resource utilization, status reporting and production support. I have also been involved in taking technical interviews of candidates, imparting training to new joiners etc.
Onsite Team Coordinator.
As a onsite team coordinator for Rating & Forms application, my role is involving in cost estimation meetings, business walk through meetings, discrepancy meetings with clients and attending daily calls with offshore team to make sure offshore is in sync with client requirements, solving offshore doubts in business requirements.
Grant Marsh STMR3 (Aug 04 Aug 05)
Project description
The Client is a leading provider of a wide range of insurance products, has undertaken an enterprise-wide initiative to bring to market a new Personnel Lines Product. A significant component of this initiative is the development, testing and implementation of the Homeowners System.
Technology CoolGen 6.5, COBOL, DB2, Guardian and Endevor
Role and tasks description
As a Lead & Developer, the basic involvement in the project is in understanding the requirements of the business, estimating the tasks, task allocation, analysis, design, developing AdvantageGen 6.5 Components, Preparing Unit Test Plans, testing, integrating the components, helping team members in Issue resolution, Conducting peer reviews, and trainings for the new Joiners and coordinating with the onsite team.
I am the Quality Coordinator for the team and I have actively participated in all the Quality activities for the project including conducting defect prevention meetings.
Creative Constructs (Jan 04 Jul 04)
Project description
Creative Constructs is the second largest chemical firm in the world. It has many business units like Electronic & Communication Technologies, It Performance Materials etc .It has several applications.AGNR3DD is one of the application. NR3DD is a replacement of the former AG Supply Chain System. AG Supply Chain also referred to as SCDB or AGSC. NR3DD is the system that receives data from various global sources then reformats, validates and sends it to SAP R3 for processing. Data enters the system from several sources User Spreadsheet, SAP R2, and MOS. NR3DD leveraged, used, the Format & Validation processing from the retired AGSC and added a Collector process to complete the data for SAP R3 readiness. This data then FTPed via DUFTS to SAP R3.
Technology COBOL, JCL, DB2 and Insync
Role and tasks description
Design and Build DTD, Program Specification & Coding
Preparation of NR3DD monthly reports.
Giving Access & Revoking the access to the all 4 applications.
Unit Testing & Subsystem Testing
HSSFI (Aug 02 Jan 04)
Project description
The insurance system processes over 1.2 Million Policies in force. The bulk of the processing takes place in the 10 zonal offices and the processing in the corporate is confined to Group Medical Insurance (GMID) & certain Reports generation. The system can be broadly classified into Policy & Claims. The Policy system aids in issuance of new policies, maintaining the history of the policyholders, and the changes pertaining to policyholders.
The Claims system's function is to process the claims raised & print the checks and the associated explanation of benefits. The Claims system also maintains the history of claims. The primary language used for the system is COBOL. The system utilizes DB2 to manage & process the Data. The two phased processing - online for the daytime & batch during the nights put the data into the DB2 databases & utilizes it.
Technology COBOL, JCL and DB2
Role and tasks description
Requirement gathering
Analysis and Development
Testing Strategy
Code Walkthrough
Pension Payment Information System (Sep 01 July 02)
Project description
Pension Payment Information System acts as an interface for generating reports for pensioners belonging to State and Central government. This paid to the pensioners through the National Bank in India. The System includes all activities required for the maintenance of data belonging to the pensioners also provides an interface for the arrears issuing as and when the State or Central Government issues them. Pensioners Dearness Allowance is changing according to the Central Government Policies, Based on the change in DA, the system take cares the appropriate action for particular center government pensioners and issues the pension with new DA.
Technology Core Java
Role and tasks description
Requirement gathering
Analysis, Design & Development
Testing Strategy
Unit Testing & Subsystem Testing
