Astute performer with 7.5 yrs of experience in mainframe

1. Pranchan K. Biswas
Mobile: + 918451921785 022 61730254,
Email: pranchan.biswas@gmail.com
Seeking challenging assignments with an organisation of repute.
Synopsis
 An astute performer with 7.5 Yrs. of experience in Software Development, Programming and Support.
 Comprehensive exposure in working on COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, Changeman, File Aid, Xpeditor and CICS.
 Brief exposure in working on Quality tools like SONAR and JIRA.
 Brief exposure in working on Configuration management tools like Changeman and RTC.
 Comprehensive exposure in working on Banking (Custodian), Credit card, financial services and Insurance domain.
 Brief exposure in working on SDLC models like Agile and Waterfall.
 Presently associated with IBM India pvt ltd., Mumbai as Sr. Systems Engineer.
Professional Qualification
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Current profile: Sr. Systems Engg. at IBM
About IBM: The International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an
American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York,
United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure,
hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
IBM India Private Limited is the Indian subsidiary of IBM.[3] It has facilities in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam
and Hyderabad.
Job Profile: Working as Sr. Software Engg. to provide business solutions to Client - Caceis Bank France
under Financial Services domain.
As the s/w model applied in these projects is AGILE, essayed the role of Scrum Master in some of the latest
projects.
CACEIS is a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole group specialized in asset servicing which provides financial
services to institutional investors.
Projects Undertaken:
Onsite Project:
Client Location : France
1. Title : Walker Fees – CFR
Duration : 3 months

2. Client Location : France
Environment: Mainframe-Batch
Technologies: COBOL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : File AID, RTC
Role : Scrum Master.
Responsibilities:
 Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog.
 Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality
features for its product.
 Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress.
 Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress.
 Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.
Scope : The scope of this project is to decommission the existing application ‘SPIRO’ and
replace it with new application ‘CFR’.
Offshore projects:
1. Title : Walker Fees – Manual Invoice
Duration : 2.5 months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch
Technologies: COBOL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : File AID, RTC
Role : Sr. System Engg. / Development Team Member (Agile)
Responsibilities:
 Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, implementation and Query
resolution.
 Delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint
(the sprint goal)
Scope : The scope of the project is to generate invoices manually for some transactions.
2. Title : Walker Fees – Multi entity
Duration : 3 month
Environment: Mainframe-Batch
Technologies: COBOL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : File AID, RTC
Role : Sr. System Engg. / Development Team Member (Agile)
Responsibilities:
 Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, implementation and Query
resolution.
 Delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint
(the sprint goal)
Scope : Currently Caceis bank operates in two countries, Luxemburg and France. The
scope of the project is to migrate Cacies bank Luxemburg to Caceis bank France and have a
common functionality for all customers of Caceis bank.
3. Title : Walker Fees – Multi entity VAT
Duration : 2.5 months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch
Technologies: COBOL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : File AID, RTC
Role : Scrum Master.
Responsibilities:
 Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog.
 Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality
features for its product.
 Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress.
 Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress.
 Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.

3. Scope : This is an extended version of project MultiEntity, wherein there is a change in
logic for VAT retrieval and calculation
4. Title : Walker Fees – Novus
Duration : 5 months - In progress
Environment: Mainframe-Batch
Technologies: COBOL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : File AID, RTC
Role : Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
 Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog.
 Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality
features for its product.
 Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress.
 Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress.
 Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.
Scope : The scope of this project is to introduce multi-currency in invoicing process.
Previous profile:
Sr. Software Engg. at iGATE
About iGATE: iGATE (Previously iGATE PATNI) provide full-spectrum of consulting, technology, business
process and product engineering outsourcing services. Its customer footprint spans across verticals
like banking & financial services; insurance & healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing, retail, distribution &
logistics; media, entertainment leisure & travel; communication, energy & utilities; public sector; and
independent software vendors.
In India it has offices at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Noida. It operates on various
business domains such as Banking & Finance, Automation, Insurance, Healthcare etc. It employs 26000+
employees and has a market capitalisation of 1.7+ Billion USD.
Job Profile: Working as Sr. Software Engg. to provide business solutions to Client called Guardian under
Insurance domain.
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and its subsidiaries sell life, long term care insurance,
disability income, group medical and dental insurance products, and offer 401(k), annuities and
other financial products. Guardian operates one of the largest dental networks in the United States,
covering more than six million employees and their families at 120,000 companies.
Key Projects Undertaken:
1. Title : IL/IPD Production Support
Duration : 18 months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch and CICS
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Role : Sr. Software Engg.
Responsibilities: Code Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination code enhancement and
Query resolution.
Scope : Analyze production abends and provide temporary or/and permanent fix.
2. Title : Agency Compensation Transformation 2011
Duration : 4 Months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch and CICS
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 6

4. Role : Sr. Software Engg.
Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution
Scope : The primary objective of ACT 2011 is to expand agent and agency information to
have a better picture of agent level information.
3. Title : Address Reorganization 1
Duration : 4 Months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch and CICS
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 3
Role : Sr. Software Engg.
Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution
Scope :
Scope is to replace existing LCS Name & Address information storage by new normalized name &
address table which is yet to be defined and created.
We need to get started by modifying all PHD programs to receive name and address data from ne
w tables. At this time, have a dummy logic in all PHD programs to call a 'service' which will return
exactly same information (such as name, address1, address2...address6 etc.) as each program is
currently getting by reading POLBASE and/or VLS_NAME_ADDRESS table.
4. Title : IMS Consolidation to PROD2 LPAR
Duration : 1 Month
Environment: Mainframe-Batch and CICS
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : DB2.
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 3
Role : Sr. Software Engg.
Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution
Scope :
Batch jobs with On demand and IMS steps in them will need to be split into multiple jobs and
schedule changes to reflect change
Batch jobs with DB2 and IMS steps in them will need to change the dsnload dataset from
SYS2.DB2P.DSNLOAD, SYS2.DB2P.DSNEXIT to SYS2.DP12.DSNLOAD, SYS2.DP12.DSNEXIT so
they will route to PROD2.
Sr. Analyst programmer at Syntel.
About Syntel: Syntel is a US based IT company which provides business solutions to clients such as
American Express, Humana, All State, State Street, Ace Max, Chrysler, Vells Vorgo, Moody’s etc. In India it
has offices at Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Gurgaon. It operates on various business domains such as
Banking & Finance, Automation, Insurance, Healthcare etc. It employs 21000+ employees and has a market
capitalisation of 500 Million USD.
Job Profile: Working as Sr. Analyst Programmer to provide business solutions to Client called American
Express under Banking and finance (Cards and Payments) domain.
American Express is a global Credit card company which operates at US and Middle East Asia Currently it
as extending its market in Japan.
Projects Undertaken:
1. Title : Amex-CAPN-Production Support
Duration : 19 months
Environment: Mainframe-Batch

5. Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Role : Sr. Software Engg.
Responsibilities: Code Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination code enhancement and
Query resolution.
Scope : Analyze production abends and provide temporary or/and permanent fix.
2. Title : Amex-CAPN-Merchant ODS
Duration : 8 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 3
Role : Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution
Scope : The primary objective of CAPN ODS project is to create a new Operational Data
Store (ODS) for all International Merchants from EMEA/ LAC/ APA region in
DB2G sub-system. A new stored procedure will be created in sysplexed
Region to internally access ODS.
3. Title :Amex-CAPN-One Point Payment Stream
Duration : 14 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 8
Role : Analyst programmer
Responsibilities: Designing, Development, Testing.
Scope:
The primary objectives of the One-Point Payment Stream Project:
• Allow a later submissions cut-off time of 12:00am MST (accelerating from the present
10:00pm MST)
• Issue payment the next day
• Consolidated Settlement/Accurate Reporting (in correlation with the changes above)
As a direct response from customer complaints and competitor products, the One Point Payment
Stream will strengthen the Service Agents and Issuer experience, thus improving American
Express’ relations with existing One Point Servicing Agents; in addition it will enable growth by
upgrading capabilities.
4. Title :Amex-CAPN-Premier Partner Integration
Duration : 6 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 4
Role : Senior Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing.
Scope :
The Premium Partner Integration (PPI) project will enable the Membership Rewards (MR)
Pay at Partner (PAP) feature to be made available as a payment option on a new high volume
online retail website. The retailer will build functionality to accept “Rewards Currency” as a
new form of payment and American Express will be its exclusive launch partner (aside from
existing co-brand cards) until December 31, 2010.
Leveraging MR points as a payment option will significantly increase the annual point burn
opportunity at strong economics. With PAP capabilities added to the retail partner, American
Express would further strengthen its visibility in the online space, improve its leadership

6. position in the retail loyalty redemption space and will enable Membership Rewards to
continue to grow its presence in the retail arena.
5. Amex-CAPN-Cross Border Pricing
Duration : 3 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 4
Role : Sr. Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Co-ordination and Query resolution.
Scope :
The Cross Border Pricing – North America initiative will provide the functionality to utilize merchant
and card issuer location data to adjust transaction pricing.
In this initiative, “Local” will refer to the Card Issuer and the Merchant in the same country.
Whereas, “Inbound” (Foreign) will be defined as the Card Issuer and the Merchant not in the same
country.
This will apply only to North American SE’s (merchants available on the SEIMS database).
Utilizing this data will provide the capability to price transactions differently according to the
local/inbound characteristic, as inbound provides increased value.
This will deliver additional revenue streams as well as align Merchant pricing with American Express’
value proposition.
6. Amex-CAPN-MCCY Global Merchant Finance Solution
Duration : 5 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 4
Role : Senior Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Co-ordination and Query resolution.
Scope : Expand MCCY functionality to allow product to be offered into Regulated and non-
Regulated proprietary markets
7. Amex-CAPN-Release 11A
Duration : 6 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve,
Team Size : 8
Role : Senior Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Testing and Query resolution.
Scope :
The Submissions Release 11A project will enable functionality for all Argentina submitters
currently submitting non-EDC traffic to migrate to the CAPN platform utilizing the
Submissions GFSG (Global Financial Settlement Guide).
8. Title :Amex-CAPN-Release-8A
Duration : 12 Months
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : IMS, DB2

7. Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 10
Role : Sr. Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution.
Scope :
• To enable the migration of proprietary Merchant spend volume in APA Business
centers to the CAPN POA Submissions architecture.
• Represent a further stage in extending CAPN globally to all Regions and Markets,
as CAPN is being introduced to APA under this Release.
9. Amex-CAPN-Test Office projects
Environment: Mainframe
Technologies: COBOL, JCL
Database : IMS, DB2
Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve, CA7
Team Size : 4
Role : Test Lead
Responsibilities: Analysis, Testing and Query resolution.
Scope :
This project includes those impacts where APCD functionality does not have development impacts
but due to changes in Upstream/Downstream systems APCD is identified as Test only to test E2E
flow.
Computer Skills
 Mainframe Technologies/Database :- COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Procédures, EasyTrieve, DB2, IMS,
 Mainframe Tools : - Changeman, File AID, CA7, DB2 File Aid, SPUFI.
 Quality Tools : - SONAR, JIRA
 Mainframe Environments : - Batch, CICS.
 OS : - IBM- Z OS.
 Domain : - Insurance, Banking, Financial services.
Awards / Certification / Trainings
ACADEMICS:
 Winner of Tech Fest 2008 (A national level paper presentation)
 Winner of National level project competition organized by Lokmat times
CAREER:
SYNTEL:-
 Received recognition from business for Quality deliverables for Test Office and R8A project.
 Received Smart Employee of the quarter award for quality deliverables for Release 11A project.
 Received Team of the quarter award for quality deliverables for Agency Compensation Transformation
2011.
 Completed BNFS Level-1 Certifications.
iGATE:-
 Received Smart Minds award for innovative approach.
 Received Citizenship award for contribution towards social activities.

8. Completed Insurance Level-1 Certifications.
IBM:-
 Received IBM value award – ‘Put the client first’.
 Received Eminence and excellence award (twice in a row) for developing better relationship with client.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 24th
Sep 1983
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali
Address Airoli, Navi Mumbai
Location Preference Free to relocate anywhere.
DECLARATION: I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge
Place: Mumbai
Date: 22/03/2016 Pranchan K. Biswas