This document contains a summary of Sashi Bhushan D's professional experience as a Mainframe Developer with over 7 years of experience programming in COBOL, IMS, DB2, and JCL. It lists 3 projects they led or contributed to for clients like Daimler Trucks and American Express developing and maintaining mainframe applications for tasks like price processing, merchant underwriting, and finance processing. Their responsibilities included design, development, testing, production support, and acting as a liaison between technical and business teams.
1. Sashi Bhushan D
NW Lovejoy Street Portland, Oregon 97209
Email: D.Sashi.here@gmail.com | Cell: 602-500-1015
Professional Summary
Mainframe Developer with 7+ years of experience in all areas of software construction and programming with a solid track record of
performance in managing highly complex system in Cobol, IMS, DB2 and JCL. Adept at troubleshooting, ensuring quality at every
stage of development as well as management process.
Professional Skills
ï‚· Excellent knowledge in programming complex mainframe applications
ï‚· Analyzing the requirement, Estimate the efforts, budget and resources
ï‚· Building team of professionals with appropriate skills and organize project kick-off meetings
ï‚· Conduct impact analysis, prepare High level / Low level design
ï‚· Design the application and programmatic logic as per the requirement with mainframes
ï‚· Coding, Testing and Troubleshooting the Mainframe and Impacted applications
ï‚· Act as a single point of contact for the project and ensure timely delivery
ï‚· Unit test, Debug, support and troubleshoot the cross system testing activities
ï‚· Superior proficiency with mainframe application built with COBOL, JCL, DB2 and IMS(Batch/Online)
ï‚· Good familiarity with MQ Series, VSAM, CICS and utility tools XPEDITER and Endevor
ï‚· Hands on experience in CHANGEMAN, Panvalet, SPUFI, QMF, JOB-T, CTLM, XPEDITER, File Aid, IBM Utilities
ï‚· Knowledge of XML, HTML, C, C++, JAVA, Unix, Oracle SQL , Linux Operating System
ï‚· Experience working in Banking and Finance, Manufacturing domains
ï‚· Experience working in Waterfall methodology and knowledge of Agile methodology
ï‚· Proven ability to work in a high-pressure environment handling multiple projects
ï‚· Exceptional presentation and organization skills
ï‚· Sounding knowledge of Coding, Testing and managing testing teams as an E2E manager
ï‚· Possess strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
ï‚· Ability to work in a diverse team and in a fast paced dynamic environment
ï‚· Self-motivated, highly committed to responsibilities
Work Experience
Syntel Ltd (Jun 2010 to Till Date)
Mainframe Developer Lead
Scandant Solutions (Mar 2009 to Jun 2010)
Software Engineer
Technical Skills
COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, SQL, VSAM, CICS
Tools
Mainframe TSO/ISPF, Change Man, Pan Valet, File-Aid (IMS & DB2), XPEDITER, Job-T, Control-M, BMC Utilities, SPUFI,
QMF, Endevor, IBM Debugger, Fault Analyzer, Delta-IMS, Apptune, HP Quality Center 11.0
Education
University of Hyderabad (Jun 2005 to Aug 2008)
Masters in Computer Science
Work Status
H1B Visa (Valid until 30th
Mar 2017 extendable to additional 4.5 years)
2. Project Details
Project # 1: Price Walk Batch Processing
The Price Walk Batch is responsible for the creation, Maintenance of the Price Walks and Balance Sheet, Worksheet and
their status. This is the nightly batch which logically flows deletes the older orders, handles the voided and incomplete orders and
generates the status in an HTML format and inserts to DB2 in a CLOB field for the consumer to view the reports in frontend
Role: Mainframe Developer Lead
Client: Daimler Trucks North America
Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Pan Valet, Mainframe (Batch and Online), Fault Analyzer, IBM Debugger
Responsibilities:
ï‚· Analyzing the requirement, Estimate the efforts, budget and resources
ï‚· Involved in business / Technical analysis, Solution Architecture, Design
ï‚· Organize project kick-off meetings.
ï‚· Prepared Unit Test Plan, Unit Test Strategy
ï‚· Client communications on project status and Daily status reporting
ï‚· Prepared High level Design(HLD) and Low Level Design(LLD)
ï‚· Prepared Unit Test Plan(UTP), Unit Test Cases, Unit Test results(UTR)
ï‚· Developed the programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS (Batch/Online)
ï‚· Unit and System Testing of programs
ï‚· Support SA to perform UAT
Project # 2: Merchant Underwriting (MU)
Merchant Underwriting expands the new merchant underwriting process to Phone channel along with Internet channel
and expanding both channels to underwrite applications across all Industries within US markets based on the business specified
legal structures. Provided the capability of finding the fraudulent merchants using the credit bureau systems considering the
sensitive aspects of the business
Role: Mainframe Developer Lead + E2E Manager
Client: American Express (AmEx)
Environment: Cobol, JCL , DB2, IMS, MQ Series, Change Man, Mainframe(Batch and Online) File Aid, Java, Data
warehousing
Responsibilities:
ï‚· Analyzing the requirement, Estimate the efforts, budget and resources
ï‚· Managed Developers and Testers from 12 different applications
ï‚· Involved in business / Technical analysis, Solution Architecture, Design
ï‚· Organize project kick-off meetings, E2E co-ordination, Client Communication and Daily project status reporting
ï‚· Prepared High level Design(HLD) and Low Level Design(LLD)
ï‚· Prepared Unit Test Plan(UTP), Unit Test Cases, Unit Test results(UTR)
ï‚· Review Test Plan, Test Strategy the SIT Test cases for the other peer modules
ï‚· Ensured contents, artifacts documented and maintained
ï‚· Analyze the impacts and Code fixes (Cobol / DB2 / IMS)
ï‚· Acted as a single point of contact for the project and ensure timely delivery
ï‚· Assist all application teams with procedural / technical problems
ï‚· Production support activities, Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned
in Service Level Agreements (SLA)
 QC maintenance – Requirement upload and Trace, Defect log, Test results reporting
ï‚· Supported the SA to perform UAT
Project # 3: Merchant Finance Processing (MFP)
Merchant Finance deals with the Merchant loans, Eligibilities and Approvals. It maintains all the Amex merchants i.e.
submit transactions directly to Amex or its affiliated merchants. Develop the capability to maintain separate ledgers for TRS loans
after migration to bank
Role: Mainframe Developer
Client: American Express (AmEx)
Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, Change Man, Mainframe (Batch and Online), File Aid
Responsibilities:
ï‚· Analyze the impacts and Code fixes (Cobol / DB2 / IMS),
ï‚· Prepared High level Design(HLD) and Low Level Design(LLD)
ï‚· Prepared Unit Test Plan(UTP), Unit Test Cases, Unit Test results(UTR)
ï‚· Developed the programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS (Batch/Online) Unit and System Testing of programs
ï‚· Monitoring the Case flow online on impacted systems
ï‚· Handled the cross system testing, support and troubleshoot activities