Palaniappan Subbiah Resume

RESUME
Palaniappan Subbiah
Contact - +1 602 421 1538
 Certified DB2 professional with around 7 years of experience in building versatile solutions
using DB2, JCL, COBOL, DB2 Stored Procedures (Native & External), VSAM, and Control-M.
 Extensive experience in Cards and payments space of Banking and Financial Service domain.
 Successfully architected and implemented a brand new application that has won many laurels
across the organization and has paved way to other similar implementations.
 Experienced with working in Waterfall & Agile SDLC methodologies as a part of project delivery.
 Results-driven project management professional with first-rate skills in directing full lifecycle
implementations.
 Led a cross functional team in different projects for American Express and have been responsible
for managing projects that includes activities like Forecasting, Resource Billing and tracking
Project metrics that helped ensure that projects were on track.
 Handled communications and delivery across multiple teams and vendors along with business
partners to ensure all the involved stakeholders are well informed.
 Well experienced in environments requiring direct customer interaction during specifications,
design, and development and project implementation phases.
Technical Skills
Operating system Z/OS, Windows versions
Technology MAINFRAME
Programming Languages COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2, Stored Procedures
Databases DB2, IMS DB, VSAM
Mainframe Tools JobTrac, Control-M, Change man, SPUFI, QMF, File-Aid, File
Manager, Abend-Aid, Toad for DB2, SQL manager, IBM data Studio,
Apptune
Management Tools Infoman, Manage Now, Service now, HP quality center
Education Details
SRM University, Chennai, India
B.Tech. in Biotechnology May- 2008
 Recipient of Deans scholarship for outstanding academics in senior year;
 Led a team of three students that developed innovative method of identifying the stem cells from
fetal human liver.
Experience Summary

RESUME
Palaniappan Subbiah
Contact - +1 602 421 1538
Key Professional Initiatives
Some of the key initiatives for which I had led the team would involve –
 DB2 Stored Procedure(Native) creation
 Re-writing of around 500 SQL SPs to equivalent DB2 Native SPs
 Design, coding and Unit testing of new DB2 Stored Procedures for INXS application
 Data migration testing
 Testing the data migrated from multiple SQL database to DB2 database
 Source data preparation from SQL servers
 DB2 V10 Migration
 Rebinding of around 1200 plans into DB2 packages and packages to plan
 Decommission of obsolete DB2 components from the application
 Jobtrac to Control-M Migration
 Migration of Jobs, Schedules and Triggers from Jobtrac scheduler to Control-M scheduler
 Decommission of Jobtrac components and bringing up Control-M in Live mode
 DC2015 Remediation & Migration
 Remediation of application components to be complaint with the new Data Centre
features of Amex.
 Testing and Migration support during the actual Data Centre re-location
 Inbound Strategy
 Strategizing the migration of application from POD-Mainframe to POA-Oracle platform.
 Was involved in CBA and creation of application roadmap
 Co-ordination with around 180 upstream systems and educating them about the Inbound
program
 Responsible for Business Rule extraction of the legacy SL JETS application
Awards & Recognitions
Have received below awards as apart of Cognizant BFS Rewards and Recognition program
 Client Champion
 Star performer
 Kudos
 Guiding star

RESUME
Palaniappan Subbiah
Contact - +1 602 421 1538
Relevant Project Experience
Project- I
Project Title American Express – Pay With Points
Duration Feb 2014 to till date
Location Phoenix, Arizona
Hardware N/A
Operating Systems Z/OS
Programming Languages Cobol,JCL,DB2,Stored Procedures
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Pay with Points is a capability and frameworks which facilitate Amex merchant to provide option to card
members to carry out their transactions using their MR points. This is first of its kind feature in Credit
Cards domain to use rewards points dynamically at merchant POS terminals, which has been nominated
for Amex Technology Patent in US. In live transaction certain Amex hosted REST APIs used to be called
by merchant to fetch MR points Balance and other eligibilities matrix to provide Pay with Point option to
CM, and CM can choose this PWP option to complete their respective transaction which intern call other
Amex hosted APIs.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
American Express is a leading global payments, network and travel company founded in 1850. It operates
in over 130 countries around the globe. Since it’s founding in 1850, American Express had conducted
business according to several guiding principles that over the years have become inextricably linked with
the company’s brand, products, services and its people. It provides outstanding products and
unsurpassed service that, together, deliver premium value to the customers. American Express company
was among the first and most successful express delivery businesses to arise during the rapid westward
expansion of the united states.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Understanding the business requirements of the clients.
• Coordination with Client and various Tech teams involved in the projects to come up with the
Scope of application in the project.
• Providing Solutions to any new Initiatives owing to extensive Domain and Technical knowledge.
• Various project related documentation like System understanding documents.
• Perform Design review, Code review and Test Plan Review for various development activities

RESUME
Palaniappan Subbiah
Contact - +1 602 421 1538
DURATION OF THE PROJECT:
24 Months
PROJECT PROFILE - II:
Project Title American Express – GCT GL to Close 2012
Duration Oct 2009 to Jan 2014
Location Chennai, India
Hardware N/A
Operating Systems Z/OS
Programming Languages Cobol,JCL,DB2,VSAM
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Amex-GCT Mainframe Delivery MF CoE team is part of the Amex Global Corporate Technologies
organization. GCT Mainframe Delivery COE owns delivery around mainframe applications that support
American Express Finance and Treasury functions catering to Procurement, Accounting, Controllership,
Reconciliations and Treasury domain.
The project deals with Walker G/L system which is a Mainframe based customized system to support the
accounting, reporting, reconciliation and financial analysis needs of AMEX. This system is intended to
provide both online and batch access to financial accounting information. It also enhances flexibility to
support organizational changes. It not only improves the quality and timeliness of management
information but also increases user productivity. The system supports organizations with multiple-
currency operating and reporting requirements. Apart from performing accounting functions in any
currency. There are several features that allow information recorded in one currency to be stated in any
other currency based on user requirements.
The Journal Editing & Tracking System (JETS) is the American Express Global Point-of-Arrival System for
automated accounting. JETS are currently installed in more than forty-five markets supporting journal
entries for more than twenty-five financial applications (e.g. Fincads, Triumph, Optima, ESP, etc). This
includes mainframe; minicomputer and microcomputer based financial applications.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
American Express is a leading global payments, network and travel company founded in 1850. It operates
in over 130 countries around the globe. Since it’s founding in 1850, American Express had conducted
business according to several guiding principles that over the years have become inextricably linked with
the company’s brand, products, services and its people. It provides outstanding products and
unsurpassed service that, together, deliver premium value to the customers. American Express company
was among the first and most successful express delivery businesses to arise during the rapid westward
expansion of the united states.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Understanding the business requirements of the clients.
• Coordination with Client and various Tech teams involved in the projects to come up with the
Scope of application in the project.
• Providing Solutions to any new Initiatives owing to extensive Domain and Technical knowledge.

RESUME
Palaniappan Subbiah
Contact - +1 602 421 1538
• Various project related documentation like System understanding documents, Project reports,
Requirements reports and Estimates.
• Lead the team and Knowledge Transition of Domain expertise
• Perform Design review, Code review and Test Plan Review for various development activities.
DURATION OF THE PROJECT:
51 Months
Employment history
Name of the
Company
Designati
on
Address of the
employer
From To Duration(Years)
COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTIONS US Corp.
Associate -
Projects
2512 W Dunlap
Ave, Phoenix, AZ
85021
Feb-2014 Till date 24 Months
COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTIONS
Associate -
Projects
Techno Complex,
5/535 Old
Mahabalipuram
Road, Okkiyam
Thoraipakkam,
Chennai –
600097,
June- 2009 Jan-2014 55 Months

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