Ranabir Dey is a technical manager with over 9 years of experience in application development, relationship management, and SDLC planning. He currently works for IBM India Pvt. Ltd. as a technical manager for AP Moller Maersk, where he oversees 4 mainframe applications. Previously he has worked as a team lead and system analyst for various clients, including IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Wipro Technologies. He has expertise in full SDLC from waterfall to agile methodologies.

1. Vill. - Gokulpur
P.O. – Kataganj, Dist. - Nadia
West Bengal, India - 741250
Email id: ranabir4u@gmail.com
Cell: +91-9874221241
Ranabir Dey
Profile
♦ A result-oriented professional with 9 years and 10 month of experience in Application
Development, Relationship Management, SDLC Planning and Management..
♦ Expertise in managing the complete SDLC – Waterfall, Agile, Incremental; Translating new
ideas into clients’ solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development,
delivery, support & analysis and documentation.
♦ Reduced 30% of Maintenance cost by standardizing 27 non-standard processes in one of my
applications in current account AP Moller Maersk.
♦ Negotiated with Clients on enhancement of existing design and brought in 1800 hours of extra
development work in current account in one year.
♦ Proficient in analysing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and
architecture.
♦ Strong programming and database skills, development knowledge
♦ Completed DB2 730 and 732 certifications from IBM.
♦ Acquired 35 PDUs on Project Management from PMP certified professional Institute. Completed
fundamental management training from IBM
♦ Executed software projects for Retail, Insurance, transport, Shipping and Process industry
♦ Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
Skill Set
Technical skills
1. Programming Languages: COBOL, Eazytrieve, JCL, PL/1
2. Operating Systems : Z/OS
3. OLTP : CICS
4. Databases : DB2, IDMS, VSAM
5. Middleware : MQ, FTP
6. Domain: Transport, Retail, Insurance.
7. Tools: File Aid, Insync, Platinum, SPUFI, Endevor, Panvalet, Changeman, QMF.
Functional skills
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2. Systems Analysis
1 Consulting with business users, management, and stakeholders to assess the
business case for the project.
2 Evolving functional requirements in consultation with business.
3 Functional support for every stage of system's.
4 Assisting in functional testing of the new system and ensuring that it meets the user
specifications.
Application Management
1 Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, system study & analysis.
2 Understanding the functional specifications.
3 Taking responsibility of delivering the quality deliverables by assigning tasks to
proper resources and ensuring Ahead-of-time delivery with proper review.
4 Providing post-implementation support to client for application.
SDLC Planning & Management
1 Completing the Solution Design Phase for the clients’ requirements.
2 Identifying business core/ critical system/ processes and priorities.
3 Resolving support/ operational issues in liaison with project managers & business
group.
4 Developing, implementing & providing all kinds of support for business application
software.
Management skills
1. Work opportunity planning
2. Cost management
3. Time Management
4. Communication management
5. Resource management
6. Stakeholder management
Education:
 Secondary Standard - 1999, W.B.B.S.E, India – 78.5%
 Higher-Secondary Standard - 2001, W.B.C.H.S.E, India – 69.9%
 Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering - 2006, W.B.U.T, India – 77.3%
Professional Experience
Jan 15 – Till date Technical Manager IBM India Pvt. Ltd. India
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3. I am working as Technical Manager in AP Moller Maersk, world’s largest container shipping company. I
oversee 4 Mainframe applications. Along with that, I also work as SPOC for governance on effort
booking and Production Support planning for entire AMS part of the Account.
Responsibilities as Technical Manager –
 Work closely with teams on Priority (P1/P2) tickets.
 Keep constant check of new tickets coming in my applications and progress on existing tickets.
 Weekly Client calls to provide status of ongoing tasks and to understand their concern and work
with team to give optimized solution to their problem.
 Consult with Client application managers to bring new project work.
 Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control aspects of the project.
 Provide updates of my area in Client Governance call
 Track all delivery deadlines aligned to Project Milestones.
 Keep constant check on contract SLAs and ensure zero breach of SLA in my set of applications.
 Keep constant touch with leads to get latest status of the tasks and feedback from team.
 Track team's utilization and ensure work-life balance within teams
 Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team
meets quality goals.
 Provide functional knowledge and Technical experience in Mainframe to teams whenever
needed.
 Keep all project docs in repository for future reference.
 Add value to organization knowledge base wherever possible.
Responsibilities as SPOC of AMS –
 Check effort booking of all AMS resources each week and inform Managers for inappropriate
claim.
 Prepare Account level process documents.
 Production support planning each month for entire account.
Environment: Z/OS, PL/1, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MQ.
Team Size : 8 to 10
Jul 10 – Dec 14, Team Lead IBM India Pvt. Ltd. India
Client – Hertz. It was a Development and Maintenance /support project. I learned Agile and Incremental
SDLC process in this account. I joined the Account as Senior Developer and later on became Team
Lead. Apart from small /medium projects, I led my team in 2 agile projects and 1 Incremental project. All
3 them were more than 10000 hours project. My role is as follows:
 Check if new Service Requests are assigned in our portfolio. Also check if tickets are
assigned to my group.
 Understanding the requirement and assign them to specific resources with proper expertise.
 Helping out junior resources in their daily tasks.
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4.  Reviews of deliverable and filling up checklist documents
 Preparing Weekly Status Report and explaining the tasks to Onsite SMEs in weekly call.
 Assigning ILC for each week to resources of my team.
 Organizing by-weekly team meeting to understand the status of the tasks assigned.
 Providing technical and functional training to new joiners and organizing refresher trainings
to existing team members.
Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Transport Domain
Team Size : 7 to 9
Nov 09 – Jun 10, System Analyst Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Client – MetLife. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and
employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries. The project is mainly a
Support and Maintenance project and I worked on both Business Support and production support.
 Working with Client on specifications.
 End to End solution to Client's requirement
 Propose proactive solutions
 Design, Coding, testing, implementation and Documentation
 Implement structured programming methodologies and coding guidelines.
 Handling Client calls
 Production Support
 Mentoring junior resources
Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Insurance Domain
Jun 06–Oct 09, Application Developer Wipro Technologies, India
Client - Casino Information Technology. It was a development project. The project focused on preparing
technical Specifications from the functional Specs, coding as per the technical specs, Unit &
Regression Testing, Preparing Test Cases, Test Datasets & Unit Test Plans. I was also involved in
providing on-call support.
 Contribution as developer
I was involved in multiple large projects (more than 200 days) wherein I coded more than 120
new program modules (both batch and CICS) and several JOBS and PROCS. Also there were
number of changed modules as well.
I always follow standard structured program methodologies in all my programs such as –
1. Good readability – Ensure logic flow in the source code is easily understandable.
2. Maintainability – Ensure further functional development / modification can be done easily.
3. Efficient code – Reduce redundant codes and ensure minimum execution time
4. Reusability – Source module should be reusable for similar functionality in different
applications
All the coding guidelines are strictly followed in all the new / changed modules –
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5. 1. Appropriate documentation and meaningful variable names
2. Controlled logic transfer (avoid ‘GO TO’ statement)
3. Avoid hard-coding
4. Ensure Code readability – emphasize on indentation, proper sectioning / paragraph, Proper
hierarchy in paragraph names
Environment: Z/OS, IDMS, ADSO, DB2, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, Retail
Domain
Training:
 COBOL 101, 102
 DB2 utilities, Use of cursors (advanced level)
 DB2 family Fundamentals (730), DBA for Z/OS (732)
 Project Management training from PMP certified professional Institute.
 Completed fundamental management training from IBM
References: Available upon request
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6. 1. Appropriate documentation and meaningful variable names
2. Controlled logic transfer (avoid ‘GO TO’ statement)
3. Avoid hard-coding
4. Ensure Code readability – emphasize on indentation, proper sectioning / paragraph, Proper
hierarchy in paragraph names
Environment: Z/OS, IDMS, ADSO, DB2, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, Retail
Domain
Training:
 COBOL 101, 102
 DB2 utilities, Use of cursors (advanced level)
 DB2 family Fundamentals (730), DBA for Z/OS (732)
 Project Management training from PMP certified professional Institute.
 Completed fundamental management training from IBM
References: Available upon request
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