The document provides a summary of a candidate's experience and qualifications. It details their 10+ years of experience in IT and as a senior developer at Fidelity Investments. It lists their technical skills including languages like COBOL, databases like DB2, tools used, and domain experience in banking and finance. Their past projects at companies like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, and American Express are also summarized.
1. Syam Prasad Ramineni
Ph: 203-326-1865 e-mail: syamprasadr@gamil.com
Summary
• Senior Developer with 10+ years of IT Experience; Currently associated with Fidelity Investments as a
Senior Software Developer and involved in Initiation, execution & delivery of projects end-to-end in
Mainframes technologies
• Actively involved in each phase of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) Requirements, Design,
Coding, Testing and Implementation during the development and enhancement of the application
• Experience in Database Administration (DBA) activities of Performance tuning
• Expertise in application development using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ series and VSAM
• Excellent skills in databases like IBM DB2, IMS, MS Access, SQL Server 2000
• Experience in Vision PLUS Technology
• Expertise in client side applications development using COBOL and SQL Stored Procedures
• Proficient in CICS WebServices programs applications development using SOAP and WSDL, and IBM
Rational Application Developer for System Z
• Working experience in SQL using Embarcadero DB Artisan and Rapid SQL
• Hands on experience with IBM Data Studio in developing Native SQL Stored procedures
• Working Experience in Tools like File Aid, DB2 File Aid, Xpeditor, Endevor, and ChgMan
• Interact with the business team(s) to understand the requirements and prepare the Business
Requirements Document and Functional Specifications
• Work with the project management team to decide the project timelines
• Experience in writing SQL queries for various analysis and Adhoc reports, and functions and PL/SQL
scripts in SQL
• Strong knowledge in Banking & Financial domain, expertise in Cards & Investment Banking division
• Followed Best practices in Morgan Stanley to deliver performance effective product for Margin users
• Motivated team player with ability to work under minimal supervision, possessing strong analytical,
problem solving and communicational skills
• Work with business and QA teams in the preparation of test plan, test cases and test case documents
Professional Experience:
Company Designation From To
Fidelity Investments (Randstad) Senior Software Developer Oct-2015 Till date
Morgan Stanley (TCS) Senior Software Developer Feb-2010 Sep-2015
JP Morgan Chase (CTS) Programmer Analyst Jan-2008 Jan-2010
First Data Europe (CTS) Programmer Analyst Jan-2007 Dec-2007
American Express (CTS) Programmer Analyst Jul-2006 Dec-2006
ABN AMRO Bank (CTS) Programmer Analyst Mar-2006 Jun-2006
Technical Skills:
Languages COBOL, CICS, JCL
Database DB2, IMS, VSAM
Communications FTP, MQ Series
Operating Systems MVS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS, UNIX,DOS,WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7
Mainframe z/OS Tools
TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, SPUFI, Xpediter, ENDEVOR, DB2 File Aid, Changeman,
Intertest, Smarttest , CA7 scheduling, TWS
Application Tools IBM Data Studio, RDZ, Rapid SQL, MS Project Plan, MS Office, VISIO
Domain Knowledge Banking & Financial services, Investment Banking, Retail banking, Cards
Certifications:
• IBM Certified DB2 Professional
• TCS certified Wealth Management Professional
2. Project : Margin View Response.
Client : Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH.
Duration : Oct 2015 to till date.
Role : Senior Mainframe Developer.
Description:
Margin View Response (MVR) – Fidelity does Wealth Management for clients through Brokerage
accounts and also with the help of Margin accounts through Front office and Home office users. Current
Margin system is running on 3270 mainframe green screens. MVR project is being implemented to convert
mainframe green screens into Web based UI(front-end) so that business users will be benefited with improved
tracking of Cash and Margin Exceptions. Currently data is in VSAM files. As part of this project, data is being
moved to DB2 tables and goal of this project is to develop batch programs to load data into DB2 tables and
also develop stored procedures to return and display data through online (GUI -front-end).
Responsibilities:
• Working in the environment of Native Stored procedures, Dynamic SQL, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS
and tools using are - Advance Query Tool (AQT), Platinum, File-Aid, SPUFI, Rapid SQL, IBM Data studio.
• Responsible for the analysis, documenting the requirements and Coordinating with GUI team to design
Front end screens for Users
• Prepare Technical Specification documents (TSD) based on Functional specification documents.
• Develop batch programs to process data and do perform all updates to tables required for following
day Online availability
• Design and develop COBOL, Native Stored procedures and write Dynamic SQL Stored procedures
required for Front end (UI) screen data display from database/table
• Work with Data model & Database Administrators(DBA) team to create Database and tables as per the
clients requirements and Write SQL queries, Stored procedures modifications to existing database
structure as required per addition of new features
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams for project deliverables
• Perform Peer to peer review for code Quality and to main coding standards
• Prepare test cases, execute test script and perform Unit testing and System Integration testing
• Use Intertest for program debugging
• Use HP Service manager to create tickets for code migration
• Use Endevor Code version control and code migration
• Use Quality Center for Defect tracking and system enhancements
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance (QA) team for test data preparation and data validation
• Involved in performance tuning by coordinating with Database Administrators (DBA) to save CPU for
stored procedures and also to avoid long running batch jobs
Project : Margins.
Client : Morgan Stanley, New York, NY.
Duration : Feb 2012 to Sep 2015.
Role : Senior Mainframe Developer.
Description:
Margin Exception Management – Morgan Stanley does primary business of Wealth Management for
clients through Brokerage account with the help of Financial Advisors (FA’s). This system is designed for Margin
Operations team in which we implemented solution to track and manage Exceptions related to Trade and Non-
trade activity of client accounts effective way. This System replaces old legacy CICS green screens with Front-
end (GUI) application. Margin System does all bookkeeping of Trades and does margin calculations, and
computes Positions and Balances of Client portfolio. If Customer account (portfolio) closes with debit balances
for the given day then Margin operations team will contact Branch and FA’s (Financial Advisors) and FA’s will
contact end client to bring/deposit money to close the debit owe to the firm. Client’s financial data is
3. maintained in Files and DB2 Database for Margin system.
Responsibilities:
• Worked in the environment of COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and tools used are File-Aid, SPUFI, Rapid
SQL, IBM Data studio.
• Responsible for the analysis, documenting the requirements and Coordinating with GUI team to design
Front end screens for Users
• Involved with Information Architecture (IA) team and DBA teams to design the database
• Interacting with clients and the Morgan Stanley Margins operations team in design and code review
meetings
• Developed batch programs to process data and do all updates required for following day Online
availability
• Designed and developed the new features in the existing application to meet the customer's
satisfaction
• Designed and developed COBOL, Native Stored procedures and SQL Stored procedures required for
Front end (UI) screen data display
• Created Databases and tables as per the clients requirements and Written SQL queries, Stored
procedures modifications to existing database structure as required per addition of new features
• Developed CICS Webservice programs for easy interacting of front end with backend files and online
CICS programs
• Written test cases and done Unit testing and Functional Integration testing
• Used IBM Smart test and Intertest for debugging
• Used ChgMan for Code version control
• Used JIRA as Task time tracking system
• Used Quality Center (now ALM) for Defect tracking and system enhancements
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and issue resolution
• Implemented many performance improvement solutions for Stored procedures and Batch Programs
• Production implementation and post production support
Project : Linked Assets Loans.
Client : Morgan Stanley, New York, NY.
Duration : Feb 2010 to Jan 2012 (worked on ACR project also at the same time).
Role : Senior Mainframe Developer.
Description:
Linked Assets Loans (LAL) – Morgan Stanley does primary business of Wealth Management for clients
through Brokerage account. This system is designed for Banking Operations team in which we provided
solution to link set of assets accounts with set of Loan accounts, which will be grouped under one Pool so that
customer will have flexibility to borrow multiple loans with multiple collateral accounts either family or
individual. Security based lending concept is implemented here so that customer can take Express credit loan
to buy car, home, boat etc by having securities as collateral. This system calculates risk exposure of the client
depends on Loan amount taken and Market value of securities (Collateral). Banking operations team will
contact client to resolve loan amount if there is any Market fluctuations.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis, Requirements gathering and Coordinating with front-end (GUI) team to design Front end
screens for Users
• Interacting with clients and the Banking operations team in design and code review meetings
• Reference data jobs creation for Tables data population, Developed batch programs the process data
and do all updates required for following day Online availability
• Designed and developed COBOL and SQL Stored procedures required for Front end
4. • Created Databases and tables as per the clients requirements and Written SQL queries, Stored
procedures modifications to existing database structure as required per addition of new features
• Used ChgMan for Code version control
• Developed and prepared documentation for Design, testing and program
• Provide code review and confirm existing coding standard
• Used Quality Center for Defect tracking and system enhancements
• Unit Test cases preparation, test scripts execution
• Implemented many performance improvement solutions for Stored procedures and Batch Programs
• Production implantation and post production support
Project : Automated Concentration System.
Client : Morgan Stanley, New York, NY.
Duration : Feb 2010 to Nov 2010 (worked on LAL project also at the same time).
Role : Senior Mainframe Developer.
Description:
Automated Concentration System (ACR) – Morgan Stanley does primary business of Wealth
Management for clients of their Brokerage account. This system is designed for Control Margin Operations
team to identify and manage concentrated positions (securities) within the portfolio of customer account. This
system does Risk evaluation and provides operation team to update the requirements for a particular position
or set of securities. With this customer have the flexibility for Margin loan borrowing based on Market value of
particular security and/or at account level. Batch process does requirements based on rating (Like S&P,
Moody’s) of securities like AAA, AA+, BB etc and Front end allows Control operations team to override the
system calculated requirements to reduce the risk to the firm of client’s margin brokerage account.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the analysis, documenting the requirements and Coordinating with Front-end team to
design screens for Users
• Coordinate with Information Architecture (IA) team and DBA teams to design the database
• Developed and prepared documentation for Design, testing and program
• Batch programs development to prepare system recommendations for the securities
• COBOL Stored procedures development required for users to update override from Front end
• Created Databases and tables as per the clients requirements and Written SQL queries, Stored
procedures modifications to existing database structure as required per addition of new features
• Write test cases, Unit testing and Functional Integration testing
• Used ChgMan for Code version control
• Coordinate with operation team for User Acceptance Testing and issue resolution
• Used Quality Center for Defect tracking and system enhancements
• Performance tuning for high CPU consuming Stored procedures and Batch Programs
• Production implementation and post production support
• Involved in Enhancements for Phase1 and Phase2 of the system
Project : National Retail Lockbox (NRLB).
Client : JP Morgan Chase, Phoenix, AZ.
Duration : Jan 2008 to Jan 2010.
Role : Mainframe Developer.
Description:
National Retail Lockbox (NRLB) – JPMorgan Chase Lockbox clients have been receiving the benefits
of accurate and efficient remittance imaging delivery with minimal information float since the introduction of
5. NRLB suite of products. NRLB lockbox services are available nationwide with sites in Phoenix & Louisville. With
at least 10 years of archive capability, NRLB provides unique functionality that no other lockbox vendor offers.
We are involved in Maintenance and Support of this application for new enhancements as well as rebuilding
the application for an improved performance.
Responsibilities:
• Use COBOL with Windows NT platform for development and maintenance of Application
• Perform impact Analysis for the enhancements received
• Obtain Knowledge transition from Onsite and coordinating project activities from Offshore
• Development and Maintenance support for the NRLB application
• Nightly Batch support and bug fix
Project : First Data Europe (FDE) Equasion Enhancements.
Client : First Data International, Basildon, UK.
Duration : Jan 2007 to Dec 2007.
Role : Mainframe Developer.
Description:
First Data Europe Equasion Enhancements – First Data International (FDI) is the largest independent
third-party credit and debit card transaction processor in Europe and Europe's leading Internet-only card
processor, providing full operational services to clients and helping them attract and retain customers to their
particular segment of the cards market. We did step in and support the Equasion platform. The scope of the
project includes the analysis, design, coding and testing functional batch Routines.
Responsibilities:
• Program Analysis and Technical Spec Document Preparation
• To coordinate with the Onsite Representative for providing resolutions to issues & requests from
Clients
• Code Review for peer
• Test plan preparation and design of test data
• Nightly Batch support and bug fix
• Used File Manager and DB2 File Aid
• Used Xpeditor for debugging
Project : AMEX Statements & Corporate Cards enhancements
Client : American Express, UK.
Duration : July 2006 to Dec 2006.
Role : Mainframe Developer.
Description:
AMEX Statements & Corporate Cards Enhancements – American Express is a leading financial
company and particularly in Credit Cards domain. For this project, on behalf of Cognizant, we are involved in
development and enhancements of the Statements system, and Corporate Cards, and Cobranded cards of
AMEX clients.
Responsibilities:
• Enhancement to statements of cobranded cards for AMEX and customization
• Development and Enhancements to corporate cards services.
• Prepared Unit Test Plans and test results and system testing
6. Project : ABN AMRO Enhancements.
Client : ABN AMRO Bank.
Duration : Mar 2006 to Jun 2006.
Role : Mainframe Developer.
Description:
ABN AMRO Enhancements – ABN AMRO is a prominent international bank, ranks eighth in Europe
and 12th in the world. We did provide Enhancement and Application support for EDS Company which intern
provides support to ABN AMRO bank. We involved in providing customizations to existing modules in CMS,
FAS, and LTS etc in Vision PLUS technology which is a tool used for credit card processing.
Responsibilities:
• Program Analysis and Application support in Vision PLUS application for ABN AMRO
• Development and enhancement of CMS module for ABN AMRO customizations
• Test plan preparation and daily batch runs for the CMS module for different countries of bank
• Test data preparation, Unit testing and System Integration testing
Education
• Bachelor of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India - 2005
7. Project : ABN AMRO Enhancements.
Client : ABN AMRO Bank.
Duration : Mar 2006 to Jun 2006.
Role : Mainframe Developer.
Description:
ABN AMRO Enhancements – ABN AMRO is a prominent international bank, ranks eighth in Europe
and 12th in the world. We did provide Enhancement and Application support for EDS Company which intern
provides support to ABN AMRO bank. We involved in providing customizations to existing modules in CMS,
FAS, and LTS etc in Vision PLUS technology which is a tool used for credit card processing.
Responsibilities:
• Program Analysis and Application support in Vision PLUS application for ABN AMRO
• Development and enhancement of CMS module for ABN AMRO customizations
• Test plan preparation and daily batch runs for the CMS module for different countries of bank
• Test data preparation, Unit testing and System Integration testing
Education
• Bachelor of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India - 2005