
Andrew Smith
Professional Summary
- Experienced Mainframe Developer with 8+ years experience in design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance on mainframe in COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM and open system in Invoicing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Time Keeping and business process re-design
- Lead Projects through software development life cycle (SDLC) in WATER FALL model, V model, Unified SDM and AGILE Methodologies.
- Extensive IT experience in developing Enterprise applications and Mainframe based applications involving Software Development Life Cycle activities like Business case identification, Scoping, Impact analysis, Estimation, project planning, requirements gathering, Design, Development, Unit Testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Performance testing, User acceptance testing, Project planning, Project management, Onshore co-ordination, Scheduling, Job Monitoring ,Documentation, Reporting, Performance tuning and implementation of the projects successfully.
- Extensive knowledge in Requirement gathering and understanding BRDs (Business Requirements Document), FRDs (Functional Requirements Document), SRS (Software Requirement Specifications) and used cases.
- Played the roles like Release manager, Test Manager and Iteration manager for Agile Projects.
- Extensive experience in tools such as Endeavor, File Aid, File Manager, Xpeditor, CA-7, Control-M, SPUFI, EXPLAIN, QMF , CLIST , FTP ,SFTP, Trouble ticket tracking system, ePDSM and IBM DEBUG.
- Experienced in working with different data sources like DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, COBOL Files, ORACLE and Flat files.
- Expertise in User Interaction, Logical and Physical database design and development, data modeling with graphical representation using Visio.
- Substantial experience in Production Support which includes bug fixing, working on job abends and working on tickets based on priority and SLA’s, interacting with business and supporting 24X7 Applications.
- Having very good experience in Onsite/Offshore model.
- Possess a strong Functional knowledge in Manufacturing Architecture and good exposure on Invoice processing, Price change, Price Protection, Bill Of Lading, Inventory, Logistics maintenance in Manufacturing Domain.
- Good exposure towards mentoring, handling a team and successfully delivering projects involving high complexities involving offshore and onshore co-ordination.
- Varied Experience in Business Process Management, Gathering Requirements from Business users to determine the Functional and Technical Design and creating design process and scheduling of tasks to the team. In addition involved in giving solutions directly to business on a day-to-day basis.
- Experience in auditing security compliance for SOX Risk Applications
- Energetic, Organized, Proven reliability, with emphasis on detail and quality. Excellent troubleshooter, Very strong analytical, presentation, documentation, strong communication & interpersonal skills and a committed team player, resulting in excellent rapport with employees and team members and problem solver with solid negotiating skills to help bring team members together.
- Good Experience with Microsoft Office Suite - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and MS Access.
- Performed roles like Programmer analyst, Team/Project Lead, Subject Matter Expert, Business Analyst, System Analyst, Onshore Lead/coordinator and Associate Project Manager.
Employment history
Mainframe Developer, Zemlak-Swift. Lake Neely, Utah
Jan. 2020 – Present
Client: FedEx Corporation - Freight Services, USA
- Develop and maintain the applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, Cool Gen, GuardIEn, Toolset, Build Tool and Diagram Trace Utility.
- Investigating the root cause for the issue, identify the permanent solution for the issue using latest technical stack and domain functional processes
- Analyze business requirements and develop software per the project’s software process.
- Prepare/review design documents and adhere to coding standards and guidelines.
- Contribute to appropriate software development life cycles methodology, including programming languages.
- Leverage specialized business and technical knowledge to review code and unit test cases and validate and prepare estimates for work in conjunction with team members.
- Research, de-bug and solve system or program problems.
Module Lead, Considine Inc. Port Susieport, Indiana
Feb. 2016 – Oct. 2018
Client: FedEx Corporation - Freight Services EDI Support, USA
- Involving in Analysis of Business and technical requirements.
- Development and review of Deliverable.
- Developing the COBOL, DB2 Code.
- DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF.
- Involving in different phases of testing.
- Preparing implementation plans for Production handover.
- Involving in preparation of application bridge document for consumer and service.
- Handling hot severity tickets.
- Providing support for different levels of testing.(Pre prod and Post prod)
- Involved in various subprojects as part of application related to different interfaces.
- Participating in all change management planning sessions
Software Engineer, Ondricka-Rippin. Cecilmouth, South Carolina
Dec. 2013 – Feb. 2014
Client: FedEx Corporation - Freight Services EDI Services, USA
- Developing the COBOL, DB2 Code.
- DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF.
- Involving in different phases of testing.
- Preparing implementation plans for Production handover.
- Involving in preparation of application bridge document for consumer and service.
- Providing support for different levels of testing.
- Participating in all change management planning sessions.
Software Engineer, Lemke LLC. New Agustinburgh, Alaska
Sep. 2011 – Jul. 2013
Client: Farmers Insurance, USA
- Actively involved in specification phase of the project.
- Involved in Impact analysis
- Actively involved in Coding and Unit Testing of the module
- Actively involved in the quality activities.
- Impact Analysis of source programs for every work request.
- Review program specifications for development.
- Developed the COBOL, DB2 & CICS Code.
- Internal Review of the deliverables.
- Prepare unit test plan and test data.
- DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF.
- File Maintenance through FILE-AID.
- Developed Online & Batch programs.
Education
West Montana Academy, Johnnieside, North Carolina
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Aug. 2011
Awards
Personal info
Phone:
(000) 000-0000
Email:
[email protected]
Address:
287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000
Skills
Team Leadership
SQL
Microsoft Office suite
EDI Standards and Processing
Agile Software Development
COOLGEN
CICS
DB2
JCL
COBOL
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