Senior Project Lead Mainframe resume example

HUMANA - Demand Reduction and Optimization

Description: Humana is a well-known health insurance company. Humana deals with many types of enrollments like Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial as well as HCR. Considering above the data processing and production Maintenance cost is huge as well. Hence Humana has started with a new initiative of Demand reduction. This team basically works on identifying Prevention/Automation/Training issues and fixes those permanently.

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum master for 3 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
• Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team.
• Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
• Liaise between the developers and User Experience/Visual Designers.
• Faster better communication between the disciplines.
• Act as a project manager when necessary.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties or between our team and other scrum teams.
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence.
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community.
• Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Eazytrieve, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, CA Tools and SPUFI, Version One, Sharepoint.

HUMANA - Customer Interface Maint and Support

Description : Customer Interface (CI) system is the history database for the Humana Enrollment system. All types of the enrollment happens in Humana are being stored in CI system. This application deals with other application for data processing and also with CMS for the eligibility process on Medicare and HCR members.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 25 members, comprising of 6 onshore and 19 offshore members'.
• Ensuring quality project deliverable's in a timely manner
• Communication to both Technical and Business partners whenever required
• Being part of Production system Management team my main responsibility is Maintenance and Enhancement of the production system.
• Maintain and meet SLA's
• To provide presentation to client on the innovation on the production system & the excellent work being done by team.
• To understand the requirement, provide resourcing and manage the project.
• To maintain and optimize the production environment.
• To assist business on the queries or issues with production data, processes following SLA based structure.
• Help business understand how certain processes works.
• Created various JCL's to handle business request on time and ensure reusability of elements wherever needed.
• Provide guidance to team on Technical as well as business front
• Help team in resolving issues and identifying root cause with exact impact
• Batch job monitoring for daily Mainframe batch run (COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM)
• Actively performed Oncall related activities.

Also worked in Development team :-

• Being part of Development team worked on requirement Gathering/Design/Development of a new application/Maintenance of an existing applications Development involving COBOL/JCL/EZTRIEVE/DB2/CICS/VSAM.
• Preparing Unit Test Plan document, functional and Technical specifications.
• Unit & System testing as per the UTP and checklists. Technical Documentation
• Peer reviewed all modules and logged the defects in quality center
• Coordinating with different teams involved in the project and worked together with all for timely and coordinated implementation of the project
• Played key role in decision making of design upon which the project was delivered with high quality
• Helped team understand the impact of the project and ensured excellent team work
• Create low level design documents referring HLD documents.
• Coordinating different phases of testing for system integration and user acceptance testing.

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Eazytrieve, Panvalet, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, CA Tools and SPUFI

HUMANA – Customer Interface Maint and Support

Description: Customer Interface (CI) system is the history database for the Humana Enrollment system. All types of the enrollment happens in Humana are being stored in CI system. This application deals with other application for data processing and also with CMS for the eligibility process on Medicare and HCR members.

Responsibilities

• Define and document customer business functions and processes.
• Consult with functional unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements, and levels of systems access.
• Act as a liaison between departmental end-users, technical analysts, information technology analysts, consultants and other governmental organizations in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of case management systems to ensure optimal operational performance.
• Analyze the feasibility of, and develop requirements for, new systems and enhancements to existing systems; ensures the system design fits the needs of the users.
• Track and fully document changes for functional and business specifications; write detailed universally understood procedures for permanent records and for use in training.
• Identify opportunities for improving business processes through information systems and/or non-system driver changes; assists in the preparation of proposals to develop new systems and/or operational changes.
• Plan, organize and conduct business process re-engineering/improvement projects and/or management reviews.
• Participate in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality.
• Provide technical assistance in training, mentoring, and coaching professional and technical staff.

HUMANA – Customer Interface

Description: Customer Interface (CI) system is the history database for the Humana Enrollment system. All types of the enrollment happens in Humana are being stored in CI system. This application deals with other application for data processing and also with CMS for the eligibility process on Medicare and HCR members.

Responsibilities:

• As Team Member, Being responsible for co-ordination with Onsite in task delivery in terms of timely query resolutions, follow-up and being within the allotted deadline
• Mainframe application coding (COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS) and documentation for same
• Preparing functional and Technical specifications.
• Development/Coding
• Maintenance/enhancements
• Unit Testing
• Technical Documentation
• Active participation on daily calls with onshore SME's/Architects and Leads
• Created low level design documents referring HLD documents
• Walkthrough for LLD documents with SME's and Architects
• Coordinated with the team in creating high quality design with reusability of components wherever needed
• Estimated the effort and created the schedule for the projects

Environment: COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, Easytrieve, Platinum, Xpediter, File-AID, Panvalet, SPUFI