Summary


Professional Summary : 5 years of IT experience as Mainframe Analyst/Tester experience in Insurance
Domain understanding of the workflow in the Insurance vertical
Software development life cycle methodologies primarily Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, High Level Design, Development and Testing of Mainframe based applications, supporting user acceptance testing and implementation and post-implementation support

Extensive skills in PL/1, COBOL, JCL, MVS, DB2 and Unit testing, functional testing, regression testing and integration testing.

Onsite client interface and interaction with experience on offshore/onsite model

Strong experience in communicating with the business units and technical groups and translating information into business requirements and functional specifications and creating high level design.

Ability to work independently and in a cross-functional team environment and interface with business users, developers, project managers and production support groups

Resourceful, fast learner with a proven ability to inspire and lead in team management. Dynamic self-starter, creative who enjoys challenges with effective presentation Skills.

Excellent communications and interpersonal skills

Technical Skills : PL/1, COBOL, JCL, MVS, DB2


Employment

2006 -  Present
Analyst

Major/Minor Enhancements in the IPS Annuities area of Northwestern Mutual.
Responsibility : Writing System requirements, creating level/detailed level design, building code changes based on design and unit testing the changed code
Performing in Lead Tester role in client team during batch jobs execution for system integration testing, client acceptance testing and post implementation testing.

Performing Pareto Analysis as part of defect prevention activities for implementing projects at CMM Level 5.
Performing in a Client Interface role and responsible for Onshore/Offshore coordination, monitoring quality and timeliness of offshore deliverables and independent review of the same, before delivering to the clients. Point of Contact for the deliverables sent to the clients.

2006 -  2006
Module Lead

Currently, data about a policy is stored on 2 different databases ; 1 while it is pending like ie during underwriting and another when the policy is issued like the inforce database. Primarily New Business uses the pending database and POS uses the inforce database. This separation has caused different attributes and values to evolve over time. In addition, separate applications are developed to inquire, edit and update these databases. This separation has led to process inefficiencies in New Business and POS ; especially any time there is a handoff of the policy between the 2 departments like eg issue and policy changes. System inefficiencies occur for any applications that have to integrate with policy information over the whole policy lifecycle.
This project is designed to implement the data foundation needed to enable subsequent system improvement efforts
Responsibility :
Perform Pareto Analysis as part of defect prevention activities for implementing project at CMM Level 5.
Combine the pending and inforce database
Reconcile the data formats
Insulate applications from the database

2006 -  2006
Application Analyst

Northwestern Mutual is coming up with the new series like TT of Portfolio products which would be based on new 2001 CSO table. This project involves in defining the scope for the consecutive phases and identifying the path for the execution of this critical initiative which would involve
Systems Requirements gathering
Impact Analysis and High Level Design
Responsibility :
Performed Pareto Analysis as part of defect prevention activities for implementing project at CMM Level 5.
Created the project schedule and timelines in consultation with the clients.
Worked on Business Case Analysis, Impact Analysis, Requirements Gathering and High Level Design
Responsible for monitoring the quality and timeliness of the deliverables sent by the offshore team and independent review of the same.

2005 -  2005
Project Lead

TCC testing initiative of Mantis to Scope conversion project targets at testing of the new Host Scope application functions in Field Force Business Area. The earlier Mantis application functions that exist are getting obsolete. These should be upgraded to Scope.
Responsibility : Test case preparation, test data set up, functional testing and concurrency testing of the Scope functions.
managed the delivery and quality of testing artifacts prepared by the team members, implemented the quality processes for CMM Level 5 and prepared the post test analysis report.

2005 -  2005
Module Lead

Previously Robert W. Baird and Company, Incorporated like Baird provides clearing and other back-office services for NMIS, compensation processing. From Dec 2005 NMIS enters into a long-term strategic partnership with Pershing, a leading correspondent clearing provider. As part of this, FFBA systems will need to be changed to transition the compensation processing from Baird to FSS/NMIS.
The purpose of this project is to test the various FFBA systems impacted by the Pershing Transition Compensation Initiative, to ensure a seamless transition and smooth and cost effective implementations.
Responsibility : Test case preparation, test data set up, functional testing and integration testing of all the downstream systems.
managed the delivery and quality of testing artifacts prepared by the team members testing the downstream applications.

2004 -  2005

Creation of a Mainframe Regression Test Bed for commissions daily jobs
Tester

Description :
TCC regressing testing initiative targets at testing all the mainframe jobs in the commissions daily system and preparing a regression bed for the same to be reused later in future projects.
Responsibility : Test case preparation, test data set up and regression testing of the commissions daily jobs

2004 -  2004
Tester

Description :
TCC testing initiative targets at testing whether the MP receives the margins on MD and MD-II personal sales for the policies with application signed dates on or after 01/01/2006.
Responsibility : Test case preparation, test data set up, functional testing of the changed applications and regression testing.

2004 -  2004
Tester

TCC testing initiative of CUL-SUL project targets at testing enhancements to the commissions and sales reporting systems to be able to process feeds for custom universal life/survivorship universal life products. Also tested the online application functions.

Responsibility : Test case preparation, test data set up and functional testing of the changed commission applications. Also tested the online application functions.

2003 -  2004
Developer

Education

Miscellaneous

Education and Certifications : LOMA 286 Principles of Financial Services and Products

Business Area : Life Insurance
Technology Area : Mainframe

Description : Supra Database which is in use at Northwestern Mutual, will no receive support. As part of Northwestern Mutual expansion plans, data on Supra Database is being migrated to DB2 database. The various databases in existence in Supra are being moved to DB2 in phases. As part of this project, the SPPC, SPCC Databases of Field Force Business Area were migrated to DB2.
Responsibility : Preparation of service plan DAC analysis document for batch jobs, coding DAC routines in PL/1, preparation of the cookbook, code conversion of impacted PL/1 modules, performing independent unit testing and post implementation testing, filling the PACS and updating the system appreciation documents

Environment : PL/1, JCL, DB2