VAIBHAV PATIL. MAINFRAME DEVELOPER - PRODUCTS & APPLICATIONS.

E-Mail: vaibhavpatil.it@outlook.com
Mob No: +91 9637788429 / +91 9620400909

MAINFRAME DEVELOPER: ASSEMBLER (HLASM), COBOL, DB2, JCL, SAS, REXX, IMS, ISPF.

PROFILE & STRENGTHS

 Result Oriented, Customer Focused, Passionate IT Professional with 7 years of experience in Mainframe
Products & Application Development, Design & Maintenance.
 Strong Mainframe Assembler (HLASM) and COBOL-DB2 Programming and debugging skills on OS/390.
 Extensive Development & Enhancement Experience on Mainframe Technologies like - Assembler, COBOL-
DB2, JCL, REXX, ISPF, MQ, IMS Connect, SAS, C, IMS, VSAM, FOCUS and High Performance DB2/JCL utilities.
 Expertise in 64-bit Assembler programming, Assembler Services, MVS Storage Management, Logging and MVS
Control Blocks manipulation.
 Hand-on experience of Mainframe tools like IBM Debugger, IPCS, Panvlet, CA Librarian, ChangeMan, XDC,
Fault Analyzer, SPUFI, AQT, File Manager, TWS, NDM, FTP, and CA Roscoe etc.
 An accomplished specialization in handling complex projects from Concepts to Completion for Batch and
Online applications with remarkable deadline sensitivity.
 Expertise into Architectural Interface Design, Data Collection & Analysis, Application Modernization.
 Demonstrated Analytical and Problem solving skills along with ability to analyze existing systems and data for
migrations or improvements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems : z/OS (OS/390), MVS, Windows 2003 onwards.

Programming Languages : MVS Assembler (HLASM), COBOL, JCL, SAS, REXX, C, ISPF, DTL, SQL
Databases / Subsystems : DB2, IMS DB/TM, VSAM based Client Database Systems.
Tools : IBM Debugger, IPCS, XDC, CA Librarian, Panvlet, SPUFI, ChangeMan, QMF
Software Tools : BMC Remedy, AOTS-CM, Advanced Query Tool, PRISM

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS

 Attended IBM Customer Internship at IBM Labs, Silicon Valley, San Jose, USA in April-May 2018.
 Underwent IMS Internals Training at BMC Software, Tel-Aviv, Israel in 2016.
 Trained on Compuware ISPW® for Mainframe DevOps practices.
 Completed certifications in Assembler, COBOL, DB2, JCL at Amdocs DVCI.

CAREER PROGRESSION

Designation Organization Domain Total Duration

Analyst and Designer ( Tech Lead) SLK Software Services Banking - 5/3 Bank 1 year 7 months
Staff Product Developer (R&D) BMC Software Products - Energizer (IMS) 3 years 1 month
Software Engineer Amdocs DVCI Telecom – AT&T 2 years and 4 months
ACHIVEMENTS

 Awarded as Best Recruit in Q3 2018-19 for outstanding performance at SLK Software.

 Won nomination for IMS Ready Award for outstanding performance in IMS Products Team at BMC Software in 2018.
 Won ‘Amdocs Value Award’ for ’Quality One Stop’ - automation tool at Amdocs by the Vice President.
 Received “Reward and Reorganization” and incentive for outstanding performance in Q2-2014.
 Finalist in ‘Hackathon-2014’ – Worldwide Innovation Competition by Amdocs on the theme ‘Internet of Things’ ( IoT ).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. SLK SOFTWARE SERVICES

SLK is specialist in a wide range of high value solutions & deliver end-to-end services to clients enabling them to
transform their business through information technology.
Role : Analyst & Designer.
Client : Fifth Third Bank, USA.
Team : RAFT CIF (Real Time Automated Fund Transfer System)
RAFT is Mainframe based Application for fund movement in core banking system. It maintains latest account details of
Customer, Cross Connections between different account types, Contains and manages all transactional details in past
with an account, Creates and Maintains Customers Authorization and Contact information, Interfaces with number of
applications that impacts customers monetary.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Worked as Senior Developer for Application Development and Maintenance in Banking Domain for U.S based Bank
which involves Payment/Card services from TSYS, Vantiv (Now WorldPay) and MasterCard.
 Involved in Requirement Analysis, Functional Design, Technical Design, Coding, Review and Deployment Activities.
 Written and modified Assembler, COBOL-DB2, SAS, JCL programs for projects, defects and production issues.
 Major Contribution in System Analysis, Scope Identification and Solution Design for new projects and
adopting/migration/integration with third party applications for existing systems.
 End-to-End understanding of Card Based Payment Systems, Point-of-Sale, Retail/Personal Banking systems.
 Hands-on experience of working with large volume of data for Research and Audit purpose using SAS, high
performance JCL & DB2 utilities.
 Trained team members on Assembler, SAS, REXX as well as Application knowledge.
 Created Automation tools for - Regression Testing, Release Monitoring, XML message re-formatting.
Technologies and Tools: Assembler, COBOL, DB2, SAS, JCL, DFSORT, SQL, VSAM, REXX, IBM Debugger, Dump
Analysis, High Performance Load/ Unload, CA-Librarian, TWS

Key Projects

1. Overdraft Protection Enrolment:

This project is targeted to Enrolment, Information and Update of customers to Overdraft Protection service. These are
implemented as online services in Mainframe applications that can be invoked by front-end applications.

2. Account Migration from VSAM to DB2

As part of legacy applications modernization project, move selected types of accounts from VSAM based proprietary
database to DB2 tables and redesign the Online and Batch programs and jobs to access DB2 tables instead of VSAM
database.
3. Apple Pay Enablement:
The new Batch system receives Apple Pay enrollment requests from the customers and validates them. Upon successful
validation, Card is enabled for Apple Pay transactions and is synced up with the service provider for authorization.
Customers are notified with Text messages, Emails and letters for the updates.

4. EMV Chip Card Readiness :

EMV Chip Card Readiness project is targeted to adept newly introduced EMV Chip Based cards in existing system which
supports only Magnetic Stripe Cards. EMV cards are having some different data fields than the Magnetic Stripe cards.

2. BMC SOFTWARE
BMC Software leading Product Company that offers multiple innovative and modern products for Mainframes, IT Service
Management, Cloud Computing and Digital Enterprise Management.

Role - Staff Product Developer : IMS Products.

Product - Energizer for IMS Connect.

Energizer for IMS Connect is an intelligent IMS Transaction Management solution that routes transactions, balances
workloads, and can reduce outages by up to 25%, potentially saving millions of dollars for a company each year. With
Energizer, you can tailor how IMS Connect operates in your environment, and dynamically manage aspects of your IMS
Connect environment without recycling IMS Connect.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Proposed & developed multiple, customer friendly new features in the IMS TM Product – Energizer for IMS Connect.
 Analysed customer’s feedbacks and requests and adopted in new enhancements in subsequent versions.
 Added features like Automatic Transaction Routing based on client IP Address, Trusted Port support, 64-bit memory
management using chains, Transaction Trace Enhancements, Filter with wild characters on Batch Reporting, Auto-
Cancelling inactive clients (in progress) etc.
 Worked on enhancing transaction routing & load balancing abilities of the product based on certain information in
Transaction Message header.
 Upgraded product to next level to support newly released IMS 15.0 version along with multiple Enhancement
Requests (RFE) and defect fixes.

Key Technologies and Tools: Assembler, REXX, ISPF Panels, DTL, JCL, IMS, IMS Connect, System Control Blocks,
Debugging, Dump Analysis, Assembler MVS Services, Storage Management.

1. TRACE Enhancement and Reformat for IMS Connect :

Included multiple new control blocks and few new fields from IMS Connect, OTMA into the Transaction Trace entries.
Data from Trace is reformatted and presented in readable format on ISPF panel to the end users.

2. Transaction Routing based on IP Address:

Added feature in the product that routes the incoming IMS transactions to the specific Datastor depending upon the
client IP address. Provision to define IP address based routing rule is provided using ISPF panel.

3. De-activate in-active/idle clients :

Identify idle or in-active clients in the IMS Connect using the pre-defined criteria periodically and de-activate them to
increase the capabilities of IMS Connect and CPU saving. (In progress)

4. Batch Reporting using ISPF screens:

Designed and developed ISPF user interface for Journal Reporting where multiple filters can be entered and validated
before generating the report against Transaction Trace in journal files for more analysis.
3. AMDOCS INDIA LTD
Amdocs is a global company that uniquely combines a market-leading BSS, OSS, and network control and optimization
product portfolio with value-driven professional services and managed services operations
Role - Software Engineer
Client - AT&T, USA
Team - SOCS

SOCS is suite of applications that contains around 6 applications which are responsible for the collection, storage, and
distribution of service orders to all user departments, including service order-driven mechanized systems. SOCS is an
online system used by many departments to process service orders.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Around 2.5 years of experience in Application Development, Maintenance and Support in Telecom.
 Involved in preparation of Technical Requirements Document, Application Interface Document for complex and
medium complex projects.
 Undertaken project to migrate file transfer mode from.
 Worked extensively on Complex projects, Enhancement Requests, Defects, Support requests, RDs etc.
 Performed day to day maintenance and monitoring activities of Batch and Online application.
 Developed Automation Tools using REXX for reducing the routine manual work of the application.
 Worked for Quality Process Tool based on .NET technologies voluntarily that received VP level appreciation and
being used throughout the Business Unit.
Key Technologies and Tools: Assembler, COBOL, JCL, DB2, MQ, IMS and IBM-FOCUS, Panvlet, Changeman, TWS

1. Service Order Communication System (SOCS) and Service Order Interface (SOI) :
SOCS and SOI are the online system that validates and reformats the incoming service order messages from front-end
applications and depending upon the incoming message, accesses required data from DB2 tables. Qualifying messages
are then distributed to downstream applications over different communication channels in customized formats.

EUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

 Engineering Education: Govt. College of Engineering, Karad.

Branch : Information Technology
Total Percentages : 71.42
Year of Passing : 2012

 Higher Secondary Education

Total Percentages : 76.33
Year of Passing : 2008

 Secondary School Education

Total Percentages : 85.46
Year of Passing : 2006

OTHER DETAILS

 Date of Birth : 11-Sep-1990

 PASSPORT : Valid till 2026
 VISA Status : USA B1 VISA valid till March 2028