CURRICULAM VITAE Vincent Louis Tauro

Design Lead CAREER OBJECTIVE: Aim to be associated with a progressive organization that gives ample scope to apply my skills, knowledge and to involve myself as part of team that will work dynamically towards the growth of organization. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Mobile-No:+919845142476 E-mail: vincenttauro@gmail.com

More than 4.9 years of IT experience with Mainframe Technologies with skill set as

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and HOGAN. Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Actively involved in code reviews and Good understanding of Quality process. Actively involved in providing training. Actively worked as Onsite Coordinator with client place (Nedbank, South Africa) Dedicated team player with excellent communication, interpersonal & presentation skill.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Presently working as a Design Lead in Nihilent Technologies, Pune from 1st August
2007 to till date. TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE: Programming Languages Interaction Technologies/OLTP Databases Testing, debugging Tools Utilities Operating Systems COBOL CICS, JCL VSAM,DB2 Expeditor TSO/ISPF, INSYNC, DITTO and SPUFI, CONTROL-M, FileAid, SERENA, Service Manager MVS, Z/OS, Windows 95/98/XP/2000.

CERTIFICATIONS: Certification in Computing: - A Beginners' Module (72% Score)

PROJECT PROFILE: Project 1 Client Name Duration Business Domain Description Project Type Technologies

GSS CPS TRS

NEDBANK, South Africa August 2010 to till date Banking Nedbank has a TRS (Task request system) where business can log for enhancements required. In this project, TRS related to Payments and Profile is picked up. Enhancement COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM As a Design Lead, I am responsible for :

Guiding the team through the complete life cycle of Software

Projects.

Analysis of Existing application and preparing the analysis

reports. Role and Responsibility

Involved in communication with offshore team to resolve any

issues / conflicts

Involved with Change Management Meetings. Code changes and Code reviews Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases Co-coordinating with the UAT team.
Team Size 8

Project 3 Client Name Duration Business Domain

Channel Convergence 4.4 Release 2 NEDBANK, South Africa Jan 2010 July 2010 Banking NedBank Business clients were having multiple profiles with multiple logon credentials. Clients would like to logon with one set of user credentials, and have access to all their profiles. The clients users

Description

currently belong to a profile, i.e. the user is created as part of that profile and has a specific set of logon credentials to access that profile. Hence one user could exist on multiple profiles, but will have multiple logon credentials. Enhancement COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS

Project Type Technologies

As a Design Lead, I am responsible for :

Guiding the team through the complete life cycle of Software

Projects.

Analysis of Existing application and

Role and Responsibility reports.

preparing the analysis

Involved in communication with offshore team to resolve any

issues / conflicts

Code changes and Code reviews Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases
Team Size 15

Project 4 Client Name Duration Business Domain

Extended Trading Branch (ETB) CASA and GL NEDBANK, South Africa June 2009 to December 2009 Banking The current system uses a 3-digit branch code as a unique identifier for sales/servicing (trading) branches. The objective of the project is to identify 3-digit limitations, enhance them and ensure the full

Description

functionality within the branch after the implementation. The changes were the baseline to analyze the technical impact which will be caused by the ETB project across the CASA and GL System.

Project Type Technologies

Enhancement COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM XPEDITOR As a Senior System Analyst, I was responsible for :

Guiding the team through the complete life cycle of Software

Projects.

Analysis of Existing application and

Role and Responsibility reports

preparing the analysis

Involved in communication with onsite team to resolve any

issues / conflicts

Code changes and Code reviews Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases
Team Size 15

Project 5 Client Name Duration Business Domain

Once Off Payment Restriction & Beneficiary Limits NEDBANK, South Africa February 2009 to May 2009 Banking Client is one of the largest banks of South Africa. The objective of the project is to allow or disallow Once Off Payments (OOP) on the Profile and to add the limits the limits to a beneficiary. For Once Off Payment Restriction an indicator held at Profile level and for Beneficiary Limits an indicator held at Profile level that will indicate that limits have been applied at beneficiary level. If this indicator is set to true then each beneficiary loaded on the Profile must have a limit loaded. Limits consist of Daily limits, Monthly limits, Maximum number of Payments and the Time Period over which the Maximum Number of Payments limit must be applied Development, Enhancement COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, XPEDITOR As a Senior System Analyst, I was responsible for :

Description

Project Type Technologies

Guiding the team through the complete life cycle of Software

Projects.

Involved in communication with onsite team to resolve any

Role and Responsibility issues / conflicts.

Analysis of Existing application and preparing the analysis

reports

Code changes as per the technical specification and Code

reviews

Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases
Team Size 5

Project 6 Client Name Duration Business Domain

National Credit Act (NCA) NEDBANK, South Africa June 2008 to January 2009 Banking

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Objective

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project

to minimize

the

need

for

GSS

intervention when variable parameter values change, a requirement of the NCA project is to parameterize as many of the variables as is Description possible. This will allow the business to take control of their own data and not burden GSS with the possibility because the of multiple majority small of the development efforts. The decision to merge Pricing Requirements and Manage Project Type Technologies Parameters was taken parameters for NCA pertain to pricing. Development, Enhancement COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, XPEDITOR As a Senior System Analyst, I was responsible for :

Gather & analyze requirements and author Requirements

Definition Document / Business Requirements Document and Functional Specifications. Role and Responsibility

Involved in communication with onsite team to resolve any

issues / conflicts

Analyze the Existing application and preparing the analysis

reports

Code changes and Code reviews Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases
Team Size 10

Project 7 Client Name Duration Business Domain

Extended Trading Branch (ETB) - Payments NEDBANK, South Africa January 2008 to May 2008 Banking Client is one of the largest banks in SA providing financial services in Retail Banking. The current system uses a 3-digit branch code as a unique identifier for sales/servicing (trading) branches. The objective of the project is to identify 3-digit limitations, enhance them and ensure the full functionality within the branch after the implementation. The changes were the baseline to analyze the technical impact which will be caused by the ETB project across the Payment System

Description

Project Type Technologies

Enhancement. COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL, XPEDITOR

As a Senior System Analyst, I was responsible for :

Analysis of Existing application and

reports Role and Responsibility

preparing the analysis

Involved in communication with onsite team for to resolve any

issues / conflicts

Preparation of technical specification. Code changes and Code reviews Documentation & Unit Testing Unit testing involves preparing the Test plans and Test cases
Team Size 20

Project 8 Client Name Duration Business Domain

Financial Branch Management System (FBMS) Ned BANK August 2007 to December 2007 Banking Client is one of the largest banks in South Africa. The major aim of the Financial Branch Programme is to remove the Market Splits process completely and to ensure that financial transactions are posted to the correct cluster first time, with no additional processing or manual intervention. Development and testing COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL,CICS, XPEDITOR, CONTROL-M As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for :

Description

Project Type Technologies

Analysis of Existing application and

reports Role and Responsibility

preparing the analysis

Code changes and Code reviews Preparation of Test Cases. Unit Testing, preparation of test result and UTR Review Job Monitoring during deployment to QA.

Team Size

10

EDUCATION:

 Master in Computer Applications (MCA) with first class (92%) in 2005 from
Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Bachelor of Science with specialization in Physics, Chemistry and Maths with first
class With Distinction (63%) in 2001 from Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

TRAININGS ATTENDED:

S# 1

Title Mainframes

Details COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,IMS Understanding the Umbrella System:1) Process Dictionary Definitions a) Datagroup b) Activity c) Database d) Program e) Transaction f) Map 2) FPS a) Screen Navigations b) Condition Code Handling 3) Overview of SPS a) Implode & Explode activities Attended BA training which focuses on the

Duration 45 days

Hogan Development Framework

30 days

Business Analysis

Knowledge Areas, Tools, Techniques, Skills defined by IIBA. Attended FlexCube training which focuses on the Functional Areas areas of Flexcube.

15 days

FlexCube

10 days

ACHIEVEMENTS AND CO-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES:

Played football till zonal level in school and university level in college. Playing Computer games, Listening Music, Long road trips.

PERSONAL DETAILS: Name E-mail ID Contact Date of Birth Passport No Sex Marital Status Nationality Lingual Dexterity Permanent Address : Vincent Louis Tauro : vincenttauro@gmail.com : +91-9845142476 : 16th April 1981 : F5105694 : Male : married : Indian : English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani and Tulu. : Tauro Villa, Vidyanagar, Near Panjimogaru School, Mangalore 575013, Karnataka, India

DECLARATION: I here by declare that the above furnished information is correct and true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Place: Pune Date: 18 April 2012 Vincent Louis Tauro