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Saint Paul, MN, 55122
Posted:
October 25, 2010

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Babitha Thomas

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Email Id : abikto@r.postjobfree.com

Contact No: 612-***-****

SUMMARY

Have 4 Years of professional experience in IT Industry with strong application development and production

support knowledge.

Worked in FIS (Fidelity Information Services) Risk, Fraud And Compliance solutions product, which is

acting as a repository to find out the good and bad consumer while bank offering a new account.

Proficient in Mainframe technologies with expertise in COBOL, JCL, REXX, DB2 and Stored procedure.

Very good domain knowledge in banking and financial services.

Quick learner, with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration, assimilates job requirements

and employs new ideas, concepts, methods and technologies.

Technical Skills:

Operating System Z/OS Mainframe

Programming Languages Mainframe Cobol,JCL,REXX,Tandem Cobol, Screen Cobol, TAL, TACL

Databases DB2,Enscribe File, Non stop SQL

Utilities & tools Endeavor, CHANGEMAN, Xpeditor (Online and batch), File Aid, Control M,

Zeke, MQSeries, Storedprocs, Omegamon.

Product Knowledge Debit Bureau

Business Domain Decision Solutions

Educational Qualification:

MCA (Master of Computer application) in Bharathiyar University, India with an overall aggregate of 83 % and

passed out in 2006.

Professional Experience:

Designation Organization Name Work Period

Trainee Programmer IPSR solutions February 2006 – January 2007

Application Programmer Fidelity Information Services (FIS) February 2007 – January 2010

Debit Bureau –Product Knowledge

Debit Bureau World’s largest Debit consumer Database. Debit Bureau Product helps financial institution to make

every transaction more valuable by opening the right accounts. It protects against from Fraud.

Risk Assessment products are New Account, Qualifile Debit & Credit, Fraud Finder, Debit Report, Identification

Verification, ID Authorisation,Click Chex, Prospect Chex, Batch Chex, Express Verification, Debit Monitoring. I have

done several enhancement project works in Debit Bureau.

Project 1: Closure & Collection Data Contribution (CCC)

: Closure & Collection Data Contribution (CCC)

Title

Role : Application developer

Environment : COBOL, JCL

Tools : DB2, FILE AID, CHANGEMAN, BMC and XPEDITOR,

Project Duration : 4 Months

Client : Wells Fargo, US Bank, HSBC, Harris

Description:

The Closure & Collection Data Contribution (CCC) is an application that accepts business and consumer account

closure data. All customers that use risk and decision products are required to report closures.

Closures were submitted from Financial Institutions via:

Batch File Submission

Online

The objective of this enhancement of products and operations are implement upfront data validation, capture

additional data elements and improve nonfunctional system performance. As part of Capture additional data to

enhance products, operations and channel enabled batch customers to contribute all data elements that currently

being captured online.

Created and publish a new batch format spec – 2009R. All the new data items should reach data warehouse (PDW

and EDW) for historical purpose and few new data items should reach data mart (PDM) for products to consume

and Chexmate for consumer disclosure.

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis.

Preparing baseline test cases for before and after the change.

Application enhancement and Unit testing.

System testing/UAT support.

Ensure implementation meets operational requirements and perform to expectations.

Project 2: DepositShield

Title : Deposit Shield (Account & Transaction Management suite)

Role : Team member

Environment : COBOL, JCL, Stored Procedure

Tools : DB2, FILE AID, CHANGEMAN, BMC and XPEDITOR

Project Duration : 6 Months

Client : Wells Fargo, US Bank, HSBC, Harris

Description:

Deposit Shield is a part of the Account & Transaction Management suite of FIS Decision Solutions, helps financial

institutions to prevent fraud related to check deposits and payroll check cashing.

Deposit fraud costs the financial services industry billions of dollars each year. This type of fraud strikes both new

and existing accounts – hindering a financial institution’s ability to provide its customers with fast access to their

money, which negatively impacts customer satisfaction levels.

Deposit Shield, has a proven track record as a successful deterrent to deposit fraud, currently verifying and

guaranteeing funds for billions of dollars in personal, payroll and government deposits annually.

Deposit Shield accurately identifying transactions that represent the highest risk to your financial institution while

impacting a minimal number of customers in the process.

The DepositShield product is a valuable alert feed to enhance the value of Enterprise Case Management. The

DepositShield Product was comprised of two product subsets. They are DepositShield Express and DepositShield

Direct. With this project we had enabled the third, DepositShield Fusion.

DepositShield Express is available to customers of FIS Item Processing Centers. The All Items data of the

Customer is provided daily by the Item Processor to DepositShield for processing and scoring of the risk items.

Deposit account risk is not performed because there is no account information provided within the consumption

process.

DepositShield Direct is available to customers who provide Deposit Account information in addition to their All Items

data. These customers may also provide additional matching files to improve the risk response scoring. Files

include RDI, Hot and Suppression files.

DepositShield Fusion is for Customers using other (external) alert systems. DepositShield Fusion provides

matching against external alerts to DepositShield data for further improvement of the value of the alerts .

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis.

Technical design.

Preparing test cases for unit testing.

Application enhancement and Unit testing.

System testing/UAT support.

Ensure implementation meets operational requirements and perform to expectations.

Project 3: Fraud Finder

Title : FraudFinder

Role : Team member

Environment : COBOL, JCL, Stored Procedure

Tools : DB2, FILE AID, CHANGEMAN, BMC and XPEDITOR

Project Duration : 6 Months

Client : Wells Fargo, US Bank, HSBC, Harris

Description:

FIS FraudFinder offers financial institutions a powerful anti fraud and identity manipulation detection tool by

delivering fraud alerts, scores and profiles. Your bank or credit union can have the comprehensive information

needed to reduce losses and improve investigative productivity in new account decision by implementing our fraud

detection solution. The FraudFinder neural net fraud score predicts the likelihood of fraudulent activity and provides

next day alerts if identity manipulation is detected.

The main features provided by the fraud finder are

•Fraud monitoring 24 x 7 x 365

•Transaction scoring and case management

•Cardholder contact and transaction authentication

•Account status updates and issuer notification

•Real time authorization decision at the point of sale

With this project enhancement we have created new batch process in mainframe to extract FF user data from

mainframe database and FTP it to oracle and to automate USPS load.

New job was set up in Mainframe to automate the USPS load by ftp the USPS file from the network drive to

Mainframe thru batch process

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis.

Technical design.

Preparing test cases for unit testing.

Application enhancement and Unit testing.

System testing/UAT support.

Ensure implementation meets operational requirements and perform to expectations.

Project 4: BIS (Business Search Information)

Title : REXX tool for inquire TCS/TCK tables for business

Role : Developer

Environment : REXX

Tools : DB2, FILE AID, CHANGEMAN, BMC and XPEDITOR

Project Duration : 3 Months

Client : FIS (Fidelity Information Services)

Description:

BSI tool was developed to inquire the tables meant for business data. This tool allow the user to search business

information using any one or combination of the input details like business name, DBCID, DBAID, federal tax id,

phone, zip, bank code or account number. It will search the data from the tables using queries and display all the

information about the business consumer like Business name, score, batch control no etc.

This tool provide various Options, User can select data from Production or Stage or QC or Development tables. It

allows selecting data from different table and it allows displaying output based on the business name order or

DBCID order. Once the output is displayed in the initial panel, the user can select a particular DBCID from the list to

display the detailed information on a new screen.

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis.

Technical design.

Preparing test cases for unit testing.

Application development and Unit testing.

System testing/UAT support.

Ensure implementation meets operational requirements and perform to expectations.

Project 5: FI Risk Mainframe Production support

: FI Risk Mainframe Production support

Title

: FIS

Client

: Team Member

Role

: IBM Mainframe OS/390, COBOL, DB2, JCL & VSAM

Environment

: File Aid, Changeman, Control M, SPUFI & QMF.

Tools

Project Duration : 12 Months

Description:

The Risk Management Products provide data, data analysis tools and services, and a world class analytics team to

help customers make more informed decisions about risk and opportunity associated with consumers and

transactions. DebitBureau® is the name of the compiled database, infrastructure and esources at the heart of FIS’s

CRAs.

FIS DebitBureau contains information on consumers’ handling of deposit accounts, Combining applications for

account, account openings, account closures, retail point of sale payments, and many other behaviors, information

from financial institutions, retailers, and other providers is combined to form complete views of consumer behavior.

The project involves 24X7 supports of Debit Bureau applications such as Debit Bureau Data warehouse, Product

Data mart, Consumer Search and Fraud Finder that consists of both online and batch components.

Responsibilities:

Monitor the production jobs and online transactions.

Resolve the production abends.

Analyze the issues related with Remedy tickets.

Develop or modify COBOL/DB2, CICS programs to fix the issues and meet client’s needs.

Unit testing

Work with QC team to ensure the quality of code.

Create service center request and get the approval from change management team.

Move the code changes to production.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Name : Babitha Thomas

Husband’s Name : Jince Joseph

Gender : Female

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian

Visa type : L2/EAD

Languages Known : English, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi

REFERENCES:

References will be provided upon request.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the particulars of information and facts stated herein above are true, correct and

complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date : 10/20/2010

Place : Eagan Babitha Thomas



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