Project Development

VISHAL BAGATI

Objective

Looking forward to work in a leading organization where I can showcase and enhance my domain/technical skills. Holding Canadian Permanent Resident (PR) card valid till Oct 2020. Moved permanently from India to Toronto on 8th Feb, 2016 and currently I am based out of downtown Toronto and am looking for mainframe development based job opportunities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada or Greater Toronto (GTA) and am available for interview and joining immediately. Having 4+ years of Canadian experience in mainframe development and total mainframe development experience of 8.5+ years.

Summary

8.5+ years of experience in Mainframe Development and involved in all phases of SDLC with end to end development project handling in waterfall and agile models.

Good knowledge in insurance business domain, and can efficiently work/ready to work on any other business domain as well.

Excellent exposure in client interaction and have lead offshore team effectively from onsite for more than 4 years from client location in Toronto, Canada.

Committed hardworking, result oriented, flexible, innovative, quick learning/analysis skills, excellent team player and always ready to help peers.

Good in time management and multitasking.

Additionally contributed towards mainframe DB2 performance tuning.

Awards and Certifications

Achieved various Syntel/Client Team and individual level awards and appreciations.

Cleared below DB2 certifications:

DB2 - 730 (DB2 9 FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS)

DB2 - 732 (DB2 9 DBA for z/OS)

Technical Skills

Operating System

z/OS

Programming Languages

VS COBOL II, JCL

OLTP

Netron Cap CICS

Database

DB2

Software Tools

Endevor, Netron Cap, Expeditor, File-Aid, Control-M, HP Quality Center

Work Experience

Currently seeking mainframe development based job opportunities in Toronto or Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Moved permanently from India to Toronto on 8th Feb, 2016.

Worked as offshore Mainframe Development Team Lead for Syntel India from Sep 2014 till 27th Jan, 2016 (For client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial from Gurgaon, Haryana, India).

Resigned from this job in India to move permanently and settle down in Canada.

Worked as onshore mainframe development team lead for Syntel Canada from April 2010 till Aug 2014 (At Client site John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial in Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

Got trained in mainframe technology and worked as offshore mainframe developer for Syntel India from Aug 2007 till Mar 2010 (For client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India).

Project Details

1.Syntel India Ltd. - For Client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial, Toronto, Canada.

Mainframe Development Team Lead.

Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Sep 2014 till 27th Jan, 2016.

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading Canada based financial services group serving millions of customers. APOLLO is John Hancock Retirement Plan Services primary investment record keeping system. The core business is around APOLLO.

Worked as Offshore Mainframe Development Team Lead for various small/mid/big size complex projects and enhancements involving batch and online changes in Insurance Domain for client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial.

Major project on which I worked is Dynamic Plan Review which

aims at retaining the existing plans by dynamically offering price changes via annual review which will make sure existing clients retain their plan. This project involves developing new online screens, new batch reports/files on APOLLO including online/batch changes to existing APOLLO system.

Cobol, JCL, Netron CICS, DB2 are being used.

Below are my roles and responsibilities;

Interaction with onshore development lead for project activities.

Impact Analysis and Estimation.

Detail Functional Specifications and high/low level Detail Design Preparation.

Dividing and assigning project development design, coding and unit

testing tasks to offshore developers.

Also, perform development tasks of design, coding and unit testing.

Peer review of development deliverables, clarification of queries and guiding the offshore developers.

Support activities - Quality Assurance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Implementation and Post Implementation support.

2.Syntel Canada - At Client site John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial, Toronto, Canada.

Mainframe Development Team Lead.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

April 2010 till August 2014.

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading Canada based financial services group serving millions of customers. APOLLO is John Hancock Retirement Plan Services primary record keeping system. The core business is around APOLLO.

I was Onshore Mainframe Development Team Lead for various small/mid/big size complex projects and enhancements involving batch and online changes in Insurance Domain for client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial.

Worked on major projects like pricing where new product/feature was launched in the APOLLO system and new online/batch programs/reports had to be developed, Existing online/batch programs to be re-written touching core Proposal & Contract Creation, Batch Financial Transaction processing and reporting. Other projects include online/batch changes to mainframe based tax system, launching/merging of funds in the system, accounting changes, regulatory Roth and fee disclosure changes and various other system maintenance and enhancements/complex projects.

Cobol, JCL, Netron CICS, DB2 were used.

Below were my roles and responsibilities;

Client interaction and requirement gathering at onshore -

Interaction with various client business and systems teams for project work at onshore and also co-ordination with offshore development team.

Involved in all phases of SDLC.

Impact Analysis and Estimation.

Detail Functional Specifications and high/low level Detail Design Preparation.

Dividing and assigning project development design, coding and unit

testing tasks to developers.

Also, performed development tasks of design, coding and unit testing whenever needed.

Review of development deliverables, clarification of queries and guiding the developers.

Support activities - Quality Assurance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Implementation and Post Implementation support. Production on call primary support on rotational basis.

3.Syntel India - For Client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial, Toronto, Canada.

Mainframe Developer.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Aug 2007 till Aug 2010.

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading Canada based financial services group serving millions of customers. APOLLO is John Hancock Retirement Plan Services primary record keeping system. The core business is around APOLLO.

I got trained on Mainframe technology and started working as Offshore Mainframe Developer on various projects and enhancements involving batch and online changes in Insurance Domain for client John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (U.S.A.), Manulife Financial.

Worked on major contract number expansion project where contract number on the system had to be expanded from 5 to 7 digits. It involved changes to online screens, batch programs, batch reports and feed files touching most of the APOLLO system and several other systems and vendors which were fed from APOLLO. Also, worked on several other projects/enhancements involving pricing, fee disclosure, regulatory changes etc. to the APOLLO system.

Cobol, JCL, Netron CICS, DB2 were used.

Below were my roles and responsibilities;

Interaction with onshore/offshore development lead and Requirement Understanding.

Impact analysis.

Low Level Detail design, Coding, Unit testing, preparation of Unit test plan and Unit test results document for assigned project tasks.

Performance Testing.

System testing of various modules.

Support of Quality assurance and User acceptance testing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication) from Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai University, May 2003 to May 2007. Passed with First Class scoring more than 60% aggregate marks.

Passed with distinction and scored more than 80% aggregate marks

in 10th grade, year 2001 and 12th grade, year 2003.

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