Sandip Tapase

Mobile: +91- 9923406652; Email: hi.sandip@yahoo.com

Professional Objective
Seeking a Challenging Career in the Area of Software Maintenance and Production support
in a Professional Organization, which will utilize my skills to its fullest potential in the field of
development and maintenance of COBOL, JCL and DB2.
Professional Summary

 Having around 10 years of experience in IBM Mainframe development life cycle

 Having strong knowledge in system study and analysis.
 Mainframe development using technologies – COBOL,JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMS,
TSO/ISPF, REXX, Batch scheduling, Expeditor, Endevor, Changeman, Debug Facility,
IBM MQ, TWS, FTP,
 Strong commitment, organizational and detail oriented skills.
 Strong understanding of Mainframe development, release management and
production support procedure
 Extensive experience working with Financial and Banking applications.
 Experience in the design and development of online (CICS-DB2) and batch(COBOL-
DB2) database systems and COBOL-DB2-MQ-CICS
 Good familiarity with MQ Series, VSAM and DB2, PowerBuilder, JSON, REST, CICS
web services, CICS as sever, Web based CICS applications.
 Proven ability to work in a high-pressure environment
Career Highlights

NLB services . Ltd.

Roles & Responsibilities:
 Designed upgraded web application and complementary tools to improve usability,
support, and maintenance of the application
 Worked closely with the customer throughout the development cycle ensuring the
proposed design met customer requirements.
 Integrated existing designs with new requirements
 Resolved complex and conflicting design issues.
 Supervised component and code test activities.
 Coordinated QA and development efforts. Facilitated QA engineer in determination of
test methods for each developed component.
 Reported production issues and raise change request
 Provided estimates for Development Projects, set detailed schedules and
expectations, delegated task among team members, monitored overall progress, and
provided status report to upper management
  Developed effective technical and user documentation
Environment:
COBOL, Cobol Db2 Stored procedure,Native Db2 Stored procedure, DB2, CICS JCL, VSAM,
TSO/ISPF, REXX, Expeditor, Assembler, Changeman, FTP, NDM, Test Director/Quality Center,
VB Script, QTP, MQ series, IMS Online, DB2 Store Procedure Native and COBOL.

Company: Pyramid It Consultancy

Client-Wipro (Credit Suisse)
Credit Suisse Group is a Swiss multinational financial services holding company,
headquartered in Zürich that operates the Credit Suisse Bank and other financial services
investments. The company is organized as a stock corporation with four divisions: Investment
Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management, and a Shared Services Group that provides
marketing and support to the other three divisions.
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Fix the reported production issues and raise change request
 Designed upgraded web application and complementary tools to improve usability,
support, and maintenance of the application.
 Managed team of four consisting of three developers and a QA Engineer. Assigned
tasks, set design review meetings, and ensured team members' understanding of
requirements and proposed design.
 End to End support for deliverables
 Designed and worked in Distributed system mainframe, Unix, Window
 Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in
time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements
 Effective planning and working with multiple client vendors
 Developing few tools using REXX to minimize the routine/redundant activities.
Example: Tool for Parameter verification for JCL, Creating Test job from given
Parameter
Environment:
COBOL, DB2, CICS (including TSQ and TDQ), JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, REXX, SAS, Expeditor,
Assembler, Endevor, PowerBuilder, FTP, NDM, VB Script, QTP, MQ series, DB2 Store
Procedure Native and COBOL.

Company: Cap Gemini

Account-Morgan
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is an American multinational financial services corporation
headquartered in the Morgan Stanley Building, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Morgan
Stanley operates in 24 countries and has more than 1300 offices and 60,000 employees.
According to the Scorpio Partnership Global Private Banking Benchmark, the company had
$1.454 trillion of assets under management (AUM) in 2014, an increase of 17.5% over its
2013 figure

Roles & Responsibilities:

 involved in all the stages of the development like analysis, design, build, test and,
deployment of code
 Simplified and cleaned up abundant and complicated system logic and code to improve
applications processing time, system efficiency and system maintenance.
 Worked in teams to address production defects, troubleshooting and resolution
 Requirement clarification with clients
 Preparing the high and low level design documents
 Language and database used COBOL,DB2,VSAM,JCL,CICS
 Analyzing modifications, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous
implementation.
  Created system Flowcharts using VISIO
Environment:
COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, REXX, SAS, Expeditor, Assembler, Endevor,
PowerBuilder, FTP, NDM, Test Director/Quality Center, QTP, MQ series, DB2 Store Procedure
Native and COBOL.

Company: Sopra Steria Pvt Ltd. (Steria)

Client: Barclaycard, Northampton
Barclaycard (stylized as Barclaycard) is a multinational credit card and payment services
provider, and a division of Barclays plc. The Barclaycard was the first British credit card
introduced in the United Kingdom, coming into service in 1966. It enjoyed a monopoly, until
the introduction of the Access card in 1972.
Roles & Responsibilities:

 Analyzed the job log and resolved production ABENDs; performed impact analysis to
resolve user queries.
 Used FILE-AID to create and modify VSAM (KSDS), PDS, and PS.
 Used TSO/ISPF utilities to create and Maintain PDS, PS, etc. and to monitor Spools
and to migrate files from one region to other regions.
 Analyzed, designed and created new JCL JOBs, PROCs for daily, monthly & yearly
Reporting purposes.
 Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test/Production
environment by the team during SIT, UAT & implementation.
 Designed, coded and tested COBOL program changes for Inbound and Outbound
Provider pricing system.

Environment:
COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, REXX, Expeditor, Assembler, Endevor, FTP, NDM,
Test Director/Quality Center, QTP, MQ series

Education
 B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Karad,
Shivaji University, Kolhapur in 2004 with 62.23% / First Class.
 H.S.C. (PCM - 85%) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur with 75%
 S.S.C. from Shivaji University, Kolhapur with 70.80% / First Class