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Asha Jacob
Email:ashajacob0712@yahoo.com | Phone:6129993027
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Objective:
To seek a position utilizing my skills and abilities in IBM Mainframe technologies that offers professional growth while
being resourceful, innovative and flexible.
Experience Summary
Possess total of 6.5 Years of IT experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing of software applications in
Mainframe Technology.
Experience in Migration projects pertaining application migration from mainframe to distributed platform.
Have extensive experience as a team lead over 1 year in Job Trac to Control M scheduler migration.
Experience in system enhancements using COBOL, DB2, IMS, JCL, UNIX and CICS.
Implemented MQ projects in Vision + and MQ hub to point to point connection.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of Functional specification
• Interacting with clients and understanding Business Requirements.
• Preparation of Unit and System test plan
• Preparation of Project Plan, Analysis and Design documents following SDLC Waterfall methodology
• Code development, Unit testing and documenting Unit test results
• Implementation activities to migrate code to production environment
• Coordinating with client for the implementation for the change/enhancement requests
Contributions:
• Conducted knowledge sharing sessions on JobTrac scheduling, Control M scheduling, File transmission utility.
• Conducted training sessions for fresher and worked as training coordinator for the Team.
Achievements:
• Won on the spot award for handling complex projects.
• Received AMEX VP level appreciation for implementing complex migration projects without any glitches.
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Technical Skills:
Domain Experience:
• Credit Cards Industry
• Account receivable System of Amex
Certifications:
Title Version Acquired On Expires On
IBM certified database
associate DB2 9 exam DB2 9 30/08/2013
Certified in Payment Cards
Functions and Management
Services
8/7/2011
Certified Scrum Master 6/03/2015
Project Experience Summary:
Project AMEX LAC-SQP (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil.)
Customer American Express Travel Related Services
Period Jan 2011 – March 2015
Role Technical Lead
Description American Express is one of the largest providers for credit / charge card products. They also
provide their services for banking and travelers cheques.
Activities in project, include providing the support for enrolling the new card members, via
LANAS system, and also provided the support for MNS system, which takes care of posting
and cut-off of the transactions made by the card members and finally sends the feed for
statement process.
As a developer have worked in Key Migration projects which included migration of application to
distributed platform. Worked as a team lead for migrating all the jobs of the application from
JobTrac scheduler to control m scheduler. Also Implemented MQ projects in Vision + and
handled migration of MQ hub to point to point connection
Responsibilities • Involved in technical specification preparation, for the Work requests
• Preparation of solution architecture documents and detail design
• Coding and unit testing for the enhancement requests.
• Support the System Integration Testing and User Acceptance testing
Platforms Mainframe Utilities / Languages Special Software
MVS, OS/390, Windows,
OS/2, MS-DOS
TSO ISPF/PDF, MVS/ESA JCL, MVS/ESA
UTILITIES, VSAM, GDG, DB2,
COBOL,DB2, IMS,UNIX
File-Aid, SDSF, Change Man, Vision
PLUS, MQ, CICS, Manage Now,
INFOMAN. Expeditor, File aid, HP
QC ,SAS, Control M Scheduler ,
JobTrac Scheduler, REXX, Shell script

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• Production implementation of developed code
• Involved in defect fixing in development/Integration/UAT phases
• Review of analysis and design documents. Performed code review
• Managing tracker calls with the Customers.
• Application Performance Tuning
• Undertaken Quality process in the team
• Coordinate with team and provide support for issue resolution
• Mentored new joiners
• Conducted induction programs and workshops
• Developed tools
Software COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS. Expeditor, File aid.
Manual Testing, Mercury QC,
Project Globe star Vision Plus MQ
Period Jan 2011 – June 2011
Role Mainframe developer
Description Globe Star is the Global AR Platform for all markets in Amex. It is hierarchical parameterized
system and the software used is Vision PLUS. Different types of Customer Records are set at a
different level within the system. Vision PLUS offers considerable flexibility in terms of how
products are configured and identified.
Responsibilities Carried out the following activities:
• Coding based on design specifications
• Carried out Unit testing per test plan
• Documented unit test results
• Interacted with Customer for requirement clarification and issue resolution
Software CICS, MQ, Vision Plus, Change man, JobTrac Scheduler, File Aid, EXPEDITOR
Project Control M Migration Argentina (AMEX LAC-SQP Argentina )
Period March 2013 – July 2013
Role TECHNICAL LEAD
Description Control-M is Sysplex compliant provides ability to view workloads across mainframe sysplex
environments and provides an end-to-end view of workload processing to Operation team, a
feature not available with JobTrac. American Express has evaluated various options available
and has selected BMC Control-M as a suitable replacement
Carried out the following activities:
• Performed analysis of the existing JobTrac schedulers of the application.

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• Developed tools to validate the converted control M schedules.
• Coordinated with interface Teams and planned the execution to ensure the downstream
and upstream are not impacted.
• Dummy Run performed in production and validated the results against the JobTrac BAU
run.
Responsibilities • Analyzed the JobTrac schedulers of the Application
• Prepared Migration plan and tasks list
• Interacted with Business to resolve complex scenarios
• Identified root causes and provided solutions in short span of time for job failures during migration
• Prepared test plans for dummy run in production.
• Carried out unit testing and integration testing
• Coordinated with interface teams to ensure zero impact for other application after migration.
• Reviewed all schedules of the application
• Carried out implementation activities for schedule changes
• Implemented around 2000 jobs in Control M scheduler without impact.
• Monitored the jobs as part of post implementation activity
• Made systematic and rational judgments based on relevant information.
• Developed Tools for validation
• Conducted knowledge sharing sessions
• Utilized the SME knowledge in Control M to provide appropriate solutions for other teams.
Software Change man, JobTrac Scheduler, Control M Scheduler
Project TARGET CORPORATION
Customer TARGET
Period March 2015 – Nov 2015
Role Mainframe developer
Description
Multichannel Inventory Management (MCIM) will enable joint inventory management through
shared multichannel systems, processes and tools. As part of this, there are two main applications
that are being enhanced.
Order Management system (OMS) is an application the client (Merchandising) uses to create,
maintain and allocate PO’s. Purchase order is a legal agreement between Target Corp. and a
vendor that outlines the details of a purchasing transaction. It defines, in detail, what Target Corp.
is ordering from the Vendor, the conditions by which the goods will be transferred from the Vendor
to Target Corp., and the agreement for payment. The Order system is where POs are reserved,
created, approved, maintained, and changed. POs are created using inputs from Vendor, Item, and
Replenishment systems. POs requested or generated from a Replenishment system are fed into
Order. POs can also be created manually in the Order system, if needed.
Inventory Tracking Application (ITA) is a system to maintain and view inventory. All available sales
transactions, on order, on demand, on hand and on withdrawal inventory are maintained in this
system.
With MCIM, we enable .com item orders to be created in the stores Order management system
and its inventory can be tracked in the stores ITA system thereby providing a unified platform for
store and .com items across Target

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Implementing this would provide the following benefits to Target
• Hard Benefits:
◦ Cross-channel improved allocation
◦ Transfer costs between channel savings
◦ Domestic transportation consolidation
◦ Reduction in import PO overhead through PO consolidation
◦ Location-based forecasting to get product closer to guest demand
◦ Vendor compliance auditing enablement
◦ Timely collection of vendor income
• Soft Benefits:
◦ Support other Target initiatives such as Upstream Distribution Center (UDC) and Direct to Guest
(G2G)
◦ Process and system simplification for Target Sourcing Services (TSS)
◦ Joint planning and joint negotiations
◦ Average inventory reduction through vendor minimum reduction and reduced safety stock
• Support/Maintenance of Applications
• Developed tools
Software COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS. Expeditor, File aid.
Manual Testing, Mercury QC, Endevour
Project DELUXE CORPORATION
Customer DELUXE
Period Nov 2015 –Till Date
Role Mainframe developer /Support
Description Deluxe provides a wide range of customized products and services including personalized printed
items, promotional and merchandising materials, fraud prevention services, and customer
retention programs. The Company also sells personalized checks and related accessories
directly to consumers. With the New England Business Services acquisition Deluxe Corporation
has expanded its products and services. Deluxe Corporation thus has multiple order entry
channels. Order entry channels include Ecommerce sites, CFS and COMET, all these orders

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entry channels for end customers. Orders from Financial institutions’ come through order Pro
application. All these orders will reach to Customer interface system for fraud screen and routing
to proper plant based on the products. Thus the production environment requires continuous
monitoring and maintenance of Ecommerce sites, CFS, COMET and supporting applications on a
24 x 7 basis. Once after processing orders it will reach to MOMS and CMP systems for gathering
the printer data.
TCSL is involved in support and maintenance of the Deluxe IT which includes the monitoring all
these order entry channels and keep updating the database as per FI's request.
• Provide Application support /maintenance
• Mentored new joiners
• Developed tools for JCL clean up using shell script
Software COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2. Expeditor, File Manager, CICS
Manual Testing, ,UNIX, Shell script, Endevour
Experience Details:
TCS Experience 6 Years,5 Month(s)
Prev. Experience 0 Year(s),0 Month(s)
Total Experience 6 Year(s),5 Month(s)
Total Onsite Experience 1 Year,2 Month(s)
Trainings:
Program/Course Duration (min) Start Date End Date
Business Ethics in TCS -
WBT
00:45 08/11/2011 08/11/2011
Effective Technical Writing -
Part III of III - Presenting
Information Effectively - WBT
01:00 11/04/2010 11/04/2010

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Part II and III - Using Simple
and Objective Language -
WBT
01:00 11/04/2010 11/04/2010
Part I of III - Identifying the
Audience, Topic and
Purpose - WBT
01:00 11/04/2010 11/04/2010
General Banking: Overview
of General Banking Concepts
& Terminology
03:00 05/09/2012 05/09/2012
Integrated Quality
Management System -
iQMS: Quiz for Team
Members
00:50 02/10/2012 02/10/2012
Knowledge Transition
Program - Technical - ILT
02:00 06/27/2012 06/27/2012
Competency List:
Competency Area Proficiency Method of Assessment
Analytical Ability L1 Custom Method
Software Security E0 Custom Method
Continual Learning L1 Custom Method
Team Skill L1 Custom Method
BFS-General Banking E0 Custom Method
Communication L1 Custom Method
Passport Details:
Passport Number Date of Issue Expiry Date Place of Issue
M3015948 21-October-2014 20-October-2024 Cochin
Visa Details:
Visa Type Valid Till
H1B Sep 30 ,2018

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