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Aswin Balachandran

As400 Technical Lead
Bengaluru
Aswin Balachandran

Summary

● 14 years of IT service industry experience, in Senior Consultant and Technical Lead roles.
● Significant work experience in IBM I-Series/As400 Technology in Maintenance & Support Project and worked in Enhancement, Maintenance & support, Testing phases, Quality, Deployment phases.
● Experience in making Process flow diagrams and Data flow diagrams, to document Business processes and creating user specific documentation. Created technical solution design for projects, Application Information Documents, Test scripts/cases, RCA, Reporting data preparation.
● Experience in Client Transition, Project Transition, Business reviews, Functional and System Level Requirements, Design implementation and overall coordination.
● Handled multiple projects and applications support single handedly and efficiently .
● Quality coordinator for the project & responsible for several account level Metrics' and co-ordination activities across the different teams in the project.
● Experience in Retail, Insurance , Warehouse management/Supply chain & Logistic domains.
● Strong database skills and knowledge in testing phases & supporting AS400 applications

Overview

3
Languages
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Capgemini Consulting Services India Pvt Ltd.

Senior Consultant – Technical Lead
03.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Technical/Team Lead for the AMS project: Responsible for the Run-time and One-time project support . This incudes prioritizing Incidents, Service Requests, Problem Tickets & Change Requests/Minor Enhancement without any escalation and meets the SLA & on-Time.
  • Manage smooth application function process as expected without any business impacts or escalations. And this involves Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly specific activities and tickets SLA management and resolution provided timely.
  • Provide support to team members on complex code analysis or application functionalities. Provide support to team wherever required with complex code/functionality for changes & analysis required for resolution of INC/Requests .
  • Identify pro-active measures for better application process and implementing Optimization & performance improvement initiatives that helps business users in Warehouse operations, Shipping & Invoicing process.
  • Requirement gathering and Estimation for Projects & change request, which involves analyzing existing process & understand the process flow & then
    correlate with requirement and plan for the subsequent activities as per SDLC process.
  • Involved in the Transition phase of project from Client team . This involves KT planning, KT activities, Hand-over activities, Stabilization phase to take-over the application support run-time & one-time activities completely and independently.
  • Ensure Application end-to-end support been provided & the integrated applications -channel flow runs as per business process as expected
  • Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly reporting on Ticket and Non-ticket activities and tracking the status and progress.
  • Co-ordination with Integrated-applications & Infrastructure team.

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.

Senior Consultant – Technology
04.2020 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • Application Support Team member responsible for handling Incident & Service Request Resolution, Problem tickets & fix for recurring issues/performance improvement and Data & Bug fixing.
  • Monitor daily/weekly/monthly job process and perform Month-end specific activities
  • Month-end activities includes pre-month-end , Month-end and post-month-end specific activities and handle if any issue which is of severely high priority
  • Handling On-call support (Batch-job issues) during business & off business hours during weekdays & on week-end as well. This involves daily, weekly, month-end batch jobs process monitoring tasks & activities.
  • Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices and coding techniques for improved productivity.

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior System Engineer
02.2016 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Handle Application production Support & Maintenance (P1,P2,P3,P4 Incidents & Service
    Requests raised from business user) resolution , Bug-fixing, Problem ticket , On-call support.
  • Handle application specific support activities during month-end, Quarter-end & Year-end time period.
  • Batch job monitoring & critical issue resolution for batch job issue been raised.
  • Responsible for the role of application system Environment manager, Quality tracking,
    Change/Release Deployment Coordinator & handling of major & minor Release activities.
  • Knowledge on Retail, Banking, Insurance domain.
  • Part of team performed the Application Modernization POC, for Banking HUB function using latest concept in database & coding methodology.
    code.

UST Global

Software Developer
06.2011 - 01.2016

Job overview

  • Team member responsible for application Support which includes Incident & requests Resolution, Bug fixing, On-Call support for any application function or back-end job processing.
  • Responsible for Monthly, Yearly application specific activities and Batch job monitoring & support.
  • Contributed to a positive team environment through effective communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Education

Musaliar College of Engineering And Technology
Pathanamthitta, India

Bachelor of Technology from Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
04.2001

University Overview

GPA: 65%

Skills

RPGLE

CLLE

DB2/400

Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

SQL

Service Now (SNOW)

WRKQRY

Rational Developer for I-Series (RDi)

Interform

Timeline

Senior Consultant – Technical Lead

Capgemini Consulting Services India Pvt Ltd.
03.2022 - Current

Senior Consultant – Technology

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.
04.2020 - 08.2021

Senior System Engineer

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2016 - 01.2020

Software Developer

UST Global
06.2011 - 01.2016

Musaliar College of Engineering And Technology

Bachelor of Technology from Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
04.2001
Aswin BalachandranAs400 Technical Lead