Guhapriya Ravindranath

18+ Years of extensive Mainframe experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle in investment banking. Highly proficient in application development, enhancement and supporting critical batch processes hosted on an IBM mainframe using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Sort, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, TRACEMASTER, DUMPMASTER, CICS, INSYNC, Control-M,EASYTRIVE.Good amount of experience in migrating Exstream from Mainframes to cloud environment using Kubernetes.Used Splunk dashboard to track application logs and performances. Good amount of exposure to the REST web services. Expertise in Agile-Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies.

• Received WOW Awards and Spotlight Award for performing many optimization techniques in 2015 as well as 2023. This led to a good amount of savings to the firm.
• Completed internal certification related to Anti Money Laundering and Financial Securities.
• Achieved project success award for excellent contribution in JFG Custom Colors Statement project.
• Good team player and active participation in all the Community Partnership activities conducted within the organization.

Title: Mainframe Modernization - Linux Migration

Description: All the exstream applications are converted to single pub and executed complex mainframe processes in distributed platform.

Technologies/Services used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, NAS, Kubernetes, Rest API, Splunk dashboard, CICS

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Took complete ownership in converting all the mainframe processes to be compatible with Linux environment.
• Set up all new jobs for migrating the mainframe processes to Linux. Ensure that exstream is successfully deployed in Kubernetes cluster.
• Make sure that the exstream output is created properly in NAS. Monitoring web services performance in Splunk Dashboard
• Maintain the Rest API which is a watcher running in the App-engine to ensure that exstream is successful in cloud and its output is successfully created in NAS.
• As a development lead attend Daily scrum meeting,Sprint review,Sprint planning,Backlog refinements,Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Demonstrate sprint deliverables to Business, product owner and technical team.

Title: JFG Custom Color Statements

Description:

• This project applies colors to the Brokerage as well as Bank Custody statements based on the CMYK color codes enrolled by the customer for each header,sub-headers, line items, bar-charts as well as pie-charts.
• This is a significant project which helps us to achieve the DALBAR rating in 2022 by increasing the overall appearance of the Statements.

Technologies/Services used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SORT, CICS

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Translate the business requirements into functional and technical designs. Worked with the Quality Assurance group and came up with the various functional test cases.
• Involved in designing as well as coding complex processes as part of this project ; Documented technical work flows.
• Responsible for leading, Project Planning, supervising and mentoring team of about 10 team members involve in mainframe technologies.
• Reviewing unit test case scenarios and test results. Automating unit test process which will minimize testing effort.

Title: Availability Capacity Efficiency/ L3 Technical Support

Technologies/Services used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SORT

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Continuous Research and Development have been carried out to maintain the capacity and storage charges to reduce the cost for the firm.
• Change management experience with planning, co-ordination and follow up of approvals for implementing technical changes.
• Problem management experience to identify the root cause on reactive/proactive problems and prevent them.
• Keep the incident lifecycle and status updated via bug/defect tracking tool until closure; provide workaround/solution to meet the Service Level Agreement.
• As part of production support monitored the mainframe batch processing jobs, track and maintain the job logs, errors and alerts.

Title: Automated Cash Management & Asset Management Systems - Corestone

Description:

• Corestone lets client address investing and day to day cash management needs, which can result in a stronger relationship with them and greater share of their wallet.
• Investors who use our Bill Suite online bill payment system often rely on Corestone to manage their financial needs.
• Solution offers many ways to broaden your revenue opportunities - with direct deposits, daily sweep of uninvested cash and dividend reinvestment into client accounts.

Technologies/Services used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in development and functional as well as regression testing.
• Co-ordinate and supported all the aspects of the projects and made sure all the deliverables are met on time.
• Design new initiatives/innovative solutions, common frameworks and utilities for the current platform used in Cash Management.
• Assesses and identifies the mitigation for risks, including those related to high level design, integration and data quality.