Mainframe developer
Open To Work
MONJUR ALI SEKH
HTC India
Chennai,TN
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Job Search Status:
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Desired Job Title
Mainframe DeveloperMainframe ConsultantInsurance Consultantvantage onewmA -policy admin system
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig WorkConsultingVolunteerSeasonal Work
5
Certification
16
Years of experience
Goal-oriented IT professional with over 16 years of experience in the analysis, design,development, enhancement, conversion, testing, and support of mission-critical business applications. A graduate of Jadavpur University with a B.E. degree, I specialize in delivering robust solutions using formal software engineering methodologies. Technical Expertise: Proficient in Mainframe technologies including JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, and EASYTRIEVE. Experienced in working with wmA, Vantage-One, and Micro Focus COBOL,Python for cloud-native rehosting of legacy applications. Application Development & Support: Skilled in managing the full lifecycle of applicationsfrom development and maintenance to incident management and production support. Adept at resolving batch job failures, handling tickets, and ensuring SLA compliance. Insurance Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of Individual and Group Life Insurance, Annuities, and policy administration systems (wmA/Vantage-One). Played a key role in data conversion and component modification for insurance platforms. Leadership & Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and end-users to deliver high-quality solutions. Actively involved in onboarding and training new team members on key business processes and compensation calculations. Process Excellence: Committed to following established processes, ensuring timely delivery, accurate code modifications, optimal performance, and rigorous testing across all levels.
To leverage my 15+ years of experience in IT delivery, Mainframe technologies, and Insurance domain expertise, along with my CSM and PMP certifications, in a leadership role. Aspiring to contribute as a Technical Scrum Master, Tech Lead, Technical Manager, or Insurance Consultant, where I can drive business value through technology, process optimization, and collaborative leadership.
Work History
2 Years 9 Months
01.2024 - Current
2 Years 9 Months
Sr Technical Consultant
HTC India | Chennai
01.2024 - Current
- This project focuses on Life Insurance applications (Universal Life, Traditional Life, and Annuity) involving both development and enhancement activities. The client has initiated a strategic modernization program to migrate legacy mainframe systems to a cloud-native platform with an upgraded wmA version. The team is engaged in refactoring and cleanup of legacy code, copybooks, parameters, and other system components, while simultaneously addressing long-standing production issues. Alongside stabilization efforts, the team is also delivering new business enhancements, ensuring system reliability during the transition to the modernized platform.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Led a cross-functional team of Mainframe, wmA, and Vantage developers in the design, development, testing, and maintenance of enterprise applications.
- Provided technical leadership and guidance, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and project deliverables.
- Partnered with project managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to define clear requirements, project scope, and technical solutions.
- Enforced coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes, driving consistency across deliverables.
- Conducted code reviews, shared feedback, and fostered a culture of continuous improvement.
- Diagnosed, troubleshooted, and resolved complex technical issues within stringent SLAs.
- Acted as a mentor and coach, enabling knowledge transfer and professional growth of team members.
- Proactively stayed abreast of the latest Mainframe technologies, tools, and industry trends, applying insights to enhance solution efficiency and scalability.
- Project : :wmA Life
- Client : AMFAM(American Family Insurance), USA
- Team Size : 12(On shore + Off shore)
- Database :VSAM, DB2
- Technology : Mainframe(Cobol,JCL,CICS,DB2)
- Scheduler : CA7
- Tools Used : wmA, JIRA,ENDEVOR, FILE-AID,IBM DEBUGGER.
- Location : Offshore, India, Chennai
2 Years 7 Months
06.2021 - 01.2024
2 Years 7 Months
Application Delivery Lead
Illumifin India
06.2021 - 01.2024
- The aim of this project is to deliver total IT solutions to Metlife and One America's close block of business, hence it's a total IT ownership project.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Analyze the technical components involved in Agency compensation system, document the technical and functional architecture diagrams. Interact with Subject Matter experts and business users and document the understanding.
- Preparation of technical & program specifications, coding of new programs and modifying existing programs in COBOL, CICS, JCL and VSAM. Building Easytrieve programs for ad-hoc reports.
- Analysis of Release, Technical Change & Data Change Application Requests (ASR). Post development migrate code into further levels using Endevor tool.
- Providing & implementing ideas to improve the efficiency of the system i.e. Performance tuning of the system
- Adaptable to changing priorities, procedures and assignments. Maintaining stable performance under pressure
- Providing alternate designs for the assigned projects & take up new challenges.
- Project : : VantageOne,Mainframe
- Client : One America,Melife
- Team Size : 08
- Database : VSAM
- Technology : Mainframe
- Scheduler : CA7
- Skill Used : COBOL,VSAM,JCL,DB2,EASYTRIEVE,CICS,NDM,Go-Anywhere,Report safe.
7 Months
08.2020 - 03.2021
7 Months
wmA consultant
CGI. wmA Conversion, CUSTOMER - Foresters
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Worked as a wmA consultant. Involved in Coding, Debugging, Unit Testing, QA and UAT support and production implementation.
- Project 2
3 Years 3 Months
04.2017 - 07.2020
3 Years 3 Months
Sr Technical Consultant
HTC India | Chennai
04.2017 - 07.2020
- This Project is all about Life Insurance (Universal Life, Traditional Life, and Annuity) application Development and enhancement activity. Recently, Application has been converted to recent wmA from vantage one version. Still many programs are needed application level customization and part of development these are day to day activity. Apart from these, resolving defects due to conversion are part of daily activity. Client has started to upgrade wmA version to the latest version and we are doing so by changing the existing program and client customization.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Actively worked on Impact analysis and preparing detailed Technical design document as per the high level business requirement.
- Developing new programs as well as changing the existing programs as per business requirement.
- Worked on major enhancement, minor enhancement and bug fixes.
- Project 3
5 Months
10.2016 - 03.2017
5 Months
Consultant
Infosys Ltd India | Chennai
10.2016 - 03.2017
- This Project is all about application maintenance and support in corporate billing Portfolio of MetLife. There are three vantage life applications and one Vantage RPS application are taken care by me. Project covers Maintenance Activity under Production Management Activity and Problem Management Activity. Production Support Activity is regarding solving Abends in the daily trail and other Production Management Activity related to Daily Trail. Business Support Activity is regarding analysis of different Business cases, Bug Fix, Minor Enhancement and Problem Management Activity. The Application Development involves minor Enhancement activity. The aim of this project is to deliver total IT solutions to Metlife and hence it's a total IT ownership project.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Total IT ownership and consulting team from the front.
- Ensuring Day to day delivery and keep close tracking for each event
- Review of the technical specification documents prepared by team mates.
- Coding and Unit Testing as per Metlife and Infosys standard for Minor Enhancement Activity
- Writing SQL queries in SPUFI for data extraction and generate reports. Build queries in spufi/qbe for extensive testing and implement optimized SQL queries in new COBOL/DB2 programs.
- Develop Rexx tools for many short cuts and ad-hoc reports. Also developing reusable tools wherever there is routine tasks involved.
- Production Management Activity
- Problem Management Activity
- Bug Fixing
- Communicating Problem Management and Production Management Activity to Business
- Product(vantage one) Knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing
- Project 4
9 Months
12.2015 - 09.2016
9 Months
Senior Developer
DXC Technology, CSC | Noida
12.2015 - 09.2016
- The aim of this project is to customize wmA to accommodate John Hancock's Policy Link and Data Life systems. After implementing these two admin systems, 10 new admin systems needs to be converted on wmA platform.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Actively worked on Impact analysis and preparing detailed Technical design document as per the high level business requirement.
- Developing new programs as well as changing the existing programs as per business requirement.
- Worked on major enhancement, minor enhancement and bug fixes.
- Configuration Management Activities.
- Project 5
5 Years 5 Months
06.2010 - 11.2015
5 Years 5 Months
Technical Lead
Cognizant India | Kolkata
06.2010 - 11.2015
- This Project is all about Business Support as well as Production Support and activity of Life Insurance Business Portfolio of MetLife and also other Maintenance Activity under Production Management Activity and Problem Management Activity. Production Support Activity is regarding solving Abends in the daily trail and other Production Management Activity related to Daily Trail. Business Support Activity is regarding analysis of different Business cases, Bug Fix, Minor Enhancement and Problem Management Activity. The Application Development involves minor Enhancement activity. The aim of this project is to deliver total IT solutions to Metlife and hence it's a total IT ownership project.
- Roles and Responsibility:
- Total IT ownership and leading the team from the front.
- Ensuring Day to day delivery and keep close tracking for each event
- Review of the technical specification documents prepared by team mates.
- Coding and Unit Testing as per Metlife and Cognizant standard for Minor Enhancement Activity
- Production Management Activity
- Problem Management Activity
- Bug Fixing
- Communicating Problem Management and Production Management Activity to Business
- Knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing
- Project 6
Education
B.E - Printing Engineering
AICTE, UGC approved Jadavpur University | 01.2010
- 1st Class.
- GPA: 8.04
XII
West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education | 01.2005
GPA: 70.0%
X
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education | 01.2003
GPA: 74.38%
Skills
Hardware / Platforms : Windows
OS/390
MVS
Technology : Mainframe
Programming Languages : Cobol
JCL
CICS
REXX
Certification
- CSM Certified
- PMP from PMI certified
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in AAPA-273
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in VSAM Processing IN VANTAGE
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in DB2 Processing in VANTAGE
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in JCL
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in Cobol
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in Insurance L0
- Cognizant Certified Professionals in Insurance L1
- BrainBench Certified in COBOL II, DB2, MVS and CICS.
Training
- Undergone 3 months training on COBOL ,JCL, DB2,Programming language.
- Have gained knowledge on insurance Domain
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the information, stated in this resume are true in the best of my knowledge. Place............... Date............... (Monjur Ali Sekh)
Timeline
Sr Technical Consultant
HTC India
01.2024 - CurrentRead more
Application Delivery Lead
Illumifin India
06.2021 - 01.2024Read more
wmA consultant
CGI. wmA Conversion, CUSTOMER - Foresters
08.2020 - 03.2021Read more
Sr Technical Consultant
HTC India
04.2017 - 07.2020Read more
Consultant
Infosys Ltd India
10.2016 - 03.2017Read more
Senior Developer
DXC Technology, CSC
12.2015 - 09.2016Read more
Technical Lead
Cognizant India
06.2010 - 11.2015Read more
AICTE, UGC approved Jadavpur University - B.E, Printing Engineering
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West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education - XII,
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West Bengal Board of Secondary Education - X,
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