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Venugopal Choudari Ganta

Hyderabad

Summary

Technical Lead with 18+ years’ experience in Mainframes. Dynamic, Result-Oriented Technology Delivery Professional. Passionately interested in and knowledgeable about Emerging Payments and Core Banking Technology. Extensive knowledge of consumer banking and credit card systems.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

Bank Of America
Hyderabad
01.2010 - Current
  • Worked on DR capture of production data for number of applications on diverse Mainframe platforms like IMS, DB2 and non-DB2
  • Created reports detailing findings and recommendations
  • Mitigated operational and financial risks by researching and recommending process improvements
  • Completed quality assurance reviews to assess accuracy of data and validate results
  • Identified improvement opportunities to effectively meet customer and business needs
  • Involved in migration projects
  • Involved in Decommission projects
  • Data Refresh and Test Cycle support activities
  • Performing the integrated validation checks in consumer application
  • Involved in L3 & L2 support activities such as study, design and coding the new service/change requests
  • Responsible for the delivery of critical initiatives spanning multiple applications and business technology groups.

Team Member

WDC
09.2009 - 01.2010
  • Analysis and business knowledge mining from the Business specification Document and preparing
  • Technical understanding document and day-to-day interaction with client
  • Coding, Unit & System Testing and UAT support.

Support Engineer

ASPEN Tech global solutions
11.2008 - 08.2009
  • Batch Support for Daily, Weekly and Monthly Banking and Card processing Applications for different clients in PROD/SIT/UAT/PRODFIX regions
  • Support includes Pre-Batch Activities, scheduling Batch Applications, Monitoring Batch jobs, Abend Resolution, Restart/Rerun controls
  • Preparing and running ADHOC jobs as per business requests
  • Code modifications in UAT/SIT regions as and when any job abends and requires code changes
  • Defect fixing for tickets raised in Quality center (Defect management tool)
  • Participating in Housekeeping activities such as Table refreshments in Test regions and Freeing Disk space required to run batches without space problems etc.

Team Member

Perot Systems
10.2005 - 10.2008
  • Onsite- offshore co-ordination
  • Production Batch Support for Daily and Monthly Credit Scoring Applications
  • Support includes monitoring Batch job schedules
  • Requesting special job schedules as per business requests and providing ABEND resolutions
  • Data uploads to Production Database
  • Preparing ADHOC jobs and running as per Business requests
  • Involved in the Applications restoring from the archival database
  • Involved in Project Estimations and preparation of Technical and Program Specifications
  • Coding, Unit & System Testing and UAT support
  • Involved in Peer reviews
  • Involved in Implementation Support.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science -

Aurangabad
10.2002

Skills

  • COBOL
  • Databases (DB2 and FOCUSDB)
  • VASM
  • JCL
  • FOCUS
  • CICS
  • IBM Utilities
  • SAS, EASTYRIEVE
  • Schedulers (CA7, Control M)
  • Version Controllers (Changeman, Endevor)
  • Incident/Problem Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Consumer Banking and Credit card Systems

Timeline

Technical Lead

Bank Of America
01.2010 - Current

Team Member

WDC
09.2009 - 01.2010

Support Engineer

ASPEN Tech global solutions
11.2008 - 08.2009

Team Member

Perot Systems
10.2005 - 10.2008

Master of Science in Computer Science -

Aurangabad
Venugopal Choudari Ganta