Rekha Dehal - Consulting - http://maxpages.com/itconsultants/Rekha

SUMMARY:
Rekha has five years of experience in design, coding and testing of software on IBM Mainframe Systems. She has extensive experience using COBOL, MVS, JCL, DB2 VER 5.1, CICS, VSAM, FILE AID, SPUFI, QMF, XPEDITOR VER 6.3,VIASOFT, HIPERSTATION TOOL . She has been involved in all stages of the software development life cycle. She has good analytical and problem solving skills. She also possesses excellent communication skills and is a team player.

SKILLS:
OS: MVS/ESA, IBM 9672-RB5,OS/390 Ver 1.3
Hardware: IBM ES/9000, IBM PC’s Compatibles
Databases: DB2 Ver 5.1, Microsoft Access
Languages: VS Cobol II, JCL, MF-Cobol and Cobol/370,VSAM
Tools: ViaSoft (Smart Edit), File Aid, Hiperstation Test LPAR, SPUFI, QMF, Xpeditor Ver 6.3
OLTP: CICS, TSO/ISPF

SIGINIFICANT PROJECTS

Lift Project , Guide One Life Insurance Company -Des Moines , Iowa

Year 2000 Testing, Farm Bureau Insurance Company – Des Moines, Iowa

Monetary Expansion Project, First Data Resources, Omaha, (USA)

Report Expansion Project, First Data Resources, Omaha (USA)

Family Card, First Data Resources, Omaha, (USA)

EXPERIENCE:

Mar 99 to Jul 99
Client: Guide One Life Insurance Company ( Des Moines, Iowa)
Project : Lift Project (Module-Documerge)
This module was in the third phase of Lift project related to filling of tags for all new business documerge print forms. It was basically related to re-engineering of programs thus making it more easy for maintening,understanding the code, including customisation of the old programs with new features. The project included printing of several insurance forms by getting the form names related to a particular policy passed as input to other program which gets all tag names for those forms and also collects the data elements required to fill the tags for the policy by calling several common procedures.The tag names filled with the related information is then passed to the programs which handles the printing of documerge forms.
ROLE: My role in the team was coding of programs depending on the specs provided, it also included unit and system testing for test cases provided, solving the issues raised by the end-users.
Environment: IBM 9672-RB5, OS/390 Ver 1.3, LE/370 Ver 1.3 (Cobol/370) , DB2 Ver 5.1, VSAM, Xpeditor Ver 6.3, SPUFI,Cobol/370

Aug 98 - Feb 99
Client: Farm Bureau (Insurance Company – Des Moines, Iowa)
Project: YEAR 2000 TESTING
Farm Bureau is an insurance company where the current project is a YEAR 2000 Compliance for production jobs. This project included 19 cycles, having certain number of test jobs to be run in each cycle. Each cycle included two testing weeks Baseline week and Future Week, where the same jobs were run in both the cycles. In baseline week, the input used was the current production data and output produced by each job was aged 28 years ahead using aging structures .The same jobs were also run in the future week but the input data was already aged 28 years ahead .The output produced by the future week jobs were compared with the aged output of baseline week to test the year 2000 compliance. In online testing, the hiperstation tools were used to make testing easier.
Role: Involved in online and batch testing of Y2K testing project, Modifying aging structures and Analyzing the production jobs if data found in output files, did not match.
Environment: ES\9000, MVS/ESA, TEST LPAR, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, JCL, TSO and Hiperstation Tool

Nov 97- July 98
Programmer Analyst, Silverline Industries Ltd.
Client: First Data Resources (USA)
Project: Family Card
The FDR system provides a process for combining the activities of distinct cardholders accounts called Family Card for the purpose of combining credit lines, communication, statements and rewards pooling. Currently, when the last remaining account holder in a family group is de-linked from the group during a month, the historical data is deleted from the DB2 family master record by a month end job. If the account holder in the family group is not the last member in the group in question, then nothing happens to the historical data after that account is de-linked. In a case where the account holder being
De-linked happens to be the last member of the family group, the historical information, which is saved, is not currently available on any screen or report. Through this request, an audit trail is created via the on-line system. Clients can use this audit trail to track the relationship of a family account, i.e. information like relationship codes, strategy codes, the group an account holder belongs to at any point of time and the duration for which he/she was the member of that group, etc.
Role: Involved in analysis of programs, program coding according to specification and testing.
Environment: ES/9000, MVS/ESA, CICS, VS Cobol II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, VIASOFT, FILE AID and TSO

Jun 97 -- Oct 97
Programmer Analyst, Silverline Industries Ltd.
Client: First Data Resources (USA)
Report Expansion Project
The project was being executed for FDR, which provides software solutions for Credit Card Companies. The clients of FDR plan on providing their credit card services on a worldwide scale. The main object of this project is to modify all Report headers and corresponding detail lines as per the requirements due to expansion of Monetary fields. The project also includes currency conversion since certain countries do not have cents in their monetary field. For instance when the reports are printed for such countries as Japan, the cent portion is not to be displayed on the report, which requires a change in the format of the report for which it is being printed.
Role: Involved in analysis of programs, Designing of report layouts, Preparation of report documents, program coding and testing.
Environment: ES/9000, MVS/ESA, VS Cobol II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, TSO and VIASOFT

Jul 96 - May 97
Programmer Analyst, Silverline Industries Ltd.
Client: First Data Resources (USA)
Project: Monetary Expansion Project
FDR has identified the Domestic BankCard System as the likely base system for the future worldwide system. To make these systems capable of handling all foreign currencies, FDR has identified the need to expand monetary fields from their current mix to a standard format. This will allow transaction and aggregate fields to handle both large ticket purchases and country monetary variance requirements. The scope of the monetary expansion project is to expand the Transaction fields to Cobol picture clause S9 (11) V99 and all Aggregate fields to S9 (15) V99. The areas where the changes are made include Copybook items, JCL’s, Procedures and the Working Storage fields. The affected fields in the Copybook items were provided by FDR and the changes were made based on this information. As a programmer Analyst in development and validation team, the responsibilities included writing bridges, writing passer programs, Validation of programs and copybooks and program testing.
Role: Involved in modification of programs depending on the changes in the copybooks, writing bridges, Writing Passers, Re Formatting the data sets and Testing.
Environment: ES/9000, MVS/ESA, CICS, VS Cobol II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, VIASOFT, FILE AID and TSO

Nov 95 - May 96
Programmer Analyst, DISL
Client: Indian Oil Ltd.
Areawork development System
The objectives of the Areawork Development System are as follows:
To meet the requirements of LPG Department of IOL, To be a completely user friendly system with pull down menus and screens,- To be completely operated and maintained by users, To provide extensive on-line queries and on-line features, To be a multi-user system with backup and other data management, Options and safeguard by way of password & right checks.
Environment: DOS, MF-Cobol

Mar 95 -Oct 95
Client: Educational Training Institute
Management Information System
This package has been developed for the Educational Training Institute. It stores information regarding the incoming students, course details, outstanding fees, faculty details, batch details, course completion details and placement status. It also supports the updating and monitoring of the details of all transactions such as admissions, transfers, dropouts and relieving. It also generates reports such as course completion reports, placement report, and outstanding reports.
Environment: DOS, Cobol

June 94 - Feb 95
Client : Krisna Departmental Stores
Sales Monitoring System
This package is developed to maintain a large department store that caters to a wide range of requirements. This package records the details of all available items and also maintains details about each supplier and the items supplied by them. This system generates an invoicing system that records the sale for a particular date, quantity for an item sold and sale price per unit. The system helps in maintaining an optimum stock for each item. There is a report generation program that prints the stock availability details.
Environment: DOS, Cobol

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry, Bombay University, India

Diploma in Information and Systems Management (1993),APTECH Institute

IBM Mainframe Course from OM Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

JAVA and Advanca Java from WINTECH Computers Pvt Ltd(Aug 99 – Sep 99)

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