Ranjith Kesavan
Toronto,Canada
Summary
A dedicated professional with 8+ years of experience, specializing as a Mainframe Technology Lead with expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, RMF, VSAM, SQL, Endevor, and tools like CA7, AWS, and Splunk. Experienced in customer-facing roles across South and North America. Eager to contribute my skills and drive to your team’s success.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Senior Mainframe Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2022 - Current
- Experienced Mainframe Developer specializing expertise in COBOL, CICS, NDM, VSAM, JCL, IMS, MFT
- Experience with mainframe job scheduling tools (CA-7, ESP, D-series), troubleshooting batch failures, managing alerts, handling ServiceNow incidents based on priority, and maintaining code using Endeavor.
- Having good knowledge of the AWS cloud environment and OCP platforms
- Performing IPL on LPARS, Mainframe DR, Monitoring RMF
- Skilled in real-time dashboard development using Splunk and Dynatrace
- Strong background in database management (DB2, MYSQL) and Agile team leadership
- Successfully led teams, ensuring client objectives were met and facilitating knowledge transfer
- Technology lead for 7-member cross functional team managing on-shore off-shore model at offshore under different technologies
- Identify opportunities for automation and performance enhancement in SQL on the mainframe, and establish key metrics to monitor and improve performance.
- Client Relationship Lead and First Point of Contact and Bridge between Business Stakeholders and Technical Stakeholders for both onshore and offshore teams for escalations
Mainframe Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2018 - 04.2022
- Responsible for Peer review for technical deliverables
- Actively involving in Client Co-ordination and Organizing Meetings for Off-shore and On-Shore Business and Technical Stakeholders on Technical and Quality Reviews
- Responsible for Requirements Gathering Understanding and Conversion of Requirements in Technical Documents
- Responsible for creation of Technical Design Documents as per understanding of technical stakeholders across off-shore and on-shore
- Reviewer of Scope for automation on regular basis to ensure stability of applications
- As project coordinator and tech lead, responsible for addressing risks, delays and update on project progress related to change in design if any, change in timeline if any
- Provide suggestions on retrospective meetings to ensure design, improvements addressed in previous meetings are addressed and sorted
Mainframe Consultant / Supply Chain Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - 05.2018
- Worked on daily routine task, Incident management, Job monitoring, Application availability
- Working knowledge on COBOL/JCL/DB2/VSAM/TELON/FILEAID/SPUFI/TERADATA Utilities/CICS
- Responsibilities includes development/supporting clients during deployment and coordinating releases
- Worked as Supply chain analyst
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication Engineering
Anna University
Chennai, India05.2017
Skills
- COBOL
- JCL
- DB2
- VSAM
- CICS
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- AWS
- SQL
- Team Management
- Project Management
- NDM
- MFT
- IMS
- ESP / D-Series / CA7
- ServiceNow / Jira / Confluence
- UI Path / Jarvis Automation
Accomplishments
- Created multiple tools as part of automating various processes using REXX/CLIST panels.
- Created Automation workflow for complex use cases with UIPATH.
- Created dashboard to monitor the application metrics using Splunk and Dynatrace.
Languages
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Professional Working
Certification
COBOL,JCL,VSAM,DB2,AWS,CICS,PYTHON
Timeline
Senior Mainframe Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2022 - Current
Mainframe Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2018 - 04.2022
Mainframe Consultant / Supply Chain Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication Engineering
Anna University
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