Pranchan Biswas

 Pranchan K. Biswas Mobile: -,- Email:- Seeking challenging assignments with an organisation of repute. Synopsis An astute performer with 8.5 Yrs. of experience in Software Development, Programming and Support. Comprehensive exposure in working on COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, Changeman, File Aid, Expeditor and CICS. Brief exposure in working on Quality tools like SONAR, JIRA and HP ALM QC. Brief exposure in working on Configuration management tools like Changeman, Endeavour and RTC. Comprehensive exposure in working on Banking (Custodian), Credit card, Trade Finance and Insurance domain. Brief exposure in working on SDLC models like Agile and Waterfall. Presently associated with Bank of America, Mumbai as Sr. Analyst –IT. Professional Qualification Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Current profile: Sr. Analyst-IT at Bank of America About Bofa: Bank of America (abbreviated as BoA or BofA) is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation. It is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets. It’s area of operations include Consumer banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and International trade.  Job Profile: Working as Individual Contributor. to support IT operations for various Trade applications like Cash-Pro Trade, Trade flow, Trade line and Trade Business MIS. Support various processes of different Trade products like Letter of Credit, Bankers Acceptance, Open Accounts and Supply chain financing. Other than performing technical functions, actively contributed towards project management activities like Creating and submitting RSA & ORM, create and present WSR, work on capacity planning, prepare BRPs and BCPs, Etc. Current projects: 1. Title : GWBT-L2 Support Duration : 6 Months – In Progress (May-2016 till Present) Environment:Mainframe-Batch, CICS Scheduler : CA7 Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :DB2, Oracle 11g. Tools : Endeavour, File AID Role :Individual Contributor Responsibilities: Defect Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination, code enhancement, Implementation and Query resolution. Scope : Analyze abends and provide fix within SLA. Work on finding the root cause of abend and provide permanent fix to avoid similar abends. Analyze scope change in existing application, discuss with Line of business and work on the enhancements. 2. Title : GWBT-L3-Account Reconciliation Duration : 3 Months – In Progress (Aug 2016 till Present) Environment:Mainframe-Batch, CICS Scheduler : CA7 Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :DB2, Oracle 11g. Tools : Endeavour, File AID Role :Individual Contributor Responsibilities: Defect Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination, code enhancement, Implementation and Query resolution. Scope : This project will assist the General Ledger Balancing team to automate the Account reconciliation process. 3. Title : GWBT-JDI-Improve TBM refresh process. Duration : 1 Months (July 2016 to Aug 2016) Environment:Mainframe-Batch, CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :DB2, Oracle 11g. Tools : Endeavour, File AID Role :Individual Contributor Responsibilities: Analyze the existing processes where there is scope of improvement. Discuss the scope and benefit with Line of business. Perform the code changes, test and implement the change. Scope : JDI projects are a part of Operational excellence projects, an initiative taken by Bofa to improve the existing processes to save efforts and cost, reduce defects and eliminate manual activities. ‘Improve TBM refresh process’ project resulted in type 3 benefit which saved 30 hours monthly. 4. Title : GWBT-L3-Non USD Supply chain finance discounting Duration : 2 Month (May 2016 to July 2016) Environment:Mainframe-Batch, CICS Scheduler : CA7 Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :DB2, Oracle 11g. Tools : Endeavour, File AID Role :Individual Contributor Responsibilities: Defect Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination, code enhancement, Implementation and Query resolution. Scope : Today US tradeline operates only in USD. Hence clients of BOA who avail various products has to perform transactions only USD currency. The scope is to allow clients to operate in currencies other than USD for supply chain financing. 5. Title : GWBT-JDI-ATL decommissions. Duration : 1 Month (May 2016 to Jun 2016) Environment:Mainframe-Batch, CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :DB2, Oracle 11g. Tools : Endeavour, File AID Role :Individual Contributor Responsibilities: Analyze the existing processes where there is scope of improvement. Discuss the scope and benefit with Line of business. Perform the code changes, test and implement the change. Scope : JDI projects are a part of Operational excellence projects, an initiative taken by Bofa to improve the existing processes to save efforts and cost, reduce defects and eliminate manual activities. ‘ATL decommissions’ project resulted in type 1 benefit which saved 6k $ monthly. Previous profiles: Sr. Systems Engg. @ IBM (Oct 2013 – May 2016) About IBM: The International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM India Private Limited is the Indian subsidiary of IBM. It has facilities in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad. Job Profile: Working as Sr. Software Engg. to provide business solutions to Client - Caceis Bank France under Financial Services domain. As the s/w model applied in these projects is AGILE, essayed the role of Scrum Master in some of the latest projects. CACEIS is a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole group specialized in asset servicing which provides financial services to institutional investors. Projects Undertaken: Onsite Project: Client Location: France 1. Title : Walker Fees – CFR Duration : 1 months (Aug 2014 – Sep 2014) Client Location: France Environment:Mainframe-Batch Technologies:COBOL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : File AID, RTC Role :Scrum Master. Responsibilities: Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog. Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality features for its product. Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress. Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress. Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.   Scope :The scope of this project is to decommission the existing application ‘SPIRO’ and replace it with new application ‘CFR’. Offshore projects: 2. Title : Walker Fees – Manual Invoice Duration : 11 months (Jun 2015 – May 2016) Environment:Mainframe-Batch Technologies:COBOL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : File AID, RTC Role :Sr. System Engg. / Development Team Member (Agile) Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, implementation and Query resolution. Delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint (the sprint goal)   Scope :The scope of the project is to generate invoices manually for some transactions. 3. Title : Walker Fees – Multi entity Duration : 14 months (Oct 2014 – Dec 2015) Environment:Mainframe-Batch Technologies:COBOL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : File AID, RTC Role :Sr. System Engg. / Development Team Member (Agile) Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, implementation and Query resolution. Delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint (the sprint goal)   Scope :Currently Caceis bank operates in two countries, Luxemburg and France. The scope of the project is to migrate Cacies bank Luxemburg to Caceis bank France and have a common functionality for all customers of Caceis bank. 4. Title : Walker Fees – Multi entity VAT Duration : 5 months (Mar 2014 – Aug 2014) Environment:Mainframe-Batch Technologies:COBOL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : File AID, RTC Role :Scrum Master. Responsibilities: Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog. Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality features for its product. Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress. Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress. Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.   Scope :This is an extended version of project MultiEntity, wherein there is a change in logic for VAT retrieval and calculation 5. Title : Walker Fees – Novus Duration : 5 months (Oct 2013 – Mar 2014) Environment:Mainframe-Batch Technologies:COBOL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : File AID, RTC Role : Scrum Master Responsibilities: Helping the product owner (Client) to maintain the product backlog. Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality features for its product. Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress. Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress. Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.   Scope :The scope of this project is to introduce multi-currency in invoicing process. Sr. Software Engg. @ iGATE Global Solutions (From Jan 2012 to Oct 2013) About iGATE: iGATE (Previously iGATE PATNI) provide full-spectrum of consulting, technology, business process and product engineering outsourcing services. Its customer footprint spans across verticals like banking & financial services; insurance & healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing, retail, distribution & logistics; media, entertainment leisure & travel; communication, energy & utilities; public sector; and independent software vendors. In India it has offices at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Noida. It operates on various business domains such as Banking & Finance, Automation, Insurance, Healthcare etc. It employs 26000+ employees and has a market capitalisation of 1.7+ Billion USD. Job Profile: Working as Sr. Software Engg. to provide business solutions to Client called Guardian under Insurance domain. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and its subsidiaries sell life, long term care insurance, disability income, group medical and dental insurance products, and offer 401(k), annuities and other financial products. Guardian operates one of the largest dental networks in the United States, covering more than six million employees and their families at 120,000 companies. Key Projects Undertaken: 1. Title : IL/IPD Production Support Duration : 18 months (Jan 2012 - Oct 2013) Environment:Mainframe-Batch and CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database : DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Role :Sr. Software Engg. Responsibilities: Code Analysis and Debugging, Bug fix, Co-ordination code enhancement and Query resolution.   Scope : Analyze production abends and provide temporary or/and permanent fix. 2. Title : Agency Compensation Transformation 2011 Duration : 6 Months (Jan 2013 – Oct 2013) Environment:Mainframe-Batch and CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database : DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :6 Role :Sr. Software Engg. Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution Scope : The primary objective of ACT 2011 is to expand agent and agency information to have a better picture of agent level information. 3. Title : Address Reorganization 1 Duration : 6 Months (Jul 2013 – Jan 2013) Environment:Mainframe-Batch and CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database : DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :3 Role :Sr. Software Engg. Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution Scope : Scope is to replace existing LCS Name & Address information storage by new normalized name & address table which is yet to be defined and created.  We need to get started by modifying all PHD programs to receive name and address data from new tables. At this time, have a dummy logic in all PHD programs to call a 'service' which will return exactly same information (such as name, address1, address2...address6 etc.) as each program is currently getting by reading POLBASE and/or VLS_NAME_ADDRESS table.  4. Title : IMS Consolidation to PROD2 LPAR Duration : 6 Month (Jan 2012 – Jul 2013) Environment:Mainframe-Batch and CICS Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database : DB2. Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :3 Role :Sr. Software Engg. Responsibilities: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution Scope : Batch jobs with On demand and IMS steps in them will need to be split into multiple jobs and schedule changes to reflect change Batch jobs with DB2 and IMS steps in them will need to change the dsnload dataset from SYS2.DB2P.DSNLOAD, SYS2.DB2P.DSNEXIT to SYS2.DP12.DSNLOAD, SYS2.DP12.DSNEXIT so they will route to PROD2. Analyst programmer at Syntel (Sep 2008 to Dec 2011). About Syntel: Syntel is a US based IT company which provides business solutions to clients such as American Express, Humana, All State, State Street, Ace Max, Chrysler, Vells Vorgo, Moody’s etc. In India it has offices at Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Gurgaon. It operates on various business domains such as Banking & Finance, Automation, Insurance, Healthcare etc. It employs 21000+ employees and has a market capitalisation of 500 Million USD. Job Profile: Working as Sr. Analyst Programmer to provide business solutions to Client called American Express under Banking and finance (Cards and Payments) domain. American Express is a global Credit card company which operates at US and Middle East Asia Currently it as extending its market in Japan. Projects Undertaken: 1. Title : Amex-CAPN-Merchant ODS Duration :4 Months (Aug 2011 – Dec 2011) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :3 Role :Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution Scope : The primary objective of CAPN ODS project is to create a new Operational Data Store (ODS) for all International Merchants from EMEA/ LAC/ APA region in DB2G sub-system. A new stored procedure will be created in sysplexed Region to internally access ODS. 2. Title :Amex-CAPN-One Point Payment Stream Duration :12 Months (Aug 2010 – Aug 2011) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :8 Role :Analyst programmer Responsibilities: Designing, Development, Testing. Scope: The primary objectives of the One-Point Payment Stream Project: Allow a later submissions cut-off time of 12:00am MST (accelerating from the present 10:00pm MST) Issue payment the next day Consolidated Settlement/Accurate Reporting (in correlation with the changes above) As a direct response from customer complaints and competitor products, the One Point Payment Stream will strengthen the Service Agents and Issuer experience, thus improving American Express’ relations with existing One Point Servicing Agents; in addition it will enable growth by upgrading capabilities. 3. Title :Amex-CAPN-Premier Partner Integration Duration :6 Months (Feb 2010 – Aug 2010) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :4 Role :Senior Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing. Scope : The Premium Partner Integration (PPI) project will enable the Membership Rewards (MR) Pay at Partner (PAP) feature to be made available as a payment option on a new high volume online retail website. The retailer will build functionality to accept “Rewards Currency” as a new form of payment and American Express will be its exclusive launch partner (aside from existing co-brand cards) until December 31, 2010. Leveraging MR points as a payment option will significantly increase the annual point burn opportunity at strong economics. With PAP capabilities added to the retail partner, American Express would further strengthen its visibility in the online space, improve its leadership position in the retail loyalty redemption space and will enable Membership Rewards to continue to grow its presence in the retail arena. 4. Amex-CAPN-Cross Border Pricing Duration :3 Months (Sep 2009 – Dec 2009) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :4 Role :Sr. Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Co-ordination and Query resolution. Scope : The Cross Border Pricing – North America initiative will provide the functionality to utilize merchant and card issuer location data to adjust transaction pricing. In this initiative, “Local” will refer to the Card Issuer and the Merchant in the same country. Whereas, “Inbound” (Foreign) will be defined as the Card Issuer and the Merchant not in the same country. This will apply only to North American SE’s (merchants available on the SEIMS database). Utilizing this data will provide the capability to price transactions differently according to the local/inbound characteristic, as inbound provides increased value. This will deliver additional revenue streams as well as align Merchant pricing with American Express’ value proposition. 5. Amex-CAPN-MCCY Global Merchant Finance Solution Duration :5 Months (Sep 2009 – Feb 2010) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :4 Role :Senior Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Co-ordination and Query resolution. Scope : Expand MCCY functionality to allow product to be offered into Regulated and non- Regulated proprietary markets 6. Amex-CAPN-Release 11A Duration :6 Months (Mar 2009 – Sep 2009) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve, Team Size :8 Role :Senior Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Testing and Query resolution. Scope : The Submissions Release 11A project will enable functionality for all Argentina submitters currently submitting non-EDC traffic to migrate to the CAPN platform utilizing the Submissions GFSG (Global Financial Settlement Guide). 7. Title :Amex-CAPN-Release-8A Duration :6 Months (Sep 2008 – Mar 2009) Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL, VSAM Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :10 Role :Sr. Analyst Programmer Responsibilities: Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing, Co-ordination and Query resolution. Scope : To enable the migration of proprietary Merchant spend volume in APA Business centers to the CAPN POA Submissions architecture. Represent a further stage in extending CAPN globally to all Regions and Markets, as CAPN is being introduced to APA under this Release. 8. Amex-CAPN-Test Office projects Environment:Mainframe Technologies:COBOL, JCL Database :IMS, DB2 Tools : Changeman, File AID, Control M. EasyTrieve, CA7 Team Size :4 Role :Test Lead Responsibilities: Analysis, Testing and Query resolution. Scope : This project includes those impacts where APCD functionality does not have development impacts but due to changes in Upstream/Downstream systems APCD is identified as Test only to test E2E flow. Computer Skills Mainframe Technologies/Database :- COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Procédures, EasyTrieve, DB2, IMS, Mainframe Tools : - Changeman, File AID, CA7, DB2 File Aid, SPUFI. Quality Tools : - SONAR, JIRA Mainframe Environments : - Batch, CICS. OS : - IBM- Z OS. Domain : - Insurance, Banking, Financial services. Awards / Certification / Trainings ACADEMICS: Winner of Tech Fest 2008 (A national level paper presentation) Winner of National level project competition organized by Lokmat times CAREER: SYNTEL:- Received recognition from business for Quality deliverables for Test Office and R8A project. Received Smart Employee of the quarter award for quality deliverables for Release 11A project. Received Team of the quarter award for quality deliverables for Agency Compensation Transformation 2011. Completed BNFS Level-1 Certifications. IBM:- Received IBM value award – ‘Put the client first’. Received Eminence and excellence award (twice in a row) for developing better relationship with client. Bank of America:- Received Global recognition award – ‘Bronze category’. Completed OPEX – Type 3 certification. Personal Details Date of Birth: 24th Sep 1983 Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali Address Airoli, Navi Mumbai Location Preference Free to relocate anywhere. DECLARATION: I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge Place: Mumbai Date:31/08/2016Pranchan K. Biswas