SURYA KARTHIK V

Programmer Analyst
Email : karthikvas@gmail.com
Mobile : +91-9944971550

Objective

To gain professional expertise and excel in the field of Software Development. Later
on to shoulder some responsibilities and grow along with the organization through
Challenging position in Software field.

Professional Experience
• Have 2.10 years of experience as Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology
Solutions India PVT LTD.
• IBM Certified Database Associate(Cleared IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1
Family Fundamentals Exam)
• Cleared Brain Bench certification in COBOL, DB2 and CICS thru Cognizant account

Academic Profile

• B-Tech. (Electronics and Communications) from JNTU/2006 with 78%

• Board of Intermediate Education from P.Y.L.R. Junior College/2002 with 89%
• SSC from Z.P.High School / 2000 with 85%

Technical Skill Set

• Languages : C, COBOL II, CICS, REXX, SAS, JCL

• OS platforms : MS-DOS, WINDOWS'98 and XP
• Other Utilities : FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, OPC, SAR,
ABENDAID
• Database : VSAM, DB2
• Hardware : OS/390, Z/OS

Certifications

• DESD(Diploma in Embedded Systems Design) certified professional from C-DAC

• CCP(Cognizant Certified professional) in COBOL,DB2 and FLMI 280
• Brain Bench Certification in COBOL II, JCL and DB2 thru Cognizant technology
account.
Personal Skills
• Quick learner and can adapt any work related changes easily
• Can handle any difficult situations ingeniously
• Have good communication skills and good at analytical thinking
• Act as good team member and leadership qualities
 SURYA KARTHIK V
Programmer Analyst
Email : karthikvas@gmail.com
Mobile : +91-9944971550

Strengths:

• Optimistic approach.
• Patience and diligence.
• Always keen to learn.
• A strong believer of teamwork.
• Disciplined.

Trainings at Cognizant:

• Knowledge on COBOL, SAS, DB2,JCL,CICS,REXX and VSAM

• Domain knowledge on insurance
• Communication Skills and Presentation Skills
• Usage of Mainframe Specific Utilities like FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, OPC,
SAR, ABENDAID

Project#1:

Title : Unified Inforce System (UIS)

Client : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife)
Duration : From Aug 2007 to Nov 2008
Team size : 12
Languages : COBOL II, SAS, JCL and REXX
Platform : Z/OS
Hardware : OS/390
Database : VSAM files
Description:
UIS – UNIFIED INFORCE SYSTEM is the primary institutional system for employee/personal-
level data. UIS is the centralized repository that stores eligibility & participation information
of employees & his/her dependents for institutional customers. It maintains employer level
control records, member level demographic & eligibility/participation information.

The system can be broadly classified into 2 components

• Online part
• Batch part

The Online part is also known as UNIF, consisting of thirteen different functions. Each
function enables the users to perform a certain type of activity. Users from the Claims
system, use the UNIF screens to verify eligibility and participant information of employees
for a certain customer. The system is also used by Business Analysts of the UIS team,
located in Bridgewater - New Jersey, to answer queries related to the application
functionality. Online system is mostly used for inquiry and update.
 SURYA KARTHIK V
Programmer Analyst
Email : karthikvas@gmail.com
Mobile : +91-9944971550

The batch part is a combination of scheduled OPC applications and impromptu job requests.
These jobs perform a number of tasks such as extracting reports, modifying the INFORCE
file, feeding eligibility and/or participant data to other MetLife applications, external vendors
and agencies, printing of requested reports etc. Data is stored in VSAM/QSAM files on IBM
Mainframe. The system has approximately 40 interfaces. It provides batch interfaces from
other systems to receive data for claims processing. It also processes customer’s electronic
feeds in a batch environment.
The system is implemented using CICS, Cobol-II on MVS with VSAM as the database.

Project#2:
Title : Metlife – Production Management
Client : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife)
Duration : From Dec 2008 to till date
Team size :5
Languages : COBOL II, SAS, JCL and REXX
Platform : Z/OS
Hardware : OS/390
Database : VSAM files
Description:
PM – PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT is centralized production support management for all the
metlife applications. As part of this team, we are providing the production support for the
two Metlife applications UIS (Unified Inforce System) and GBS (Group Billing System). UIS
is my previous project and GBS is one of the interfaces to UIS, but it consists only for the
billing the customer/employee based on the eligibility. UIS gives the employee level
eligibility details to the GBS, based on this GBS bills the customer/employee. GBS uses the
data base as VSAM and they have their own set of VSAM files.
Prod support activities:
• Both on-line and batch abends temporary and permanent fixes
• Bug-fixes
• prod outages
• Business related queries
• TCO(Total Cost Optimization) tasks – to reduce the CPU time taken by prod jobs

Client Description:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) has a 138-year history of serving the
American people. Today MetLife is the largest life insurance company in the US. MetLife
provides individual insurance, Annuities and investment products to approximately nine
million Households, or one of every 11 U.S. households.

Responsibilities
As a team member my duties include
• Maintenance and Enhancements of the existing system
• Production support - Batch
• Production support - Online
• Quality Analysis (QA) committee
• Trainer
• Abends Coordinator
V. Surya Karthik