
Ramesh Shamanna
Technical Consultant Zos for IBM India Pvt ltd
Salary / Daily rate
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
About me
Intro
Mainframe Technical Lead with 24+ years of IT experience spanning enterprise application development, production support, modernization, architecture collaboration and technical leadership. Strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, VSAM and MQ, with experience across healthcare, government, automotive and industrial domains. Currently supporting a California DMV legacy-mainframe modernization program involving Salesforce, ARC/GenAl translation and business-rule extraction. Experienced in Al-assisted mainframe modernization, GitHub/Jenkins delivery, SCLM, automation, code quality and stakeholder collaboration.
Work experience
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Technical Consultant z/OS
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Support modernization of legacy mainframe applications to Salesforce; perform CICS coding/testing for State-to-State functionality. – Generate ARC and GenAl translations for COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs and develop business-rule extraction documents from translated code. – Perform modernization iteration preparation, identify missing copybooks/modules, resolve issues and validate GenAl translations. – Provide technical guidance to the team on COBOL/CICS/DB2 translation discrepancies and CICS-command modernization. – Develop ISPF panels using CLIST and REXX for vehicle registration-card printing workflows.
Technical Consultant z/OS
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
9 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Provided mainframe architectural guidance to the Generative Al team and performed detailed assessment/feedback on WCAZ capabilities. – Assessed readiness of Al-assisted mainframe modernization capabilities for customer adoption, covering application discovery, refactoring, COBOL-to-Java conversion and validation. – Worked with GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, SonarQube, Ansible and IBM cloud in the modernization ecosystem.
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
Jan 2016 - Dec 2023
8 years
Olympia, WA, USA
Lead Programmer Analyst
Nov 2017 - Dec 2023
6 years 2 months
Olympia, WA, USA
– Led analysis, design, development, enhancement, maintenance and production support for ACES and Health Benefit Exchange applications. – Served as lead integrator for IMS-to-DB2 modernization POC and GitHub branching strategy; acted as SCLM configuration-management SME. – Designed GitHub/Jenkins configuration and build-process documentation and collaborated with architects on solution design. – Implemented complex business changes, third-party/federal interfaces, batch enhancements and data-exchange capabilities. – Developed automation for data-volume analysis, control-break reporting and IMS/copybook reconciliation; supported development, system-test and UAT job failures. – Led design/code reviews and quality inspections; collaborated with solution/application architects. Team size: 7.
Technical Lead
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
1 year 11 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Led analysis, design, development, testing and production support for CBF and ITS applications. – Translated business requirements into technical specifications; reviewed design, code, test plans and implementation/backout plans. – Provided SME/client support, production implementation planning and post-production support; team size: 3.
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
Aug 2003 - Dec 2015
12 years 5 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mainframe/Shop Floor Consultant
Mar 2012 - Dec 2015
3 years 10 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Delivered production-reporting, routing, holds and scheduling enhancements; supported customer change requests and production moves. – Created POCs, supported audits and worked with business partners/customers on Shop Floor implementations and gap analysis.
Mainframe Technical Lead / Production Support
Dec 2008 - Mar 2012
3 years 4 months
Nashville, TN, USA
– Maintained Sales Management & Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Warranty applications; handled production tickets and module development. – Acted as batch-schedule SME, conducted RCA/look-ahead meetings and provided regular client status reporting.
Technical consultant Zos
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
10 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Analyzing the business requirements and preparing the technical design. – Review important technical documents, designs, codes and Test Plan. – Coordination with onsite counterparts on the gap analysis, communication and issues. – Responsible to develop module(s). – Responsible for unit testing.
Technical consultant Zos
Aug 2003 - Mar 2008
4 years 8 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business Requirements – Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and lead the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results. – Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and technical experience in PLASM. – Developed few Macros using VB Script which helped in getting active contract numbers for a given Group
Software Engineer
Unitforce Technologies
Dec 2002 - Aug 2003
9 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Designed and Developed Online screen for Infertility service using CICS language, Developed Change Request using COBOL & JCL for Daily activity log.
Software Engineer
Softpro Software Professional Pvt Ltd
May 2001 - Dec 2002
1 year 8 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
– Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding & Testing new Software called Shindensai-II.
Education
Ramaiah Institute Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
1996 - 2001
4 years 5 months
Licenses & certifications
Post Graduate Certification in Business Analytics
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IMS databases from COBOL
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IBM Explorer for z/OS
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z/OS Connect
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IBM Mainframe Application Programmer - Java for COBOL Programmers
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z/OS REXX
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Zowe Foundations
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IBM Generative & Agentic AI Consultant/Business Analyst - Intermediate
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