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Arindom Kumar Biswas
Phone: +1-571-297-5334 Email: thatsarindom1985@gmail.com
Location: Denver ,Colorado, USA
Working on H1B Visa
Home Address: APT,10-108 ,7575 E Arkansas Avenue , Denver ,CO-80231
PPrrooffiillee::
 A Technically sophisticated & expert IT Professional and Certified Scrum Master with proven
communication skill –having experience of 7 years and 5 months in Mainframe Technology and
Insurance Domain , currently associated with Cognizant Technology Solution Ltd at Denver (CO)
as Product Specialist.
 Currently playing the role of Project Lead in Coginzant Tech US corp managing a 19 members team
at offshore for launching a new product.
 Have AGILE project experience and executed Real time MQ series project on this.
 Strong problem solving & analytical skills with the flexibility to work cohesively as part of a
multidisciplinary team, complimenting the skills of others.
 Expertise and Business Knowledge and SME in U.S. Insurance Domain like Life and Annuity
products.
 Specialist in Mainframe, Vantage and wmA CSC Life and Annuity Insurance Product and have
overall 7 + Years of Experience on these products in handling Large Development projects .
 Conversion/Migration Expert. Experienced Ingenium to Vantage conversion for both Joint and
Single life Insurance.
 Expertise in Mainframe Technologies like COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Changeman, Expediter,
File Aid, File Manager, SAR , SCLM .
 Proven Project lead, trainer and a motivator with ability to enhance team productivity through
integrated efforts. Fine-tuned analytical and troubleshooting skills.
TTeecchhnniiccaall PPrrooffiicciieennccyy::
Environment / OS Mainframe, Z/OS 390
Languages COBOL, JCL
Database VSAM, DB2,IMSDB
Versioning Tool Changeman , SCLM
Other Tools Expediter, File Aid, File Manager, SAR,
PPRROOFFEESSSSIIOONNAALL EEXXPPEERRIIEENNCCEE && DDEEVVEELLOOPPMMEENNTT
Cognizant Technology Solution India Pvt Ltd Kolkata Nov 2008 till date

Current projects and Role: July 2013 till date
Tech Lead and Onshore Coordinator on Mainframe Projects :
Currently since July 2013, working as Onshore tech Lead on wmA product in Metlife EV15 Mainframe
application and handling a Team of 11 offshore and 3 Metlife Developer (appointed by Metlife) to
Perform several/multi Development projects like Rider Add/ Rider Update /Real Time Upgrade
/Correspondence report generation and Payment Transactions .
Role :
 Tech Lead on wmA Development (mainframe) Projects.
 Work with Business and BSA on Function Requirement finalization and Review.
 Prepare Tech design.
 Review Offshore Deliverables like Tech spec/Test Case/log and requirement Traceability Matrix
 Code Review.
 Set up Road map for Project and Timelines.
 Client Interaction and closely working with Client to provide them projects / task Updates and
consultancy suggestion about the product development.
 Implementation of Projects in Production.
 Production support, trail monitoring when required.
Accomplished Projects and Role:
Project Lead
 Involved in different projects as Project Lead that include pure Development Activities involving
Requirment Analysis , Estimation, Coding ,Unit Testing and Implementation.
 Projects Undertaken
Project Ingenium to Vantage 15.4 Conversion
Duration Jan 2010 to August 2012
Client Voya Retail Life Vantage Operations
Team Size 7
Description Ingenium to Vantage Conversion Project was associated with Single and life
policy business of Voya. The objective of the project was to convert the
Ingenium Policies to Vantage 15.4 platform ( VSAM ) .
The challenge of the project: Ingenium System was black box to developer. The
requirement analysis was done after extensive communication with Ingenium
Business, and then translating them into Vantage. Received several
appreciation from Voya client for elaborate Vantage system analysis and
implementing the Ingenium flow into the system. The phase I of the project
was for Conversion of single life policies.
Agile mechanism was being followed when Waterfall Model was not working
well in this mechanism.
The project involved Analysis, Design, Coding ,Database migration,
conversion, Unit Testing ,System testing and Implementation in Production
environment .
Role  Analyzing Business Specs: Analysis of business requirement and
preparation of High Level Technical Design.
 Analysis and Design formulation for handling from Ingenium to
Vantage and build Tech Design.
 Estimation of the Requirement and Resource overloading and
Timelines.

 Client communication and ensuring the deliverables from the team
and helping them both in terms of Technical aspect as well as Business
aspect of the project in the day to day activities.
 Technical Spec Preparation: Preparation of detailed technical design
documents based on business requirement and high-level technical
design.
 Development: Coding of new batch and Online modules supporting
Client’s business logic.
 Developing stand-alone conversion modules from the scratch
independently.
 Set up of Database conversion Job’s and Migration Strategy including
Audit Report for Vantage .
 Interface Changes to align with Vantage Conversion .
 Enhancement: Developing and Unit testing the client specific
enhancements and integrating them with the existing system.
 Quality related audit tasks and set up of the project metrics and
sharing and walkthrough with the clients.
Technology Used Environment : Mainframe
Operating Systems : Z/OS 390
Tools : Changeman, Xpeditor, , File Aid, File Manager
Languages : COBOL, JCL
Database : VSAM, IMSDB,DB2
Project Ingenium to Vantage 15.4 Conversion Phase II
Duration Aug 2012 to March 2013
Client Voya Retail Life Vantage Operations
Team Size 14
Description Ingenium to Vantage Conversion Project Phase II was associated with Joint life
policy business of Voya. The objective of the project was to convert the
Ingenium Joint Life Policies to Vantage 15.4 platform ( VSAM ) .
The challenge of the project: Ingenium System was black box to developer .
The requirement analysis was done after extensive communication with
Ingenium Business , and then translating them into Vantage . Needed to
update the existing joint life processing in existing Vantage project to support
the Ingenium joint contracts.
Role  Analysis of the Business Requirement and Building Technical
specification for the project, Estimation of Project Coding and Unit
Testing.
 Client Interaction and co-ordination with the Onsite team, and
Process Improvements. Directly involved with client in day to day
project Tracking
 Development Activities involving Analysis, Coding and Unit Testing
 Review of all the deliverables from Offshore to client.
 Involved in process Audit for the Development project.
 Client communication and ensuring the deliverables from the team
and helping them both in terms of Technical aspect as well as Business
aspect of the project in the day to day activities.
 Technical Spec Preparation: Preparation of detailed technical design
documents based on business requirement and high-level technical

design.
 Development: Coding of new batch and Online modules supporting
Client’s business logic.
 Developing stand-alone conversion modules from the scratch
independently.
 Set up of Database conversion Job’s and Migration Strategy including
Audit Report for Vantage .
 Interface Changes to align with Vantage Conversion
Tools : Changeman, Xpeditor, , File Aid, File Manager
Languages : COBOL, JCL
Database : VSAM, IMSDB,DB2
Project Solar Phase II
Duration Nov 2011 to June 2013
Client Voya Retail Life Operations
Team Size 6
Description The Solar Phase II project was associated with Voya client – the project was to
set up systematic way of withdrawal in life , similar to payout transaction in
annuity . This project was implemented in DB2 Cobol system .
Role  Design - Preparation of High Level design, Detailed Design, Test
spec Documents.
 Coding - Doing COBOL code development and JCL codings.
 Testing - Unit testing, System testing and Acceptance testing of
the COBOL codes.
 Implementation – Code movement and package creation for code
deployment.
Tools : Endevor, Intertest, File Manager
Languages : COBOL, JCL,
Database : VSAM,DB2
Project Metlife Premier Variable Annuity Product Launch
Duration Aug 2015 to current
Client Metlife
Team Size 19
Description
This project will provide MetLife clients access to a variable product that will
enable them to customize their investment and benefit options to suit their
needs. This product can be sold/serviced by various agents and this is going to
be a flagship product in this bucket. This is a hybrid product which contains
all the best features from the other popular product .
Role  Analysis of current Metlife premier fixed product .
 Analysis the similar features requirement in other existing product .
 Introducing the new chargeback calculation.
 Introducing new death benefit option.

 Defining and designing the Agent bifurcation – non-Met and Met
agent identification.
 Product rule table update for the new plan codes .
 Introducing New Share class .
 Correspondence / downstream reporting changes.
 Test cases and Test plan preparation.
 Comparison job run to make sure the change is not impacting any
other rider functionality .
 Database Table change , Data base conversion job run .
Tools : Endevor,File Aid
Languages : COBOL, JCL,CICS
Database : VSAM,DB2
Project Rider Maturity : Guaranteed Minimum accumulation benefit .
Duration Aug 2014 to July 2015
Client Metlife
Team Size 6
Description
The GMAB rider (Guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit) rider maturity
functionality is going to be introduced . The default date of the rider maturity
was set automatically. The rider can be matured before the specified date and
editable at the same time so that can be edited based on user requirement.
Once matured, the guaranteed minimum accumulated amount will be
compared to system cash value at the same day. If the cash value is lower than
that , the amount will be adjusted .
Role  Analysis of current GMAB rider.
 Introducing the maturity.
 Introducing field online editable .
 Introducing new extract report generation based on rider maturity.
 Table change , Data base conversion job run .
 New extract report was introduced to be printed by Docucorp.
Database : VSAM,DB2

Project Rider Reset valuation : Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit Rider Project
Duration Feb 2014 to July 2014
Client Metlife
Team Size 5
Description The GWB Rider project was associated with the Metlife Annuity Business. The
project was to reset the rider value automatically on each anniversary . If the
payout amount re-calculated based on the rider reset , the payout segment
also needed to be changed to refresh the newly calculated value .
Role  Analysis of current GWB rider and how the reset happens on GWB.
 Incorporating the latest requirement of Auto-reset.
 Introducing new extract report generation based on rider Auto-reset.
other rider functionality.
 New extract report was introduced to be printed by Docucorp .
Database : VSAM,DB2
Project GPO : GMIB Rider Update
Duration July 2013 to Feb 2014
Client Metlife
Team Size 5
Description The project GPO : GMIB Rider was associated with Metlife Annuity business .
It was to create a rider update package to the policy owner so that they
terminate GMIB ( Guaranteed minimum income benefit ) rider and get a
onetime lump sum amount based on the how market is performing vs the cash
amount is left on the contract .
Role
 Analysis of current GMIB rider and calculate the maturity amount of
each version of the rider when they will reach the maturity .
 Calculate the algorithm for determining the one time amount when
the rider will be terminated before the maturity.
 Updating the existing interface and online module .
 Introducing new screen in the front end based . The screen was to be
called and updated on real time basis .
 New extract report was introduced to be printed by Docucorp .
.
Tools : Endevor, File Aid

Languages : COBOL, JCL,
Database : DB2,
 Projects Performed as a system Analyst :
Project MetLife SBR (Specialized Benefit Resource).
Duration Dec 2008 to Dec 2010
Client Metlife
Team Size 5
Description This was the project being operated from offshore based on the ODM (
offshore delivery model ) . The project includes small enhancement ,
production support , Analysis of production Bugs , Short term and long term fix
of bugs in production , adhoc report generation based on client request .
Role  Production support , Production Bug fix . Trail Monitoring .
 Report extract automation with REXX .
 Working on small enhancement, unit testing , deploying the code in
production with warranty support .
Database : VSAM
EEDDUUCCAATTIIOONNAALL && PPRROOFFEESSSSIIOONNAALL CCRREEDDEENNTTIIAALLSS
Bachelor of Engineering ( Computer Science and Information Technology ) with an aggregate 73%
(2004 - 2008)
Jadavpur University , Kolkata , West Bengal
10 + 2 with an aggregate 81.2%- (2003 )
West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education
10th with an aggregate 89.98% - (2001)
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
Achievements & Certifications:
 Awarded as Start of wmA for excellent work as in Metlife Project in Cognizant Technology
Solution US .
PPEERRSSOONNAALL DDOOSSSSIIEERR
DDaattee ooff BBiirrtthh:: 2288tthh MMaarrcchh 11998855
Address: Apt 10-108,7575 E Arkansas Avenue , DENVER ,CO,80231

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