Sarangan Rajamanickam

1421 Roper Mountain Road Apt# 293 Stoneledge Plantations Greenville SC 29615

Ph: 864-907-3002 E-Mail: sarangan.rajamanickam@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2001 – 2005. Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Anna University, India.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering.

Senior Project: “JComp – Subset of Java Compiler” - Rated second best project in a class of 120.

Grade: 8.01/10 (Absolute Score) – First Class with Distinction

EMPLOYMENT (3+ Years)

June 2007 – Till date:                                   IT Application Development Lead, MetLife Insurance

(as Cognizant Employee), Greenville, US

July 2005 – May 2007:                                 Team Member, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

(Sixth Fastest growing Tech Company as ranked by Forbes 25)

May 2003 – June 2003:                                Webmaster Intern, Sun Microsystems, India.

CERTIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

• Awarded “Individual Excellence award” by Cognizant Technology Solutions in 2006.
• Awarded “Star Performer” by Cognizant Technology Solutions in 2006. This award has been awarded only twice among 100 people in the last 3 years.
• Obtained ‘S’ grade (Absolute Marks: range from 90-100(out of a total of 100)) in six out of seven programming lab examinations during under graduate studies.
• Sun Certified Java Programmer.
• IBM DB2 V8.1 Family Certified Database Associate .
• LOMA 280 Certified Insurance Professional.
• Cognizant Certified Professional in Life Insurance Domain.

PRODUCTS DEVELOPED

1) MetLife Unified Disability Systems

This is a Disability Insurance Processing system implemented using COBOL, JCL, CICS, Java, Web methods, Web services and Message Queues. The system handles the disability claims and provides support to customers such as Bank of America, Verizon Wireless, Wells Fargo and Novartis. In addition to the claims processing, the software is also responsible for development of new reports and feeds to MetLife and its customers. Total Number of lines of code: ~2 million. Number of lines of code personally responsible for: ~250 thousand lines

Key Projects Implemented in this Product:

Migration of disability processing system from VS COBOL II to Enterprise COBOL

· Conversion of about 1900 VS COBOL II programs to Enterprise COBOL programs

· Involves in-depth study of VS COBOL II and Enterprise COBOL compilers and modifications to the programs to ensure portability to Enterprise COBOL.

· Performance tuning of database accessing programs by SQL tuning and redesigning the programs to optimize the data retrieval techniques.

Creation of Excel sheets using XML schema in the mainframe system.

· Modified the report generation process by creating an XML document in the mainframe and validating this using XML schema. These reports were transmitted to the customers as excel documents.

· Replaced the earlier method of transmission of comma separated files.

· Provided extensibility and reusability features to convert any other type of transmission to excel sheet transmission with least effort in the future.

Automation of Disability Insurance System

· Development of common reusable modules to create the payroll feeds dynamically. This reduced the turnaround time from 16 months to 7 days and also minimized manual efforts.

· Development of new approach of mapping COBOL copybooks instead of traditional one-to-one variable mapping in the insurance system that stores demographic details.

· Redesigned the file transmission modules to automate FTP, Email and Secure Email transmissions. This has resulted in the elimination of about 6000 lines of code due to code reuse and reduced 8% turnaround time for each file transmission in the future.

Knowledge Group–Life–Domain Solutions Group

· Knowledge Group–Life–Domain Solutions Group is a point solution addressing the claims process of a life insurer for its group life and group disability businesses.

· The reusable artifacts (Use case documents, Process flow documents, Business & Data rules) of this point solution will allow the project team to be armed with the generic set of requirements and design.

Additional Responsibilities

· Development of tools using C, Java and Lex for file processing, program analysis, program validation and testing.  

· Leading a team of 10 members in design and development.

· Coordinating with MetLife business team & its customers in creating the business requirements.

· Coordinating and assisting offshore team in design & development of various tasks.

· Coordinating with Quality review and User acceptance testing teams of MetLife and its customers.

2) Intranet website – Sun Microsystems, India. (http://sunweb.india)

• Worked as a Webmaster Intern at Sun Microsystems to design and develop the intranet website.
• The website was developed using Sun ONE Web server, SunPublish, JSP, and HTML.
• The key activities included designing the layout, populating content, designing a dashboard and integrating the site with the existing wikis. Number of lines of code: ~2000

3)  “JComp – Subset of Java Compiler” – Development of an efficient subset of Java Compiler.

• Development of a Java compiler with minimum, but necessary, functionality that generates a .class file according to the Java language specifications.
• Implementation using Java in 6 different phases: Scanner, a recursive descent parser, Abstract Syntax tree construction, Symbol table construction, Context checker and Code generator.
• Motivation for the project is to acquire strong foundation over fundamentals of Programming languages, Java language specification and  Java virtual machine specification.
• The source code & documents are available at http://www.geocities.com/sarangan12/jcomp.html.
• Number of lines of code: ~4000

4) E-Controller- Automation of examination management system using Visual Basic and Oracle.

• Complete automation of the final examination management system in our college.
• Worked as part of the Design and Development team.
• Apart from the complete design, my responsibilities also included the development of Enrollment phase, checking for the eligibility of candidates and development of date allocation phase, to automatically schedule exams for various classes. Number of lines of code: ~2000

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Development of Cognizant Certification Exam for Disability Insurance.
• Significant role in the 'Darwin's Challenge' – Innovative Cost Reduction Initiative, for MetLife.
• Associated with Quality Process and Quality Audits for various projects at Cognizant.
• Development of Disability Newsletter at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
• Presented a review paper on Quantum computing in the National Level Technical Symposium held at Periyar Maniammai Engineering College, Tamilnadu, India.
• Reviewer of various Undergraduate research papers and software at the National level Intercollegiate symposium  CYBER from 2002 – 2004 in my college.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Languages Known                        Java, C++, C, Visual Basic and COBOL

Operating System                         Linux, Windows, MVS.

Web Technologies                        JSP, Java Servlets

Technologies & Software              CICS, VSAM, HTML, Sun ONE Studio, UML

RDBMS                                          IBM DB2, Oracle.

Tools                                             Lex, Yacc, Changeman, FileAid, XPEDitor, REXX, CDA Views

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

· Chief Editor of ITInside – Monthly Departmental Magazine in Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

· Active Participant and Winner of various debates in English and Tamil.

· Hobbies: Amateur Journalism, Writing Poems, Reading Books.