SUMMARY:

Information Technology professional performing large system administration, programming, performance tuning at major Financial Institutions. Including conversion of timesharing system to internal IT department, Confidential /Chemical merger, wrote Y2K Best Practices how - to book, and system upgrades. Projects utilized excellent communication skills to solve problems to complete projects on time and within budget. Motto: “Difficult gets done right away, while the impossible just takes longer”.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Novell, Windows, Solaris, LINUX, MVS/ESA, VM/CMS, Z/OS, VSE, VTAM, SNA

Databases: DB2, UDB, SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, VSAM, MYSQL

Languages: JAVA, VisualAge for Java, Eclipse, WebSphere, J2EE, Servlets, Swing, EJB, JSP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, MQSeries, XML, CORBA, UML, COBOL/390, CICS/ESA, CICS TS, BASIC, Visual Basic, Assembler, BAL, PowerBuilder, Crystal Reports, Smalltalk, DYL280, Easytrieve, Micro Focus COBOL, Object Oriented COBOL, C, C++, Xellerate (provisioning), FORTRAN,PL/1

Utilities: TMON, OMEGAMON, Intertest, Xpediter, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, HourGlass, IDCAMS, ENDEVOR, Lotus Notes, Office, Excel, PANVALET, MSHP, SMP/E, RACF, ICSF, Changeman, Platinum, BMC Catalog Manager, ESM, AEF, MAX, TCM, FPS, REXX, ANT, AXIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primarily working on DevOps research, but also providing expertise
• Provided guidance on Accelerate projects on PGP, Weka, ML, NLP, PCA, SVM, Linear regression, Skype on Swift.
• Evaluating various DevOps technologies under AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud (IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Urban Code, OpenShift, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Puppet)
• Getting certified in Red Hat Linux, OpenShift, Ansible, and JBoss.

Confidential

Technical Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained over 18 MQ Series, then Socket, and finally Web Service programs (client and server) to connect Mainframe to Windows. This included: Account files, Trade files, Margin files, and home-grown Security System.
• Provided technical guidance on converting Back Office Systems to AWS
• Increased the maximum straight thru trade online processing from 20,000 trades to 200,000 using performance techniques.
• As the closest thing our team had to a systems programmer: I verified z/OS, CICS, and MQ, IAM, SOAP, WS, XML, IBM Debug maintenance and upgrades, recompiled COBOL programs to 31 bit, redefined and setup more efficient VSAM Delete/Define procedures for all VSAM files.
• For Compliance, I did Name and Address lookups, AML lookups, FINRA requests, SEC requests, CUSIP adds, unarchive trades, Chart of Accounts. CICS maintenance, MQ upgrade to V7, MQ maintenance, CICS SOS problem, SYNCSORT upgrade, TOP Secret upgrade, Web DML maintenance.
• To support the Confidential mainframe systems from an application and technical perspective so all trades properly updated the Master files and reported to our Clearing customers.
• Created over 200 SQL Server tables based on COBOL copybooks for potential mainframe migration. Also, created preliminary C++ programs for all the COBOL programs.
• Responsible for coordinating SSL renewals every year.
• Investigated and experimented with new technologies using Machine Learning Mastery, PyImageGurus, UDEMY, PackT Publishing, UDACITY, MOOCs, and other resources. These technologies included: Machine Learning, Data Science, R, Spark, Hadoop, Self-Driving Cars, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, NLP, and Artificial Intelligence.
• Currently taking a course at Ivy Data Science in Artificial Intelligence to create libraries I can use for NLP, Computer Vision, and other Deep Learning applications using TensorFlow to preform CNN, RNN, LSTM, and other Neural Network processing.

Confidential

Sr. System Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Expert Programming resource supporting MVS system, handle MVS debugging and performance problems, and create SOA\ESB Web Services for mainframe programs.
• MVS System Programmer resource for MVS, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS, USS, WebSphere, SAS, EASYTRIEVE. CICS, DB2, WLM, RMF performance tuning. Investigated RACF and ICSF.
• Without source code solved years of outstanding errors (ASRA, AKEA, TICA, 0F0C, SOS) due to INSTALL/1 CICS generation software using combination of LE dumps, System Dumps, Transaction dumps, and IPCS. Includes documentation.
• Using PM4CICS on HFS, FEPI, XML, COBOL, and CICS created SOA\ESB with XML WSDL Web Services, MQ, USS to access mainframe resources including 3rd party Vendor software, Stored Procedures, and IMS subprograms. Access by MRO. Started Workflow design for SOA\ESB. Trained other team members.

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed complex PL/1 state health plan pharmaceutical formulary and pricing applications to create specifications to convert them to Oracle SQL Stored Procedures.
• Wrote specifications and corresponding SQL systems for state health plan systems for children, women, adults, and elders
• Provided advisory services on application design to help an outsourcing firm keep the long term contract.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Converted and tested with TSO, XPEDITER, CEDF, File-Aid, and DB2 (SQL), COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM programs LINKing to JCICS JSP/Servlets/Web Services from WebSphere (tested on Solaris and moved to MVS USS Linux).
• Created dynamic FCT, PCT, PPT entries with CICS System Programmer Interface for MRO/ISC environment.
• Solved Java/SOAP/WebSphere mainframe deployment and performance problems on USS using Linux. Provided expert advice on WebSphere and J2EE.

Confidential

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided high-level application programming and performance tuning for 256-partition large MVS DB2 (SQL) database and Data Warehouse with supporting VSAM files to calculate current and historical OLAP analysis of financial products for client’s portfolio.
• Test data created using Windows NT, EXCEL, FileAid, and ETL utilities.
• Designed, created, (unit, system, regression, performance) tested complex online CICS and batch JCL COBOL/DB2/VSAM Stored Procedures for Strategic Global Accounting for multi-currency, foreign exchange, pricing AFP reports such as P&L, Trial Balance, Mortgage Backed Securities, Asset Backed Securities, and Fixed Income from very large DB2/VSAM database using virtual, nested table, sophisticated SQL. Provided expertise in setup of MQSeries.
• Documented current system and served as liaison for system requests. Setup ETL and FTP to move data from main database to client OLAP Data Warehouses.
• Created COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM Stored Procedure application to access external files using EXCI and combine them with the current database to create a combined database of financial products and pricing data.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully setup separate MVS JCL, DB2, and CICS to do unit, system, acceptance, and regression tests to certify Compliance systems using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQSeries, ETL, and XML to properly handle Y2K.
• Discovered and documented business rules for systems from the current COBOL/VSAM programs for future projects. Used Changeman QA for version control. Report on compliance with Y2K standards.
• Wrote COBOL, CICS, VSAM system to access Confidential customer data by using alternate key. Debugged under XPEDITER.