SUMMARY OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking challenging IT position utilizing my problem solving abilities and business experience to perform tasks requiring attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
• Mainframe Automation and User Interface Tool Creation
• Application Production Support
• Application Testing/Quality Assurance
• Application Development/Programming
• Software Configuration and Release Library Management
• IT Security Access Monitoring and Account Administration
• Batch Job and Online Systems Scheduling and Monitoring
• Performance and Tuning Application Programs
• Program Trouble Diagnosis/Reporting/Tracking/Resolution
• Report Writing/Statistical Graphs
• SOX Compliance, Audit Preparation and Response
• Computer Room Operations, Consoles, Tapes, Hardware

SKILLS:

• Microsoft Servers and Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Explorer)
• Confidential z/OS Mainframe REXX, SAS, JCL, TSO, ISPF/DM, VSAM, Syncsort, FTP and CD, SAR, Confidential Utilities, COBOL, DB2/SQL, CA - 7, CA-TopSecret (RACF), SAR, JCLCHECK, IOF, Easytrieve
• Various COTS Products on Multiple Platforms
• Server log monitoring/retrieval via LogLogic, SecureWorks
• BMC - Remedy
• Internet Web Browsers; Unix interfaces; PC Maintenance

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

IT Security Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created interactive TSO/ISPF security monitoring application tool to automate batch job reporting and violation tracking (used date/type keyed PDS member names for database records) using REXX and SAS Base.
• The tool queried CA-Top Secret activity, violations data and recovery data to create violation tracking records and emails.
• This tool reduced time required to perform daily monitoring tasks from a full day down to 30 minutes. It also read and summarized Syslogs for quick review, sent users and account owners status of their TSO/batch ACIDs, created weekly & monthly SAS graphs for trending, backed up daily data in GDGs for historical reporting, and also ran monthly Baseline Security Configuration reports (included DB2-SQL extracts). I wrote 60,000 lines of REXX, JCL/utilities, ISPF panels and SAS Base code to complete this project.
• Responsible for handling internal and external security audits to ensure corporate SOX compliance. No audit failures during my tenure.
• Performed security investigations and incident response tasks by querying UNIX or Windows servers logs using LogLogic.
• Performed administrator tasks for SecureWorks log monitoring created mainframe security reports to monitor and track FTP and CD transmissions.
• Assisted CICS end users with their transaction (OTRAN/PPT) access issues.
• Prepared MS-PowerPoint overview presentations for upper management, Risk Management and auditors that explained mainframe monitoring procedures and identified inputs and outputs.
• Created tools to interact with mainframe COTS products (SAR) and Confidential utilities to simplify data collection for audits
• Monitored account changes to validate user roles and privileges using Active Directory.
• Trained junior staff to run daily operations.

IT Security Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for user access account creation, access privilege assignments and account maintenance across platforms (UNIX, mainframe/CA-Top Secret, Windows/Active Directory); security access administration.
• Security incident response.
• Created interactive processes to expedite with 100% accuracy external user account creation on the mainframe & Unix.

IT Software Installer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing Confidential ’s Software Configuration and Library Management (SCLM) tool Confidential customer site(s).

Application Tester / Quality Assurance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for validating new application software and execution of test cases.
• Redesigned/rewrote mainframe automated batch scheduler to execute without user intervention.
• The updates reduced the elapsed processing time from 3 days to 4 hours. New tool created and edited test bed data to allow for cyclical application processes.
• Participated in review meetings with analysts and developers to address findings.
• Created tools to assist with creation of test bed data, eliminating the potential for errors created by human intervention.
• Performed RACF field administrator tasks Confidential Department level.

Application Developer / Production Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:Responsibilities:

• Responsible for application production support 24x7 on call and tier 2 application support including COBOL, JCL PROC updates, and data integrity validation
• Created and updated automated in-house tools supporting application software configuration and release library management.
• Utilized combination of clist/REXX, TSO ISPF, JCL, and Confidential utilities to track and promote software across all stages of lifecycle support. I also added an option to execute JCLCheck utility to create composite report for release component.
• Created interactive tools to simplify use of COTS software.
• Interrogated SAS-MICS system data to instigate application program performance and tuning efforts, eliminating batch processing bottlenecks and teaching COBOL coding efficiencies across departments.
• Performed RACF field administrator responsible for user ID’s, profiles and access controls Confidential the Division level.
• Wrote ad hoc REXX code to rewrite and re-compile 60,000 COBOL programs to change INCLUDE statements to COPY statements when this shop converted from LIBRARIAN software to PDS files.

IT Technician / Online Monitoring

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitored mainframe IMS and CICS consoles for exceptions and performed application support functions such as software updates with corresponding IMS gens.
• Maintained the automation tools to perform software updates.