SUMMARY:

• Having around 9 Years of experience in Confidential mainframe infrastructure support with specialization in z/OS, z/VM and z/LINUX operating environments.
• Experienced in applying z/OS maintenance - HIPER, RSU, toleration, co-existence and fall back.
• Experienced in 3 rd party software installation, maintenance & upgrades for z/OS.
• Experienced in handling security administration with TSS & ACF2 packages.
• Experienced in handling system automation using OPS/MVS package.
• Experienced in handling network administration for VTAM, TCPIP, Network security (AT-TLS, PAGENT, SYSLOGD), configuration assistant, xcom, connect direct, TPX, tectia-ssh.
• Experienced in z/VM installation, maintenance & upgrade for z/VM6.3 & z/VM6.4 with 2 member SSI cluster.
• Experienced in handling directory administration using VM: Director & DirMaint packages.
• Experienced in handling security administration with TSS & RACF packages.
• Experienced in handling z/VM administration - day to day operations.
• Experienced in building z/Linux golden images with RHEL & SLES operating systems.
• Experienced in building z/Linux guest systems.
• Experienced in handling Confidential administration - Backup Confidential administrator.
• Experienced in handling WAS on system Z administration - Backup z/WAS administrator.
• Experienced in building MQ administration - Backup MQ for z/OS administrator.
• Accomplishments & Achievements
• Screened and recruited mainframe infrastructure support staff for operations, production control & scheduling, z/OS, DB2, Confidential, WAS, MQ, Storage - DISK & TAPE) | Lowes
• Completed knowledge transfer of z/OS, 3rd party software’s, DB2, Confidential, Mq, Storage- DiskScheduling, Endevor Administration & Operations | Lowes
• Developed project road map for 2017 -2018 for CSC-B support teams | Lowes
• Groomed mainframe operators to entry level system programmers | Lowes
• Mentored Jr system programmer to specialized system programmers | Lowes
• Delivered training sessions of Mainframe system administration curriculum to Distributed system engineers who supports WAS & MQ | Lowes
• Ensuring system is complaint with PCI standards | Lowes
• Mentored entry level system programmers | Confidential
• Lead the mainframe decommission project | Coke - Confidential
• Lead the SAP migration from system Z to AWS cloud | Coke - Confidential
• Lead the project to build new z/OS LPAR for DB2 migration | Coke - Confidential
• Lead the Mainframe security administration transition project from US to INDIA | Confidential technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior system engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with vendor in setting up connection between Lowes and Intelli Magic
• Transferred the black Friday data to Intelli Magic
• Reviewed & compared the reports from Intelli Magic Vision to in house CPR reports
• Working sessions with Intelli Magic vision’s on reviewing the reports
• Worked with vendor in setting up connection between Lowes and Pivitor
• Transferred the black Friday data to Pivitor
• Reviewed & compared the reports from Pivitor to in house CPR reports
• Identifying the problem programs from performance reports
• Working with Application support team to tune the programs

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, maintenance and upgrade of z/VM 6.4
• RSU maintenance of z/VM 6.3
• Customization of DirMaint
• Customization of RACF
• Installation of RHEL 7 golden image
• Cloning of guest images

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Knowledge Transfer sessions for the z/OS system programming scope of work with Confidential US team.
• Responsible for the post IPL validation and application availability in the Confidential Boulder data center.
• Responsible for applying licenses for multiple ISV program products.
• Responsible for Knowledge transfer and documentation for other team members.

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Mainframe decommission project.
• Lead the sysplex decommission project.
• Lead the SAP workload migration from system Z to AWS cloud.
• Lead the NAS migration from z/OS to NetApp storage.
• Lead the High Availability tests for SAP application on system Z
• Lead the DR exercise for the customer from the mainframe platform service restoration.
• Lead the LPAR decommission project.
• Lead the GSD standards implementation project.
• Responsible for z/OS RSU maintenance.

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the DR exercise for the customer from the mainframe platform service restoration.

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the DR exercise for the customer from the mainframe platform service restoration.
• Part of z/OS 2.1 upgrade and handled the on the migration actions.

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Innovation software product maintenance and upgrades.
• Lead the Dyna trace for IMS & Confidential POC project.

Confidential

z/OS system Programmer.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for upgrading ACF2 R15 in a complex environment with 32 LPARS within multiple sysplex
• Responsible for Confidential product installation
• Responsible for security administration for z/OS & z/VM operating environment
• Responsible for z/OS & z/VM administration
• Responsible for building golden images for z/Linux guests & cloning the z/Linux guests