PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT professional who has retained technical skills while working as a Team Lead of 10 systems programmers in 3 mainframe teams (DB2, CICS/MQ and Software Products) at one of the nation’s largest banks.
• Responsible for supervising the work of all team members including project management for software upgrades, daily production support, software architecture, software exploitation and integration, vendor management, performance tuning and disaster recovery and incident management.
• Currently working as a DB2 Systems Programmer and has worked extensively with DB2 for z/OS since 1991 and has performed or managed Multiple DB2 installations and upgrades beginning with DB2 version 2 up to version 11and has experience in installing and maintaining software from all of the major DB2 Tools vendors including DB2 tool vendor replacement projects. Has also performed product upgrades for CICS, MQ and IMS and numerous other mainframe software tools and utilities.
• Extensive z/OS software installation and integration experience including customizing, problem determination and resolution. Has installed and supported DB2, IMS, CICSMQ and many of the associated tools and applications that support and interface with z/OS sub systems.
• Has experience coding in PL/1, ASM, REXX, Clists, JCL and SMP/E
• Experience working in Confidential mainframe software development labs in Boeblingen and Sindelfingen in Germany and Atlanta, Georgia with primary responsibilities for QA of software installation and integration verifications and has authored Confidential software installation manuals and associated packaging documentation. Secondary responsibility for maintaining the development environments of CICS and IMS.
• Also performed early release versions of system software to validate software compatibility
• Has experience in manufacturing applications technical support, financial applications, business analysis and development.
• Job responsibilities have included Team Leadmainframe Project Engineer, CICS, IMS and DB2 Systems Programmer, PL/1 Programmer analyst and DB2 for z/OS Administrator

WORK HISTORY:

DB2 Systems Programmer

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance on DB2 DR strategy for the mainframe
• Advise on backup configuration for DB2 to allow for recovery
• Create DB2 recover procedure and supporting JCL to recover DB2 at a remote site
• Document DB2 disaster recovery procedure and perform knowledge transfer to client team
• Attend off site disaster recover exercise and execute the DB2 recovery procedure

Mainframe Software Team Lead & DB2 Systems Programmer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Develop implementation and exploitation plans for new releases of all supported software including project management of software upgrades
• Project technical lead on major upgrades of DB2, CICS, MQ and co lead for z/OS and hardware upgrades
• Project technical lead for DB2 V8, DB2 V9, DB2, V10, DB2 V11 and DB2 V12 upgrades
• Advise on mainframe software architecture and future direction
• Responsible for software roadmaps and maintaining software at vendor supported release levels
• Plan and supervises the workload of 10 Systems Programmers
• Extensive vendor management experience and SLA monitoring
• Prepare business cases and yearly budget planning for all supported software
• Change board Mainframe Engineering representative for all mainframe engineering software and hardware activities
• Responsible for collection, monitoring and reporting of weekly and monthly mainframe metrics

DB2 Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• DB2 upgrades V4 to V5, V5 to V6 and V6 to V7
• CA DB2 Tools replacement with Confidential DB2 Tools
• Confidential DB2 D Confidential Propagator installation and support
• DB2 V6 3 way D Confidential Sharing implementation
• QMF upgrades V3.2 to V3.3 and V6 to V7.2
• Princeton Softech Move for DB2 installation
• D Confidential Mirror installation and support

Contract CICS Systems Programmer

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• DB2 upgrade from DB2 V2.3 to V3 to V4
• BMC DB2 Tools upgrade in support of DB2 upgrade

Contract MVS Systems Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• SMP/E packaging of Confidential ’s COPICS and CIMAPPS software applications
• MVS Systems Programming and Operations Support for DB2, IMS, CICS and associated software
• Application development support
• Installation of COPICS, CIMAPPS and SYNNOVA software at customer sites
• Install IMS/ESA DB/CNTL and Local DL/I
• Technical author of COPICS, CIMAPPS and SYNNOVA installation manuals including program directories and associated documentation

Contract MVS Systems Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Application development support in MVS CICS / IMS / DB2 / VSAM / JCL environments for the COPICS, CIMAPPS program products
• Package application software in SMP/E format with associated documentation and ship to Confidential software distribution locations
• Package and distribute COPICS application software to other Confidential software support groups
• Primary installation MVS installation quality verifier with “ship no ship” authority
• Technical author for installation manuals and associated packing and shipping documentation.
• Support CICS environment for the Display Write/270 developers
• Validate Display Write/370 installation procedures
• Perform Display Write/370 early ship installations to North American customers and Confidential software labs.