PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years experience in Mainframe systems programing doing CICS Administration and Support, Install and Maintenance of CICS and related products.
• Exceptional problem solving skills, analyzing symptoms, identifying the problem and coming up with recommended solution/s.
• Works efficiently and effectively with others or independently.
• Thrive in a challenging environment with multi - tasking responsibilities
• Utilize critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to interact with confidence and professionalism with individuals at all levels

RELEVANT SKILLS:

• CICS MQ ASSEMBLER UNIX PEARL PYTHON SAS COBOL PROJECT MANAGEMENT TSO JCL SDSF
• OMEGAMON TMON CAFC CEMT BATCH EXPEDITER ABENDAID LIBRARIAN IPCS CODE1
• MAINVIEW SYSVIEW UNIX SYSTEM SERVICES CICSPLEX SYSTEM MANAGER CHANGEMAN

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Frisco, TX

CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Provided CICS and MQ support for online systems
• Install, customize and rollout CICS Transction Server 5.3
• Use BMC Mainview for monitoring CICS and MQ
• Use Abendaid/FX for CICS debugging and problem determination
• Install and upgrade MacKinney Batch to CICS
• Install and upgrade MacKinney JSF
• Primary support for CICS providing 24x7 support

Confidential

Vice President Infrastructure Services

Responsibilities:

• Provide Lead Support role for Confidential ’s CICSPlex for region comprised of several hundred CICS regions.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Modified existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware, and to upgrade and improve performance.
• Install, upgrade, maintain CICS and related products using SMP/e for currency and exploitation of new features
• Applied maintenance to their CICS environment RSU1510 as well as current HIPER PTFs
• Provided CICS and MQ support for online systems
• Used TMON for CICS systems monitoring
• Used Abendaid/FX for CICS debugging and problem determination
• Used Mainview/Sysview

Confidential, Riverside, RI

Consultant CICS Systems Programmer

• Proof of Concept
• Researched and prepared implementation plan for VSAM RLS for better availability of data from VSAM file
• Provided CICS and MQ support for online systems
• Used TMON for CICS and TMON for MQ for systems monitoring and problem determination
• Used IPCS for system dump reading and analysis
• Used Abendaid/FX for CICS debugging and problem determination

Confidential, Ashville, NC

Consultant CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Modified existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware, and to upgrade and improve performance.
• Install, upgrade, maintain CICS and related products for currency and exploitation of new features using SMP/e
• Upgrade their CICS release from TS 4.2 to TS 5.1

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

CICS Systems Programmer Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Improve support for Disaster Recovery exercises
• Wrote new disaster recovery scripts so that anyone participating for the CICS team would know exactly what to do just by following the new scripts.
• Continually updated the script as we go thru DR exercises and find better ways to do things.
• Minimize SEV1/SEV2 issues
• Proactively watch list of hyper PTFs and schedule maintenance rollout every quarter
• Revised procedures for system changes adding validation of functionality after change has been implemented
• Led sl Project Manager/Tech Lead for rollout of new release of CICS
• Create and kept updated project implementation plan using MS Project with weekly progress reports sent to managers and stakeholders
• Coordinate with various applications and systems teams for their assigned tasks
• Coordinate Remedy change tickets and user testing, making sure project is on schedule to avoid licensing penalties
• Provide support for Web services - define and deploy in CICS. Assist with trouble shooting.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Restructure TEST, DEV and QA environments
• Implement mirror environments from DEV to QA to PROD.
• Allows thorough testing of application and system changes
• Work with Testing administration group to come up with new guidelines and procedures on how to request testing time for different environments
• Create documentation on CICS environment refresh procedures for different application groups

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

CICS Systems Programmer Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct an assessment of a new technology or a replacement product, providing a comparison of features and efficiencies, cost/benefit analyses as well as product rollout time estimates.
• Tasked to research replacement of Confidential suite of products because of prohibitive cost.
• Presented management with alternatives, product feature comparisons for strength and weaknesses, cost analysis and a high level implementation of replacement rollout.
• Confidential ended negotiating contract saving the company money.
• Reengineered online transaction processing technology platform to meet online trading systems availability SLAs
• Restructure CICS topology to be able to take advantage of CICSPlex System manager (CPSM) which has dynamic transaction routing and workload management capabilities enhancing system availability SLAs
• Upgrade their CICS and related products to newer release
• Design, install and test CPSM workload management using dynamic transaction routing
• Install and configure and customize CPSM Web User interface
• Provided CICS and MQ support for online systems
• Used Omegamon for systems monitoring and problem determination
• Used IPCS for system dump reading and analysis
• Used Abendaid/FX for CICS debugging and problem determination
• Used Expediter for CICS for application debugging support