SUMMARY

• Over 35 years of experience working in the Mainframe environment as a z/OS Systems
• Programmer, SME, Project Manager & Manager for large multi - national organizations.
• Proven track record to take on and be successful in any project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: MAINFRAME, z13, zEC12, z/9, Z990, Z/900, COUPLING FACILITIES, Confidential VTS, Confidential /HDS/EMC DASD,FICON SWITCHES, OSA ICCs, RS/6000, SUN SPARC

OPERATING: z/OS, z/VM, z/LINUX, AIX and SOLARIS

SYSTEMS NETWORK SOFTWARE : TCP/IP & ACF/VTAM, SMP/E, HCD, z/OSMF, USS, PARALLEL SYSPLEX, JES2, JES3, WLM, CICS/TS, VSAM, JCL, SERVER PAC, RACF, ACF2, TOP SECRET, RMF, SAS/WPS/MXG, TSO/E/ISPF, ABENDAID, FILEAID, OMEGAMON, SYSVIEW, STROBE, NETVIEW, Confidential SA, CA OPS/MVS, FDR/ABR, DFDSS, CA1, CA7, CA11, SMS, SDSF, EJES, FOCUS, CA MIM, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, CIMS, BEST1, INFORMIX, SMIT

LANGUAGES: Assembler, COBOL, JCL, CLIST, REXX, Script Writing (KORN Shell, SED, AWK), SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER/SME

Responsibilities:

• The Mainframe Systems Support Services Team consists of staff both in the U.S. & India, responsible for all Performance/Automation/Asset/Volume/Incident/Service Request/Disaster Recovery Management Tasks related to the mainframe.
• As the Mainframe Subject Matter Expert, responsibilites include technical lead, design and engineering of all Mainframe related solutions and POCs. In addition, responsible for the evaluation, planninginstallation and maintenance of all MVS related Mainframe Software and Hardware in a PARALLEL SYSPLEX environment.
• As a member of the Mainframe Global Services organization which is responsible for the maintenance of the Mainframe environment, in many countries, around the world, my other roles include:
• Monitoring Competency Center Coordinator
• Lead weekly meetings
• Designed, planned & implemented a centralized global monitoring solution using Omegamon
• Created statement of direction for global monitoring, positioning AXA for the future
• Presented to Senior Management team on Monitoring Competency Center activities
• Confidential for Spain
• Lead weekly meetings
• Planned, organized & coordinated all Mainframe-related activites

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER/PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Installation and Maintenance of all MVS related Mainframe Software and Hardware in a PARALLEL SYSPLEX environment with 12 LPARS.
• Planned, project managed, installed via Server Pac, customized and supported the successful migrations from OS/390 2.6 to 2.10, OS/390 2.10 to z/OS 1.3 and z/OS 1.3 to z/OS 1.6
• Systems performance monitoring and capacity planning reporting Installed, documented, tested and implemented key infrastructure components using SMP/E Retrofitted USERMODS and USER EXITS for compatibility with new operating systems Designed, planned and implemented processor upgrades from 6 9672s to 4 2064s.
• Planned and performed all IOGENs using HCD Managed the successful planning, implementation and build out of the mainframe.
• Disaster Recovery sites Planned and implemented the Parallel Sysplex portion of DB2 data sharing Maintained the Unix Systems Services environment

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Performed the following services for REAL’s diverse nationwide customer base:
• Planned, installed via Server Pac, customized and supported various releases of OS/390 Migrated from CICS 2.1 to CICS/TS 1.2
• Planned and performed IOGENs in LPAR environments using HCD Planned, prepared the Operating System and installed multiple Confidential 9672 and 2003 mainframes
• Planned, installed and migrated DASD including Confidential RAMAC & SHARK devices Implemented SMS Trained less experienced systems programmers to attain a high degree of skills and proficiency

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER/PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation and maintenance of all Mainframe and RS/6000 hardware and software.
• Also served as the ACF2 Security Administrator, the UNIX/AIX Security Administrator and the head of the Corporate Disaster Recovery Team.

Confidential

MANAGER SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Responsibilities:

• Managed a staff of Systems Programmers and Tecommunications Specialists.
• Was in charge of the IS Help Desk and head of the company-wide Disaster Recovery Team.
• Plannedinstalled, maintained and supported all mainframe and telecommunications hardware and software.
• Performed system performance and tuning on the mainframe. In addition, evaluated and recommended all system hardware and software, wrote proposals and gave presentations to upper management.

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included systems maintenance and installation of software products, RACF security administration, performance tuning, and user and operator support, training and documentation.

Confidential

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included the installation, documentation and maintenance of all mainframe software products utilizing SMP and the coding and modification of user exits using BAL.

Confidential

Junior Systems Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included design, analysis, implementation and maintenance of Variable Life Insurance type applications using BAL and COBOL programming.