Experience

Confidential

Owner / Manager:

• Management:
• Manage the scheduling and execution of all Customer projects on a daily, weekly and monthly base.
• Schedule rental equipment when required for large projects
• Forecast and order inventory
• Establish Vendor relationships and negotiate contracts
• Execution of all phases of production as to the creation of customer signage
• Design custom designs for customer signage using Adobe Illustrator software
• Manufacturing:
• Material handling as to cutting various types of substrates used in the construction of the custom signage
• Assembling the custom signage as to applying vinyl to the various signage substrates
• Installation:
• Building signage, Banners, Wall signs, Illuminated signage, Neon LED
• Vehicle graphics, wraps, graphics and Lettering.
• Manage staffing, Post, Interview, Hire, Train, Review and Terminate employee and contractor relationships
• Establish and maintain Customer relationships
• Provide detailed Customer specifications from interviewing customers as to what they are looking for and providing them alternatives which would provide a higher quality delivered product.
• Marketing and Advertising:
• Design and produce marketing materials and distribute through various electronic medias and non-electronic medias
• Design and produce advertising materials and media as in Sponsorships, Donations, public and private events
• IT:
• Installed, configured and maintain an internal network for communication between 5 workstations, Servers, IP phones, PC Printers, Production equipment Printers and plotters.
• Installed, configured and maintain a central network communication and data server
• Configured the network security, firewall rules and router rules and switches to support both PCI standards and business standards
• Installed, configured and maintain both internal and external connections
• Install, configure and maintain all computer software installs and upgrades and hardware and peripheral additions, updates and replacements
• Train staff on installed software, Design, POS, MS Office, production printing and plotting.
• Install, configure and maintain Customer LED Signage display software and application
• Design, develop, install and maintain application programs for customer signage displays.
• Update and maintain customer programmable signage as in LCD menu systems, LED signage, LCD advertising and marketing display systems and their application software and hardware.
• Update, install and maintain existing application programs for customer existing signage displays.

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Platform Architect:

• Provided application infrastructure support to a multi-environment multi-version Z/OS platform maintaining two individual SYSPLEX.
• Establish and maintained communication between SYSPLEX's and components within the SYSPLEX.
• Established and configured a central RACF security DB used to control all active LPAR's
• Established and configured all security for the active running applications and network communication network
• Developed, configured application discovery programs written in REXX and PERL
• Installed, configured and enabled the applications CICS, DB2, MQ, TSO, UNIX and MVS on all active LPAR's.
• Configured the active applications for the use with the discovery software and for customer issue debugging
• Configured all central system applications SMS, ISPF, SMTP, UNIX and FTP to be consistent and active on all LPAR's.
• Establish test platforms based upon Customers production environment and the applications the particular issue is occurring with.
• Produce requirements and system specifications based upon discussions with clients as to simulation environment establishment

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Platform Architect:

• Established and configured a central RACF security DB used to control all active LPAR's
• Developed, configured application discovery programs written in REXX and PERL
• Configured the active applications for the use with the discovery software and for customer issue debugging

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Consultant:

• Trained on the Rocket Software ITOM Output Manager Software and migration process.
• Wrote processes utilizing REXX and IBM QMF to modify and update DB2 data
• Modified customer DB2 data utilizing SPUFI, QMF and UBU file loads
• Performed system and customer testing for ITOM software modifications
• Held customer session to gather details on issues and proposed system and reporting enhancements
• Established and delivered customer proposals for customer system required enhancements
• Provided support for customer issues and assisted in debugging software issues on a one on one and department level forum.

Confidential

Senior Security Engineer

• Reviewed, implemented, and enhanced security controls in z/OS, MVS, RACF, for First Citizens Bank.
• Developed, deployed and maintained the daily SAS batch programs for RACF reporting
• Installed, configured and maintained the Vanguard security software suite using SAP for establishing the system components and TSO for configuring the User and administration components.
• Developed and deployed REXX programs for several system products and for the manipulation of data in the batch security processes.
• Supported configuration, testing and debugging of the OMVS open systems for SFTP, TS1200 tape encryption, FTP SSH for digital certificates and system application permissions
• Supported the following applications as the SME, and as the companies Help Desk level 3 support technician:
• User TSO, ISPF environments
• TN3270 Blue Zone emulator configuration and usage
• EZ Treve User system configuration
• ASG/Mobius security configuration and system configuration
• Z/OS Batch JCL syntax and processing
• Z/OS ZEKE batch job scheduler configuration
• Z/OS File-aid, REXX, SAS programming support
• Z/OS CICS User Transaction access debugging
• Designed, developed, implemented, supported and maintained all COBOL batch security programs
• Designed, developed, implemented and supported all COBOL/CICS security programs for maintaining security processes utilizing VSAM resources
• Designed and developed File-aid, SAS and REXX utility programs for the daily security processing
• Designed and developed utilities for establishing the data files for the interface security processes to the Windows Active Directories environment.
• Supported and maintained Windows ADWIN Scripts , IBM AIX and UNIX Shell scripting for security administration and file maintenance.
• Supported and maintained Windows Active Directory security administration.
• User provisioning and de-provisioning
• Group policy administration
• Tree structure permissions
• Supported and maintained UNIX security administration.
• User provisioning and de-provisioning UID
• Group policy administration GID
• File structure permissions
• Developed security documentation and policies.
• Documented the RACF security policies and standards
• Documented the RACF security reviews and audits
• Documented the customized security controls and monitoring reports for RACF and Windows Active Directories.
• Documented the RACF configuration settings
• Documented the security rules for MVS, CICS, MQSeries and Application components
• Documented the controls and compliancy for SOX, HIPAA, GLB, and PCI requirements
• Note: Support includes Modifications and enhancements, Production support and End User documentation and training Education.
• Held customer session to gather details on issues and proposed system and reporting enhancements
• Established and delivered customer proposals for proposed application system enhancements
• Provided support for customer issues and assisted in debugging software issues on a one on one and department level forum.
• Establish End User test criteria based upon Users application and system requests and requirements.
• Produce application and system requirement specifications based upon collected client requests and requirements.

Confidential

Technical Project Lead / Senior System Engineer:

• Developed, implemented, enhanced and supported the Z/OS RACF security.
• Developed, deployed and supported batch SAS, SAS/DB2 programs for statistical reporting
• Developed, deployed and supported PC SAS, SAS/DB2 programs for statistical reporting
• Installed, configured, maintained and supported the Vanguard security software suite using SAP and TSO for configuring the administration components.
• Installed, configured, maintained and supported the Source Save code migration process and software for controlling the migration and deployment of service oriented components both in a Window based and UNIX base operating platforms.
• Designed, developed, implemented and supported programs for maintaining the IBM MQSeries on the Z/OS, UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Developed COBOL and File-Aid program utilities for handling MQ message logging and archival process
• Developed CICS service modules for handling MQ messaging for Windows server based applications
• Developed COBOL/MQ programs and IBM / REXX Utilities for interactive system administration
• Developed UNIX Shell scripts for MQ administration and reporting on the Sun Solaris environment
• Installed, configure and supported the CA ENDEVOR source configuration software
• Designed and deployed the application infrastructure
• Developed and deployed the internal administration TSO ISPF panels and Clist's
• Designed, Developed and deployed the application compiler processors for all application versions of COBOL, Assembler, REXX, ISPF, BMS maps, MQ, DB2 and CICS.
• Designed, developed and deployed the User interface REXX programs and panels for establishing and allocating the new applications environment , resources and security components
• Designed, developed and deployed the migration, testing and archival processes for both the Business and System application source components through SDLC process.
• Designed, developed and deployed REXX, File-aid, and IBM Utilities for the automation process of mass ENDEVOR library updates.
• Installed, Configured and supported the Windows software HEAT Help Desk software
• Determined system Hardware and software requirements
• Installed and configured the HEAT software on the Windows Serve.
• Performed the rollout and installation, configuration of the HEAT workstation Client on all Users workstations.
• Developed the interfaces to the Windows Active Directory and Oracle database
• Developed the process and programs for the conversion from CA Peregrine Service Center to HEAT
• Developed customized program service modules using the HEAT interface for customized searches and proper recording of problem and issue reporting.
• Customized the HEAT User panels and scripts for company specific requirements
• Developed processes and scripts for the conversion from the Oracle database to the MSSQL database structure
• Application Project management
• Led a team of 25 resources in the construction, migration, development, customer testing and deployment of a fully operational Y2K Z/OS LPAR.
• Developed and modified Assemble, REXX, COBOL/MQ/DB2/CICS updated or replacement programs for older programs for supporting Y2K processing.
• Developed REXX, File-Aid and IBM utilities for building and maintaining the Y2K LPAR application environment for the migration of components between operating environment LPARS
• Led a team of 10 resources in the conversion of the external EDI customer communication connections from LU6.2 and Dial-up to TCP/IP in a parallel Sysplex environment
• Designed, developed and deployed REXX, COBOL/MQ, COBOL/DB2, JAVA Utilities and programs for the new Movement Transportation System application
• Designed, developed and deployed conversion utilities for the conversion of application programs for new software versions, DB2, CICS, MQ and IBM
• Deployed program Utilities to assist in the application DB2 table conversions
• Modified DB2 tables for normalize / de-normalize process for application tuning.
• Designed and Developed interfaces to DB2
• Designed and Developed REXX Utilities for User data retrieval and reporting
• Developed ENDEVOR processors for controlling the migration of DB2 Stored procedures
• Developed conversion utilities for the conversion of DB2 programs for new DB2 versions
• Developed REXX Utilities for automating mass ENDEVOR library updates for new DB2 version requirements
• Assisted in DB2 tables normalize / de-normalize process for application tuning.
• Developed program Utilities to assist in the application DB2 table conversions
• Developed Audit reporting queries for SOX reporting and compliancy.
• Designed, Developed and Administered Oracle databases
• Designed and Developed SQL programs for User data retrieval and reporting
• Developed conversion utilities to aid in the loading of the Oracle tables
• Assisted in Oracle tables normalize / de-normalize process for application tuning.
• Developed security documentation and policies.
• Documented the RACF security policies and standards
• Documented the RACF security reviews and audits
• Documented the customized security controls and monitoring reports for RACF and Windows Active Directories.
• Supported and maintained Windows Active Directory security administration.
• User provisioning and de-provisioning
• Group policy administration
• Tree structure permissions
• Supported and maintained UNIX security administration.
• User provisioning and de-provisioning UID
• Group policy administration GID
• File structure permissions
• Documented the RACF configuration settings
• Documented the security rules for MVS, CICS, MQSeries and Application components
• Documented the controls and compliancy for SOX, HIPAA, GLB, and PCI requirements