PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Systems professional with more than eighteen years of experience in systems programming and data processing. Proven track record involving complex technical project management, problem determination and solution, negotiations of contracts, software evaluation and implementation, and performance analysis for NT, mainframe, and UNIX platforms. Self - motivated and willing to take on new challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM z 196, IBM Servers xSeries, HP Netservers, Compaq Proliant Series, EMC Connectrix-Symmetrix SANEMC DASD, IBM DASD

Software: CICS TS V4.2, MRO, TMON, z/OS/1.13, SMPE, TSO, OMEGAMON, Intertest, VSAM, UNIX/AIX V5.3, WebSphere MQ Series, DB2 9.5, SYSBII, Dumpmaster, CICS Interdependency Analyzer IA

Languages: UNIX shell scripting, SQL, Assembler, REXX, CICS Command Level

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, maintenance and customization of IBM CICS, non-IBM software products in z/OS multi - LPAR environment.
• Design and architect technical HA solution for messaging infrastructure with Multi-instance queue manager.
• CICS 4.2 migration experience (converted about 150 regions).
• Monitor of CICS regions using TMON to improve performance and diagnose and resolve problems.
• Respond to issues generated from the service desk, development and test application staff.
• Provide on call support outside the normal working hours to respond to issues or to implement potentially high-impact changes.
• Apply resource definition changes and provide application support changes into the regions.
• Review CICS online systems performance and tuning on z/OS platform.
• Participated in all disaster recovery tests.

Confidential, New York, NY

WebSphere MQ Series and DB2 UBD Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project leader for the planning, installation, and implementation of MQ Series version 6.0 upgrade.
• Design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions for WebSphere MQ Series.
• Monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting WebSphere MQ managers, and applying FixPaks as required.
• Migrated DB2 instances from Windows to an AIX platform.
• Analysis of issue resolution process for application production problems relating to DB2 and MQ Series on UNIX platform.
• Perform DB2 software installations, customizations and the automation of complex processes through scripting.
• Manage DB2 environments, including backups, maintenance, tuning, security, capacity planning and patching.

Confidential, Mahwah, NJ

CICS Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed online systems performance and tuning, which included the logsteam, MRO cross regions access method, the SIT parm to inactivate any interfaces that are not needed, and automated CICS cold start.
• Advisory team member during CICS TS 2.3 migration, and upgraded about 30 production regions to CICS TS 2.3.
• Planning and accessing with application teams the use of TCPIP Sockets and CWS analyzer program customization.
• Data Center relocation team member.

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical advice on system security software, and CICS performance and tuning.
• Work with programming staff on application design and problem determination.
• Created and cloned multiple WebSphere subsystems.
• Developed and executed disaster recovery plans for WebSphere.
• Implemented WebSphere backup recovery procedures for BSDS, PAGESET datasets, and queues.

Confidential, Briarcliff Manor, NY

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed CICS, MQ Series, DB2 installations and OEM upgrades.
• Significant hands-on expertise in coding assembler and CICS USER EXITS.
• Interacted with systems and applications teams to assimilate the companies' business directions and future trends, and executed projects to meet their specific requirements and resolve problems.
• Established and promoted standard processes and procedures across functions and at all locations.
• Planned for disaster recovery and supervised exercises.
• Project leader for the creation and execution of the migration plan for more than 200 CICS regions across 8 LPARs to be at the same release level and meet Y2K compliance, including the version upgrade of an additional 20 OEM products that are CICS dependent.
• Project leader for the upgrade of data center software for Y2K compliance. Created and developed the project plan and supervised the implementation of MVS, MQSeries, DB2 and OEM products.
• Supervisory systems' programmer for diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues relating to performance, slowdowns and
• Automated a number of processes, eliminating cumbersome and time consuming manual interventions.
• Provided support to the application development community relating to many aspects of design and problem determination.

Windowfadsfs NT

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple servers in a Citrix farm, including maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting in a Windows 2000 environment, and provide the staff with technical support.
• Coordinated, designed and proposed the purchase servers and peripherals.
• Provided high level of technical support and administration for 200+ Windows 2000/NT servers on the floor.
• Implemented monitoring tools including Compaq Insight Manager and Tivoli to track constant reports on the performance of the servers and react quickly and effectively during service breakdowns and unscheduled outages.
• Developed, implemented and monitored comprehensive data backup and restore processes for Windows/INTEL environment.
• Automated routine tasks through scripting.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

CICS Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitored and measured the performance of ten production regions performing over 1 million transactions per day.
• Determined the causes of CICS failure, debugged storage violation and system abends using service aids.
• Researched and conduct feasibility studies of CICS and OEM products.

Confidential, Hackensack, NJ

Senior Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Tailored CICS 1.7.0 to meet CICS macro tables migration to RDO format.
• Provided technical expertise to upgrade the complex code Extended Recovery Facility (XRF) to CICS 1.7.0.

Confidential, Greenwich, CT

Senior Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CICS performance and tuning. Implemented MRO feature of CICS, installed vendor packages.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all CICS systems related activities in MVS/XA environment, including application support.

Confidential

CICS Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and support of on-line transaction systems.

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked independently and as a member of a project team in the development of applications.