PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has 43 years of IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer experience. He has served as the lead Systems programmer at his employers since 1987 and in those positions been responsible for project management, planning and research for many IT projects, both single platform and multiple platform (mainframe - PC & mainframe - UNIX), in addition to his systems programming duties
• Confidential has planned coordinated and implemented large mainframe, network and application releases and projects. He implemented mainframe cost reduction projects for multiple employers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: VSE/AF, CICS, ISAM, VSAM, SQL/DS, ICCF, Librarian, BTAM, MSHP.

Hardware: IBM, 4331, 3704, 3340, 3344, 2314, 3272, 3274.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planning, coordination and implementation of DB2 and IMS data-sharing.
• Planning, coordination and implementation of project to separate the parallel environment into production, development and systems testing SYSPLEXES.
• Planning and coordination of the consolidation of the mainframe environments to a single CEC.
• Planning, coordination and implementation of migrations from TMON systems monitoring products to CA SYSVIEW system monitoring products.
• Planning, coordination and implementation of mainframe cost reduction projects.
• Planning, coordination of mainframe hardware and systems software upgrades.
• Planning and coordination of business applications software upgrades to production and business environments.
• Planning, coordination and implementation of mainframe cost minimization efforts through rapid retirement of unnecessary mainframe resources and products.
• Planning, coordination and implementation of mainframe retirement in November 2022.
• Budget, Invoice processing and Contract negotiation for mainframe software and hardware.
• Tracked mainframe hardware and software budgets and expenditures for multiple managers and directors.

Software: z/OS V2.3, CICS/TS, CICSPLEX, DB2 V12505, IMS(TM/DB) V15, COBOL, Assembler, PL1, APPC, SAS, MICS, MXG, BMC DB2 & IMS Products, Compuware Debug & Analysis products, CA1, CA7, CA11, CA-ENDEVOR, CA-OPSMVS, CA-SYSVIEW, CA-Platinum products, TMON, VTAM, TCP/IP, Enterprise Extender.

Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, support and maintenance of DB2 and IMS systems. Primary support for all IT areas for DB2, IMS, DB2 Connect and 3rd party Products and secondary support on operating system (OS/390 & JES2), WEBSPHERE, automation and security. Migrated all of the customer’s environments from DB2 Version 5 and QMF to DB2 Version 7.1 and QMF. Migrated all the customer’s DB2 environments from
• CA-Platinum products versions 97 and 99F to Version 01D. Provided support for multi-platform WEBSPHERE project testing and implementation. Participated in project to analyze potential elimination of IMS environments and data migrations to DB2. Provided primary support for consolidation and cleanup of communications and JES2 definitions. Planned, lead and implemented project to consolidate or eliminate all unnecessary SNA communications, communications products & 3745 FEPs and improve VTAM Cross-domain performance.

Software: OS/390 V2, CICS TS V1, CICSPLEX V1, JES2, ISPF, DB2 V5 & 7, COBOL, Assembler, CA1, CA7, CA11, CA-OPSMVS, VTAM, TCP/IP, NETVIEW, Compuware debug & analysis products, TMON/CICS, BTAM, DFSMS.

Systems Engineer and Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, support and maintenance of mainframe Operating systems(OS/390 & Z/OS), DB2, CICS and network (VTAM, NCP, TCP/IP). Only Systems Programmer supporting system from Production startup through first 18 months of production until turned over to customer's Systems Programming Group, 12 members. and support of customer's systems programming and operations staff in running and maintaining system. Workload and project planning, management, assignment and execution of plans. Provide technical support to all areas of project team, especially Systems Programming.
• Projects included maintain the parallel SYPLEX environments and supporting products on IBM 9672/9674/9037 CMOS Parallel SYSPLEX environment. Upgrade DB2 Version 5.1 environments DB2 Version 6. Assisted customer systems programmers in MQ-Series installation and test implementation. Train/assist customer's systems programmers in problem solving and project planning. Write and implement numerous standard procedures (automated and manual) for operating the environment. For engineering team provide technical and planning support for pilot project to track all hardware and software in the facility.
• Prepare and defend Project Management Plan for upgrades of system servers and disk storage, including hardware and software costing to conform to prescribed budget and government contracting requirements. Provided technical and planning support for pilot project to re-organize existing data center power distribution to a fault tolerant and structured system. Provide architectural and system software planning support for major system upgrades.

Software: OS/390 V1 & V2, CICS TS V1, CICSPLEX V1, JES2, ISPF, DB2 V5 & 6, LE/COBOL, Assembler, TCP/IP, CA1, CA7, CA11, CA-OPSMVS, VTAM, NETVIEW, Compuware( Xpediter, FileAid, AbendAid & STROBE), OMEGAMON, BMC DB2 products, MAINVIEW, TMON for CICS, COMTEN (NCP, COS-2, CLSS), IXFP, HSC, DFSMS.

Senior MVS Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Workload and project planning, management, assignment and execution of plans. Provide technical support and management. Hardware and software performance, growth requirements and planning.
• Restore Confidential operating environment at Disaster Recovery site for disaster activation, this was not a test. Projects include installation, maintenance, problem resolution and tuning of DB2 Version 5.1 and Platinum Technology DB2 tools. Train and support new DB2 DBA and applications developers. Install, maintain and support multiple MVS/ESA operating system environments and supporting products in the current AMDAHL environment. Maintain the environment at current release levels. Bring Operating system environments to Y2K Ready status. Upgrade and test
• Disaster recovery plans for MVS operating system and OEM products. Remove old unused software releases of System related Products. Plan, coordinate and implement project to move production systems to MVS 5.2.

Software: MVS/ESA V5.2, CICS/ESA V4, JES2, DB2 V5, COBOL, Assembler, MVS TCP/IP, CA1, Omegamon products, Compuware debug and file management products, CA DB2 DBA tools, CA-Endevor, CA-OPSMVS, VTAM/ESA, NCP, EP, SSP.

Senior MVS Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Workload and project planning, management, assignment and execution of plans. Provide technical support and management to all areas of company including software development. Hardware and software performance, growth requirements and planning. Provide technical consultation services to customers as contracted.
• Projects include install, maintain and support multiple MVS/ESA & OS/390 operating system environments and supporting products in the current ES/9000 environment. Install, maintain and support multiple DB2 and IMS environments. Maintain the 4 most current releases of DB2 for development and customer testing. Maintain IMS systems and upgrade software as necessary for customer and developer testing. Plan and implement all APPC and TCP/IP mainframe connections for access to DB2 & IMS databases. Provide DB2 & IMS system DBA services to guarantee support and recoverability of all DB2 and IMS systems and data. Provide technical expertise to DB2 and IMS application DBAs/developers. Develop and formalize procedures for data backup and recovery based on changing company needs. Maintain the environment at current release levels. Bring Operating system environments to Y2K Ready status. Upgrade and test Disaster recovery plans for MVS operating system and OEM products. Remove old unused software releases of System related Products. Also install, maintain and support MVS/ESA, OS/390, VM/ESA and
• VSE/ESA operating system environments and supporting products in the current ES/9000 and P/390 hardware. To maintain the environment at most current release levels. Analyze, plan and implement new mainframe hardware to increase storage and processing capacity to allow for corporate growth Plan and implement changes to SNA network to support direct connection to large customer for off-site product customization and support. (SNA Null Networks). Analyze and modify customers' Assembler programs for Y2K compliance, for Consulting Division Y2K conversion contracts. Install Walker Financials and provide Systems Programming analysis and support at Customer sites, for Consulting Division.

Software: MVS/ESA, VSE/ESA V2.1.2, VM/ESA V2, CICS/ESA, IMS TM/DB, MSHP, JES2, DB2 for Z, COBOL, Assembler, DFP, CA1, Omegamon, Compuware (Xpediter FileAid, AbendAid), TCP/IP, VTAM, DB2 Performance Monitor, DB2 Activity Monitor, VMBACKUP, VMTAPE, NCP, EP, SSP.

Senior Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of MVS and all System software. Installation and maintenance of MVS, IMS, DB2 and all System software. Install, maintain and support current releases of DB2 and migration to new releases.
• Co-develop DB2/IMS gateways from IMS and DB2 Sales DB systems on MVS to ORACLE Warehouse Databases on SUN Unix. Install new versions of IMS DB/TM and IMS performance products (BMC IMS Utilities and CDB IMS performance products. Perform IMS system DBA functions in concert with IMS/DB2 DBA. Act as backup IMS/DB2 DBA. Code JES2 and other software user exits for systems software. Workload and project planning, management and plan execution. Hardware and software performance, growth requirements and planning. Supervision and of other Systems Programmers.
• Provide technical consultation services to other divisions. Systems analysis support of applications development and gateway development. Backup DBA for IMS and DB2. Projects include co-development of system to synchronize IMS/DB and DB/2 databases with Unix, ORACLE warehouse system. Plan and implement system changes to support EDI connections to customers. Plan and implement SNA network changes to connect Asian and European Electronics Divisions to Confidential and Hitachi Japan. Provide MVS and Networking support to Confidential Headquarters
• Division and other off-shore divisions via SNA/X.25 NPSI connectivity to Japan divisions. Plan and implement migration from single image mainframe to multi-image. Migrate environment from MVS/XA to MVS/ESA and upgrade processors from NAS processor to HDS. Eliminate point-to-point communication lines for SNA network using tunneled SNA traffic across CISCO routed network.

Software: MVS/ESA, IMS TM/DB, JES2, DB2, COBOL, Assembler, RACF, NFS, TCP/IP, CA1, B&B MVS RESOLVE & AUTOOPERATOR, BMC IMS and DB2 products, CA DB2 DBA Tools, EDITRAN, Connect Direct, SYNCSORT, VTAM, NCP, EP, SSP, NPSI, UNIX-SUN/OS and SOLARIS, Routing Protocols(RIP, ISIS, OSPF), FileAid, AbendAid, Xpediter.

Systems Software Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of MVS, VM, & VSE and all System software. Maintain and support DB2 version 1 in MVS environment. Train and support DBA and system developers on DB2 usage. Provide appropriate backup and recovery environment for DB2. Code JES2 and other user exits for systems software. Supervisor of Systems Programming Group. Hardware and software performance, growth requirements and planning. Supervision and of other Systems Programmers.
• Provide technical consultation to internal and external audit groups. Participate in VM/VSE migration to MVS/XA then MVS/ESA V3. Plan and implement hardware and software migration from 3083 & 4381 MVS/XA to with multiple LPARs and MVS/ESA. Installation of VM/VTAM and migration to SNA for CMS, CICS and TSO. Provided support for all VTAM and NCP related changes. Plan migration from COMTEN/FEP to IBM 3725. Project to plan and implement migration from non-SNA network to SNA network

Software: MVS/XA & ESA V3,VM/SP & XA, VSE/SP, JES2, DB2, RACF, COBOL, Assembler, DFP, CA TLMS, CA-Top Secret, CA-7, TMON for CICS, SYNCSORT, VTAM/ESA, VM VTAM, NCP, EP,SSP, SMP/E, MSHP, FOCUS, CA-Optimizer, CA DASD & Tape products for VSE, Compuware FileAid & AbendAid.

Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Workload and project planning, management and execution of plans. Provide technical support to all areas of the company. Supervision and of other Information Systems staff.
• Projects include installation and maintenance of multiple releases of VSE and CICS. Provide system for new college hires and college interns. Convert source code from batch LIBRARIAN to online ICCF and train staff. Train applications staff to convert programs and datasets from ISAM to VSAM.

COBOL/Assembler Applications Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create new and update existing COBOL programs at direction of senior applications programmers and systems analyst. Identify and correct problems in applications Programs.