SUMMARY:

Able to work as an O/S Engineer/Technical support, Administrator, Applications developer/solutions provider or a combination of the above. Very Proficient in iSeries (AS/400) work management, security (IBM, Control/SA, Detect - It), audit reporting (IBM, SeKCheck), job scheduling (IBM, Robot, Control/M), backup & recovery (IBM, BRMS, Robot/Save), performance monitoring & tuning (IBM, BMC Patrol/Predict), disaster recovery, cutovers, high availability (Mimix), OS engineering (migrations, upgrades, cumes, hipers, Ptf’s), source control (Aldon Lmi/Soft Landing Turnover V100), Vendor management/software currency, RPG, ILE, Free, Cobol, CLEE, DDS, DSPF, SQL. Results orientated track record.

SKILLS:

• iSeries Administration - current V6/V7
• Turnover V100 Source Control
• Aldon Lmi Source control
• Vision Mimix HA/HA Lite - current V 7.1.15.01
• Robot Products including Scheduler, Save, Network, Alert, Space
• Team Leader/Project Mngr.
• Operating systems Engineering, O/S releases, Cumes, Ptf’s, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Planning, Tuning. Performance navigator tools, graphing.
• HMC, firmware, LPAR/DLPAR
• Advanced skills with office tools, M/S Office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Project, and Front/Page
• RPG II
• RPG III
• RPG IV/400
• RPG/ILE
• SQL/ILE/Java
• RPG/Freeform
• CL
• CLEE
• DSPF/DDS/Subfiles
• Ansi COBOL
• Hawkeye, Total/400, scansrc

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

iSeries Administrator

• OS Engineering V7 - lpars
• Mimix 7.1.15.01 administration. Responsible for install and configuration of Mimix on test system for HA testing purposes.
• Systems programming - Coded comprehensive system analysis tool
• D/R & HA support
• Virtual tape (EMC Data Domain) implementation
• PTF’s/Cumes
• 3rd party vendor software upgrades - Powertech Compliance Monitor

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Turnover

• Turnover V100 maintenance and support 24/7 support
• Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly release elevations
• Test environment creations, extracts, conversions, and scrubs, Check-out/Smoke testing support
• System programming

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer/Solutions Developer

• iSeries Software development, RPG/ILE and RPG/FREE, CL, and SQL.
• O/S upgrade planning V5R4 V6R1/V7R1. Contributor on writing system analysis tool for OS upgrade, object analysis, and Aldon synchronization across 100+ iseries systems. OS conversion program analysis.. Auction systems applications coding using Aldon Lmi source control.

Confidential - Buffalo, NY

Software Engineer

• iSeries Administrator/Software engineering, RPG/ILE and RPG/FREE, CL, and SQL. O/S upgrades V5R4-V6R1 support.
• 1st and 2nd level support - iSeries and RedHat Linux.

Confidential - New York City

Iseries Administrator

• iSeries Administrator - HA Lite(Mimix), Source control(Aldon), RPG programming, Scheduling(Control-m), Backup & Recovery (BRMS), Infolog, Quick Press, Retail management systems (RMS), Communications configurations for retail stores and warehouse locations (including printers, scanner, work stations, and radio devices), Security, Capacity Planning/reporting, Audit HMC (firmware), national credit card processing support, OS internals (V5R4), utility programming, Support unit and integration QA testing environments.
• Administration of 32 LPAR’s and three HMC’s.

Confidential - Boston

iSeries Administration

• System Administrator - iSeries systems support including HMC configurations, firmware updates, LPAR configurations, OS upgrades, Cumes, PTF’s Hipers, scheduling, capacity planning, D/R, source control, backup & recovery..
• Seasoned software development life cycle experience. QA, Unit, Integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing using both static and dynamic testing approaches.
• DDS sub-files via SDA or STRPDM, RPG III-IV/ILE/CL/CLEE/SQL/SQLILE, RPG/FREE coding.
• Coded modifications to existing Compliance applications.
• Source control through Aldon (LMi). Performed Compliance audit reporting (13-f). Exposure to SOX regulations.
• Designed CMPMONITOR (Compliance critical job monitor) application using  API’s, RPG/ILE and CLLE code programs, and database. This application monitors critical job processes and reports when a process is not in proper status.
• As the primary technical driver/project leader, and designer for a cross division international effort (gateway elimination) reporting to a director, succeeded in achieving a 7 figure yearly cost avoidance by eliminating a network of RS/6000 gateways by creating a secure onboard software based solution to receiving and sending FTP transmissions. CIO Award.
• IBM LUG participant.
• System audits
• Hardware moves (installation, configuration, support)
• Software currency, vendor management, maintenance of various vendor applications, releases and patches.
• BMC Control-M job scheduling support, upgrades, exit point programming. Custom documentation.
• Aldon LM(i) support, upgrades. Exit point programming. Custom documentation.
• Disaster Recovery - Automated technical leader steps both from the systems and business unit applications perspective in a phased approach. Drove down cutover time and risk. Planned weekend cutovers/roll swaps.
• WDSC (Websphere development studio) implementer
• HA Mimix (file journaling), mirroring, disaster recovery
• Liaison across divisions to identify process improvements and work with departments on migrations.

Confidential

iSeries Administration

• System Administrator, Scheduling, D/R, Backup & Recovery, Security, programming (RPGIII/IV, Ansi Cobol, CL, CLEE, DSPF, DDS), on-call rotation 24/7
• Responsible for data center engineering space work including iSeries hardware moves
• Set up operational procedures including system and application level security
• Trained operations staff
• Responsible for design, coding, and implementation of a multi-platform fund Sales Conversion Tracking and Reporting System-SCORES
• Set up of backup and recovery and disaster recovery procedures, cumes, and PTF’s, hardware and communications configurations