SUMMARY:

• Software engineer, systems programmer, storage architect, author, developer, diagnostician, and educator of large systems enterprise technology supporting diverse, heterogeneous, and geographically - dispersed mainframe and distributed data centers with complex storage management hardware, software, and middleware applications
• Extensive industry experience supporting, evaluating, planning, installing, and customizing operating system software and hardware products in large, on-demand, cloud-based, transaction-oriented data centers with high availability SLAs, serviceability, and disaster recovery requirements
• Strong grasp of IT infrastructure, application development technology including virtualization, storage provisioning and tiering, middleware, and software engineering tools
• Boundless energy, bottomless curiosity, unfailing optimism, authentic: an ambitious, dedicated, entrepreneurial, self-motivated, multidisciplinary strategist, executive advocate
• Insightful, articulate, quick study with a passion for measurably quantifiable high-quality, purposeful, and thoughtfully grounded enterprise business solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming experience: in REXX, HLASM, SAS Enterprise Guide, Confidential Enterprise COBOL, PL/I, Fortran, HTML, SGML, and workstation scripting languages

Comprehensive knowledge: ISO-compliant agile software development lifecycle including software testing, configuration, build and release management, software product packaging

Installation experience: z/OS, z/VM, DFSMS, TCP/IP, VTAM, SMP/E, SCRT, Tivoli storage products, Confidential Workload Scheduler, and OEM vendor products from CA, Rocket Software, Mainstar, Compuware, and Innovation Data Processing z/OS, z/VM, OMVS (UNIX ) and workstation/server capacity planning and tuning experience; system hardware and software customization using HCD, IOCP, IOCD, SMF, RMF, MXG

Microsoft Windows: 10 Pro, Office 2013, PowerShell, StarDock Object Desktop, Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu), Oracle Virtual Box, Citrix Virtual Desktop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburg, CA

Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Installed z/OS 2.1 service/storage administration through RSU 1606; managed Confidential JZOS SCRT billing; wrote new corporate disaster recovery guide for use at SunGard AS in Wood Dale, IL
• Assumed responsibility for Tivoli 8.6 to Confidential 9.3 Workload Scheduler conversion and deployment including upgrading/implementation of all outstanding product service, SMF exits, user modifications, parameter definitions, catalogued procedures, batch production jobs
• Upgraded MXG, redesigned all in-house, ISPF panels and updated numerous open source utilities and tools;
• Co-authored two technical journal articles in Enterprise Tech Journal, 2016, Issues 5 and 6

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• z/OS 2.2 ETP SMP/E subject matter expert designing and writing new innovative and uniquely customized SMP/E product packaging prototypes for SDS’ VFTP, VIP, VNC, VTCP, and eBusiness Server mainframe and workstation products
• Classified, analyzed, refactored legacy assembler, COBOL, C load modules warehoused in a CVS workstation and REXX-based SCM build and release repository
• Constructed and installed REFILEs with newly written JCLIN, MCS, allocation jobs for VSAM global, target, DLIB zones, and target libraries, DDDEF entries definitions; designed test cases complying with published Confidential SMP/E software manufacturing and packaging best practices, disciplines, validation rules, and documentation guidelines
• Designed and wrote three 35-page program directories for VFTP, VNAC, and VIP

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Principal responsibilities included support of z/OS 2.1 upgrade and migration, TCP/IP, VTAM, NetView communications software problem remediation as onsite consultant of CompuCom
• Technical, hands-on duties included routine support and problem diagnosis of TCP/IP, VTAM, CICS, TN3270 emulators, and z/OS host printing applications including Confidential InfoPrint Server/AFP, MacKinney Systems' JQP, MPT, and VVP products for regional criminal justice applications across 65 county agencies
• Supported COO and county leadership with RFP contract preparation, technical personnel succession/hiring, software and hardware turnover for off-site re-hosting of the Confidential z9 BC

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Infrastructure Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• On-site consultant for Confidential GTS/Computer Task Group/Datamatics validating corporate-wide implementation of Confidential DS8870 storage configured as extended addressable volumes (EAVs) on 5 JES2 and JES3 parallel sysplexes consisting of 18 LPARs running the z/OS 2.1 Generic Tracker Facility on 17 zEC12 mainframes
• Developed innovative SAS programs to deconstruct EAV exception data reported by the z/OS 2.1 Generic Tracker, analyzed findings using SAS statistical procedures, constructed CSV files for workstation-based reporting, and post-processed results with the Microsoft Excel Data Analysis Toolkit using descriptive statistics; updated TSO command DSPACE using LSPACE macro EAV extensions
• Created LPAR-by-LPAR and consolidated, sysplex-wide spreadsheets summarizing EAV exception conditions for State Farm and OEM vendor stakeholders to remediate software incompatibilities across all production/test applications and OEM vendor software
• Wrote two technical papers: “EAV Stakeholder & OEM Vendor Compatibility Analysis Reports: Project Technical Guide” and “How to Interpret EAV Tracking and Migration Information”

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Master Mainframe Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Operations Complex Test Mainframe Performance Lab: worked with Hitachi, Ltd. ITPD, Japan, redesigning all functional verification and regression testing for storage certification and compatibility of HDS VSP, USP-V, and USP storage controllers in conjunction with the Confidential Early Test Program for z/OS 1.13 and 2.1 on a dedicated Confidential z/196 LPAR
• Presented function test hardware compatibility findings in Japan to Hitachi RSD executive management in 2011 for which I received the Hitachi Leadership Excellence Award
• Using Performance Associates PAI/O® driver created Confidential FlashCopy, XRC, and PPRC performance test cases using RAID 14+2 formatted storage pools on SAS and SSD storage
• Conducted pre-GA beta testing of the HDS G1000 Storage Controller, Storage Navigator, Business Continuity Manager, ShadowImage, and Tiered Storage Manager software

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

z/OS IT Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• CA-to- Confidential product migration: Confidential Tivoli Output Mgr., Omegamon XE for DB2 and Storage, DB2 Tools installation, debug, configuration (Admin Tool, SQL PA, Object Compare, Log Analysis, Path Checker, Table Editor, Query Monitor, Utilities Enhancement); authored customer training courseware; annual savings estimated in excess of $500,000 per year

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Adjunct Faculty

Responsibilities:

• Graduate and undergraduate instructor in information technology, mathematics, physics
• Courses taught: Introduction to z/OS & the Mainframe, Disaster Recovery, Ethical Hacking & Network Defense, Security+ Networking Fundamentals, Applied Physics, Algebra & Trig

Confidential

Advisory Software Storage Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead, 9 years, DFSMS Integration and Product Packaging build team: project oversight, programming, training, and coordination of 5 software packaging engineers
• Software developer for the build, packaging, delivery, technical documentation, and SMP/E function test environment configuration for Confidential ’s PPRC and FlashCopy® Manager Products
• Served 11 years as lead Confidential Storage Technology Group DFSMS storage software/hardware requirements coordinator to SHARE; scheduled, budgeted, and coordinated planning and conference participation for 15-20 Confidential speakers
• Updated assembler test cases for extended format sequential data sets on Confidential EAV storage as a CVAF function tester and created numerous unit test cases for EAV messaging function on z/VM guest machines; coded new ICKDSF function in PL/X and HLASM
• Co-authored/edited article in z/OS Hot Topics Magazine on LSPACE macro changes for EAV
• Wrote comprehensive project plans to upgrade Tivoli NetView, System Automation, and Workload Scheduler for EAV function test; system programmer for 5 LPARS on Tucson z/10
• Designed and published skills roadmaps and corporate career planning documents for all DFSMS software developers

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida and Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Programmed, debugged, and maintained device drivers written in C using Presentation Manager and OS/2 WARP 4 APIs for spooling and printing upon HP LaserJet, PostScript, and compatible printers using the Kernel and IPMD/ICSD debuggers