Summary of Job responsibilities: Over the last 31 years, I have installed and maintained MVS/SP, MVS/XP, MVS/ESA, Z/OS operating systems. I have also installed and maintained OEM/third party products from vendors CA, Compuware, SAS, Boole Babbage, MXG, and many others. As a Systems Programmer, I handled WLM, RACF security, work on problems that needed a creative solutions sometimes creating programs to resolve the issue , handled both operating system and OEM problems and solutions from vendor, create interfaces to make products easier for users, able to adapt to the many different ways of getting a vendor solution and understand the many different vendor installation procedures.

Experience:

Confidential

• Worked with management in removal of all Compuware products and replacing with comparable IBM products.
• Approved thru ChangeMan all NDM/Connect Direct transmission jobs/control cards.
• Create standards for NDM/Connect Direct transmissions.
• Problem resolution for NDM/Connect Direct on platforms Mainframe, windows and unix.
• Created NDM/Connect Direct Spanish translation table for mainframe and unix platform.
• Instructed the server sysadmin in administration of NDM/Connect Direct on unix platform.
• Worked with applications development in coding the control cards for mainframe, windows, unix platforms.
• Instructed RACF group on what profiles and user access that was needed for each software package.
• Resolved security issues with userid and access.
• Wrote assembler call to RACF to determine user access to program.
• Worked with IBM or product vendor to do necessary troubleshooting for problems with their software. This may involve reading dumps, collecting and sending dump to vendor, setting slip traps or whatever vendor requires.
• Wrote COBOL interface for GSD and Changeman using MQ
• Wrote PL/1 program utility to make JCL modifications easier for Code-1 and DRE health check jobs
• Designed and implemented quick maintenance turnaround procedures for SAS/FMCP
• Maintained and installed 29 different OEM/IBM products
• Established a reputation of thinking outside of the box and coming up with solutions to all problems

Confidential

• Designed and developed a series of SAS programs to chart Mainframe usage
• Added necessary RACF profiles for software installation.
• Resolved all security issues.
• Determined what RACF access was needed for disaster recovery.
• Part of a team responsible for adding user profiles
• Designed and developed a series of javascript programs to display the capacity reports via USS, Browser and LAN
• Converted shop to Workload Manager, converted JES2 to Workload Managed Inits, trained operations staff on how to manage inits
• Developed and tested Disaster recovery procedures
• Developed procedures to move OS and OEM products from development to production environment

Confidential

• Upgraded 21 OEM products in 7 days
• Created group profiles for contract programmers
• Added user id profiles and user access to datasets
• Added necessary RACF profiles for software access/installation
• Wrote program to modify TRMS database thus saving months of man hours necessary to maintain product

Confidential

• Merged several CA-1 TMCs into a single TMC.
• Simplified EMC2 administration by automating the process to notify other email servers
• Wrote JES2 exit to limit execution classes via RACF. This was done before IBM made it available.
• Modified exits to use DSECT instead of hard coding offsets

Confidential

• Developed code to integrate Supertracs with scheduling system. The exits were coded to accommodate a wide variety of communications programs that made the administration of Supertracs manageable and easier to use by automating several functions
• Developed macros that simplified the administration of Librarian production source
• Wrote assembler program that moved source and object code from QA environment to production.
• Wrote several software exits to call RACF for access to datasets or software functions.

Confidential

• Played critical role in converting NCR COBOL programs to IBM COBOL.
• Created a tape management system using ICF catalog and BDAM file.
• Installed and administered TOP SECRET security software RACF replacement

Confidential

• Systems Programmer
• Lead Computer Operator 06/78 - 08/82
• Rewrote 3rd party COBOL/IMS program to use less wall clock time. Rewrote program twice, each time reducing wall clock time by 75 .
• PL/1, VTAM, NCP, JES2, VSAM, SLIP TRAPS, IMS, RACF, CICS, DFSORT, ICCF, SMP/E, SDSF, DL/1, MSHP, RJE/POWER, MQ-SERIES, NETVIEW, APPLICATION PERFORMANCE ANALYZER, DEBUG TOOLS, TIVOLI ASSET DISCOVERY FOR Z/OS, WORKLOAD SIMULATOR
• CA: CA-ROSCOE, CA-LIBRARIAN, CA-LOOK, CA-1, CA-11, CA-7, CA-ASM2, CA-JCLCHECK, CA-EASYTRIEVE PLUS, CA-EASYTRIEVE TOOLKIT, CA-EASYTRIEVE PANAUDIT PLUS, CA-PANSQL, CA-MICS, CA-JOBTRAC, CA-SORT, CA-DYNAM/T, CA-TOP SECRET, CA-JARS, CA-PANLINK, CA-MIM, CA-MIA, CA-APCDOC, CA-EMAIL, CA-EXAMINE, CA-ETC, CA-CALENDAR ROUTINES, CA-DATE SIMULATOR, CA-VISION REPORT
• COMPUWARE: ABENDAID, FILEAID, FILEAID/IMS, FILEAID/DB2, XPEDITER/TSO, XPEDITER/CICS, STROBE
• OTHERS: OMEGAMON, MANTISSA, STOP-X37, VSAM-ASSIST, IAM, SYNCSORT, CONMAN/E, JOBSCAN, DOCUTEXT, FDR/ABR/CPK, ZEKE, ZACK, ZEBB, OASIS, MAINVIEW, AVRS, TRMS, DATAPACKER/IMS, QUICKREF, DATA-VANTAGE, CHANGEMAN, BETA44, CONNECT:DIRECT FOR MVS, VPS, XPAF, SAS, SAS/FMCP, BETA88, TPX, FOCUS, DCD II, PHOENIX, DATA-XPERT, VIA-INSIGHT, EMC2, SUPERTRACS, NDM, USPS INTELLIGENT MAIL BARCODE, CODE-1 PLUS, CANADIAN CODE-1, GEOCODE, PKWARE SECUREZIP, VANGUARD SECURITY SUITE ADVISOR, ADMINISTRATOR, ANALYZER, ENFORCER, PASSWORD RESET

Programming Languages:

• Mainframe: CICS, IMS, COBOL, RPG II, FORTRAN, PASCAL, ASSEMBLER, PL/1,
• PL/C, GPSS, SAS, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, JCL, REXX, DYL/280, Easytrieve Plus, BatchPipes, FileManager, RPF
• PC: ASSEMBLER, C, RM/COBOL, BASIC, PHP, MySQL

Role and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a strong business and technical awareness as it relates to corporate objectives both regionally and globally.
• Maintain all standards and best practice procedures.
• Maintain and follow all SOX/audit requirements required.
• Meet or exceed IT service PLAs. Service minutes lost for Critical and High severity incidents not to exceed annual TSI targets.
• Perform as an internal consultant. Partner with customers to identify objectives and deliver projects and support in a timely manner, assuming ownership of all business objectives.
• Participate in committees and panels, as directed
• Lead or assist in the development strategic architectural and software plans. Participate in the development of the departmental strategic plans.
• Provides technical leadership and consultation to all technology services groups and the associated business units.
• Participate in the development of staff by reviewing plans, suggesting approaches and general mentoring to pass along their expertise.
• Lead or assist in multiple projects to assure objectives are met on time and within cost.
• Lead or assist in the design and development of application enabling technologies to support business applications. Answer technical questions pertaining to the operating and network systems.
• Complete other responsibilities, as assigned.
• Lead or assist in the development of standards and policies for the day to day operations of application enabling technologies.
• Design, appropriate documentation for use by all areas and ensure enforcement of standards by monitoring the various systems.
• Lead or assist in the evaluation and recommendations of hardware and software in support of application enabling technologies. Assist in cost evaluations and justification for large scale systems and networks.
• Lead or assist in the installation, configuration, testing, development, tuning, monitoring and maintenance upgrades of various distributed and mainframe operating systems software MQSeries, CICS, ZOS, DB2, Unix, Websphere, Portal, and LDAP, messaging tools, monitoring and alerting tools, mainframe /distributed infrastructure support and other third party application development products , running in a distributed and MVS sysplex environment.