Experience

Confidential

Owner / Manager:

• Management:
• Manage the scheduling and execution of all Customer projects on a daily, weekly and monthly base.
• Schedule rental equipment when required for large projects
• Forecast and order inventory
• Establish Vendor relationships and negotiate contracts
• Execution of all phases of production as to the creation of customer signage
• Design custom designs for customer signage using Adobe Illustrator software
• Manufacturing:
• Material handling as to cutting various types of substrates used in the construction ofthe custom signage
• Assembling the custom signage as to applying vinyl to the various signage substrates
• Installation:
• Building signage, Banners, Wall signs, Illuminated signage, Neon LED
• Vehicle graphics, wraps, graphics and Lettering.
• Manage staffing, Post, Interview, Hire, Train, Review and Terminate employee and contractor relationships
• Establish and maintain Customer relationships
• Provide detailed Customer specifications from interviewing customers as to what they are looking for and providing them alternatives which would provide a higher quality delivered product.
• Marketing and Advertising:
• Design and produce marketing materials and distribute through various electronic medias and non-electronic medias
• Design and produce advertising materials and media as in Sponsorships, Donations, public and private events
• IT:
• Installed, configured and maintain an internal network for communication between 5 workstations, Servers, IP phones, PC Printers, Production equipment Printers and plotters.
• Installed, configured and maintain a central network communication and data server
• Configured the network security, firewall rules and router rules and switches to support both PCI standards and business standards
• Installed, configured and maintain both internal and external connections
• Install, configure and maintain all computer software installs and upgrades and hardware and peripheral additions, updates and replacements
• Train staff on installed software, Design, POS, MS Office, production printing and plotting.
• Install, configure and maintain Customer LED Signage display software and application
• Design, develop, install and maintain application programs for customer signage displays.
• Update and maintain customer programmable signage as in LCD menu systems, LED signage, LCD advertising and marketing display systems and their application software and hardware.
• Update, install and maintain existing application programs for customer existing signage displays.

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Platform Architect:

• Provided application infrastructure support to a multi-environment multi-version Z/OS platform maintaining two individual SYSPLEX.
• Establish and maintained communication between SYSPLEX's and components within the SYSPLEX.
• Established and configured a central RACF security DB used to control all active LPAR's
• Established and configured all security for the active running applications and network communication network
• Developed, configured application discovery programs written in REXX and PERL
• Installed, configured and enabled the applications CICS, DB2, MQ, TSO, UNIX and MVS on all active LPAR's.
• Configured the active applications for the use with the discovery software and for customer issue debugging
• Configured all central system applications SMS, ISPF, SMTP, UNIX and FTP to be consistent and active on all LPAR's.
• Establish test platforms based upon Customers production environment and the applications the particular issue is occurring with.
• Produce requirements and system specifications based upon discussions with clients as to simulation environment establishment

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Platform Architect:

• Established and configured a central RACF security DB used to control all active LPAR's
• Developed, configured application discovery programs written in REXX and PERL
• Configured the active applications for the use with the discovery software and for customer issue debugging

Confidential

Sr. z/OS Consultant:

• Trained on the Rocket Software ITOM Output Manager Software and migration process.
• Wrote processes utilizing REXX and IBM QMF to modify and update DB2 data
• Modified customer DB2 data utilizing SPUFI, QMF and UBU file loads
• Performed system and customer testing for ITOM software modifications
• Held customer session to gather details on issues and proposed system and reporting enhancements
• Established and delivered customer proposals for customer system required enhancements
• Provided support for customer issues and assisted in debugging software issues on a one on one and department level forum.

Confidential

Senior Security Engineer:

• Reviewed, implemented, and enhanced security controls in z/OS, MVS, RACF, for Confidential

• Developed, deployed and maintained the daily SAS batch programs for RACF reporting

• Installed, configured and maintained the Vanguard security software suite using SAP for establishing the system components and TSO for configuring the User and administration components.
• Developed and deployed REXX programs for several system products and for the manipulation of data in the batch security processes.

• Supported configuration, testing and debugging of the OMVS open systems for SFTP, TS1200 tape encryption, FTP SSH for digital certificates and system application permissions

• Supported the following applications as the SME, and as the companies Help Desk level 3 support technician:
  • User TSO, ISPF environments
  • TN3270 Blue Zone emulator configuration and usage
  • EZ Treve User system configuration
  • ASG/Mobius security configuration and system configuration
  • Z/OS Batch JCL syntax and processing
  • Z/OS ZEKE batch job scheduler configuration
  • Z/OS File-aid, REXX, SAS programming support
  • Z/OS CICS User Transaction access debugging

• Designed, developed, implemented, supported and maintained all COBOL batch security programs
• Designed, developed, implemented and supported all COBOL/CICS security programs for maintaining security processes utilizing VSAM resources
• Designed and developed File-aid, SAS and REXX utility programs for the daily security processing
• Designed and developed utilities for establishing the data files for the interface security processes to the Windows Active Directories environment.
• Supported and maintained Windows ADWIN Scripts , IBM AIX and UNIX Shell scripting for security administration and file maintenance.
• Supported and maintained Windows Active Directory security administration.
  • User provisioning and de-provisioning
  • Group policy administration
  • Tree structure permissions
• Supported and maintained UNIX security administration.
  • User provisioning and de-provisioning UID
  • Group policy administration GID
  • File structure permissions
• Developed security documentation and policies.
  • Documented the RACF security policies and standards
  • Documented the RACF security reviews and audits
  • Documented the customized security controls and monitoring reports for RACF and Windows Active Directories.
  • Documented the RACF configuration settings
  • Documented the security rules for MVS, CICS, MQSeries and Application components
  • Documented the controls and compliancy for SOX, HIPAA, GLB, and PCI requirements

Note: Support includes Modifications and enhancements, Production support and End User documentation and training Education.

• Held customer session to gather details on issues and proposed system and reporting enhancements
• Established and delivered customer proposals for proposed application system enhancements
• Provided support for customer issues and assisted in debugging software issues on a one on one and department level forum.
• Establish End User test criteria based upon Users application and system requests and requirements.
• Produce application and system requirement specifications based upon collected client requests and requirements.

Confidential

Technical Analyst

• Designed, developed, deployed and supported DB2 structures for the Medical claims processing application for housing Provider data, Payroll/General Ledger and Customer / Provider claim data.
• Reviewed and enhanced DB2 tables for the enhancement of health and medical business application structures, Provider data, Payroll/General Ledger, Claims processing data structures and programs for tuning and performance improvements.
• Designed, developed, deployed and supported COBOL, COBOL/DB2, COBOL/IDMS, COBOL/CICS programs for several new and enhanced Health and Medical claim application systems.
• Designed, developed, deployed and supported COBOL, COBOL/IDMS, programs for new and enhanced General ledger application systems.
• Designed, developed, deployed and supported on-line screens using the ADS/O utilities for enhancements to the General ledger application systems.
• Designed, developed, deployed and supported IDMS queries using DMLO and OLQ for system updates and modifications to the various applications.
• Supported the system utilities for screen generation using MAPC, IDDM, ADSC
• Designed, developed, deployed and supported COBOL, COBOL/DB2, COBOL/CICS, REXX programs for new Provider claims application systems.
• Evaluated, recommended, deployed and supported new software and system tools along with providing training, resource allocation, cost savings and reduced time to market savings.
• Supported User provisioning and de-provisioning in Top Secret
• Installed, configure and supported the CA ENDEVOR source configuration software
  • Designed and deployed the application infrastructure
  • Developed and deployed the internal administration TSO ISPF panels and Clist's
  • Designed, Developed and deployed the application compiler processors for all application versions of COBOL, Assembler, REXX, ISPF, SDSF maps, MQ, IDMS, DB2 and CICS.
  • Designed, developed and deployed the User interface REXX programs and panels for establishing and allocating the new applications environment , resources and security components
  • Designed, developed and deployed the migration, testing and archival processes for both the Business and System application source components through SDLC process.
  • Designed, developed and deployed REXX, File-aid, and IBM Utilities for the automation process of mass ENDEVOR library updates.
  • Developed and deployed remote site source component and compilation processes
  • Created and maintained application specific User documentation
  • Assisted in the development of the ENDEVOR standards and procedures
• Installed and configured applications to run on the IBM OS/2 warp operating system
• Configured Novel Token ring network configurations both on the patch boards and on the individual user workstations.
• Installed and configured on each user's workstation the EXTRA TN3270 emulation software along with establishing the FTP settings.

Skills Summary

Mainframe / Z/OS:

COBOL, IDMS, REXX, CICS, SDF2, ASSEMBLER, TSO, ISPF, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, JCL, ENDEVOR User, Administrator, Technical Support , INFOMAN, DSSTRIP, DB2 QMF, SPUFI, SQL, Data Administration, Data Modeling , SMS Storage Management System , HSM Hierarchical Storage Management , VSAM, IBM Utilities , IMS DB, DC , EASYTRIEVE PLUS DB2, IMS , VIASOFT, PLATINUM DB2 Tools , MQ Series, Candle Command Center for MQ, PRO-JCL, DYL280, FOCUS, EDI, DI, LIBRARIAN, PANVALET, VTAM, LU6.2, Strobe, Omegamon, RACF, ICSF, IBM Change Man, Flasher, ZEKE, ZARA, Vanguard administration and User , JES, JES2, JES3,ADS/O, ADSC, MAPC, IDDM, OLQ,DMLO

PC / LAN

DOS, MICROSOFT Products, OS/2, NOVEL NETWORKS, MICRO-FOCUS COBOL, ENDEVOR Administration, User , HSD Diamond Software , SQL , SQL-LOADER, PL/SQL, POWERBUILDER, PVCS, ORACLE, SPF/2, UNIX, MQ, Candle Command Center for MQ, JAVA, FTP, Hyena, Windows Active Directories, Peregrine Service Center, Extra, Hummingbird, Blue Zone, ADWIN scripts , REXX

Seminars / User Groups

DB2 User Group, Digital Microsoft Office Suite Seminar, Endevor User Group, IBM Storage Management Seminar, Hitachi Storage Management Seminar, Software Testing StarEast 2000 , IEEE member, TechRepublic, International Who's Who of Information Technology, Microsoft Beta User Group, GIGA, Carolina RACF Users Group, Vanguard List server, Vanguard conferences. IBM RLIST