SUMMARY:

• IT Professional qualified by over 30 years of hands - on installation, configuration and project management experience with Confidential and competitive products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: z/OS, MVS, USS, Parallel Sysplex, z/VM, z/Linux, VSE and AIX.

Support of various products including: Netview, Catalog Manager, Omegamon, ITM, TDS, TMON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, redmond, wa

Sr. Program Manager

• Support and assist customers with planning and migration to Confidential Enterprise Extender.
• Advising development and marketing of current and future enhancements of z/OS products related to platform integration.
• Installation and support of multiple versions of DB2 running on z/OS.
• Support of engineering teams needing environments for CICS and IMS transaction integration.
• Designs various Policy Agent scripts and crypto coprocessor configurations for FIPS compliance.
• Host Lab Project Management supporting Azure Cloud integration and hybrid solutions.
• Authored and maintained documentation relevant to the Integration product and Host Lab environment.

Confidential, chicago, IL

Sr. IT Specialist

• IT Optimization, Green Initiatives Architecture and Development team.
• Supported the Chicago zSeries customer demonstration systems.
• ITIL Foundations certified.
• Confidential Project Management Certification.
• Linux Professional Institute level 1 certified.

Consulting

• Configuration and management of z/OS, z/VM and zLinux, and various OEM products.
• Installation and management of the following: Linux, z/VM, z/OS, CICS/TS, CICS/TG, DB2, WebSphere, MQ.
• Migration of CA-DISPATCH to Tivoli Output Manager.
• Migrations from VSE to Linux and z/OS for several customers.

Confidential, Chicago, il

Sr. Systems Programmer

• Ensured high availability and performance of the z/OS environment.
• Installed and configured native zLinux test environment on the S390 as a proof of concept.
• Provided 3rd level support, while coordinating support resources throughout Confidential .
• Tested and maintained disaster recovery plans and planned future capacity and resource needs.
• Evaluated new technologies; analyzed integration issues with other systems; provided technical leadership and mentored new team members.

Systems Programmer

Confidential

• Upgrade of MVS 5.2 Systems to OS/390 2.5. Wrote migration plan to replace VS/COBOL and COBOL II to COBOL for OS/390 and C/370 to C++. Assisted applications developers with migration. Installed HCM on NT server for the resource management group.
• Worked with DB2 and Midrange groups wanting to port applications to WebSphere on UNIX Systems Services for the OS/390 platform.

Confidential, Chicago, il

Systems Programmer

• Responsible for Installation and support of OS/390, LE/370 and related software products. Support of users doing development and testing in multiple processor complexes.
• Configuration of UNIX System Services in the OS/390 environment.
• Conversion project for OS/390 Parallel SysPlex and DB2 Data Sharing.
• Y2K evaluation and testing.

Confidential, melborne, fl

Systems Programmer

• Configuration and management of a MVS/ESA Parallel SYSPlex, CICSPlex, DB/2 data sharing environment.
• Installed and configured LE/370 (AD/Cycle) products, COBOL/370, Composer 3.0, CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, maintenance and upgrades of MVS components.
• Set up standards for CICS applications development and environment configuration to meet customer requirements.
• Coded various exits and helper applications as required for support of customer in Assembler, COBOL and REXX.
• Responsible for handling any type of problem (relating to MVS or any of its subsystems) as needed and supporting the users doing development, and testing in this environment.
• Configured 9672-R64, R24 CEC for Parallel SysPlex environment.
• Set up CICSPlex and WLM for OLTP requirements.
• Completed training with Confidential for Parallel SysPlex and CICSPlex administration.

Confidential, dallas, tx

Consulting Software Engineer

• Responsible for support of application programmers writing client / server based software on several platforms, including: CICS/ESA, CICS for OS/2 and MicroFocus CICS. Duties included CICS maintenance and problem resolution. Set up test environments on CICS for OS/2 and MicroFocus/CICS all were using XDB, DB2/2 and IMS.
• Configured client to host connectivity with APPC using Comm Manager/2 and TCP/IP. General systems support using IPCS, OmegaMon, TMON, as well as various workstation tools.
• Project lead to re-write all MACRO level CICS assembler programs and utilities, using CICS resources to command level for an upgrade to CICS/ESA 4.1

Confidential

• Responsible for installation upgrades and maintenance of CICS and related products in an MVS/ESA environment.
• Installed and tested CICS/OS2 for a planned client server application and completed a migration plan for CICS/ESA.
• Other duties included support of application programmers working on re-writing older Macro level CICS programs written in COBOL and Assembler as well as those doing development in NATURAL and ADABAS. Tuning and capacity planning for CICS using TMON/CICS, SAS and RMF

Confidential

• Set up application development environment for multiple vendors on contract with Confidential .
• Duties included installation and tuning of various program products including MVS/ESA, CICS/ESA, ISPF/PDF, SCLM. All development was being done with CICS and DB2 in COBOL/II.

Confidential

• Support and installation of system and internal products running in the MVS/ESA and VM/ESA environments.
• This also included installation and testing of pre-release and beta products to be used by the instructors.
• Provided level 2 support for customers using various system products that are used internally. All of these were written in REXX and Assembler. Also supported OV/VM (PROFS), ProcessMaster, Book Manager, GDDM, OS/2.

Confidential

• Responsible for support of programmers and users doing development in CICS/ESA. Also, was responsible for all network changes and maintenance of VTAM and the NCP.
• Upgrade of CICS from version 1.7 to CICS/ESA 3.2.
• Set up training program for programmers on use of RDO in CICS/ESA.
• Implemented SCLM and set up applications development procedures.
• Open Systems Integration team.