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Database Design Management Hardware / Software Conversions Capacity Planning

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Energetic, results-oriented technology leader, adept at building, developing, and managing highly diverse technological solutions, for providers with operating capitals exceeding 100,000,000. Adept at conceptualizing and propelling policies and programs, effective at increasing revenues, improving market share, leveraging emerging technologies, and satisfying demanding clients and partners. Exceptional communicator, and decision maker, in fast paced situations. Empowers and assists staff members, integrates quality management principles, and builds long-term, growth-oriented alliances and partnerships.

CAREER TRACK

Sr. Systems programmer / Project Manager / DBA / Systems developer

• Combined exceptional technical cognizance, with a practiced business sense conceptualizing, developing, and providing highly effective, client-centric technical support, project management, database administration, and applications development and implementation. Worked closely with client technical managers, programmers, technicians, and users to identify project scope, develop cost-effective solutions, and manage implementation through service delivery. Provided exceptional troubleshooting expertise, oversaw, and managed capacity planning efforts, and provided performance tuning based upon client requirements. Clients included Tenneco, Acxiom, IBM, MetLife, Federal-Mogul Corp., EDS, General Motors, Mazda, Marine Bank Services Corp., Chrysler, Comerica Bank, Kmart, Ford, MCN, Bank One, National Bank of Detroit, Manufacturers Bank, and State of Ohio.
• Provided clients with hands-on z/Series, z/OS, z/VM, UNIX USS, z/VSE, SMP/E, VTAM/NCP, TMON, CICS, CICS TS, IMS v8, v9, v11, DB2 , DB2 UDB v8, v9, v10, ZEKE, DFSMS, DFHSM, EAV DASD, VSAM, IBM HDS EMC Storage, systems upgrading, programming, and management. Installed z/OS operating systems, and upgrades, software system upgrades, and customization of IBM, and third party vendor's, mainframe systems software. Upgraded, administered, and supported multiple versions of CICS, and CICS TS, as well as IMS, DB2, and IDMS databases running on multiple LPAR system images in parallel sysplex environments, ensuring vendor-supplied programs operate at peak performance levels.

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• Currently providing DB2 and IMS DBA and Systems Programming services, installing and migrating DB2 Version upgrades, from DB2 V810 to DB2 V910, as an interim step, in preparation to installing and upgrading to DB2 Version 10, across all DB2 Databases, LPARs, and Application systems. As well as installing IMS V11 RSU maintenance, prior to, and in preparation for, installing and upgrading IMS to Version 13. Utilizing and implementing DBMS best practices across all environments, DFSMS, DFHSM, VSAM, EAV DASD, IBM HDS EMC Storage . Additionally, deployed, managed, and supported all DB2 and IMS databases, and systems, in moving the corporate data center Sysplex Complex, from Framingham, MA, to Columbus, OH. Corporate mainframe data center consisted of parallel sysplex complexes, consisting of multiple system images running on multiple z196's, and a z10, running z/OS 1.13, additionally comprised of multiple globally located networked distributed systems.
• services, management of environment capacity, and management of technical resources for strategic projects. I provided support and management of IMS mainframe infrastructure environments, IMS database support to the global corporate infrastructure facilities, and globally distributed IMS applications communities.
• I provided IMS database and software maintenance systems programming services, installing version and release upgrades, maintenance and service level updates, and software, tool, and utilities fixes.
• I provided IMS technical, and physical, DBA services, supporting the production, and development, applications systems, and groups, both batch and on-line.
• I provided monitoring, management, and control of production and development IMS database systems, as well as technical support on a 24/7 basis, on a weekly rotational schedule, for both batch and on-line IMS systems. Provided performance optimization, capacity management, and scheduling, and resolved production control and DBMS problem solutions.
• I converted various databases to IMS HALDB, executed sysgens, maintained exits, and supported the design, structure, and usage of IMS databases for our various corporate customers.
• Environment: Multiple strategically and globally located corporate mainframe data centers running parallel sysplex complexes, consisting of multiple system images running on multiple z196's, a z114, and a z10, as well as multiple globally located networked distributed systems. Running z/OS 1.13, DB2 V9, IMS V11.1, CICS/TS V4.2, MQ Websphere, USS, VTAM, VSAM, EAV DASD, DFSMS, DFHSM, IBM EMC Storage, TCP/IP, IMS TM Resource Adaptor, IMS Connect, IMS DRD, OTMA, ETO, ETO/S, SOAP Gateway, APPC, Quickjob, Stobe, CLISTS, ChangeMan, MSF, IMS Tools, PA, PI, IMS Connect Extensions, CCF, QCF, CA Database Management Solutions for IMS tools, File-AID, FA/IMS, JCL, Procs, Assembler, COBOL, Remedy, Oracle, SAP, SAS, and numerous vendor software products, systems, tools, and utilities.
• Designed and implemented both daily and DR backup and restore strategy, policies, procedures, and systems for their DB2 databases, VSAM files, production sequential files, and z/OS systems files.
• Support both the new environment running DB2 V9 in compatibility mode, as well as the production environment running DB2 V8.

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• Provided additional consulting services to their data center upgrade project where they were evaluating their options to upgrade their existing data center CPU, a z/9, with a z/10, move all of their
• LPARs, from their existing z/9 to another larger SC State agency's multiple system image data center facility, move their LPARs to a larger multi-state 5 state consortium data center complex, or outsource their mainframe processing capacity to a mainframe outsourcing services provider.
• Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, Purchase, NY, Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer, Apr 2011 Oct 2011.
• Operating in a remote, telecommuting environment, provided mainframe middleware systems tech support, of the MSSB client online systems/network environment.
• Provided z/OS technical systems support, in a z/OS 1.10 environment, supporting JES2 and commands to control the WebSphere environment, RACF and commands to secure Websphere environment, SDSF, JCL and utilities, OMVS, Unix Systems Services, TSO/ISPF, and interactive tools contained within.
• Environment: Multiple dispersed Data Centers, running multiple parallel Sysplex complexes, on z/Series System Images, running z/0S v1.10, JES2, DB2, MQ WebSphere, RACF, VTAM, TCP/IP, OMVS, USS, DFSMS, DFHSM, EAV DASD, IBM EMC Storage, VSAM, various vendor software tools and utilities, and an extensive Distributed multi location environment.
• Integrys Business Support LLC, Div. of a Multi-State Utilities Corp., Chicago, IL, Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer, July 2010 Mar 2011. As part of the z/OS, DB2, IMS, CICS tech support team, I assisted in the consolidation of two production data centers in Chicago, and Green Bay, into a single production data center in Green Bay, and a test, development, and hot DR data center in Chicago.
• Completed a total DASD farm migration of all Production, QA, Development, and Test files, libraries, databases, and operating systems files, from IBM 8100 SAN devices to Oracle/SUN/STK 9985V SAN devices, as well as EMC SAN storage, in the production Chicago data center.
• Consolidated DASD pools and SMS environments, throughout the data center, including DB2.
• Converted MIM to GRS, exploiting DFSMS, DFHSM, EAV DASD, and VSAM advantages.
• Participated in, and supported both the mainframe upgrades of the z/9's to z/10's, and the z/OS upgrade from z/OS 1.9 to 1.11.
• Installed DB2, IMS, and CICS upgrades and maintenance, as well as program product, vendor software, tools, utilities, and performance products.
• Installed and implemented instantaneous hot DASD mirroring software systems, configurations, synchronization, and production implementation between the Chicago and Green Bay data centers in preparation for the move of all production processing to Green Bay, and the conversion to a hot DR data center site for the Chicago data center.
• Mainframe systems programming support, and senior level consulting, on the further development, selection, and system software installation preparation, for a new off-site corporate DR data center.
• Contributed to the selection and configuration of the DR data center, to insure the mirroring of the capacity and capability of the infrastructure environment, to be sufficiently capable to handle all corporate data center requirements.
• Provided SME technical knowledge of mainframe computer systems, IBM z/OS operating systems, related systems software and hardware.
• Provided expertise in the installation, configuration, testing, and maintenance of computer and network operating systems, related software, and hardware components.
• Assisted with the establishment of technical direction, and deployment strategy of related technology. Working efficiently with multiple teams to encompass current and projected needs, and establish initiatives to support those needs, to ensure proper systems operations, and implement proactive

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• measures to ensure availability, reliability, and performance goals, so they are consistently met. Participate in on-call rotation for 24x7x365 support per schedule requirements.
• Environment: Main corporate consolidated data center with new strategically remote DR data center , running multiple parallel Sysplex complexes, on z/Series z/9 System Images, running z/0S v1.9, JES2, SMP/E, DB2 v8, TMON, sysplex communications, Mobius, Mainstar/Dino
• tools, ICF migrations, MQ WebSphere, IBM VTS-virtual tape, HDS USP SAN Storage, IBM DFSMS and DFHSM environment, EAV DASD, VSAM, VTAM, TCP/IP, TSO/ISPF, various vendor software tools and utilities.
• Diabold Corp, Akron, OH, Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer . Provided z/OS, and z/VSE, systems programming support. Primarily resolving multiple z/VSE systems programming issues, and supporting the development of a hot, lights out, remote DR backup site, for their z/VSE systems.
• Confidential Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer As part of the z/OS DB2 System Programming technical support team in support of the DB2 DBA Staff, and as a part of the Enterprise Data Management group, I provided technical support on all Tech, Non-Prod, and Production systems, and data center systems software, and provided problem determination and resolution for problem issues.
• Installed, activated, and implemented DB2 RTS Real Time Statistics across all Tech,
• Non-Prod, and Prod DB2 Database systems, environments, and Data Sharing Groups.
• Updated and implemented DB2 Catalog and Directory ReOrg Recovery across all Tech, Non-Prod, and Production DB2 Database systems and data sharing groups.
• Installed and implemented DB2 HPU High Performance Unload across all DB2 Database systems and environments
• Installed latest maintenance, and completely reconfigured Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PE, to bring product service level current, and correct previous product configuration problems and issues, and recreated new RTE's, and Started tasks.
• Assisted in the implementation of z/OS v1.10 across all remaining Data Centers, Sysplex complexes, and remaining system images, still running z/OS v1.8.
• Supported and assisted in roll out of the latest maintenance level of DB2 v8.10, across all remaining DB2 Database system environments and data sharing groups.

Environment: Three geographically dispersed Data Centers, running multiple parallel Sysplex complexes, on z/Series z/10 System Images, running z/0S v1.8 v1.10, JES2, SMP/E, DB2 v8, Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PE, DB2 HPU, IBM DB2 Tools, SQL/PA, Buffer Pool Analyzer, Log Analyzer, DB2 RTS, WebSphere MQ, BMC DB2 Tools/Utilities, Top Secret, CICS/TS, DFSMS, DFHSM, EAV DASD, IBM HDS EMC storage, VSAM, VTAM, TCP/IP, Connect Direct, TSO/ISPF, SMS, COBOL, various vendor software tools and utilities.

• For various clients of an outsourcing company, Nov. 2008 June 2009, ensured total compliance and operating efficiencies for variety of software systems, including z/OS, CICS TS, IMS v7, v8, DB2, DB2 UDB v7, v8, SQL, IBM HDS EMS SAN Storage systems, SMP/E, MQ Series, JCL, ZEKE, VTAM SNA Networks, TCP/IP and numerous client and vendor supplied PTFs. Ran tests, identified issues, implementing timely required changes, reduced batch processing times utilizing Strobe to identify performance optimization opportunities within existing application code while maintaining service level delivery schedules.
• Delta Dental Plan of Michigan, which had acquired a federal government contract to provide benefits to
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• Create new LPAR for new Federal Systems requirements, and customized to Federal Systems Audit Specifications.
• Install new z/OS 1.9 operating system, in new Federal System LPAR, and all sub-systems, database systems, IBM, and other vendor software systems, and products, mirroring all systems, and software licensed on existing company Production systems LPARs, at new version and release levels, compatible with new z/OS 1.9 systems.
• Customize all Federal Systems LPAR software definitions, and system parameters, for specific compliance with all Federal Systems Adult specifications, and requirements.
• Upgrade existing company Production Systems LPARs to new z/OS 1.9 release levels, and reinstall and upgrade all subsequent software versions and release levels for compliance and compatibility with new operating system version, while maintaining existing z/OS 1.4 Production LPAR, until new Production LPAR is ready for production turn over.
• Environment: z/0S 1.4 1.9, JES2, SMP/E, IDMS, Top Secret, CICS TS, VTAM, TCP/IP, OSA, TSO, DFHSM, DFSMS, COBOL, various vendor software tools and utilities.
• Tenneco, Lincolnshire, IL, Contract Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer, Aug. 2007 Jan 2008.
• Maintain existing production mainframe system data center environment z/OS 1.4, and production IDMS database systems.
• Install and upgrade various outdated and unsupported software systems product to highest supported versions and releases compatible with existing Z/OS 1.4 operating systems environment.
• Monitor and support existing production systems, and maintain and improve system performance service levels, and performance matrix deliveries.
• Provide technical support on all production systems, and data center systems software, and provide problem determination and resolution for all problem issues, as they arise.
• Provide technical systems consultation on all new systems development definition and planning.
• Environment: z/OS 1.4, IDMS, CICS TS, SMP/E, TSO, RACF, STK Tape systems silo, and VTS systems, data sharing, EMC Storage, DASD mirroring systems software products DR support products, various vendor software tools and utilities.

Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer

• As part of the Mainframe Network support team, support installation and migration of new client system image LPARs, from external system image located in NJ, into Acxiom's outsourcing Co's Downers Grove, IL, data center parallel sysplex complex.
• Install all required mainframe network software, systems and sub-systems, VTAM, SNA/SNI, TCP/IP, OSA adaptors, create, generate, and load, 3745 NCP, EE connections, and all other communications systems connection support, and install and upgrade Mainframe Omegamon products.
• As part of the mainframe CICS and Database software support team, supported, maintained, and administered all versions and releases of CICS, CICS TS, DB2, DB2 UDB, IMS, IDMS, their various supporting third party vendor products, software, tools and utilities, for all various clients, across all of their various LPARs , and system images, throughout the parallel sysplex complex, and across multiple Acxiom data centers around the country.
• Provide daily customer technical support of all client production and development software systems running on Acxiom LPARs, system images, parallel sysplex complexes, and data centers throughout the country.

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Participate and support all project management meetings and assignments, both internal and client project management meetings.

Environment: z/OS 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, z/VM, IMS v6.1, v7.1, v8.1, v9.1, DB2 DB2 UDB V7, V8, V9, IDMS, CICS, CICS TS, MQ SERIES, TMON, ZEKE, DFSMS, DFHSM, EAV DASD, IBM HDS EMC SAN/NAS storage systems, VSAM, VTAM, NCP, SNA/SNI, OSA, EE, Websphere MQ, Omegamon, SMP/E, Endevor, EMC Storage, BMC products, CA products, Compuware products, and various other vendor tools, and utilities.

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Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer

• As part of the Database Software Systems Technical support team, provided complete database software systems technical support of all company IMS and DB2 database environments, and administration of the CICS TS transaction processing system.
• Provided 24/7 on call technical support of all company CICS TS, IMS, and DB2 production environment database systems and software, IMS production systems were v8, DB2 production systems were v7.
• Provided all scheduled maintenance, version, and release installations of all supporting IBM, and other third party vendor products, tools, and utilities for CICS, IMS, and DB2 database software environments, as well as the same for the base IMS and DB2 database systems.
• Installed and supported the upgrade of IMS to v9, and DB2 to v8, and all subsequent supporting tools, software, and utilities.
• Removed and cleaned up the remaining elements, files, and libraries of the previous versions of IMS and DB2, IMS v7, and DB2 v6.
• Environment: z/OS 1.7, IMS v7, v8, v9, DB2 DB2 UDB v6, v7, v8, CICS, CICS TS, TSO, SMP/E, various IMS and DB2 IBM, and other vendor software, tools, and utilities.
• Primary technical systems support for the data center standardization and consolidation project to bring two external system images into the MetLife data center parallel sysplex complex, while upgrading and expanding that sysplex complex to handle the absorption of the processing capacity of those two additional system images.
• Responsible for providing continuous capacity planning, and expansion system processing requirements as we tested, and absorbed, the Production, QA, and Development LPARs for both external system images into the sysplex complete throughout the project, and providing future processing capacity needs for handling upcoming and future month-end, quarter-end, and year-end throughput capacity demands and requirements.
• Provided continuous systems performance tailoring and tuning of existing and new systems throughout the standardization and consolidation project, and performance matrix reporting at all project milestone points, to corporate board executive meetings.
• Recommended and architected a CICSplex environment for managing and administrating the various CICS regions running production, development, and preproduction QA systems throughout the multiple system images within the sysplex complex. Including the adaptation of various CICS MRO environments throughout the complex, transparently replacing more inefficient previously non-CICS MRO regions, resulting in a more stable and efficient transaction processing environment.
• Participated and supported newly standardized application systems testing and monitored transaction processing execution identifying application processing bottlenecks and performance degradation though use of Strobe and QA-Hyperstaion to identify application code problems.

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Environment: z/OS 1.7, CICS TS, IMS, DB2, STK IBM VTS Virtual Tape, TSO, SMP/E, Strobe, QA-Hyperstation, IBM EMC SAN/NAS storage systems, BMC mainframe capacity planning tools and utilities, RMF, SMF, Omegamon, IBM, and various vendor software, products, tools, and utilities.

Other contract projects, completed in previous years, for various other client companies.

core competencies

• Hardware: IBM z/Series, ES9000, 309X, 308X, 303X, 43XX, AS400, 370, 360 IBM PC/XT/AT/PS2 DEC VAX PDP 11 NAS/HDS AS/XL Series, AS/VL Series, AS/EX Series, 9X00, 8800 Amdahl V6, V7, V8, 5995-1400A, 5995-4550M Unisys/Burroughs 6700, 6800, 7700, 7800 and various other vendors.
• Software: z/OS OS/390 MVS/ESA MVS/XA MVS/SP OS/JCL z/VM VM/ESA VM/XA VM/SP HPO VM/370 z/VSE VSE/ESA DOS/VSE DOS/VS DOS/MVT DOS CPM CMS REXX OS/2 UNIX UNIX USS Assembler Cobol PL/I Fortran RPGII JCL System Utilities DMS II DL/I IMS DB/DC IDMS DB2 DB2 UDB SQL SQL/DS Total Culprit Focus DFDSS DFSMS DFHSM SDSF Easytrieve Sync Sort DYL-260 Quickjob EXCP Endevor LISTCAT Plus Task/Master EMC Storage Tivoli Storage Management Systems Roscoe ICCF ISPF Omegamon TMON TSO CL/Supersession TPX Librarian Panvalet Power AbendAid APPC Xpediter DFast JES2 JES3 SAM BSAM ISAM QSAM QISAM VSAM QTAM Virtual Tape TCAM BTAM ACF/VTAM VTAM/NCP CICS/VS CICS TS MQ Series FileAid Websphere MQ ACF/NCP/VS NCCF OCCF NPDA NPM NCCF/TAF SNA Netview JES/2 JES/3 RACF QA Hiperstation ACF2 SMP-4 SMP/E SMF RMF CLISTS BEST/1 R-PLUS Strobe IPCS INFO/SYS INFO/MVS IBMLINK INFO/Access IBM DB2 and IMS Database Utilities QUICKREF/MVS MS Office MS Word MS Excel MS Project MS Visio Compuware Systems Products BMC Systems Products Legent Systems Products Candle Corp. Products TMON Products Sterling Software Products Platinum Technology Products Computer Associates Products.
• Technical Skills: MIS Management Project Management Operations Management Comm. Phys. Specs Comm. Systems Design Comm. Modification Data Base Design Data Base Management Data Base Administration Hardware Conversions Hardware Configurations Hardware Evaluation Capacity Planning Performance Tuning Production Support Installation Auditing Procedure Development Marketing Budgeting / Costing Scheduling Systems Analysis System Design Systems Generation Systems Installation Systems Maintenance Systems Testing Technical Assistance Tracking Forecasting Training User Presentation Sales Presentations Sales/Sales Support Software Conversions Software Selection Software Evaluations Spec. Writing Standards Development Feasibility Studies Purchasing Security.
• Programming: Systems Applications On-line Batch Real-Time Structured.
• Industry Expertise: Banking / Financial Marketing Insurance Manufacturing Distribution Sales Analysis Retail Software Development Utilities Accounting Payroll / Personnel Order Entry Educational Health Care.