SUMMARY:

• Over thirty years of D Confidential Processing experience, twenty - nine with Confidential Extensive IMS and z/OS skills including SMP/E, DFSMS and Parallel Sysplex.
• Specialist in IMS System Programming and D Confidential Base Administration, mainframe Quality Assurance, performance, test, benchmarking, IMSPlex, Parallel Sysplex D Confidential Sharing, TPNS testing.
• Performance tuning and technical reports published for IMS, Sysplex, DFSMS, z/OS and DASD. Fully versed with SMP/E, TSO/ISPF, JCL and Utilities plus vendor tools from CA, Confidential and NEON.
• Extensive IMS experience creating, testing and automating IMS Tools utilities. Development experience with Cobol, PL/1, APL and some Assembler. Five year International assignment supporting Confidential Parallel Sysplex introduction programs in Europe.
• Worldwide IMS technical experience. On site customer IMS DBA and Sysprog assignments include CCB Bank in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Wal-Mart in Bentonville, AR; ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands; Barclays Bank in Manchester, UK; Standard and ABSA Banks in South Africa; Ford in Detroit; FedEx in Memphis; CSX in Jacksonville. Technical support and to Independent Software Vendors for IMS and DB2 early product introduction programs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

In March 2012 I joined FirstBank in Lakewood IMS DBA and System Programming are my primary responsibilities.Daily use of BMC IMS Tools including DB Advisor. Regular TMON IMS monitoring plus Mainview, Omegamon and IMS PA used during product trials. Completed projects include Resident PSB migration to increase PSB scheduling capacity and reported performance gains; Developed a program to automate the deletion of expired IMS Archive Logs (SLDSP&S); Development code reviews and Architecture planning and recommendations; Regular PSB build and dynamic addition to IMS systems; Sysgen, service PTF review.

Senior Mainframe IMS and DB Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A three month IMS heath assessment as part of an overall Confidential software and hardware assessment for confidential in Columbus, Ohio.
• D Confidential Center consolidation project for WellPoint Healthcare. IMS and IDMS support for the ongoing mass move of four major WellPoint Confidential centers to the new consolidated site in St. Louis, MO. Responsible for IMS and IDMS D Confidential Base and system migration from each center, customer support and problem resolution during the cut over, operational and procedural update and turnover with to WellPoint production support. This project was completed successfully to rave reviews from WellPoint and Confidential on 10/26/2011.Senior z/OS and IMS Performance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• From March through June 2010 I did contract work for WellPoint Healthcare as a z/OS Performance Engineer. Extensive performance and tuning in a z/OS 4-way Sysplex. Daily use of BMC
• Mainview, MXG and SAS for performance analysis and report generation. Monitor and correct performance bottlenecks and slow downs. Review new development projects and assess the impact of new code on the existing production sysplex. IMS and DB2 D Confidential Sharing environment tuning including deadlock analysis and IRLM tuning and MQ Queue Depth monitoring.

Principal IMS Specialist/Quality Assurance

• Joined CA ins an IMS QA/Sysprog/DBA engineer. Extensive IMS DBA work including PSB, DBD, ACBGEN, DBRC and RECONs, IMS Tools for image copy, recovery, pointer checker, batch and online reorganization (OLR). Workload development including D Confidential Base design, creation, test and validation. Built a 2-way IMSPlex (parallel sysplex d Confidential and queue sharing) for production testing. Wrote and managed the latest IMS Tools release test plan.
• Experienced with CA products including VIEW, SYSVIEW, PDSMAN, TLMS, and ACF2.Joined Mainframe Integrated System Test (MIST) team in January 2009 as an IMS and z/OS Specialist to implement large system wide test effort to validate the CA software product stack running together with batch and online customer like workloads. Presented CA IMS Tools to the SHARE user group.

Senior IMS Software Consultant/DBA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• , joined NEON as a senior software consultant supporting pre and post sales. Many on-site visits with customer executives and technical staff (IMS DBA and Sysprogs). Customer conference and IMS User groups presentations with an IMS Sysprog, DBA and Tools focus. Proposed, planned and implemented a new IMS managed service offering: iServe. Served as IMS
• DBA and Sysprog for several IMS customer shops supporting IMS production systems. Install and customize NEON IMS Tools and educate customer DBA’s on product usage. Owned the customer demo system and did performance benchmarks comparing Confidential and NEON IMS Tool performance.

Santa Teresa Lab IMS Development Advisory Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• assumed IMS Performance, DBA, Sysprog and test responsibility for the Confidential Poughkeepsie z/OS Consolidated Service Test (CST). Full extensive System wide test of Confidential hardware and software including scenario validation. Production workload support, TPNS stress testing and script modification, problem investigation, new test case and workload development, cross product problem investigation, and IMS and z/OS release migration.

IMS Development Advisory Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Joined the DBRC Development team as a function tester and customer support representative. Developed and supported test cases to validate DBRC facilities under IMS. Extensive testing of IMS V9 line item HALDB Online Reorganization (OLR).

AR Advisory Programmer

• On site IMS DBA for one year. Taught HALDB to customer DBA’s and converted a large production d Confidential base to HALDB and set up the test cases for validation. Trained customer staff, ran daily problem and change control meetings and supported on site IMS related critsits, customer and events. Customer issues significantly reduced during this assignment.
• Confidential Santa Teresa Lab Advisory Programmer

France Senior International Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Ran technical z/OS Parallel Sysplex customer briefings at the Executive Briefing Center for large European customers and emerging nations (Slovenia, Slovakia, Belarus, Ukraine). Customer and help with critical problems including performance and tuning: Bank of Austria, LaCaixa in Barcelona and five other Banks in Spain. On site customer for IMS Parallel
• Sysplex D Confidential Sharing. On site IMS and DB2 Parallel Sysplex customer support and DBA including Standard Bank and ABSA in South Africa, Victoria Insurance and Deutsche Telecom in Germany. Presented at EMEA customer parallel sysplex sessions in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Brussels. Ran and presented two large Parallel Sysplex customer conferences in
• Le Corum, Montpellier. Confidential Senior International Support Specialist

IMS Performance and Test Advisory Programmer

• Joined the IMS performance team and conducted several performance studies and presented results at customer and Confidential conferences. Path length studies and analysis yielded improvements in IMS performance and close interaction with IMS development module owners. Also used San Jose DASD and D Confidential Facilities software experience to improve the team's system build and restore techniques which reduced nightly setup time and permitted increased testing efforts during extensive hands on native mainframe testing. Confidential San Jose Performance Evaluation Lab Advisory Programmer

Software Lab Senior Associate Programmer

Responsibilities:

• System programmer and IMS specialist for internal Confidential IMS and CICS software packages, workload development and customer support. Extensive SMP/E build and test experience. During this assignment learned the Confidential software package and delivery process. Confidential World Trade Americas/Fare East Headquarters Associate Programmer

Information Systems Senior Operator

Responsibilities:

• One year in Computer Operation (9 months as lead operator). Operated and oversaw the 4-way JES3 mainframe production complex. Developed several programs to automate various operations activities. Moved to Change Control and Problem Management Lead and conducted daily status meetings with I/S management. Reader's Digest DP Systems Lead
• Operator/Junior Developer
• Worked in Computer Operations for 2 years (promoted to senior lead operator after one year) and one year as an application programmer writing and supporting COBOL and Assembler programs.