Senior Information Recovery Engineer Resume Dallas, Texas - Hire IT People

Professional Profile

Dedicated professional with extensive experience in Information Technology specializing in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery / Contingency Planning. Self-motivated to work “outside the box” on “what-if” circumstances arising from Disaster scenarios. An innovative thinker, consistently pursuing results-oriented challenges and focused on getting the job done correctly. Functional expertise includes:

Disaster Recovery
Business Impact Analysis
Security Administration
Data Security Design and Control
Contingency Planning
Risk Analysis
Systems Design and Analysis
Business Continuity Planning

Technical Skills

DRManager, DR/Xpert, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CA1, CA1-ISPF, CA7, CA11, ZEKE, ZACK, ZEBB, ZARA, ChangeMan, NDM, Connect-Direct, RACF, ACF2, Large IBM or IBM Compatible Mainframes, Microsoft Windows/XP, Word, & Excel

Professional Experience

Confidential, Dallas, Texas 2001 - 2009

Senior Information Technology Disaster Recovery Engineer

Designed, developed and maintained the entire Disaster Recovery/Contingency Planning function for the Dallas Information Technology office of American General Life Companies.

Highly recognized in the area of Disaster Recovery/Contingency Planning for having developed the “plan” used in a live disaster.
Structured Disaster Recovery guidelines and set up job streams for 23 different applications to include financial, marketing and insurance applications using IBM’s software package DRManager.
Created Disaster Table-Top exercises for eleven (11) of the “Tier 1” mainframe applications so that the IT staff could become aware of the deficiencies within their applications in a disaster mode.
In the Open Systems applications environment, assisted in launching the “replicating” SAN DASD for five (5) of the Tier 1 applications within the DR1 Data Center located in Ft. Worth, TX.
Provided two disaster drills per year to test full open systems and mainframe disaster scenarios; five of the last eight being successful.
Installed OpenTech Systems’ software package DR/Xpert used in the last Disaster Recovery Drill in July 2009.
Trained and consulted American General Life Companies’ personnel on the DR/Xpert system.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas 1997 – 2000

Applications Support Consultant at Bank of America and Sprint

Provided the daily abend control of the production applications systems for both Sprint and Bank of America and as a consultant, performed other duties needed within their respective locations.
Monitored daily production application cycles and corrected problems in both online and batch.
Modified, maintained and tested JCL, Copybooks and Source Code (COBOL and DYL280)
Provided the Language Environment testing and implementation for the Y2K Compliance.
Developed documentation for new employees concerning the Trust Accounting System.
Conducted the Accounts Receivable Rewrite testing and implementation.

Additional Work Experience

Confidential, Consultant, Confidential, Dallas, Texas 1995 - 1997
Confidential, Consultant / Instructor, Arlington, Texas 1993 - 1995
Confidential, Consultant, San Angelo, Texas 1992 - 1993
Sprint, Consultant, Irving, Texas 1991 - 1992

Professional Development

Contingency Planning Management: Business Impact Analysis
Disaster Recovery Institute: Risk Assessment / Business Continuity Planning
HSH National Management: Disaster Recovery / Contingency Planning / Security Administration / Systems Design and Analysis / Data Security Design and Control
Strohl Systems: Living Disaster Recovery Planning Systems / LDPRS
Serena: PVCS Version Manager Administration
Compliance and Ethics Education: Diversity at Work / Antitrust
Themis Inc: SQL Fundamentals
Dallas County Community Colleges: Mid-Management Applications / Business Management

Education

Computer Science - Confidential, Arlington, Texas
Computer Science - Confidential, Dallas Metroplex, Texas
Business Management/Computer Science Option - Confidential, Jackson, Mississippi
Computer Science - Confidential, Poplarville, Mississippi
Graduation Diploma - Confidential, Bassfield, Mississippi

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