Systems Engineer Resume
Summary
- More than 32 years of experience in IT
- Last 17 years as consultant for vendor companies
- Vast knowledge in many areas :
- Workload Automation
- Systems programming
- Data center operations and monitoring
- Application programming
- Application support
- Database administration
- Systems support
- Expert in REXX/ISPF coding and willing to learn new languages
- At ease with internet, client/server, networking technologies
- Outstanding analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills
- Quick learner
- Maintains very good rapport with customers
- Dedicated, focused on customer satisfaction.
Since May of 2012 Confidential – Senior Consultant – Pre Sales
- Pre-sales product presentations and proof of concepts
2003-2012 Confidential, Senior Product Consultant
- Successfully converted scheduling systems to CA-ESP WLM at Verizon, Sprint, Bombardier, Lord & Taylor, Bank of New York and AllState.
- Wrote many useful product extensions and utilities to speed up the conversion process. (REXX ISPF)
- Provide support to product consultants performing scheduling software conversions at customer sites.
- Responsible for the creation and maintenance of conversion tools
Note : Cybermation was acquired by CA in 2006
2003 Confidential (Toronto, Ontario)
(July–Oct) Capacity Planning analyst
- Development of Capacity Planning measurements procedures for a distributed environment using SQL.
2001-2003 Confidential, Senior consultant (as contractor)
1997-2001 Confidential, Senior consultant (as employee)
- Lead consultant for CL/Supersession.
- Conversions of "session managers” to CL/Supersession.
- Provide formal and informal training to customers.
- Installation and customization of Candle products at customer sites located across North America on both mainframe and distributed platforms. (Omegamon for NT/2000, MVS, DB2, CICS, IMS, VTAM, MQSeries, Candle Command Center, CandelNet Portal, ETEWatch, Eba, Intelliwatch (Lotus notes), CL/Supersession)
- Pre-sales product presentations and pilots coordination on both mainframe and distributed products (UNIX, Windows 2000, NT, etc.)
- Assist account representative.
- Special award: Received “America’s consultant of the year” award for 1999. (Among 100 consultants)
1995-1996 Confidential, Systems Engineer
- CL/Supersession R&D : Development of the Profile Reporting small programming enhancement (SPE) and resolve product problems (PTF creation)
- Customer Support Center : Level 1, 2 and 3 support for CL/Supersession.
1991-1995 Confidential, Systems Programmer
- Ensure day to day operations of more than 120 CICS systems.
- DB2 support.
- Support the help desk, computer operations and application personnel in resolving technical problems.
- Installation and support of Candle products : CL/Supersession, Omegamon for CICS, IMS, DB2, Status Monitor, Omegaview.
- Wrote many CL/Supersession enhancements which have helped improve CL/SS users\' productivity. These enhancements are still heavily in use today.
1989-1991 Confidential, Database Analyst
- DB2: Database design and implementation, Security set up.
- IDMS: Maintenance of legacy systems.
- General support for: CICS, DB2, SQL, Cobol, Clist, JCL, ISPF.
1985-1989 Confidential, Programmer Analyst
(Technical support group)
- Development of the Work Equipment Information System using COBOL-IDMS-CICS
- General CICS support on the application side.
- Provide quality assurance and application testing using TPNS scripting.
- Assist the IDMS database administrator.
- Plan and control all production jobs for the engineering group.
- Provide technical support to programmers in the following: JCL, ISPF,TSO,Cobol, VSAM, VTAM, CICS, Clist. Also, on the PC: IBM compatible, DOS, PC software, Local area network.
Special assignment: Designed and programmed a system that manages an application running on 15 LANs spread across the country. This included the automatic control of a DBMS and automatic upload/download of data to/from the mainframe.
1980-1984 Confidential, Data center operator
Education
- MQSeries Administration
- wo years of sciences at college
Bilingual
English and French