OBJECTIVE:

• Engineering or architecture position in Information Technology team able to add value to environment using enterprise class servers, High Availability, and solid business practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Business Management

Responsibilities:

• Completed program through online program independently. Finished with 98% average. Topics included budgeting, personnel management, general business knowledge, and economics

Confidential, Zanesville, OH

Finance/Chemical Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Completed 3 years which included economics, communications, calculus, chemistry, and liberal arts studies.

Confidential, Byesville, OH

Managing Partner/Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managing partner for Information Management and iSeries specific consulting practice. Handles outsourcing of staff in iSeries platform and infrastructure management. Application design and support for all information governance activites.

Confidential

Consultant/System i Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of System i engineering team. All hardware and operating system support tasks, including system builds, upgrades, and enhancements. Project Management for large scalability and tech refresh projects. Responsible for managing role swaps for DR and application validation efforts. Worked with Mimix V7, Enterprise, and Mimix Global for iASP and SYSBAS replication, plus downstream replication of multiple systems. Experience with BRMS, Robot/Save, LTO, Mimix, V5R4, V6R1, V7R1, i7(770), iDoctor, Job Watcher, DB2, Performance Tools, RxClaim, Performance Navigator, DS8800 SAN, ServiceNow, VIOS.

Confidential

Consultant/Infosphere Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for upgrade of Infosphere CDC environment for iSeries and SQL Server to latest version. Installation, upgrade, architecture review for client and providing best practices, documentation, and forward - looking architecture statements. Infosphere CDC was on SQL 2000 and 2005 in a clustered and non-clustered node installation. Responsible for all troubleshooting and problem management with vendor on product.

Confidential

Consultant/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as part of large iSeries support team for 3rd party application upgrades, PTF’s, and operating system upgrades. Experience with Robot, ConnectDirect, Pentasafe, HMC, DB2. Monitored Mimix replication and resynced objects, and responded to object and file entry errors.

Confidential

Data Integration Architect/Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for entire buildout and management of IBM Business Partner relationship for company. Complete authority of direction of IBM customers including marketing, products and service direction, and recruiting, and business development. Created new rural onshoring center in Southeastern Ohio to provide outsourcing to IT functions based in US rather than outside the country. Experience working with startup functions, budgeting, sales and associated collateral, working with government officials at all levels, and daily management of business.

Confidential

Consultant/Data Management Architect

Responsibilities:

• Member of production support of Infosphere CDC(DataMirror) environment for large client. Helped client move from older version 6.0 and 6.3 to 6.5. Installation of product and Access Manager on Unix and Windows servers. Reviewed and setup new mappings for replication requests including creation and management of tables within Oracle. Set standards and provided product support during migrations to new data center environment. Management Console, Access Server, Oracle 10g RAC, DB2, Solaris Unix, iSeries, i5, AS/400

Confidential

Consultant/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Member of Global Services Strategic Outsourcing team. Responsible for supporting 6 large customer accounts. All hardware and operating system support tasks, including system builds, upgrades, and enhancements. Experience with BRMS, LTO, Mimix, V5R4, V6R1, i5(520/570/595), iDoctor, DB2. Websphere MQ, WWTS, and HMC configuration and updates, iSeries, i5, AS/400. Install of Mimix Enterprise and setup of all data groups and ran audits periodically to ensure completeness of environment.

Confidential

Consultant/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of Large Midrange Systems Engineering group responsible for all iSeries support and maintenance. Oncall support rotation. Worked independently of normal office structure. Migration of systems to i5 hardware. Experience with BRMS, LXI, HMC, LTO tape library, V5R3M5, DB2, Performance Navigator, DBMon, Vision, iSeries, i5, AS/400. Installation and configuration of Mimix between systems and responsible for coordinating role swaps and testing efforts.

Confidential

Consultant/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Member of Global Services Strategic Outsourcing team which includes consolidating 110 server images with HA pairs. Primary system administrator doing remote support for all systems for customer. Experience with BRMS, i595, HMC, LTO tape drive, DB2, iDoctor, DBMon, Visual Explain, V5R3, WWTS, iTera for High Availability, iSeries, i5, AS/400.

Confidential

Consultant/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities at client included support of iSeries systems for company. This includes administrator support, OS maintenance, sizing and performance, SOX, and security. Also responsible for MAPICS, DBMon, MQ Series, RJE, Tibco, Aldon, MKS Implementer, Robot applications. Responsibilities for setting direction of platform, system consolidation and upgrades, for other team members. Experience with i5 systems both stand-alone and with HMC, iSeries,DB2, i5, AS/400, PM/400, Performance Navigator.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Was the Mimix administrator during the implementation of High Availability. Installed, configured, and supported Mimix during this time. Met with application developers to test Mimix with their programs and to develop role swap procedures. Performed weekly and bi-weekly test and production role swaps on all production environments successfully. Trained engineering staff on proper monitoring of Mimix. Managed the move of the backup systems to partitions and utilized role swaps to increase workload on systems during month end processing. Created CL programs to assist with role swap issues such as system name changing and comparison reports. Installed software patches and upgrades to Mimix nodes and testing use of Mimix browser for GUI interface.
• Oversee monitoring of data center servers and processes. Reported to manager on status of incidents as well as the progress of junior operators. Trained all new operators. Created and sent the morning status reports to all management outlining the issues from the previous day.
• Assisted customers in 24 divisional facilities with support for printing, job control, printing, and issue escalation. Created notes and problem tickets using both Lotus Notes and Clarify to track problems and provide reports.
• Performed all full system saves on iSeries systems as well as HP3000 systems. Assisted engineering team with weekend tasks as per their instructions.
• Experience with IBM 3490, 3480, and 3590 tape drives, Novell NetWare, Windows 95 & 98, Lotus Notes, SiteScan, Microsoft Office 97, BRMS, HP3000.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all batch processing of credit and other sensitive information. Maintained processing logs, escalated programming problems, first line support for credit bureaus. Ran backups and Lawson accounting jobs on AS/400 system. Monitored for completion and placed tapes in offsite cases for delivery. Ran mainframe batch processing and escalated to Production Control analysts when issues occurred.
• Experience with MVS, OS390, AS/400, Sun servers, HP 3000, Unix, Windows 95 & 98, IBM 3590, 3490, & 3480 tape drives. Performed LAN backups on Novell NetWare and operating Veritas backups on an STK tape robot.

Confidential, Zanesville, OH

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Oversee accurate recording of investment activity including purchase accounting and FASB 115 adjustments. Monitored investment safekeeping and disbursement of funds. Maintenance of profitability and internal reporting systems. Development of necessary data to complete annual budget. Created financial analysis reports using FoxPro database and Excel spreadsheets.

Confidential

Night Systems Operator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for processing on midrange system, reporting, created and maintained databases to measure workload, time, compliance, and costs, and maintained DR site. Acted as AS/400 and Windows support for end users. Other experience includes IBM 3570 tape drives, Jack Henry Silverlake, Novell NetWare, IVR system, printer maintenance, nightly issues.
• Reported issues with daily processing. Assisted administrators with full saves, upgrades, and PTF loads.

Confidential, Derwent, OH

Shipping & Receiving; Engineering Drafter

Responsibilities:

• Warehouse shipping and receiving, control and inventory, ISO 9000.
• Creating engineering drawings, checked state codes, job activity reports, and vendor contact. MS Office, AutoCAD 12, Novell and Intergraph Microstation.