SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Multi - platform Systems Engineer/Analyst with many years of experience consulting large organizations as a Senior Systems Programmer involving Large Servers, Mainframe Centric Infrastructure, Systems Administration of z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2 or ISV software, Operations, Support, Performance Analysis, Server Capacity Management, ITIL Change Control, and Data Analytics.
• Extensive experience in Systems Programming (MVS z/OS, CICS, DB2, IMS, third party products).
• Extensive experience in mainframe hardware installation and configuration(SMP/E, SMP, ITIL), disaster recovery and recovery restart.
• Extensive experience in Project Management MS/Project Cascade SDLC, Operations Change Control and ITIL methodologies.
• Extensive experience in Performance and Capacity Planning, Monitoring and Reporting. Data Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ABENDAID MVS / CICS / IMS
• Sharepoint
• CA1, CA7, CA11
• CICS & CICS/TS, CAFC
• DB2, SQL SPUFI, QM, DB2 tools, & QMF
• SMP, SMP/E, SMF, CMF
• XPEDITER MVS, IMS, CICS, & Dev Ent
• HCD, HSM, IOCDS
• IMS DB/ DC, VSAM, IDCAMS, DB2
• JES2 & JES3, JCL, MVS, Zos, z/OS
• Data Analytics, Statistical Analysis
• LPAR, SYSPLEX, HCD, WLM
• Remedy Change Control Management
• MXG, CA MICS, ASG PERFMAN
• Numerous ISV Software Support SMP, SMPE, SMP/E
• OMEGAMON CICS, IMS, DB2, MVS
• Project management, team building, Leadership, Team Leadership
• RACF, ACF2, TOPSECRET
• REXX, PL1, COBOL, HTML XML LE370
• RMF, SMF
• Chg control SCLM, Serena, Endeavor
• ITIL, SDLC, Cascade
• SAS EG mainframe, AIX, Windows
• SMP/E, SMP
• HSM/SMS management and ISMF
• STROBE DB2, MVS, Z/os, batch
• Tivoli CICS, IMS performance reporter
• TCPIP, NCP, VTAM
• TMON CICS, IMS, DB2, MVS
• TSO, ISPF, ISHELL, IPCS
• UNIX, AIX, OMVS, OS400 z/OS VM and windows VM
• ACCESS, EXCEL, FTP, PowerPoint, SAS, Word. Visio, MS Project
• Mainframe workbench GUI
• Windows, AIX, UNX, VIPA, Load Balancers, Web Services, Page Managers, SAS, VM, Web Logic, Load runner, Websphere, IIS, DB2 connect, JVM, Tomcat, TCPIP, and JBOSS
• Business Experience with Finance, Banking, Manufacturing, Retail, Insurance, Pharmacy and Automotive
• Data Warehouses, Pre and Post Sales, Technical Sales Support, Warehouse, Accounting, Technical Trainer Speaker/Educator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Analyst, Mainframe Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performance Analysis, monitoring and reporting of Mainframe resources for application and hardware changes in a highly distributed application environment. Mainframe services monitored CICS, MQ, CTG, DB2, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, WLM, LPAR and SYSPLEX.
• Maintained/Created Test reports using the following tools: SAS EG, Excel, JCL, 24X7 Scheduler, SMF, MXG, Sharepoint, Remedy Change Control.
• Test preparation using Endeavor, CA7, Remedy, JCL, REXX, FTP, QMF, SPUFI, TSO, JCL, CA DB2 Platinum, CICS, DB2, ETL, and IBM Data Studio.

Confidential

Testing Center resource coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and report LPAR availability and coordinate maintenance windows for the highest priority application project for the Corporation.
• Maintained/Created Test Environment platform Release reports SAS, Excel, and Access.
• Analyzed Mainframe database backup and D/R information for management.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Analyst and Capacity

Responsibilities:

• DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, Batch, LPAR, SYSPLEX, and z/OS performance data analysis.
• Monitor, Analyze and report mainframe resource consumption using MXG performance statistics repository with SAS, JCL, TSO, SDSF, SPUFI, DB2 PLATINUM and Excel.
• Support IT application problem determination of COBOL, IMS, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MQ,
• JCL, TSO, DB2 applications.
• Modeled and Analyzed Data work flows SDLC, Cascade, Endeavor, Remedy, CA7, WLM.
• Work closely with software applications development, QA, Prod Support, and IT Operations teams to resolve issues and make recommendations.
• Recovered 400K annual resource expenses and several performance improvement issues.
• Created a repository of SAS report jobs, programs, and report archival areas.
• Healthcare IT (HIT) Insurance environment.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and supported testing environments CICS/TS, IMS, and DB2 Confidential software products using SMP or SMP/E. Also Windows, SQL Server, WAS, TOMCAT, SQL, Rexx, COBOL, JCL, TSO, ETL, SPUFI, and FTP, TCPIP
• Support for Xpediter (MVS, CICS, IMS, DB2, JCL, z/OS, COBOL, PL1, REXX) and Dev Enterprise application data warehouse, QA Hiperstation, Strobe, and TSO Workbench software.
• Systems Programmer: Installed software using SMP/E, Software Product Expert, recreation of customer issues, analysis of customer provided dumps (IPCS), and software documentation issues and review, TSO Workbench support (Windows), Istrobe support(UNIX), Analyze Performance Data. Work closely with software development to resolve customer issues.
• Change Management, Cascade, CA7, Endeavor

Confidential

Senior Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Monitored and provided level 1/2 support for performance issues on any Confidential mainframe (worldwide). Issues related to hardware, applications and software (z/OS, DB2, CICS, MQ, COBOL, and IMS) were addressed on a regular basis.
• Played a major role in improving the relationships between the Performance Team and the various software and applications support teams.
• Created a Web interface for IT Infrastructure and Applications management to review automated performance reports ( generated by BMC MAINVIEW) via Ford Intranet.
• Participated in monitoring and reporting on software upgrades from CICS TS 1.3 to 2.3, IMS V5 to V7, and MVS to z/OS.
• Provided statistical data analysis to IT Management, Systems support and business groups in tabular or graphical form using SAS, EXCEL, JCL, TSO, REXX, CA7, SDLC, ITIL.
• Played a major role in maintaining and supporting IBM PR/MVS (Tivoli System Monitoring) collection and reporting.
• Developed graphical performance reporting using SAS GRAPH and EXCEL.
• Maintained and Administered LPAR/WLM environment for all Ford Mainframes (worldwide).
• Received training in and configured “WLM for performance”, HMC/HCD, REXX overview, ITIL overview, Six sigma Green Belt overview, ZPCR, Omegamon CNP, RMF, and FORD (compulsory) corporate security certification.
• Automotive Credit and Manufacturing Environment.

Confidential

Senior Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated applications and software from CICS R2.1 to CICS R4.1 and CICS/TS R1.2
• Supported application development COBOL, CICS, IMS, JCL, TSO, Endeavor, SDLC, ITIL, Rexx, CA7, CA1, CA11, ACF2, RACF.
• Installed, supported and administered VM/CMS system with MVS guests.
• Converted SYSPLEX of VM MVS guests to SYSPLEX LPAR.
• Participated in several mainframe hardware changes: EMC to SHARK DASD, ESCON to FICON, 3090 servers to Z servers, Z server LPAR consolidations.
• Successfully managed and performed Mainframe Hardware Migration to Z-series server.
• Managed and performed creation of Disaster Recovery planning (DR), implementation, site and set up HOT takeover Disaster Recovery processes and Data Mirroring. Hardware/Software project management, Change Management, SDLC, ITIL
• Upgraded the mainframe operating system from MVS 5.2 to z/OS 2.4 and JES.
• Coordinated and supported LE370 COBOL installation and application migration.
• Automotive, Warehouse, Manufacturing environment.