OBJECTIVE:

Seeking challenging IT position utilizing problem solving abilities and business experience to perform tasks requiring attention to detail and high degree of accuracy

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 30 years working with Mainframe technologies, with extensive experience as a Security Analyst, as well as Mainframe Automation and User Interface Tool Creation
• Security background with experience with IT Security Access Monitoring and Account Administration
• Experience working with RACF and CA Top Security, CA Compliance Manager, CA Auditor
• Strong attention to detail and able to work within strict deadlines; most recently worked as an IT Security Analyst mostly working with SOX Compliance, audit preparation and response; would have a strict deadline after an audit was requested to gather and send back the necessary information; successfully passed every audit on the Mainframe, which occurred four or more times a year

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

IT Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating reporting tools for SOX compliance using CA Compliance Manager data, CA Auditor, and CA Top Secret data.
• Assisted with setting up automated notification using CA Auditor
• Created auditing reports from CA Compliance Manager data, combining data from 32 reporting LPARs into single, summarized reports (DB2, REXX, SAS) for ease of monitoring and validation.
• Documented CA - TSS Command Propagation Facility across 37 LPAR environment
• Automated re-write of REXX 184 member REXX library from VB to FB file for deployment
• Created Excel sheet documenting various pieces of needed information in order to work in 37 LPAR environment such as shared/non-shared catalogs, OS software, JES characteristics, TSO allocations and permissions, etc.
• Created ISPF panel driven, site specific tool for automating use of XCOM file deployment
• Created function to automate CA-Clean reports, ACID backups and TSS command creation

Confidential, Reston, VA

IT Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created interactive TSO/ISPF security monitoring application tool to automate batch job reporting and violation tracking (used date/type keyed PDS member names for database records) using REXX and SAS Base; the tool queried CA-Top Secret activity, violations data and recovery data to create violation tracking records and emails; this tool reduced time required to perform daily monitoring tasks from a full day down to 30 minutes it also read and summarized Syslogs for quick review, sent users and account owners status of their TSO/batch ACIDs, created weekly & monthly SAS graphs for trending, backed up daily data in Confidential for historical reporting, and also ran monthly Baseline Security Configuration reports (included DB2-SQL extracts); wrote 60,000 lines of REXX, JCL/utilities, ISPF panels and SAS Base code to complete this project
• Was responsible for handling internal and external security audits to ensure corporate SOX compliance. No audit failures during my tenure.
• Performed security investigations and incident response tasks by querying UNIX or Windows servers logs using LogLogic
• Performed administrator tasks for SecureWorks log monitoring
• Created mainframe security reports to monitor and track FTP and CD transmissions
• Assisted CICS end users with their transaction (OTRAN/PPT) access issues
• Prepared MS-PowerPoint overview presentations for upper management, Risk Management and auditors that explained mainframe monitoring procedures and identified inputs and outputs
• Created tools to interact with mainframe COTS products (SAR) and Confidential utilities to simplify data collection for audits
• Monitored account changes to validate user roles and privileges using Active Directory
• Trained junior staff to run daily operations

Confidential, Herndon, VA

IT Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for user access account creation, access privilege assignments and account maintenance across platforms (UNIX, mainframe/CA-Top Secret, Windows/Active Directory); security access administration, as well as security incident response
• Created interactive processes to expedite with 100% accuracy external user account creation on the mainframe & Unix

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

IT Software Installer

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for installing Confidential ’s Software Configuration and Library Management (SCLM) tool Confidential customer site(s)

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Application Tester / Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for validating new application software and execution of test cases
• Redesigned/rewrote mainframe automated batch scheduler to execute without user intervention; the updates reduced the elapsed processing time from 3 days to 4 hours; new tool created and edited test bed data to allow for cyclical application processes
• Participated in review meetings with analysts and developers to address findings
• Created tools to assist with creation of test bed data, eliminating the potential for errors created by human intervention
• Performed RACF field administrator tasks Confidential Department level

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Application Developer / Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for application production support 24x7 on call and tier 2 application support including COBOL, JCL PROC updates, and data integrity validation
• Created and updated automated in-house tools supporting application software configuration and release library management; utilized combination of clist/REXX, TSO ISPF, JCL, and Confidential utilities to track and promote software across all stages of lifecycle support; added an option to execute JCLCheck utility to create composite report for release component
• Created interactive tools to simplify use of COTS software
• Interrogated SAS-MICS system data to instigate application program performance and tuning efforts, eliminating batch processing bottlenecks and teaching COBOL coding efficiencies across departments
• Performed RACF field administrator responsible for user ID’s, profiles and access controls Confidential the Division level
• Wrote ad hoc REXX code to rewrite and re-compile 60,000 COBOL programs to change INCLUDE statements to COPY statements when this shop converted from LIBRARIAN software to PDS files

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

IT Technician / Online Monitoring

Responsibilities:

• Monitored mainframe IMS and CICS consoles for exceptions and performed application support functions such as software updates with corresponding IMS gens
• Maintained the automation tools to perform software updates

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

IT Technician / Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Exploited CA-7 capabilities by writing interactive user clists to create customized application batch schedules with JCL override editing and on-demand processing
• Monitored the execution of application batch strings and ensured their successful completion
• As technical team lead on night shift I was responsible for monitoring all applications batch and troubleshooting/resolving batch job failures with follow-up trouble reporting and disaster recovery
• Performed console operations monitoring tasks, hardware trouble shooting and vendor support, tape library management, printer operations, trouble reporting and issue tracking
• Performed manual workload balancing that reduced 2 hours from nightly batch window