Vice President CICS / Online Systems / Technical Operations Resume

OBJECTIVE

Exploring opportunities to apply extensive experience in Mainframe Systems analysis and technical support in a challenging environment where strong communication, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills can be effectively utilized. A committed professional, who is highly organized, adjusts well to all types of environments, learns new procedures quickly and makes appropriate applications, and is knowledgeable in Operation and Inter - System Communication experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Vice President CICS / Online Systems / Technical Operations

Responsibilities:

Maintain and update all CICS and related software
Resolve issues quickly. Determine what caused the problem and correct permanently.
Continual tuning and monitoring of CICS, DB/2, IMS and MQ on the mainframe
Upper management liaison
Knowledgeable in VSAM and recommended performance improvement changes
Disaster recovery planning and recovery.
Application support for daily activity and participation of POC projects.

Confidential

CICS Systems Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for large scale Mainframe CICS environment with over 100 interconnected regions
Create and modify CICS region groups, CICS tables, definitions and Job Control Language
Continual tuning and monitoring of CICS, DB/2 and MQ on the mainframe
Provide performance analysis and reporting of all mainframe systems listed above.
Provide installation and support of all 3rd party products interacting with CICS as well as some of the MVS products.
Provide diagnostic support to application programming staff and users
Recommend software purchases
Support Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Assure accurate documentation and Sarbanes - Oxley (SOX) 404 compliance
Establish CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) environments
Established Java support for all CICS regions
Established automatic actions for critical events using Sysview and Unicenter TNG
Responsible for MQ mainframe and network components
Reduced maintenance by eliminating thousands of redundant definitions
Reduced CPU utilization by redistributing MRO definitions
Established and maintained direct TCP/IP support for application programs in CICS