TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Hardware: HITACHI 8824/IBM 9000/9X2/ZOS/9672 - X57,RY4,ZZ7,VMWARE,SUNSOLARIS, IBM 3380,3390, 3480/3490E, STK SILO/ROBOT, EMC, HITACHI, SHARK, RAID1/5,7700E/9900/8430/RS6000 SYSTEM Software MVS/ESA OS 390, JES2, VTAM,TSO/ISPF/TPX,OS/JCL,VSAM/IAM/DB2/IDMS, ADSO, CICS, HEAVY OS UTILITIES, LDRPS, CA1/CA7/CA11, DFDSS, DFHSM, DFSMS/POOLDASD, OMEGAMON, FILEAID, ISMF, PANVALET/PANAPT, STOPX37/STOPVSAM, MIM/RACF, JHS, LINUX, SQL SERVER, ASSEMBLER/COBOL/SAS, LIFEGUARD/SUNRISE, VSAM MECHANIC, MANTISSA, DOCUTEXT, BDT, NJE, FTP, SNA,TCP/IP,CLIENT SERVER/CRYSTAL, WINDOWS/,EXHPDM, OPCA, ENDAEVOR, OUTLOOK, MSOFFICE SUITES, TMS/EXLM, RATIONAL CLEARQUEST/CLEARCASE, SYMANTEC ENTERPRISE VAULT, CLIENT MANAGEMENT SUITES, BACKUP EXEC/ENDPOINT PROTECTION, GHOST SOLUTION, NETBACKUP.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully documented Disaster Plans for the Railroad Command Center (RCC) and Livingston Plaza Data Center (LPDC) for the MTA which employs 90,000 + personnel which encompassed Mainframe, Midrange, Virtual, Physical and Cloud based recoveries.
• Created and implemented forward recovery DR Plans for review and approval by upper Management (MTA - CIO)
• Supported and documented a successful Mainframe and Server Disaster recovery event at the IBM Sterling Forest Facility and forwarded system and application recovery resolutions going forward.
• Thoroughly reviewed ALL hardware and software contracts. Suggested the involvement in MTA contract negotiations which would have a monetary Disaster Recovery equipment contractual value.
• Involved with Business Impact Analysis criteria for critical applications and worked with the Applications groups to populate the critical data for RPO, RTO and MTD functions to mitigate data loss and Major Business operations interruptions.
• Directly involved in the identification of the four Disaster Recovery strategies that would impact the MTA in the event of a Business interruption. (Active/active, active/passive, physical, and cloud systems). Cloud systems relies on one or more Business recovery strategies.

Confidential

Disaster Recovery Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of developing a Disaster Recovery plan for the Confidential
• Worked closely with Confidential IT support groups to ensure the replication process of the Tier critical consistency applications to the SunGard recovery facility were always active as well as uninterrupted Network connectivity.
• Created and customized a master DR script detailing test objectives and timeline activities encompassing the 48 hour event.
• Restored ALL T1 critical applications driven by the SRM (Site Recovery Manager) software tool.
• Directly involved in identifying, documenting, and verifying ALL in scope Tier critical recovery systems.
• Created a customized Disaster recovery plan for ALL Accounting service applications online
• Directly involved in customizing a rack mounted server chassis with all of the Server specifications to populate the critical software, databases and applications to successfully recover the Accounting environment.
• In charge of testing the successful recovery process at an alternate site in Mt. Kisco N.Y.
• One Source Document: Ronkonkoma, N.Y. 03/14-08/14 (short term)
• Designed a Disaster recovery plan for the copy/scan company personnel (Network/Desktop)
• Customized from inception the Server configuration for the Desktop environment and implemented a TCP/IP unique IP address for remote access to the server environment for Disaster Recovery purposes.
• Conducted several successful mini network and functional Disaster tests to ensure the Network, Applications and Server environments were functional in all aspects of the recovery process (proof of concept).

Confidential

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Manager/Storage Administration and Systems Programmer Liaison

Responsibilities:

• In charge of conducting Business Impact Analysis, Business Resumption and Risk Analysis Table Top exercises at the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) for the City of New York which encompassed 80+ City Agencies
• Provided ongoing support for third party Business Continuity vendor software including the installation and customization of LDRPS (Living Disaster Recovery Plan) which to date is utilized Citywide in the event of a Business interruption
• Contain an extensive knowledge of Business Impact Analysis, Business Resumption and Business Risk analysis/assessment experience which will mitigate the overall Business Recovery process which also incorporates the gap remediation analysis process to ensure Company compliance guidelines.
• Designed, tailored and critiqued the BCRP (Business Continuity Recovery Plan) for the City of New York on a quarterly basis which was approved by the Mayor of New York
• Contain an in depth knowledge of Business Continuity, Business Impact Analysis and Business Resumption practices as it pertains to the overall expeditious resumption of Business negligible of the interruption of ‘Business as usual’ operational processes
• Extensive knowledge of MVS Z/OS internals (sysplex timer), MVS Catalog administration, maintenance and conversions.
• Extensive experience in Vsam performance and tuning, CICS, DB2, DBA troubleshooting knowledge and a well-rounded background of the MVS Mainframe environment in a multi Lpar (logical partition environment) running a VM (virtual machine) under the covers.
• I also possess Storage Administration experience (DFDSS/DFHSM/ADSO/IDMS).
• Directly involved as Project lead senior support to ALL Citywide agencies to support Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery projects and initiatives. Conducted gap remediation analysis with the OEM Dept. to identify where organization Tier1 critical applications fail to meet regulatory guidelines going forward.
• Fully maintained the current knowledge and awareness of critical systems, best practices, methodologies, trends, tools and techniques as it relates to all areas of the Business Continuity.
• In charge Business Contingency planning efforts directly affecting critical Financial, Business and Application operations in a Multi-platform Mainframe, Open Systems, Client Server and Network environments
• Created, designed, developed, documented and maintained the Confidential Business Continuity Recovery Plans for 80+ City Agencies including ALL critical Tier1 production applications to facilitate a forward recovery environment in the event of a Major Business interruption
• Directly responsible for the Management of the System, Equipment, Hardware and Network Configurations and requirements required at the IBM Hot Site facility
• Chaired ALL Business Continuity Table Top Postmortem meetings with detailed documentation of errors during the test that needed to be addressed and resolved to ensure a 100 percent Production Applications recovery
• Commanded the LDRPS (Living Disaster Recovery Plan) implementation, critical application population and essential updates for ALL Confidential Tier1 Business Resumption applications with the OEM Dept. Directly affiliated with all levels the Office of Emergency Management reporting to the Mayor of NYC
• Performed ALL departmental administrative activities including staff meetings, weekly status reporting, budgeting, strategic planning, expense processing and documentation. Created, maintained, customized and coordinated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for the firm from inception to completion that have had a 90 percent success rate for the successful Business resumption of NYC if a Business interruption should occur.

Confidential

Senior Applications Analyst/Disaster Recovery/Storage Administration/DB2 Liaison (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Supported numerous production upgrades for the Systems and Application users to resolve a wide range of production/test abends and performance issues in a Multi Mainframe and Open Systems environment.
• Worked extremely close with the DB2 and DBA Administrators to coordinate changes and enhancements to DB2 and IMS programs, backups and restores.
• Solid background in Mainframe Data Processing, Storage Administration, Catalog Administration, Performance and Tuning of Systems and Disaster Recovery techniques.
• Detailed knowledge of the working mechanics of User Catalogs with the ability to construct and execute a user catalog conversion for performance reasons and System enhancement.

Confidential

Senior Disaster Recovery Analyst/Storage Administration Liaison (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the disaster recovery plans for the Firm from inception to completion obtaining an 85 - 95 percent success rate for the MVS,VM and Data General environments.
• Directly involved in coordinating the test objectives to facilitate a FULL Trading Floor Recovery.
• Scheduled Mainframe test times via contractual agreements with Comdisco and Upper Management personnel.
• Chaired ALL Postmortem meetings with detailed documentation of errors during the test that needed to be addressed and resolved to ensure a 100 percent trading floor and Applications recoveries.
• Proposed several automated processes for the Mainframe, TMC, User Catalog, Performance and Tuning, Data Restoration, Batch/online Performance, Connectivity (local/remote).
• Directly involved in numerous Business Continuity and Data Center Contingency Tests and was directly involved in a MAJOR successful Mock Disaster for the FULL Smith Barney Trading Floor recovery.
• Proposed and documented the SRDF implementation to the primary ‘hot site’ (Comdisco) and tested the recovery Production environment successfully.