Experience

Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates

• United States
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Systems Programmer 4

  • Mar 2012 - Present

  I am currently working as a z/OS systems programmer. I am currently working as a z/OS systems programmer.



FIS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Systems Programmer

  • May 2006 - Dec 2011

  · Responsible for analyzing application and system software product performance. · Worked with internal customers to identify and resolve performance problems. · Recommend changes for applications and systems software to improve performance. · Performed pre-analysis of software upgrades and recommended parameter settings at both the application and systems level. · Responsible for daily IBM mainframe and 3rd party performance reporting. · Responsible for writing new reports as technologies change (i.e. DASD PAV and z/OS Hiperdispatch). · Responsible for creating SAS databases by reading SMF/RMF raw records. · Responsible for manually updating SMF record layouts and calculations as software was upgraded. · Created "paperless" daily reporting using SAS ODS and FTPing reports to a Windows server making reports easily available to interested customers. · Responsible for monitoring and reporting of application and systems software testing. · Provided real-time monitoring and post-test ADHOC reporting. · Responsible for Workload Manager. · Evaluated WLM performance and updated goals as needed. · Updated classes as needed. Show less



First Data Resources

• Sr. Systems Programmer

  • Jan 2003 - Apr 2006

  · Responsible for the initial installation, testing and implementation of the Computer Associates product CA-Netmaster. · Undertook the conversion of all FDR systems from IBM's Tivoli Netview product to CA- Netmaster, including project management of all conversion tasks (such as conversion of automation CLISTS to Netmaster NCL and the implementation of interfaces to FDR's internal systems). · Responsible for all interaction with Computer Associates (the product vendor) to obtain the product fixes and enhancements needed to complete the conversion to CA-Netmaster. · Performed all tasks required to implement the roll-out of CA-Netmaster on all FDR systems (in excess of 20 system images). · Responsible for ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting for CA-Netmaster on all FDR systems. This includes implementation of various enhancements to FDR's use of the product and liaison with Computer Associates to obtain various product fixes and enhancements to support FDR's operations. · Responsible for acting as backup technical support for other staff in the Enterprise Management group at FDR. (Note that the mainframe staff within this group are primarily responsible for automation tools of various types.) Show less



MBI, Inc

• Sr. Systems Programmer

  • Aug 1996 - Nov 2002

  · Responsible for installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the MVS operating System. · Research, testing and installation of all System Upgrades, PTF's and APAR's. · Responsible for the implementation, setup and testing for a system upgrade from MVS 4.3 to z/OS 1.2. · Support and maintenance of the HCD. · Responsibility for the testing and maintenance of all MVS system parameters and the analysis, design, coding and documentation for all user modifications and exit programs to the MVS System. · Support and maintenance of NCP and all VTAM parameters and settings. · Implemented Workload Manager on the OS/390 Systems. · Analysis of existing jobs and transactions to establish ground rules for Classification Rules, Service Policies and Performance Goals. · Create the Service Definitions and Service Policies. · Create definitions for Service Classes and Performance Goals. · Manage the migration to the Workload Management System. · Responsible for the analysis and support of all IBM and third party system software. · Evaluation, installation, setup and support of IBM and third party software including CICS,VTAM/NCP, RACF, OMEGAMON, SyncSort, and other products. · Worked with outside vendors to replace in-house written applications with third party products, including BETA42, BETA92, CHANGEMAN and ZARA. · Completed the analysis, installation and setup of TCP/IP support for OS/390 2.10. · Removal of the VM Operating System from the systems environment. Show less



Bandag, Inc

• Systems Programmer

  • Apr 1992 - Jul 1996

  · Support of the MVS Operating System, this includes VTAM, NCP and other MVS System Components. · Research, testing and installation of all System Upgrades, PTF's and APAR's. · Testing and maintenance of all MVS system parameters. · Analysis and maintenance of the MVS Operating System to maintain system performance and integrity. · Support and maintenance of all VTAM parameters and settings. · Design, code, and document all user modifications and exits to the MVS system. · Support of all IBM and other third party software including NetView, File-Aid, EXPEDITER, TLMS; 11 and Boole & Babbage system monitors. · Recommend, evaluate and test all new mainframe software third party software. · Installation, setup and maintenance of all IBM and other third party software. · Set up and support a hardware and software system for allowing 300 dealers to dial into the mainframe via PC's and AS/400's. This included the analysis, design and coding of the infrastructure of the system. Show less