Experience

Virginia Farm Bureau Family of Companies

• United States
• Insurance
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Tech Services Operations Supervisor

  • Aug 2005 - Present

  Manage a crew of four staff members. One of which is a System Programmer, one a Mainframe Data Center Operator and two are Application Developers. Manage approved changes for Mainframe and AS/400 platforms. Manage D/R for Mainframe and AS/400 platforms. Budget for Mainframe & AS400'S Responsible for job scheduling for mainframe, AS/400 & Windows platforms Monitor job schedules on open systems. Responsible for data conversion of all mainframe data from… Show more Manage a crew of four staff members. One of which is a System Programmer, one a Mainframe Data Center Operator and two are Application Developers. Manage approved changes for Mainframe and AS/400 platforms. Manage D/R for Mainframe and AS/400 platforms. Budget for Mainframe & AS400'S Responsible for job scheduling for mainframe, AS/400 & Windows platforms Monitor job schedules on open systems. Responsible for data conversion of all mainframe data from IPDS print stream to Post Script using Solimar ICONVERT and print Directory. Responsible for reducing the amount of equipment in Data Center and maintain Infrastructure of that Data Center. Responsible for Audio and Video support in conference rooms for presentations and VTC. Key Administrator for WebEx for our Enterprise Oversee the completion of OS Upgrades to VM & VSE for our mainframe. Oversee the upgrade of our AS/400 from 7.1 to 7.3. Oversee moving from two virtual AS/400 into one AS/400. Mainframe processing to a Hosting Environment within the second quarter of 2014 in Boston. Oversee our current Cisco phone system that moved us to Cisco Unified Communications.

• Systems Programmer

  • Jan 2003 - Aug 2005

  Responsible for

• Quality Assurance Administrator

  • 1993 - 2005

• Mainframe Operator 1st shift

  • 1998 - 2000

• Mainframe Operator 2nd shift

  • Apr 1993 - 1998