Resume of John Zielinski

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Summary:

Senior Level Project Manager in the IBM Mainframe arena. Demonstrated

skills in client support, problem analysis/resolution, root-cause analysis,

resource management, technical analysis, technical documentation, training,

and mentoring.

Experience includes Senior Data Center Project Manager for data center

migration/ relocation/ consolidation. Knowledgeable of all project

documentation and deliverables including schedules, issues, action and risk

logs, test plans, executive presentations and associated documents required

for consolidation/ migration/ relocation projects. Worked on IBM mainframes

and midrange migration projects. In depth experience with IBM migration

methodologies. Experienced with vendor management. Extensive experience

with evaluation of problematic projects to bring them back into scope.

Proven ability to manage large scale, high visibility projects.

Accomplished negotiator for SOWs and contracts. Worked on highly

successful data center migrations for IBM clients including United

Technologies, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), JPMorgan Chase, ING,

WellPoint and a large financial sector account. All moves required

infrastructure and network builds, project scope assessments, procurement,

planning and execution. Coordinated highly technical teams including IBM

mainframe systems programmers, architects, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ Series SME's.

Also coordinated customer SME's and vendors.

Skills:

Project management on large scale projects, Microsoft Office, Windows,

Microsoft Project, budget management, people/team management. Delivering

complex solutions on time and within budget.

Employment History

Contracted to IBM Corporation

05/12 - current

Project Leader - Mainframe Data Center Relocation - IBM financial sector

account.

. Managed the successful migration of new IBM hardware to two IBM data

centers. These new locations are the new production and disaster recovery

sites. The production data center is located in St. Louis and the D/R

Site is located in an IBM facility in Lexington. These two data centers

are connected with OC48 links which are used to keep the tape and disk

systems mirrored for DR purposes. The DS8800 disk systems are mirrored to

Lexington using GDPS software and Global Mirror (GDPS/GM). The TS7720

VTS's are kept in sync using tape grid technology. The production

cutover to St. Louis was Memorial Day weekend this year. The Lexington DR

site was completed in August with the first official disaster recovery

test at the end of August.

. Currently working on a Sysplex split to be delivered in March 2014.

This split will remove the development LPARs from the production Sysplex

to their own Plex Environement.

. Also working on a project to replace all Computer Associates (CA)

software with IBM software. The two largest are ACF/2 to RACF conversion

and Jobtrac to be replaced with TWS.

. Coordinated the conversion of customer ESCON channel extended printers to

an IP based solution.

. Routinely prepare milestone status and communicated to IBM project

management team, client executive management and client staff.

. Created and maintain the data center relocation project plan.

. Maintain labor budget dollars to ensure that the project stays within

budget.

. Environment: IBM z/OS 1.13, z196 processors, TS7720 Virtual Tape

Systems (VTS), DS8800 disk subsystems, GDPS software, Unix and Intel

Servers, OC48 circuits for disk and tape backup, CA1, CA11, Jobtrac,

IMS, DB2, MQ, CICS, Connect:Direct, TCP/IP, SNA, NetView automation.

Project Manager - Kaiser Permanente (01/12 - 05/12)

. The scope of this project was to create disaster recovery solutions for

400 of Kaiser's midrange applications. Main role was to perform data

collection using several sources provided by the customer and validate it

with meetings with the applications owners and technical support teams.

. After this data collection process, then turn the final documents over to

the D/R solution team who will prepare the Disaster Recovery Solution.

. Environment: Intel and UNIX servers.

Transition team project manager - WellPoint Account (06/10 - 12/11)

. Managed the highly successful consolidation of three WellPoint data

centers (Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Staten Island) into a single, new data

center in St. Louis.

. Developed and implemented a cost-saving replacement for existing channel

attached hardware for IBM mainframe printers in Albany location. Located

and redeployed used equipment enabling significant cost savings for IBM.

. Identified potential risk elements and proposed mitigation strategies for

integral parts of this project.

. Directed midrange team efforts to identify servers connected via TCP/IP

or SNA to ensure network integrity and migration success.

. Routinely prepared milestone status and communicated to IBM project

management team, client executive management and client staff.

. Created and maintained the data center relocation migration project plan.

Regularly interacted with the project PMO.

. Initiated and managed support escalation with Verizon, AT&T and client

network staff during highly-visible, problematic installation of OC12 used

for midrange data replication.

. Environment: IBM z/OS, z10 and z196 processors, TS7700 tape, DS8700 disk

subsystem, Intel and UNIX servers.

Project Manager - ING Account (03/10 - 06/10)

. Managed the implementation of new z10 processors and TS7740 tape and

DS8300 DASD subsystems.

. Managed the implementation of TKLM tape encryption on both mainframe and

midrange processors.

. Responsible for reporting status to IBM project management team and

client executive management and staff.

. Accountable for creation and maintenance of the network project plan and

interaction with project PMO.

. Environment: IBM z/OS, z10 processors, TS7740, DS8300, Intel and UNIX

servers, OC12 network connected to Sterling Forest for D/R purposes.

2007 - 2010

Kyocera

Systems Programmer /Project Manager

. Prepared and implemented a project plan to replace IBM mainframe attached

printers with TCP/IP attached devices. This included working with vendors

to find cost effective print servers.

. Planned and executed the removal of the IBM 3745 front end processors,

CISCO CIPs and the conversion to IP of the all other SNA devices.

. Environment: IBM z/OS, IBM mainframe processors, IBM storage tape and

disk, Intel and UNIX servers.

2002-2007

JPMChase Bank

Systems Programmer

. Prepared the network project plan for the data center build and

relocation from Ohio to Delaware. Worked with external vendors, IBM

technical people, various architects and technical support people on this

2 year, multi-million dollar project.

. Developed the business case to replace older hardware with newer

technology that increased the reliability, availability, and

serviceability of the systems.

. Responsible for reporting status to management team and client executive

management and staff.

. Performed forensic systems analyses and provided management strategic and

tactical recommendations for the mainframe network.

. Performed analysis of legacy network interconnects (internal and external

vendor) and developed strategy for migration to optimized network

configuration

. Performed network performance and capacity management services to

anticipate situations in which network SLAs would be compromised due to

transient or seasonal loads.

. Environment: IBM z/OS, IBM processors, IBM storage tape and disk, Intel

and UNIX servers.

01/99 - 09/02

IBM Corporation - AT&T Account - Lake Mary

Project Manager/Software Engineer

. Planned and implemented the replacement of NCR front end hardware with

the IBM equivalent which resulted in considerable cost savings to IBM.

. Project managed the replacement of ISV network management software with

IBM NetView.

. Trained the NOC and helpdesk support teams on the use of NetView to

manage the AT&T network.

. Environment: 3 data centers with 52 IBM LPARS running z/OS operating

system.

01/98 - 12/98

Yale-New Haven Hospital

Project Manager

. Project manager for a large software conversion from IBM mainframe to

UNIX platforms. Prepared project plans and managed external vendors to

ensure that the all deliverables were completed on time. Held daily

project briefings with hospital IT management team.

1988 - 1997

IBM Corporation

Systems Engineer

. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data center consolidation project. The IRS

had 10 regional data centers to be consolidated into 2 centers -

Martinsburg and Memphis. Was network SME and managed all mainframe

connectivity including TCP/IP, VTAM, NCP, CISCO Routers, and IBM 3745

front end processors.

. United Technologies (UTC) outsourcing. UTC had several data centers to

be consolidated to one center and managed by IBM.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration.

. University of New Haven, West Haven, Ct.

Certifications/Training:

. IBM technical courses.

. Project Management Courses

. Toastmasters - Vice President of Education

. PMI Member.

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