Dean Da Silva

**** ******* **.

Rockwall, Texas *5087

614-***-****

acsjw8@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: zOS, MVS/OS/390, DOS/VSE/ESA, OS/400,IMS, MS/Windows8, /WINDOWS10/3.1/95/98/NT OS/2, MS/DOS, light Unix V

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Expert level ALC and COBOL, PC-MASM/C/VB6, VB2010,

Also know PL1 SAS_C OS/400- C/COBOL/, .NET, C#, RPG/RPGII familiar with C++, Java, HTML, CGI and Perl

PROTOCOLS: SNA/LU6.2/APPC, BSC, ASYNC/ZMODEM/KERMIT, FTP, secureFTP, TCP/IP, x.25, IIS, familiar with Cisco IOS

DATABASE: SQL, ADODB(X), DLI (IMS/DB), DB2, MS/ACCESS, TOTAL

TOOLS/ACCESS METHODS/MISC:

MVS-JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CICS, INTERTEST, EXPEDITER, VM/CMS/XEDIT, FILEAID, DITTO, VSE-ICCF CICS, FAQS,DITTO,VSAM,LIBRARIAN,BTAM,VTAM,TCP/IPADM,DEBUG,ICF,MS/WINDOWS,MS/VStudio2013.NETFRAMEWORK,MS/ACCESS,ODBC,EXPLORER,SQL,PWB,DEBUG,MS/OFFICE,SSL Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BCforward Inc. contractor

Hewlett Packard

2014 - 2015

Assigned to CATS (Crew Activity Tracking System)

Developer duties supporting the USAirways and American Airlines CATS system. The system is mostly written in COBOL,OM(Object Manager) source manager. System featured IMS/DB2 databases and MQSeries in a request/response scenario. The system also featured MPP 3270 screen programs.Wrote SQL Query for DB2 problem determination and debugging.Requests/responses were coded in XML, which we had to code to provide test requests. Also used XMLSPY to verify output responses and validate input requests.

Colabera Inc.

2011 - 2012

JPMorgan Chase

Assigned to File Transfer Services Organization.

Process improvements of scheduled triggers, jobs, datasets, and procs retiring jobs no longer needed. Sterling Commerce’s Connect: Direct (NDM) file transfer software, designed/coded exits, for LU6.2 and TCP/IP connections. Work was performed in a TSO/ISPF environment utilizing ISPF commands and batch utilities.

American Electric Power

Sr. Systems Administrator

2000 – 2010

Duties:

Maintained the PKI for the enterprise. Managed all SSL certificates Worked closely with customers(other business units) and, the Telecomm group the Middleware group in introducing SSL and also renewing all expired certificates both internal(self-signed) and external(purchased from GoDaddy and Identrust).

Installation, maintenance and support of CICS/TS1.3(MVS r10) supporting LU6.2 connections and TCP/IP sockets interfacing with DB2 v7

application programmers support for CICS/TS1.3(MVS r10) DB2 v7

Installation, maintenance and support of MQSeries v5.3(MVS,Win2000, .NET framework)

Installation, maintenance and support of DataIntegrator (CommerceQuest product)(MVS,Windows 2000,WinXP .NET framework),

Installation, maintenance and support of ASG MQEnterprise(MVS,UNIX,Win2000,WinXP)

Installation, maintenance and support of TMON for CICS and MQ

Plus(CICS DFHRPL allocation utility)

Accomplishments:

Assisted with the conversion from CICS V4.10 to CICS TS 1.3

Responsible for dynamic DB2 plan selection exit

TCP/IP sockets security exit

Assisted in conversion from CA-ACF2 to RACF security system

Coded user exit without having source code(using reverse engineering)

Installed Indus/Passport application comprised of more than 400 transactions

Comments from 2001 performance appraisal:

Dean provided CICS/TS system administration responsibilities with little or no training needed. Dean installed and supported CICS add-on products such as: DADS/PLUS and EyeSpy.

Dean played a significant role in the upgrade and implementation of CICS V4.1 to CICS/TS, which also included upgrades to ACF2, DADS/PLUS, Intertest and EyeSpy add-ons and interfaces.

Developed enough proficiency to handle off-hours/on-duty CICS system support as a primary and secondary for the AEP/West CICS regions.

Provided significant system support with the Indus V8 upgrade project by installing and assisting with problem resolutions.

Participated in the OS/390 version 2.8 upgrade by provided CICS/TS technical support.

Worked on Datacenter Consolidation project.

Assisted with the conversion from Omegamon/CICS to TMON for CICS.

Participated in the disaster recovery test in Columbus.

Sterling Commerce, Inc.

Communications Software Group

Technical Support Engineer

1996 – 1999

Duties:

Problem determination, analyzed traces, dumps, JCL, scripts and logs to determine if there was a software defect.

Designed, coded, documented, and tested bug fixes

Designed, coded, documented product enhancements when deemed necessary by product marketing.

Assisted and trained junior personnel in problem determination

Assisted customers and junior personnel with configuration issues and security issues

Assisted customers and junior personnel with system programming and setup issues for CICS, VTAM, VSAM BTAM., and OS/400 scripts and profiles

Researched issues involving IBM and other vendor software bug fixes

Provided beeper after hours support for CONNECT:DIRECT and CONNECT:MAILBOX products for the MVS,VSE,VM,NT,TANDEM,MS/DOS and UNIX platforms and protocols, BSC,ASYNC,SNA,TCP/IP,FTP.

Documented issues and bug fixes in a problem tracking system –Vantive

Converted several PL1 utility programs to ALC.

Accomplishments:

Designed,coded,tested and documented recursive abend defect in the CICS interface for CONNECT:MAILBOX(LU62/APPC).(ALC)(CICS V4 and V5)

Designed, coded, tested and documented performance enhancements to the CICS interface for CONNECT:MAILBOX.(ALC)

Designed coded, tested and documented ESA compliant version of CONNECT:MAILBOX for VSE.

Designed, coded, tested, and documented Y2K compliant version of CONNECT:MAILBOX for the VSE platform.(ALC)

Designed, coded, tested, and documented OS/400 command submission through scripting(C and COBOL)

Designed, coded, tested, and documented for the OS/400 product x.25 protocol support(C and COBOL)

Received several “above and beyond” awards for exceeding expectations.

EDUCATION

Two plus years of college- San Jacinto College, Bryant College, and Plus School of Business.

Numerous Technical (IBM, MICROSOFT, CA) and Management (U.Texas Austin) courses sponsored by previous employers.

Memberships:

Member of the North Texas Chapter of Infragard a volunteer organization sponsored by the FBI, that assists the FBI by reporting malicious or suspicious activity thru email or the web.

Member of Microsoft BizSpark

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