Troy Johnson
Farmington Hills, MI 48336
Cellular 313-***-**** - Home 248-***-****
*********@*********.***
SKILLS:
CCF for change control, BUNDL and BMC-Control/D for report retrieval,
MOBIUS for report creation and maintenance - CA7/11 for scheduling batch
jobs, verifying schedules and for job restarts - CA1 and TMS for managing
tape resources.JES2 for operating peripherals - Microsoft Word, Excel,
Access, Powerpoint, Project) for creating status reports & flowcharts - JCL
to resolve ABENDS - RACF for data security - Netview, Sitescope and
OMEGAMON to monitor for problems - DFHSM for data restoration and
FATS/FATAR for data migration - GIRS for entering and monitoring high
priority trouble tickets - SameTime for remote communication when phones
were not available - VPN for remote access - TSO, MVS, CICS & VTAM
commands for mainframe operations - FILEAID, ISPF (IBM utilities) for
applications support - Microsoft OUTLOOK for scheduling/time management.
Working knowledge of UNIX. Working Knowledge of HTML, Javascript, Java,
XHTML,XML, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. Experience with large
printers and copiers.
Team Player:
Successfully worked and succeeded in a team oriented environments.
Received numerous awards for being a team player. Yearly evaluations always
mention a high level of respect and admiration from peers, supervisors and
customers. Shared on-call duties for offsite support. Carried duty pager
and cell phone.
Professional Behavior:
Works well independently. Completes projects ahead of deadlines. Takes
initiative to find projects outside of normal day to day responsibilities.
Manages time effectively in order to multi-task. Developed exceptional
communications skills to maintain professional rapport with management,
peers and customers. Maintains a positive can-do attitude.
Professional Development:
Recently graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from
the University of Phoenix. I plan to continue in the Master's program in
the fall.
Completed several work sponsored courses in project management &
supervision.
Attended conferences on Data Storage Subsystems and Storage Management
Fundamentals given by IBM.
Have taken additional in-house training classes covering JCL, CA7, and CA11
& Control-D.
Received several awards of recognition for outstanding performances
throughout career.
Training certificates and awards are kept in a portfolio that will be made
available at an interview.
EXPERIENCE:
I've spent the last two years pursuing my Bachelor's degree. While
attending school, I have ran my own independent photography business and
have worked with several companies (Call Photography, ZAIO inc, Homeview
LLC, etc) doing contract photography work.
DPM Consulting Problem Management
Analyst July 2005 - 1/29/2007
Contracting at Ford Credit
Monitored critical applications and infrastructure.
Document all problems that occur and send email notification to impacted
users.
Monitored trouble ticket queue for high priority tickets.
Managed escalation to the proper support teams for critical issues.
Followed up and documented the progress of problem resolution.
Create Daily Problems report for morning meeting.
Create concise and detailed reports of problems and their resolution for
upper management review.
Participate in lessons-learned meetings after problems were resolved.
DPM Consulting Batch Management
Analyst April 2002 - July 2005
Contracting at Ford Credit
Implemented & verified batch related production changes and other batch
related modifications.
Reviewed and approved CA7 and RACF change requests from application
developers.
Used Mobius to assign reports to print at various locations, update report
headers & retrieve archived reports.
Investigated any problems with reports created in Mobius and deleted
unnecessary reports.
Planned & ran weekly meeting with applications programmers to discuss
upcoming events & changes that will
impact them directly.
The application teams used information obtained in these meetings to
properly schedule their next releases or to
make code changes to become compliant with current standards.
Created reports using MS Excel to maintain & update metrics for the batch
environment.
Maintained flowchart created in MS PowerPoint of all critical batch
processes.
FTPed files when required.
Attend daily morning meeting to report status of previous day's problems.
Shared on-call support responsibilities. Carried pager and laptop to
provide off-shift support.
Escalate problems as necessary and follow-up with applications group for
root cause.
All work performed at Ford Credit was in a Windows and UNIX environment.
Global Crossing LTD Production Support
Analyst June 1998 - November 2001
Provided applications programmers change control and scheduling with 24/7
support.
Restored archived or damage reports on daily basis for internal customers.
Remotely managed IBM 3494 ATL and IBM Virtual Tape Server.
Analyzed & forecasted future tape media needs. Created weekly report to
verify tape usage.
Migrated data to the most efficient storage media saving space, time and
money.
Provided 24/7 support to computer operations staff.
Helped computer operators with ABEND resolution.
Provided written technical procedures & training for computer operations
staff.
Frontier Communications Data Center Supervisor
December 1997 - June 1998
Responsible for work schedules, employee evaluations and training of
computer operators.
Final responsibility to make sure that all nightly processes were completed
on time.
Attended daily morning status meeting and report any issues.
Allnet Communications Lead Computer Operator
June 1989 - December 1997
Scheduled jobs using CA7. Restarted jobs as necessary.
Corrected job abends.
Assist in maintenance of all hardware devices.
Participated in yearly Disaster/Business Recovery tests.
Coordinate escalation of major problems with software, hardware and
environmental systems.
Operated impact, laser and microfiche printers.
Performed maintenance such as IPL's, NCP loads and complete powering down
of the data center for major system upgrades
and installations.
Assisted Technical support staff implement automation software.
Created automated programs to help operations run efficiently.