Project Manager Training

Kevin Harris

*** ******* **. ? Coppell, TX *****

H: 972-***-**** ? C: 214-***-**** ?

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Profile

Seasoned MVS professional with 27 years of Mainframe Experience. Proven

team leader able to direct multiple areas while maintaining excellent

relationships with business clients. Proven individual contributor

demonstrating the highest level of ethics and integrity.

Highlights

o Strong process skills utilizing standards and automation to gain

efficiencies in the organization. Led effort to set up company wide

automated test environments for testing and promotion to production.

Reduced setup time for new test environments from 40+ hours to less

than one hour.

o Provided leadership, training, and mentoring for off shore resources to

develop them to assume coding, testing, and support responsibilities.

o Complex problem solver able to tackle complex issues. Individual

technical skills include:

. Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CSF, TSO/ISPF, CLIST,

SQL, Abendaid, REXX, SPUFI, Assembler, Stream Weaver,

Fortran, RPG, Easytrieve, HTML, XHTML, CSS

. Data Bases: VSAM, DB2

. Tools: Control/M/R, CA/7, CA/11, Endeavor, MVS Utilities,

Syncsort, FileAid, NDM, FTP, Jobtrac, Changeman

Professional Experience

Fidelity Investments, Dallas, TX

Programmer Developer/Analyst, June, 1995-August, 2008

Performed full lifecycle software development support from gathering user

requirements, coding, preparing test cases, testing, debugging to ongoing

support utilizing COBOL, CSF, Easytrieve and MVS toolsets. Developed

customer correspondence systems. Completed upgrades and enhancements.

Handled projects ranging from minor revisions to major application

overhauls in excess of 2,000 modules.

o Team Leader for effort to move application resources offshore. This

included training, development, mentoring, project prioritization, and

converting customer requirements into offshore task level coding.

o Three years of Client Server experience including conversion of mainframe

AFP code to HXTML web pages.

o Automation expert using automation to automate SLA verification

statistics and automation of test cases eliminating repetitive manual

labor.

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Professional Experience (cont'd.)

Affiliated Computer Services, Dallas, TX

Technical Support Manager, 1991-1995

Provided management, leadership, and mentoring for a team of 10 individuals

responsible for support, implementation, and conversion of third party

products, providing billing consumption reporting, and data center

standards enforcement. Oversaw staffing and performance appraisals, as well

as provided work direction.

o Data Center Conversion from CA/7 to Control M and JOBTrac to Control M

which improved the functionality of the scheduling environment.

o Implementation of Changeman which strengthened change management

environment and automated the promotion to production upon approvals.

o Automation of Billing Procedures.

Computer Associates, Dallas, TX

Client Services Consultant, 1989-1991

Performed business process analysis and developed technical solutions for a

variety of business and production problems.

o Conversion and implementation of CA-7 and CA-11 in the MVS environments

for multiple clients.

o Developed and presented training classes in CA-Products, ISPF, JCL, MVS

concepts and Operator training. Training classes provided functional, as

well as conceptual techniques for both beginning and advanced audiences.

o Developed conversion packages for use in integrating to CA-7 from other

MVS scheduling packages.

o Designed and developed custom packages for clients using TSO/ISPF tools

and dialogues to help automate processes.

EDS/MTECH, Irving, TX

Shift Supervisor, Technical Analyst, 1982-1989

Managed overall data center operations overseeing 20 personnel.

o Conversion of environment from DOS/VM/VSE to MVS.

o Served as Project manager for data center physical move which included

pre-move preparations, disassembly, movement, placement and reassembly of

all mainframes, disk arrays, and peripherals.

o Conversion of new clients into the environment, including program and JCL

conversion and testing.

o Automated processes in both operations and support environments.

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