Software Control

GREG M. BURT

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Cincinnati, OH 45238

Home: 513-***-**** *.****@****.*** Cell: 513-***-****

SUMMARY

Twenty years of increasing responsibility in information technology for a major financial company with extensive

experience in all phases of the software development life cycle. Flexibility to perform in a self-directed environment,

as well as a member of a team.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Software installation and support, TSO / ISPF, CLIST, REXX, CA-Roscoe, SMPE, SAS, MXG, Xpeditor, JCL,

Operations, Production Support, IBM Utilities and Microsoft Office products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1988 – 2009

FIFTH THIRD BANK, Cincinnati, OH

2003 – 2009

Systems Programmer \ Analyst

Supported a large, multi-site environment utilizing Parallel Sysplex across multiple sites that provided 24x7x365

availability to banking customers around the world. Provided software installation and support of numerous vendor

products.

Subject Matter Expert on the following products:

CA-Librarian, CA-Roscoe, CA-1, CA-11 MXG, SAS, SMF data

Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) FDR, IAM, FATS

Xpeditor / TSO JCL, SMP / E

PlusPack XrefDB2

PDSFAST QuickRef

Notable Work

With a time frame of two months assisted with the installation of six z10 processors across multiple sites. Built

the IODF for one of the installs and provided upgrade support for the others.

Converted Change Control from a CA-Roscoe based product that had been heavily customized to be entirely

based in TSO / ISPF. Wrote CLISTs, REXX, ISPF panels and tables, and trained users, along with integrating

JCL checking and standards enforcement via calls to the PlusPack product. This effort was for elimination of the

CA-Roscoe software product and its associated software license fees, saving approximately $1MM a year.

Created SAS / MXG reports for Storage Administration and Performance / Capacity that are used for DASD

reporting and resource monitoring and projections.

Installed SAS version 9.1 and converted all batch processing from version 8.3 bringing the software to the latest

release and features.

Assisted the Audit and Risk departments performing both internal and external reviews. Designed and

implemented solutions to audit findings in several areas including: Production JCL override process, source

control tracking process and Production Scheduler findings.

Assisted application teams in the system development life cycle to ensure source code could be completed

according to installation standards along with meeting audit requirements.

On a rotating basis provided after hours support.

2000 – 2003

Storage Administrator

Supported a large replicated DASD environment with tape, and provided after hours support on a rotating basis.

Monitored resources for tape and DASD utilization.

JCL and environmental standards.

Change Control Administrator (in-house developed application source control tool).

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Notable Work

Installed and implemented a software package that enforced JCL syntax and standards, reducing production

abends and recovery / restart times.

Reduced company expenses by several million dollars through a Print Reduction Initiative. Received

commendations from the company President and CEO.

Installed and implemented MXG, building daily and weekly production data bases.

Created several MS / Outlook forms using Visual Basic that eliminated over 1000 paper submissions per month.

These forms replaced the Incident Report, Storage Request, Production Override and Production implementation

forms. Each form required a managers approval and reply from the implementer.

1989 – 2000

Production Control Shift Supervisor

Started as a Computer Operator and progressed to shift supervisor.

Supervised second shift production control and network operations of 6 to 20 people; and after hours call center.

Processed nightly batch jobs, ensuring correct sequence and completed verification and balancing. Originally,

entire process was manual; replaced with an in-house developed job scheduling system.

Represented Production Control on the project to implement an in-house developed job scheduling system.

Traveled to disaster recovery site for on-site support on weekends.

Provided Help Desk functions supporting internal and external customers.

Monitored network connections and online systems along with ensuring batch processing completed on schedule.

Performed Data Security rotation. Performed Top Secret ACID definitions, production dataset and job accesses.

HARTE – HANKS DIRECT MARKETING, Cincinnati, OH 1984 – 1989

Computer Operator

Supported a small mainframe environment, with minimal supervision or direction.

Tape librarian, performing a dump as tapes were received so that record layout could be obtained.

Manual processing of all batch work, ensuring each job was processed in the correct sequence and completed

verification. Supported many printers and delivered printer reports.

EDUCATION

BS, Information Systems, College of Mount Saint Joseph, Cincinnati Ohio, 2007

Courses in COBOL, Object oriented programming using .NET visual studio, HTML with JavaScript, Web design

Database Management using Oracle 9i, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Business reporting and Statistics

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.3 Installation and Implementation for z / OS – IBM, 2008

Z / OS MVS Entry Level System Programmer Boot Camp – TechKnowledge, 2006

Assembler – Computer Horizons, 2005

Java Servlets and JSP – Kells Tech, 2004

Advanced Excel – Compu-Ed Inc, 2003

MXG Class – Barry Merrill, 2001

Advanced SAS programming – Destiny, 2005

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