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Thomas J. Vignola

21 Wardell Place

Wanamassa, NJ 07712

732-***-****

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

July 1979 - Present

AT&T; IBM Global Services

Piscataway, NJ

Senior Specialist, Application Development Management

Diverse responsibilities in the Information Technology industry,

with concentration in Application Design and Support, Technical

Support, Product Management, Project Management, and Systems

Programming.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

May 1994

- PresentAT&T

; IBM Global Services

Piscataway, NJ

Production Support, Application Design and Development

- Provide support for AT&T client-server application to end-user

community: user problem investigation and resolution, data and

process auditing, system status availability information, user

conference presentations. Improved problem resolution rate from

55% to 91 %.

- Monitor entire production environment for outage/performance

issues (UNIX/MVS/Tuxedo/Teradata); participate in daily production

meetings to review batch problems and schedules.

- Assist online system test team with regression and user-

acceptance testing.

- Participate in user enhancements and requirements sessions in an

on-going basis for both the batch and online environments

- Completed numerous design changes and provided production

support for the MVS batch processing environment (

Oct 1995

-August

1996

)

January 1993

- April 1994AT&T

Piscataway, NJ

Product Engineering: UNIX DBMS Assembly

- Provided 24x7 support to internal development organizations for

INGRES and INFORMIX DBMS software packages

- Performed problem investigation and resolution, new release

testing, software installations and documentation, and direct

vendor technical contact

- Implemented monthly conference calls with vendor and data center

personnel for problem-tracking and issues management

- Interfaced with internal Product Management on vendor software

licensing and software support issues

- Installed and supported LU 6.1 network and MVS/IMSTM-based

vendor software for a special client-server application. Provided

on-going IMS experience and support for development efforts

November 1991

- December 1992AT&T

Product Management: DOS, OS/2, and UNIX Developer Tools

- Developed and performed all order processing and chargeback

functions for internal sales of BACHMAN and INTERSOLV software

- Performed Vendor Management role for issues raised by Product

Engineering team and internal customer organizations

- Led the Developer Tools Management Team: coordinated marketing

efforts and customer events, created product descriptions, and

coordinated new software product release certification work

January 1990

- October 1991AT&T

Piscataway, NJ

Technology Planning: MVS Application Software

- Interfaced with software vendors: acquired general information

on available tools, provided input on software enhancements,

distributed seminar information to development groups

- Participated in information sharing groups/conferences to

provide software updates to application support and development

groups

- Coordinated local vendor seminars and training sessions;

presented status on current software evaluations at developer

conferences

- Acted as Project Manager/Assistant Project Manager

on MVS and

MVS/DBMS software evaluations: collected requirements information

from user organizations, reviewed RFI responses from vendors with

users and internal support groups, coordinated system support and

vendor functions, moderated and documented status meetings,

performed software installations, prepared feedback forms and test

plans, documented results, and assisted in licensing agreement

requirements

- Provided MVS technical support to local support and development

organizations upon request.

April 1985

- December 1989AT&T

Piscataway, NJ

Systems Programming: MVS Software, Piscataway Data Center

- Performed 24x7 support for all production applications and data

center personnel

- Supervised problem assignment and tracking activities for MVS

software

- Provided problem investigation and resolution support with

vendors, application teams, and other support groups as required

- Installed, maintained, and supported MVS system and application

software including, but not limited to: Abendaid, DFP, SYNCSORT,

RIVIDS, INFO/MGMT, LIBRARIAN, JCLCHECK, DFDSS, PL/1, COBOL,

Assembler H, GDDM, DATAEXPERT, SAS, STROBE, Fileaid, Xpediter,

SHRINK.

- Provided back-up support for JES2 and IMS software

- Directed the migration of the data center's MVS application

development software to AT&T-Communications and AT&TInformation

Systems Standard Operating Environment

- Represented MVS software team on numerous application and

migration teams

October 1979

- March 1985AT&T

Piscataway, NJ

Technical Support

- Application Database/Performance Support

- Provided 24x7 support for production application jobs running in

20+ Operating Telephone Companies as well as extended technical

support for the development team

- Performed general application and debugging, assisted developers

use of development tools, determined IMS/DC sysgen requirements,

IMSDB/DC tuning and performance

- Developed and presented training sessions on PL/1 and IMSDB/DC

for application developers and Operating Telephone Company

personnel at regular intervals

- Performed logical and physical database design for IMS and RAMIS

data stores

- Recommended application design changes with respect to

performance enhancements

- Advised, coded, and generated IMS-related control blocks: DBD,

PSB, ACB, MFS

- Modified development/system test/production JCL as necessary to

implement performance analysis software (PPE, STROBE,IMS monitors)

- Completed limited software evaluations on IMS-related and other

developer tools

- Completed regression testing on the upgrade of major software

components within the development environment

EDUCATION

September 1975

- May 1979

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA

Bachelor of Arts

-Mathematics; Bachelor of Arts-Economics

- Graduated Magna Cum Laude

; GPA 3.54

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS

- Departmental Honors in Mathematics; elected to Phi Beta Kappa

and Pi Lambda Sigma

- Member of Theta Chi Fraternity (Delta Omicron Chapter):

Treasurer, Historian

- Alumni Association: Treasurer and Fund-Raising Chairman (1979-

1986)

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