Data Management
Resume:
John Greer
Expertise:
Highly effective business and technical Communicator
across organizational levels
Savvy Negotiator and Mediator, able to identify value
Senior Systems Engineer, Programmer and Architect for all parties to drive agreement
Expert business and technical Problem Solver,
As a consultant, Mr. Greer was recruited by IBM Project Executive who created a core specializing in the myriad of storage and replication
team of IBM employees to relocate the USDA National Finance Center s production data specialties, including XRC, VTS PtP and SRDF
Innovation Leader, providing leading edge,
center and establish a resilient backup data center. During this 3.5 year assignment, Mr.
economically compelling solutions to mature
Greer owned and led the mission critical Mainframe platform and was responsible for
Information Technology clients for more than 30 years
hardware, software, storage (DASD, Tape, Silo, and VTS), continuity and recovery. Mr. Knowledgeable Trusted Advisor, leading I/T teams to
Greer designed, implemented and supported a double Data center move when a major performance success across the system management
hurricane forced the Agency to relocate to their DR vendor. disciplines.
To ensure the availability and resiliency of your core
business functions, Mr. Greer leverages his deep
Mr. Greer delivered:
relationships across the industry (IBM, EMC, HDS,
a fiscally sound backup environment which provided adequate resources to support Brocade).
Mr. Greer excels in ascertaining your business real
recovery efforts in the event of a disaster event while containing costs
the relocated production environment which can handle significant processing requirements, how to integrate disparate hardware
and software, who to call and what to change in order
capacity fluctuations to reduce your TCO / Operating Costs, while meeting or
the migration requirements between these two data centers which include highly exceeding your objectives.
available processing with cost containment, built within the BIA RTOs and RPOs Recent Engagements:
USDA, National Finance Center
Mr. Greer is an accomplished, proactive IT leader with successful experience building
Designed, established and supported a new recovery
and leading cohesive teams to achieve project objectives in extreme conditions and data center in response to Hurricane Katrina
difficult situations. He is a customer-focused manager and technician committed to displacement. Results included establishment of a
building corporate success by identifying and capitalizing on business opportunities. secure 10,000 sq ft data center within a DR vendors
facility, operational management procedure
Mr. Greer s extensive knowledge of information and network issues includes designing development and dedicated equipment procurement,
installation and validation which included IBM z-Series
and managing technical solutions, including: IT system security, business continuity and
processors, DS8300s, Virtual Tape Servers, STK tape
disaster recovery; data center design; network operations, maintenance, design and
Silos and a complex secure network infrastructure to
installation; software, database and Web development; life-cycle, logistics, and program support the electronic tape and disk replication.
management support. Designed, established and supported a new production
data center into a government-owned facility with the
Notable Experience same infrastructure as the interim data center.
Developed a cost effective DR migration strategy
Designs Data Centers for disaster recovery and operations, establishing the between the two facilities, located 1,800 miles apart.
Managed and executed the data center migration with
required support infrastructure for the enterprise in the most cost effective manner,
zero production impact. Designed and implemented a
including operating system management and programming, application development mainframe data replication solution to protect and
and programming, security and risk management, change and problem management, migrate data between the two new data centers:
Designed and implemented VTS Peer-to-Peer (PtP)
telecommunications infrastructure, and technology refresh planning and
for over 500,000 virtual volumes.
implementation.
Designed and implemented XRC for 21 TB+
Data Center Operations and Support, Data Migration and Data Replication Subject Results included workload analysis, data throughput
Matter Expert. Develops rules of engagement, work plans, implementation guides, analysis, business case analysis and development,
system and network design, integration and
support procedures and training manuals for contracts pending and in process. Writes
migration planning.
proposals, Technical procedures and mentors junior analysts.
Technology Skills:
Owns a Small Business specifically established to create software and provide
OS / DBMSs:
services for Business Continuity strategic development, management, control and
zOS, OS/390, MVS, z/VM, Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, NT,
automation. Developed a suite of management software products that can discover,
Me, 98, 95), OS/2, DOS, VSE, DB2, IMS, CICS, IDMS, SAP,
monitor, report, and control physical and logical elements within data center UNIX/AIX, Sun Solaris, Oracle, Sybase, Adabas
infrastructure, taking much of the manual labor - and cost - out of the process. Program Products:
Established the Business Continuity Program Office as a Director at Merrill Lynch. JES2, JES3, SMP, DFSMS, DFSMShsm, RMM, OPC, RACF,
TopSecret, CA-ACF2, VSAM, NCP, VTAM, CA1, CA7, CA11
Mr. Greer planned, created and managed an $86M Business Continuity Program Office,
Recovery/Automation:
responsible to establish critical recovery time and point objectives and recoverability for
XRC, SRDF, PPRC, RRDF, IMS Online Recovery Service
two 24/7 dual sysplex d data centers.
(IMSRSR), IXFP/Snapshot, ABARS, DFSMSdss (DFDSS),
Owned all Business Continuity hardware and software products as the Director of DSF, FDR/ABR, HSC, BMC, Veritas BackupExec,
Business Continuity Solutions for Hitachi Data Systems. Was responsible for HXRC, HRC, NetBackup, VolumeManager, CNT, InRange, McData,
Brocade, LDRPS
HARC, NanoCopy and associated DASD devices.
Languages and Frameworks:
Web: C/C++, JavaScript, XML, HTML, DHTML
zOS: Assembler, CLIST, REXX, JCL, HCD, IOCP
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PC: Visual Basic, REXX
VM: REXX, EXEC2
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