KEVIN L. MANWARREN

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CAREER SUMMARY

30+ years’ experience as a Systems Administrator who observed immediate applications of programs in a data processing environment, including involvement and supervising the functions. Experience includes production control and definitions of problems, troubleshooting and repair of production command streams, teleprocessing, monitoring multiple mainframes and PC systems. Additional experience coordinating off-site storage and management of tape library, supervising production control, handling customer input/output, user interfacing, coordinating nightly system backups and scheduling. LAN/WAN Network cabling and testing, Systems Migrations. HP TCP/IP configuration.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Graduate of Vaca High, Vacaville California. 1978

United States Marine Corps, Computer Sciences School, Quantico, Virginia. 1982

VSI, Online 1-1 Training, in System Performance Management. 2016

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Clustered Blade Servers BL890c i4, Itanium RX6600s and RX2620, AS400,

HP9000, Amdahl470 and Multiple PC’s.

Hardware: Digital, TL820,826,896 Silo’s, various 9track, 8mm, and DLT tape drives,

Tivoli Storage Management Enterprise Library. Various high and low speed printers,

Bursters, Decollators.

Software: Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Outlook, Visio, Windows XP/7/8 JCL, DCL, OpenVMS, MS Office 2016, Tivoli (TWS) Scheduling and HP SchedulIt.

Applications: SLS, BackupExe, Backman, CSS Classic, NICE Online’s, Medecision, and RIMS. PPM optics, ServiceNow, Oasis, HP OpenView, Secure Shell (SSH), ITG, ITSM, HPSM.

EXPERIENCE

ADMINISTRATION/MANAGEMENT

Activity organization, directing coordination’s, research and evaluation of detail, record-keeping reports,

determination of priorities, assuring confidence with quality standards, customer request/requirements.

SUPERVISORY/TRAINING

Heavy involvement in cross training of staff personnel, instructor of formal classes, promoting cooperative attitude, building confidence, work assignments and providing motivation through example.

STRENGTHS

Former United States Marine - Quick to learn, eager for the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in the field, working with others, ability to perform unsupervised, diligent, conscientious, able to prioritize work load, self-train in new areas, willing to work long hours to ensure all task are complete and properly accomplished.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

UNITED HEALTH GROUP, Plymouth, MN 2006 – 2017

OpenVMS Systems Administrator

Received email and text notification to ensure all disk drives, batch and print queues are available to customers. Coordinated with HP during hardware upgrades and repairs. Morning checkouts included health status of the system ILO’s. Wrote and maintained System Documentation utilizing Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio. Checked and assigned ServiceNow tickets to team members and ensured each ticket met its SLA.

Senior Production Systems Analyst for Data Center Operations, I trained all the new operators to perform all nightly activities to ensure all system and scheduled jobs were completed in a timely manner by identifying issues and resubmitting jobs or creating an HPSM ticket to the appropriate group to resolve.

Worked independently with VMS, DBA’s and scheduling groups during system failures. Involved in the systems and tape library migration from IBM.

Active participant in Disaster Recovery exercises. Created and updated utilized procedures. Ensured all data had proper encryption according to federal laws.

Escalated any problems to the proper personnel. Created detail reports of the nightly activities for management.

Monitor team’s batch and scheduled jobs for failures and took corrective action to prevent future problems. Ensured all backups completed successfully using Tivoli Storage Management backup.

Maintained the System Authorization Database by identifying disabled user accounts and removing them for future personnel.

Stayed current with security requirements by creating and maintaining an operator menu driven system. Modified the operator accounts to Captive.

Assisting new and current users with setting up and understanding the use of Secure Shell (SSH).

IBM, Saint Louis, MO. 2002 – 2006

Computer Operations Specialist, Team Leader

Ensured all system and scheduled jobs were completed in a timely manner. Assumed supervisor duties when supervisor was unavailable. Created detail reports of the nightly activities for management. Maintained daily and weekly VMS server backups including troubleshooting. Fulfill all customer requests and requirements. Participated in Disaster Recovery Exercises. Worked with VMS, DBA’s and Scheduling groups during system failures.

PACIFICARE, Anaheim, CA. 2001 – 2002

(Data Center outsourced to IBM Facility in Saint Louis)

Computer Operations Specialist, Night Shift Team Leader

Ensured all system and scheduled jobs were completed in a timely manner. Created detail reports of the nightly activities for management. Maintained daily and weekly NT server backups including, troubleshooting and documentation of offsite storage. Fulfilled all customer requests and requirements.

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