Maintenance Manager

PERSONAL INFORMATION

NAME: Rudra Prasad Guha

DATE OF BIRTH: 31 August 1988

ADDRESS: G01, Pavani Harmony, Whitefield, Bangalore - 560066 TELEPHONE: +91-888-***-****

E-MAIL: ***************@*******.***

CAREER SPOTLIGHTS

o 2018 – Moved to HCL Products and Platforms as Mainframe technical architect. o 2017 – Moved to Microfocus as Mainframe senior systems admin to take care of Serena and microfocus mainframe infrastructure.

o 2016 – Move to ca Technologies as platform Administrator and taking care of products R&D. o 2015 – Move to IBM zOS system administrator from operations. o 2013 – Switched with same profile and technology to IBM India, working for Caterpillar (CAT) o 2012 – Switched with same profile and technology to HP (Mphasis), worked on leveraged environment for multiple clients.

o 2010 – Started working at HCL as Mainframe operations and scheduling resource worked for Singapore Exchange(SGX).

EDUCATION

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IBM Mainframes z/OS, z/VM.

Job Control Language, CICS, DB2,

IMS.

SMP/E installation

Non SMP/E product installation

REXX

Setting up parallel sysplex (CFRM

Policy)

Mainframe troubleshooting and

problem investigation.

zUNIX (ISHELL & OMVS)

JES2 & JES3(Job entry subsystem).

Mainframe batch scheduling

TWS/OPC (operations planning and

control)

SMF, LOGREC & SYSLOG

PARMLIBS & PROCLIBS

Catalog Management

Memory Concepts (Real, Virtual &

Auxilliary)

Mainframe infrastructure DR testing

Netview & ‘SSM’ for Mainframe

automation.

IPL (Initial program load). – HMC

Degree Subjects / Specialization Institute Board/University Year B.Tech. ELECTRONICS AND

TELECOMMUNICATION NMIMS, MPSTME, MUMBAI NMIMS 2010 AISSCE-

2006

PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY,

BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS,

ENGLISH

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA,

COSSIPORE, KOLKATA CBSE 2006

AISSE-

2003

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS,

SOCIAL STUDIES, ENGLISH,

HINDI

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA,

COSSIPORE, KOLKATA CBSE 2003

SPECIAL ASPECTS

Impeccable communication skill.

Extremely quick learner and highly adaptable.

8 years working experience in highly critical, financial application and mission critical system.

Multiple mainframe operations project transitioned and stabilised to offshore model. Immensely appreciated for high availability, reliability and consistency. WORK EXPIRIENCE

HCL Technology (June 2018 – Present)

Designation : Mainframe Technical Architect

Location : Bangalore, India.

Roles and Responsibilities: As Mainframe Architect I am responsible to setup, migrate and oversee the entire Mainframe Infrastructure on HCL P&P and products which run on the mainframe.

zOS installation, maintenance, up gradation.

zVM provisioning, installation, maintenance & Upgrade

hosting RHEL / SLES and zOS machines over zVM.

IMS, CICS, DB2 - installation, up gradation & maintenance.

RACF security administration.

Storage configuration and maintenance.

Mainframe Network configuring VTAM, TCPIP, SNA networking.

Performance and capacity planning.

Logging with SMF, RMF, Logger etc.

JES2 / JES3 setup.

IBM / ISV, both SMPE / non-SMPE product installation.

Hardware ordering and provisioning IBM, EMC, etc. DS8884, VTS7760, IBM z13s

IBM / ISV License management.

Microfocus (Nov 2017 – May 2018)

Designation : Mainframe Systems Administrator

Location : Bangalore, India, Seattle, WA, USA.

Roles and Responsibilities: As zOS admin we are responsible for the Microfocus and Serena Mainframe infrastructure.

I am presently working on upgrading all LPARs to zOS 2.3 which are presently running 2.1 and 2.2

Also providing Security admins support for ID creation and day to day security tickets for users.

Deploying and creation of zVM and other zLinux machines.

Creation of new LPARs.

IODF and IOCDS creation and building new machined for testing. CA Technologies (Nov 2016 – Nov 2017)

Designation : Platform Administrator

Location : Hyderabad, India

Roles and Responsibilities: zOS application installation, upgradation and maintenance of CA products, IBM products and other ISV.

Ca Product exposure – ca Netmaster, ca Common Services Suite, ca ACF2, ca PDSMAN, ca Sysview, ca Top Secret Security.

ISV product exposure - SAS, quickref.

Providing mainframe networking support.

Providing support on issues of mainframe storage and related data space utilization.

Providing support on mainframe security issues.

Testing and installation of new products, (beta testing of new and development phased products)

IBM India (From Apr 2013 – Nov 2016)

Designation: Mainframe zOS system programmer.

Location: Bangalore, India

Client: Caterpillar INC.

Roles and responsibilities: zOS application maintenance and problem determination,

Software version upgrade – for IBM products and ISV products ACF2 from CA, ECC, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Abend-aid from Compuware, ESRF and ETFA from EKC, AS from Rocket Software, EJES from phoenix software international, etc.

Software PTF/APAR installation. SMP/E

Respack cloning. (zOS 2.1 upgrade)

Parmlib updates.

Performing time change. (Daylight savings)

Z13 Migration from z196 and z10 machines.

Setting up new DR locations on new hardware.

Performing DR exercises. (Setting up parallel sysplex)

Using GDPS (Globally dispersed parallel sysplex) for system data consistency.

JES2 / JES3

WLM (workload manager) policy control.

Mphasis an HP Company (From Dec 2012 – Apr 2013)

Designation: Senior Spl. Technical Engg.

Location: Bangalore, India

Clients: U.S. Airways, AGCO (agriculture firm), Phoenix (insurance company), Marathon Oil, TOPS supermarket, Mittal Steel, Rochester Document centre.

Roles and Responsibilities: Mainframe Operations and scheduling of jobs in a multiple client leveraged environment; performing IPL during scheduled maintenance; Console monitoring; reporting of critical alerts and job abends.

HCL Technologies IOMC (From July 2010 – Nov 2012)

Designation: G.E.T., Analyst

Location: Delhi, Noida, India

Client: SGX (SINGAPORE EXCHANGE)

Roles and responsibilities: Working as a Mainframe OPS resource in HCL for SGX gave enormous learning opportunities in the domain of IBM Mainframes and also how the criticality of a business environment of stock exchange is taken care by implementing technology and industry standardized business processes.

Day-to-day activities included:

Batch Job monitoring,

Job Scheduling in OPC,

Console Alert monitoring,

Managing Onlines through CICS,

Handling DB2 and VSAM data bases.

Mainframe system performance handling,

Tape and Storage management,

Print management,

Weekly Backup and Housekeeping activities,

Weekly Shutdown and IPL,

Emergency DR.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Best performer award in North America region zOS system programmer team ‘May 16.

Certificate of Appreciation for Best performer in Singapore Exchange OMC ‘Nov 11. Editor for HCL Employee first quarterly Newsletter fifth edition April 2011. TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION

IBM Certified Mainframe Professional, IBM Internal trained. (Including on the job training).

IBM Mainframe System Programmer course from DUCAT, NOIDA. Course included JCL, COBOL, DB2-9, CICS programming.

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