Terry A. Dunlap
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PROFILE:
A strong blend of technical, marketing, project management and leadership skills resulting from over thirty years of experience in working with IBM hardware and software in the host environments. During this time he has developed a professional approach to team building with a reputation for taking responsibility and achieving results. He has managed and performed professional services in a wide range of disciplines including IT strategy development, High Availability reviews, data center migrations and system operations/upgrades. Most recent experience has been as a systems engineer; implementing z/Linux in a z/VM environment. Prior to this he was a IMS systems programmer and performed staff augmentation for z/VM, z/OS, and RACF, developing, designing, planning and implementation system maintenance, upgrades, migration and support. He is also accomplished in a variety of technical roles including System Engineer, System Programmer, Consultant and Project Manager.
EXPERIENCE:
December 2009 – May 2015
TD Ameritrade, z/VM Systems Engineer, Indianapolis, IN
Consultant Engineer - z/VM systems programming with a working knowledge of the dependencies between z/VM and z/Linux. Engineering team implements and maintains a SLES 10/11 environment to host Oracle databases and WebSphere supporting the corporate customer website and back office financial reporting systems. This includes production, performance tuning and development environments running on the z platforms with SAN storage Responsibilities include installation, maintenance, networking, trouble-shooting, problem resolution, performance tuning (using both Performance Toolkit and Velocity), capacity planning, and disaster recovery of this environment. Additional VMWare training was provided and VMWare administrator tasks were included in responsibilities.
June 2008 – November 2009
IBM Corp., STG Lab Services, Security, VM, and Linux for System Z,
Indianapolis, IN
Staff Software Engineer - Performed planning, installation and customization of z/VM and Linux on z/Series including VMSES, REXX, SFS, TCP/IP, VTAM, RSCS, RACF, Operations Manager, Dirmaint and Performance Toolkit
December 2007 - May 2008
IBM Corp., Global Technology Services, Supporting AT&T Account,
Indianapolis, IN
IMS Technical Service Professional - Perform IMS systems programming support including monitoring of IMS systems, implementing changes, problem determination & resolution and software upgrades.
June 2003 - November 2007
AT&T Corp., Computer Services Division
Indianapolis, IN
IMS Systems Programmer - Perform IMS systems programming support including monitoring of IMS systems, implementing changes, problem determination & resolution and software upgrades. In addition, lead new function implementation projects, lead disaster recovery exercises and prepared/presented IMS JAVA implementation education.
January1996 - June 2003
IBM Corp., IBM Global Services, Integrated Technology Services
Indianapolis, IN
I/T Specialist - Performed planning, installation and customization of z/VM, Linux on z/Series and major IBM and third party software products for several customers with multiple engagements lasting 3+ years. As Midwest RACF specialist performed planning, implementation and customization of RACF security on z/VM and z/OS as well as migrations from ACF2. Additional experience included installation, customization, implementation and support of the major IBM program products and subsystems, i.e. RACF, VTAM, TCPIP, CICS and DB2
February 1987 - December 1995
IBM Corp., Sales and Marketing Division
Indianapolis, IN
Systems Engineer - Provide direct technical account support for IBM customers. Worked directly with customer technical staff to plan and execute software upgrades for MVS, VM and VSE as well as, hardware upgrades, hardware swaps and data center migrations involving mainframe processors, storage subsystems (both DASD and Tape) and communications interfaces. As a System Engineer, was responsible in maintaining the IBM software revenue stream and provide technical expertise to continue to grow IBM software within the account. Other duties included technical presentation to customer management, project management and assisting customer with disaster recovery planning and test.
FORMAL EDUCATION:
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
August 1979 - December 1983
Bachelors of Science in Business with emphasis in Quantitative Business Analysis
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:
IBM formal education includes:
z/VM installation and customization,
TCP/IP installation and customization,
RACF implementation and customization,
IMS implementation and customization,
z/OS Unix Systems Services implementation and customization,
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
EXPERIENCE:
z/VM Planning, Installation, Implementation and Exploitation including Linux on Z
Hardware Planning, Installation, Implementation and Exploitation
Mainframe Security Design, Planning, Implementation and Exploitation with RACF
Client Relationship Management
Host Subsystem installation/implementation. (RACF, DB2, IMS, CICS, etc.)
Mainframe communication software (TCP/IP, VTAM, NCP)
Mainframe workload migration software consulting
Project Management
SKILLS:
z/VM (v5.3, v5.4, v6.1, v6.2, v6.3)
Performance Toolkit
Dirmaint
VTAM
Linux Virtualization
z/VM Virtual Networking
REXX scripting
LPAR implementation and tuning
z/Linux
Velocity (V3 & V4)
RSCS
TCP/IP
RACF (on both z/VM and z/OS)
SLES 10/11 (with Oracle and WAS)
z/VM automation (with scripting and Operations Manager)