Lisa Cooper Gazda

Waynesville, NC, ***** 336-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagazda acwgr6@r.postjobfree.com

A quality-driven and analytical software engineer who is always looking for a new challenge. Strong written and verbal communications and relationship with peers. Interested in a challenging technical career track in a development environment.

Work Experience

IBM

Infosphere Data Replication, remote (San Jose, CA) 2009 – Present

Design, develop and test code for VSAM and IMS replication products which are part of GDPS Active-Active solution. Develop code on workstation with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Introduced Agile methodologies, increasing productivity and quality of product.

Experienced with all aspects of Agile Development (have been scrum master of VSAM Replication / DevOps teams for the past 3.5 years).

Converted product from SAS/C to IBM/C, to better conform with the rest of IBM replication products.

Designed and developed code for product to support IPv6 and multiple language support.

Developed and tested code in both Windows and z/OS environments.

Created Java test cases in Eclipse-based Testbed environment, enhancing automation of regression testing.

Developed and monitored regression environment, which is coded in Python.

Worked with DevOps team that automated nightly development build process on Jenkins. Saved IBM the cost of one person’s salary that was dedicated only to this task.

CICS Development, remote (Hursley, UK) 2007 – 2009 Responsible for design, development, and testing on the CICS TS 4.1 release in an agile development environment.

TCPIP Development (Raleigh, NC) 1997 - 2007 Responsible for creating schedules, design, development, test, user documentation and customer presentations in a waterfall development environment. Involved on many teams including Configuration, Enablement, Netstat, SNMP, Stack, EE/SNA, and Sysplex.

VTAM Development (Raleigh, NC) 1987 – 1997

Development team member on many releases of VTAM, including the release that introduced APPN.

Education

BS Computer Science and Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1987

Additional Skills

C/C++

Java

SQL

Python

PL/X

Assembler

COBOL

DB2

IMS

VSAM

Rational Team Concert

z/VM

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Visual SlickEdit

UNIX

JavaScript

JCL

TSO

Microsoft Office

Windows

REXX

Linux

ISPF

CICS Explorer

Creating VMs with AWS EC2

Bash

MySql

Classic Data Architect

PuTTY

SAS/C

SPA

IDSS

MULTUT

Working with teams in Asia Pacific region on a daily basis

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