OBJECTIVE

To work in an company that I can make full use of my skills, and to learn more in the bargain.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

Hardware:

IBM 4381, IBM 3090 series, IBM z/8x series mainframe, IBM Series 1, IBM P/390, IBM MP/3000, Xerox 4050/4090/9700 laser printers, various PCs, various HP printers, and Periphonics 7xxx/9xxx voice mail computers.

Operating Systems:

MS Windows 9x, XP, and NT/2000, MS DOS 3.3 and above, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS, EDS, EDOS, DOS/VSE, and VM/CMS.

Software:

MS Office (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint), MS Project, RACF, TSO/E, SPF/PC, ISPF/PDF, SDSF, CA products (JOBTRAC, CA-11, IDMS, Panvalet, ACF/2 & others), Compuware products (QAHiperStation, Abend Aid, Xpiditer, Strobe, & others), Vanguard's VSS (VRA, VSR, VSA), CICS, DFDSS, SYNCSORT, and Group One's (Code 1) software.

Databases:

VSAM (IDCAMS), and IDMS. Familiar with Cincom's TOTAL and E/1, Oracle's SQL, and DB2

Languages:

Micro Focus COBOL with Tool Kit, VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390, Enterprise COBOL for OS/390, DYL280, CLIST (TSO) ISPF/PDF Dialog Manager, OS 390 & z/OS JCL, and XML.

Also familiar with Command Level CICS COBOL, RPG II, REXX, MS DOS BATch files, Assembler, DOS JCL, QUIKJOB, EDL, Xerox FSL & JSL, and Periphonic's VPS & VRAM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April, 2016 through Current

Security Administrator

TEKsystems

State Highway 161 #375

Irving, TX 75063

Assisted a client with determination and reporting on open access to data, or discontinued process, for removal from RACF, across multiple Nodes and LPARs.

March, 2014 through July, 2014

Sr. Software Developer

Vanguard Integrity Professionals

180 S. Anita, Suite 200

Orange, CA 92868

Worked and trained .NET software developers on RACF, for new web and JAVA based interface to RACF.

Documented the VSS system for US Government standards.

January, 2002 through February, 2014

System Support Analyst & Infrastructure Support

Balboa Life & Casualty/QBE

3349 Michelson, Suite 200

Irvine, California 92612-8893

Worked with the IBM mainframe vendor (SMS/Infocrossing/Wipro) for various tuning options, including working with their CA-ACF2 security administrators for application security and access, with their disaster recovery teams for the quarterly tests, and their system programmers on operating system upgrades for OS/390 and z/OS, twice a year, testing production applications and third party products.

Designed and wrote NPPI (NonPublic Personal Information) tracking of user access, for all CICS regions, via decoding QAHiperStation scripts, by unloading data, then converting into XML that is sent via USS and WRQ to corporate servers. XML control cards were used to define screens to be tracked, and where data is located on them.

Maintain the IDMS databases, including creating software for transferring inactive lenders from active databases, to the inactive holding database, and purging inactive loans to archive.

Generate data, from IDMS databases, to send to parent company, Countrywide Credit Inc., and later Bank of America, for required OFAC scanning. Continued archiving this data, for QBE.

Created system to send reports to AXSPoint (COOL), via FTP, with COBOL program that ‘walked’ the DEB/TIOT/DCB, for report and data set names.

Modified CCS system to send letters and certificates to eXstream Dialog, in a ‘pipe-delimited’ file.

Monitoring and modifying production schedule for CA-JOBTRAC, to optimize the nightly production streams, to complete on their scheduled times or earlier. Created COBOL programs to read CA-JOBTRAC reports, and create ‘pipe’ delimited files that are input into MS Project, for view prior nights production activity.

Maintain and support CCS software, written in COBOL, for input of lender and insurance company information into the system.

Other Experience

Project Manager for Year 2000 conversion of all software for two different companies. This also included source research, planning, requirements planning, and actual code changes.

Created translation layer for the raw RACF data to be translated directly.

Extensive training in RACF, from a user stand point, and internals.

Working on various user interface applications that accessed data from the RACF database, using ISPF panels and COBOL programs.

Written complete functional specifications for upgrade current or for new applications.

Did research via the Internet for information required for the Software Development and QA departments.

Been Team Leader for the various systems. Turned one Team from having the most Bugs reported, to the least. Personnel on the Team were desired by other teams, due to their knowledge base. Duties also included training of new employees and consultants, technical project management, and system analysis and programming.

Over the years, designed and wrote several systems, for billing, inventory, and user interface to existing IBM systems, being RACF and SMF.

EDUCATION

June 1999, and May 2000

Vanguard Integrity Professional’s Conference

Dallas TX & Atlanta GA

Training in RACF and Mainframe security fundamentals.

July 1990

Periphonics

Bohemia, NY

Training on VPS 7xxx/9xxx series, The EXEC operating system, and the VRAM programming language.

December 1989

Oracle

El Segundo, CA

Training on Oracle database basics, using SQL*Plus, using SQL*Forms, and other systems utilities.

December 1989

On-line Systems

Marina Del Rey, CA

Training on CICS Command Level COBOL, and BMS maps.

November 1983

Cincom

Irvine, CA

Training on TOTAL database, and E/1.

December 1980

IBM

Century City, CA

Received training on the Series/1 EDX operating system, which included system generation. Also, training to program in EDL (Event Driven Language) on the Series/1.

September 1974 through February 1975

Control Data Institute

Anaheim, CA

Training in data processing concepts, and programming in FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG II, and Assembler.

REFERENCES

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