Thomas Reilly

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IBM i (iSeries AS400) Administrator

Hands on IBM i Administrator with strong strategic and tactical work habits. Experience administering Global IBM i infrastructure on a large scale. Mindful of internal processes governing IT systems as well as operational/compliance risks influencing information systems implementation, modification and production processing activities. Familiar with regulations governing the Financial (SOX), Manufacturing (GxP), Banking, Retail and Gaming industries.

•Server Administration

•Capacity Planning

•cGxP & SOX Compliance

•Performance Tuning

•Incident Management

•Change Management

•Operational Automation

•Security Administration

•Technical Writing

Professional Time-line

Nestle (Kyndryl) Mar 2023 - Present

iSeries AS400 Technical Lead - Overseeing 2 iSeries AS400 Administrators supporting U.S. and European based servers; Implemented Secure SSL/TLS; Facilitated POWER8 to P9/P10 Hardware Migrations; Performed OS Upgrades; Implemented Offsite Tape Rotation; Provided Operational Automation;

Independent IBM i Consulting Jul 2015 - May 2016 & Jun 2019 - Mar 2023

All Aspects of IBM i (iSeries AS400) Platform Support for clients of Diversant LLC, Essextec Technology Group, and M.A.P Technologies including AS400 Administration, Performance Tuning, Security Administration and Application (Development & Maintenance) Support

Wells Fargo, Phoenix, Arizona (via Diversant, LLC) Dec 2016 to Nov 2018

iSeries Security Engineer – Security application maintenance & support, audit remediation and compliance support, contingency testing support.

Ollie's Bargain Outlet, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania May 2016 to Dec 2016

iSeries System Administrator – Sarbanes-Oxley & Single Sign-on, security remediation, and IBM i H/W, O/S & LAN storage support, performance tuning. Developed security programs and reports.

GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania May 1999 to Jul 2015

iSeries Senior IT Lead – IBM i server design/delivery, global server consolidation, security remediation, performance tuning, operational automation. Developed security programs and reports.

Subject Matter Expertise

•IBM i Infrastructure Administration, Consolidation, Technical and Operational Support

•Hardware Management Console (HMC), PowerVM (VIOS), Storage Area Network

•OS Upgrades/Maintenance, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, DB2 Index Optimization

•Security Remediation, Security Standardization and Security Administration

•Network Security, System Resource Security and Application Resource Security

•Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), Secure Sockets (SSL/TLS) and Secure Shell (ssh)

•Single Sign On (Active Directory & Kerberos) and Password Synchronization

•IBM Rational Developer for i (RDI). Interative and Batch programming. Native i and SQL DB I/O.

•Module and Service Program development. Exit Point, Database Trigger, and API Programming.

•Application Design/Maintenance using ILE RPG Free/Fixed, ILE CL, SQL, RDI, SEU, SDA

•Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) Compliance

•TCP/IP, SNA, IBM Enterprise Extender (HPRIP), Comm/Job Tracing, DB Journaling, MQ Series

•Root Cause Analysis, Technical Research & Development and Technical Writing

•Mimix VSP, Unattended Backup, Disaster Recovery, Media Library Operations and BRMS

•Operational Automation, Process Improvement and Cost Savings Initiatives

•Risk Management, Incident Management, Change Management and Document Management

Professional Accomplishments

•Facilitated and project managed all technical aspects of IBM i BPCS and JDE infrastructure consolidation from Central & South America, Middle East North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern & Western Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, Japan, Canada into strategic data centers

•Traveled to Europe, South America, Japan, Australia, Canada and Mexico while facilitating global IBM i infrastructure and application consolidation and as dispatched to global technical hot spots.

•Provided technical leadership and subject matter expertise in support of global IBM i infrastructure hosting manufacturing, financial, retail, commercial, messaging applications

•Designed, engineered, delivered and qualified 100+ IBM i Logical Partitions for consolidation of globally distributed manufacturing, financial, commercial and messaging applications

•Performance Tuned dozens of IBM i JDE, BPCS and warehouse mgt servers providing subsecond response time and often cutting overnight batch cycle durations by over %50

•Maintained IBM i applications and developed complex RPGLE, CLLE programs and interfaces to simplify Operational Automation, Security Administration and Server Consolidation

•Developed and Configured ILERPG Exit Programs to monitor and log IBM i Network Interface (Logon, FTP, Database) activity which included Database Triggers to escalate high importance incidents

•Maintained a Casino Gaming application as Senior Programmer/Analyst where I designed/developed new bolt-on modules to enhance marketing and gaming functionality

•Developed one of the earliest RPG based AIX to AS400 slot machine interfaces which became a template used by other AS400 based Atlantic City and Nevada based casinos

•Authored technical articles for Midrange Systems and System i News magazines on Performance Tuning, Secure Sockets, Operational Automation, Tips and Techniques

•Implemented Single Sign-on based on Active Directory/Kerberos for in-store retail application users as well as well as for pharmaceutical global shared services privileged users

•Developed comprehensive Security Reports to identify and assist in remediation of security exposures to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GxP) compliance

•Implemented Two-factor Authentication (2FA) front-end software to secure global banking interfaces and applications in order to reduce risk and enhance Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Education

Bachelor of Information & Systems Sciences - Stockton University

ILE RPG Programming - IMPower Technologies 10 Week Course (July 2022)

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