Stephen L. Beaver

Lubbock, TX *****

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806-***-**** (Home) 806-***-**** (Cell)

Professional Profile

Systems Architect/Senior Analyst with more than twenty years of experience in z/OS systems programming, Including Data Center Migrations, Mainframe Security audits. Operating system customize system of components, HLASM/ALC, PL/I, REXX(Developer), and COBOL(Most Versions) programming, ISV product implementation, performance management, security management, and was a Security Architect. Routinely serves in a project manager role providing support to departmental customers.

Has held trusted positions requiring various high-level Commercial and US Government Security clearances in defense and in commercial enterprises in the financial, and health care areas

Software and Tools Used or Maintained

z/OS 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, JES2, JES3, Strobe, zPCR (Processor Capacity Reference), z/XDC, CICS/TS, DB2 V12, CA-OPS/MVS, Quickref, DF/DSS, DF/HSM. GitHub, DF/SMS, Storage Management (ICKSDF, CA-1, ADRDSSU, DFSMS(ACS Routines), Pagent, VSAM, IDCAMS, IMS DB/DC, SAS, MXG,, MIM, Endevor, CA-7, CA-ESP, TWS, ISPF/PDF, SDSF, TSO, RACF, Session Manager, NOMAD, JCL, CA-JCLCHECK, IPCS, SMP/E, HPO, REXX, COBOL, PL/1, RACF, CA-ACF2, CA-Top Secret, QRadar, Microsoft Office & Microsoft Project, Communications (VTAM, NCP, SNA, TCP/IP, CA-TPX, L/Supersession, ServiceNow, CA-Teleview, NCPass, TN3270, Panvalet, Panvalet ISPF, CONNECT: Mailbox, CONNECT: RDX), OSA/ICC. ASG Products (ZEKE, ZEBB, JOB Track), Compuware (Abend-Aid, File-Aid), BMC (Mainview, Remedy), WebEx, Zoom, MS Teams

Security Clearance

SECRET

Professional History

DMI for OPM/DCSA – zOS Cyber Systems Programmer --- August 2020 to Present

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

LDAP – Cleaned up C.V.E. to close security holes

Pagent – Closed PORT identified in a C.V.E.

Took over Support of CONNECT: Direct Secure+

Took over Support of Web Broker

Installed Host-on-Demand

zCloud support

CTG for IBM – zOS Operating Systems Support --- December 2019 to June 2020

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

IBM zLabs Support

Supported over 150 LPARs on 6 z15 processors and 21 Sysplexes with NetView automation for De-IPL and IPL for 21 Parallel Sysplex’ s

Standardization and automation of LPAR rebuilds such that daily or weekly maintenance be applied without the complete destruction of the SYSPLEX

Wrote all the REXX’s to be used to provide information to Watson

Wrote some HLASM routines to pull information out of the system to provide information to Watson

Created an LPAR from scratch in collaboration with my lead and loaded zOS 2.3 for internal use only.

Installed DB2V12

Installed and Configured the zSecure Suite for RACF for zOS including for zVM, Command Verifier

Installed and Configured CL/Supersession as part of a conversion from NVAS

Installed zOSMF on a RACF system

zCloud support

Artech for IBM - Logical Security Support Specialist --- Nov 2017 to November 2019

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

•Only member of the team that is a zOS Systems Programmer and that is fully conversant in ACF2, RACF, and CA Top Secret. Along with Vanguard RACF Analyzer, and IBM zSecure for RACF with Carla. ACF2

•Manager of Risk and Compliance for the State of Arizona, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the California Medicare/Medicare Insurance System, the Arizona ADAO the Arizona DES and more

•Installation of Certificates into ACF2, RACF, and Top Secret

•TSS Realignment for RBAC

•Support LPAR Creation and migrations

•SailPoint integration for CA-Top Secret

•Implemented ICSF

•Service Now

•zCloud support

Collabra for IBM - zOS Systems/Cyber Security/ Access Management --- March 2017 – May 2017

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

•Backfill the Security administrator as customer was attempting to move to Amazon Web Services. Involved migration of IBM/DB databases, complete DB2 spaces to AWS, along with the conversion to Oracle Security for AWS

Tucker-Rose Associates– zOS Systems/Cyber Security/ Access Management --- September 2016 – Jan 2017

Veterans Administration – AITC

•Installed the IBM Mainframe SIEM to monitor all activities. Interfaced it to IBM’s QRadar to makes all alerts be captured in less the .5 second and alerts e-mail in the next .5 seconds

•Worked in an environment with over 40 LPARS running zVM, OS390 2.10 and z/OS.

•CA Top Secret Administration, Two Factor Authentication using Smartcards, and CyberArk using Reflections 16 to control Privileged Accounts Management

•SAS, MXG used to Perform trending of security issues

•CyberArk and MFA

•NIST 800-53, PHI, PII

•The TOOL Maker

Cognizant Technical Solutions– zOS Systems --- November 2014 – March 2016

On Site in Seattle - - Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

MVS Lead/Administrator

•Lead zOS systems specialist, Storage specialist, DB2 backup specialist.

•Datacenter migration

•Administration and Support of a Parallel Sysplex

•ACF2 Security lead, Enterprise Security Hardening.

•Directors ESCON/FICON

•Configuration of OSA/ICC

•Develop and Execute Data Center Migration plans

•Wrote REXX to do systems cleanups

•Automation Lead, Mainframe Program Products lead, Mainframe Storage Backup.

•Disaster Recovery drills.

•Knowledge Transfer Documents creation.

•Stood up 2 complete datacenters using HDS G1000 HUR, and Replicating Luminex VTS’s

•Developing migration plans down to HCD/IODF/ STP Configuration

•Mainview, SAS, MXG used for Performance Tuning and Capacity planning

•Only resource on the team what wrote REXX, ISPF/PDF Panels using REXX, Only resource allowed to update PARMLIB, and the IPL process.

•Administration and Support of a Parallel Sysplex

•Two (2) Data Center migrations

•Upgrading from a zBC10 to a zBC12, upgrading zOS 1.13 to zOS 2,1.

•Decommissioned TS7700 GRID system and VTS in favor of an all DASD solution using PPRC at the local site and at the DR site.

•Conversion from CA-OPS/MVS to AF/OPER, the upgrading of all LPARS from zOS 1.9 to zOS 1.11 as well as all the various program products.

•Linked a Pair of DS8xxx boxes to perform PPRC/XRC

•Managed/migrated and deleted unused ICF catalogs

•Mainview/CPM, SAS, MXG, used for Performance Tuning and Capacity planning

•MFaaS Support

•Support CICS/TS Plex

•zCloud support

XBRIDGE Systems – PM/ Sr zOS Systems Developer --- April 2014 – August 2014

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

•Convinced the XBRIDGE Systems to bring in zXDC as a development tool to aid in developing, debugging and maintaining AUTHORIZED Started Tasks and authorized HLASM / ASSEMBLER code.

•All the code developed was fully reentrant and was designed to be easily maintainable.

•The data in question is associated with PCI, and PHI information.

•My role is developing HLASM routines and interfacing the Program Product to RACF, and ACF2, to verify entitlements.

•Wrote a complete ISPF Application Dialogs to support the Entitlement System.

•Guided the installed of ACF2 and was the only person on the ACF2 Guest/LPAR.

•Taught the Systems Programmer CA-Top Secret.

Vanguard Integrity Professionals – Sr MVS Developer – August 2012 – April 2013

Worked Remotely from Lubbock, TX

•Author, and Lead developer of the Vanguard Configuration Manager for ACF2 as well and maintenance of the Configuration Manager for RACF.

•Worked on the zVM STIGS.

•Responsible for writing the DB2 STIG for DISA.

•Products I worked on were 99 percent written in REXX, and the rest were in HLASM / ASSEMBLER

GTSG -- ACF2 Security, MVS, Storage SME --- June 2010 – August 2012

Worked Remotely from Amarillo, and Lubbock, TX

Worked on the Dual Parallel Sysplex Merge project for IBM/Wellpoint creation of at four (4) subplex’s with at least two (2) LPARS and up to six (6) LPARS per subplex for one Sysplex and four (4) subplex’s for the second Parallel Sysplex. DS8300, DS8700, and the TS7720 versus the needs of the customer and the Sysplex.

•Assisted the customer in writing ACF2 rules and eliminating security holes.

•Conversion from CA-OPS/MVS to AF/OPER, the upgrading of all LPARS from zOS 1.9 to zOS 1.11 as well as all the various program products.

•The Dual Sysplex team collaborated on documents to assist the IBM Global Delivery Facilities in (Iowa, and India). Conversion from CA-OPS/MVS to AF/OPER, the upgrading of all LPARS from zOS 1.9 to zOS 1.11 as well as all the various program products.

•Mainview, SAS, MXG, zPCR (Processor Capacity Reference) used for Performance Tuning and Capacity planning

•Supported the DB2 team migrating from DB2 V9 to DB2 V10.

•Provide major technical assistance and support of renaming in excess of 100,000 system datasets that were duplicate and over 500 duplicate DASD VOLSER’s, and eliminating over 100,000 duplicate tape VOLSER’s using IBM’s Proprietary Tape to Tape Copy Utility.

•Used FDRPAS to move whole, volumes.

•Built at least four (4) different DFHSM systems to support the new Sandboxes.

GEC LLC -- Systems Engineer --- Feb 2005 – May 2009

Worked Remotely from Amarillo, TX

•Worked on an extremely large and extended SYSPLEX that 100 tb of DASD.

•Implementation of CICS/TS 3.1 and GDPS (Global Mirroring/Metro Mirroring) for a complete Enterprise disaster recovery solution RPO and RTO.

•Did the HCD/IOCF for the various the StorageTek VSM3, and the VSM4 as well as the work in DFSMSsms

•Worked on an Assembler/DB2 project to convert several hundred job streams and programs from localized DB2 routines to use a central Cobol Program to do all the database extractions such that the reporting programs were doing little or no DB2 calls. Also did ETL’s from databases to other databases (DB2 and Oracle)

•Mainview, SAS, MXG, used for Performance Tuning and Capacity planning

•Supported clients including Williams Sonoma, NSTAR, Midland Mortgage, and many others. Coordinated and participated in the review of technical issues, including failure/root cause analysis operations. Also installed and worked on the Tivoli Workload Scheduler. Install and Configure Changeman ZMF.

•Failure and Root Cause Analysis, Account Management, Management of “Political” issues within the various teams, and customers, Crisis Management, Process Improvement, Disaster Recovery.

StorageTek Corporation – Senior Engineer --- Aug 2004 – Feb 2005 Worked Remotely from St Louis, MO, and Amarillo, TX

•Part of the Enterprise Support Program (ESP). The purpose of this team was to provide premium level support to the twenty-five (25) largest revenue customers of the Corporation, including Boeing, Fidelity, QWEST, SBC, and Verizon. This role coordinated Failure Analysis, and if required Root Cause Analysis for OPEN systems (HP, Redhat Linux, SuSe Linux, SUN, and Windows) along with MVS, OS390, zVM, and zOS systems.

•Supported storage systems running on Linux and has interfaced mainframes with Linux System as well as designed and optimized Linux Open Source Systems for various large customers

•Mainview, SAS, used for Performance Tuning and Capacity planning

•As part of a team effort, the role was responsible to train and give guidance to new team members in the basic knowledge of MVS, OS390, and zOS, which was necessary to support their large account customers. I covered the ACF2 issues for all those customers that used ACF2 R13 or less.

•Served as an additional resource to development engineering. Wrote the programs to be delivered to the end user on a one-time basis in IBM Assembler to perform CDS recovery.

The Newberry Group / UPP Business Systems – Systems Programmer --- Feb 2002 – Feb 2004

Worked On-Site in St Louis, MO, Harrisburg, PA, and Montgomery, AL

•Created an automated audit of CA-ACF2, CA-Top Secret, and IBM’s RACF. This process included the installation verification of all three (3) security packages to insure that the DoD and National Security Standards were always in compliance. The process was written totally in REXX.

•Worked in an environment with over 40 LPARS running zVM, OS390 2.10 and z/OS. This also included several HSM plex’s, over 25 Automatic Tape Libraries (Silo’s), over 20 terabyte of DASD with a tape library that exceeded 500,000 volumes. Was part of the Capacity Group that included Tape and DASD management and Workload management. Wrote several assembler routines. Was charged with responding to SRR’s as part of the DISA STIG.

•MICS/SAS Reporting

•Installed and supported OMEGAMON and Omega View

•Controlled console messages with MPF

•Investigated and corrected the performance problems that were being experienced with the IBM VTS (3494) and well as the work in DFSMSsms (ACS Routines). We used FDRMOVE to remediate DASD performance issues.

Romac International -- Systems Programmer --- Oct 1997 – Aug 2001

Worked On-Site in Houston, TX

•Installed and/or supported various versions of OS390 2.4 thru 2.10.

•Implemented the Work Load Manager from scratch.

•Controlled console messages using MPF

•Installed and supported OMEGAMON as well as BMC’s Mainview using SMP/e.

•Installation of CA-Top Secret configuration, and maintenance, which included being the Security Administrator. Trained the security administrators to take over the day-to-day administration activities.

•Supported CA-OPS/MVS by writing rules to massively reduce operator intervention.

•Wrote many ACF2 security exits in IBM ASSEMBLER. Wrote a Cobol Prototype for ACF2/CICS as a basis for programmers to secure their applications with multiple functions.

•Installed DB2 and DB2/CONNECT and was the initial DBA and the SYSADM for the company as they were starting a long term DB2 project with IBM as the lead contractor. Converted system to WLM. Also buffer turning, and in some cases increasing the amount of redundant data to help the overall performance of the application.

•As part of the ongoing Hardware upgrades did several HCD gens to support a StorageTek SVA and the de-gen’d of all the old 3390's. Also performed all the DASD migration using TDMF in two (2) working days.

•Worked on a VSAM Recovery Utility. This product is written in Object-Oriented Assembler and C++. The purpose of the product is to allow backward and forward recovery of any VSAM file defined to a Ruleset in either the batch or CICS environment.

Chase Bank of Texas – Systems Programmer --- Dec 1984 – Aug 1997

Worked On-Site in Houston, TX

•Installed and supported various applications and systems software on a MVS/ESA, OS/390 platform. These included various communications systems including CONNECT: Direct (NDM), CONNECT: Mailbox, CONNECT: SPC.

•Installed and worked on the conversion from no session manager to CL/Supersession. When Chemical Bank acquired Texas Commerce Bank, converted from CL/Supersession to CA-Teleview, and CA-TPX. Installed and supported CA1 (TMS) and CA7. All the exits written in IBM ASSEMBLER.

•Responsible for VTAM 4.3 and NCP 7.5. This included the tuning of the 4 cross-domains across 2 mainframes. We tuned and monitored the system using OMEGAMON/VTAM, and NCPMON.

•Installed, and supported CPCS as well as worked on the development of the Sort Pattern Generator all written in IBM ASSEMBLER. Coded Stacker Control Instructions (SCI) for the 8 reader/sorters the bank utilized. My prime responsibility was the MICR task that is in Multi-tasking ASSEMBLER.

•Wrote several feasibility studies, justifications and general design documents for the purchase of software and hardware for the MVS platform. Was the architect of the external communions systems for the external customers to transmit their various data to the bank for processing. This involved ordering the equipment. Oversaw the installation and certification of the various links required to make the project a success.

•Additionally, designed and implemented full computer resource charge back CPU time, print lines, tape mounts, disk accesses, tape accesses, CICS transactions, IMS Transactions, along with other billable resources such as NDM and NOMAD2.

•Installed CPCS and helped customize CPCS. Also worked on a product TCB sold named the Sort Pattern Generator

CONTINUING EDUCATION

SMP/E Fundamentals, Workload Management (Goal Mode), HCD and Dynamic I/O, HMC Operation and Configuration, VTAM Implementation, UNIX Basics for 4.3, zLinux Administration, UNIX Administration.

Business Writing, Effective Presentations, Effective Interpersonal Communication.

EDUCATION CLEARANCES

Texas Tech University,

Lubbock, TX – BBA

DCSA – Secret (Active – 08/2020)

CERTIFICATIONS OTHER Standards

HIPAA Compliance

DISA.NIST

FINRA Certified

Accredited Mediator

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