Design Engineer Mainframe

Eric B. Lambert, IBM Certified Mainframe Engineer

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Greensboro, NC 27407

c. 336-***-****)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM Corporation November 2012 to November 2019

Infrastructure Project Manager / Mainframe Systems Engineer

Managed mainframe upgrade projects from initiation through closing

Managed Data Center projects and operations including HW, SW, cabling, network, security, IMAC, parts and logistics management

Manage maintenance cycles and repairs for Data Center upgrades to Z14 mainframes

Support American Express Mainframe SSR and Account Managers

Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) May 1999 to November 2011

Field Engineer

Maintained, installed, supported and upgraded all StorageTek tape libraries, tape drives and disk array systems for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Reynolds American Holdings, Sara Lee Corporation, GMAC, Lincoln Financial and Novant Healthcare

Responsible for maintaining online mission-critical data storage and retrieval systems

Decision One April 1998 to May 1999

Branch Manager

Responsible for providing service to more than 400 accounts

Managed the daily operations including people-leadership for 13 field engineers, marketing sales management and logistics management, a 5 million dollar budget, Profit and Loss, scheduling, and service-call volume.

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L.E.A.D., Lambert Engineering & Advanced Design May 1995 to December 1999

Founder / Consultant

Designed and built computer systems

Consulted mechanical engineering, computer systems and networks, aerospace engineering, general engineering

Provided limited electronic/electrical engineering services

North Carolina A & T State University Department of Mechanical Engineering-NASA CORE August 1993 to December 1995

Chief Design Engineer

Responsible for designing, planning and overseeing construction of the school's 1995 entry in SAE Heavy-lift Aerospace Design Competition

Served as chief design engineer and chief construction engineer

Led team to design, build, prototyp and flight-test entry

Managed design projects including research dealing with HSCT (high-speed civil transport) and advanced propulsion systems through NASA-CORE

EDUCATION

North Carolina A & T State University

1990 to 1995 - Bachelor of Science in Aeromechanical Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

IBM mainframe Z series hardware, IBM virtual tape and DASD products, switches, hubs Advancd Enterprise level Trained

Sun Microsystems server products

Project Management Trained and Agile Trained

References available upon

Request

8 years experience as IBM Trained and certified Mainframe Hardware Engineer for American Express.

Responsible for 20 - Z13, Z14 and Z15 Mainframe Hardware Systems

Including installation, maintenance, HW troubleshooting, Hardware upgrades and parts replacement, Firmware updates and daily operations.

2 of these where Z14 mainframes for American Express TPF environment, that are the core of the business and handled global card transactions for the company.

I was also responsible for 53 DASD systems both DS7000 and 8000, in addition to 32 VTL systems and 3 physical tape libraries and a number of switches and routers on the Enterprise business class level.

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