MIKE MOHR
N**** Harmon Rd Menasha, WI
****.*.****@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A proven IT professional, with over 40 years of progressive and hands-on experience in the IT field, rising through the ranks from operator to DP Manager of a multi-billion dollar company.
Proven experience with IBM iSeries hardware and software.
Proactive and responsive, with the ability to be decisive, flexible and make sound business judgments.
Highly developed skills in the IT field in the following areas: Design, installation, operation, and management of physical, virtual AS400 infrastructure
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
10+ years of IBM iSeries AS400 administration
Proficient in configuring and managing iSeries servers, storage, HMC, and backup devices.
Extensive experience with software, utilities, and tools for AS400 support. Including, Help Systems monitoring and compliance software, Unicom Turnover, IBM Flashcopy, IBM Client Access Software, IBM BRMS backup software, Mimix replication software, and ServiceNow ticketing, assets and contract management.
WORK EXPERIENCE
System Administer 09/1997 to Present
LSC Communications Menasha WI 54952
Responsible for understanding business and technical requirements to manage multiple iSeries systems with over 20 LPARs.
Experience with IBM system 36, 38 and AS400. P7, P8 and P9. OS V7R2 V7R3
The scope of my tasks included configuration, monitoring, backup, capacity planning, performance tuning, patching, break fix, security, compliance, and disaster recovery for iSeries platforms.
Plans, schedules and performs proactive maintenance, including OS and 3rd party software upgrades, PTF installation and IPL of iSeries systems to ensure optimum performance levels
Responsible for maintaining compliance, participate and provide reporting for internal and external audits for iSeries systems.
Responsible for disk and software (Mimix) storage replication for disaster recovery.
Perform annual disaster recovery tests.
Responsible for accurately reporting iSeries issues, maintaining iSeries software and hardware assets database..
Creates and executes CL programs for various backup, monitoring, and job scheduling activities
Provides support for production, test and development environments
Develops documentation and deployment plans in support of the AS400 production/development environments
Following established processes such as change and incident management
Troubleshoot hardware and software issues, managing break fix with 3rd party vendors for iSeries infrastructure.
Establish and maintain strong collaborative relationships with internal and external strategic partners as well as critical IT infrastructure service providers.
SKILLS
10+ years’ experience for the configuration, maintenance and administration of IBM iSeries (servers, multiple partitions), including message handling, command line utilities, work management, job and print control, device management, system configuration, system security, backup and restore, file transfer integration and PTF management
Skill in solving technically challenging problems involving IBM iSeries based applications and hardware issues.
Skill in prioritizing and balancing multiple tasks.
Working knowledge of CL and RPG programming languages
Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships and promoting teamwork
EDUCATION
Wisconsin IndianHead Technical college