Project Manager / Business Analyst

Michael Searight

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Personal Details:

Nationality: US Citizen With Indefinite Leave To Remain In UK

Availability: Immediate

Work Experience: + 24 Years -

Control-M - 10 Years Control-D 2 Years experience with Migrations, Upgrades and decommissioning projects with established accounts with BMC for consultations, downloads of iso files and support for clients. Unix - Solaris - 8 Years Oracle - 6 Years Remedy - 3 Years Clear Case - 3 Years Clear Quest - 3 Years Test Director - 2 Years Netcool - 2.5 Years Tivoli - TWS - 5 Years Maestro - 3 Years SAP BW - 3 Years AS400 - 19 Years SYS36 - 4 Years

Education: Walisdowne University, Bournemouth, England - Bachelors Degree (3 Year) Computer Science, BS/NCC Computer Science, Minor Business Management. Certificate of Training, RPGII - 1987-90. Royal Society of Arts I and II, Short Courses: Applications, Database Structures. Certificates of Training, LOTUS 123 Working with Macros. Certificate of Training, Windows. Winona Technical College, 2 Year Certificate - Civil Engineering Technician, Winona MN, USA 1977-78. US Army – Combat Medical Corpsman, Equipment Supply and Storage Specialist, Pershing Missile Repairman, Administrative Specialist, and NCOES Candidate School.

Sept – Nov 2010

Nationwide Building Society - Swindon Technology Centre, Hillmead Drive, Hillmead, Swindon SN5 9YZ.

Control-M Technical Consultant - Operational Support Readiness Team

Applications: Control-M ver. 6.3, Hp Quality Center 10, UNIX – Solaris ver. 8 to 10, Windows 2003, Remedy ver. 7, MS Office Applications.

Responsibilities: Analysis, design, build, test, implement and documentation of a complex batch schedule of 20,000+ jobs. Liaising with numerous development teams to design the most operationally and efficient schedule. Utilizing and exploiting the functionality of Control M ver. 6.3. Production and Test environments work was mainly the OAT’ing of New Servers, MOM, Go-Live, Creation or Adjustments to various schedules. Handling of requests, changes and OPAD's for implementation of new schedules.

Jun – Jul 2010

U.S. Foodservice, 10410 South 50th Place, Phoenix, AZ, 85044

Control-M Technical Consultant - Technical Engineer – CONTRACT

Applications: Control-M ver. 6.1, 6.2 & 6.4, Data Centers, Windows Server Update Services, UNIX – Solaris ver. 8 to 10, Oracle 10g, Windows 2003, Remedy ver. 7, MS Office Applications

Responsibilities: For the transition of existing Control-M 6.1 for a temporary upgrade to Control-M 6.2 with use of Control-M Migration Tool Kit required to upgrading to Control-M 6.4.01. The exporting of tables in preparation to consolidate all the 18 Production (11386 jobs with 3008 scripts within 161 tables) and 11Test Data Centers. Maintain, install, and configure all Control-M deployments (EM, servers, and agents). Provide ongoing support of Control-M in the new environment including product support and the creation, editing of new and existing Control-M Jobs. In addition to include the creation of documentation and procedures. Cross training of existing out-sourced staff to support these environments. Work with development, infrastructure and support teams and take part in design and provide technical advice on automating scheduling of existing and future batch process using Control-M. To coordinate for the on-site visitation by BMC personnel for transition and licensing agreements required for the clients requirements and needs. Plan and implement Control-M system Change Controls in Production, including determination of impact and severity of those changes. Behavior Characteristics: Positive and able to work in a changing environment. Proactive, bring ideas to the table, communication skills, documentation skills

Feb – May 2010

Carlson Media, 1405 Xenium Lane North, Plymouth, MN, 55441

Control-M Technical Consultant - Technical Engineer – CONTRACT

Applications: BMC Control-M ver. 6.2, & 6.4, Data Centers, Linux, Windows Server Update Services, UNIX – Solaris ver. 10g, Oracle, Windows 2003 and 2008, Remedy ver. 7, BMC Patrol, ITIL, MS Office Applications

Responsibilities: As the technical engineer to support the Control-M 6.4.01 environment. With responsibilities for the transition of existing Control-M environment at the new hosting facilities. Maintain, install, and configure all Control-M deployments (EM, servers, and agents) provide ongoing support of Control-M in the new environment including product support and the creation, editing of new and existing Control-M Jobs. Other accountabilities included creating process documentation and cross training of existing staff to support the environment long term. Perform scheduled maintenance, patch management and upgrade software packages as needed in Windows and Linux environments. Work with development teams and take part in design and provide technical advice on automating scheduling of existing and future batch process using Control-M. Plan and implement Control-M system Change Controls in Production, including determination of impact and severity of those changes. Provide Control-M system support of production escalations from CMW Service Center. Behavior Characteristics: Positive and able to work in a changing environment. Proactive, bring ideas to the table, communication skills, documentation skills.

Jan – Feb 2010

Smart421, North Felaw Maltings, 48 Felaw Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8PN

Control-M Technical Consultant – CONTRACT

Applications: BMC Control-M ver. 6.2, & 6.4, UNIX – Solaris ver. 10, Oracle, Windows 2000, Remedy ver. 7, BMC Patrol, ITIL, MS Office Applications

Responsibilities: Performing further feasibility study for the takeover of the "Trac and Trace" batch schedules within Control-M from HDN (Littlewoods) for the end client. The role consisted of the overview of the batch schedules, what are all the jobs, their purpose, sequence / dependencies. Obtaining and verifying of distinct batch scripts. The understanding of cross-job dependencies, global conditions and their effects to the lift and dump cross-over between clients. Also providing procedures to the client for i.e. exporting of tables, and other numerous documentation for the Operations and Support Teams.

Apr – May 2009

London Clearing House Clearnet Ltd, Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street London, England

Control-M Consultant - CONTRACT

Applications: BMC Control-M ver. 6.3, VMS, UNIX – Solaris ver. 10, Windows 2000, Remedy ver. 7, BMC Patrol, ITIL, MS Office Applications.

Responsibilities: Provide excellence in Control-M development, into live production environments, and subsequent support as required. Effective Incident Management of events in the Control-M environment, as required by the business. Provision of consultancy ability for all Control-M deployments across the LCH.C infrastructure, ensuring requisite knowledge is provided to ensure a stable production service. To ensure all support provided for the Control-M environment comply with overarching LCH.C operating processes, including but not limited to Change Management, Incident Management and all Security considerations, as instructed. Participation in out of hours Control-M support team. Construction of relevant documentation for the Control-M environment and relevant overlaps into other architectures as required. Participating in any audit requirements where and when necessary. The ability to work pro-actively and pragmatically both independently and as part of a wider IT Infrastructure, Operations, Test, UAT and Development Team. Providing detailed reports on any outages or major incidents experienced in the production environment relating to the services directly supervised.

Jan – Mar 2009

Column Technologies/MIS For ARAMCO - Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia 31952

Control-M Consultant SUPPORT ANALYST - CONTRACT

Applications: Control-M 6.3 and 6.4, Control-D 3.6, Unix - Solaris ver. 8, Oracle ver. 9, SAP BW to an AIX platform.

Responsibilities: Conversion Project from Control-M 6.3 to 6.4. The collection of data, logs etc for the writing of various reports or creation and modification of procedures. To establish communication to the Development, Infrastructure and Management teams of any updates, changes, recommendations and corrections to ongoing issues etc. Supporting of the Operations & Technical Support Teams covering all aspects of the multiple shift patterns assigned to. Also support in the SAP environment with BMC Control-D where and when required. Dealing with issues between the users and BMC for various upgrades, patches etc and to increase the accessibility of viewing the reports etc issues that have been logged or generated in Remedy.

May – Dec 2008

Citibank - Meerbusch, Dusseldorf, Germany

SUPPORT ANALYST – CONTRACT

Applications: Control-M 6.3, UNIX, AS400 (Olympic) with some mainframe OS 390.

Responsibilities: Control-M 6.3 - Administrative/Operations/Support. Modification/changes and defining to newly created environments. Adding/Edit/Deletion of jobs within the Production and UAT Batch Schedules. Corrections to 1st, 2nd, line issues. The creation and set-up of new user accounts. AS400 Operations/Support and Security Monitoring Submitting of jobs, backups, restores to the Production, UAT and OAT environments. Perform administrative duties to user profiles. Work with controllers and the configuration status at command line level. Work with writers, printers and various out queues. Nonsys, SAV. DLO saves along with IPL's. Assisting the Support Team in service requests for internal, external and 3rd party vendors gaining access to numerous data centers, server rooms, cabinets etc in the Dusseldorf area do to the data centre relocation.

Oct 2007 – May 2008

Capital One – Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG2 3HX

Control-M Consultant DEVELOPMENT ANALYST III (Asst. Team Leader) – CONTRACT (1 Extension)

Applications: Control-M v. 6.2 and 6.3, Putty - SQL, BMC, Unix - Sun Solaris v. 10, Oracle, MVS-Mainframe IBM-390 HP Open View, Tuxedo, Visibroker, CORBA, FTP, SCP XML, Vectus, Web sphere, Visio

Apr – Aug 2007

SKY / IBM – Brentford, Isleworth, Middlesex, England & Edinbourgh, Livingston, Scotland

CONTROL-M DEVELOPER – CONTRACT - 1 Extension

Applications: Control-M v. 6.2 and 6.3 (Windows and Unix Platforms) - Sun Solaris v 8 & v 10 - sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000, Unix, Oracle, Putty - SQL, Test Director v 8.02., Remedy 6.0, Websphere.

May 2006 – Apr 2007

Littlewoods Shop Direct Group – Managed Test Environment, Aigburth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Control-M TEST SUPPORT ANALYST – CONTRACT – 1 extension

Applications: Control-M 6.1 & 6.2, Sun Solaris v 8, Unix, Oracle, Putty - SQL, Hummingbird v.7.1.0.0, Assyst

Enterprise v5.8, Test Director v 8.02. Web sphere, VERITAS Net backup ver. 5.1MP2

Apr 2005 – May 2006

British Gas Services (Centrica), Surrey, England

BATCH ADMIN SUPPORT ANALYST – CONTRACT – (2 Extensions)

Applications: SAP, Maestro, HP, BMC, TWS / Maestro, SAP BW, SAP IS-U, Siebel, and Legacy Applications Hp Open view, BMC Patrol, eGate Enterprise Manager, eGate Monitor, Hummingbird Neighborhood Connectivity V7.0, Quest – TOAD V8.0.0.47, BCD (Batch Control Database) Viewer.

Aug 2003 – Feb 2005

UBS Wealth Mgt AG & UBS Warburg Investment Mgt, London, England & Frankfurt, Germany

ENV SPT/ OPS / ADIM ANALYST – CONTRACT - 3 extensions

Applications: SUN SOLARIS 2.9 – I series AS400 OLYMPIC – OS400 – BRMS, OTG-Oracle Transparent Gateway - NETBACKUP VERITAS Backup Exec - WIN2000 NT - NETCOOL 1.1 – DATAWAREHOUSE - POWERCENTRE – INFORMATICA - ORACLE 9.x - TOAD MARKETDATA - UBITRADE & AVENUE – WEBSPHERE - FOTON - GIM2 - RCS – REUTERS - CONTROL/M (Windows – Unix – AS400 and Oracle) (On demand 7.1 , Web, Wealth Management AG & UBS Warburg Investment Management Avenue, Fix, Cdi, HiInvest, Hrec, Intmatch, Irma, Clone, Swiskey, Osmosys, Reuters, Ubitrade, Qmaster, Vsa, Xcoll, GIM2000). Broderick UBS Report/Spool Organizer.

Jun 2003 – Jul 2003

Cummins International, Cambridgeshire, England

OPERATIONS SUPPORT ANALYST – CONTRACT

Applications: AS400, UNIX, NT

Jul 2000 – Jun 2003

C. S. C. at Schroeder's Investment Management, London, England

OPERATIONS SUPPORT ANALYST (Team Leader – Training New Personnel) CONTRACT – 7 extensions

Applications: Control-M 6.0, AS400, HP 9000 and 3000, HP Open view ver. 4.X, Tivoli(TWS), Unix, MPE, Omni Back, FoxPro, ECS – Enterprise Control System – Legato/NetWorker Maestro, SWIFT, Merva and NT systems, MQ Series, BMC Patrol and various Web sphere Applications.

Jan 1996 – Jul 2000

Previous Contracted Clients - OPERATIONS SUPPORT ANALYST – UK & US

Capita / Sanderson Business Services, Adler Manufacturing Limited, Londis Holdings, Britool Limited, Bacardi Martini Beverages Limited, Westbay Distribution Ltd, Rhone-Plounc, IBM Support Site, Drake Insurance PLC, SmithKline Beecham PLC, The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, EDS Financial Services, Modine Manufacturing, Thilmany Paper / International Paper, The Menasha Corp,

Applications: HPUX and Oracle AS400, IBM 390, UNIX, MPE, Business Objects, NT, DEC, VAX, SAP, Unisys A4, A5, A7 & A12,

UNIX, Omni Back, NT and MS Office Products.

Jun 1990 - Dec 1996

The Martin Brower Company (Part of Dalgety Plc.) Kissimmee, Florida - COMPUTER OPERATOR/SUPPORT ANALYST (Team Leader) – Permanent

Applications: AS400, SYS36, NT and MS office Products

Jan 1987 - Apr 1990

University Educational Release Study Program, Wallsdowne University, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. - SYSTEM ANALYST TRAINEE

Feb 1975 – Aug 1980 and Aug 1983 – Jan 1988

SELF EMPLOYED CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR and PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

1971 – 1975 and 1980 – 1983

United States Army - Ft Lee, Virginia, Germany, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas - Brigade Headquarters S1 NCO Platoon Leader, Ordnance - Heavy Equipment .Operator, Combat Medical Corpsman. Responsibilities: BRGD HQ - CID Report Specialist/NCO and Honor Guard/Burial Team. - Asst. Platoon Sgt., Pershing Missile Repairman Equipment Supply and Storage Specialist.

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