Mvs system programmer

CONRADO G. MINA JR.

*** ******* *******, *********, *******, Canada N1T 1M4

? *******@****.** Tel: 519-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Highly motivated, seasoned IT professional with extensive leadership skills and hands-on mainframe systems programming and infrastructure design expertise. Proven track record of planning and delivering mainframe system solutions in OS/390, Z/OS SYSPLEX environment platforms.

PROFILE:

26 years of experience in various capacities in system software programming involving Z/OS SYSPLEX,

OS/390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, MVS/SP, OS/VS1, VM/SP, VM/XA and VMHPO.

ENVIRONMENTS:

Hardware

?IBM Z9/103 / Z900 ?IBM Coupling Facility

?IBM 9037 (SYSPLEX Timer) ?IBM ESCON Director and FICON

?RVA 9393-T82 ?IBM 3090-400

?IBM 3090-600 ?IBM 3084K

?IBM 4381 ?IBM S/360

?IBM s/370 ?IBM ATL and VTS Peer to Peer.

Software

?OS/390/ZOS V1.6 ?MVS/ESA

?MVS/XA ?MVS/SP

?JES2 ?SA/390

?OPCESA/AOC ?RACF

?WEBSPHERE for z/OS ?Crypto for Z/OS

?RMF ?DFSMS/ATL/VTS

?DFHSM ?DFRMM

?DFDSS ?SDSF

?TSO ?VTAM

?TCPIP ?WEBSERVER (IHS)

?SYSPLEX ?and various THIRD PARTY program products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2007 Roman Catholic Church

Missionary, Roman Catholic Church

Mahe, Seychelles, East Africa

October 1997 – Dec. 2006

Saudi Business Machines Ltd.(IBM)

ZOS Specialist RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A member of a team of specialists, providing professional consultant services to the Ministry of Interior and National Information Centre of Saudi Arabia in the area of ZOS/390, DB2, CICS, and NETWORK. My duties include: installing and maintaining the ZOS/390 operating system and its related components that ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, and scalability. This includes managing and maintaining the ZOS/390 Parallel SYSPLEX configuration for all CPU's in the SYSPLEX. Monitor, trouble-shoot and administer mainframe operating system software, track and report software maintenance, consult with technical management on software changes to the systems. Assist in data center moves/upgrades/acquisitions, support disaster recovery testing, and coordinate problem management or scheduled changes with operators, client representatives and other system technicians. Coordinate testing and implementation of mainframe system software, including OS upgrades. Attend meetings and interact regularly with management, clients, and peers to continuously improve Software Programming services. Respond to customer issues 24/7, as assigned. In addition; the following encompasses my day-to-day areas of responsibilities:

1. Daily support of operational systems ensuring optimum availability of the Production environment in a SYSPLEX environment.

2. Performance monitoring and tuning.

3. Maintenance of current operating systems and third party Software.

4. Maintaining of ZOS/390 operating system and its related components that ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability and scalability.

5. Managing and maintaining of the ZOS/390 Parallel SYSPLEX configuration for all CPU’s in the SYSPLEX.

6. Maintaining of ZOS/390 ISV software products in a manner that ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability and scalability

7. Maintaining and managing of the ZOS/390 storage environment including monitoring, performance tuning, capacity analysis for all ZOS/390 storage components (DASD and Tape)

8. Problem isolation, resolution and troubleshooting.

9. Provide training of personnel as required.

Hardware environment: 3xZ103, 3xZ109 running ZOS 1.6 in a Test and Production Parallel SYSPLEX environment N-Way Data Sharing with a 24 X 7 availability requirement.

Responsibilities as ZOS/390 SPECIALIST Includes:

•Planning, Implementing and customization of Unix WEB HTTP 5.3 and WEBSPHERE 4.0.1/V6.0.2

•Planning, Implementing and maintaining of Z/OS 1.4 and ZOS V1.6,

•Planning, Implementing and migrating of Z103 to New Z109 processor configurations

•Planning, migrating and maintaining of B10 VTS standalone to Peer-to-Peer VTS & DFSMS tape

•Planning, Implementation and customization of ESS Shark 800 and Peer–to-Peer.

•Maintaining of existing SYSPLEX policies (CFRM, ARM, SFM, etc)

•Creating and maintaining of Coupling Facility structures.

•Customising and maintaining of System Automation/390 policies.

•Customising and maintaining of OPCSESA batch jobs schedules.

•Adjusting WLM (Work Load Manager) definitions.

•Customising and maintaining of the DFRMM, DFSMS, and DFHSM environments.

•Producing System and Operations Standards and Procedures

•Performance monitoring, tuning and reporting

•Storage administrating in support of the RAMAC (Raid 5 and RVA) and Shark DASD.

•Implementing and maintenance of System Exits and SMP/E USERMODS.

•Maintain an expertise in ZOS/390 systems programming functionality, processes, and procedures to ensure ZOS/390 operating system functions and capabilities are maintained at a proper level to meet the requirements of the business application running on ZOS/390.

•Assist, develop and maintain documentation for the ZOS/390 system software environment needed in order to effectively and efficiently operate the ZOS/390 environment.

•Plan regular upgrades and maintenance to the ZOS/390 operating system and associated software products.

•Participate in the evaluation and selection of new hardware and operating systems components as required to meet new or changed business needs.

•Ensure that the ZOS/390 environment capacity is utilized in the most efficient manner and that ZOS/390 meets or exceeds all performance goals and requirements.

•Assist with or execute all stages of problem, determination and resolution process as it pertains to the ZOS/390 environment and associated software products. Problem isolating, trouble shooting and providing resolutions; including vendor liaisons.

•Assist, research and identify software and hardware alternatives in the ZOS/390 environment to meet current and future business application requirements.

•Planning and defining of I/O subsystems in a SYSPLEX environment using HCD and HCM.

•Installing and maintaining third party software.

•Providing Training on a needed basis.

October 89 – October 97 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Senior Systems Programmer Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilities as Senior Systems Programmer:

• Planning, installation, implementation, maintenance and support of MVS/ESA and program products.

• Planned and Installation of OS 390 R-1 in SYSPLEX environment.

• Upgrade of MVS/ESA 3.1.0 to MVS/ESA 3.2.0 and 4.3.

• Conversion of MVS/XA 2.2 to MVS/ESA 3.1.0.

• Standardization of Naming Convention, maintenance processes, DASD and Datasets.

• Migration of processing facilities to new Computing Centre.

• ESCON conversion from parallel channels.

• Championed the initiative to revamp the banks MVS maintenance methodology resulting in the reduction in time and effort for migration of MVS software platforms, enhancing the availability and reliability of the MVS systems services.

• Personnel training as needed.

• MVS standardization, system reporting, monitoring and ongoing maintenance of various program products.

• Creation of processes and procedures for operations.

• Perform problem isolation and resolution which includes vendor liaisons.

• Provide internal training for operations and junior technical analysts.

Environment: IBM 3090s, AMDAHL 5990s, 17 MVS/ESA JES2 System Images, and Program Products.

March 88 – October 89 National Life Insurance of Canada Systems Programmer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilities as Senior Systems Programmer:

• Plan, install, implementation, maintenance and support of MVS/XA, VM/XA and Program products.

• Train intermediate system programmers.

• Perform problem isolation and resolution which includes vendor liaisons.

• Creations of processes and procedures for operations.

• Planned, Installed and customized MVS/XA and VM/XA as a pre-positioning task for DOS/VSE to MVS/XA conversion.

• Standardization of Naming Convention and processes with relation to Maintenance Processes.

• DASD management with the use of FDR/ABR/COMPAKTOR.

• Standardization of naming Convention with relation to DASD volumes and Datasets.

• Creation of processes and procedures in support of day to day functions for Operations and users.

Environment: IBM 3081, MVS/XA JES2, MVS/SP JES2, VM/XA, and VM/HPO.

February 85 – March 88 Kodak Canada Inc. Systems Programmer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilities as System Programmer:

• Planning, installation, implementation, maintenance and support of MVS/SP, JES2, ISPF/PDF and Program products such as OMEGAMON Epilogue, TLMS, etc.

• Install program products support and maintenance.

• Perform problem isolation and resolution which includes vendor liaisons.

• Creations of processes and procedures for operations.

• Software tuning and performance monitoring/modification.

• Software evaluations and recommendations.

• DASD management with the use of FOR/ABR/COMPAKTOR.

• Installation of VM/HPO 2.1 and MVS/SP in preparation for OSNS1 conversion to MVS/SP.

• Standardization of system maintenance and processes.

• Standardization of naming convention (DASD volumes and datasets.)

Environment: IBM 4381 MVS, CICS, OMEGAMON, VM/SP/HPO, RACF, TLMS, MVS/SP and Software products.

February 79 – February 85

Canada Systems Group of Canada Engineering Support Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilities as Engineering Support Analyst:

• Installation, maintenance and support of new releases of Operating system (VM/HPO).

• Installation of third part software.

• Perform problem isolation and resolution includes vendor liaisons.

• Creation of processes and procedures for operations.

• Software tuning and performance monitoring/modification.

• Software evaluations and recommendations.

• Installation of VM/HPO as replacement to VM SP 2.1.

• Progress through Computer Operations to Intermediate Technical Analyst.

Environment: Multi CPU, DOS/VSE, VM/SP/VM/HPO and Software products.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES:

• IBM MVS technical Courses

CONFERENCES:

• NASTEC User Conferences

• SHARE User Conferences

• GUIDE User Conferences

EDUCATION: Career Learning Centre of CANADA

Computer Operation

RYERSON Poly Technical Institute of CANADA

Computer Science (under graduate)

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