Bruce Redfield

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Systems Engineer Consultant @ First Citizens Bank
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Rolesville, North Carolina, United States, United States
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Extensive experience in data processing with specific expertise in large z/OS systems and also working in the Unix arena. Excellent problem solving, analytical and team-player skills that have benefited all clients resulting in system reliability and improved processes. Ability to learn and adapt quickly when placed in unfamiliar territory.Specialties: z/OS, z/VM, z/Linux

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First Citizens Bank

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Bruce Redfield Work Experience Details
  • First Citizens Bank
    Systems Engineer Iii - Lead Z/Os Systems Programmer
    First Citizens Bank Aug 2013 - Present
    Raleigh, North Carolina, Us
    • Swing all production & development systems from primary data center to secondary datacenter run production for over a month and then swing back.• Installation and support of SailPoint RACF Provisioning Tool for centralized security administration.• Planning and implementation of new IO Configuration IBM DS8884F DASD at our secondary and primary datacenters.• Installed and implemented z/OS 2.3 in development and production LPARs, June and November 2019.• Planning and implemented of IO Configuration for new IBM VTL installation• Installed and implemented z/OS 2.2 on test, development and production LPARs in June 2018.• Z14 installation at our secondary and primary datacenters in February/March 2018.• Installed and implemented z/OS 2.1 on test, development and production LPARs November• zEC12 installation at our secondary datacenter completed November 2014• zEC12 installation at our primary datacenter completed August 2015• Maintain multiple IO configurations for current mainframe z196, secondary datacenter zEC12 and future zEC12 at primary datacenter. • Create IO configuration/procedure to IPL production image on a shadow copy of production data at our secondary datacenter for testing purposes• Participate in the development and implementation of our production swing procedure to mover all production work from our primary datacenter to secondary datacenter• Installed and maintain BMC Intelligent Capping tool to help reduce mainframe costs and manage capacity between Production and Development systems• Installed and implemented DB2 v11 on test, development and production LPARs• Installed and implemented Tivoli DB2 Omegamon Performance Monitor v5.2• Installed and implemented DB2 Query Monitor 2.3.• Participated in Disaster Recovery testing our production environment at Sungard February 2014.
  • Unc Healthcare
    Lead/Senior Z/Os Systems Programmer
    Unc Healthcare Dec 2006 - Aug 2013
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us
    Support the UNC Health Care Sysplex environment by maintaining current software levels and implementing upgrades to the operating system, monitoring system performance and availability and resolving all CPU I/O virtual storage and application performance issues, manage the hardware configuration for the entire datacenter, coordinate all disaster recovery issues, support of all 3rd party vendor software and responding to all customer needs promptly. The environment includes 4 production, 2 development and 3 test mainframes running z/OS 1.12.Also we run 3 z/VM 6.1 LPARs with multiple z/Linux guests (SuSE 10 SP1) running on each in support of our Data Warehouse environment. Installed InfoSphere 8.1 FP1 and FP2 which included DB2 9.5 and WebSphere 6. Also installed z/VM and z/Linux Omegamon Monitoring Agents along with the z/VM Performance Tool Kit.• Netezza Adminstration• Installed Information Server 9.1, WebSphere 8.5 and DB2 10.1.• Installed and implemented z/OS 1.7 and z/OS 1.12 on 13 production, development and test LPARs.• Installed zVM 6.1 on three zVM LPARs.• Installed z/Linux SuSE 10 FP1 on over 15 guests all running various applications, InfoSphere, WebSphere, DB2, Federation Server, DataStage, Portal Server.• Creation of z/Linux guests running under z/VM• Installed Z10B mainframe including reconfiguring configuring hardware• Installed DB2 8.1 and 9.1 on eight production and development z/OS LPARs.• Installed Tivoli Omegamon z/VM and z/Linux Monitoring Agents on z/Linux guests• Installed and maintain InfoSphere 8.1 and 8.7 for Data Warehouse• Migrated DataStage projects from InfoSphere 8.1 to 8.7 using IS Migration Tool 8.7
  • Secu
    Lead Systems Z/Os Programmer
    Secu Aug 2006 - Dec 2006
    Raleigh, Nc, Us
    Support z/OS 1.4 and all supporting software products at production and development environments at multiple sites.
  • Pitney Bowes
    Senior Analyst - Z/Os Sysprog
    Pitney Bowes Oct 2002 - Aug 2006
    Stamford, Ct, Us
    Sole support for the Pitney Bowes Windsor Solutions Center facility running z/OS 1.5e and RS6000s by maintaining current software levels and implementing upgrades to the operating system, monitoring system performance and availability and resolving all CPU I/O virtual storage and application performance issues, manage the hardware configuration for the entire datacenter, coordinate all disaster recovery issues, support of all 3rd party vendor software and responding to all customer needs promptly. Responsibilities include ALL System Managed Storage administration and maintenance as well as ALL RACF security support and administration.I also provide support for the Pitney Bowes Danbury Datacenter and their 4 production LPARS working with the 5 member z/OS Systems Software staff.
  • Reader'S Digest
    Unix Administrator
    Reader'S Digest Jul 1999 - Apr 2002
    Support the Readers Digest Unix/AIX production server environment by maintaining current software levels through upgrade/patches to the current operating system, monitoring availability and performance of the production servers resolving all performance issues, and responding to all customer needs promptly including userid and printer definitions.
  • The Reader'S Digest Association
    Lead Systems Programmer
    The Reader'S Digest Association 1999 - 2001
    Support the Readers Digest OS390 Parallel Sysplex environment by maintaining current software levels and implementing upgrades to the operating system, monitoring system performance and availability and resolving all CPU I/O virtual storage and application performance issues, manage the hardware configuration for the entire datacenter, coordinate all disaster recovery issues, support of all 3rd party vendor software and responding to all customer needs promptly.
  • Janus Associates
    Mvs Programmer Analyst
    Janus Associates Jan 1999 - Jul 1999
    Stamford, Connecticut, Us
    " Support IBM PC/500 Server and Integrated Server S/390 running OS/390 2.6 under OS/2 Warp including installation of OS/390 2.6 and network problem determination." Assist in debugging and testing of new levels of ICUOS390 software product marketed by Janus Associates to identify security exposures on mainframe, Unix, Windows/NT and internet platforms. " ICUMVS frontends RACF on the mainframe and identifies any potential security exposures and makes recommendations on how to close those exposures." Support of the Janus Associates Windows NT network
  • Cendant
    Lead Os/390 Systems Programmer
    Cendant Aug 1997 - Jan 1999
    Brooklyn, New York, Us
    " Primary support for all mainframe related issues including OS/390 upgrades, RACF support, and all 3rd party vendor product support, including CA1, CA7/CA11, CA-OPS, CA90s and CA-MIM." Facilitated, planned and implemented Cendant Stamford Datacenter move to Trumbull Datacenter" Re-design of SMPE systems software environment to better facilitate implementation, rollout and maintenance of OS/390 2.4" Facilitated and planned for installation and testing OS/390 2.4" Created third production LPAR for EPSILON project " Capacity planning using BMC's Best 1." Evaluation of BMC Data Accelerator and IAM for production batch performance improvements " Installed and implemented 4 $AVRS production regions" Extensive experience using HCD to code new IODF for RSA dasd and RVA dasd" Implemented WLM in Goal Mode first on test LPAR and later rolled out to 3 production LPARS." Install/support/maintain GROUP 1 Direct Mail software and databases for application groups." Primary software support and administration support for SMS environment on all 4 LPARs in the Cendant datacenter. 3 production and 1 test image.
  • Sony Electronics
    Mvs Lead Technical Analyst
    Sony Electronics Feb 1997 - Aug 1997
    San Diego - Us | Tokyo - Jp, Us
    " Support 12 MVS/ESA and Jes2 images throughout the Sony Datacenters in Briarcliff, New Jersey and San Diego, California" Support all related software products for the Sony Datacenters, including primary support for Xpediter 6.3, Abendaid 8.3, MIM 4.1, InfoPac 5.2, all CA products including CA1, CA7/11, CA-OPS, CA90S and CA-MIM" Setup tape sharing using MIM on Sony Electronics and Sony Pictures images" Upgraded Sony San Diego to MVS 5.2.2 and related products." Handle all RACF requests for the systems group, including id, resource rules and database backup/restore processes.
  • Ge Capital
    Lead Mvs System Programmer
    Ge Capital 1978 - 1997
    Norwalk, Ct, Us
    " Project leader of MVS/ESA 5.1 into an existing image using SYSTEM/PACas well as upgrading 3rd party software to levels that support MVS 5.1" Facilitated one major datacenter consolidation and assisted on another in 1994." Supported all three major security packages in house, RACF, ACF2 and Top Secret." Support approximately 30 MVS/ESA and JES2 images throughout the datacenter." Support all related software products for the 30 images." Managed merger of two similar MVS/ESA images into one image in 1993." Managed merger of two unlike MVS/ESA images into one image in 1993." Facilitated three major datacenter consolidations in 1993 and assisted with two in 1992." Planned and implemented MVS software Disaster Recovery testing at our hotsite for last 5 years." Planned and implemented two engineering software images for exclusive use by all software groups." Planned and implemented a new production software image to meet the needs of the business." Planned and implemented a shared DASD environment for two previously separate images." Primary support for Operations support products such as Multi-Image Manager, Automate/MVS" Installed new release and maintenance level to ACF2 5.2, remained security administrator." Created procedure to merge downleveled CA-TLMS database with current CA-1 database, procedure later adopted by CA." Merged ACF2 database from a new client with the production RACF database in preparation for a datacenter consolidation.

Bruce Redfield Skills

Mvs Z/os Mainframe Disaster Recovery Ibm Mainframe Capacity Planning Os/390 Data Center Operating Systems Db2 Databases Unix Security Troubleshooting Storage Racf Jes2 Jcl Software Installation Data Warehousing Smp/e Z/vm Websphere Tso Rexx Ispf Linux Computer Hardware Ibm Aix Resource Access Control Facility Job Control Language Ibm Db2 Z/os Systems Programmer Z/linux Vsam Sas Tcp/ip Vtam Windows Aix Automation Vm Ibm Utilities Problem Solving

Bruce Redfield Education Details

  • Sacred Heart University
    Sacred Heart University

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