Derek Powe Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, New York, Us

• Lead a workforce of over 10 full time employees in an agile environment.• Act directly and provide oversight for technical fixes, large system upgrades, security patches, updates, and recovery operations on the Z platform.• Collaborate with Cyber Security Solution Architects to ensure we have appropriate security procedures, controls, training, and testing.• Provide oversight and direction to Project Managers and Scrum Masters for project management.• Support development of budgets, participate in ongoing financial reviews, contract negotiations and contract renewals.• Champion development of System Technology department metrics and KPIs for regular review and optimization.• Enforce corporate standards and audit requirements to ensure a stable, effective, and secure environment. • Drive key technology transformations in support of the achievement of business goals, while ensuring stable and predictable day-to-day IT operations.• Discover, evangelize, educate, and implement new technologies that interact with the Z Platform that yield competitive advantage.• Retain and motivate staff to accomplish results through training and development, performance management and rewards and recognition.• Communicate technology strategy to C-suite executives, executive leadership, and technology teams regularly to ensure business needs and emerging technology trends are met.• Manage Systems Technology teams to improve user experience, comply with change management and ITIL standards.• Direct the IT thought leadership, strategy, objective, priorities, and technology decisions for the aligned business organization.• Implement cost-effective and minimally disruptive System Z hardware and software.• Develop relationships that promote trust, ensuring that efficiency and effectiveness balances individual customer needs and business priorities.• Collaborate with business units and infrastructure teams to ensure digital transformation evolution.

• Architect, configure and champion the implementation of a GDPS solution based on client need. This provides the client with an end-to-end application capable of managing remote copy configuration, storage subsystems to automate Parallel Sysplex operation tasks and perform failure recovery from a single point.• Responsible for the coaching and developing of clients, and their Storage/System Z Engineers, to various flavors of Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS), including Metro Mirror (PPRC), Metro Global Mirror (MGM), Global Mirror (GM) and Extended Remote Copy (XRC).• Represent Experis as the client's central point of contact for GDPS. Serving as an escalation point for issues/questions, maintaining the Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and holding responsibility for the ultimate success of the engagement by ensuring on time product delivery.• Practitioner responsible for documenting specific project requirements and counseling clients of various skill sets and experience levels.• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for several large, multi-sysplex organizations that require 100% uptime including various financial institutions, insurance companies, government agencies, retailers, transportation companies and health care facilities.• Assist clients with z/OS technical support, Parallel Sysplex design and implementation, Storage Replication, Data Center migration.

Buffalo, New York, Us

• Provides technical direction and support in the development and support of systems software and procedures. • Communicate with clients, as well as first level, senior level and executive level management to interpret and analyze complex and unstructured business problems and recommend solutions. • Recommend new technology and related programs to current systems. Responsible for understanding the mainframe’s role in the system development life cycle (SDLC) by providing application development alternatives and supporting the client area’s functions.• Provide guidance and supervise junior software programmer/analysts and programmers. In addition to providing technical assistance to applications programmer/analysts, computer operations personnel, and other areas as required.• Installer and lead for various z/OS products such as GRS, z/OS 2.2, DB2 v11, SMFUTIL, OPS/MVS, IBM Tivoli System Automation (S.A.) and Strobe/iStrobe, and ECC. This included maintenance via RSU and troubleshooting of product issues for our DevOps environment.• Disaster Recovery lead for GDPS/MGM (PPRC/MM, GC, GM) four-site. This required the building and configuration of multiple LPARs to handle redundancy and align with business continuity.• Mainframe modernization lead responsible for aligning older technology fundamentals with newer technology interfacing for the newer generation of programmers. Some of these products include Compuware Topaz and Computer Associate’s (CA) Chorus.• Created new standards for our systems to aid our automation processes. This includes formatting many old processes to fit a new standard operating procedure and updating older automation.• Responsible for resolving issues, by getting to root cause and representing issues as part of Incident Management and Problem Management.• Consistently work independently within a geographically dispersed and culturally diverse team. In the group we consistently meet deadlines while working on multiple tasks with autonomy.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Accountable for providing on and off site MVS System Programming support as well as 24/7 On-call support and Disaster Recovery testing and support on a rotational basis. This included support for multiple Parallel Sysplex environments, including over 30 LPARs, several duplexed coupling facilities and several instances of zLinux and zVM. • Lead installer responsible for SMP/E installation, maintenance and primary support for the latest versions of several IBM and vendor products such as File-Aid, Abend-Aid, StreamWeaver, GDPS/XRC three-site, Netview, SA, COBOL, CA-1, CA CSM, CSS, ECC, Control-M, Top Secret, ZPCopy, Syncsort and Connect Direct.• Provided use and support of various IBM tools and products that interact with z/OS such as JES2, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, RMF, SMF, FTP, VTAM, TCPIP, SMS, VSAM while using mainframe and distributed languages such as REXX, JCL, Mongo, Java SWT, SQL and XML.• Verified Installation Verification Procedures (IVP) that originates from the vendors as well as those that are internally created to prevent issue reoccurrence and provide product quality assurance. This includes using tools such as IPCS dump analysis, Logrec, Syslog and Operlog.• Lead coordinator responsible for planning the z/OS 1.13 operating system installation. Serving as project manager responsible for coordinating and reporting results of pre-work, checkpoint follow up and post-install GO/NO GO meetings. • Championed an effort to update Fidelity’s change management and release management process. Co-creator of a Java written and maintained, NoSQL database production tool.• Served as scrum master of a weekly meeting to discuss and test COBOL v5 (Common Business Oriented Language).• Co-lead Kanban boards via JIRA as part of the Agile methodology implementation. This initiative changed our team’s workflow to a Kanban pull method from our original managerial push method. This allowed our team to increase productivity and provide accountability for work in progress.

Millersville, Md, Us

• Established and maintained domains under administrative control, as well as edited restrictions through the domain policy.• Installed and supported TCP/IP and created mandatory roaming user profiles.• Assessed and planed the most efficient way to make decisions via flow charts.• Organized computer areas and evaluated problems to create solutions that arose in domains.• Coordinated with management and technician team to establish the level of work required. Based on the level of work and specialty of work a timeline was created. Rotated leadership roles between projects and supervised teams at each location. • Assessed and planned the most efficient way to make decisions via flow charts. This required working with a small team a few days prior to visiting a site and planning the most efficient way to delegate our resources in each location. • Discussed the level of security required to establish and maintain domains under administrative control. This required understanding of the hierarchy of each location we visited to correctly institute profiles and accounts.• Organized tasks and evaluated problems in a timely manner to adhere to our schedule. If it seemed that we were not going to make our deadline we would need to escalate this as soon as possible. We also presented status updates throughout the completion of each task in the project to help guide the project timeline.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Network Information Systems