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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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

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