CICS Systems Programmer for large CICS environment. Respond to CICS system related issues, trouble shoot any problems, and maintain CICS related definitions. Monitor and maintance AIX and MVS CICS Transaction Gateways. Assist in CICSPlex monitoring. Perform audit requirements for AIX CTG machines. Provide local PC Windows to Unix converstion assistance for CICS team.

Duties included installing, problem resolution, maintanance, and tuning of SAP ECC systems. Assisting application programmers with application problem resolution. Preparing documentation for all aspects of SAP, including installation, failover, maintanance, and various other aspects of the systems.

Duties included CICS monitoring, problem resolution and tuning . Changing and adding applications to CICS. Assisting application programmers with application problem resolution. Preparing documentation for failover and disaster recovery. Planning and implementing CICSPlex in a large CICS enviroment. Altering CICS transactions to run in a real-time failover enviroment (high availabilty). Intergrating MQ Series, DB2, IMS, TCPIP and web applications into our CICS environment. Preparing weekly status reports for management review of projects and weekly accomplishments for the CICS Engineering team. Preparing monthly status reports for management and officer review of projects for all Large Systems areas. Serve as liasion between certain application teams and large systems teams.

Duties included OS/390 ,CICS and MQ Series monitoring and problem resolution . Changing and adding applications to CICS. Converting CICS regions from 4.1 to Transaction Server 2.2. Installing Z/OS 1.2. Installing DB2 v6.1 and associated DB2 tools. Installing and maintaining various vendor products such as Mackinny CEMT from Batch, Compuware products, CA products, BMC Mainview OS/390 tools, and; products as assigned. Maintaining the current license keys for vendor products, such as Compuware keys, Computer Associates keys, SAS keys, and Sterling Software keys. Preparing documentation and testing for disaster recovery.

Duties included monitoring IBM Customer Information Control System for problems. Installing maintenance on CICS. Installing new versions of CICS onto current MVS system. Maintaining current version of CICS. Changing and adding applications to CICS. Maintaining and trouble shooting VTAM printers and applids. Writing programs in COBOL for communication process between IBM mainframe and Novell LAN using APPC protocol. Installing and maintaining various vendor products such as Mackinny CEMT from Batch, Xpeditor for CICS, and Omegamon for CICS. Administration of a UNIXware system, which includes setting up new users and trouble shooting communication problems. Monitoring IBM protocol converters and mainframe modem pool. Administrating the Connect: TRACS product (simulates a 3770 device

While in this position at Ameritas, I was employeed part-time and going to college. My duties included diagnosing hardware related problems with IBM PS/2 and PC's. Installing hardware components such as Token ring boards, Hard drives and Memory. Installing and laying twisted pair cable for token ring Novell network. Acting as a level 1 Help Desk associate--answer calls, report problems, help users install software over the phone, reset passwords on both LAN and Mainframe, and monitoring the Novell LAN for network problems.