Michael Kerin Email & Phone Number

Montvale, Nj, Us

Armonk, New York, United States

• Provided production support for the Licensing Financial Management System which tracks receipts for the company’s intellectual property policies. Took ownership of the Java and CICS front ends and the mainframe backend using DB2, COBOL, JCL, PL1, RACF, Tivoli, XML• Defined DB2 database requirements for the installation of Guardium, an IBM tool that provided logging and monitoring of privileged user accounts as well as the encryption and protection of data at rest.• Built the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Pipeline for two z/OS mainframe applications. This modernization enabled the deployment of components from their source repositories in GitHub to development, test and production environments on Linux and z/OS.• Collaborated with stakeholders, vendors and partners while leading the migration of the several mainframe applications from the on premise data center to the IBM Private Cloud environment. This resulted in reduced infrastructure costs.• Performed both administrator and developer roles in the Government Services Agency data mart which ensured that IBM provided contracted discounts to government agencies. The data mart extracted various data sources from z/OS mainframe and external systems and then transformed and uploaded the data into a DB2 database on the z/OS mainframe.• Administered the SQL Server database that interfaced with Alliant, a 3rd party tool that managed IBM royalty payments to vendors.• Mentored several junior developers in IBM’s apprentice program.

• Supported the Corporate Dealer Database application that ran on Websphere with a Java front end and a mainframe back end running DB2, COBOL, CICS, JCL• Collaborated with stake holders on a daily basis to continually enhance the Dealer Bonus Portal• Mentored incoming analysts and developers during the company’s move from NJ to Georgia.

• Designed, developed and maintained scripts in PL-SQL for the extraction, translation and loading of data into the Parts Data Warehouse in Oracle.• Built interfaces from the International Parts System to the Oracle Parts Data Warehouse.• Helped build and support the Parts Distribution System and its interfaces between the SAP, z/OS, Oracle Data Warehouse, web based Dealer Front End and Planet Press document management.• Provided enhancements and support to the MVS based International Parts Distribution System.• Technologies: DB2, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, FileAid, Xpediter, Intertest, BMC, Oracle, PL-SQL

• Led a team of outsourced developers supporting the workers compensation claims system.• Interacted with the users and management as a facilitator of enhancements to the claims processing system using a COBOL/CICS front end with a DB2 backend database on MVS.

• Provided enhancements and maintenance of the Insurance and Annuities System.• Interfaced directly with users to deliver daily support of legacy COBOL, CICS, DB2 systems.