Perry Bacon Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

I was providing support for the main line of business application on the IBM i / iSeries / AS/400. Many years of bespoke code development required a reverse engineering approach in order to provide solutions to issues encountered.I also pro-actively conducted a review of IBM i security, highlighted areas that required improvement, and created a plan of works to achieve these improvements on both IBM i and other systems that interfaced with it.

I provided oversight of, and support for the IBM i / iSeries / AS/400 server, while also supporting Windows server and desktop. I largely used Powershell to automate processes that were being carried out manually, allowing silent management of the desktop PC estate, and greatly reducing ticket volumes for the first line support staff.Some of the pieces of work I was proud of: the silent removal of the many old versions of software and deployment of standardised software suites. This included MS Office versions, the IBM i desktop client (old versions of which are notoriously difficult to remove without user intervention); Java standardisation to enable the use of a standard set of Windows firewall rules; and supervising the upgrade of all 15 IBM i LPAR's.But the most challenging was updating anti-virus software where the tamper protection key for the old software was unknown. Before anyone worries about the security of their organisation, I am not selling my knowledge on the dark web, but I will make it available to your company if you have an opportunity you think I'd be a good fit for.

Programming, and supervising other programmers. RPG, RPGLE, SQLRPG on the IBM i / iSeries / AS/400 (choose the name depending on your vintage). For those who know RPG; multi-member files with millions of records per member and 50+ logical files! For those who don't, this was both a production DB and data warehouse.What piece of work was I particularly pleased with? Taking the initiative to add data integrity checks to a program program that processed CSV files. This reduced the number of helpdesk tickets considerably, and on several occasions prevented the import of spurious data to the main DB with all the attendant remediation work that entails.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for technical development of new products and services, from scope and programming, through documentation and deployment.Integrated electronic cabinet locks and CCTV, with associated SQL programming to generate access reports to recognised standards. Presented this solution to prospective customers.Deployed IBM POWER 7 environment, including LPAR, IBM storage, VIOS, virtualised media, IBM i (iSeries), AIX, and Linux.Deployed EVault on IBM i, and created a set of tools to automate system functions. Deployed this solution to several UK based financial institutions.Created batch scripts to automate deployment of a software package across multiple domains without compromising the network security design.Designed a relational database and related SQL and Visual Basic code to allow Cisco switch configurations to be changed by untrained staff via a simple GUI.Scoped and coded a Solaris based application to convert backup tapes into an electronic image, preserving the tape file structure.

London, United Kingdom

Headed a team of recovery analysts, allocating tasks and personnel resources to ensure the timely completion of work, and sufficient out-of-hours coverProvided high level technical support to the team and second level support on a wider range of disciplines to both colleagues and customers.Created bespoke disaster recovery plans for businesses from SME through to pan European concerns, and co-ordinated disaster recovery testing for the same.Planned and implemented regular server room re-organisations to permit daily equipment configuration changes in a flexible and timely manner..Planned server and storage upgrades, and delivered these on-time and under budget.Planned server room move to a new building, this was delivered ahead of schedule whilst maintaining agreed server availability.Reviewed contracts for technical compliance ensuring that services and SLA's were deliverable within operational budgets.Reviewed supplier quotes and regularly saved between 25% and 50% off costs by reconfiguring equipment to better leverage existing assets.

London, United Kingdom

Assisting customers with disaster recovery testing. Identified solutions to problems arising during data restore and subsequent system operation.Conducted disaster recovery consultancy creating recovery plans and guides.Conducted operating system upgrades and PTF loads on behalf of customers.Assisted with Intel server, Intel desktop, and network recovery. Developed good knowledge of network protocols, Cisco routers and IOS, Windows and the inter-operability between various host and client environments.