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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Key Responsibilities:• Lead a team of infrastructure professionals in delivering mainframe infrastructure services, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of mainframe hardware, operating systems, and associated software.• Implement robust incident and problem management processes to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on business operations.• Collaborate with stakeholders to forecast future mainframe capacity requirements and developed strategies to scale infrastructure resources as needed.• Identify opportunities to optimize mainframe performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness through proactive monitoring, analysis, and tuning.• Ensure mainframe infrastructure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and security policies, implementing appropriate controls and measures to protect data and mitigate risks.• Manage relationships with mainframe hardware and software vendors, including contract negotiations, performance evaluations, and service level agreements.• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of mainframe infrastructure services, leveraging industry best practices and emerging technologies.• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including application development teams, business units, and senior management, to understand requirements and priorities and align infrastructure services accordingly.• Maintain accurate documentation of mainframe infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures, and provided regular reports and updates to management on service delivery metrics, performance, and compliance.

Lisle, Illinois Usa

Working as Principal Consultant

United States

Assisting clients with accomplishing their IT goals.• Solutions Architect Team Manager in Mainframe Agil with Waterfall environment with CICS, DB2, COBOL, MySQL, MQ. Support Messaging Team by developing code in CICS/COBOL/DB2. Heavy use of MySQL.• Program Management Governance on-prem infrastructure. Ensured client received resources when requested. Collaborate with hardware and software vendor as well as outsourced hosting facility to install or remove resources. Contract negations, co-ordination and vendor management between vendor and client. Secured hardware for new ramp-ups.• Lead site planning project management, coordination, execution and construct of infrastructure modernization for new network with failover redundancies.• Cost avoidance by project planning zOS 2.2 upgrade, zero prod disruption/downtime. In jeopardy was IBM share Sysplex pricing. Avoided costlier isolated Sysplex contract.• Lead team to create SOX Audit Automation, improving audit process.• L3 mainframe Application support, Coordinate with IBM Systems Support to identify performance issues and find root cause.• Managed team to Construct DB2 SQL monthly reports.• Document Control-M automation process to create Control-M reports with GUI• Managed Mainframe engineering team, Interface to client.• Led systems programming test enacting Mainframe Best Practices• Presenting status to team, project and upper management.• Mentored team in creating Performance Capacity Reports (SCRT 4-Hour Rolling average on CEC and LPAR, LPAR Utilization for TypeTask, Workload Activity Goal Mode, JOB and Interval reports, DataSet Contention Reports) using mainframe SMF data processed by SAS and MXG to create a SAS PDB file by which SAS is used to create a CSV file which was then FTPed to server and loaded onto MySQL database instance residing on distributed • SME Mainframe assist Business Acquisition Team with request for proposal for John Handcock/WAMU new deal due diligence

Greater Chicago Area

Performance Capacity Analyst, ensuring stable and cost-efficient operating environment for JP Morgan Chase Lines of Business. Sr. DBA to 6TB MySQL Enterprise Edition database running on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server, processing 250 GB mainframe metadata daily. • Lead analyst performing mainframe Performance and Capacity Planning performing bi-yearly and before/after review of 100+ LPARs. Brief management and project managers with change effects. • Maintained System Health-Check processes. Process ran mainframe SAS programs to create SAS PDB files for each SMF record type. A flat CSV file was then created from SAS PDB and sent from mainframe to server using SFTP. BMC Control-M Automation software would trigger a HTML script to load file into MySQL database. After data was loaded HTML script would trigger SQL queries to cross join the data just loaded with an application identifier file. The result, loaded into MySQL for before and after trend-analysis. Apply ETL to mainframe SMF data to create performance predictive analysis and notify responsible parties of deviations.• Collaborate with Web Visualization team and use of Fusion Charts and PHP scripting to visualize Control-Charts of selected criteria or selected application.• Support BMC Control-M Automation software managing 2,500 back end ETL jobs. Created and maintained job schedules. Work with BMC Tech support to resolve issues with Control-M product.• Project Manager MXG to MICS conversion. Convert MXG SAS programs to MICS SAS. Retired processes saved 430 prime shift MIPS on mainframe and approximately $4.5 million savings.• Project Manager Sysplex integration into multi-site complex of 10+ IBM z13s. Worked with application to assist with requirements. • Project Manager Implementation of Thruput Manager in 200+ applications.• Managed and mentored Off-shore employees developing transferable skills, DBA functions, Automation, documentation practices, process improvement and application performance.

Implement enterprise wide platform for customer information (ECIS) across the First Chicago and NBD environments.• Installed and maintained customizable Hogan System Software providing technical systems support to over 65 employees, with issues such as program abends, test environment usage, efficient programming techniques. • Meeting nightly batch SLA is imperative, our team improved elapsed run times identifying 4,000+ opportunities reducing online abends, reducing Automated Teller Machine and Voice Response Unit delays meeting Service Level Agreement consistently and reducing processing costs.

Greater Chicago Area

Supported, maintained and analyzed Mainframe operating system environment of First Chicago Trust Company of New Jersey. • Installed and maintained several IBM and third party vendor software products. Project planning, management and implementation for the following software products; MVS/ESA 5.1, NETVIEW, EZTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, PANVALET, AOC/MVS, TELEVIEW, TSO/E, ISPF, QUICKREF, ICKDSF, ACF/VTAM, SMP/E, RMF, PDSFAST, ACF2 and RACF.All modifications were implemented seamlessly with no interruption to system users. SMPE was used to install IBM software and most third party software.• Disaster Recovery Project Coordinator responsible for recovering operating system in event of a catastrophe. Transformed a lengthily DR process into successfully repeatable well-documented process. Reduced system recovery time from 24 hours to 8 hours allowing applications teams to begin recovery. Managed Disaster Recovery team and processes at Comdisco offsite recovery location.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for creating and maintaining IBM MVS system software updated to four MVS/ESA environments. Duties included MVS systems support, problem resolution and installation IBM and vendor software. Before assuming these duties worked as IMS programmer in IMS DB/DC environment, created ACBs, DBDs, MFSs and performed program design and development.

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