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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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..
• 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.

• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

Bs, Computer Science - Bisiness

Activities and Societies: Akido

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