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Urbandale, IA, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Sammons Financial Group is a multi-billion-dollar financial services holding company offering a variety of financial and retirement products through multiple distribution channels.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Create, implement and modify Control-M jobs, calendars, resources and workload policies
• Evaluate batch job workflows for process improvement; troubleshoot for incident resolution
• Monitor daily task queue, perform ad-hoc job runs, JCL alterations and other developer requests
• Evaluate and sign off on various audit and daily process reports
• Update multiple z/OS mainframe date cards, manage TRMS Report Utility users and reports

Wisconsin, United States

• Corporate world headquarters, engaged in the multi-billion-dollar international production and sale of American motorcycles, related products and financial services.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Creating and implementing Control-M jobs, associated calendars, resources, workload policies and service definitions across separate production and non-production Control-M environments.
• Collaborating extensively with IT personnel from various development teams to compile job creation information, while maintaining a keen attention to detail.
• Troubleshooting new and existing workflows for efficiency and potential technical conflicts.
• Maintaining awareness of change work, representing and speaking on behalf of the Job Scheduling Team at weekly CAB meetings, communicating changes that affect the Operations Team to Operators.
• Working within BMC Configuration Manager (CCM) to monitor main component and server agent states, connect/upgrade Control-M Windows/Linux server agents, add Run As users, interact with host groups, and employ elements.

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Farm Bureau Financial Services is the parent company of a multi-billion-dollar network of insurance and financial services companies that operate in a 14-state territory.MOST RECENT POSITION IN COMPANYPromoted from Associate Technical Administrator to Technical Administrator within the Production Control Team, working with BMC Control-M Workload Automation.

• Support of distributed and mainframe Enterprise batch jobs in Production, QA, INT, Test and Self-Service environments via BMC Control-M Job Scheduling and Workflow Automation and associated applications.KEY FUNCTIONS
• Work with developers to wrap their scripts and commands into Control-M jobs and cycles.
• Highly complex scheduling of jobs using Control-M tools and calendars.
• Highly complex administration of dependencies for jobs to execute in required order or with specific conditions met.
• Preliminary identification of potential job or cycle issues.
• Troubleshoot and take corrective action for job cycle problems involving Control-M dependencies.

Promoted from Senior Computer Operator to Lead Computer Operator within the IT Operations Management Team.Core responsibilities remained the same as prior title with a higher degree of skill mastery, autonomy and oversight of other Operators within the group.

Promoted from Computer Operator III to Senior Computer Operator within the IT Operations Management Team.Core responsibilities remained the same as prior title with a higher degree of skill mastery and autonomy.

• Started as a contractor via Robert Half in 2015, promoted to FBL employee in February 2016. FBL Financial Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company. Its primary operating subsidiary, Farm Bureau Life.
• Operation, monitoring and health management of multiple computer mainframe and Enterprise hardware, software and network systems, associated individual computer jobs and complete job cycles in a secure data center.
• Monitoring and management of network systems, servers, switches, routers, firewall devices and other peripherals.
• Preliminary identification of potential computer job or cycle issues.
• Rapid response to monitoring system alerts.
• Verification of timely completion of key computer jobs and cycles.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

My photo career began in 1993 during my 3rd year of college — the good old film days! After training in fine arts photography and photojournalism, and the technical disciplines of light principals, studio lighting, processing B&W and color film and printing B&W and color enlargements, I ventured into the world, camera in hand.My first incarnation was as.

West Des Moines, IA

• Co-founded high-end boutique group fitness and personal training studio serving the greater West Des Moines area. Helped drive revenues by 400% from 2009 through 2013.MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
• Strategic planning and tactics.
• Paid and organic marketing.
• Branding and identity.
• Data mining and research.
• Copywriting, editing, photography, graphics and videography.

Urbandale, Iowa

• Right Stuf is North America’s largest anime-specific retail, distribution and production company.MARKETING DEVELOPMENT
• High-exposure cross-function work with executive leadership, sales, marketing and IT.
• Drove strategic marketing initiatives within the wider context of the marketplace.
• Advised personnel on brand message and marketing opportunities.
• Helped manage project flow and timelines across departments.
• Uncovered marketplace opportunities to increase exposure and sales.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Remote project work on as-needed basis for Los Angeles website creation, development, social marketing and search engine optimization agency. Worked as Account Executive, WordPress Website Developer, Copywriter and Copy Editor. Clients included Act3Media, Ozoboard and Hotel Laguna.

Created and maintained part-time eBay merchant webstore. Located and acquired rare to scarce modern-era comic collectibles. Worked directly with publishers, commercial collectors and private parties. Worked directly with Certified Guaranty Corporation (CGC) to grade and register some of the highest-rated modern collectible books in existence. Sold.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Company founder. Real-estate acquisition, resale and commercial/residential property leasing business. Managed all aspects of company, including finances, operations, timelines, project flow, interior/exterior design.
• Market research, formation and refinement of targeting, purchase, project design, construction, project budgeting and marketing procedures.
• Identification, evaluation and purchase of high-value properties that met target requirements in a competitive, high-energy, short window-of-opportunity marketplace.
• Negotiation with property sellers, real-estate agents, governmental agencies, contractors, suppliers, lenders, investors and consumers. Facilitation of favorable agreements and contracts.
• Assembled and managed up to 14-person teams. Created best practices project flow procedures to complete projects by deadline.
• Development and maintenance of relationships with consumers, lenders, vendors, contractors, lawyers and real-estate professionals.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency. Scouted by agency for business-to-consumer work. Primarily business-to-consumer writing. Wrote copy and performed editing for print publications, Web, radio, video, CD-ROM and other media. Clients included: Andersen Windows, Honeywell, NAPA and EMCO/Home Depot.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency. One of original 16 employees at startup. Primarily business-to-business work. Started as Senior Copywriter and was promoted to Editorial Head. Established the agency's Editorial Department and supervised the work of multiple agency Copywriters to ensure quality, proper client/agency voice and.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

(Formerly Kragie-Knewell Advertising.) Full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency. Acted as video producer, wrote copy and performed editing for print publications, Web content, radio, video, CD-ROM and other media. Primarily business-to-business writing with a strong technical writing emphasis. Clients included: Vermeer Manufacturing.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Grand Views newspaper reporter, The Grand Views newspaper media sales, Exhibition | Fine Arts.

Curriculum Graduate, Business Administration, Management And Operations

April – November, 2011 — The SBA Emerging Leaders Initiative is a federal training initiative that specifically focuses on executives of.