Tom Burkholder

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Sr Systems Engineer @ The Judge Group
wayne, pennsylvania, united states
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
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About Tom Burkholder

Working as a z/OS Systems Programmer to utilize my many years of systems programming and administration experience and continue to support new technologies to enhance my career opportunities. I have a well-rounded technical background with experience in a variety of platforms from z/OS Systems Programming, z/OS products, WebSphere, MQ, and Linux/Tomcat. I have a great reputation for solving technical problems and issues and I enjoy supporting a variety of platforms but would like to specialize in z/OS system programming and support.

Tom Burkholder's Current Company Details
The Judge Group

The Judge Group

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Sr Systems Engineer
wayne, pennsylvania, united states
Website:
judge.com
Employees:
1516
Tom Burkholder Work Experience Details
  • The Judge Group
    Mainframe Engineer
    The Judge Group Nov 2024 - Present
    Wayne, Pa
    Mainframe z/OS and products support for sysplex environment.
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  • Qvc
    Sr Systems Engineer
    Qvc May 2007 - Nov 2024
    West Chester, Pa
    • Supporting legacy Linux/WebSphere applications and Tomcat Middleware/MQ infrastructure.• Assisted to directly support vendor and contractors to migrate z/OS and CICS/DB2 infrastructure to Microfocus on Windows server and SQL Server platform.• Experience and working knowledge of USS (Unix Systems Services) upon z/OS as I have worked with Unix/AIX/Linux for many years.• Assisted primary DB2 DBA to support DB2 v11 to v12 upgrade and monitoring DDF activity/configs. Upgraded TMON/DB2 and IBM’s DB2 Query Monitor to v3.3.• Responsible for porting existing AIX/WebSpherev8.5 platform to Linux/WebSpherev8.5 and continue support legacy application platform.• Lead project and supported platforms to port z/OS WebSphere legacy applications to AIX/WebSphere or Linux/Tomcat.• Opportunity became available within QVC to help support z/Series environment. The initial project was to replace Omegamon products with ASG-TMON for z/OS, DB2, and MQ and some ISPF panels enhancements needed. In 2009 was assigned to migrate applications from z/OS WebSphere V5.1 to newly created V6.1 with HTTP Apache web server’s front-end cells and environment for Integration, Acceptance, and Production environments. Upgraded the z/OS WebSphere cells to V70. Support and provide oncall for z/OS systems consisting of 6 LPARS (two z10s and an older z890 running legacy applications. In 2008 installed z/VM and z/Linux SUSE as POC from IBM. Installed and support a few applications on WebSphere and upgraded from z/VM 5.3 to 6.1. Installed IBM’s MigUtil product as an alternative to compile Easytrieve programs to COBOL.• Assisted and supported project to upgrade z10 to z196.• Was hired at QVC to assist in implementation and support of IBM’s WebSphere Business Integration Server on AIX platform.
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  • Shared Medical Systems / Siemens Medical Services
    Sr Systems Programmer
    Shared Medical Systems / Siemens Medical Services Dec 1996 - May 2007
    Malvern, Pa
    • AIX Systems Administrator primarily supports AIX servers running WebSphere and TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager). I am familiar with pSeries running lpars with HMC, fiber-attached devices (ACSLS library controlled STK tape and IBM/EMC disk), dual-pathing software (SDD and PowerPath), and TSM server and WebSphere Deployment Manager administration. • Supported Solaris server running ASM (application storage manager) being used to archive/store terabytes of PACS medical images with STK T9840 tape drives in Powderhorn. • Researched and made the recommendation to move ADSM(TSM) processing from the z/OS mainframe systems to AIX pSeries servers for every increasing open system backup processing to reduce costs and create more stable TSM server environment upon six (6) AIX pSeries servers. • I was an MVS(z/OS) Systems Programmer supporting O/S and 3rd party software product upon numerous production mainframe Sysplexes. Most time was spent performing HCD changes for the large data center with 8 mainframes to support lpar creations, I/O subsystem changes/migrations, and tape changes. • Experience with VM to create test systems used to create OS/390 upgrade procedures/tapes; traveled to a few hospitals to perform OS/390 upgrades prior to Y2K. Created lpar definitions and participated in migrating to a hospitals data center from Pittsburgh, PA to Malvern using EMC’s services and performed systems programming support. • Created ISPF dialog services, SAS, REXX, and utilities to write home-grown BRU (Business Recovery Utility) to be used as panel-driven dialog to submit recovery jobs and selective restores for DMS backed up datasets in a Business Recovery test scenario.
  • Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (Afs)
    Sas Programmer
    Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (Afs) Feb 1996 - Dec 1996
    Exton, Pa
    • Had the opportunity to be full-time SAS programmer creating reports as requested from financial analysts. Bank clients would supply financial data upon tape cartridges and to the analyst’s specs and requests, I would create financial reports to provide banking modeling (e.g., gains/loss based on varying rates). • Realized that longer term I needed to get back to systems administration/support and had the opportunity to go to SMS-Shared Medical Systems (now Siemens Medical Systems) as an MVS Systems Programmer.
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  • State Farm Insurance
    Systems Support, Systems Programmer, Systems Administrator
    State Farm Insurance Mar 1986 - Feb 1996
    Concordville, Pa And Bloomington, Il
    • Upon graduating from Penn State University, worked three years as Systems Support for mainframe and HP servers in the Pennsylvania Regional Office in Chadds Ford, PA. First year was on 3rd shift performing Corporate-issued software into PA regional. • Learned SAS and wrote numerous requested reports for Insurance personnel and used them as a support tool for JCL fabrication and systems status reporting functions. • Transferred to Corporate Headquarters in Bloomington, IL and worked in Regional Support Group which supported 28 Regional Office data processing centers. • Primary function was to develop jobs, documentation, and procedures to be used by Regional Office systems administrators to migrate DASD subsystems (systems and application volumes) from 3380 to 3390 devices. • After six years in IL, wanting to move back to the East Coast, had the opportunity to be transferred back to PA’s regional office and worked another year at State Farm in systems support before leaving due to data center consolidation to GA.
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