General Mainframe consulting at National Australia Bank.Acquiring. Connex.

z/OS systems programmer. Member of a team of five, responsible for supporting z/OS 1.13 and associated subsystems running on three zSeries processors. This includes support for a large Parallel Sysplex environment comprised of 9 production LPARs. (Not counting DR)Accomplishments included:• Build and implement quarterly upgrades to Australian and New Zealand systems.• Contribute to projects planning, installing, configuring various IBM and vendor products. • Created ISPF based IBM GSD delivered product extraction into NAB SMP environment.• Created WEB based roster system for technical teams, and a search facility for mainframe datasets and web pages.• Created BCPii server to log system events to console.

z/OS systems programmer. Team member, responsible for supporting z/OS 1.13 and associated subsystems running zSeries processors. This includes support for a large Parallel Sysplex environment comprised of 9 production LPARs.

Fulfilled five 6-month contracts supporting MVS and MQ Series (mainframe and mid-range), and assisted CICS subsystem upgrades for National Australia Bank.• Supported MQ Series on Mainframe, Sun Solaris, AIX, Windows NT and 2000.• Supported CICS 4.1• Assisted implementation of CICS TS 1.3. Developed and implemented the CICS Logger facility and exit. • Supported BMC Patrol for MQ Administrator.

Managed a department of systems programmers while providing hands-on technical expertise and guidance.• Installed and managed mainframe operating systems and associated subsystem software. • Liaised with senior management, key users and vendors and provided relevant solutions to business IT related problems• Implemented MQSeries on the mainframe and open systems platforms.• Implemented Mainframe web servers.This also involved the creation of CGI programs that read databases,and that queried CICS via EXGI interface• Created an SMTP interface that enabled emails to be sent by application programs and batch facilities• Created a FAX interface utilising NFS and Topcall productsAs part of the successful RACV Mainframe Workload Relocation Project:• Facilitated RACV responses as part of IBM/GSA’s mainframe due diligence process• Liaised with IBM/GSA and NRMA to design a practical and cost effective technical solution• Developed and implemented a Data Transfer Implementation Plan which described the process, action items and relevant project timelines for the transfer of the RACV mainframe data to NRMA/IBM GSA’s data centre at Baulkham Hills NSW• As part of the IBM GSA skills transfer requirement, successfully developed and handed over all required technical documentation• Created and implemented an on-line output archive. This product supported 20,000 compressed listings on DASD and offline media to enable user friendly online browsing and batch retrieval• Created and implemented the mainframe to RAS TCP/IP Sockets interface. This consisted of a CICS based assembler low level sockets interface into RACV’s roadside assistance dispatch business unit• Project managed the implementation and ongoing support and maintenance of the following:• Workload manager• SYSPLEX (for CICS logging)• SMS (HSM)• TCP/IP & OSA/2 hardware (and TN3270E)• FTP daemon• SMTP • LPD/LPR• NFS• AFP.