z/os system engneer Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 21403
Desired Job Location: New York, New York	Date Posted: 6/24/2008
Type of Position: Contractor	Availability Date: 07-01-2008
Desired Wage: 90000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, More Than 75%
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
 Profound knowledge in Assembler programming, developer of conversion tools containing about 100,000 code lines
 Senior consultant on z/os (internal, utilities, performance, etc).
 z/os (MVS) infrastructure Designer
 Good knowledge of the most popular security software: RACF and Top-secret as Administrator
 Team leader of 3 programmers that developed and maintained the conversion tools
 z/os (MVS) problems detector and performance analyzer
 Instructor z/os (MVS) tools, components and internals
 Developer of z/os (MVS) tools, system applications, utilities, and other infrastructure software as well as QA and testing procedures
 Great expertise in conversions such as VSE to MVS, None-relational data-base to DB/2, Euro, old Cobol version (Cobol-I) to Cobol-LE, etc.
 Ability to establish good relations with customers
 Autodidact � learning most of my experience from manuals

Experience:
2008 � Now - Blue-Phoenix � Senior Consultant (as free lancer)
 Creating general methodology tu support various conversion.
 Conversion Application from Main-Frame to z/Linux
 Consulting support - VSAM to DB/2 conversion for Aflac

2007 � 2008 BMC Software � Infrastructure Engineer
 Team member in developing the core product of IDM (Identity Management) section.
 Developing interfaces to manage ESS (Enterprise Security Station)
 The developing requires great knowledge in security software on z/os: RACF and Top-Secret.
 Working with SMPE
 Program Languages: Assembler and C

1986 � 2007 CRYSTAL/Blue-Phoenix � Developing Team Leader, Senior Consultant, Product Manager
� Managing the design, plan, development and maintenance of infrastructure tool that performs the following:
1. Conversion from various data-bases to DB2.
2. Upgrading operating systems: VSE to z/os (MVS), COBOL-1 to COBOL-LE
3. IT discovery on main-frame sites. Global and detailed analyses.
4. Field expansion including 'Bug 2000' and Euro conversion
5. Forcing site standardization
6. Change Management
7. Data Migration

� Being team leader of 4 programmers that maintained developed and supported the conversion tools.
� System Analyzer: Documenting of methods, examining various options to resolve rising issues and the implementations of these solutions.
� Professional and comprehensive consultancy to projects managers, salesmen/marketing as well as the customers. Instructing them on the software highlights.
Partial Projects: Lawson corp(VSE/IDMS to z/os DB2), ARGUS(ADABAS to DB2), DMV(IDMS), B.M.W Munich, Fortis Bank Brussels (Euro and IT discovery), National Netherlande Den-Hague(Euro), Israel Military Industry (VSE to MVS), Israel greatest banks (Bug 2000)

1984 � 1985 John Bryce, Jerusalem, Software Developer
� Conversion ORACLE to Hebrew users.
� Writing ORACLE exits and utilities to support John Bryce customers

1978 - 1983 IDF�s Computer Center, Programmer
� Operations research of the existing software at site
� Financial (salary) software management

Education:
1986 - B.Sc Mathematics and Computer Science at the Hebrew University - Jerusalem
1978 - Programming course � I.D.F

Skills:
 Programming Languages - I.B.M Main Frame - Assembler, COBOL, C, JAVA, PL/1
 Environments and Tools - LE, DFSMS, DFHSM
 Hardware- IBM Main-Frame
 Operating Systems - MVS/z-OS, UNIX, VM, DOS/VSE
 Security - RACF, Top Secret
 Editors - TSO/ISPF, VM/CMS, Librarian
 Data Bases - IMS, DB/2, Adabas
 Online & Networking - CICS, TCPIP
 PC software - MS-Office

Reference:
Mr. Dory Breiman 972-525264646
Mr. Moshe Zahavi 972-52-3549292

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Meir Shuker
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State: New York
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