HMR Resume 06/12/96-Management



Howard M. Rifkind 27 March 2009

350 County Road

Demarest, New Jersey 07627-1116

Telephone: Home: 201-768-7106

Cell: 201-615-1487

Email: h_rifkind@

Technology Highlights

Processor Units: IBM 3090-600J/LPAR Operation AS/400 B50 IBM 9672/R26, R45 R46 & R52, Z/900, MP3000. Z9BC

Disk Storage: IBM & EMC 3380/3390 Mod 2,3 & 9., DS8000/SAN

Tape Storage: IBM 3420 3480E 3490E 3590.

Mainframe Software Installed, Utilized and Maintained:

z/VM 5.3, z/OS 1.6 and 1.10 CBPIO & PDO, ICF Catalogs, O/S COBOL, VM/RSCS, TSO/E, MVS/System Utilities, CICS/TS 2.3 and 3.2 RACF Security Administrator, CICS/SDF II, Assembler Language coding, Vanguard RACF Administrator, IBM Info/Man Change Management, Top Secret, TLMS, CA-1, CA-11, CA-Jobtrac, Librarian/VS Batch &TSO, Intertest/CICS Batch & Online, Abend-Aid Products for CICS BATCH, MVS QuickRef, Multi Image Manager, FDR Fast Dump/Restore System, FDR IAM (For VSAM Datasets), OMEGAMON/MVS, ICKDSF, DFSMS, ASG TMON for CICS 3.2 z/OS and TCP/IP, z/VM Backup and Restore System, z/VM DirMaint RACF for z/VM 5.3

Installation, tuning and maintenance of the IBM VM operating system since VM/370.

MICRO COMPUTER SOFTWARE:

Lotus Notes MicroSoft Office/XP (Excel Word Power Point) Windows/98 Windows 2003 Server Windows 2000 Windows/XP Professional Workstation Windows/Vista Borland ‘C’ Novell IManager, Novell Console One. VMware Suse Linux 11.1

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE:

Assembler VM/XA REXX Procedure Language for z/OS & z/VM TSO CLIST Procedures Cobol ‘C’ CICS Macro Assembler & Cobol CICS EXEC Assembler & Cobol VM/CMS PL/I.

HELP DESK TICKETING SYSTEMS:

InterTrack, Calrify, IBM ChangeMan.

EDUCATION:

Fairleigh Dickinson University

1000 River Road Teaneck, New Jersey

Graduate B.S. Business Management-Accounting. Data Processing Minor.

Attended Fairleigh Dickinson Graduate School - M.S. Program in Computer Sciences.

Various IBM Ed Center classes in RACF z/OS z/VM and z/VM-Linux

Various CA Ed Center classes for Job Track CA-1 CA11 Top Secret

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Emigrant Saving Bank Data Center 5/2008 – 3/2009

7 Westchester Plaza

Elmsford, New York 10523-1601

Position: Senior Systems Programmer.

➢ Z9BC 4 LPARS, z/OS 1.6, z/OS 1.10 VSE z/VM 5.3 running with SLES version 9 & 10.

➢ z/OS Installation and maintenance of operating system and associated program products.

➢ z/VM Installation and maintenance of operating system and associated program products. DirMaint & RACF.

➢ Provide the infrastructure for SUSE Linux Servers with installation setup. Running 30+ Linux Servers.

➢ Develop project plans to support the above with associated reporting and feed back.

➢ Provide and maintain the needed Disaster/Recovery of site O/S capabilities for both z/VM and z/OS.

➢ Install and maintain the latest CICS code for 7 CICS regions.

Seton Hall University 6/2002-2/2008

400 south Orange Avenue

South Orange, New Jersey 07079

Position: Senior Systems Programmer, University Computing Division.

➢ Maintain 3 CICS/TS 1.2 regions. Two for testing, 1 Production and 1 for Systems Programming in 3 different z/OS LPAR’s

➢ Installation of 3 CICS/TS 2.3 with the same configuration as above.

➢ Installation of SMPE 3.3

➢ Reconstruct the entire RACF database for the university.

➢ Extensive interfacing with the Systems and General user community regarding RACF issues and z/OS issues and problem resolution.

➢ General day to day RACF administration.

➢ z/OS 1.4 System Generation using HCD, system maintenance, program product installations such as FDR/Dump/Restore and FDR/IAM and FDR/IAMRLS.

➢ z/VM 4.4 installation and maintenance.

➢ Maintain the IOCP/IOCDS using HCD.

➢ VMware Server Builds.

➢ Utilize SMP for Sysmods and PTF’s.

➢ RACF Security Administrator for the University.

EclipsysCorporation 1/2001-6/14/2002

333 Route 46 West

Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046

Position: Senior Systems Programmer.

➢ Maintain 41 CICS/TS 1.3 regions (19 production, 22 test regions (1 AOR & 1 TOR/MRO).

➢ Extensive client interface working with clients to ensure proper RACF access to CICS regions and other mainframe resources.

➢ Create various RACF profiles in various RACF classes.

➢ General product maintenance and product installation.

➢ Various OS/390 day to day tasks (SMPE, PARMLIB, Cataloged Procedures etc.)

➢ Mainframe Standards Documentation.

Unilever Bestfoods 10/99-1/2001

700 Sylvan Avenue

Englewood Cliff, New Jersey 07632-9976

Work Location: 100 Passaic Avenue 3rd Floor,

Fairfield, New Jersey 07004

Position: Senior Systems Programmer.

➢ Various tasks involved in the installation of OS/390 2.7. i.e. TSO Logon Procedures.

➢ Install and maintenance of various CA products, CA-Jobtrac, CA-11

➢ TCPIP/OSA/OAT maintenance.

➢ Installation and maintenance of MVS QuickRef.

➢ Installation and maintenance of the IBM Softcopy Librarian System and the BookManager system.

➢ Decision Support tools such as Pilot Software’s: Command Center Plus for both MVS and Client Server.

Insurance Services Office, Inc. 8/98-9/99

Two Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River,

New York, 10965-8750

Position. Lead Systems Programmer.

➢ Tasks relating to various MVS and OS/390 Operating Systems from release 4.3 to OS/390 release2.5 and related CA products.

➢ Major project to consolidate two RACF databases from two separate corporations.

➢ Installation of CA-ACF2 6.2 Vanguard RACF VRA,VSR & VSA. Plus other OS/390 related system products. Consul RACF+Audit. JHS/XPTR. various Y2K Assembler programming adjustments in program products & exits.

International Software Programming Ltd. 11/97-12/99

350 County Road, Demarest,

New Jersey 07627-1116

Position: Principal of Consulting Business.

➢ Client: VuQuest, LLC, Norristown, Pa.

➢ Install and customize MVS/ESA 5.1/JES2 4 and DASD Management software. IBM 9672, R11.

➢ Install latest Cobol for MVS and VM plus LE/370.

➢ Install and setup RACF.

➢ DASD Management installation and maintenance using Innovation’s Fast Dump/Restore system.

➢ Miscellaneous work on Y2K projects in Assembler and Cobol.

➢ Managing Partner, VuQuest, LLC. This business is an Internet Service Provider.

Depository Trust Company. 8/96-11/97

55 Water Street

New York, New York 10041

Position: Senior Programmer Analyst.

➢ Write new code in both COBOL II and Assembler Language for various securities applications Utilizing CICS 4.1 and DB2. Utilize CAD programs in designing new systems. Cobol/II API’s.

➢ Maintain and alter existing programs to add additional functionality, also using CICS and DB2.

➢ Work on various documentation projects with DTC’s technical writers to document changes made to programs in the Participants Terminal System. A system with in excess of seventeen thousand terminals connected to it.

➢ Work with CAD/RAD tools to modernize the Participants Terminal System applications.

Meldisco Division of Melville Corporation 7/80-8/96

933 Macarthur Boulevard

Mahwah, New Jersey 07430

Position: Manager of Technical Services and Computer Center Operations.

➢ Hands on management responsibility for the Data Center. Responsibility for the duties of the Operations Manager, 3 supervisors and 9 operators. Technical services included 2 lead systems programmers and 4 senior systems programmers.

➢ Corporate Security Manager: Mainframe (RACF), Network (Novell NetWare 3.12 & 4.1).

➢ Wrote Cobol II and Assembler programs in order to keep current with programming technology and special application needs.

➢ Hands on involvement for the installation of system software and propriety software products, system performance measuring and monitoring, problem resolution for system and application problems. Used extensive Virtual Machine operations under VM/XA prior to migrating to Multi Image Manager..

➢ Advise in the decision making process for the purchase of new hardware and software.

➢ Manage the software for all telecommunications and cabling schema for a CICS network in excess of 600 work stations connected via a token ring network.

➢ Manage the migration from DOS/VSE to MVS/XA and then to MVS/ESA.

➢ Developed, managed, maintained and executed the companies Disaster/Recover Plan which was tested three times a year.

➢ Install and implement change management for the MIS group.

➢ Installation and maintenance of VM/ESA-HPO. Ran 3 MVS 4.3 and 2 DOS/VSE virtual machines within this VM system on hardware from an IBM 3090-180E thru an IBM 3090-600J. Extensive use of VM/RSCS for support of remote warehousing operations. VM supported extensive use by the applications staff for Cobol program development and testing.

➢ Converted from VM to CA-MIM.

➢ Largest VM/XA – DOS/VSE shop in North Jersey prior to converting to an MVS shop.

Past time Instructor Bergen Community College:

Advanced IBM Assembler Language.

Availability: As requested.

References: Furnished upon request.

Salary Requirements: Compensations relative to position and responsibilities.

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