This addendum will attempt to cover those particular items which were not included on my resume pertaining to OS/390, MVS/ESA V5, CICS/ESA V4, RACF and ACF/2 security, ACF/VTAM Networking, DB/2 and the DFSMS Program product and the DFHSM and ABARS features.

I have performed Multi-month contracts for IBM to work in the design & development teams for MVS/ESA V3, V4 & V5 as well as OS/390 V1R1 2 &3 and V2R4, CICS/ESA V3 & V4, IMS/ESA V4 & V5 and the last 4 Versions of DB/2, as well as contracts for both Hitachi and Amdahl to ensure that the newest releases of MVS/ESA and other supporting products will run efficiently on their respective processors. I have been in the past actively involved with the IBM Vendor support and Early Ship Programs for these products. These programs are for Vendors who wish to make their products compliant with the new versions of the various systems and for customers who desire to run the newest version(s) of the software before it is generally available. I have developed hundreds of performance and testing routines and enhancements for MVS/ESA, some of which are included with OS/390 and the MVS/ESA Version 5 operating system and some are only available internally from IBM or on the various MVS "share" tapes. I have also provided IBM Level 2 support for DFSMS (this includes the HSM, TMM and ABARS queues) and the ACF/VTAM and NCP queues.

This contract was a natural follow-on to the previous IBM contract to design and develop new features which were implemented into the DFSMS Program Product under MVS/ESA Version 4. Particular responsibilities for this contract were to interface ABARS with Concurrent Copy and to support the CICS BWO (Backup While Open) feature. Also added support for VTAM network assisted backup of network LANs. Enhanced support for Aggregate Groups and ARPOOLs was also coded, as well as coordinating the ABARS/SMS interface so that ABARS would know what to do in the event that SMS is either up or down. This contract was a nine month overall contract which was performed in 3 and 6 month individual contracts.

I have installed the Computer Associates ACF/2 resource control product 31 times from scratch, Computer Associates Top Secret 6 times and have installed IBM’s RACF 44 times from scratch. I have performed 18 conversions from RACF to ACF/2 and 47 conversions from ACF/2 (or Top Secret) to RACF.

I am a contributor to the IBM GG24-3861 DFSMShsm Enhancements (RED BOOK) as well as GG24-4112 ACF/VTAM Network Generation and several MVS/ESA conversion experiences Technical Bulletins. I was responsible for the IBMINFO item which is used both internally and externally as a guide for Data center migration utilizing DFHSM/ABARS and VTAM Network Assisted Support.

I went on to perform contracts for Sterling Systems (Vendor for SAMS disk, previously DMS/OS, and SAMS compress, previously SHRINK/MVS), to implement corrective support and new features to allow the products to function better in a SMS environment, as well as to create a design plan for support of IBM's Concurrent Copy and enhance the sterling software compression package (Sams Compress). Support was also provided to other groups which needed the high level of DFSMS / HSM / ABARS / TMM experience which our consultants have.

I have completed 41 Data center migrations (22 SMS sites and 19 non-SMS sites) over the last 6 years. Some of the sites requested the implementation of SMS prior to the consolidation which was performed as requested, all sites required ACF/VTAM, SNA, NCP Networking Support and either CICS or IMS, 17 sites required DB/2.

I have been a consultant to IBM's Professional Services Division in matters of customer installation or problems with MVS/ESA, CICS/ESA, DB/2, IMS, DFSMS, HSM, TMM, and ABARS for the past 4 years.

I worked as the design and development team for Landmark Systems Corporation’s TMON for CICS/ESA prototype which was eventually implemented with very few changes as TMON/CICS-ESA Version 9. Many of the ESA specific facilities and routines developed by him during that project were also implemented into the company’s TMON for MVS product.

I have also completed contracts for IBM's ISSC corporation, these contracts involved support for the IBM ISSC Banking Tower within the MVS and CICS teams, the Banking Tower is a collection of outsourced banking institutions which are clients of IBM ISSC, and are maintained on interconnected mainframes in Boulder, Colorado. Support was provided support and to allow full implementation of SMS/HSM/TMM and ABARS with all of the interconnected systems which are sharing processors and DASD without giving up security and flexibility. The Banking clients are for all purposes separate from each other even though they share the same Hardware and in some cases software. They also provided support for the IBM FOCUS system which is the 2nd largest private interconnected backbone network in the world behind ADVANTIS.

Support was provided to STK Corporation (Storagetek, the vendor for the 4400 tape silos). To provide input in designing STK's response to the IBM Automated Tape System. Previously STK only supported NON-SMS Managed Tape and IBM only supported SMS Managed Tape.

Duquesne University B.S. Computer Science 1977

MVS/ESA Internals

VTAM SNA Application Design

MVS/XA System Debugging Techniques

JES2 Internals

MVS/SP Structure & Logic

MVS/SP Planning & Control

CICS Recovery & Restart

MVS/SP System Debugging Techniques

IBM Token-Ring Methodology

IBM 390/9000, IBM 390/7000, IBM Parallel (9672), Hitachi Skyline, Hitachi Pilot, IBM 3090, IBM 3084, IBM 3081, IBM 3083, IBM 3033, IBM 4381, IBM 4341, IBM AS/400, IBM RS/6000, NAS 8083, NAS 8023, NAS 7000, AMDAHL 58XX, IBM System 38, IBM 9370, IBM System 36, Burroughs B4700, VAX 11/780, Wang VS 300, Wang VS 100, Wang ALLIANCE, IBM PC's PS2 and compatibles, Macintosh

SUPERVISORS:

OS/390, MVS/ESA-JES2 & JES3, MVS/XA-JES2 & JES3, MVS/SP-JES2 & JES3, VM/ESA, VM/SP, VM/HPO, DOS/VSE-POWER, MCP, UNIX IV, OS/2, IBM PC-DOS, MS-DOS, Windows/NT, Windows/95, XENIX, CPM

LANGUAGES:

Assembler, C, C++, COBOL, Command-Level COBOL, Macro-Level COBOL, SAS, PASCAL, PL/1, FORTRAN, Natural, RPG III, Easytriev, BASIC, HP/GL, PRESCRIBE

DATABASE SYSTEMS:

DB/2, IMS, ADABAS, ORACLE, TOTAL, INQUIRE, MODEL/204, IDMS, SYSTEM 2000

SYSTEMS:

CICS, DF/SMS, IMS, DMS, CMS, ISPF/PDF (TSO & VM), ACF/VTAM, ACF/NCP, TCP/I, NetView, NCCF, NPA, NPM, NDM, MICS, TPX, DFP, SLR, CIMS, Wylbur, Roscoe, APEX, RMF, DYL-260, LOOK, CA-1 through CA-11, ACF2, RACF, Top-Secret, TPNS, OMEGAMON CICS & MVS, TMON CICS & MVS, JARS, SMP/E, SMP/4, FDR, SDSI, STAM, SCON, SDSF, Panvalet, Librarian, FILE-AID, TAM, ISMF, DF/HSM, VSAM-Assist, CA-TLMS, DISOSS

MAJOR PC SOFTWARE:

DBASE IV, Object view, Lotus 123, COREL, Ventura, Harvard Project Manager, Harvard Graphics, WindowMaker, ProtoGen, VX-Rexx, Kase VIP, Paradox, DB2/2, VS/Cobol Workbench, WordPerfect, Wordstar, MS-WORD, SPF/PC, SAS/PC, INTERVOICE, Multiple 3270 Emulation packages, NOVELL LAN, STAR-LAN, TOKEN-RING, WESTTECH-LAN, BANYAN Vines, SMARTCOM, CROSSTALK, PROCOMM +, PC-Anywhere, KERMIT, and many more.

TITLE: Senior Technical Staff Consultant 1988-PRESENT

Provided support for IBM internal and external clients for the installation and conversion from various versions of MVS, DF/SMS, CICS, IMS and DB/2, to the newest versions of MVS/ESA, CICS/ESA, IMS/ESA, and DB/2, in full and non-full implementations of SMS, on Parallel and Non-Parallel processors, as part of the IBM Vendor Support Program and IBM Early Ship Program for IBM customers and vendors.

Provided performance tuning, systems programming, and technical problem resolution support for IBM's ISSC subsidiary which included direct support for the banking systems tower consisting of multiple large banking institutions which have outsourced to the IBM ISSC subsidiary. Performance tuning and problem resolution support were also provided to other IBM ISSC internal and external system clients.

Responsible for development and coding of DFSMS (System Managed Storage) sub-system interfaces for a variety of clients. Two of these interfaces are now marketed by those clients to the general MVS/ESA community. Responsible for several DF/SMS innovations for the Sterling Software DMS product.

Responsible for the Design of a prototype system for Digital Equipment Corporation as part of a feasibility study to test the possibility of interconnecting hardware among several dissimilar mainframe platforms under one network supporting interoperability between all of the IBM and non-IBM nodes.

Responsible for the design and development of a prototype CICS/ESA monitor for a major software development company. This effort included writing facilities which take advantage of MVS/ESA and CICS/ESA only capabilities such as DATA SPACES and HIPER SPACES as well as AR MODE assembler programming and automated testing procedures.

Designed & Developed Various VM/ESA & RSCS Exits.

Responsible for the planning and installation of MVS/ESA under IBM's Early ship program as well as for numerous other clients since MVS/ESA began shipping as generally available. With this new operating system came IBM's DFSMS (System Managed Storage) and newer versions of DB2.

Responsible for planning, installation and conversion of and to MVS/ESA at over 40 sites and MVS/XA at over 100 sites throughout the US and Canada.

Designed and developed a Personal Computer Based System which allows MVS/XA and MVS/ESA sites to control and maintain performance parameters 24 hours a day with no human intervention. The system controls all application running under the operating system including NetView and TP monitors like CICS and IMS. The systems will dynamically change performance parameters if necessary as well as locate and resolve performance related problems as they arise.

Assisted in the clients planning for a combined Data Center consolidation and move. Responsible for

the Teleprocessing network design for the new data center. Recommended and oversaw implementation of a new corporate-wide Local Area Network (IBM's Token-Ring Network), which included access to all processors at all sites in the client's world-wide Corporate Network.

Responsible for the total Multi-System configuration and the technical leadership of both the MVS and VM Technical Support Groups. The center is composed of multiple mainframes including IBM, NAS, DEC, and Wang processors and serves as both a corporate data center and a service bureau for a large client base, including government contracts, running multiple database systems and terminal monitors. Responsible for the installation and support of all Software and Multiple Database Products including INQUIRE, ADABAS, IDMS, MODEL/204, FOCUS, and ORACLE. Set up Multi-site network of mainframes and LAN's including multiple non-IBM mini-computers and mainframes. Installed multiple PC based Voice Response Systems and programmed interfaces from the VRS's to CICS applications for several benchmarks for various proposals and clients. Worked on a joint project with IBM to develop modifications to the I/O Subsystem (IOS) to allow for higher data transfer rates. Member of the joint IBM/PRC team to develop and implement Imaging technology for the U.S. Patent Office Contract.

BRIPER Industries Systems Consulting

TITLE: Senior Systems Programming Consultant 1983-1985

Responsible for project control on multiple contracts. Some highlights include Installation of Multiple 9370, System 38, and System 36 systems for a Major Aluminum company and their integration into the 25,000 + terminal SNA world-wide network. This involved Bulk and Micro data transfer from any terminal to any processor in the network. Accomplished multiple MVS/XA system installations for various client companies including frequent ground-up hardware and software installations for companies setting up new data centers. Worked on several sub-contracts to IBM for Systems Programming support on complex problems at their client installation sites and to design custom modifications as solutions to some of their larger client's special needs. Designed and coded several MVS and VTAM telecommunications utilities which are used internally at IBM and which are available to IBM customers through Data-Link. Designed and implemented a custom Local Area Network for a Major Defense Hardware manufacturer. Provided Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning support for multiple clients Including installation and customization of M.I.C.S. and Merril's Software and training on the use of those products. Also partially responsible for the Training Department of BRIPER Industries and personally taught MVS/XA and MVS/SP Systems programming classes as well as CICS Application Programming, and ISPF/PDF use, and ISPF Dialog Manager Application design techniques.

Responsible for installation and modification of VM/SP to run MVT and MVS/SP concurrently on a single processor in order to convert to MVS/SP. Installed CICS and DL/1 and conducted training classes for the applications programmers on Command Level Coding techniques. Designed and Maintained the DL/1 databases. Developed CICS based automated tape display system to assist operations personnel and succeeded in lowering the average tape mount time from 6 minutes to just 2 minutes 15 seconds. Developed custom VTAM 3270 emulation package for connection of Personal Computers to the mainframe. The PC's were able to physically connect to the mainframe as a TTY terminal and the VTAM application to which they were connected to handled the packetising and breakdown of the message traffic to and from various applications on the system. This system remained in place for a full year until 3270 emulation boards were available and a standard was implemented.

Responsible for CICS Installation and maintenance. Developed interface for PANVALET into the CICS terminal monitor. Worked as acting supervisor of 3 man team to effectively link a DOS/VSE machine to an MVS machine utilizing VTAM and VTAM/E. Worked to establish the Teleprocessing system between the Automated warehouse distribution center in Waco and the Dallas Control System. Was recognized by IBM for modifications which enhanced the usability and reliability of both VTAM and the Operating System.

Responsible for the on-line testing and conversion of VISA and MASTERCARD formats. Worked on VSAM conversion team. Promoted to systems programming group and given responsibility for CICS and the conversion from DATACOM DB/DC to CICS with DL/1.

Started as an operator, was promoted after six months to a maintenance programmer while attending college. Coordinated operations team of six persons. Responsible for the program maintenance of accounts payable and general ledger. Also maintained part of the on-line patient accounting inventory system.

1. OS/390 Concepts and Installation/Modification Considerations

Operating Systems Special Report - 1995

2. MVS/ESA Installation/Modification Considerations

Enterprise Systems Journal - 1990

3. Micro to Mainframe Connections

Computerworld - 1986

4. MVS/XA, To Modify or Not, Is There a Question?

Computerworld - 1986

5. Capacity Planning Techniques

Planning Research Technical Journal - 1986

6. Cookbook: IBM links to Non-IBM machines

Computerworld - 1987

Mainframe Journal - 1988

7. When You Need a Systems Integrator, and When You Don't

Computerworld - 1988

8. MVS - Bloopers, Blunders, and Practical Jokes?

Mainframe Journal - 1988

9. Contributor of several Files on the Connecticut Bank & Trust Software Tape. These files contains Software Modifications and Utilities for use under IBM's MVS/ESA, MVS/XA or MVS/SP, and are intended for free distribution to IBM installations.

9. Contributor of File 52 of the JES SHARE Software Tape. This file contains Software Modifications and EXITs for use with IBM's JES2 product to accomplish several enhanced properties as well as some special facilities for NJE connections to JES3.

1. Member IBM Corp. System 390 Developer's Group, for OS/390, MVS/ESA and VM/ESA.

2. Member IBM Corp. HPST Vendor Testing Program for OS/390, MVS/ESA Version 5.1 & 5.2 and OpenEdition.

3. Consultant IBM Corp. CICS/ESA Ver. 4 and IMS/ESA Ver. 5 Vendor Test Program and Early Ship Program.

4. Member IBM OS/2 Developer’s team since 1990.

5. Guest Speaker at various SHARE and GUIDE conferences.

1. Science Degree, Westinghouse Science Honors Institute

Westinghouse Research & Development Lab

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

2. Presented Computer Design Theory at Penn State Univ. at Science Honors and Humanities Symposium

Penn State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

3. Awarded 4 year ALCOA scholarship for Academic achievement in science

Aluminum Company of America

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania