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Peter Futymed

as400@blueyonder.co.uk

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Availability: Immediate.

Position Sought: AS400 Technical support / System manager.

Location Sought: London, Surrey, Parts of Kent and West Sussex TAIWAN and SINGAPORE

Home Location: Selhurst (Near Croydon), London SE25

CAREER OVERVIEW:

CAREER OVERVIEW: 15 Years substantial IT experience from PC's to Mainframes from operating to system programming. With exceptional skills in AS400 analytical problem resolution, system performance - tuning and management reporting, capacity planning, CL and REXX programming, automation and documentation. I am self motivated adaptable and flexible. I can also speak a small amount of Chinese Mandarin!

Career Highlights:

Gullivers Travel Associates 6 Months: AS400 Technical Projects

INVESCO/Perpetual 2 Months: AS400 Technical Support.

Nalco Limited 8 Months: AS400 administration and training.

Cigna International 1 Year: AS400 Projects.

Fisher Rosemount 10 Months: Techical Support analyst.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals 4 Months: AS400 Day-to-day support and administration.

Standard Chartered. 9 Months: AS400. Technical Support Specialist.

Legal & General. 3 Months: AS400. Librarian/Change Control.

Toyota. 1 Year: AS400. Operations Advisor.

Nurdin & Peacock. 6 Years: IBM 4381. VM Systems programmer.

Rockwell International,Imperial College & Printronic Corporation: 3 Years; IBM 43xx. Operator/Senior operator. VM/CMS, DOS/VSE, PDP11 & VAXs. & Laser printers.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Gullivers Travel Associates Barbican - London

AS400 Technical Projects June 2001 - December 2001

Augmenting the IT computer department I was given a number of projects the AS400 manager did not have time to complete. Projects included: System cleanup with the view to reduce the percent of disk used. As part of this project I introduced automated archiving for the Thenon change control software (which alone saved 8 gigabytes of disk space). Another project was to test and correct some 700 jobs on an in-house application called the System Monitor, making sure all system jobs were correctly monitored and that the restart parameters, in the event of a failure, worked correctly. Other projects of note: Set-up OptiConnect between the AS400 partitions. Wrote a Time logging program allowing managers to keep track of the time their home workers spent signed-on to the AS400. HARDWARE Base: AS400 740 12-way processor, 700 Gig, Partitioned and mirrored to a 730. Webserver was 820 iSeries. Software level: R4V5M0 (Data Mirror and OMS/ODS used for mirroring)

INVESCO Perpetual Henley-On-Thames

AS400 Technical Support February 2001 - April 2001.

During the merger of Invesco and Perpetual I provided support for the testing and intergration AS400 . In addition I was a consultant for the migration project from an SNA to TCP/IP network covering topics such as: Telnet, IP printing (IPDS/SCS), Host Tables, Host Servers, DNS, Virtual IP addressing, FTP, ANYNET, Blue Server, Setting appropriate AS400 IP attributes, security implications. I implemented my MIS reporting system as introduced at other AS400 sites, providing AS400 information statistics such as DASD utilization and interactive performance trends. I also aided and trained the other 5 members of the Technical support team during the day-to-day running. HARDWARE Base: iSeries 830 Testing AS400: 2400/1534, 1.7 Terabytes DASD, 2 Gig Main Storage. Production AS400: 2400/1534, 750 Gig DASD, 3 Gig Main Storage. and 6 Other Minor AS400's.

Nalco Limited Northwich, Cheshire

AS400 Administrator, Jan 2000 - Date.

As part of a small team I supported over 400, pan-european, AS400 users mostly using the BPCS software. I would resolve all levels of OS/400 problems or liase with IBM to resolve the issues Including, but not limited to: PC to AS400 connectivity, PC Uploads/Downloads to the AS400, performace issues, response times/WAN connectivety, printing issues. It was also my responsability to train the senior operator to become more capable of technical support. I would perform BPCS security and resolve BPCS errors. Other projects - upgraded a Dutch AS400 package callled VAA, documented the operations procedures, documented the installation of Client access (using web pages). Due to staff shortages I also spent some time working on the Help Desk. AS400 OS/400 Operating level 4.3, Machine model 730. During this contract Nalco acquired the company Aquazour which increased the AS400 user base to about 600.

Cigna international Crawley, West Sussex

AS400 Projects, June 98 - Date.

As part of the AS400 projects team supporting users throught 25 countries, I absorbed the technical support requirements arising from the 5 operational analysts. Including screen & menu design, CL and REXX programming, RPG (limited), OS400 commands, Query, DDM, printing, code page and CCSID support, communications etc. In addition I would be a resource and advisor to the ongoing in-house projects e.g. AS400 TCP/IP connectivity, ANYNET rollout, Rally Attachmate (6.4) rollout, some Y2K. Exposure to Robot and the S/36 environment. Provided management information statistics, to Director level, in the form of colourful Excel graphs showing trends for AS400 CPU, DASD and interactive response-times. (Using Client Access ODBC the graphs were updated by the click of a button.) Company AS400 base - 3 main Crawley AS400s, Models 530 and 620 and about 25 "Server" AS400s acting as Pass-through boxes and country specific code repository. Operating systems OS400 3.7, 4.1 & 4.2.

Fisher Rosemount Bognor Regis, West Sussex

AS400 Technical Analyst, August 97 - June 98.

Provided AS400 support for the European centralization to the UK AS400, based in Bognor. Supported an AS400 (RISC 640-2237) within a TCP/IP & Windows 95 environment, with about 300-500 concurrent users based in at least 10 countries, mainly using the JD Edwards accounting system (Release 7.2 & 7.3). Provided support for BRMS, IBM Job Scheduler, printing, data security and supported the programmers. Resolved national language issues, code pages, CCSIDs, National Charactor sets, EG German, French, Polish. Provided PC to AS400 connectivity and file transfer solutions using Client Access, FTP, ODBC and Shared Folders. Implemented security audit recommendations. Monitored the company intranet network. Monitored AS400 performance. Applied PTFs, Cumulative packages and upgrade OS400 from 3.7 to 4.1 and from a 530 to a 640 model. I also interviewed applicants for the permanent position for which I was contracting. PC applications used: Windows 95, CC_Mail and Lotus Notes MS Excel & Word. While at Fisher Rosemount I attended a evening course in HTML internet programming.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals(Formerly Ciba-Giegy), Horsham.

Administrator and Day-to-Day support. Feburary 97 - May 97. Provided day-to-day administration for about 200-300 concurrent users during the merger of the Ciba-Gigy and Sandoz companies. Technical support, trouble shooting, BPCS security, printing solutions. PC/AS400 conectivity using Rumba. Documentation. Hardware platform: RISC 2151-530 and an E20 AS400s. AS400 Software: OS400 3.6 & 3.1, BPCS V3.1, PLIMS, IDHAMMER. Programming and Utilities: CL, Query, MS Word & Excel, Windows, Rumba.

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Standard Chartered. Cardiff, Wales

Technical support specialist.April 1996 - December 1996. Technical support, upgraded Thenon software, performance monitoring & tuning, trouble shooting, disc management, capacity planning, PC to AS400 connectivity using Rally. Advised on security issues. User base about 300. I was contracting while the department was being outsourced. Hardware/Software platforms supported: F series and Advanced series AS400s. OS400, Versions 2.3 & 3.1, Thenon, Tradewinds(in-house), System 36 Environment (Under OS400). Programming and Utilities: CL, REXX, Query, BEST/1, MS Word & Excel, Windows, Attachmate Rally with NS router.

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Legal & General. Cockfosters, London

Librarian & change control. December 1995 - Febuary 1996. Overseeing and performing program releases to some 14 AS400s mainly for Insure/90 . Writing utilities using REXX to simplify the transfer of program/file changes not handled by the Thenon Software.

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Seimans Nixdorf. Basingstoke. Help Desk Analyst. 3 Weeks in Feb 95. Logging calls and call management using Quetzal software.

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Toyota (GB). Redhill, Surrey

Operations advisor.September 1994 - January 95 & April 95 - September 95.
Technical analysis, advice and support to users and programmers during the implementation of new accounting software on an AS400. Problem management. Software installation, set-up & applying ship boxes (PTFs). Security implementation. System tuning. Performance monitoring. Machine sizing, capacity planning and modeling. Documentation. PC set-up and installation. Other duties encompassed a variety of hardware platforms based in and around the project. When the Masterpiece project was canceled I was asked back to support the J.D. Edwards project. Hardware/Software platforms supported: AS400's 300 & F Series, PCs, Printers. PC/AS400 network (Novell), CL, RUMBA, PC Support, Elite/400, World Vision(JDE GUI) and others. COURSES: J.D.Edwards technical foundation (5 days).

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Nurdin & Peacock (Cash & Carry). Raynes Park, London

VM Systems Programmer.August 1988 - June 1994.

Solely responsible for VM systems programming and analyst tasks on the 4381. In addition I was the sole system operator for a B30 AS400. The Roles were divivded about 80%/20%. Ensuring efficient functioning of the system. Trouble shooting, problem management & determination. Implementation of system backups. Software upgrades. Disaster recovery. Documentation & configuration diagrams. Liaison with IBM, OEM's, engineers, users, programmers etc. Capacity planning. Performance monitoring & tuning. Managing upgrades to hardware and operating system. Re-configuring controllers. Terminal management. Holiday cover for the Adabas DBA. Advising managers on technical issues (upgrades, cost savings etc.). Using REXX to automated & simplified day-to-day operations - message management, comms management and overnight batch runs. Also used REXX to write a versatile console log/file storage management/archive program, a comprehensive validation program for incoming sales data, numerous utilities for operating and managing the system. Projects included off-site tape storage, AT&T structured cabling system, working with UNIX and IBM people to eliminate a dozen or so long standing communication issues. Hardware/Software platforms supported: IBM 4381, AS400 & PC's. CP, CMS, VM, HPO, REXX, EXEC2, SYBACK, VPAC, ADABAS, SYNCSORT, IFS, TUBES, RSCS, ARCHIVE, DSF, EREP, VSAM, FAQS/VM(Legent) OS400 1.1, 2.2, 2.3. Insight accounting package. COURSES: Introduction to Systems Programming. AS400 system facilities. Intermediate and Advanced UNIX. Xerox laser printer programming. Personal organization & time management. Interpersonal skills. Other Projects: Telephone extension management on a BTEX, audit and correctly setting of all phones. Computer equipment audit.

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Rockwell international. Houndslow, Middelsex

Liaison and problem management with the USA and Europe. Local problem resolution and escalation. Hardware and communication lines maintenance/management. Help and information desk for users' problems including engineer call-outs. System shutdown/startup. Telex distribution. Simplification of operating duties using REXX, including distribution management and communication line management. Hardware/Software platforms supported: IBM 4381. VS1, DOS/VSE, VM/CMS, CICS, RSCS, ACF2 net, SYBACK, EXEC & REXX.

Imperial College. Computer Operator.Feb 87 - Aug 87.

Backups. Communication lines management. Hardware management. Problem management. Shutdown/restart of machine room and all machines therein. Peripheral maintenance. Documentation. Equipment audit. I was offered promotion when I announced I was leaving. Platforms supported: IBM 4331 VM/SP, 2 VAX 11/750's, PDP 11/44.

Printronic Corporation.Computer/Laser printer Operator. Apr 85 - Aug 86.

Responsible for batch job schedules on the night-shift. Deputised for the shift leader in his absence in charge of 3 other operators. Laser printer maintenance and operation. Scratch list/tape management. Problem management. Problem determination / resolution. Platforms supported: IBM 4381, 4341. Xerox 9700, Siemens 6100 printers. DOS/VSE, Macro 4, JCL, Selcopy, SIXBIT, DYNAMT.

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