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This home page is built as a starting point for S/390 (OS/390, MVS, VSE, VM) system-programmers, application programmers and operators on the Internet. It's not just a directory of software and hardware products, but also a place where mainframe professionals can meet, introduce themselves, search for a new job, have their resume hosted. All services are FREE of charge for individuals as well as for companies. A search script is available online, so you won't have to loose your time to find something. This site is actually supported by the following company : Software Diversified Services (SDS). Be a sponsor too : It is a lot cheaper than you would expect ! Click here !

Index : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

N.B.: recruiters are on the job page, people section.

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People page - Letter A

Yousef AL-Ibrahim

I'm currently an MVS/ESA, VTAM/NCP Senior systems programmer, (10 years in this field), currently I'm learning about connectivity to the outer world, i.g. PCs and LANs, and because our Oracle DBA has gone for the military service for one full year, I took his job also. (Multitasking !). I would like to share my experiences with anyone interested.

Alonso Angel

Systems Engineer at PLATINUM Technology Spanish office.

Usha Angou

I have served as a Mainframe Systems Programmer/Analyst and Project Lead on Systems Design, Storage (DASD) Management, Third Party Installation, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning and Multi-platform connectivity Solutions. Can visualize the "Big Picture" - what a typical business environment needs ranging from Mainframe Systems to the PC environment. Have been providing Statewide System Solutions for MN administrative Systems over 5 years and have a overall experience of 9 years in Information technolgy field.
I am also a Part owner of an IT Consulting Firm which has offices in Minnesota, Michigan. USA and Coimbatore, India. I still actively work in Mainframe Programming and proficient in 3rd party software Installations, Mainframe Migrations, Disaster Recovery Planning and ISPF/TSO/REXX/JCL Coding and Web-enabling Legacy Codes and Batch Tuning. Would like any short term Work via Internet for any Large US Corporation. Can work Fixed price or Hourly rate.
Home page : http://www.vincom.com
For more details see my resume (hosted on this site !)

People page - Letter B

Steve Bacher

I'm the author of the NNMVS newsreader for MVS/TSO and the MVS Gopher client (I also maintain the MVS Gopher server). I also wrote various assembler routines to make TSO/REXX more compatible with TSO/CLIST, and spent lots of time in my system programmer youth writing tools to make my job easier.
I also was the creator of Zil, an industrial-strength Lisp compiler/interpreter for MVS, and ported the Macsyma symbolic algebra program to MVS under it. At the time it was the fastest known implementation of Macsyma, due to the hardware; now, of course, a common desktop PC could beat it. How time flies (like an arrow, naturally).
Steve has a home page.

Jim Bahls

IBM IMS Developer in the systems area.

Gary N. Barnes

Sr. Systems Programmer - E-Systems Inc. Greenville, Tx. USA.
I have worked with all most all IBM systems since Sept. 1956; EAM, 1401, 360, 370, and on up. I currently work on a system consisting of 2 3090-400J and a 3090-200J. We are currently on MVS/ESA and VM/ESA. I basicly trouble shoot software problems and write ALC programs that can not be written in anything else. I have a BS in Math and Comp. Science and a MS in Comp. Science. I also teach Computer Science part time at Texas A&M at Commerce, Tx. (Night classes only).

Gadi Ben-Avi (Israel)

I am a system programmer (Part of a team of two) for one of the largest software and oursourcing companies in Israel. I'm in charge of most things related to MVS.

Diego Bessone

I've been working with mainframes since 1987, beginning with the IBM 3031 and IBM 3081 machines. Since then I've served as Job Streamer, PL/I and Cobol Programmer, PSF and AFP Specialist (laser printing), MVS, DB2, CICS and IMS System Programmer, Project Leader, and several other positions held as a S/390 consultant in many companies. Currently I'm working for IBM Argentina, as a S/390 Sales Executive and Software Engineer, focused on Tivoli's mainframe software for systems management.

Jerry Bires

My only contribution as a recruiter will be to serve your readers when, like now, I am working a mainframe oriented position. For those with long memories, I did help make the Hydra II channel attached protocol converter a viable counterpart to IBM's 7171 and the SDLC attached 3708.
Home page : http://www.crti.com

Norberto Bocalandro

I work for IBM (Martinez Plant) since 1980, in Test Engineering, soon in Information System. I've always been dedicated to control process (even before the 80), at that time with microprocessors, and soon after with systems like the Sistema/7, or Series-1 soon to happen to use one 360-145, one 4341, another 4381, the first 3090 of Argentina, and always fighting with the hardware and software. I left IBM in 1994 in order to dedicate myself entirely to software, offering services as much of installation, as of maintenance and something that gets passionate to me which is the dictation of courses on VM, MVS, OS/390 and now z/OS with educative dealer of IBM. A lot of people know me, and remember me (I hope in good terms), and for that reason I desire your approbation and by mainly the COLLABORATION of all you in my site, Dino Land - Tierra de Dinosaurios (site with forums, bulletins and links on mainframes, with zOS, z/VM, OS/390, Linux, and products as RACF, COBOL, JCL, TSO, CICS, DB2, etc. Also hardware and products comparation).

John Bradley

17 years experience on multiplatform systems. Specifically mainframe networking. Skills in cross-platform integration using SNA and TCPIP services covering, MVS, NT, UNIX, DOS, Sinix, AS400 and HP systems.

Jeffrey R. Broido

I have been a mainframe Systems Programmer for thirty years, starting with OS/360 MVT R16 and continuing through OS/390 2.10 most recently. I am a competent Assembler programmer, maintainer, installer, tuner, troubleshooter, documenter and educator.

Troy Brumley

I'm a career IBM mainframe programmer, from 360/30 to this little P390 running OS/390 on my left. I work for Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com/)in the TOTAL FrameWork group developing products such as our Distributed Communications product which allows JAVA clients to access MVS CICS programs as object methods. I program in Assembly, C, C++, PASCAL, and COBOL. I've even done some JAVA and Smalltalk.

Will Burke

Technical analyst with Virginia Dept of Motor Vehicles (http://www.dmv.state.va.us/) headquartered in Richmond, VA (USA). Data center is transitioning to OS/390 Rel 1.3 supporting 24x7 operations. My primary responsibilities are in communication architecture and getting applications both in-house and external connected to the variety of IBM (CICS regions) and Software AG products (multiple ADABAS's, Com-Plete, Entire Broker and Entire Broker Server) with connections to Advantis and other VAN's.
Write for more info on experience and help in these and related areas. Interested in hearing from others who are on OS/390 and use: VTAM, IP with IBM's IEBASE or middleware solutions.

People page - Letter C

John Cassidy

z/VM, z/Linux, z/OS, VSE, CICS/TS, Websphere European-wide systems consulting.
Home page : http://www.JDCassidy.net

Mark Cathcart

I work in Enterprise Systems at IBM United Kingdom, where I specialise in client/server, open systems and software strategy. Previously, I was the senior professional in VM/VSE Product Management and Technical Support team. I am a "certified" IT Consultant, a Knight of the order of VM and a member of the British Computer Society client/server group.
Have a look at Cathcart's corner, a home page on the internet where open client/server, workstation and PC integration with IBM Enterprise Servers, and network computing are the main features.

Michel Castelein

Education consultant MVS, OS/390
He has a home page too.

David Chapman

Hi.. I am currently working as a Project Manager / Systems Programmer at Capita Business Services in London. I have been a VM/VSE sysprog for a loooong time (18 years+) but have been dipping my toes in the project management pool over the last few years.
I still prefer a technical role and especially enjoy the opportunity to 'learn a least one new thing every day'

Ruisheng Chen

More than 7 years experiences in analysis, design, development and implementation of bank application systems. Have a fair mastery of COBOL, IBM High Level Macro Assembler in VSE. Loves to play football, tennis, and all outdoor sports. Looking for a mainframe job in Canada.
For more details see my resume and reference.

Frank Clarke

MVS Application Pgmr since 1971. In the early 70's I discovered TSO and CLISTs and have been cranking out Tools and utility routines ever since -- now exclusively in REXX, often via an ISPF dialog.

Michael Cleary

Senior MVS Systems Programmer. Have worked with most IBM and ISV software.
Active in SHARE and most MVS related newsgroups and mailing lists.
MVS Freeware author: DAF (Dataset Audit Facility), GRS and LNKLPA (Link List and LPA List Analysis).
Home page : http://home.pacbell.net/mcleary/freeware.html

Stéphane Coez

I work on mainframes since 12 years.
I have write a mainframe product (decisional software named HARRY2) APL2 specialist.
I'm currently responsible of a PC/500 S/390.
Other Technical Knowledge :
C++, TCP/IP, Windows 9.Xx/NT, Java, Delphi, Rexx...
I'm looking for a job in south of France.

Steve Conway (United States)

Currently, I'm an Assembler programmer in a software shop. Started in this business in 1977 as an operator in an OS/MVT shop on S360 hardware. Many years in production control/analysis, and then a decade of joy and satisfaction as a sysprog. I enjoy playing with Hercules, the open source hardware emulator, and the free early IBM operating systems. Links at http://www.cbttape.org/. Also trying to come up to speed on Linux, as I think we'll all have to know it in a few years.

Michael R Cox

I am a skilled MVS System/Communication Programmer generalist with over 20 years of technical experience with duties including installing, customizing, debugging, analyzing, training and documenting operating systems and network systems. I have excellent installation skills (CBIPO, CBPDO, EXPRESS). I am skilled in the use and installation of most of the popular OEM products (e.g.: mainframe monitors, session managers).I have authored and conducted numerous training classes for subordinates. I have management experience (administrative, hiring process, appraisal process).
Complete resume hosted on this site

Tim Crossland (updated)

Experience of MQSeries on MVS, UNIX, Windows NT and OS/2. Programming using C, Java, COBOL and PL/I. Experience of CICS/MVS (versions 1 and 2), CICS/ESA (versions 3 and 4), CICS/TS, CICS OS/2 and CICS/NT.
Home page : http://www.cclDesign.com

People page - Letter D

Francois Dreyfuss

OS/390 Systems Analyst with 5 years experience.
Home page : http://francois.mega.net.kg/

People page - Letter E

Ross Evans

Lone systems support for OS/390 system (3 LPARS, 9672-R63, 1200 users) including all subsystems (OMVS, VTAM, SMS, TCP/IP, etc.) in Boca Raton, Florida. Fun. Many years in the field.
Looks like MVS days may be numbered here, however.

People page - Letter F

Thierry Falissard

MVS systems engineer since 1983.
I have written 3 books about MVS and systems software, and many articles also. I have written some softwares for MVS and micros. My passion is programming (in assembler and some other fashionable languages).
Thierry has a home page.

Greg Farquhar

I am essentially a Senior DB2 System Programmer, Database Administrator and developer, although I have worked in many areas of IBM large systems software for the last 20 years. I am an Australian. Most of my contract work has been in Australasia, although currently I am working in The Hague, Holland. I hold an Australian passport and have a working visa to the United Kingdom. I hold three degrees in Mathematics and a diploma in Education. I am looking for contract work with a client that offers the ability for some telecommuting. I am willing to travel anywhere in the world several times a year in return for the ability to telecommute.
Home page : http://members.tripod.co.uk/Greg_Farquhar/index.html

Jordi Ferrer

I am an OS/390 Systems Programmer in Barcelona, Spain. I have been working in Hardware Definition, Performance, Communications and Storage Management. Also involved in Parallel Sysplex, WLM, and UNIX projects. I may be available for contract through the Services Company I am working for.

Kenny Fogarty

I'm currently working for IBM Nederland NV as a Systems Support Programmer. My group provide technical support to the development teams here in Uithoorn. Before that, I was a self-employed Operations Analyst, and I worked in Glasgow (Scotland) for Abbey National, and Birmingham (England) for Forte Hotels. I also worked for five years in Munich (Germany) for Amadeus Data Processing Gmbh, working my way up from humble peripheral operator to Systems Support Programmer in their TPF Test Systems team. Experience of Rexx under many platforms (TSO/ISPF, VM, Amdahl ACS, Supervision, VMOper, AF Operator, CA-Opera), system automation, batch analysis, scheduling. Currently I'm getting to know SMP/E, LMF and SCLM, as well as increase my knowledge of DB2, CICS, IMS and the MVS world in general in this technical support role. Always open for hints, tips and advice, feel free to mail me with anything interesting.

Dirk Fetzer (United States)

Mainframe systems programmer since 1986. Experience with z/OS, VM, VSE, and Linux under z/VM. Enjoy working with VTAM, TCP/IP, CICS, Netview, and writing automation in REXX. Currently working for large shop in Jacksonville, Florida.

Alex Friis

I'm 41 years of age, doing allsorts MVS/ESA system administration - not actually system programming - who does so these days - for nearly 7 years! My site is a very small one - we run applications for county adminstration in Ribe county - Denmark - Europe.

People page - Letter G

Fred Galli (United States)

I am in College but also just got a job working as a computer operator with OS 390.

Matthew Gilliam

I am an MVS System Programmer generalist with 24 years of DP experience of which 22 are in MVS Systems Programming work. Strengths are in the installation, maintenance, and customization of IBM software/systems and OEM products. I have Project Management experience and have supervised/managed tech support as well as operations personnel.
Complete resume (in word and pdf format) hosted on this site

Bruce Gillispie

I'm a MVS System Programmer with 20 plus years in the business, I have also worked with DOS/VSE and UNIX(System V). My current experiences include, ESCON hardware design & migration to it(w/directors), Parallel Sysplex Couple Facility exploitation(hardware & software), OpenEdition(UNIX 95), and Internet Connection Secure Server(ICSS)installation, configuration in progress.
On the Internet I'm known as the RockPainter and I provide links to Peers and computer related sites.
Home page : http://www.texasrock.com

Dov Gilor

Dov Gilor, consultant: Former IBM advisory systems engineer and database specialist responsible for DB2 and SQL/DS. I have many years of DBA experience with SQL/DS, DB2/MVS and DB2/2. I (am occasionally) and was the CICS, DB2 and SQL/DS instructor for many years at IBM. I worked as a DBA consultant at NASA in Florida, MET Life, Detroit Edison and many other companies and am the author of SQL/DS Performance Tuning (Wiley & Sons, pub.). Application and performance tuning are my specialties and my love. Recently, I have started to learn IDMS and am currently an IDMS DBA.

Jim Gloystein

I am a former employee of IBM Global Services with extensive experience in IT consulting, particularly concerning mainframe and network problems. With my considerable expert knowledge of the MVS operating system, with its various incarnations from S/370 to OS/390 and zOS, as well as my extensive expertise in MVS subsystems such as DB2 and CICS, I can be a tremendous asset to helping Your company its IT costs.
Complete resume hosted on this site

Rhett Goby

I am a computer professional with over 24 years experience of Data Processing. I have a background in DOS, DOS/VSE, VM, and MVS. My speciality lies in the VM and VTAM arena. I also have a varied background in the PC area, which includes the MacIntosh and IBM lines. Questions and inquiries are welcome

Gabriel Goldberg

I'm Gabe Goldberg, a consultant, writer, and editor. I've worked with IBM mainframe systems throughout my career, have co-edited several technical McGraw-Hill books on Rexx and VM/ESA, and have written for various trade publications. I've also been active in the mainframe user group community. I'm now taking on responsibility for editing an IBM magazine which targets the VSE and VM communities. You may have seen the first issue, titled "S/390 Business Solutions Journal", published last spring. As of the second issue, just released, the title changed to "S/390 VM and VSE Solutions Journal".
The magazine describes business success stories enabled by S/390 equipment -- VM and VSE systems in particular. Customer profile stories and application descriptions will be written from business perspectives, rather than emphasizing technical details. The magazine will help readers understand and apply benefits of VM, VSE, and related products, provide insights into building business justifications for using or upgrading mainframes, illustrate how diverse organizations in diverse industries use mainframes for mission-critical strategic applications, and encourage use of real-world return-on-investment measures for planning and implementing systems. I've included below some guidelines for selecting sites and shaping profiles.
I'm writing to inquire whether organizations will consider participating in this magazine, perhaps allowing a corporate/application profile to be written describing use of VM and/or VSE systems and applications. If you volunteer, as we establish the process and schedule for creating and editing the magazine, I'll inquire about how you use VSE and/or VM, will seek relevant infiormation such as annual reports or Web site pointers, and will provide details on how the collaboration will proceed. I'll write many profiles, and also will negotiate with others to write them. Sites will be chosen to represent diverse geography, applications, business processes, and industry sectors. Please let me know if you're interested in joining, and whether I can provide additional information on this effort. Thanks...

Highlight
• Customer profiles -- line(s) of business, applications, people
• VM and/or VSE systems
• Business success, return on investment
• Executive use and support
• Interesting technologies but only secondary to business issues
• Current applications used
• IBM processors only
• Hardware/software conversions/upgrades
• Diverse industries
• Diverse geography
• Interfaces to networks and systems
• Independent Software Vendor products installed

CPCUG Internet SIG

Joel Goldstein

DB2 performance expert, consultant, and lecturer. I have presented and consulted throughout the North America, Europe, and Australia. My DB2 articles have been published in many conference proceedings, and magazines such as Enterprise Systems Journal, Database Programming and Design, Platinum Edge, Relational Journal, etc.

Alastair Gray

Working with Computers professionally since 1985, mainly IBM mainframes. Currently systems programming, but with a variety of other skills and positions behind me (Ops Analyst, Security, Storage. MVS, REXX, ISPF, SMS, DB2, RACF, SDSF, OE, OPC ...
Also PC skilled (Windows NT4/95/98), MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint, MSProject. You may also find me frequenting the TSO-REXX, ISPF-L and IBM-MAIN listservs. Currently consulting in Switzerland

Sonny Gupta

I am a Systems Programmer with 16 years of experience with with IBM Corp. (IBM Raleigh, USA from June, 1982 - March, 1995 and TATA-IBM, Bangalore, India from April, 1995 - December, 1997) in various disciplines of information systems including marketing Hardware, software and providing solutions to large corporations.
I have just started my own company (MAINTEC COMPUTERS PTV. LTD.) and have setup a complete 9121/411 environemnt with latest level of software available. I have extensive experience in Conducting IBM Authorised Mainframe related training including MVS, RACF, JES2, SMP/E, SMS, Performance Management. Proficient with installing OS/390, MVS/ESA system utilising Server Pac, CBIPO, CBPDO methodology. Experience in MVS performance management along with implementation of Work Load Manager (WLM). I am interested in working with other systems programmer to do some joint System Tool Development. Let's talk...
Home page : http://www.mcpl.com

Anura Guruge

Anura Guruge, for so long "Mr. SNA", still continues to work in the big iron arena but with increasing focus on Web services, corporate portals and Web-to-host. This site provides a snap-shot of what Anu is up to.

Bob Gutjahr

Working in the Performance Management & Capacity Planning Services practice in IBM Global Services. We do performance management & capacity planning studies for all platforms. We also provide performance & capacity management process consulting.
I have 20 years experience in IT. I have conducted over 160 capacity planning studies for for MVS/VM/VSE, networks, and downsizing CICS to AS/400 and RS/6000. I spent two years supporting system design activities world wide including conducting workshops. I am now doing performance & capacity management process consulting and working on the team that is expanding our practice world wide. I can create a capacity plan for you or I can help you establish your own performance & capacity management processes - any platform, running systems or new development.

People page - Letter H

Carl Hafner

Application programmer with 30+ years at all levels of software life cycles, rapid application development and code reuse in New York area. Experienced in Assembler, COBOL II, Easytrieve Plus and PL/I on MVS and VM platforms with DB2, IMS and VSAM under batch and CICS. Did some C/C++ and Visual Basic on PC platform. Incorporated with own web site; author of freeware MVS utilities and ISPF Edit macros (on CBT Tape File 357). Interested in improving mainframe programmer productivity using ISPF (see the CBT Tape file for some examples). Like history and humor (often combined).

Russel Harris

Mvs technical consultant at First National Bank South Africa. We run mvs 5.2.2 on 6 mainframes 2 Hitachi 416's, 1 hitachi Skyline 6 way, 1 ibm 9x2 ,1 ibm r22 and 1 ibm r74 with a total of 12 partitions. We have a test and a production sysplex. I have 20 year IT experience.

Susan Haumeder

I help companies and technical leaders meet their goals. From project management training and process improvement facilitation to individual coaching, I offer my experience in a wide range of development and IT environments to make your ends meet.
Susan Haumeder, MSCS
Rapid Development for Technical Leaders
http://www.thethirdbridge.com
877.TTB.5600
Outside US: 510.337.1414

Robert Hill's Home Page

Robert D. Hill Contract Programmer CDI Corporation

Friedhelm Hosono

Working in application development since 1979, doing MVS ASM, Cobol, PL1, VSAM, IMS-DB/DC, DB2, CICS in the last ten years as a projektmanager, with a special know-how in migration and Y2K and EURO. living in Dsseldorf/germany

Lou Horton

I am a senior level OS/390 Systems Programmer and started my own consulting company in September, 1998. My experiences have for the most part been in large, multi-system, multi-processor datacenters and have been involved in a wide variety of projects including: OS/390 and associated ISV product upgrades, Datacenter Standards definition and implementation, Datacenter migration and Parallel Sysplex design and implementation. Please see my resume for further details.
Home page : http://hometown.aol.com/louhorton/myhomepage/index.html

John Howard

I've been in the biz since 1978 as an operator, programmer, IMS data base analyst, IMS systems programmer, CICS systems programmer, and finally, a capacity planner/performance analyst. Most of my time has been spent in OS/VS1 and MVS shops running IMS. I am currently working in Tallahassee, Florida (USA) in one of the largest IMS shops in the world. We have just begun moving to sysplex. I would like to hear from anyone who has made this move.

Thomas Hutchins

22 years in DP. Last 8 in MVS Systems Programming. Enjoy the work, I would pay them if I could afford myself.

People page - Letter J

Roy George Jacob

I've been working on IBM mainframes for the last 13 yrs.
In the last 4 years, i've been working as an asst. DBA in DB2 ver 4.1 on MVS/ESA in Kuwait.
I'm looking for a position in Canada.

Jan Jaeger's S/390 System Utilities

Torben Schou Jensen

Systemprogramer on general IBM middleware. Home page : http://62.79.12.248/~tsj/

People page - Letter K

Jim Keohane

President of own Multi-Platforms, Inc., a New York USA based software consultancy, at 45 Scholar Lane, Levittown, NY 11756-4332
Tel: 516-579-2209 Fax: 516-579-4257
Last 6 years primarily Internet and network related software development for IBM, Information Builders, Proginet, ChemBank, etc. on mainframes, pc's, unix, as/400 and hp/mpe. Have 3 Macs.
Jim also has a site for his company, Multi-Platforms, Inc.

Kris KillsPrettyEnemy

MVS/SP/ESA/OS390 Systems programmer, i.e. implementation (CBIPO, CPAC,...), performance (IPS/ICS, WDM), Customization (IOCP/MVSCP/HCD, ALC, MXG,...), OEM (FDR, TMON/OMEGAMON),...
HISTORY: Began 15 years ago in telecommunications, 3 years later started VTAM/NCP diagnostics, 6 years ago completed installation/migration of one MVS to another.
PRESENT: Into OS390 R5 "Have company will travel" (Primary of Tokata II).
FUTURE: Looking very good!

John Kim (United States)

Currently, I am looking for a job as a z/os system software engineer. I was working for a provincial government in Canada for 4 years and one of national banks in South Korea for 11 years.
Most of my 15 years experience is, installation, maintenance,upgrade MVS,OS/390, Z/OS operating systems, all of system components, SMP/E, REXX, CLIST, SYSTEM EXIT ROUTINE, ASSEMBLER, and Third verder products, implementation H/W configuration by using HCD, immidiate support for operating systems and hardware severity, system problem diagnosis and analysis.
see my resume (hosted on this site).

Jerald King

Performance Management and Capacity Planning Consultant since 1977
Tacoma, Washington, USA

Fred Kluth

Verhoef Information Packages, Inc.
253 Passaic Avenue, Fairfield, NJ 07004
tel: 800-631-0410, fax: 201-227-8131

Sam Knutson

MVS Software developer and adhoc systems programmer. My Mainframe pages include some useful information, lots of links and some highlighted files from the CBT tape available by anonymous FTP. The site is new and changes often.
Homepage: http://www.his.com/~dragon
S/390 page: http://www.his.com/~dragon/s390.htm

Pepper Kosch

I am an MVS and CICS Systems Programmer. I have been a MVS/CICS Systems Programming Consultant for 15 years. I have performed contracts for IBM, Amdahl, Hitachi and most of the software vendors.
Complete resume hosted on this site

George Kurylak

I am a MVS and VTAM systems programmer, with over 17 years in the business.
home page : http://www.flash.net/~gkurylak

People page - Letter L

Gollamudi K Lakshman

I am an application programmer with about 2 1/2 yrs of experience in the mainframe environment using COBOL, DB2, CSP & Easytrieve.
Have also worked for 1 year on c, Oracle and used data modelling tool ERwin.

Jim Lane

MVS systems programmer. 20+ years in the business.
Now working at Toronto Hydro

Edouard Lauer

"My name is Edouard Lauer and i'm 24 years old. I work as a system operator in a luxemburgish bank (B.I.L). My site will give you an overview of different places that i found interesting on the Internet and more about me. I'm really new here so try to understand if there's a bit garbagge on my site".
Lauer Edouard's Corner (a place where everybody can meet)

Maria Lazzara

MVS mainframe programmer for 18 yrs. Have worked in the insurance field - both auto and health. Currently employed by large financial company. Am very interested in advancing my career and increasing my technical skills and knowledge.

Thierry Looten

MVS system engineer (MVS, VM, Window 3.1, ASM, ISPF, RACF, SMP, SMS, VSAM, REXX, CLIST, Word, PL1, COBOL, GDDM, APL, VTAM, CICS).
Security, performance,debugging.
Home page (in french) : http://www.tyl.com/ (Personnal and familial home-page, with poetry, painting, geobiology, celtism, and various subjects).

Janette Lund

After 28 years in this business still having fun.
Home page : http://hometown.aol.com/janettelund/myhomepage/profile.html

People page - Letter M

Scott McFall

I am a principal with ProTech, Professional Technical Services, Inc. We specialize in Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) and Data Center Automation (DCA). Our firm offers short-term specialized consulting services and is a leading provider of technical workshops and IT technical training. ProTech has also dedicated the REXXDOG listserver as a free services for clients using DCA software and technology.

Lori Magee

Hello. My name is Lori Magee and I am a Senior Technical Recruiter for VersaTech Consulting Inc. I am currently seeking I.T. Professionals to join our growing team. Our clients are mainly located in New Jersey and New York. If you have 2+ years experience in Web Development, E-Commerce, B2B, Mainframe, Client/Server, Project Management, DBA and Systems Administration, or Networking, please call me! (732) 726 4223.
Home page : http://www.versatechconsulting.com

Peter May

I love Info/Man and OPC/ESA - which is just as well as I am currently employed by IBM(UK) to write and teach courses about them. My web site aims to be a centre of OPC and Info resources, please visit it. I have been working in the operations area since 1970 (ICL System 4/70 !) with British Telecom, and since 1989 with IBM Education. And from tomorrow? Who knows?
Home page : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/p.may

Mike Meiring

MVS Practitioner/contractor - 27 years in 360/370/390.
Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kurt Meyer

Manager of Customer Support for a large US mainframe software company, I have been a Systems Programmer for almost 30 years. I have worked or consulted to most of the Fortune 100 companies on all aspects of Information Technology. I have been a senior computer specialist to the Air Defense Command in Saudi Arabia. I have worked on every operating system and hardware architecture that IBM or DEC has ever produced. I see the year 2000 as our next biggest challenge.

Robert Michaud

Mainframe consultant since 1979. My 15 years as a technical SE within IBM was an excellent school. My current interests are listed here in the order of preference: EDI on all platforms , System programmer technical support for ( CICS , DB2 , MQseries , MVS , VTAM , JES , AOC , AON ) Automation on all platforms , Designing bridges for incompatible systems.
Site address : http://www.aig.qc.ca
Resume available at : http://www.aig.qc.ca/cv/cverlm.doc

Kazik Miklaszewski

Sr. Systems Programmer, Kuwait Ministry of Interior, 19 years experience, mostly MVS. Last 3 years I was doing DB2 stuff, installation, maintenance, perfomance tuning, administration of development and production data bases (data sharing & 24h/7d). To make life easier, I have automated some routine tasks (image copy, alter, reorg) and designed tools to improve supporting of IEF-based development site. I am always open for new challenge.

Steve Mitchell

I have been involved in IBM Mainframe System Engineering since 1984 and have worked with many of IBM's core system software products.
My main area of expertise is CICS though I have worked with VTAM/NCP/NETVIEW and MVS and it component products also. I have led projects to upgrade the operating system but have spent the last few years bringing about the upgrade of CICS systems from one release or version to another. This has been for major users of the software and I have taken the project from planning stage through to implementation across multiple regions and MVS images.

Ben Moore

Ben is the Manager of Distributed Systems for International Paper. This includes SAP R/3, Windows NT, Unix, and OS/400 along with the Internet infrastructure support. His responsibilities cover over 200 systems in Memphis and more than 100 distributed systems throughout North America. His organization provides consulting to several offshore divisions.
Home page : http://www.desotonet.com/people/benmoore/

Craig S. Mullins

Craig S. Mullins is the Director of DB2 Technology Planning for BMC Software. Craig has over fifteen years of experience in all facets of database systems development, including developing and teaching DB2 and SQL Server classes, systems analysis and design, database and system administration, and data analysis. He has worked with DB2 for OS/390 since Version 1 and has experience working with Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. Craig also is the author of the book DB2 Developer's Guide. The book contains almost 1400 pages of in-depth technical information on DB2 for OS/390 up to and including the latest release.
More information available at http://www.craigsmullins.com

Mike Murray

Senior MVS consultant who is working in Germany. I regard myself as highly professional and am always looking for interesting new projects.
My specialties are:
Disaster recovery and contingengency planning
Storage-Management
RACF
Data centre relocations
OPS-analysis
Training etc.
Mike's resume is hosted on my US site !

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Doug Nadel

I have been a developer of ISPF for about 15 years and have, for the last couple of years, also done Level 2 & 3 work (Tech support & fixes). Some of the work I've done included edit highlight, relaxing the 255 byte restrictions in edit, edit COMPARE, various edit work, ISRDDN, many service aids (ISPVCALL, etc.) as well as little things all over the place. Having said all that, let me emphasize that these programs are not specifically endorsed by nor supported by IBM. Support for them is on my own time.
Home page : http://www.sillysot.com/mvs/

Chuck Nelson

Supervisor of MVS systems programmers, DBA's and the wide area network folks at the state of Wyoming. 30+ years various exp. in this business. 1401's, 409's, you bet, Chevy and IBM.

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Timothy O'Pry

Working with CA-AUTOMATE and migrating to CA-OPS/MVS II. Site is U.S. Datacenter consolidated from 10 distributed sites. Have 14 MVS logical partitions, several VM(not my area). Customer base is pressing us into open systems world.
Looking for general CLIST/REXX(some are older MVS systems-no REXX) automation processes for monitoring MVS activities.

Sascha Oehl

Systemprogrammer @ Rheinmetall Infosys Responsible for Security, Storage and Webserver Programming in Java and i like the S/390 as cool Environment to run a or many Webserver. Interested in intergration of web-based apps in S/390 Environment.

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Simon Paquereau

I am a technical architect at France Télécom. I'm working about middleware, client/server architectures, I-Net technologies and OS/390 (CICS, DB2, IDMS).

Robert Paulino

Automation Systems Programmer - 15 years of IBM MVS/JES2 Mainframe experience.
Extremely good with MVS JCL and Utilities. Supported Computer Operations 24x7, solving all operational problems. Acting Change Management Chairperson. Prepared IPL cards by merging IPL parms. Updated SYS1.PARMLIB members for Capacity and Performance Tuning. Installed new releases of software. Fully automated the MVS operation using various software products. Experience in TSO/ISPF, VM/CMS, WYLBUR, OMEGAMON and OM/CICS, CA/NETMAN, SDSF, and INFOSYS. Operational experience in MVS/ESA, JES2, CICS, IDMS, and VTAM. Programming experience in ASSEMBLER, COBOL, SAS, REXX, and AF/OPERATOR command language.

For more details see my resume (hosted on this site !)

Jim Peddycord

Sr. Systems Engineer - MVS/Performance/Capacity Planning. Now getting into Open Edition MVS. Home page soon to be finished.

Gregor Plucinski

About 20 years in mainframe DP, working as independent system consultant, system programmer and analyst, I am programing in many languages, mainly in assembler. I write security software to replace racf, it is used by some customers in Poland.
Home page : http://www.grzes.com

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Ganesh Rao

I am an Application programmer. I am very much interested in developing Tools to automate things.
Currently working with COBOL/REXX/CLIST/JCL/ASM.
see my resume (hosted on this site !)

Calum Reid

I've been in IT for the last twelve years. Working as an Operator and eventually landing in systems programming.
Done a mixed bag of sysproging : IMS, CICS, DF/HSM, SMS, MVS/ESA and now OS/390.
Dabbling in OpenEdition particularlly Internet Server stuff. Not graduated onto writing my own HTML yet but I'm getting there. Latest piece of work was setting up a RACF RRSF configuration, introducing password synching and auto command routing.

Jose de Ribamar da Silva Ferreira Neto (updated)

My basic skill is as OS/390 System Programmer. I have worked with many MVS, beginning with MVS/370 V1.3.2 in 1983, passing through MVS/XA, MVS/ESA and finally with OS/390. Today I am working with one OS/390 V2R10.
As part of installing and maintaining IBM products, I have large experience with SMP/E. Also, I am used to install and maintain many ISV products (from C.A., Landmark and so on).
I have large experience in Assembler, COBOL and REXX programming. In Assembler I have worked in programming Exits from MVS, JES2, VTAM and RACF.
In COBOL I have very good experience in programming with DB2, under CICS and Batch.
Location: Kuwait

Bob Richards (United States)

I have twenty-five plus years of experience in MVS, OS/390 and z/OS Systems Programming. I am very experienced with DFSMS issues and other areas of Storage Management. I work on and off in areas such as Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Data Center Consolidation and Project Management. Most of my experience is on very large IBM mainframes (the latest are three z990s). In the last seven years, I did four different OS/390 releases and have set up multiple parallel sysplex environments. I am presently working on a GDPS/XRC project between two datacenters about 500 miles apart. In the past, I consolidated lots of disparate SMS environments into single SMSPLEXes. I was highly successful doing two years of marketing for IBM's S/390 Division in the mid '90s. I enjoy coding REXX, contributing to IBM-Main and a host of other sites, playing with Hercules and selling the idea around here about running production work on Linux under z/VM on S/390!

Anhel Rohe

Martin Roll

IBM MVS / Os390 Techie. Specializing in automation tools for testing and Operational problem determination and resolution. 20 years in IT. Cobol,Assembler and PL/i plus Basic of various flavours on the PC's.
Documentaion to Is9000 on both MAC and PC.
Home page : http://SuperSysSol.Irishbiz.com
see my resume (hosted on this site !)

Ted Rolle

IBM Assembler programmer. Started out in 1971 by being the first to ring the console bell on the S/360-30 at the University of North Dakota.
Other interests are timekeeping, cryptology, x86, C/C++ programming, Windows '95, ...
Pursuing MCSD.

Piero Ronchi

I'm the author of the Hilmas language to develop portable programs in the mainframe environment.
I have worked as System Programmer in a big firm of Bologna, Italy, from 1986 to 1998; I have an extended experience over IBM mainframes, first in VSE/SP and VM; then, in 1992 I am been involved in migration to MVS and I've acquired experience even in this operating system.
I have experience also in AS/400 and AIX RS/6000; I've worked as DBA in Oracle on Unix (AIX) and NT machines.
Actually, I am a freelance consultant; I am working in OS/390 mainframes on system maintenance and scheduling problems (OPC/ESA).
Piero has a Hilmas Home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Ridge/7322/hilmas.htm

Len Rugen

Listowner of IMS-L.
CICS, PSF, MVS and VM Systems Programmer
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
He has a home page too !

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Mario Saenz

I'm an old programmer of COBOL, CICS and the nice CSP,there are 28 years of knowledge background.
I like the pretty solutions for great problems.
If there is a spanish-talk much better, because I don't write english so well.

Gilbert Saint-Flour

MVS systems programmer since 1975.
Conversion specialist (VSE/MVS, COBOL/COBOL2).
Writes freeware for MVS: SHOWMVS, BR, FASTPATH, etc.
Home page : http://www.pobox.com/~gsf

Rich Schlitt

I'm a 43 yr old MVS/DOS programmer with 9 years on the mainframe using a variety of tools and languages such as CLIST (of course), a little bit of REXX, ACF2 (a lot), TSO/ISPF interactive and batch, JES3 , some SNA with a dash of TCP/IP, some PL/I, a bit of Fortran H, Fortran 77 and a hint of VS Fortran, IBM edit Macros (a lot), VS SCRIPT (I have ALL the manuals!) , 3270 and IRMA emulation support, some HLLAPI, GDDM/GDQF, a tad of VTAM/VSAM , and of course HSM.
In my DOS arena I have Pascal, C, a little C++,DBASE, Lotus 123, WP and MS WORD (taught v2.0), and enough DEBUG to get by without having to learn MS assembler for DOS.
I've been a security admin. on both PC's and MVS, did some raster to vector research and image scanning for a paperless factory, CAD/CAM conversions, and I almost forgot to mention APT 5 axis programming for 5 yrs.
I'm currently "in between" jobs but I'm willing to share knowlege and experience of the total 16 years I worked (they bolted) for General Dynamics here in San Diego.
For more details see my resume (hosted on this site !)

Brian Shapiro

Systems Support Specialist, Ohio University Computer Services
Primary Responsibilities include CICS, VTAM & NCP and other stuff that is necessary for MVS/ESA and VM/ESA (ie. TCP/IP, RSCS, etc., etc.). My Resume/CV are online and available here.

Dave Sheehan's Home Page

Hi! I am a Senior Support Rep At PeerLogic Inc. supporting the Pipes Platform product in the OS/2, Windows, MVS and Unix environments.

Radoslaw Skorupka (Poland)

I've been working with computers for 10 years (Novell, WinNT, LAN, unix, VMS), with mainrames since 1999. Skills in RACF, DFSMS, hsm, rmm, tapes, storage management, Unix System Services, hardware, system administration, installation, etc.
I know REXX, CLIST, sh command scripting languages, understand COBOL (with DB2, CICS). I also teach: TSO/ISPF, JCL, HCD, USS, DFSMS, RMM, HMC operations, JES2, VSAM, others. The information above is obsolete - I'm still learning new things ;-)
I may be available for contract through the services company I am working for (http://www.servicepoint.pl).

Douglas Smith

Pretty much still a 'rookie' in the mainframe world. Started as a Tape Operator at an IBM site in '95. Then I screwed around with everything and learned a bunch of stuff. In 1997 i was a File Transfer support analyst for IBM products IBTS and NetView/FTP. In June of '98 i was hired by Prudential to be a 1st level Mainframe Support Analyst for all their Mainframe systems...it is pretty neat here and the people are good:). If there are any other people new to the mainframe world out there, or have only been using/supporting it for a couple years.... email me because i am interested in hearing what you have to say. :)

Phil Smith III (updated)

25 years VM experience, all versions; last 20 years doing development/support/development management/support management.
Co-editor/co-author of The REXX Handbook, The VM/ESA Systems Handbook, The VM/ESA User's and Applications Handbook.
SHARE Linux & VM Program Officer.

Simon Spanchak

30 years design and development of MFT, MVT, SVS, MVS, OS/390 systems and software. My particular interests are in data sharing and cross memory programming.
Home page : http://www.exspans.com

Ross Spooner

MVS Systems Programmer since 1982. Australian. Independant MVS technical consultant for the last 7 years. Specialises in security consultancies : ACF2, RACF, NT (and some UNIX). Regular speaker at the Security and Audit conferences. Enjoys ALC, developing security interfaces and network security.
Ross has a home page too !

James Stachowiak

VM, VSE, MVS, s/370 s/390 Systems Programmer. Also well versed in Novell, AIX, HPUX, TCP/IP, ethernet, token-ring, dial-up, SNA, etc...
I specialize in INTEGRATION, like anything new.

Ulrich Straub

i am working since 18 years with mainframes. in the beginning as Operator after 5 years as systems programmers. my main topics are CS for OS/390 and z/OS. I have done some projects or have experience with: ADSM, NPM, Domino/390, UNIX System Services, UTS, OS/2, HTTP Server, Linux/390, Harbor(Beta52), TPX, Netview FTP, ...

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Charlie Tabbut

San Bernardino, CA USA
Charlie has a home page.

Jose Alvarez Tejeda

Analyst-Programmer Sr. with 14 years of experience developing in Mainframes, Minicomputers, LANs and Microcomputers using COBOL and knowledge of several High level and 4G programmation languages, Software Utilities, Operative Systems, Telecommunications and INTERNET.
Home page : http://www.angelfire.com/biz/orgw1

Verol Thompson

15 Years experience Mainframe, AS/400, Pc. VM, MVS, VSE, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL,SYBASE, DL/I, DB2....
Looking for year2000 CONTRACTS, PROJECTS. Willing to travel Need to be home on weekends (some).
Home page : http://www.mindspring.com/~tommyt/real.htm

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Pierre Valois

MVS system prog

Walther van der Pol

VM/VSE Systems Programmer with 20 years experience in mainframe and 5 years with pc platforms is searching for a job opportunity in Queensland/Australia.
see my resume (hosted on this site).

Bharat Bhushan Verma

I have been working on the MVS platform since 1991. I have worked as programmer and analyst in various development and migration projects for clients in the UK, USA and India. My skills include COBOL, Rexx, CICS and DB2. I have worked in projects involving application/SQL tuning for DB2. I am currently working in a data warehousing project that is being developed under DB2 V5 on OS/390. I am interested in working on development projects involving DB2.
For more details see my resume (hosted on this site !)

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Gary Waggoner

My company, C.E.MAJOR, Inc is an IBM BESTeam Member working in the area of the Year 2K. Our specialities are: Conversion of OS/VS COBOL to COBOL II or OS/390 COBOL for MVS/VM/VSE-ESA. We also specialize in upgrading clients to LE for both systems and application software.
We have references on request and would be happy to bid on jobs as required. If you have any questions, please contact me at 714-841-2110 in CA

Howard Whitehead

I am an OS/390 Systems Programmer with approximately 20 years experince. I started in the Marine Corps as an EDL programmer for the Series I, then moved on to COBOL and Natural (Software AG) programming. I then moved on to become a Data Base Manager, then a Data Base Administrator (ADABAS). When discharged I became an ADABAS DBA/MVS Systems Programmer. I am now on OS/390 having helped migrate my current employer from VES/ESA to OS/390 r3 (and all the other things that entails), then upgraded them to r6, and am now getting them upgraded to r10.

Kelvin Wells

I am English but based in the Cologne area of Germany.
I work as a Freelance Systems Consultant, mainly OS/390.

Brian Westerman

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 R1,2,3,4, & V2.5, 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 am past actively involved with the IBM Vendor support and Early Ship Programs for these products. 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.
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.
Complete resume hosted on this site

Luke Wilby

I am an experienced and knowledgable IMS Systems Programmer, working as a contractor for IBM Global Services Australia, in Melbourne, Australia. I have more than ten years experience working in large IBM MVS mainframe environments.
Home page : http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lwilby/resume.html

James A. Williams

I am a Sr. Systems Programmer. I have over ten years of experience with the MVS Operating System. I have worked on SYSPLEX, OpenEdition MVS, TCP/IP for MVS, and ISPF 4.2 recently. I can code in BAL, PL/1, COBOL, REXX, and a little C. I have experience in VTAM and NCP. I am rapidly becoming fluent in UNIX (OMVS and Solaris 2.X) and TCP/IP through OJT and taking lots of manuals home. My goals for this year include doing more with HTML, CGI Scripts, and JAVA Script to further my own personal goals. I am still convinced that MVS is the way to go no matter what the pundits say. Come by y'all hear.

Peter Wilson

Hi to all. I am a new Zealander by birth. I am currently UK (England) based where I have been carrying out contract work for various large financial institutions for the last five years. I am a specialist in the mainframe storage management arena, but am currently trying to break into the SANs & NAS technolgies as that seems to be the direction for the forseeable future. My recent work has been predominantly involving data centre moves and consolidation, disaster recovery (including large extended channel networks and XRC), DFSMS configuration and tuning and DASD storage performance and tuning. I have worked extensively with ICF catalogs, DFHSM and other OEM storage products over the years. I have a broad knowledge of OS390 but am obviously still learning. I would like to expand my knowledge of Unix System Services and Sysplex management.

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Rush Yan

Hi, My name is Rush Yan, I'm from P.R. China. I work for a bank -- Agriculture Bank of China -- as a SysProg. We use VSE for almost 8 years. Nice to meet you.

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Mark Zelden

I'm 37 years old and for the past 15 years I have worked in MVS technical support. I have performed mostly as a MVS Systems Programmer and a Network Systems Programmer. I have also worked in the MVS performance area and have supported CICS. I am currently employed as a consultant with 3D Business Solutions, Inc. located in Chicago, Illinois.
Marks MVS Utilities : things on my page (so far - I just started it.)
1. ISPF Edit Macros
2. TSO REXX EXECs and CLISTs
3. Batch REXX Programs
4. XEF - Extended Editor Facility

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