Bruce Perkinson 479-452-0615
Experienced Senior Systems Programmer specializing in z/OS Performance and
Capacity Management. A proven track record for reducing
mainframe costs and recovering major system resources. Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with
management, application teams and technical teams. Proficient in all aspects of application and system performance
management, performance tuning and capacity planning.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Organization/Technical Skills: Implemented
Performance Management processes to
reduce system
resource consumption and improve overall
Efficiency.
Strong Management Skills: Technical lead for
interfacing with senior management
regarding performance, capacity and strategic planning.
Cost Reduction: Initiated and managed projects to defer CPU
upgrades by monitoring,
analyzing and tuning major applications and system
components.
Commitment to Customer Service: Worked with
application teams and technical
teams to provide 100%
2006 Computer Measurement Group Conference Best Paper Award
Use Trending to Manage System and Application
Performance
2008 Computer Measurement Group Conference Paper
Road map to a Performance Database
KEY SKILLS
CICS systems programmer (OMEGAMON, CICS Performance
Analyzer, MQ,
WLM, TMON, BMC
MAINVIEW)
z/OS systems programmer (z/OS, CICS, DB2, OMEGAMON,
TMON, MAINVIEW)
Senior Systems Performance Analyst (MXG, SAS, TDS,
Tivoli Performance Modeler,
EXCEL)
Application Performance Analyst (BATCH, CICS, COBOL,
ASM, DB2, VSAM,
STROBE, TriTune)
Performance Management (WLM, STROBE, OMEGAMON, SMF,
MXG, TDS,
DB2PM, BMC
MAINVIEW)
Capacity Planning (MXG, SAS, BEST/1,
Decision Support,
EXCEL)
EMPLOYMENT HIGHLIGHTS
IBM Global Services (Performance and Capacity Management for major auto
manufacturer)
Lead Performance
Analyst
04/2002 - Present
Responsible for maintaining the performance of
7 production z/OS lpars
Responsible for monthly system and application performance and capacity
reporting
Manage the performance of z/OS, WLM, CICS, DB2 and TSO.
Reduced CPU and resource consumption by
designing and implementing a monthly
Application and
System Trending process to report and
graph utilization by workloads. Applications and system
components are grouped,
monitored
and trended.
Work directly with the application teams and
technical support teams to monitor and
diagnose
application performance issues.
Extended processor life by continually
reducing Application CPU consumption.
Extensive use of OMEGAMON, TDS, Performance
Reporter, EXCEL, Strobe, SMF,
MAINVIEW
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ON-TEC Services (Contracted To Nissan North America, Irving, Texas)
Performance Analyst / Systems Programmer
12/1992 - 04/2002
Manage application, MVS, CICS and DB2 performance.
Technical lead and liaison for application
teams
Implemented real-time and historical monitoring procedures
Implemented application performance tuning projects to improve batch
and CICS
performance
and
reduce CPU consumption.
ON-TEC Services (Contracted To Affiliate Computer Services,
CICS Programmer / Systems Programmer
05/1991- 02/1992
CICS system programmer responsible for the
migration and management of CICS
regions
from customer datacenter to ACS datacenter.
Monitored CICS performance
Managed CICS availability and response time
Managed CICS application migration.
ON-TEC Services (Contracted To G&K Services, Plymouth, Minn)
Systems Programmer
05/1983- 05/1991
DATACOM/DB systems programmer responsible for implementation and
performance.
Developed real-time DATACOM/DB performance
monitor
CICS systems programmer
Technical coordinator for application development. Worked with
application teams to
ensure
technical proficiencies in application design and
code.