JOSE CANO

219-775-1875                                                                                                      820 West 7th Place

jlc60690@hotmail.com                                                                                        Hobart, IN 46342

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Accomplished Senior Systems Programmer and Database Administrator with more than 20 years of expertise in Applications and Systems Programming, as well as Database Administration, in mixed computing environments, which include IBM and AMDHAL mainframes as well as UNIX based systems.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

H&R Block Eastern Enterprises Merrillville, Indiana                                                        2007-Present

Tax Advisor 2

Responsible for preparing federal and state income tax returns for individual and business customers.

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Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) Chicago, Illinois                                              1997-2007

Senior Software Engineer

Responsible for installing, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting operating system software, vendor software packages, as well as Database Administrator responsibilities.

·         Upgraded CICS: from MVS to ESA and to Transaction Server 1.3.

·         Wrote various User Local Exits and Global Exits to support TCAM.

·         Installed and managed MQSeries release 5.2.

·         Upgraded JES2 from version 3.1 to 4.3.

·         Upgraded Assembler to High Level Assembler release 1.2.

·         Participated in upgrading MVS/ESA to various releases of OS/390 and z/OS.

·         Wrote system modification exits to support the various versions of the Operating System.

·         Upgraded, and maintained STK’s HSC and EXLM products.

·         Upgraded and maintained CA’s products:  CA-1, SYSVIEW, PMO, MIM, PANVALET, DATACOM, CICS Service Facility, IDEAL, and INTERTEST for CICS.

·         Upgraded and maintained ASG’s PRODUCTS:  TMON for MVS, TMON for CICS, and    ViewDirect for MVS.

·         Upgraded and maintained Compuware’s products:  FileAid and AbendAid.

·         Installed and supported other vendor products such as:  SYNCSORT, PDSFAST, IOF, TapeSaver, and Control-M.

·         Wrote User Exits in Assembler as well as COBOL to enhance and fulfill the company’s requirements not provided by the vendors’ software.

 

CA-DATACOM Database Administrator

  • Supported all aspects of the database on a daily basis.  The database  run on MVS/ESA as well as OS/390 and Z/OS environments.
  • Used DBUTIL to perform the daily data maintenance.
  • Used the DDOL online transaction to define and maintain the database tables/areas.

 

Oracle Database Administrator

  • Responsible for installing and maintaining Oracle databases versions 9i and 10g on Unix based systems: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM/AIX.
  • Installed and supported Oracle’s LTOM utility.
  • Installed and supported BMC’s Remedy application.
  • Wrote a utility to gauge the database uptime and notify Operations as well as the DBA group via email when the database was not responsive.
  • Used Import/Export utilities as well as RMAN as part of the daily maintenance of the database.

 

Inland Steel Company East Chicago, Indiana                                                                          1990-1997                                                                     

Senior Computer Analyst (Systems Programming)

Responsible for installing, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting Operating system software (MVS/ESA, CICS/MVS/ESA), vendors software packages (major vendors were Computer Associates, Compuware, and ASG), and in-house written software.

  • Wrote CICS system programs to, auto install terminals, suppress unwanted dumps, and clean up temporary storage queues.
  • Wrote platform to process and transmit EDI documents to outside customers.
  • Wrote various exit routines to interface with vendors’ software packages.
  • Wrote system modification exits to support MVS/ESA and JES3.
  • Wrote external writers to process JES3 spool files to create DASD datasets.

 

Navistar International Transportation Corporation Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois                  1987-1990                                    

Systems Analyst (Systems Programming)

Evaluated, installed, upgraded and maintained VM/SP operating system software and vendor software packages.

l        Upgraded vendor software packages to run under new VM/SP operating system.

l        Wrote VM system utilities to clean up user Mini-disks. Analyzed new and old production systems requirements.

l        Maintained production systems on a daily basis. Prevented and corrected production abends

 

TECHNOLOGIES and SOFTWARE

 

Operating Systems: z/OS, OS/390, MVS/ESA, Unix [Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM/AIX], VM/SP.

 

IBM’s Program Products: CICS/[TS,ESA,MVS], MQSeries, TCP/IP, RACF, JES2, JES3, TSO/E, ISPF, SMP/E, VSAM, DFP, HSM, IBM Utilities.

 

Third-Party vendor products (mainframe): CA-MIM, CA-Panvalet, CA-1, CA-1/Copycat, CA-Top Secret CA-Top Secret/DB2, CA-ASM2, CA-PMO, CA-Astex, CA-Netman, CA-DataDictionary, CA-Sysview, CA-CICS Service Facility, CA-InterTest for CICS, CA-ESP, CMF, MV Manager for DB2, VSAM-Assist, VSAM-Quick Index, Gentran, VPS, VPS/VMCF, DRS, ASM1500/TSO Superset Utilities, VS/QuickRef, Xpediter/TSO, Xpediter/CICS, CICS Abend-AID, CICS Abend-AID/FX, Radar, Playback, Abend-AID, File-AID[Batch, ISPF], TMON for MVS, TMON for CICS, ViewDirect for MVS, Control-M

 

Databases:  CA-DATACOM, Oracle 9i and 10g

 

Programming Languages:  JCL[JES2 and JES3], BAL, HLA, VS/COBOL, COBOL II, CICS Command Level, PL/1, REXX, CLIST, CA-Ideal, Unix.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/EDUCATION

 

Purdue University Calumet , Hammond , Indiana

  • Bachelors of Science Computer Technology (Systems Programming) with Highest Distinction
  • Associates Degree Information Systems and Computer Programming with Highest Distinction
  • Associates Degree Industrial Management with Distinction

 

AWARDS

 

  • Received a commendation letter from Chairman and CEO, Vice President and CIO for contributions made to Order Fulfillment System.
  • Received commendation letters from Company President for contributions made during telephone crisis, and from ISS Vice President for contributions made to the disaster Recovery Project after a disastrous storm during 1988.
  • Named Purdue University Outstanding Data Processing Student.
  • Inducted as a member of Alpha Chi National College Honor Scholarship Society.