Shoab Kamran

1277 Mixtec Court, Fremont, CA 94539 Ph.- (415) 845-6572

International Large Information Systems Experience – MIS Planner/Architect

Performance/Availability Consultant to Government / Commercial Clients

Multilingual, forward looking technical professional with an outstanding background in client relations. Consistently assumed technical responsibility to complete projects both independently and on teams. Technically proficient in grasping users’ requirements quickly, adapting the newer technology effectively to create futuristic solutions for the existing disciplines using IBM mainframe hardware and software.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Independent IT Consultant - Contractor, Fremont, CA

Performance/Capacity Planning Specialist 11/06-Pres.

. Do processor and storage performance and capacity studies on an open

contract basis with Jeskell, Inc. on as needed basis. The last one was for UC

Berkeley, for their disk & tape storage systems in 2007.

Jeskell, Inc. (IBM BP), Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Sys. Engineer /Analyst 04/06-10/06

. Conducted and presented performance analysis and capacity planning studies

for customers z/OS and z/VM mainframe processors, tape and disk systems

using IBM tools like CP3000, BatchMagic etc.

US Postal Service, San Mateo, CA

Systems Contractor (Performance & Capacity Planning) 01/99-02/06

. Installed, maintained and customized performance and capacity planning

software i.e. SAS, MXG, Best1, RMF, TMON, Mainview etc. for the operating

systems at San Mateo mainframe production and test sysplex (20 LPARs total).

. Checked daily the general health of the production sysplex systems, databases

and major applications, using performance monitoring tools BMC/Mainview,

RMFIII etc.

. Wrote SAS code where necessary to run ad hoc jobs to provide the statistical,

capacity and performance reports when requested by management. Used

SASGRAPH, PC tools etc. where necessary to produce graphically enhanced

statistical analyses for different groups of management.

. Consulted with other technical and operational staff if a problem is noticed. For

any serious situation, kept management posted on the progress.

. Checked Remedy tickets related to systems or applications performance

degradation. Interfaced with other technical groups, where necessary.

. Assured successful completion of the daily SMF data consolidation jobs, and

all daily/monthly CPS (Capacity Planning) jobs.

IBM Corporation, San Ramon, CA

Senior Sales Specialist 11/96-01/99

. Provided technical support to IBM Marketing through performance and

capacity studies, using IBM tools like CP2000 etc.

. Discussed and helped presentation of the hardware upgrade scenarios to the

customer management.

City & County of San Francisco-DPH

Sr. Systems Programmer 10/92-10/96

. Installed, tested and implemented new releases of MVS operating systems

including DB2, CICS, SNA and other IBM and vendor products using SMPE.

. Was instrumental in the implementation of (SMS – Shared Medical Systems),

the major application to serve the county hospitals and clinics.

. Assured continuous availability of critical SMS application under CICS using

Candle Omegamon, RMF etc.

. Wrote and implemented, the operational and maintenance processes for SMS,

and supported all IBM, VAX and Novell servers’ HW and SW configurations.

SKILLS:

Hardware IBM/Amdahl/DEC Mainframes, PC / NT / Netware servers,

IBM/CISCO Routers, IBM/EMC/ STK/Hitachi storage products

Software MVS / z/OS / z/VM, TSO/ISPF/REX, COBOL, Assembler, PL1,

RMF, SMPE, WLM, BMC Mainview/BEST1/Remedy/PATROL,

OMEGAMON, SAS/MXG, TCP/IP, MS Windows XP/Word/Excel

Disciplines Performance Analysis, Capacity Planning, Problem/Change

Management, Project Management, Systems Design / Analysis

EDUCATION:

Ciber Network Services, Sunnyvale, CA

Novell Education Certificates (PC, Netware)

DIGITAL Education & Train., Sunnyvale, CA

OPENVMS & Network Node Mgmt I

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Canada

Computers Programming Certificate

University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Bachelor of Science in Physics/Chemistry

AWARDS:

. Selected to four SE Symposiums in IBM US / Canada

. Selected three consecutive times to IBM EMEA Achievement Conventions

. Selected for IBM EMEA SE of the year award in 1986

. Received numerous IBM Special Contributions and Branch Managers awards