William M.
Winsky
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Updated: September
2012
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
I began my career in data processing
in 1978 and have extensive experience in systems and applications technical
support, developmental analysis and design, and applications and systems
programming for banking, government, insurance and health industries in IBM
mainframe online and batch environments.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Business Administration
from American International College, Springfield, MA.
SOFTWARE:
Z/OS 1.11 UNIX System Services,
Websphere Application Server, CICS Transaction Server 4.1, WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7,
ACF2, RACF, JES2, SNA, VTAM, TCP/IP, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, SDSF, JESMASTER,
COBOL/390, EASYTRIEVE/PLUS, VISUAL STUDIO 2008, ASSEMBLER, INTERTEST, TMON,
DADS, ABEND-AID FX, OMEGAMON, Mainview, XPEDITER, XPEDITER DEV ENTERPRISE,
DEBUG, TSO, ISPF, SPIFFY, CLIST, DIALOGUE MANAGER, CMS, XEDIT, EXEC2, JCL,
PANVALET, CA-Endevor, Changeman, IMS/DB,
VSAM, FILE AID-MVS/IMS/DB2, VIASOFT/INSIGHT-SmartEdit, ADABAS, FDR/DSF,
SYSM, EMC2/TAO, Outlook, MICROSOFT
OFFICE Suite 2010 including ACCESS,
Axios/Ropes, CITRIX.
5/2006 – June 2012:
CICS & MQ SYSTEM PROGRAMMER, Associate Director at UBS
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: As a member of 2 different teams, UBS
Americas and the Investment Bank, I was a lead technician responsible for supporting
production and test systems in the CICS/MQ areas. Duties included system
upgrades, application configuration updates, performance analysis and tuning,
developer support, application problem resolution, business continuity and
recovery, risk analysis and mitigation, and rotational on call support. While
there, I also learned DB2 database administration, kept abreast of latest
trends in CICS an MQ features, participated in proof of concept projects such
as Z/PDT and automated CICS generating tools creation, and participated in many
cleanup projects removing obsolete components and systems. In support of
developers, I wrote a system that would take MQ configuration components and
through REXX parsing programs, loaded the components into DB2 databases for
easy SQL query access for business application tracing of messaging.
2/2004 – June 2005:
CICS Applications Programmer, CONSULTANT
BW Consulting, LLC and Computech
Resources at Health Insurance Plan of
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: As a member of the Production Support
team, I was lead technician responsible for debugging production and test
environment problems, enhancing system stability and availability, and make
performance improvements of the client’s applications, providing solutions in
both system software configuration and application programs. I provided support
for the migration from CICS 4.1 to Transaction Server 2.2 and associated
products and tested these and other ISV products in the migration from Z/OS 1.3
to Z/OS 1.5. I supported application developers with problem and debugging
resolutions and supported the CICS Systems programmers in the tech support area
providing technical expertise, process improvements, and infrastructure
guidance. I performed technical interviews to hire application consultants. I
integrated the CICS-AbendAid product with Source listing support. I both solved
and implemented fixes for abends as well as providing application support staff
with detailed analysis of dumps for proper fix resolution. I solved problems
and implemented solutions in applications, system configuration, and vendor
software the latter using research tools such as IBMLINK, Frontline, or CA
Support Connect.
In addition to the support role, I
was the lead technician for 3 project initiatives: 1) Research and provide a
solution that would allow update access from CICS to VSAM files 24/7, while
allowing normal batch updates. 2) Trial 4 products to allow browser and XML
access to the major CICS legacy application and 3) Install, configure, and
populate Xpediter Dev Enterprise – a Compuware product that establishes entity
relationships for a mainframe application and provides tools to development
staff for application impact analysis, program analysis, and QA testing. This
product had components on the mainframe, wintel server, and client PC.
7/2003 – 2/2004:
CICS Systems Programmer, SENIOR SPECIALIST
Perot Systems at Owens and Minor
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: As a member of the GIS Interactives
team, I was responsible for building regions for a new migration path. I installed MacKinney System’s CICS/Mapper II as a
replacement for SDF using SMPE. I was dedicated to a client of Perot Systems
and supported production and test environments performing problem solving using
AbendAid and IPCS, performance tuning, and implementing various CICS
administrative requests as well as supporting CICS in a OS upgrade from OS/390
2.10 to Z/OS 1.4. Various products used with this client were Compuware’s
AbendAid for CICS, Viasoft’s SmartTest, and the full suite of Omegamon
Monitoring tools for CICS, DB2, IMS, IPCS, and MVS.
4/2003 – 6/2003:
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SENIOR SPECIALIST
Perot Systems at Robert Plan
Insurance
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: As a member of the Configuration
Management team, I was responsible for installing and integrating CA's Endevor
product for software migrations. For
a new development project, the CM team was setting up software life cycle
environments and implementing CM tools to handle software migrations for
Natural and non Natural configuration items. We reviewed and tested the product
N2O and were implementing Endevor with plans to integrate the two products. I
personally was involved in the environment planning/setup and Endevor setup as
well as N2O review.
9/1998 – 3/2003:
CICS & MQ SYSTEM PROGRAMMER, SENIOR SPECIALIST
Perot Systems at UBS Warburg
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: I have worked
as a team member supporting the banks back office CICS systems and MQ Series
infrastructure. Production CICS consisted 1 TOR, 3 AORs and 1 FOR, TCP
Listener, SNA/LU62, MQ Series, IMS/DBCTL, and DB2 Connections. Test environment
had 6 MRO suites like production and 19 Stand alone regions. I built 7 of the
stand alone regions and 2 of the MRO suites and standardized about half of all
regions, (common CSD, SIT, PLT, RPL, etc). I participated in the upgrade of
Transaction Server 2.2. I installed CICS Transaction Server 1.2 and 1.3 using
SMP/E and set up the CICS Web Interface, creating the default CICS Web page
using HTML and JavaScript, and 3270 bridged 1 of the banks major applications.
I also installed the CICS Transaction Gateway in UNIX Systems Services, TMON
CICS 2.0, Omegamon CICS 400, Intertest 5.4, Compuware’s Abendaid/FX 4.3 for CICS,
Xpediter/CICS 7.4, upgraded CA-DADS PLUS 3.5,
and implemented DBCTL connections in all environments. I was the CA-Endeavor
Administrator V3.8. I developed a batch job to new copy programs while regions
were up using EXCI interface and output from Endevor. Besides the development
work above, I supported CICS in the Production and test environments for 4
ZOS/OS390 upgrades (OS/390 2.4, 2.7, 2.10, now at Z/OS 1.2), Y2K, and various
bank application initiatives. I provided applications architectural design guidance
including proposing and implementing with application developers the migration
of the applications above 16M line and implemented the storage protection and
transaction isolation features available in CICS. I provided problem resolution
for all manner of abends and system dumps specializing in storage violations,
used IBMLINK to download and apply PTFs and rotated weekly off hour call
support with high speed remote-in access. I participated in a
As an MQ Series administrator, I
supported various application initiatives by participating in the upgrade to
version 5.2, adding channels and queues in test and production environments,
provided performance monitoring and improvements, and supported Business
Continuity tests to alternate servers. Besides the Stamford LPARs I supported
the London LPARs where there were 6 test and 1 production Queue Managers. I
also reviewed MQ Series Integrator which we did not choose for cost reasons.
I attended IBM class for CICS 4.1
performance tuning, CICS TS 1.2&1.3 Web Implementation (Circle Group), an
IBM workshop on Web access to CICS, and the 2000 CICS and MQ Series Technical
Conference. I also took various CBT courses from Mindleaders.com on JAVA, PC
hardware, Windows XP, and DB2.
7/1986 - 8/1998:
Data Processing Technical Systems Analyst II/III
Department Of Social
Services/Department of Income Maintenance, State of
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: I have directed
a technical/applications support area interfacing between the department's
application programming and operations staff and the state's data center and
systems support staff. Responsibilities included: programmer support and
problem resolution; advising management in technical areas; high level design
of the Eligibility Management System which consisted of 400 online screens and
350 batch programs; supervision of two staff positions including hiring and
firing; review of vendor packages for programmer productivity; response time
and performance monitoring; supporting 9 CICS regions including RDO functions;
timely production problem resolution; testing, user acceptance, and production
software migrations and procedures; data security officer; personal computer
support for remote communications and mainframe data transfers; issue and
enforce programming standards; administer Computer Based Training system;
organize and maintain library of technical publications; and backup to the data
base group.
1/1983 - 6/86:
Senior Systems Analyst Consultant at the Department of Income Maintenance,
State of
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: I worked on the
design, coding, testing, and implementation of the Welfare Fraud Tracking
System with full responsibilities for the State Police portion. This system
used CICS command level language with BMS mapping facilities to access
VSAM/KSDS records either directly or through a phonetic index search. I also
performed various analytical, and programming tasks on the Department's
Caseload Eligibility Management System including adding secondary functions to
allow the worker to issue Medical Identification Cards at the District Office,
and Income Eligibility Verification System allowing the worker to access on a
selective basis information from confidential IRS files. Also while at the
Department, I shared responsibilities with one other person for the General
Assistance Information System, a batch system with online inquiry capabilities
using DMS/VS. This system provided a central data base that all the towns
supplied information to for recipients on town welfare.
8/1980 - 12/1982:
Systems Analyst Consultant for Compdata Services Inc.
Placed at Aetna Life and Casualty,
I worked on the design, coding, testing, implementation, and documentation of
the Human Resource Management System. Responsibilities included data transfer between
CMS and MVS environments, generating DMS panels, report modules, and microfiche
output, while working with both user and technical areas.
Placed at CIGNA Insurance Company,
I was responsible for receiving maintenance changes into the CABILS Billing
System and assuring successful implementations. My assignment also included
being on call for production problems and accurate and timely resolution of
those problems to keep the impact to the users at a minimum. I also had the
responsibility for acceptance of the Application Information System into the
Production Assurance Department which was migrated from a UNIVAC to IBM 370
environment. In this role, I was responsible for reviewing program changes,
testing procedures and output, new documentation, JCL, and standards, as well
as helping out with problem resolution.
1/1978 - 8/1980:
Programmer Analyst and Programmer Trainee for Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company
In the Agency Sales Support area, I
was responsible for the Agency/Agent Data Base System, an online inquiry data
base system containing all of the Agent's sales and commissions data.
Modifications included new functions, maintenance, and security enhancements,
as well as documentation and user training. I also was responsible for certain
production cycles successfully completing. I also had responsibilities for
analysis, design, coding, and testing, for the Small Group System, both batch
and online considerations. At the same time I wrote the Disaster Recovery Plan
for this and other systems accessing the agent data bases.
In the Agent Sales Illustrations
area, I was responsible for the design, programming, and implementation of the
Contract Readability Project. This included online and batch Cobol and
Assembler module changes. Other projects involved updating the rate tables and
creating new illustrations for new products such as the Disability Income
Protection Plan.
Other
Activities: During the time I worked for the
above companies, I also performed private and volunteer work. I am the
developer and Web Administrator for www.olomc.org and
www.bwinsky.com.
I performed contract work for Lego Systems where I wrote a program on
the Commodore PET 2001 computer interfacing through an IEEE serial port to a
METLER Scale monitoring tare migration of a scale with graphic displays and
alarms when too many packages were getting rejected. Another contract was with
a service bureau to refine and standardize a general ledger and accounts
receivable package.
Hobbies:
Private Pilot, boating, music and choir member, skiing, aviculture.
References available on request.