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Beth Siska

Glendale Heights,IL

Summary

Proven IT professional with extensive experience at United Airlines, adept in incident management, JCL, and EFT. Excels in enhancing system reliability and supporting batch processing, demonstrating strong analytical skills and a commitment to operational excellence. Skilled in fostering cross-departmental collaborations and leading high-priority projects to successful completion.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Support Analyst - IT

United Airlines
10.2008 - Current

* Monitor MVS mainframe, respond to outstanding replies, troubleshoot system problems and escalate to System Engineer as needed. Perform IPL and participate in scripted change activities as required. Open change records for hardware problems and coordinate CE access to data center to perform maintenance.

* Provide level 2 support for batch by monitoring job streams for critical applications on time delivery. Remediate job abends by modifying JCL, restarting, rescheduling to resume processing, or escalate to Application Developer.

* Support monthly security server patching for Financial Systems, bounce services, control job flow by limiting resources, rescheduling production jobs to ensure timely processing.

* Partner with EFT Engineering to onboard external vendors and internal applications to the platform by submitting firewall requests, create rules for file transfer, test with external and internal resources. Investigate and correct failed file transfers or notify source or recipient of missed delivery.


Lead Collection Representative

United Airlines
06.1996 - 06.2006

* Worked with International Accounting offices system wide on an ongoing basis to affect collections. Researched and resolved accounting issues using various internal systems. Provided training to international collectors’ team and staff in Local Accounting offices. Developed and maintained strong relationships with numerous departments both internal and external. Coordinated activities to support the monthly Revenue Management System closing and created variance reports.

* Managed a high volume of accounts, prioritizing tasks to maximize productivity and results.


Education

High School Diploma -

Willowbrook High School
Villa Park, IL
06.1978

Skills

* Familiar with Incident and Change Mgmt processes

* JCL concepts and manipulation

* Manage daily production job schedule on mainframe and distributed environments

* EFT enterprise support

Timeline

Support Analyst - IT

United Airlines
10.2008 - Current

Lead Collection Representative

United Airlines
06.1996 - 06.2006

High School Diploma -

Willowbrook High School
Beth Siska