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John Daniel

Summary

Veteran Systems Engineer versed in developing solutions for mission-critical needs. Specializes in deploying systems within ongoing operations while causing minimal disruptions. Committed to verifying compatibility, required operational thresholds and budgetary compliance of developed products.

Overview

44
44
years of professional experience

Work History

DB2 Systems Engineer

HCL Technologies
06.2014 - Current
  • Installed and supported multiple DB2 data sharing systems including all upgrades and maintenance. The first DB2 upgrade I performed was to DB2 V2.2; the last upgrade was DB2 V12.1.
  • Installed and supported numerous DB2 related utilities. These include batch utilities BMC Unload Plus, BMC Load Plus, and BMC Reorg Plus, BMC on-line utilities BMC Catalog Manager and BMC Change Manager.
  • Installed and supported other program products including Endevor, IBM Z Decision Support, SAS, and FileAid.
  • Designed and wrote many ISPF applications including those written by Operations Support which copy in new JCL members, control library members, etc. Fourteen different libraries in all.
  • Developed the DB2 Local Date Exit in Assembler which PepsiCo uses to convert from Gregorian dates to Period dates.
  • The most recent system I wrote was an upload process using SFTP from Linux to the Mainframe. They were using a fragile Unix script which failed multiple times a week. I rewrote the whole thing using SAS, Rexx, FileAid, and Unix scripts. It hasn't failed since.

Systems Engineer

PepsiCo, Inc.
08.1979 - 06.2014

My long career at PepsiCo stated as a Cobol programmer. I changed to a mainframe DBA for DB2 and IMS in 1985. In 1992, I became the DB2 Systems Engineer and held that job until PepsiCo outsourced me to HCL in 2014.

Education

Master of Science - Engineering Management

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Computer Science

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR

Skills

  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Penetration Testing
  • Infrastructure Development
  • Technical Analysis
  • Proficient in SAS, SQL, Rexx, Cobol, and Shell Scripts

Timeline

DB2 Systems Engineer

HCL Technologies
06.2014 - Current

Systems Engineer

PepsiCo, Inc.
08.1979 - 06.2014

Master of Science - Engineering Management

Southern Methodist University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Computer Science

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
John Daniel