Thomas Mills

16 Gate Lane

Old Bridge, NJ  08857

Cell:               732.778.5762                       

Home:           732.656.1437

Email:                        tomterrific0777@yahoo.com

 

 

Professional Summary

Thomas Mills’ background is ideally suited for providing a wide variety of Systems level technical expertise relating to IBM’s WebSphere MQSeries middleware product including MQSI, WBIFN, and security aspects. 

 

 

 

Competencies

·         Expert with IBM WebSphere MQSeries middleware on various hardware platforms including z/OS, Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Windows. 

·         Expert in MQSeries security administration including MQ object level security and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) implementation.

·         Excellent problem determination and research skills. 

·         Expert with MQSeries installation, monitoring, and problem determination.

·         Provide application design and architecture of large-scale MQSeries implementations using QSG’s (Queue Sharing Groups) and clustering to ensure high availability.

·         Proficiency with IBM’s Candle Command Center for MQSeries monitoring.

·         Highly proficient with CICS/TS problem determination, tuning, and integration with MQSeries.

 

Professional Experience

Citigroup:

Senior MQ Systems Administrator, AVP; Global MQ Systems Support Group

01/2000 to Present                                                                                                                                 

·         Primary responsibilities include overall MQSeries application support, administration and implementation of MQ based security, and overall MQ Systems architecture and design.

·         Created a standard for all Citigroup global data centers for implementing SSL.  Implemented SSL and digital certificates on z/OS, Solaris, and Windows based MQ environments.

·         Created a standard model for all Citigroup global data centers for implementing MQ object security.  This includes all MQ object security components.

·         Migrate to new releases of MQ, which has included versions 2.0 to 5.1, 5.1 to 5.3, and most recently, 5.3.0 to 5.3.1. 

·         Evaluate and implement various IBM MQ support packs.

·         Installed MQSI on CSD 2.0 and most recently migrated to CSD 5.0.

·         Responsible for the MQ component for the Citigroup technology Intranet website.  This has included coding in HTML and JavaScript.  Use Dreamweaver, PVCS, Samba, and other tools to assist with development.

·         Work with MQClient, which includes installing new versions on Solaris servers using Java, JMS (Java Messaging Service), or C/C++ for MQ. 

·         Wrote MQ channel exit to intercept IP address and deny connectivity to the z/OS MQ environment based on IP address.

·         Currently working on an MQ channel exit that will limit the number of connections any one MQ server connection channel can have.  Both channel exits are written in C++.

·         Provide overall application support, which includes design reviews, implementation of MQ objects to support the application, live support, and troubleshooting problems.

·         Implemented MQ Clustering between z/OS MQ and Solaris MQ. 

·         Developed special procedures for MQ in relation to Disaster Recovery, which includes a program that executes and builds a script to prevent any IP, based channels from external connection; clear any messages on queues, and to handle MQ Clustering.     

 

     

 

Siemens Corporation:

10/1988 to 12/1999

Senior Systems Engineer, ISG Systems Engineering; Health Services Division                  

07/1996 to 12/1999

·         Provide technical support to Siemens ICO customer base.  This is primarily, but not limited to, those sites running Siemens INVISION, EAD, LCR, and SIGNATURE on an IBM mainframe platform.  

·         Install, maintain, customize, and migrate from CICS/ESA 2.1 to CICS/ESA 4.1 and CICS Transaction Server 1.3. 

·         Implementation and customization of TCP/IP for use on IBM Mainframe.   Conversion of SNA access to CICS to TCP/IP.  

·         Installation of MVS LOGGER facilities as required for CICS Transaction Server.

·         Expert in CICS/Transaction Server with all aspects including installation, customization, migration from CICS/ESA 4.1, tuning, problem determination, and CWS (CICS Web Services and JAVA HTML).

·         Use TMON/CICS, Omegamon, and CICS/Mainview for immediate problem determination.

·         Apply maintenance updates to CICS, OS390, DB2, and OEM products using SMP/E.

·         DFSMS implementation and customization by ICO site.   Also wrote detailed implementation procedures. 

·         OS390 migration support and coordination including Technical Project Management, migration, customization, OEM product installation, and coordination of resources.

·         Batch cycle tuning of Siemens Invision, EAD, and Signature Dayend flows.  This includes using wide variety of tools (SAS, RMF, and STROBE).

·         Assist ICO customer’s with application of Siemens application software updates.

·         Strong proficiency level with HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript.

 

 

Senior CICS Systems Programmer, RCO CICS Transaction Systems                                     

10/1991 to 07/1996

·         Provided full technical support to over 500 RCO hospital environments running on 410 production, 200 development, and 200 test CICS environments. 

·         Coordinated, installed, and migrated all RCO CICS environments from CICS/ESA 1.7 to 2.1, CICS/ESA 2.1 to 3.3, and CICS/ESA 3.3 to 4.1.  

·         Perform all aspects of problem determination including SVC and transaction dump analysis using IPCS.

·         Used Omegamon/CICS and TMON/CICS for immediate problem determination.

·         Install OEM products supporting CICS including Omegamon/CICS, TMON/CICS, Expeditor, and ADS (Advanced Debugging System).

 

 

Technical Specialist Systems Programmer, Siemens Technical Support                              

10/1988 to 10/1991

·         Provided full range of technical support for all Siemens ICO customers.  This included wide range of technical support at systems and application level.

·         System level support of CICS, MVS, VTAM, DB2, and any other system level component that would fail.  

·         Application level support of Siemens product lines; INVISION, EAD, SIGNATURE, and HDX.

 

 

Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH:

Operations Analyst                                                                                                              

07/1996 to 10/1988

·         Supervised Operations staff and provided training and direction.

·         Developed and implemented process improvements which resulted in reduced downtime in batch processing.

·         Wrote procedures for automation of Operations procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LTV Steel Corporation, Cleveland, OH:

Computer Operator                                                                                                             

01/1981 to 10/1988

·         Performed Computer Operations on IBM 370 and 4381 mainframe systems.

 

 

 

 

Education

·         AAS, Computer Science, Delaware College, Media, PA.  

·         B.S, Information Technology, University of Phoenix.

 

Hardware and Software Proficiencies:

·         Extremely proficient with z/OS and all IBM mainframe hardware platforms and Operating Systems.

·         Highly proficient in Linux, Solaris, and Unix Operating Systems running on various hardware platforms.

·         Proficient in many programming and scripting languages including: Assembler, Cobol, C/C++, Java/JMS, and Rexx/CLIST/ISPF interface.  Included with programming languages is MQSC command interface, ISPF interface; CICS command level interface, and DB2 interface. 

·         Highly proficient in HTML and JavaScript. 

·         Highly proficient in many OEM vendor products for system monitoring and analysis including BMC Mainview, Omegamon, IBM/Candle Command Center, Tivoli, and various IBM tools (IPCS, ISMF,  SMPE, RACF, etc.)