Resume for John Della-Torre
Resume – March, 2003
Name:
John David Della-Torre
Address:
Available On Application
Telephone:
Home : (02) 9629-8686
Mobile : 0412-136-451
Email:
johndel@joden.com.au
Web Site:
www.joden.com.au
Marital Status:
Married with 2 children
Date of Birth:
7th Nov, 1945
Nationality:
Australian
Summary
Experienced Senior MVS Systems Programmer with a computer
operations background. His 32 years of industry experience has
been gained through the positions of Mainframe Technical Solution
Architect (1 Year), MVS Systems Programmer (21 years), Capacity
Planner (5 years), Application Programmer (1 year), Computer
Operator (3 years).
His primary skills and experience include:
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Configuration (HCD/HCM) management including the building of
LPARs and configuring the hardware devices that support them.
Disaster Recovery Planning.
Programming in 370/Assembler, REXX, C, CLIST and PL/1
languages as well as Linux (bash) scripting.
The installation, maintenance and support of S/390 software
including OS/390, MVS/ESA, JES2, IXFP, DFhsm, DFdss, DFsms,
RACF, ISPF/PDF, TSO/E, SMF, SDSF, and SMP/E.
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The installation and support of Parallel Sysplex, S/390 Web
Server software and Unix System Services.
The upgrade of OS/390 systems to current releases including
2.9 to 2.10, 1.1 to 2.5, 1.3 to 2.7 and MVS 5.2.2 to 2.6.
Good understanding of the following Independent Software
Vendor products: ACF2, CA1, AbendAid, Omegamon, MIM.
Knowledge and use of IBM VM/ESA operating system and an
understanding of how VM guests are created and IPLed.
Good knowledge of the following PC products: Linux, OS/2,
Win98, Win2K, Microsoft Office, Lotus Smartsuite, Visio,
NetObjects Fusion.
Basic web site design and HTML coding. See the web site
mentioned above.
The administration and installation of (PC based) Linux systems.
Such experience being gained through the creation of a 3 node
home LAN with a Linux server and 2 Win98 clients.
Creation of costed solutions via Statements of Work for a wide
range of Mainframe activities.
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Referees
Rod Simpson :
Michael Shirley:
IBM Global Services Australia
simpson@au1.ibm.com
0411-133-936
IBM Global Services Australia
mshirley@au1.ibm.com
0402-894-092
(02) 8448-4348
Chris Greenhalgh: AAP Telecommunications
cgreenha@aapt.com.au
(02) 8282-1263
Mike Horton:
CSC Australia
mhorton@csc.com.au
0417-912-304
(08) 9325-1585
Gayle Middleton: EDS Australia
gayle.middleton@eds.com
0410 549 217
(02) 9378 0393
John May:
Michael McLoughlin
Salmat Pty Ltd
john.may@salmat.com.au
0417-695-875
(02) 9437-6111
Origin Energy
(08) 8217-5351
Career History
10 Feb, 2003 – 07 Mar, 2003 (Origin Energy)
Position: Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer
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Major Activities:
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ServerPac upgrade of OS/390 2.9 to OS/390 2.10
04 Nov, 2002 – 31 Jan, 2003 (Salmat Pty Ltd)
Position: Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer
Major Activities:
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ServerPac upgrade of OS/390 2.9 to OS/390 2.10
29 Oct, 2001 – 02 Aug, 2002 (IBM Global Services Australia)
Position : Mainframe Technical Solution Architect
The Technical Solution Architect (TSA) participates in translation of
the client’s business requirements into specific system or process
designs. Based on Scope of Requirements, the TSA produces
solution designs via costed, risk assessed Statements of Work.
Major Activities - Design and cost solutions for:
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Relocation OS/390 LPAR workload from one site to another
CPU refresh from 9672 to zSeries 2064-116
Consolidation of Intel servers to Linux under z/VM on a z800
Re-examine baselines prior to Contract renewals.
Remote DASD mirroring using PPRC and FlashCopy
Replace Microsoft Exchange servers with Bynari running on z800
01 May, 2001 – 28 Oct, 2001 (Self Education)
Linux self education during period of unemployment.
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While unemployed I focused on learning Linux by installing it on a
spare home PC. During this period, I accomplished the following:
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Installed RedHat Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16).
Installed the Hercules S/390 emulator.
Installed MVS 3.8j via a turnkey system built by Volker Bandke
and available on CD from the CBT website. I successfully IPLed
MVS 3.8j on my PC.
Installed ftape which is a driver for a parallel port streamer tape
backup unit.
Installed taper which is a streamer tape backup application.
Installed 3 x Netgear ethernet PCI cards and setup a 3 node LAN
with Linux as the server and 2 x WIN98 clients.
Setup wu-ftpd on the Linux machine.
Setup Samba server on the Linux machine. Now able to use
WIN98 machines as Samba clients to access various file shares
on the Linux machine as well as a printer share.
My ISP asked me to research LDAP for him and I installed
OpenLDAP 2.0.11 from the sources and customised a schema file
to reflect my ISP’s login authentication details.
03 Apr, 2000 – 30 Apr, 2001 (CSC Australia)
Position : Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer
Major Activities:
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Participate in the upgrade of a 4 member Sysplex from MVS
5.2.2 to OS/390 2.6.
Install OS/390 maintenance that allowed HFSs (and PDSEs) to be
non-SMS managed and implemented non-SMS managed HFSs on
the OS/390 2.6 systems.
Perform configuration planning including HCD work for the
relocation of around 20 clients on 10 machines from Sydney to
Victoria. The relocation process made prominent use of:
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EMC’s SRDF.
Remote VTS access via InRange hardware.
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The VISIO package for creation and update of configuration
diagrams.
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23 Aug, 1999 - 31 Mar, 2000 (IBM Global Services Australia)
Position : Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer
Major Activities:
• Remediate Assembler Code for Y2K problems.
• Upgrade various ISV products to Y2K readiness including CA/1,
and Flasher.
• Swap "round brown" 3390 volumes to IBM’s Ramac Virtual Array
(RVA) using Amdahl's Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF).
• General production support for a variety of outsourced clients.
• Upgrade of OS/390 1.3 to 2.7.
18 Jan, 1999 - 13 Aug, 1999 (CSC Australia)
Position : Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer (Team Leader)
Major activities:
 Create various Y2K LPARs and the OS/390 systems that resided
there.
 Manage and participate in the upgrade of OS/390 and various
ISV products to Y2K readiness including Omegamon, Solve and
Flasher (JES3 SDSF)
 Perform LPAR forward dating to allow client to test remediated
code.
 Install and configure MIM to replace GRS in a Parallel Sysplex.
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12 Oct, 1998 - 15th Jan, 1999 (AAP Telecommunicaions)
Position : Contract Senior MVS Systems Programmer
Major activities:
 Perform a ServerPac Upgrade from OS/390 1.1 to OS/390 2.5.
 Upgrade of various ISV products including AbendAid and FileAid.
 Code IEFUSO exit to prevent S722 abends for certain jobs.
 Customisation of OMVS, TCPIP, FTP and Telnet.
 Customise and install Lotus Domino Go Webserver on OS/390.
 Customise and install Network File System Server on OS/390 to
allow OS/390 datasets to be accessed transparently from PC client
sessions.
 Build ONEPACK recovery OS/390 2.5 system.
 OS/390 SMP/E Maintenance.
 Customise and install IP Printway on OS/390 2.5 which prints
batch jobs to IP printers via JES2 spool.
 Customise and install Lotus Domino Go Webserver on the HMC to
allow remote operation of the 9672 via an intranet and a web
browser.
1995 - 09 Oct, 1998 (IBM Global Services Australia / ISSC)
Position : Senior Systems Programmer (Team Leader for MVS
Configuration, Performance and DRP Group).
Major activities:
 Perform and co-ordinate configuration (HCD/HCM) changes on a
number of CMOS and non-CMOS processors. I was responsible for
configuration changes on 15 CMOS and 6 non-CMOS processors
covering 5 sites and spanning around 50 MVS systems.
 The configuration changes just mentioned include defining and
relocating LPARs, defining DASD (including RVA), CTCs, OSA, 3494s
(ATLs) and Virtual Tape Servers (VTSs).
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 Developed documentation and standards for the configuration
process.
 Organised, co-ordinated and participated in Disaster Recovery
tests for a number of clients.
 Consulted in the outsourcing (MVS transition) of a number of
clients including Macquarie Bank.
 Installed OS/390 1.3 and the OS/390 Web Server on a Sysprog
LPAR and built a demonstration Web Server which described the
MVS component of IBM GSA's operations and included maps
showing sites, photographs of MVS support personnel, how to make
Requests for Service on the MVS group etc.
 Customised Open Edition on Sysprog LPAR.
 Installed and customised IXFP the product used to manage and
report on RVA.
1992 - 1995 (IBM Australia)
Position : Advisory Systems Programmer
Major activities:
 Responsible for upgrading and maintaining a group of products
including MVS, JES2, SDSF and TSO.
 Technical Lead for the MVS transition of Hammersley Iron from
their Western Australian site to IBM GSA’s (then ISSC) site in
Sydney.
 Project managed the migration of IBM NZ mainframe systems to
Cumberland Forest site.
 Configured APPC/MVS to support a number of APPC applications.
 JES2 MAS implementation.
 GRS implementation.
 ESA exploitation using VLF and LLA.
 370/Assembler programming.
 REXX and CLIST programming.
 24 hour / 7 day support.
1989 - 1992 (IBM Australia)
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Position : Capacity Planner for IBM Australia's internal systems.
Major activities:
 Maintain capacity planning data, advise on capacity planning
issues and develop and present a capacity plan for the yearly
planning cycle.
 PL/1 and CLIST programming.
1973 - 1989 (IBM Australia)
Position : Systems Programmer.
Major activities:
 Member of the team which installed one of the first MVS systems
in Australia.
 Maintain and develop SMF and JES2 exits.
 SMP maintenance to MVS and its susbsystems.
 Develop a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for IBM Australia and
successfully test it at IBM’s Melbourne site.
 Create and maintained DRP documentation.
 24 hour / 7 day support.
1972 - 1973 (IBM Australia)
Application Programmer. Learned PL/1 and wrote a few balance and
edit programs.
1969 - 1972 (IBM Australia)
Computer Operator at IBM Rosebery Data Centre eventually
becoming Senior Operator and Shift Leader.
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Education
1962 Leaving Certificate
1970 MVS Operator Training
1972 PL/I Programming
1975 BA Macquarie University
1976 MVS Concepts & Facilities
1977 MVS JCL
1978 Assembler Programming
1980 JES2 Internals
1981 MVS Structure & Logic
1980-1983 Law course at Institute of Technology. Personal
matters prevented completion.
1989 DFSMS Planning & Implementation
1991 DFHSM Implementation & Tailoring
1991 MVS/ESA Measurement & Tuning
1991 ISPF/PDF Workshop
1993 ESCON Architecture
1994 HCD Usage
1995 Complex System Analysis & Recovery
1996 OSA Implementation
1997 WLM Implementation
1997 Open Edition Installation
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1998 ACF2 Basics
Interests
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Reading non fiction.
Photography.
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