Senior systems programmer
Howard M. Rifkind
350 County Road
Demarest, New Jersey 07627-1116

Home: 201-768-7106
Cell: 201-615-1487
Email: h_rifkind@yahoo.com

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Review resume of Charles V.Lea

Experienced information systems professional in manufacturing and hospital environments. Developed, installed and maintained hardware, software and internet email systems. Mainframe and Unix system programmer. Highly effective in working with employees at all levels. Am a people person and enjoy meeting the professional needs of customers. Have programmed in more than 20 different languages for more than 20,000 hours

• 20 years of installing/maintaining VM.
• 25 years installing/maintaining VSE, POWER, VTAM, NCP
• 20 years installing/ maintaining CICS
• 2 years SUSE Linux
• 4 years VSE TCP/IP REXX, PL/1, HTML
• 20 years DASD and Tape management
• 30 years : Install, configure, maintain and upgrade IBM and 3rd party products
• 3 years mainframe LPAR
• Many years CA Dynam/d Dynam/T Dynam/FI
• Many years SNA (System Network Architecture) and VTAM.
• Enjoy working off-hours
• TSM with 3583 tape library and all the TSM node definitions.
• 3 months of JAVA training.
• 8 years RSCS
• DB2 file system definitions in AIX....12 years AIX

• I am an expert assembler programmer.
• I have been programming in assembler since the seventies.
• Total of many thousands of hours of assembler programming.
• Have written at least 50 macros.
• Have written at the operating system level for both VSE (SVCs) and VM (at the SIO (start I/O) level).
• Wrote a complete printer control system at the VM level in assembler.
• Wrote a complete CMS file backup/Restore system in assembler. I still have all of the source for this.
• I can show the assembler program source as an example if so desired.
• I designed and built this entire CMS file backup/restore system from scratch.
• Later learned that there are commercial products which do exactly the same functions that my programs do.
• Know op codes on sight.
• Example : X'47F0A010" is an unconditional branch to 16 bytes past the address in register 10.
• Can do hexadecimal math instantly in my head.
• Can read a dump like other people read a newspaper.
• Expert debugger at the bit/bytes level.
• Expert at CICS internals and wrote thousands of lines of assembler code as application CICS coder.
• I get lost in assembler and can do it 15 hours per day and then be sorry that the day is ending.
• That's how much I love it.
• VM
• Did 9 complete VM installations.. From VM 5.0 through VM HPO through XA (Extended Architecture) and Z/VM.
• Have worked with VM and CMS almost continuously since 1981, while at the same time juggling all the other
• technologies, including AIX, SAN, and other programming languages.
• Have been VM/CMS system programmer since 1981, which dozens of CMS users. I LOVE VM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• AIX (UNIX) administrator (AIX 5.2,5.3). Maintained multiple RS6000s and P series machines using AIX running system-critical applications :
• TOWER AIX (CFG Insurance Policies imaging application).
• Lotus Notes AIX email server.
• TSM AIX storage backup/restore administration.
• Three Linux DB2 machines on IBM Blade Server.
• Mainframe CICS applications ported from mainframe to P Series AIX with major insurance application.
• Wrote numerous scripts to handle needs of AIX login users who utilize CICS applications on AIX.
• Worked with networking, SATA san storage, AIX upgrades/maintenance, user needs, etc.
• Performed Lotus Notes Administration and email problem resolution.
• Juggled numerous technologies of problem types on a daily basis.
• Have programmed in more than 20 different languages.
• Love working with the end users to make their work enjoyable and functional.
• C programming : Developed a system for transferring data from mainframe to AIX on RS6000 platform.
• The programs were written in assembler on mainframe, and C on AIX. The project was a complete success.

VSE Mainframe system programmer. Install, maintain operating system, vendor products. Wrote numerous complex special assembler programs to solve special problems, incuding TCP/IP application for major data transfer to AIX.

Solved severe problem which prevented RegScan from compiling updated C programs with new EPA regulations for the hazardous waste industry (transport, usage, chemical plants, electrical generation plants, and many fortune 500 companies). Generated software solution to test these changes on mainframe prior to sending the updated programs out to Regscans main customer (Yellow Trucking).

Assembler Programmer, Cobol programmer, and Cobol Trainer

Set up Cobol training regimen for Information services conversion from assembler to Cobol. Developed Cobol training document for 20 people. Coded thousands of lines of Cobol development and demonstration code.

Completed assembler programming assignments for special tasks which had baffled the staff for months. The staff was very impressed with my assembler programming skills, and remarked at how well I know assembler language.

Managed multiple hardware/software platforms concurrently. Enjoyed interacting with large user community of thousands to meet their computer needs.

• Mainframe system programmer on IBM mainframe running VM with VSE and CICS. Maintained the operating systems and hardware.
• Supported entire programming staff when problems occurred with VSAM database or Cobol programs. Wrote utility programs in assembler.
• Windows NT/2000 server administrator for Citrix and Terminal Server applications.
• Thin client administrator for 200 NCD Thin Client devices.
• Installed software on Windows NT/2000 and thin devices themselves to support the functionality of thin clients.
• Developed a VBScript which allows a user to sit down at any of 1500 PCs on campus, and see a list of only those printers
• which are near the particular PC or thin client device which the user is logged on to.
• Citrix administrator on Windows NT.
• Terminal Server administrator on Windows 2000.
• Worked with lans/wans, tcp/ip, domain names, internet access, subnetting, etc.
• Helped set up PCs for internet access, email access, and Terminal Services applications such as Office 95 and Office 2000.
• Worked with both NCD Thinstars and Wyse Capio thin devices.
• Programmed specialty applications in C for thin client control and process control.
• Worked with all standard UNIX (AIX) utilities (AWK, SED,etc.) and commands. Installed and updated AIX numerous times on IBM RS6000.
• Worked to make AIX y2k compliant in 1999.
• Developed and maintained internet email system for 1100 users on 2 completely different platforms (RS6000 and DEC/Alpha with VMS).

Maintained both hardware and software for IBM mainframe which served Welch, the largest grape juice company in the world. Managed multiple projects concurrently. Designed and coded specialty software subsystems which functioned with the operating system

• System Programmer on IBM Mainframe (IBM 370/ 390 equipment and AS400).
• Programmed in Assembler, Cobol. Did VSAM access coding in assembler.
• Wrote system-type applications which ran along with the operating system(VSE, XA).
• CICS system programmer. Wrote interfaces, exits, etc.
• Enhanced security by writing a CICS exit which replaced standard CICS security.
• Wrote a complex print control system in assembler (using the Power SAS subsystem).
• Wrote a print control system for VM/CMS.
• Wrote complete tape backup/restore system for CMS data.
• Installed and maintained mainframe operating system software for VSE and VM.
• Was VTAM system programmer for 9 years for nationwide network. NCP,SSP.
• Had 80 virtual machines running concurrently under VM.
• Installed/maintained VSE/POWER spooler and wrote utilities for it in assembler.