Imthiyas R

With around 14 years of extensive experience in Mainframe Technology, specifically in Mainframe Operations and Console Monitoring, I specialize in assisting system operations with operational issues, conducting health checks of various subsystems, job scheduling, and workload monitoring.

• Mainframe System Administration Certification
• ITIL V4 Foundation

• Client appreciated for solving Sev 1 issues on time and providing intellectual suggestions during team meetings.
• Recognized for generating ideas during Shift Huddles and maintaining team trackers.
• Consistently appreciated by TL and FLM for adapting to shift changes and effectively organizing team meetings.
• Received 'Feather on the Cap' awards in 2020 Q4 and 2023 Q1.
• Client appreciation for completing technical tasks before deadlines.

• Tape Backups: Performed daily and weekly tape backups of CICS transactions through BCRS (Backup and Recovery System).
• Console: Recycled regions and tasks, managed tasks in and out of automation, performed IPLs, responded to storage and tape-related WTORs, and manually allocated IMS.

• IPL (Initial Program Load) management: Responsible for startup and shutdown procedures.
• System Maintenance: Monitored syslog activities, SMF dataset, spool, batch abends, and assigned job initiators.
• Console Maintenance: Managed regions and task abends started and stopped transactions and regions, and cycled IMS regions.

OPC, Control M (GUI & Reflection), ESP, Stone Branch, NOCVID, Sysview, Netview, Maximo, Infoweb, Impact, SNOW

• 1st Place, Inter-school folk dance competition, St. Louis School for the Deaf and Dumb, Adyar, Chennai, 2003
• 2nd Place, Inter-school western dance competitions, St. Paul's Matric. Hr. Sec. School, Coimbatore, St. Joseph's Matric. Hr. Sec. School, Chengalpattu, 2003
• Participated, EQ Dance Competition, 2007, Vijay TV

Title: Technical Lead - Z&I Operations

Read/Write/Speak, Read/Write/Speak, Speak, Speak

• Troubleshot basic system problems, such as long tape mounts and slow batch processing, working directly with Production Control for problem determination and resolution.
• Performed checkpoint restarts and manual backups.
• Executed System IPL as per instructions.
• Ran standalone dump tests based on requests.
• Modified job class configurations according to procedures.
• Performed CICS recycles for issue resolution or maintenance.
• Managed changes to initiators and service classes.

• Managed 19 multiple production and test mainframe LPARs.
• Monitored batch jobs through OPC.
• Monitored client systems for errors such as buffer shortages and spool issues.
• Monitored and reported tape-related messages (e.g., Tape mount pending, Tape drives offline/online).
• Monitored nightly/weekly recycles of CICS.