Lee Labecki

Experience

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  PEARL ASSURANCE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1998

  Computer Operator

  Started my IT career as a Computer Operator responsible for monitoring and controlling computer systems especially mainframe computer systems working on 24x7 shift rotas.During my 7 years on shift I was promoted to Senior Computer Operator and Shift Leader.

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  IBM

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  IT Specialist

  Ran the nightshift on the Ops bridge using multiple consoles and ensured all highlighted issues were resolved quickly and efficiently either by the Ops team or by escalating to the Ops support teams.Monitored and manipulated the batch processing, reported and documented system/batch failures. Categorised and prioritised any system and batch issues from the shift rotas and presented to the senior management teams in the daily service review meetings.System Power on Resets/IPLs. During planned computer outages brought down the systems in a controlled manner.Monitored system performance and online systems. Using the master consoles and monitoring software regularly checked threshold limits and reported any alerts to the system programmers.Change and Problem management. Actioned daily change requests assigned to the Operations team and delegated overnight problem records to the dayshift operators which provided a seamless transition between the different shift teams. Show less

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  CSC

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2016

  Senior Computer Analyst

  Scheduled and manipulated system batch by actioning customer requests by updating scheduling databases for schedules, jobs, annual calendars and triggered file events which maintained the seamless day to day server processing.Supported and actioned Change Records by providing detailed implementation plan documentation including back-out details for signoff ensuring all aspects of the changes were covered before Go-Live, during the outage windows and upon successful completion.Attended Disaster Recovery tests at DR site in London and provided technical support assistance in the recovery of the clients computer systems. Provided 24x7 On-Call out of hours support for batch and overnight server backups. Analysed failures, identified faults, rectified issues and monitored reruns. This ensured successful completion of the production batch and backups and minimised possible disruption to the clients businesses.Seconded to major projects as and when required. This required flexibility and working to tight deadlines.Provided permanent resolutions for Problem Records and produced daily reports for management and service review meetings. Created and updated spreadsheets containing the monthly performance statistics required by Service Delivery.Maintained security access and user logons. Regularly updated security files and servers for new starters and leavers to ensure secure access to business systems at all times. Show less

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  John Lewis Partnership

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  IBM Workload Scheduling Analyst (Contract)

  Scheduled and manipulated the Year-End processing. Actioned emailed scheduling requests from the customer using IWS 9.3.0 for z/OS.Co-ordinated a batch improvement program. Reduced the number of batch objects in IWS 9.3.0 for z/OS which streamlined the batch processing prior to a batch migration project.Migrated z/OS batch processing from IWS 9.3.0 to distributed IWS 9.3.2 using Composer command line interface. Compared batch objects from both IBM workload scheduler databases for sign off prior to each project phase Go-Live.Managed connectivity issues with IWS Fault Tolerant Agents on both Windows and Unix servers and re-linked them to the Mainframe and Distributed IWS Master servers. Show less

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  Atos

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Distributed Batch Scheduling Engineer (Contract)

  Created SAP extended agents and associated configurations on an existing IWS 9.3 environment which were required for new batch processing. Tested communications to and from all production SAP systems connected to the IBM workload scheduler and confirmed batch job logs were produced for the application support teams.Converted and migrated midrange batch processing from TWS 8.4 to IWS 9.3 using Composer command line interface. Produced job forecast plans and completed SAP batch testing in Live and Disaster Recovery environments for sign off prior to Go-Live to ensure payroll jobs ran successfully and batch cutover was seamless to the customer.Managed and co-ordinated the batch improvement program. Reduced the number of batch objects in the IBM workload scheduler database which streamlined the batch and improved the overnight batch window run times. Show less

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  Elyzium Ltd

  May 2017 - now

  TWS Consultant