Harpreet Singh

Experienced Storage programmer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in IBM Mainframe, Virtualization, Mainframe, Storage Management, and Storage Virtualization. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Technology - BTech focused in Electronics and comm from Punjab Technical University. strong hold on SAS programing Proactively monitoring catalog extents and control datasets utilization and perform necessary catalog and CDS reorgs based on situation and usage. Regularly representing storage changes in CAB meeting. Providing support on automated and manual HSM functions such as Backup Recovery cycles, Space Management cycles, Migration Recall. Working on SMS ACS routines such as defining, translation, validation and activation of the ACS routines. Creating SMS and NON‑SMS DASD’s Backup procedures and Backup jobs using FDRABR and HSM. Backup and restore DASD using utilities such as DFSMSdss and addition of storage to Storage Groups to ensure enough space availability. Use of various data report generation tools such as RMM report generator,DCOLLECT, FDREPORT, etc.to create utilization reports on large scale data. Adding storage to systems. Performing quarterly Disaster recovery test and making DR procedural changes to make DR tests fast and efficient. Monitor and providing technical support for the DLM8100 Tape box and DS8870 DASD box, which includes raising hardware repair calls and microcode upgrades. Data movement using TDMF. Initializing SMS and NON‑SMS volumes. Mirroring the data to DR site through XRC (Extended remote copy). Managing GDPS environment. Worked in metro mirror , global mirror environment Regularly representing storage changes in CAB meeting. Providing support on automated and manual HSM functions such as Backup Recovery cycles, Space Management cycles, Migration Recall. Proactively monitoring catalog extents and control datasets utilization and perform necessary catalog and CDS reorgs based on situation and usage. Analyze and recommend required SMS modifications. Catalog and CDS Reorg . Performing quarterly Disaster recovery test and making DR procedural changes to make DR tests fast and efficient. Catalog management. Participated in ZOS upgrade. Adding volume to storage group. Setting up the new DS89* storage box. Configuring the DASD (minimal initialization). Managing user access through DS8K. Well verse with icetool, dfsort. Well verse with DFRMM and ASG-ZARA TMS. In a process of implementing