2016 -Current
AUTOMATION ENGINEER III
Southeastern Grocers
- Key contributor to an enterprise-wide workload automation conversion from
Broadcom (formerly CA) ESP to Stonebranch Universal Automation Center
(UAC), leading job inventory analysis, solution architecture, comprehensive testing, configuration management, and successful cutover for over 25k tasks across multiple environments and platforms. Delivered the complex migration on schedule, ensuring seamless automation continuity and enhanced orchestration capabilities.
- Served as Stonebranch Administrator for SEG, designing complex workflows,
advanced monitoring solutions, and configuration changes while managing upgrades of Universal Controllers and Agents across the enterprise.
Conducted in-depth problem analysis and performance optimization, and spearheaded integrations with modern technologies including IBM InfoSphere
DataStage, Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Blob Storage, and Microsoft
Teams.
- IBM Infosphere DataStage project originator and administrator for IT
Operations project. Designed and delivered multiple high-impact ETL processes involving customer-based reporting and most notably retail support initiatives that reduced 100+ labor hours and improved data accuracy during peak promotional periods.
- Led the development of a customer-facing web application which delivered real-time visibility into retail store ordering data, enabling more accurate labor forecasting, proactive system maintenance, and effective disaster recovery planning. Authored all backend Teradata and DB2(z/OS) SQL scripts, stored procedures, and data mapping requirements.
- Designed and delivered business requirements for comprehensive rules-based validation web application that detects misaligned, non-conforming, or.
conflicting store polling data, ensuring data integrity, and preventing downstream operational issues prior to deployment.
- Key team member in enterprise IBM Z mainframe upgrade (zEC12 to z15),
established parallel testing environment, updated and validated over 1k production JCLs to meet new IBM z15 and FTE requirements, coordinated
DASD snapshots with application teams for refresh purposes, operability of mainframe tools Rocket Changeman and JCLPREP to achieve a zero-impact cutover.
- Advanced SQL developer with extensive experience crafting high-
performance complex queries, stored procedures, and data structures across multiple enterprise platforms—including Teradata, SQL Server, and DB2(LUW /
z/OS)—supporting large-scale reporting, ETL processes, and mission critical applications.
- Served as the primary Supply Chain liaison within a SDLC framework,
collaborating with cross-functional teams to support and develop multiple high-impact projects. Key initiatives included onboarding new distribution centers and commodity ordering processes, region realignment efforts,
comprehensive order analysis, and the design and execution of targeted order testing scenarios to ensure system reliability and operational efficiency.
2014 - 2015 PROGRAMMER ANALYST II
- Supported Retail Supply Chain n-tier architecture consisting of 3rd party vendor software products SAP F&R for demand forecasting and auto order generation which interfaced with JDA Softgrocer for receiving, ordering and location-based inventory adjustments.
- Constructed new data integration solutions with ETL tool IBM Infosphere
Datastage Enterprise edition.
- Designed and maintained system automation for Linux, Windows, AIX and
Mainframe platforms within Production and parallel SQA environments using
CA-Workload Automation ESP edition.
- Partnered with analysts and project managers to define technical requirements supporting new departmental strategies that adheres to company's prescribed Agile development methodology.
- Designed, tested and updated BTEQ scripts, improving order forecasting efficiency for interfacing .NET applications. Additionally, created complex
ADHC SQL queries for testing new business requirements and data integrity.
- Coordinated efforts with software vendors, business partners, application support and project managers to review product enhancements for increasing accuracy, productivity and profitability.
- Provided 24/7 root cause analysis and enterprise integration for all production issues within a highly visible Supply Chain billing environment.
2007 - 2014
SYSTEMS ENGINEER I - II
- Designed disaster recovery protocols for SEG's Supply Chain scheduling applications and implemented at business recovery site on a yearly basis.
- Assisted in performance enhancement product “IAM”, utilizing a different dataset structure and organization which reduced nightly mainframe batch processing time by 46%.
- Served on OMI project where we successfully converted SEG's Supply Chain
Application from Chain store to Retalix OMI suite.
- Worked on warehouse conversion project to decommission OMI transportation system(triceps) within Southeastern Grocers and convert data points for new logistics provider.
- Involved with integration merger of Bi-Lo, Harveys, Sweetbay and Piggly
Wiggly retail stores into order management system including data feed, files,
MQ/ FTE, JCL, CA-Workload Manager ESP scheduling re-designs
- Designed and maintained SQL code in support of helpdesk and service management software product Perfect Tracker. Software supported 80% of all
SEG (RFC, Incident, Tasks, Notify) tickets.
- Designed and supported CA-Workload Automation ESP in Production, SQA,
Integration and Unit Test CICS regions for mainframe and distributed platforms.
- Provided developer's high level of expertise in mainframe Z/OS environments running JES2, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2 in multiple CPU environments, in addition to IBM related utility programs (IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, FDR, DFDSS, CCSS),
Z/OS file structures and VSAM.
- Designed and automated data refresh processes to keep test regions running parallel to production for accurate developer test cases and data integrity.
- Designed, validated, supported and implemented mainframe and distributed components through full life cycle using Serena Change Management and
IBM Rational Build Forge software.
2004 - 2006
COMPUTER OPERATIONS SPECIALIST
- Responsible for all mainframe applications support, corporate problems escalated from first level developer support group, implemented new scheduling processes into production, JCL reviews, and documentation.
- Worked with Business partners and application developers to identify improvement opportunities for enhancing full life cycle batch performance and exceeding service level agreements.
- Served on conversion team to implement new CA ESP scheduling software to succeed ZEKE.
- Created Visio flow charts as a training guides for Operators, SME's and Shift
Supervisors.
- Successfully documented all IT operational procedures and served as datacenter operations subject matter expert.
- Served as a member of SEG's standards board and created new standards that applications teams aligned with when implementing new processes into
MVS. This included JCL standards, Output standards, DB2 standards, Symbolic standard, ESP CA standards and many others.
- Responsible for 365x24x7 offsite support for all Mainframe batch scheduling applications and related abends
