SEYMOUR JEROME METZ

4963 Oriskany Drive
Annandale, Virginia 22003-5141
(703)256-4764
smetz3@gmu.edu

Principal Machines:

IBM S/370, 303x, 4341, 308x, 3090, 9672, z900, z9; Amdahl 470V/6, 470V/7, 580; Intel 80x86; NAS AS/5, AS/6

Principal Operating Systems:

OS/VS2 (SVS, MVS, MVS/SE2, MVS/SP1.1, MVS/SP1.3.1, MVS/SP2.2, MVS/SP4.3, OS/390, z/OS), VM (VMF/370, VM/SE, VM/SP, VM/XA SP), OS/2, MS/PC-DOS

Principal Programming Languages:

PL/I, IBM 360/370 Assembly Languages (F, G, H, HLA and XF), SAS, Ada, REXX, Perl, FORTRAN, COBOL, C

Miscellaneous facilities

JCL, Utilities, VSAM

Education:

MA in Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo

Publications:

A PC Neophyte's Guide to Self Defense, PC Systems & Support (October 1993)

Practicing Safe REXX, OS/2 Magazine, Volume 2 Number 2 (February 1995) or view part 1 and part 2 from the REXLA web site

Clearance:

TS (DISCO) with SBI (lapsed)

Sample Code:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3#samples

RECENT EXPERIENCE:

Atid/2, 4963 Oriskany Drive Annandale, VA 22003-5141

• Enhanced BW whois Perl script and ported it to OS/2.
• Wrote Perl script to deobfuscate e-mail and to analyze it for abuse reporting.

Sidhu Associates, Inc., Executive Plaza III, Suite 1000 11350 McCormick Road Hunt Valley, MD 21031-1044 (8/2007-12/2010):

For Maryland Department of Public safety Correctional Services (DPSCS):

• Converted from IMS V6R1 to IMS V8R1
• Provided postinstall support for IMS V8R1
• Installed new release of TMON for MQseries

For Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC):

• Provided support for z/OS migration

For Maryland Department of Public safety Correctional Services (DPSCS):

• Upgraded OEM software in support of z/OS migration

Digital Solutions, Inc., 21165 Whitfield Place, Suite 206, Sterling, VA 20165 (5/98-7/2003):

For USCS:

• Monitored status of system and responded to abnormal events
• Provided backup for Help desk on issues they were unable to resolve
• Wrote ISPF dialog to display space available for expansion of an HFS dataset.

For NSF:

• Provided backup for Help desk on issues they were unable to resolve
• Provided miscellaneous support of archiving, backup and restore software from Innovation Data Processing,including configuration and housekeeping for ABR and user requested archives and restores
• Wrote miscellaneous utilities in Perl
• Provided systems support for MVS/ESA and OS/390
• Planned for migration from MVS/ESA to OS/390
• Upgraded MVS/ESA and related software for Y2K compliance.

Electronic Data Systems, 13600 EDS Drive, Herndon, Virginia 22071 (3/97-5/98):

• Provided security analysis for MVS/ESA and OS/390
• Provided systems support for MVS/ESA and OS/390.

Unisys, 8008 Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102 (9/93-3/97):
(Unisys took over the US DOE, EIA support contract from EDS.)

Electronic Data Systems, 13600 EDS Drive, Herndon, Virginia 22071 (5/90-9/93):

• Provided ACF2 support; took over full responsibility for ACF2 when the contract changed from EDS to Unisys
• Provided systems support for MVS/ESA (MVS/SP 4.3, DFP 3.3, TSO/E 2.4, ISPF and ISPF/PDF 3.5)
• Provided systems support for MVS/XA (MVS/SP 2.2, DFP 2.4, TSO/E 2.1, ISPF 3.3 and ISPF/PDF 3.4)
• Studied conversion issues for MVS/ESA
• Assisted in the conversion from MVS/XA to MVS/ESA
• Supported LAN and PC groups in the use of SAA REXX on OS/2
• Supported the Electronic Publishing group in developing local enhancements and modifications to the BookMaster® tag set
• Refitted local modifications from SuperWylbur® 3.8 to 4.1 and to 4.2
• Performance monitoring and modelling with MXG, RMF, OMEGAMON and BEST/1
• Wrote and enhanced TSO commands and SPF facilities
• Wrote miscellaneous utilities
• Refitted local modifications from ISPF 2.3 to 3.3 and ISPF/PDF 2.3 to 3.4 and to 3.5
• Refitted local modifications from TSO/E 1.4 to 2.1 and to 2.4

LOGICON, INC., 2100 S. Washington Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22204-5704 (6/85-5/90):

• Senior designer/programmer in the prototype development of the Integrated Simulation Assessment of Air base Capability (ISAAC) model, an 80286/MS-DOS based Monte Carlo discrete event simulation model. ISAAC is written in Ada and makes extensive use of Ada generics and strong typing
• Redesigned critical ISAAC data structures in order to remove performance bottlenecks
• Directed the conversion of low-level graphics subroutines in ISAAC from real mode to protected mode
• Rewrote one of the critical graphics subroutines in ISAAC, reducing the time required to initialize from minutes to less than a second. This performance boost was achieved despite the fact that the original routine was written in assembler and the new one in Ada
• Senior designer/programmer for the Terminal Virtual (TV) CPC in SAFE Delivery 2. SAFE is an online information system that incorporates message switching, real-time document dissemination, electronic mail, textual database management and specialized workstations in an integrated electronic office environment. Supporting thou ­ sands of users, the system employs multiple 3090 and 308x processors operating under VM/SP HPO and MVS/XA. Interactive computing is performed under CMS while MVS is used for real-time document dissemination and database maintenance. Logicon's portion of the SAFE system consisted of over 750K lines of IBM Assembler (H) source code that interfaced with another 1 million lines of code from other vendors. TV is the end-user interface for SAFE, and is written in Assembler (H) and REXX. It interfaces with a government-built office automation system, and also makes limited use of the under ­ lying CMS environment of VM/SP Release 4
• Enhanced existing TV modules and developed new AIM Import/Export Virtual (AIEV) and TV modules for SAFE Delivery 3
• Located and reported errors in government software that Logicon software uses and, in several cases also supplied corrective code
• Assisted in the resolution of problems in the MVS/XA portions of SAFE
• Designed and coded portions of the new Terminal Manager (TM) for SAFE Delivery 3.5, especially those portions requiring a detailed knowledge of 3270 data streams and IBM access methods. Participated in design and code reviews for all modules of the new TM.

CHASE, ROSEN, AND WALLACE, 901 N. Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
(now part of Logicon; see above)

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 1755 Old Meadow Road, The Systems Group, McLean, Virginia (9/84-6/85):

• Provided advice and consulting on IBM hardware (308x) and software (MVS/XA and related software) to the SDC personnel concerned with the SEA WATCH III subsystem of the IAIPS project
• Served as Team Leader for the System Support CPCI of SEA WATCH III.

PINKERTON COMPUTER CONSULTANTS, INC., 1900 N. Beauregard Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, Virginia 22311 (1/82-8/84):

• Designed SNA support for a protocol translator
• Studied the feasibility of attaching an IBM 4341 to E-bus, a proprietary local-area network, and proposed several different implementation options. Consulted with the personnel at Melpar E-Systems who were tasked with implementing the interface. Provided briefings and training on SNA in support of this project
• Wrote SAS code to process employee performance data for the US Marshall's Service
• Supported MVS/SP 1.1 on 370/158 AP at the US State Department, in conjunction with other contractor and State Department personnel
• Measured performance using RMF and CMF, and tuned the system
• Installed IPO 3.8H (MVS/SP 1.3.1 with DF/DS, RMF, and SAM-E) for 4341
• Installed Yale DBC (Debug Controller)
• Installed DF/DS 1.1.5, MVS/SP 1.3.1, NCCF, NPDA, TSO/E, DSF 6, and EREP 1.3 on IPO 3.8H
• Upgraded local modifications and utilities from SP1.1.0 level to SP1.3.1 level, including JES2
• Wrote job separator exit for JES2 component of MVS/SP 1.3.1
• Installed and modified various utilities from the CBT tape, and merged modifications from several versions of QUEUE.

COMNET, COMPUTER NETWORK CORPORATION, 5185 MacArthur Boulevard, Washington, D.C. 20016 (10/79-1/82):

• Designed and implemented modifications to OS/VS2 MVS R3.8, including JES2/NJE, TSO/TCAM, and TSO/VTAM
• Maintained MVS, including diagnosing problems from dumps, developing fixes, installing IBM (PUT and RETAIN) and local fixes, collecting and generating supporting documentation for APAR submission, reporting errors to IBM, and installing a new IPO (including installation of service, program products, and functional units not preinstalled on the IPO)
• Provided assistance to the SMP technician once the new IPO was turned over for production
• Prepared a position paper on a new maintenance strategy
• Prepared a comparison of TCAM, ACF/TCAM, VTAM, and ACF/VTAM
• Prepared an analysis of forthcoming software from IBM: MVS/SP, DF/DS, and DF/EF
• Provided user assistance for problems beyond the scope of customer support
• Enhanced various programs to support MVS, MVS/SE2, and SAM-E
• Provided MVS expertise to other members of the Systems staff
• Installed TSO/VTAM for local display devices, and modified local TSO commands to work in both TCAM10 and VTAM2 environments
• Analyzed the requirements for converting a Xerox 9700 non-impact printer from off-line to online mode.

SIGMA DATA SERVICES CORPORATION, (12/77-10/79):

• Maintained OS/VS2 SVS and HASP II V4.1 for the Goddard Modelling and Simulation Facility (GMSF) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
• Modified HASP to support VMF/370
• Modified EXHIBIT CRT package to support VM environment
• Maintained VMF/370
• Modified CP component of VMF/370
• Managed Systems Group
• Supported telecommunications requirements
• Assisted in ongoing conversion from SSS/360 to OS/VS2 SVS
• Wrote large sections of an RFP for a large high-speed array processor.