LEWIS (LOU) S. HORTON
2210 Hunt Club Drive
Castleton, NY 12033
(518) 477-7419
Work Environments Supported:
Software
OS/390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, JES2, JES3, VM/XA, ACF/VTAM, TSO/E, ISPF/PDF, DFP/DFSMS, ICF/VSAM, DF/DSS, DF/HSM, SDSF, SMPE, CA-1, OMEGAMON/MVS, ACF2/MVS, RACF, ICKDSF, DF/SORT, HCD, ESCON MANAGER, MIM, HSC0
Hardware
IBM ES9000, 9672 and 30xx, Amdahl 1100A, 1400A and 4550 processors, IBM, Amdahl, EMC and HDS 3380, 3390 and SSD DASD devices, IBM and STK 3420, 3480, 3490 and Silo tape drives, Escon Directors, IBM 9674 Coupling Facility
Work Experience:
Lou Horton Consulting Services, Inc.
September 1998 – Present
Computer Sciences Corporation, Rocky Hill, CT
- Lead MVS Systems Programmer, MVS 5.1 to OS/390 2.4 upgrade)
- Lead MVS Systems Programmer, MVS 4.2 to OS/390 2.6 upgrade
Fleet Services Corporation
- Assigned to MVS Team for MVS 5.2.2 to OS/390 2.6 upgrade and other tasks
Key Services Corporation, Albany, NY
June 1997 – Sept 1998 Professional Chief, Systems Software and Technical Support
January 1995 - June 1997 Professional Lead, System Software Support Services
- Team Leader, Operating Systems Architecture Team
- Served as Hands-On Project Manager and chief MVS technician.
- Identified and implemented IBM and ISV enhancements resulting from upgrades and maintenance.
- Planned and implemented Parallel Sysplex Infrastructure.
- Directed efforts to support seven system, 2000 MIP Sysplex including 150 + IBM and ISV products.
- Designed and implemented standard processes to develop more proactive and productive technical support staff.
- Provided direction and supervision to System Architecture team.
- Technical resource to other teams including Computer Operations, Console and Network Automation, Change Management and Application development.
- Developed and implemented standardized formats for project planning and documention for MVS, CICS, Network and DB2 teams.
- Assured proper project management techniques related to documentation, communication, change control, and resource involvement were applied.
- Technical owner MVS operating system architectural standards.
Project successes: Standards redesign and implementation; operating system upgrades from MVS 4.3 to MVS 5.1 to OS/390 1.1 to OS/390 2.4; Datacenter migration; planning and implementing system merger into single Sysplex; Parallel Sysplex Infrastructure; Datacenter consolidation (integration of two sysplexes into one); Datacenter Bulletproofing related to CICSPlex/SM and DB2 Data Sharing implementations.
Achievements: Top Top Gun award at IBM Top Gun Parallel Sysplex Implementation class.
Outstanding Achievement award, Datacenter Migration project.
G.E. Corporate Computing Services, Schenectady, NY
December, 1989 - January, 1995
Consulting Software Engineer, MVS Operating Systems Support
- Responsible for support of multiple MVS platforms at multiple locations.
- Technical Lead - Common MVS Committee
- MVS Lead - Datacenter Disaster Recovery Planning Committee
- Planned and implemented multiple operating system upgrades
- MVS Lead - multiple data center consolidation and workload relocation
- Technical resource in a variety of datacenter projects
Senior Software Engineer, MVS Operating System Support
- Primary MVS diagnostician responsible for operating system reliability and availability.
- Designed and implemented processes used to support a multiple platform environment
Specialist, Storage Management
- Software leader for the implementation of DFSMS
- Key contributor to the DMS/OS and ASM2 conversion to DF/HSM
- Participant in the 3380 to 3390 technology migration
G.E. Industrial Sales and Services Division, Schenectady, NY
January, 1986 - December, 1989
Systems Programmer, Operating Systems Software Support
- Maintenance and support of MVS/XA operating system and DASD storage subsystems
- Participant in the 3420 to 3480 technology migration
- Planned and implemented MVS/XA 2.1.7 to MVS/XA 2.2 operating system upgrade
IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY
February, 1984 - January, 1986
Systems Development Programmer, JES3 development
Education:
State University of New York at Albany
B.S. Computer Science, December, 1983
Hudson Valley Community College
A.A.S. Civil Technology, May 1978
State University of New York at Albany
Matriculated September, 1969 - December, 1972
