Christopher S. Sherbak

934 E. Prairie Ave. Res. Tel. (847) 768-1016

Chicago, IL 60647 Bus. Tel. (312) 466-7948

Employment History

Trans Union Corporation, Chicago, IL 1994 - Present

Technical Specialist - Marketing Services

First of America Bank Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI 1986 - 1994

Senior Application Specialist - Government Services

Chief Architect for NY WIC: review, design and respond to NY WIC RFP (distributed and disconnected PC collection system with async connection to DB2 backend)
Plan for and recruit application development staff for NY WIC
Provide support to Application Development, Business Development, Business Analysis and Project Management functions of Government Services

Chief Technologist - Development Center

Researched hardware and software and made presentations to Technology Steering Committee on R&D and Technology topics
Oversaw and supported the installation of CA-eMail, DB2, and CSP
Provided technical support and mediation to Application Development and Technical Support staff on interface and architecture issues
Managed Information Center (End-user Computing support with one manager and staff of 6) and Development Center (Application Development support and DBA's with staff of 3)
Converted systems from acquired bank, including Farm Management (CA-Universe database), CA-Roscoe (end user RPF system), RDMS (report distribution)

Application Specialist - Distributed Systems

Supported ATM processing on Stratus (ON/2, VOS) and MVS (COBOL, CA-Easytrieve, SAS)
Investigated and proposed Netware as FOA corporate standard, performed first in-house Netware install
Performed specification and technical evaluation of Branch Automation solution
Proposed purchase of DB2, Arbiter, SAS and CA-EZ-IQ
Installed Arbiter (PC/Mainframe file transfer software), CA-EZ-Key, CA-EZ-IQ, SAS
Provided primary End-user and Application Development support for Easytrieve, CA-EZ-Key, CA-EZ-IQ, SAS, ARBITER, Netware, PC-DOS and MVS (during DOS transition)
Provided secondary application and product support to Information Center and Application Development

First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1981 - 1986

Senior Programmer - Retail Banking

Supported and maintained CD system (IMS/DB, PL/1), Retail DDA system (IMS/DB, VSAM, PL/1) and Savings system (BAL, BDAM, Cobol) and Vector III
Created Ad hoc reports and Mae & Spae mailing tapes for CD IRA and other Retail Banking Marketing Department (SAS, File-Aid, SyncSort)

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 1976 - 1981

Programmer - Trust Department

Supported, developed, and maintained Employee Benefit Trust Accounting System(s) in COBOL (MVS) and TRILOG (MVS, VM/CMS)
Created demonstration online inquiry system in Nomad (VM/CMS) for Keogh system

Utility Clerk - Pasadena Card Center

Education

B.A., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics, June, 1979

Language Experience

PL/1, COBOL UCLA, 1979

COBOL, TRILOG, Nomad Bank of America, 1979-1981

PL/1, COBOL, SAS, BAL, ISPF Dialog Manager First Chicago, 1981-1986

COBOL, PL/1, SAS, CA-Roscoe/RPF, CA-EARL, CA-Easytrieve, CSP, CA-Clipper, R&R FOA, 1986-1991

COBOL, SAS, CA-Easytrieve, C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Bash, Korn, REXX, CLIST TransUnion, 1991-present

Technical Experience

Hardware

Mainframe: IBM 370, 3033, 3081, 3084, 3090

Fault Tolerant: Stratus

PC: Apple Mac, Lisa; Imsai 8080; IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2; NCR 6454, 3345; various clones

OS/Software

Mainframe: MVS, DOS/VSE, ESA, VM/CMS

Fault Tolerant: VOS

PC:Finder, Lisa OS, CP/M, MDOS/DOS/DR-DOS, OS/2, Linux, AIX, Windows

Development Tools: PDF/ISPF, SDSF, IOF, Roscoe, PanEdit, Panvalet, FileAid, AbendAid, CA-Netman, CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, CA-Librarian, SyncSort, Express Delivery/SAR, EasyCASE, Stage, CA-SuperProject, TimeLine, OnTime, ADS Diagrammer, MS-Visio, MS-Word, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel

Networks/TP: VTAM, CICS, Appletalk, Netware

Databases: IMS/DB, DB2, CA-Universe, dBase III/IV, CA-Clipper, Smart