Elton Jepthas

The same responsibilities as the previous position.

The same responsibilities as the previous position.

The same responsibilities as the previous position.

Chairperson for change control

Coordinates LPS(Loss Prevention System) for the IT Department liaising with HES Team

Responsible for one Data Center and 14 Computer rooms in Astron Energy South Africa and including Botswana

Ensuring Data Centre and Computer rooms comply with Astron Energy IP (Information Protection) and SOX standards for safety and auditing purposes

Ensuring the Data Centre and Computer rooms are alignment with Astron Energy Data Centre standards

Replacement projects of CRAC (Computer room air conditioning) and UPS at the different Computer rooms

Writing up scope of work for Computer room relocation as per Astron Energy Data Centre design standards

Scoping and execution of the Chevron Data Center revamp i.e

Construction, Electrical (from Tier 1 to Tier 2), MIP, DB, UPS, batteries, air-cons, generator, fire suppression, static transfer switches and BMS installation in a live environment from October 2010 till April 2012

Performing Scope of Work and conducting RFP’s (Request for Purchase) for Data Center revamp project and for Computer rooms

This includes CRAC, UPS and Fire suppression

Ensuring electrical, air-con and UPS consultants abides to Chevron Data Centre standard

Liaising with Logistics Engineers and Design Engineering team with finalising of electrical and mechanical setup within the computer rooms at the various sites

Ensuring all OHSA (Occupational Health & Safety Act) codes are adhered to within the secure areas

Obtaining COC (Certification of Compliance) for electrical work done in Data Center and Computer rooms Calculating kVA, kW and BTU required for Data Center and Computer room and ensuring that the recommendations take power efficiency and cost savings into account

Ensure the Data Center and Computer room designs are designed to Business unit requirements and where applicable recommending on the different tier levels for electrical and mechanical

Reporting to IT Manager and Chevron Global Data Center Operational Excellence team in the USA on project progress

Ensuring a maintenance plan is in place for all peripherals at the Data Centre and Computer rooms

Quarterly physical access review of all Computer rooms and the Data Centre

Backup for scheduling of daily and monthly batch runs

Manage operations team for high performance and customer centricity

Ensuring the team meets and exceeds Service Level Agreements Setting up shifts for Operators working 24 x 7 x 365 Delegating and setting up objectives for team members Administrative duties for team members pertaining to leave and time management

Submitting monthly reports to EDS, HP and Chevron management Implementing change control regarding changes within the environment and acquiring business and technical approval from relevant teams, includes downtimes in Data Center for maintenance to be performed

Understanding and managing Chevron service requests Maintaining good customer and vendor relations Guides the team with technical advice and consulting

Make recommendations where opportunities for improvement exist

Monitor vendors to ensure performance meets or exceeds Chevron standards

Identify and manage vendor performance issues in a timely manner before it impacts service levels

Participate in bi-annual business strategy planning sessions

Manage planned vs actual capital expenditure budget monthly and forecasts

Manage planned vs actual operational expenditure budget monthly and forecasts

Planning for changes and enhancements to the environment using project management skills and applying Chevron CPDEP (Chevron Project Development and Execution Process) Perform root cause analysis on any major operational incidents

Reliability and Incident Management

Certified Permit to Work acceptor and issuer on-site at Refinery - 80% pass rate required

Writing procedures and implementing for Data Center operations and best practices, Change control and incident management process.

The same responsibilities as previous position.

Installing, supporting, and maintaining scheduling and monitoring products, Control-M and ECS (Enterprise Control Station) on Unix systems

Setting up of daily and monthly batch runs

Meeting the various Business Units to ensure their requirements are met for the monthly batch runs for their area

Printing cheques

Ensuring backups are taken offsite for DR purposes and storing the evidence for auditing (SOX) purposes

Ensure Operators are informed of the nightly run and any new additions for the evening

Ensuring maintenance on all peripherals for the Data Center and Computer rooms are scheduled timeously

Standing in and assisting Manager when required.

The same responsibilities as previous position.

Co-ordinate and control the nightly batch run, systems & peripherals on shift

Supervise operators and liaise with systems and application programmers to meet service levels

Supervise the printing and distribution of all reports, statements, labels, cheques, and special printing

IPL, change parameters and perform power on reset of Vtam machines after changes and additions

IML controllers

Schedule batch jobs when requested by programmers or users after hours

Responsible for operators on shift and the shift schedule and standby.

Responsible for daily batch run and efficient use of system resources on MVS, SAP R/3, Tandem and AIX

Working in tandem with shift leader

Monitoring dual site workload using ELAN and SNA nodes lines and cross domains

Backup application and file servers and Informix database on AIX

Performing file transfer checks, confirmation, extracts, store and backups on Tandem between remote site and mainframe

Import transports to SAP

Print and distribute all printing

Store archives, system backups and application backups off-site.

Monitoring and reporting on below hardware and software

Hardware worked with: IBM RISC6000 UNIX, IBM ES9000 mainframe, Tandem Himalaya K2000, VM, DEC, WANG, Storagetek Nearline Robotics system, IBM Robot,4235 & 4090 Laser printer, 4245 Line printer, HP laserjet, 3274 controllers, COMPAQ Pentium desktops, modems, emc2 disks and Comten 5645-B

Software applications used: ECS (Enterprise Controlstation), ControlM/D/T for MVS, Control-M for AIX, SAP R/2, SAP R/3, TSO, JCL, VTAM, DB2, JES2, JESB, Tandem Operating system, MVS/ESA, LAN, WAN, ELAN, SNA, DFHSM, ENDEVOR, RACF, OPRS, CLIST, VPS, NETMASTER, STARCARD, AUTO OPERATOR, BOOLE & BABBAGE, RARS, RUMBA, CICS, WINDOWS, DOS, AIX 4.3, Informix, TCP/IP, WIN NT4, file servers, application servers, routers, BARR, Lotus CCMAIL, OVISION.