Jim Kovac

About Jim Kovac

IT Resource Manager and Project Leader with recurrent successes in:• Employee Loyalty and Retention• Integration Project Implementations• Hardware & Software Implementations• Software Rationalization • Business Continuity Planning• Migrations to Offshore Support ModelServant Leadership Certification | Xavier University Consulting Group Management Leadership TrainingWith career experience of:• 22 Years of Management• 14 Years of Project Management and Leadership• 20 Years of Healthcare Application Support • 11 Years of Warehouse Application Support• 4 Years of Bank Lending Application Support• 13 Years of COBOL Development• 15 Years of RPG, RPG RPG/400 Development• 26 Years of z/VSE Mainframe System Programming (CICS / VTAM / VSAM / POWER / TCP/IP)• 8 Years of Mainframe Applications Programming• 9 Years of IBM Midrange (Sys/38, AS/400, iSeries) Systems Administration • 7 Years of Midrange Applications Programming• 13 Years of Disaster Recovery Planning• Multiple Cross-Platform Conversion Experiences

Experience

1. IT Manager - Regional Crime Information Center (Rcic)

   City of Cincinnati

   Jan 2023 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

Education

• Union University

  BS, Computer Science

  1982 — 1986

Skills

• Cobol
• Mainframe
• Operating Systems
• Integration
• Resource Management
• Ibm Mainframe
• Disaster Recovery
• Cics
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Process Improvement
• Business Process Improvement
• Management
• System Maintenance
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Vse
• Microsoft Excel
• Sdlc
• Data Center
• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Project
• Visio
• Testing
• Ms Project
• Program Management
• Leadership