Ryan Redding

I'm a Jacksonville, Florida native who loves making the most of the local lifestyle—hitting the golf courses, enjoying fresh seafood, and taking my dog Tucker to the beach. Outside of the daily grind, I'm all about spending quality time with family and close friends, cheering on the Jaguars, trying new local spots for barbecue or craft beer, and unwinding with a good book or a weekend fishing trip. Easygoing, curious, and always up for a laugh or a spontaneous adventure, I value genuine connections and the simple joys that come with living in the Sunshine State.

2016 -Current

AUTOMATION ENGINEER III

Southeastern Grocers

• Key contributor to an enterprise-wide workload automation conversion from

Broadcom (formerly CA) ESP to Stonebranch Universal Automation Center

(UAC), leading job inventory analysis, solution architecture, comprehensive

testing, configuration management, and successful cutover for over 25k tasks

across multiple environments and platforms. Delivered the complex migration

on schedule, ensuring seamless automation continuity and enhanced orchestration capabilities.

• Served as Stonebranch Administrator for SEG, designing complex workflows,

advanced monitoring solutions, and configuration changes while managing

upgrades of Universal Controllers and Agents across the enterprise.

Conducted in-depth problem analysis and performance optimization, and

spearheaded integrations with modern technologies including IBM InfoSphere

DataStage, Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Blob Storage, and Microsoft

Teams.

• IBM Infosphere DataStage project originator and administrator for IT

Operations project. Designed and delivered multiple high-impact ETL

processes involving customer-based reporting and most notably retail support

initiatives that reduced 100+ labor hours and improved data accuracy during

peak promotional periods.

• Led the development of a customer-facing web application which delivered

real-time visibility into retail store ordering data, enabling more accurate labor

forecasting, proactive system maintenance, and effective disaster recovery

planning. Authored all backend Teradata and DB2(z/OS) SQL scripts, stored

procedures, and data mapping requirements.

• Designed and delivered business requirements for comprehensive rules-based

validation web application that detects misaligned, non-conforming, or.

conflicting store polling data, ensuring data integrity, and preventing

downstream operational issues prior to deployment.

• Key team member in enterprise IBM Z mainframe upgrade (zEC12 to z15),

established parallel testing environment, updated and validated over 1k

production JCLs to meet new IBM z15 and FTE requirements, coordinated

DASD snapshots with application teams for refresh purposes, operability of

mainframe tools Rocket Changeman and JCLPREP to achieve a zero-impact

cutover.

• Advanced SQL developer with extensive experience crafting high-

performance complex queries, stored procedures, and data structures across

multiple enterprise platforms—including Teradata, SQL Server, and DB2(LUW /

z/OS)—supporting large-scale reporting, ETL processes, and mission critical

applications.

• Served as the primary Supply Chain liaison within a SDLC framework,

collaborating with cross-functional teams to support and develop multiple

high-impact projects. Key initiatives included onboarding new distribution

centers and commodity ordering processes, region realignment efforts,

comprehensive order analysis, and the design and execution of targeted

order testing scenarios to ensure system reliability and operational efficiency.

2014 - 2015                          PROGRAMMER ANALYST II

• Supported Retail Supply Chain n-tier architecture consisting of 3rd party

vendor software products SAP F&R for demand forecasting and auto order

generation which interfaced with JDA Softgrocer for receiving, ordering and

location-based inventory adjustments.

• Constructed new data integration solutions with ETL tool IBM Infosphere

Datastage Enterprise edition.

• Designed and maintained system automation for Linux, Windows, AIX and

Mainframe platforms within Production and parallel SQA environments using

CA-Workload Automation ESP edition.

• Partnered with analysts and project managers to define technical

requirements supporting new departmental strategies that adheres to

company's prescribed Agile development methodology.

• Designed, tested and updated BTEQ scripts, improving order forecasting

efficiency for interfacing .NET applications. Additionally, created complex

ADHC SQL queries for testing new business requirements and data integrity.

• Coordinated efforts with software vendors, business partners, application

support and project managers to review product enhancements for

increasing accuracy, productivity and profitability.

• Provided 24/7 root cause analysis and enterprise integration for all production

issues within a highly visible Supply Chain billing environment.

2007 - 2014

SYSTEMS ENGINEER I - II

• Designed disaster recovery protocols for SEG's Supply Chain scheduling

applications and implemented at business recovery site on a yearly basis.

• Assisted in performance enhancement product “IAM”, utilizing a different

dataset structure and organization which reduced nightly mainframe batch

processing time by 46%.

• Served on OMI project where we successfully converted SEG's Supply Chain

Application from Chain store to Retalix OMI suite.

• Worked on warehouse conversion project to decommission OMI

transportation system(triceps) within Southeastern Grocers and convert data

points for new logistics provider.

• Involved with integration merger of Bi-Lo, Harveys, Sweetbay and Piggly

Wiggly retail stores into order management system including data feed, files,

MQ/ FTE, JCL, CA-Workload Manager ESP scheduling re-designs

• Designed and maintained SQL code in support of helpdesk and service

management software product Perfect Tracker. Software supported 80% of all

SEG (RFC, Incident, Tasks, Notify) tickets.

• Designed and supported CA-Workload Automation ESP in Production, SQA,

Integration and Unit Test CICS regions for mainframe and distributed platforms.

• Provided developer's high level of expertise in mainframe Z/OS environments

running JES2, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2 in multiple CPU environments, in

addition to IBM related utility programs (IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, FDR, DFDSS, CCSS),

Z/OS file structures and VSAM.

• Designed and automated data refresh processes to keep test regions running

parallel to production for accurate developer test cases and data integrity.

• Designed, validated, supported and implemented mainframe and distributed

components through full life cycle using Serena Change Management and

IBM Rational Build Forge software.

2004 - 2006

COMPUTER OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

• Responsible for all mainframe applications support, corporate problems

escalated from first level developer support group, implemented new

scheduling processes into production, JCL reviews, and documentation.

• Worked with Business partners and application developers to identify

improvement opportunities for enhancing full life cycle batch performance

and exceeding service level agreements.

• Served on conversion team to implement new CA ESP scheduling software to

succeed ZEKE.

• Created Visio flow charts as a training guides for Operators, SME's and Shift

Supervisors.

• Successfully documented all IT operational procedures and served as

datacenter operations subject matter expert.

• Served as a member of SEG's standards board and created new standards

that applications teams aligned with when implementing new processes into

MVS. This included JCL standards, Output standards, DB2 standards, Symbolic

standard, ESP CA standards and many others.

• Responsible for 365x24x7 offsite support for all Mainframe batch scheduling

applications and related abends

Florida community college of Jacksonville - undergrad studies