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Contact Information:
Phil Riley
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Phil Riley Systems Consulting
255 Oxford Street
Richmond Hill
Ontario L4C 7V7
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Biography:
Phil Riley, Principal of Phil Riley Systems Consulting, has worked in the mainframe environment for over 37 years. He began his career working for Rolls Royce in his native England and decided to immigrate to Canada in 1973. After working with the installation of the first releases of MVS, he joined Amdahl Canada in 1977 as a Systems Engineer, specializing in MVS support and diagnostics. After being hardware trained to support Amdahl’s mainframe product line, he was sent to Europe for 18 months to assist with hardware and software support in England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.
In 1985, Phil left Amdahl to join some friends who were forming an outsourcing company known as Aaski Management. The company was granted a marketing assistance role by IBM, whereby the two companies worked together to help IBM improve the sales of their mid-sized mainframes. Companies that were signed up with one of Toronto’s data processing service bureaus then found they had a cost-justified alternative way to run their data processing operation using their own processor, either located in their own Aaski-built data centre, or in Aaski’s own computer room where they were given remote access. Phil was responsible for the design of the 10,000 sq. ft. data centre, together with the installation and management of environmental, large-scale computer and communications hardware. He was also responsible for the hiring of operations and technical support staff, and the direct support of several MVS systems. He managed the projects for the successful conversion of six clients from service bureau to in-house environments.
Phil returned to Amdahl in 1991 to work as an instructor in their education division. His extensive knowledge of the MVS operating system plus mainframe architecture, his experiences at Aaski, and his desire to work in a teaching environment made him an ideal candidate for this role. When he became self-employed through downsizing in 1994, he continued to work under contract, not only for Amdahl, but also for IBM and several other companies specializing in large system education. Phil now has over 14 years experience in teaching, and has delivered open enrolment and contract classes throughout Canada and the United States, plus the Middle East, China and India. He specializes in z/OS internals and diagnostics, assembler language and hardware configuration.
