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Summary

Paul Myers is a data processing specialist with over 17 years consultancy experience in the IT industry. This experience has included considerable emphasis on communication with business people and system users, writing and verifying technical design, program and data format specifications.

Extensive development and maintenance skills relating to batch and on-line data processing applications written in COBOL and Pacbase (a COBOL generator and CASE tool).

He is also involved in training, supervision, and testing.

Employed within a wide range of industries in the United States, England, Ireland, Belgium, Australia and India, with an emphasis on finance and public sector industries.

Involved in consumer advisory work and Web design from July 2002 to May 2003.

Technical Skills

Technical Skills	Skills	Years	Rating
Summary:	Pacbase	12	10
(10=highest)	COBOL	9	9
	Oracle/DB2/SQL/SQL*PLUS	5.5	8
	JCL/Shell-script	12	8
	File Aid	4	8
	Unix/Tuxedo	2	6
	Easytrieve	1	6
	CICS	2	5
	IMS	1	4

Tools and Methodologies

COBOL, CICS, Tuxedo, Pacbase, Oracle, SQL, SQL*Plus, Lotus Notes, Outlook, VSAM, Shell-script, JCL,TSO/ISPF,CASE tools, Assembler, Basic, Endevor, InfoMan, Easytrieve, File-Aid, GCOS, MQ Series, Pascal, XML, HTML, Test Director.

Databases

Oracle, IDS-II, DB2, IMS

Platforms

IBM MF (MVS,VM/CMS), DEC-VAX/VMS, Bull MF, IBM PC/Compatibles, MS-DOS, OS/2, Sun Solaris, Unix, Windows

Industries

Finance, Investments, Banking, Retail, Local Government, Utilities, Advertising

Education

Master of Science, Information System Engineering, University of South Bank, England. Distinction.

PGCE (Education), Modern History, University of Birmingham, England. Distinction.

Bachelor of Arts, History, University of Sussex, England. Upper Second Honours.

Employment History

Highlighting principle IT (data processing) roles

EUROCONTROL (CRCO), Jan 2008-Mar 2011 (Brussels, Belgium)

Environment: Sun Solaris, Unix, Tuxedo, Pacbase, COBOL, Oracle, SQL, SQL*Plus, Shell-script, Windows, Microsoft Outlook.

• Programmer/analyst developing and maintaining applications within the small Development team of R2 (Business Process Engineering) servicing the Central Route Charging Office (CRCO)
• Analysing and enhancing technical requirements, learning business environment and becoming expert in the technical environment and standards of an international organization responsible for Air Traffic Management.

Developed, maintained, enhanced, tested 70 plus Pacbase screen and  batch programs (including report, subroutines and shell-scripts), as well as reusable code and macros. The business requirements included the introduction of Lessee/Lessor relationships, Write Off management,  new reimbursement procedures and VAT processing within the CRCO system. Sometimes development and technical analysis involved the complete rewrite of unusable or inappropriate code, and ‘reverse engineering’ to determine functionality.

Specific Pacbase/COBOL expertise and excellent problem solving skills employed in resolving (and developing reusable solutions and macros) in the technical design of complex and sometimes unconventional screens and batch programs. These were required specifically for the very successful Lessee/Lessor and reimbursement projects, working conscientiously and accurately with the high quality work produced by R2D’s analysts.    

Mentoring and providing support for colleagues and other contract staff, and offering technical, as well as business and design input whenever possible. Liaising with users and business analysts to investigate, analyse and rectify production errors, for example changes in CODA bank payment information affecting its import onto CRCO’s Oracle tables. Ability to step in and support or take over work from other colleagues to guarantee project completion, and ensure that ‘deadlines’ were met.

RS SOFTWARE, Nov 2006-Jan 2007 (Calcutta, India)

Environment: IBM MF, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, JCL, COBOL, Pacbase, Windows.

• Designer/analyst and trainer mentoring a group of  7 to 12 developers in Pacbase.
• Analysing requirements and learning business environment of a US client company involved in retail supply and distribution.

Studying technical impact, particularly to screen DB2 accesses, of request to lengthen customer order number. Coding and testing of common routines.

ABBEY/ISBAN, Dec 2005–May 2006 (Milton Keynes, UK)

Environment: COBOL, CICS, IBM MF, MVS, DB2, QMF, JCL, File-Aid, Intertest, Outlook ,Test Director, Windows.

Technical analysis and programming role: designing, developing and testing COBOL batch programs to enable integration of the Abbey Unisys data processing environment into the Santander/ISBAN (Spanish) banking system. The Spanish (Partenon) system runs on an IBM mainframe supporting CICS and DB2.

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, Oct 2004–Apr 2005 (Sydney, Australia)

Environment: COBOL, CICS, Pacbase, Assembler, IBM MF, MVS, VSAM, JCL, File-Aid, Endevor, Expediter, Windows, Outlook.

Involved in technical analysis and programming for Mortgage Servicing System Plus at WestPac in Sydney Australia.

• Updating COBOL and Pacbase programs for new business requirement relating to loan    product switching and credit limit rebalance calculations for borrowers with several loans.

RS SOFTWARE, Jun 2003-Oct 2003 (Calcutta, India)

Environment: IBM MF OS390, MVS, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, Spufi, Expediter, File-Aid, JCL, COBOL, Pacbase, Windows.

• Training, mentoring, and technical team leader for a group of 5 to 6 Pacbase developers.
• Analysing technical specifications for a system to record and delete new sales/delivery requirements for a US client company involved in retail supply and distribution.

Designed and developed a common routine to retain selected rows of data (using CICS temporary storage) across multiple screens prior to committing database (DB2) update.

BANK OF IRELAND, Feb 2001-Jun 2001 (County Wicklow, Ireland)

Environment: IBM MF OS390, MVS, CICS, DB2, COBOL, IMS, VSAM, InfoMan, Spufi, Lotus Notes, Windows, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF, Expediter.

• Designed and developed acknowledgement programs used to verify communications with an international banking system via MQ Series.

Consultant developer on a Customer Registration system being developed by banking on-line.

AMERICAN EXPRESS FINANCIAL ADVISORS, Oct 1999–Dec 2000 (Minneapolis, USA)

Environment: COBOL, Pacbase, JCL, CICS, IBM MVS, CICS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IMS, VSAM, File-Aid, InfoMan, Spufi, SyncSort, Expediter, Lotus Notes, Windows

• Employed in the Investments Area and participated in a ‘pilot’ project to integrate IBM Message Queuing software (MQ Series) into a highly distributed data processing environment.  Responsible for design, development, testing of COBOL/Pacbase APIs. Involved in data ‘remodeling’ and parallel testing with generic data formats across platforms.
• Developed batch and on-line DB2 programs for Central Pricing.

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, Aug 1997–Feb 1999 (Sydney, Australia)

Environment: COBOL, CICS, Pacbase, Assembler, IBM MF, MVS,VSAM, JCL, File-Aid, Easytrieve, Endevor, Expediter, CHAMP, Windows

• Technical designer / programmer for the Mortgage Servicing System at WestPac in Sydney Australia, developing a range of new screens for maintenance of customer loan information, input of payment option control parameters and list acceptance codes for ‘pooling and delivery’ loan packaging, as well as payment history enquiry.
• Enhancing and maintaining the security system using a new security key (identifier).
• Developing batch programs such as interest calculation exception reporting for ‘home offset’, and a sort, extract and update routine using the security key.

AMERICAN EXPRESS FINANCIAL ADVISORS, Jul 1996–Jul 1997 (Minneapolis, USA)

Environment: COBOL, Pacbase, JCL, CICS, IBM MF, MVS, CICS, TSO/ISPF, IMS, VSAM, OS/2, Expediter, LMA, PROFS, File-Aid

• Supported the batch IRS statements system, integrating the Vantage investment portfolio into the statements JCL ‘stream’, rewriting the summary State tax reporting system, and documenting the statement print jobs.
• Amended and enhanced the IRA (pensions) fund system.
• Extracted and printed mailing lists from an IMS database.

DATA SCIENCES, Feb 1993–Jan1994 (London, UK)

Environment: COBOL, Pacbase, JCL, Bull DPS8 GCOS, IDS-II 

• Worked as part of a team amending COBOL and Pacbase systems that administered the sale of television advertising time for an increasing number of client television companies.

IRISH REVENUE COMMISIONERS, Aug 1992–Dec 1992 (Dublin, Ireland)

Environment: COBOL, Pacbase, JCL, Bull DPS8 GCOS, IDS-II, PACLAN

•Worked on a ‘pilot’ project to update taxation systems for the construction, meat and forestry industries, developing screens to administer entry of data for contracted and sub-contracted construction employees as well as common routines to administer scrolling/paging, abort information panels for debugging, and IDS-II  access modules.

MACLANE DATA SYSTEMS, Apr 1992–Jun 1992 (Texas, USA)

Environment: IBM MVS, CICS, DB2, COBOL, Pacbase

•Designed system to centralize retail orders received from distributed PC’s. Investigated old system, interviewed users, conducted walkthroughs and presentations.

ANGLIAN WATER, Dec 1990–Feb 1992 (Cambridgeshire, UK)

Environment: COBOL, Pacbase, JCL, Bull  DPS7 GCOS, IDS-II

• Developed common routines for automated billing systems for ‘metered’ water users, as well as a series of enquiry list screens. 

CGI SYSTEMS, Nov 1988–Sep 1990 (Hertfordshire and Surrey, UK)

Environment: IBM MF, MVS, Bull DPS7/8, CICS, Pacbase, COBOL, JCL 

• Worked on Bull Computer’s Local Government Systems on-site at Hemel Hempstead, UK.  Testing code converted from a Bull DPS7 mainframe (to DPS8), for specific client councils. 
• Developing CGI's batch accounting system using IBM Pacbase.

Interest

Travelling and trekking in South and South East Asia, North America, Australasia, and Africa between IT contracts.

Contact

Telephone Mobile: +44 (0) 7952 488635

Email: PAULM001@hotmail.com
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