Currently working as an Infrastructure / Integration Architect on an Enterprise Payments System implementation project for one of Ireland’s largest Financial Services Groups. This involves the Architecture, Design and Implementation of Highly Available Message Processing and Broker Systems Infrastructure integrating a wide range of platforms across the enterprise.Architecting, Designing, Implementing and Supporting Integration Solutions for a wide range of customers in the Finance, Insurance, Telecoms, Broadcasting, Utilities and Government sectors.

Provided pre and post-sales support for IBM's Data Management products, in particular Replication with DB2 across platforms, IMS and other Databases. This includedgiving technical advice to IBM DM Sales and Technical staff; discussing proposed solutions with customers; answering technical questions; on-site technical support and Proof Of Concept projects for a large number of customers in Europe and the Middle East; implementation and education services for customers; presenting products and solutions to IBM and customer audiences.Products used included - IMS on OS/390, DB2 / UDB on all platforms, DPropNR, DPropR, DataJoiner, DataRefresher/DXT, Oracle Database, SQL*Server, Visual Warehouse, ETI*EXTRACT.IBM Redbook contributions – DB2 Replication Certification Guide; DataRefresher Installation and Configuration..

Hand-over of product support role and environment for DataRefresher and DPropNR development and service. Duties as IBM IISL Sept ’92 to Oct ’94 plus setup of test environments using EC VM/MVS machines, installation of IMS, DB2, PL/I, COBOL, LE/370, MVS Systems Programming.

Analysis, design, coding and testing of International FundsTransfer systems, including SWIFT applications, AIB’s FX and Workflow Management systems.Systems were MVS based CICS using PL/I and some ASM, TELON used to generate CICS PL/I applications.

Provided pre and post-sales support for IBM's Data Replication products, in particular DataRefresher, DXT and DPropNR.Giving technical advice to marketing staff and discussing proposed solutions with customers, answering customer queries and problem resolution. Change Team Work, including diagnosing and fixing bugs, packaging, testing and distributing fixes and product enhancements. Design, Development and Support of the DXT / DataRefresher products. Operating systems used were MVS/ESA, VM/CMS and OS/2. Programming languages PL/X, PL/I, COBOL, C and Assembler including the LE/370 HLL versions. Databases were mainly IMS, DB2 on MVS, OS/2 and VM/VSE. A wide range of development tools were used including ISPF under TSO/E and CMS, SLD ( Source Level Debug ) for PL/X and ASM, PLITEST/INSPECT for PL/I. IBM product support tools used were RETAIN, SPA, WWQ&A and FORUM discussion groups

Re-engineering of Central Bank Reporting System

Coding and testing of PL/I CICS modules for message packetencoding and decoding for a World Wide Single Registration System. Use of PL/I pre-processor and CEDF / INSPECT for source level testing, CICS test environment administration.

Analysis, design, coding and testing of Credit Card Statement production programs for BoI’s take-on of own credit card processing. Analysis, design, coding and testing of data conversion programs from AMEX to CardPac data models. Mostly COBOL and VSAM using XPEDITER with some CICS and ASM.

Analysis, design, coding and testing of General Ledger Archive and Micro-Fiche production programs in PL/I using VSAM with Table and Fiche utilities

Analysis, design, coding and testing of a system for SoftwareDevelopment and Change Control Management using TSO/ISPF, PL/I, IDMS and IDD. Design, coding and testing of Flight Data Entry & Display systems and Air Traffic Flow Management Measures systemsusing ADS/Online and IDMS.

Application Design Consultant in a high level team to define the future Information Technology Strategy for the company. Interviewing users at all levels in the company, defining functional requirements andmacro level data analysis.Analysis of Business and System requirements for Motor and General Insurance systems for Group Companies.VM/VSE to MVS/XA Conversion as Application Systems Representative and Technical Consultant on the Conversion Team.Large scale development of Motor Insurance Quotation andAdministration systems for a scheme operated in association with the Abbey National Building Society. Responsible for design and development of the components to perform the complex functions of Automatic Underwriting, Endorsement Details and Premium Calculation.Responsible for the education of Underwriters in the definition of Rules for the Automatic Underwriting component of the systems.Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of a Rule Based system for Automatic Underwriting of insurance proposals taken by telephone in a large scale development of a Motor Insurance Quotation system for Frizzell's main Scheme business. Operating Systems used were MVS/XA and VM/VSE, database IMS and transaction processing using CICS and MANTIS. Programming languages used were PL/I and Assembler.

Administrative Officer of a large Scientific and Engineering Division. My duties included budgetary and manpower control, equipment procurement, secretary to several safety and technical committees and the day to day running of the divisional administration function including supervision of clerical staff.Analysis, Design and Programming of enhancements and fixes to a system for manpower control, mainly PL/I, with TSO/ISPF Dialog Manager front end for Data Entry and System Control Functions.Presentations to user management and user training.Manpower Planning and Control for the establishment. Responsibility for the operation of a computerised systemfor manpower control, this included data management and JobControl tasks as well as the production of statistical analyses and manpower forecasts.