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Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Woking, England, United Kingdom

• Provided enterprise-level assistance to customers at a deep technical level for installation, configuration and troubleshooting of the company’s Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) platform. Represented the company on.
• Maintained a keen interest in open source software and actively developing my skillset
• Developed a proof of concept for system log analysis using Python, PostgreSQL and Flask
• Wrote Bash script to convert XML to CSV and directly insert fields to PostgreSQL
• Researched other ways to improve speed and accuracy of issue diagnosis
• Maintained best practice documentation and release notes

United Kingdom

• TUPE transfer from CSCApplication development and support for TV Licensing operations. My duties remained unchanged from CSC with the addition of the following:
• Successfully mentored offshore support team during service transition from CSC to IBM
• Assumed temporary responsibility for FLOSSY – a system that processes free licences for Over 75s running on HP Unix with Oracle Database- Data loading, testing and support- Quickly learned a system I had never.

United Kingdom

• TUPE transfer from ZurichApplication development and support for TV Licensing operations from January 2006 until transfer to IBM. Mainly worked on IBM z/OS, but also AIX Unix and mobile platforms as well as helping.
• z/OS – Core TV Licence admin system (LASSY and TVLEO) - Extensive experience with all stages of SLDC application development - Go-to team member for second-line application support and troubleshooting - Successful.
• Handhelds – customer-facing role, supporting Windows Mobile devices issued to TVL field agents - Worked with the customers to remotely diagnose and resolve device issues - Received a recognition award for the.
• AIX Unix – Cash payments system (CASSIE) - Successfully diagnosed and resolved batch failures - Performed timely SQL DB2 updates from Unix shell as required - Managed job scheduling using PTC - Provided 24/7 production.
• Systems integration – 2012 TV Licensing contract renewal - Assumed responsibility for managing the laptop builds for TVL staff transferring from Capita - Liaised with Capita staff to define software requirements and.

United Kingdom

• Joined as a trainee programmer and provided application development and support for mainframe systems underpinning the Zurich Life division. The ZL portfolio was closed and acquired by Swiss Re in November 2003. As a.
• OS/390 – CAPSIL (VSAM) and ZLI (DL/I)- Quickly learned the required mainframe skillset following initial training- Rapidly became involved in all stages of SDLC application development, including a major new.

Btec (Edexcel), Software Design And C Language Programming For Engineers, Distinction

Evening classes to learn programming in C and C++

Diploma, Advanced Audio Engineering, Pass

I took a year out to learn more about sound engineering and music production, an area of great interest to me. This allowed me to gain.