David Giles Email & Phone Number

St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

• The EcoCentre is a retro fitted 1960s building, serving as an example of and promoting sustainable living; water harvesting, black/grey water treatment, solar hot water, solar lighting, solar heating, photovoltaic.
• Replace the aging computer infrastructure with modern PCs, peripherals and software. Fix and upgrade the hardware and software as required.
• Implement a LAN and secure wireless network. Upgrade the dialup to a broadband ADSL2+connection.
• Document the administration/computer systems details.
• Support, mentor and train employees, members and other users of the EcoCentre.
• Integrate the “PayPal” payment donation/shopping system, “Google” maps and search facilities into the www.ecocentre.com site.

Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

• Worked for Coles Myer group, on the Kmart IBM MVS mainframe, CICS, COBOL, DB2 based merchandising systems.Designed, wrote, maintained and implemented COBOL programs for:
• The GST transistion
• Product registration and amendment
• Management information systemsManaged the software and testing environments, using Excel VBA routines to track the movment of programs through different environments by extracting data sent via email from the software.
• System testing, using Excel to verify report programs
• Implementation plans

Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

Initially worked on Telecoms order entry Honeywell based "Distributed Customer Record Information System" (DCRIS) then later AXIS, its IBM MVS replacement.Specified, coded, tested and maintained batch and online COBOL programsProduction and technical support in and out of hoursIDMS/IDSII Database administrationWorked within the "Capability Maturity Model".

Cambridge, England.

Analysed and corrected corrupted data via custom written COBOL programs and:Specified, coded, tested and maintained batch programsTechnical supportDatabase unload reload programsProduction support

Fountain Valley, Orange County, California, USA.

Maintained systems for this medical equipment supplier. Specified coded, tested and maintained online and batch COBOL programs for:Order entryInventory controlBilling/claims against: government agencies: Medical; Medicaid and/or Medicare; Blue Cross; etc. and also the patientAccounts recievableIDMS/IDSII Data base administration In and after hours.

Hired to develop and maintain Local Government Systems (LoGoS), community charge and housing benefit systems, worked on:Community charge register: entry; amendment and deletionDevelop a mainframe "mail merge" system (LoGoS Letters)Technical supportDatabase unload/reload programsPorting systems from DPS7 mini to DPS8 mainframe