Analyst/Developer
engineering software enhancements to batch, online and web-based elements of systems, analysis of client requirements, client/user support, review of development deliverables, mentoring of junior staffSkills Used: SQL, Ingres OpenROAD, Ingres RDBMS including Ingres ABF, Oracle SQL*Plus & PL/SQL, Perl, UNIX shell scripting, Crontab, TOAD, Oracle RDBMS 8i/9i/10g, UNIX and W2K server management, COBOL, TELON COBOL, JCL, IBM 3090 DLI d/b, MVS/TSO/ISPF, Peregrine ServiceCenter, Borland StarTeam, Rational Clearcase, Test Director, support of Business Objects XI Major Achievements:Configuration Manager and CM Librarian for the project team. Author/owner of the CM Plan for each project, establishing/maintaining standard approaches for software version control, I.T. asset management. Applied I.T.I.L-based approach to all procedures. Introduced new procedures, minimising the retention of hardcopy records and reducing costs.As a senior project team member was engaged in mentoring of two junior team membersLead role in a project to implement a bundle of change requests for the clients Risk Management department. I worked closely with the manager of the department, suggesting improvements/additions which would give client extra value and increase EDS revenue. Technical lead for a project to replace an in-house batch scheduling tool with the CA-7 Workload Automation package. As a senior project team member with extensive knowledge of the clients business, the client requested that I assume role of 'Card Scheme Representative'. Attended formal monthly meetings with the client and represented the client at national & international Card Scheme (e.g. Visa, Europay/MasterCard) Forums. Successfully prepared a formal study of the Checkpoint/Restart logic in the CSA batch system. Spent 3 months as integral member of a client design team, on client site, providing technical support and customer care to client and users in design of a new online enquiry tool.
