Consulting at Bard Ltd which is now part of Becton Dickinson (BD). Principally working on application integration and interconnection for Bard and BD, as well as providing consultancy on Infrastructure issues, Recovery, Scheduling and liaison with outsourced partner teams

Provides indepth IT technical skills for Bard Europe in areas of Unix, Linux, Storage Area Networks, large scale Disk and Tape storage systems, large corporate backup solutions and Disaster Recovery.Expert in production job scheduling, IT project Management, IT systems and storage architecture, troubleshooting, programming and Data Centre administration.Multitude of software skills around AIX, RHEL, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Centos, ControlM, TSM, HACMP, Websphere, Weblogic, JD Edwards… Show more Provides indepth IT technical skills for Bard Europe in areas of Unix, Linux, Storage Area Networks, large scale Disk and Tape storage systems, large corporate backup solutions and Disaster Recovery.Expert in production job scheduling, IT project Management, IT systems and storage architecture, troubleshooting, programming and Data Centre administration.Multitude of software skills around AIX, RHEL, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Centos, ControlM, TSM, HACMP, Websphere, Weblogic, JD Edwards, MicroStrategy, Sterling Integrator, DB2, Oracle and TPC/VSC. Programming skills in Perl and korn-shell.Many years hardware expertise in pSeries, disk and tape systems and SAN. Recent experience in PureFlex implemetation and support.Experience of IBM Licensing Management, sub-capacity and IBM Audit Show less

Provided Consultancy for Anix in AIX, PSSP, CSM, TSM, SAN, storage systems and Disaster Recovery. Included providing onsite implementation services for Anix customers, pre-sales support and Call-Anix Help Desk support in the UK and sometimes in Europe.I also taught the IBM courses for AIX, PSSP, TSM and storage courses at Anix premises in Yate, plus occasionally at IBM offices at Southbank, Manchester, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

Provided Consultancy for CSF in the disciplines around AIX, PSSP, TSM, SAN, storage systems and mainframe support. Included providing mostly pre-sales support for the sales force, but also onsite implementation services for CSF customers and technical support for customers too.

Having been TUPE'ed to Bull Integris from Lloyds Of London, I provided Systems Programming services for Lloyds of London in the areas of MVS, zOS, AIX, PSSP, HP/UX, System V, TSM, ControlM and a multitude of mainframe sub-system software. I also began providing these services for a few other Integris customers before I departed.I continued my work on AIX, PSSP, HP-UX and System-V too.

I began as an Operations Analyst and worked my way up to being a Senior Systems Programmer.Principally I worked on multiple IBM mainframes providing services around JCL, TSO, VM, MVS, zOS, ISPF through to Systems Programming work installing IBM mainframe Operating Systems and support. I worked on code from machine code using IBM Assembler, to VM and MVS Operating Systems install and support through to all mainframe sub-system software such as VMcentre, JES2, JES3, ACF2, Control-M… Show more I began as an Operations Analyst and worked my way up to being a Senior Systems Programmer.Principally I worked on multiple IBM mainframes providing services around JCL, TSO, VM, MVS, zOS, ISPF through to Systems Programming work installing IBM mainframe Operating Systems and support. I worked on code from machine code using IBM Assembler, to VM and MVS Operating Systems install and support through to all mainframe sub-system software such as VMcentre, JES2, JES3, ACF2, Control-M, Control-D, SMPE, Panvalet, CA-1, CA-90, SAMS, FDR, etc. Provided a large amount of programming services using EXEC2, ISPF and REXX.I also took over support of AIX, PSSP and TSM on an SP2 frame, plus multiple HP-UX servers and some work on System-V.Integral member of the Disaster Recovery team for mainframes, AIX and HP-UX at various offsite locations. Show less

This was my first permanent IT position. I began as a Trainee Computer Operator and was promoted to Operations Analyst with 3 years.Provided mainframe operations services to Britvic in the areas of IBM MVS, VM, OS/VS2, JCL, TSO, ISPF.Provided a large amount of programming services using EXEC, EXEC2 and REXX.