Career Highlights

 

Should you or your organization be on the lookout for a COBOL consultant or team leader, please feel free to review my employment history.

 

 

 

April ’98 to date            VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE BOARD

Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.

Information Technology Consultant (Contract)

On this three year contract, I was involved in the analysis and development effort required to achieve Year 2000 compliance and Euro readiness. These systems are written in COBOL and PRO*COBOL on Alpha VMS and BULL GCOS-7 platforms. I carried out tool selection, user training and user support for some of the analysis tools used for Year 2000 compliance and Euro readiness. During the intermission between the Year 2000 and Euro projects, I worked on the design, development and implementation of new features added to the existing legacy systems. The systems on which I did worked were Renewal and Billing, Data Capture, Electronic Money Transfers, Online Billing and Summary Ledgers.

 

Sept 94 to April ‘98       KINDLE BANKING SYSTEMS

East Point Business Park, Fairview Dublin 3.

Analyst Programmer (Permanent)

I participated in the development of the Transaction Processing Gateway which allows Kindle's BranchPower update the central database, belonging to the BankMaster product. TPG receives messages in text format from BranchPower, performs the necessary database maintenance and returns a message to BranchPower. I used COBOL on a Hewlett - Packard UNIX box as part of this process. My duties fell into two main areas,  the design and programming of new features being included in TPG, and programming  solutions to software problems returning form both client sites and the internal the System Test department. I also performed analysis of software problems as they arose, client and programmer training and some hardware support.

 

April '91 to Aug '94        CORE COMPUTER CONSULTANTS

                                     Core  House, Cook Street, Cork

                                     Programmer / Analyst (Permanent)

I was engaged in the development, installation and support of Core's Payroll Package using Oracle V6 SQL*Forms 2.3, SQL*PLUS 3, SQL*MENU 4 and Pro COBOL on VAX/VMS, porting onto Unix SVR4 where required by individual clients. I also worked on Core's Purchase Order, Grain Payments and Point of Sale Systems using COBOL, FMS, TDMS and Datatrieve RDB in a VAX/VMS environment. On all these projects I participated in design, development , testing, and implementation of new features. I provided customer training and support following the implementation of new  releases. This involved telephone support, modem dial-ins and Client-Site visits. Where necessary this would also involve meeting users to determine possible new features to be added to the Core suite of products.

 

Oct. '90 - Jan. '91         QC Data

                                   Cork Business and Technology Park, Model Farm Road Cork.

                                    Research Engineer

I participated in the development of the user interface and database handling for QC Data's Oil and Gas Well Log's Project using C and the X windows Athena Widget set running under Unix on a Sun Sparc.

 

July '89 - Oct. '89          UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

                                     Plassey, Castletroy, Co. Limerick.

                                    Research Programmer

I worked as part of  the University's ESPRIT team on the REDO project. It's purpose is the Reverse, Inverse and Re-Engineering of code using a common specification language called UNIFORM. My tasks involved the development of routines to translate the COBOL Working Storage Section to UNIFORM using LEX, YACC and C running on Unix.

 

May '88 - Dec. '88        FAS

                                     Industrial Estate, Shannon, Co. Clare.

                                    Supervisor

My primary task with FAS involved instructing trainees a in the use of an integrated software package, providing them with basic literacy in Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Database use and data presentation. I was also required to fill a general management role which involved time tabling trainee activity, presenting their timesheets for payment, organizing and overseeing various customer surveys, recording survey data, stock control, goods inward and takings from the cash points.

 

 

 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES    Primary:  COBOL, Pro*COBOL.

                                                           Others   :  Prolog, Modula-2, Lex, YACC, Assembly, C++, Smalltalk, PL/1, Oracle, C, Pascal and Visual Basic.