Experienced Versatile Applications Developer

20 years experience of IT development, self starter, excellent problem solving skills, ability to adapt to new platforms and skills. Passionate about applying the discipline and rigor of the mainframe environment to new systems. Was made redundant when job was moved offshore.

Based in:

United Kingdom

Work experience

20 years in employment in full time jobs

Previous jobs

1998 - 2000	Applications Developer
Support of BBC's Radio payments system (APS) Running on HP-9000, operating system HP-UX 10.2, database Informix online, application written in Informix 4GL. IQ administration, basic Unix administration, 4GL programming & SQL reporting.
1997 - 2007	Applications Developer/DBA
Support and development of BBC's contracting system (ACON) running on a HP-9000 server, operating system HP-UX 11i, database Informix Dynamic Server 9.40.FC8, application written in 4JS.
1989 - 2004	Applications Developer/DBA
Support and development of BBC's TV contracts and payment's system (LOTCAPS). System ran on an ICL mainframe, operating system VME, IDMSX database, accessed by a TPMS application written in APPLICATION MASTER and COBOL. Overnight batch processing handled by COBOL, REPORT MASTER and QUERY MASTER programs.

Certifications / Courses

2006 : IDS Database Administration (4 days)

1999 : IQ Reportwriter Technician & Administrator (4 days)

1998 : Developing Applications Using informix 4GL (5 days)

1998 : Fundamentals of the UNIX System HP (5 days)

1997 : Introduction to INFORMIX-SQL (2 days)

1996 : Relational Database Design (3 days)

1993 : Novell 3.11 System Administration & Advanced System Administration (5 days)

1991 : VME Integrated Database Management Design (5 days)

1991 : VME Integrated Database Management Implementation (5 days)

1990 : VME SCL For Application Programmers (5 days)

1989 : BBC Trainee Programmer Course - Data Training (14 weeks)

1987 : Data Processing Concepts, COBOL Fundamentals, COBOL Workshop, MS DOS - Control Data Institute (12 weeks)

Skills

Skill	Experience	Level	Last used
SCL	15 years professional	5 of 5	2004
COBOL	15 years professional	5 of 5	2004
APPLICATION MASTER	15 years professional	5 of 5	2004
UNIX	8 years professional	4 of 5	2008
Informix SQL	8 years professional	5 of 5	2008
Informix 4GL	8 years professional	5 of 5	2008

1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

Language Skills

Language	Oral	Written
English (First language)	5 of 5	5 of 5

Job Type wishes

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Full time

Contract/Project/Freelance

Job Category wishes

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Database Administration
- Oracle
- DB2
Software & Web Development
- Mainframe Development (CICS, Cobol, COOL, PL/1, Etc.)
- Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse

Job Location wishes

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Europe
- United Kingdom
  - South East
    - Surrey
  - Greater London
    - Central London
    - North London
    - South London
    - West London
  - Home Counties
    - Bedfordshire
    - Berkshire
    - Buckinghamshire
    - Hertfordshire