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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 Arrow down 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

(chosen marked with Checkmark)

Checkmark Full time
Checkmark Contract/Project/Freelance

Job Category wishes

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

Job Location wishes

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