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Senior Systems Developer

 

A versatile, team-orientated SENIOR DEVELOPER with a strong technical skill set and experience of the full development lifecycle on a wide range of mainframe, off-mainframe and PC development toolsets. Customer focussed with a high attention to detail and the ability to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels.

Based in:

United Kingdom

Work experience

21 years in employment in full time jobs

Previous jobs

1997 - 2004   Standard Life
Providing technical lead to extranet Quotes team during intensive period of legislative change and new product launches. Running team during extended absence of the team leader, Designing interfaces to legacy mainframe client and address systems from off-mainframe New Business system. Producing a report on testing of off-mainframe applications that provided a way forward for early off-mainframe developments. Developing initial extranet application and implementing it on Websphere Application Server platform. Providing Production support for off-mainframe systems and organising core and out of hours emergency implementation of Production fixes.
Developing complex batch processes for calculating and administering advisers commission. Performance Testing individual DB2 batch jobs and the complete batch schedule to identify bottlenecks. Minimising risk to the overnight batch schedule by redesigning critical long-running jobs and continually reviewing dependencies between jobs in the schedule. Implementing and supporting the DB2 system in the Production environment.
1996 - 1997   Britannia Life
Maintaining and developing the Life and Pensions system inherited from the Life Association of Scotland.
1996 - 1996   Abbey National
Developing and implementing an Oracle based Management Information System.
1994 - 1996   National & Provincial
Contributing to multi million pound systems selection process for the Life arm of N&P. Participating in Process Design exercise to map out the organisation of the Life company. Developing key tactical systems in Microsoft Excel/WORD macros for product support and logging and tracking of complaints.
1986 - 1994   The Life Association of Scotla
Analysing, designing, programming and testing a large variety of projects on a mainframe running PAXUS LIFE system on a SUPRA database. Managing team in team leaders absence. Assessing impact of problems in Live system and supervising recovery.
Analysing, designing and programming a large scale dBASE III+ system; Designing and developing an extensive suite of semi-automatic tape streamer archiving options. Developing COBOL II applications on PAXUS LIFE system. Developing personal communications skills through large number of hardware, software and network services contacts.

Education

   BSc

Skills

Skill Experience Arrow down Level Last used
Word (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
VisualAge for Java (IBM)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Visio  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Test Director  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
PVCS  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Programming/software development  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Programmer-Analyst  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Office (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Mainframe  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Lotus Notes  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
HomeSite (Allaire)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Excel (Microsoft)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
Analyst Programmer  5 years professional  4 of 5 2007
XML  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
WinRunner  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
Test Automation  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
JSP  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
JCL  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
JavaScript  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
Java  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
HTML  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
GUI design  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
ENdevor  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
e-Commerce / e-Business  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
DB2 (IBM database)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
Application Deployment  2 years professional  3 of 5 2007
Windows Dial-Up Networking  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
UNIX (HP, SUN, AIX, SCO etc.)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
SQL server (Microsoft)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Servlets  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
RMI  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Rational Rose  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Python  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Project (Microsoft)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Process Modelling  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Powerpoint (Microsoft)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
OS/2  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
OOP  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
NT4  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
MQ series  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
J2EE  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Informix  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
IMS  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Eclipse (IBM)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
DHTML  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
CVS  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
CICS  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Access (Microsoft)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2007
Apache    1 of 5 2007
1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

Language Skills

Language Oral Written
English  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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  • checked Software & Web Development
    • checked .Net / ASP.Net (C#, VB, J#, ADO, VS)
    • checked AS/400
    • checked ASP (vbscript, jscript)
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked C / C++
    • checked Delphi
    • checked EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
    • checked Embedded Software
    • checked ESDH
    • checked Flash / Actionscript
    • checked Frontend (CSS, HTML, XHTML, Javascript)
    • checked GIS
    • checked GUI / Interface Design
    • checked Java (J2EE, J2SE, JEE5, etc.)
    • checked Lotus Domino / Lotus Notes
    • checked Mainframe Development (CICS, Cobol, COOL, PL/1, Etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Office (Infopath / VB / VBA / VBA.NET)
    • checked Oracle Forms, Oracle PL, Oracle Developer, etc.
    • checked Perl
    • checked PHP
    • checked SAP
    • checked SharePoint
    • checked Software Architecture

Job Location wishes

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  • Europe
    • United Kingdom
      • checked Scotland
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