EDV Software Solutions Ltd

RESUME

 

EDVard is an experienced, strongly motivated, versatile, responsible  and reliable IT professional - software developer and IT consultant - with very good communication and documentation skills. He loves the challenge of a new project.

 

Educated  to master's degree, has become an expert in software development for both the mainframe and Unix environments.

 

Analyses, designs and develops top quality state-of-the-art software with focus on mainframes and legacy software, its porting and migrating as well as integrating legacy software into modern multi-tier environments with large, complex database systems.

 

Experienced in delivering high quality software to tight schedule and budget.

 

Has worked mainly for banks, government and business software services. Has a thorough understanding of customer needs as well as of software processes, software performance, methods and quality assurance/test in full software development life cycle (SDLC).

 

 

COMPANIES

 

2014             DRV Bayern Sued       ( a government project – German Pensions)

2012-2013    DRV-Bund                   ( a government project – German Pensions)

2011-2012    vdek                                                          ( health insurance )

2009-2010    BIT                                              ( a Swiss government VAT-project )

2008-2009    ING-DiBa

2008             Bundesarbeitsagentur                           ( a government project )

2007             HypoVereinsbank (UniCredit Group)

2006             COSA                                                             ( a government project )                  

2006             Amadeus                                                                   (travel industry)

2003-2005    Siemens Business Services GB&Ireland                     

        (a government project for VOSA)

2000-2002    Toyota Motorsport

2000              Itellium/Karstadt  

2000              Gerling                                                                            ( Insurance )

1999              Adidas

1998-1999     Mannesmann Autocom                             ( now Vodafone Passo )

1997-1998     Deutsche Bank      

1997              Postbank Data

1996              Datev                                                (German Tax Advisors Association)

1994-1996     Brunata                                      ( Heat measurement and billing )

1993-1994     Quelle                                                                ( now Itellium/Quelle)

1987-1993     Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme GmbH

1986-1987     Dresdner Bank

1984-1986     SIEMENS  AG

1981-1984     Pragoinvest                                                                ( foreign trade )

1980-1981     CKD Praha                   ( industrial concern, esp. heavy machinery )

1978-1979     Czechoslovak Ministry of Education     

 

PROJECTS

 

COBOL, BS2000, JCL (SDF,SDF-P,ISP), perl, UNIX

Migration, Development of procedures for German Pensions

 

COBOL, BS2000, JCL (SDF,SDF-P,ISP), Oracle, DAMP

Test and Debugging, Migration, Maintenance and Development of programs and procedures for German Pensions

 

COBOL, BS2000, JCL

Analysis, Development,Test and Debugging of insurance programs

 

COBOL, BS2000, UTM, UDS, JCL

Analysis, Development,Test and Debugging of programs for VAT.

 

COBOL, Unix, BS2000, Oracle

Development,Test and Debugging of banking programs

 

COBOL, Unix, BS2000

Migration of financial programs (payment systems) from BS2000/COBOL to Unix/Microfocus COBOL, Test and debugging.

 

BS2000, UTM, SDF, Kordoba, MVS, COBOL

customer and operations support, supervision of operations and problem solving  in a BS2000, MVS, UTM, Kordoba, COBOL environment. JCL/SDF mainframe development.  Bank – credit system 

 

perl, Unix, PostgreSQL

perl,  UNIX, PostgreSql as well as HTML, Catalyst, Template Toolkit in a government project. Software development, testing, debugging and documentation (perl scripts, HTML/Template Toolkit templates).

 

BS2000, perl, UTM, MKS

BS2000 ISP/SDF, perl,  UTM in a BS200/UNIX/Windows environment with MKS in a travel industry project . Conversion of mainframe/BS2000 jcl’s to perl scripts, testing, debugging.

 

BS2000, SESAM, UTM, COBOL

software support and development, quality assurance / (unit , system and integration) test , BS2000 UTM generation/administration, release management (using PVCS) in a mainframe/UNIX/Windows/Websphere multi-tier environment in a government project of a significant business solutions supplier. Error diagnosis using AID, dump analysis. Performance and resource monitoring. Business objects, perl scripts, SESAM E-SQL database, COBOL .

 

Unix, C, EURO, Financial Accounting, Asset Management

For two years in a well known F1  motorsport company  responsible for development, test and maintenance of  C programs for the EURO-project, assets management, financial accounting, budget planning, etc. under SINIX (Siemens Unix)  using D-ISAM,  UNIX-shell scripting, sed and awk.  Other software used within the team were Visual Basic, C++, Perforce  and of course a lot of Microsoft (complex Excel applications, SQL).

In the EURO project responsible for the whole life cycle and was de facto project manager. Designed, developed, documented and tested, accompanied the implementation. Solved difficult problems.

For assets management maintained the continuance of a vital system implementing changes and new features in direct contact with the finance department of the company.

 

 

OS390 ( MVS ), Cobol II, commercial

For a department store  chain responsible for software development of new functions and maintenance of existing features in a commercial subsystem dealing with the logistics of goods supply. The HW environment was IBM Mainframes with OS390 (MVS), batch and online Cobol II, DB2 (SQL), CICS, XPEDITER, JCL. Java was used in the project, too.

 

BS2000, Windows NT, Cobol, Oracle (with PL/SQL, Developer   <Forms, Reports, ..... >

Design, Development and Test for Data and Program System Migration for an insurance application from BS2000 and Cobol to Windows NT and Oracle with PL/SQL and Developer (Forms, Reports,…) .

 

VSE, Delta, Cobol II, commercial

For a world-wide well known company, producing sports goods, responsible for design,  development,  test and documentation of changes and new features in a commercial subsystem dealing with international orders (order management). The operating system was VSE  on a system of IBM mainframes using COBOL II and Delta with DL/1, Datacom and a screen and printer format generator. Intertest was used for testing and debugging.

 

UNIX, Telematics

For a telematics company responsible for design and development of an automated  test tool for internal services ( administration of remote mobile users,  billing, etc. ).    The tested Programs were in C / C++ with Oracle under Unix (Sun Solaris). The Tests were programmed in a system of sed and awk scripts under Unix using the bash shell.

 

OS390 ( MVS ), COBOL II, SAS, Bank

For a well known world wide operating bank responsible for software development, test,  debugging , maintenance and documentation of changes and new features to the current accounts subsystem.  Millenium (Y2K) and EURO related updates.  Many mission critical every day programs  without change for 15 years had to be inspected and updated from COBOL to COBOL II. The environment was a complex network of IBM Mainframes with OS390 (MVS-ESA, ISPF, TSO, JCL, RACF,….) with batch and online SAS, COBOL II,  DB2 (SQL) ,  CICS, CA7 , Endevor, Fileaid, Selcopy, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, Intertest  and  PC’s (Microsoft).  

 

UNIX, BS2000, Windows, C, Telephone banking

For a well known bank responsible for the design, software development,  documentation, quality assurance (test, debugging) of a telephone banking subsystem Online server with performance, accesability and security concerns in a very complex and heterogeneous hardware and software environment. The Online server ran under Unix (SINIX) using C, openUTM, UPIC in a network of UNIX, BS2000 and Windows computers with client/server model and ORACLE (PL/SQL)  as a distributed data base. Project management  using Microsoft Project and COMPOSER (IEF) 

 

OS390 ( MVS ), OS2, Windows, COBOL II, C++, Tax Advisors’ Association 

For a  major (European) Tax Advisors’ Association  software development,  quality assurance and maintenance of  a program system for Income Tax and VAT as well as electronic (or disc)  tax statements (for tax advisors) and electronic (or magnetic tape) data flow to and from inland revenue.  The assurance of  very  good quality was of paramount importance.

A special challenge was the diagnosing and problem solving for  a corrupt ACCESS Application. 

The environment was complex and comprised IBM-mainframes with OS390  ( MVS-ESA,  ISPF,  TSO,  RACF,  Roscoe,  Panvalet ) with Assembler and COBOL, VSAM and DB2 ( SQL ) and CASE4  as well as Windows and OS2 with ACCESS and C++.

 

OS390 ( MVS ), Cobol/RPG ,CPG, HL/I, utility

For a utility company  responsible for software development of new functions and maintenance of existing features in a commercial subsystem dealing with the measurement and billing of  power  (heat)  supply. The HW environment was IBM Mainframes with OS390 (MVS) with Cobol II, RPG IV , CPG, HL/I, DL1, CICS, XPEDITER. 

 

OS3x0 ( MVS ), Assembler, commercial

For a  mail order chain (catalogue store) software development and program maintenance of  goods shipping subsystem.  Performance was an important aspect due to voluminous data. Very restrictive internal standards formed a special challenge. MVS mainframes with Assembler, Roscoe, Panvalet, Intertest, DB2  ( SQL ), TC300, client/server model.

 

BS2000, Assembler, SIEMENS

Various projects for and under  the BS2000 operating system using the whole range of BS2000 options including internal ones “deep in system”.

Changes of and new functions for a User interface for BS2000-V12  Test/Diagnosis System with Assembler, IFG/FHS (interactive format generator), Formplag (Format generator) , AID ( scripting debugging tool ) , TDS (Test definition system), TOM (screen oriented interface to BS2000).

Quality assurance in a system with consequently applied software engineering methods with strict division of and well defined interfaces between design, development, quality management, documentation, system integration, roll out and customer usage  with milestones, version handling, problem reporting and solving.

Design and development of automated testing, applying tests to tested subsystems, reporting and diagnosing problems to development, assuring and declaring the fulfillment of predefined quality requirements. The tested subsystems were a part of SECOS (security in operating system ) namely GUARDS(object  access rights  control), SRPM ( system resources und privileges management ) and FACS (file access control system  )  using LMS (library management system), SDF-P (command menus), PULS ( problem reporting system ), ATS (automated test system),  HELGA, DAMP,  IDIAS ( internal diagnosis, dump and memory control and debuging tools ), IDA (scripting debugging tool ), OMNIS ( multiple access to operating system )

Testtool adjustment and development in C under SINIX(UNIX) using CMX (Client/Server Model) with IMS and UTM under BS2000

Quality assurance of a Transport Protocoll using APS Programming under PDN-Transdata with TERMSIM ( Terminal simulation tool )

 

BS2000, Assembler, Bank

For a well known global bank responsible for software development, test,  problem debugging/solving for Financial Data Exchange between BS2000 ( and  BS1000 ) mainframes. Critical and important security aspects. Complex environment with remote and local mainframes under BS2000 ( and BS1000 ) using Assembler, DCAM ( data communication access method ),  PDN-Transdata ( front-end processors )  with APS (Application programming system ), RCOM (remote communication method ), BS2000 Utilities. Maestro computers (Philips) were used for development and access to the Siemens mainframe network.  BS2000 system responsibility ( generation and administration ).

 

 

BS2000, Assembler, SIEMENS

Design and development of LTS ( Listing Transport System, a.k.a LAS), a system for concern wide distribution of ( print ) files in a heterogeneous computer network with thousands of printers. Operating systems BS2000 (mainframes) and PDN ( front end processors, … ) using Assembler, COBOL, Columbus, LEASY , FHS/IFG and of course DCAM.

A communication application connecting a  Philips Terminal Computer and a BS2000-SIEMENS Mainframe using  DCAM and Assembler.

 

BS2000, COBOL, Foreign Trade

UTM/UDS/IDMS/SESAM/COBOL/BS2000-System in ForeignTrade  (quotation, order, invoice, currencies, etc.).  Development, quality assurance and system responsibility (incl. generation/administration) for BS2000, PDN,DB/DC

 

GEORGE, OCR, COBOL, RPG, Industries

Software  development and system responsibility for an OCR-Scandata system with DATAPLEX, PDP 8E CPU and data transfer to mainframe (ICL with GEORGE, COBOL, RPG).

Development for a production planning system for a Machinery Manufacturing Concern using  COBOL, RPG, ICL under GEORGE.

 

FORTRAN, GEORGE, Education

Design and software development of a system for mathematical evaluation of (Czechoslovak) Ministry of Education statistical data under GEORGE  using FORTRAN.