Personal information

Date of Birth - 11/7/48

Martial Status - married

Dependants - 2

Nationality - British

Driving Licence Full - No Endorsements

Preferred Location London/West London & Home Counties

Education Language

8 O-levels Polish - fluent, bi-lingual

1 A-level

Diploma in Professional Photography

Courses

Synon: Fundamentals Building Websites & Intranets

Design to Construction 1 & 2 RPG 400 Training

Action Diagrams Access

Designing Application Reports PowerPoint

Cobol FrontPage

Selcopy Business Planning

Rumba Office

Pinpoint

WordPerfect 8

Excel

Vollie

Hardware

IBM Mainframe, IBM Mid-range & IBM PC

Software

Cool 2e (Synon 2e), Cobol, Easytrieve, RPG 400, Selcopy, VSAM, DL1, Vollie, WordPerfect, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Rumba Office, GroupWise, Pinpoint, Visio, Internet Explorer and ACF2

Overview

Present Time - Now till June 1999

I have been looking for better position but in the mean while I have been doing courses in Microsoft Access, PowerPoint and FrontPage. Lately I have been concentrating on web design. During this time have been more involved in running my Social Club. The Social Club is a business where I am the secretary and I manage all the staff employed. I also oversee all the financial and management decisions. All major projects I am involved with, by putting to tender and seeing the work through.

Nippon Express - April 1999 till June 1999

I was employed by Nippon Express as a Cobol programmer to be trained in RPG. I was trained by the Assistant Manager to use RPG. This involved me rewriting programmes written in IBM AS400 Utilises like DFU. The new programmes had to have data checks and security checks to make sure the operator is authorised to update the date. These programmes had to create, update, view and delete the records and also varies flags to show the status of the records. I was involved with users support and had to amend existing programmes, to make the programme user friendly and wrote programmes with print selections, e.g. to include deleted records or not. I left Nippon Express at the end of June 1999.

I would like to do more analyst work because I have much experience in programming and therefore would prefer to develop my analyst skills using either Easytrieve or the AS400.

London Borough of Ealing - December 1974 till 31^st March 1999

I joined the London Borough of Ealing in 1974 and held various positions of responsibility, in 1985 I joined the IT Department as a junior programmer and progressed to Programme/Analyst, using mainly Easytrieve and DL1, I then progressed to Cobol and Selcopy. In January 1996 I was retrained in Synon. I support applications used by the Council to enhance and develop new and existing applications. I undertook the analysis of requirements for application enhancements and the production of feasibility studies, project plans and schedules, under the guidance of the Senior Programmer/Analyst and liased with customer department staff to find out their requirements. I developed and maintained application computer programs. The work was carried out according to a SLA. Always the customer was informed of the progress and any faults. I would provide ad hoc reports for users and customers when requested.

I developed and maintained applications using SYNON, QUERY and some CL on the AS400, to standards set by IT Systems. For mainframe applications I have used COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, SELCOPY and varies IBM utilities. Prepared and executed test plans, data and associated utilities. Provided support with the customer during the testing and liase with Systems staff on interfaces, technical issues, testing facilities and operational acceptance. Prepared programs, system and user documentation using WORDPERFECT, WORD, EXCEL and VISIO, all on the PC. PINPOINT was used for the analysis of data. For Groupware on the PC I have been using Novell GROUPWISE. For connectivity between the AS/400 and the mainframe, I used RUMBA OFFICE; also I use RUMBA for transferring data from the AS/400 to the PC and visa versa.

I carried out testing and installation of new releases of software and updated systems and customer documentation. I installed new packages and transferred data from the mainframe to the AS/400 in the file format of the application. At times, I would be required to train users and trainees, showing them how to use the applications.

To maintain application efficiency I had to check files and data to reorganise were necessary. Archive data for historical and legal purposes.

Projects that I have been involved with on the Mainframe: -

Rents - money debited and collected from tenants, including many reports.

Housing Maintenance - repairs to dwellings, repair orders

Housing Information - a database of all information on the Housing Stock, size, when built, details on the property.

AS400 projects were: -

Legal - conveyancing.

Services Charges - debiting and collection of charges from lessees.

Residential Homes - debiting and collecting a charge from residences in a Home.

Approved Listing - information on all companies that apply for tenders.

The Housing Information system I was involved with to a large extent. In the beginning I had to collect all the data what the department would want for others systems and for questionnaires, like D.o.E. and other agencies. When all information was placed in the database, I had to keep the data up-to-date and add any new data. I had keep verifying the data to make sure it was accurate.

The Rents system I helped to convert from the Mainframe to the AS400. The conversion was all transferred by putting all the data into the AS400 file format, so that no work had to be done on the AS400 files.

On the Legal system I had to add a new database file. Approved List system I had to rewrite many of the reports and add lots of new reports as the system was developed in alive situation. Service Charges and Residential Homes were mainly support.

I was made redundant from Ealing Borough of Ealing on 31^st March 1999.

Employment

Nippon Express - April 1999 till June 1999 (Programmer training in RPG)

London Borough of Ealing - Dec 1974 till March 1999 (Programmer/Analyst)

Hobbies & Interests

I am the secretary of my local social club. I administer the community centre, employ staff and organise many social events for the club. I am also a fully certificated first aider as a member of St John Ambulance, covering many events in London and the Home Counties.

I also have a passion for music and photography.

References

Mr Animesh Mukherjee Mr Craig Tompson

Customer Services Manager Nippon Express

London Borough of Ealing Unit 7

Perceval House Parkway Trading Estate

14-16 Uxbridge Road Cranford Lane

Ealing Heston

London Hounslow

W5 2HL Middlesex

Telephone: (020)-8758-8019 TW5 9NE

Fax: (020)-8758-5831 Telephone : (020)-8737-4330

Fax: (020)-8737-4339