William Stephen Lowe **** East Jefferson Street

Orlando, Florida 32801

T 407-***-****

Curriculum Vitae B wslowe@cfl.rr.com

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you

make, the better." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Education

Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Analysis, Emporia State University.

2007–2009

Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, Ferris State University.

2001–2003

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of Central Florida.

1968–1970

Experience

RandStad Staffing, Inc, Programmer/Analyst.

Aug 2012–Feb

2014 Design and development of batch and on-line applications in an IBM z/OS environment

supporting credit card processing at Total Systems, Inc. Programming languages, databases

and utilities used were CICS, COBOL, MVS/JCL, DB2, VSAM, z/OS assembler, IBM

Debug Tool, Endevor, SPUFI, and QMF.

Independent Consultant, Development and Legacy Re-engineering.

2010–2012

Database Conversion using CobolScript at Smith Industries, Inc., Web development in

Django. Typography including curricula vitæ, business letters and reports for various clients.

Payroll and accounting applications at Bon Construction, Inc., and Little Lagoons Pools

and Spas. Recent work examples in assembler, PL/1, COBOL, and Python available on

request.

City of Orlando, GIS Programmer/Cartographer.

2005–2010

Maintenance of existing map layers using MapInfo 7.1 and ArcGis 9. Programming client-

server GIS applications in Python, XML, and MSSQL. Maintenance of Public Works De-

partment web site using MS Frontpage and native HTML.

AON Human Capital Services, Senior Programmer/Analyst.

1997–2004

Design and development of batch and on-line applications in an IBM z/OS environment

supporting the payroll operations of AT&T. Programming languages, databases and utili-

ties used were CICS, COBOL, MVS/JCL, CSP, Visualage Generator, Easytrieve, Xpediter,

SPUFI, and QMF.

On-line Systems, Inc., Senior Programmer/Analyst.

1983–1997

Teller and ATM systems for banking clients including NCNB, Golden State Sanwa, First

Commercial of Little Rock; interfacing teller and ATM machines of various manufacture

to IBM mainframes hosting CICS/VSAM demand deposit, time deposit, and customer

information systems. Development in CICS command and macro-level assembler. Trans-

portation applications at client companies CSX and Ryder Systems using CICS, IMS, DB/2,

IBM assembler, and COBOL. Contract programming services at Total Systems, Inc. Co-

developer of CICS Macro Manager R macro-level interpreter.

Valencia Community College, Instructor, Computer Training for the Disabled.

1983–1984

Taught mainframe programming, operating systems, and utilities to a group of severely

disabled students. All found programming jobs with local employers.

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Martin Marietta Data Systems, Senior Programmer/Analyst.

1982–1983

Development of payroll and inventory applications for client company in Saudi Arabia, using

COBOL, CICS and DL/I database

Harris Semiconductor, Senior Programmer/Analyst.

1980–1982

Development of standard cost and inventory applications using COBOL, CICS, and IDMS

databases. Standard cost system was entirely batch COBOL and IDMS, Inventory applica-

tion was COBOL/CICS/IDMS.

Valencia Community College, Programmer/Analyst.

1977–1980

Development of student records applications using COBOL, IBM assembler, CICS and DL/I

databases.

US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Technical Analyst/Writer.

1972-1974

Statistical analysis and document preparation for legal cases pertaining to Title VII, Civil

Rights Act of 1964

Computer skills

OS MVS/zOS, Linux, Windows, OS/2, administration Linux

VM/370

Programming S/390 assembler, COBOL, PL/1, scripting Python, Shell, CobolScript

CICS, CSP, IMS DB/DC, VisualAge

Generator

Scientific R, Octave, Gretl, SOFA typography LTEX, LYX, Scribus

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Web design Django, XHTML, CSS, AJAX database MySQL, DB2, IMS, MongoDB

Interests

I am a computer hobbyist. I use Linux as my primary OS, and run OS/2 and Windows

Computing

2000 under the VirtualBox hypervisor. I have CICS, DB/2, VSAM, and VisualAge

COBOL installed under OS/2, and the Hercules mainframe emulator and VM/370

and MVS 3.8j operating systems installed under Linux for assembler and PL/1 devel-

opment.

Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics.

Tutoring

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