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Resume:
Brian L. MacIvor
Delmar, MD *1875
Ph: 410-***-****
email: *********@**********.***
Profile
For over 25 years I have been a contract consultant, primarily on Tandem Mainframes, both as a programmer
and programmer/analyst. I have worked largely in the Finance sector, but have some experience in both General
Insurance and Industrial Warehousing. During this time I have acquired a good working knowledge of financial
institutions, as well as a sound basis of IBM and Tandem skills.
Although I worked mainly on the programming required for each project I have been involved in much of the
analysis in many of the main projects.
I recently moved into a Test Analyst role where I assisted in the preparation of test plans and the testing of
software to company guidelines and standards. This included Validation, System, Regression, and User
Acceptance testing.
Experience Competencies
Credit Card Systems Tandem / IBM / HP3000 Mainframes
Equity Settlements COBOL85 / SCOBOL / Nonstop SQL
Billing Systems Pathway / DDL / DB2
Automated Loan Systems
Default Collection Systems
Industrial Warehousing
General Insurance
Business Area Experience
Commercial / Banking 20 years
General Insurance 4 years
Industrial 2 years
IT Skills Experience
Tandem Mainframe 20 years
IBM Mainframe 6 years
HP3000 Mainframe 0.5 years
COBOL / COBOL85 25 years
Nonstop SQL 15 years
Microsoft Windows 15 years
Microsoft Office 15 years
Test Director 0.5 years
Winrunner 0.5 years
IT Career Summary
1995 – 2007: Admiral Plc/CMG (UK) Ltd/LogicaCMG
1986 – 1994: Freelance Contract Programmer (UK)
1981 – 1985: Inland Financial Co. Ltd. Canada
Career History
JANUARY 1995 to MAY 2007 - Admiral Plc/CMG (UK) Ltd/LogicaCMG
As an employee of Admiral Computing Ltd (bought first by CMG(UK) then Logica(UK) ) I was optioned to a variety
of IT projects in a variety of positions over a 12 year period. Titles ranged from Senior Programmer though
Programmer/Analyst to Systems Test Analyst on jobs as diversified as Billing System Support, Credit Card Systems
and Equities Settlement System. The length of the projects ranged from a few months to over 5 years.
Sept 1997–Mar 2002 and June 2005–Feb 2006 Crestco (Euroclear), London
Project: Equities Settlement System; Senior Programmer
The ‘Equities Settlement System’ is a multi-currency book-entry transfer system for equities settlement
developed by CRESTco, (now Euroclear) in the UK. The system is the Central Securities Depository for the
UK and provides a single system to settle all types of UK and Irish equity transactions and to process the
associated corporate actions.
Involved in all aspects of program writing and unit testing. Responsibilities also included program fixes
and implementing change requests.
Mar 1997–Sept 1997 Camberly HP
Project: Legal Depreciation of Assets, Programmer
The project encompassed the definition and implementation of major changes to an extensive system for
a leading computer manufacturer. The world-wide system, used in twenty two countries in Europe alone,
facilitates the administration of leases and the associated business activities of sales and finance. The
system was extended to include the management and legal depreciation of assets and to provide
accounting information to send to a general ledger on a monthly basis the development also included the
processing of an additional local currency accounting book.
Apr 1995–Mar 1997 Systems Test Senior Analyst London BT
Project: Billing System Support
Duties include planning and testing all stages of Audio Conferencing Billing. This includes writing test
specifications and plans as well as implementing them. Also included is the testing and modifying of the
entire suite of JCL in preparation for migration from the development machine to the live one.
Feb 1995–Mar 1995 Programmer Chester NWS
Project: Automated Underwriting System
The development of an Automated Underwriting System for a major finance house. The system will
provide assistance with authorisation of loans in the Commercial Business sector.
Brought in as a programmer to help ease the pressure of a tight deadline. Programmed change requests
for on-line front-end processing and batch reports
Jan 1995–Feb 1997 Programmer / Systems Test Analyst London BT
Project: MCI Reports
A new requirement for the Concert Pricing System (CPS) is to produce MCI style invoices. Each invoice
comprises a number of reports from the MCI Mandatory Invoice Package (MIP) and the MCI Optional
Invoice Package (OIP).
Programmed and tested batch report programs for the first stage of British Telecoms MCI and reporting
system.
From 1986 through 1994 I worked as a freelance contract programmer. During this time I worked primarily for
lending institutions, but also gaining experience in Industrial Warehousing.
July 1994 Logica Space and Communications Ltd UK
Senior Programmer - Project: GATE ESP Developments
Programmed and tested interface programs relating to the electronic data transfer between Tandem and IBM
machines.
February 1994–March 1994 - NWS Bank UK
Senior Programmer - Project: Direct Credit Enhancements
Analysed, programmed, and tested amendments to the Direct Credit on-line front-end processing and batch
report programs.
1989–1993 - Forward Trust Group UK
Senior Programmer - Major Projects: Leasing Enhancements, General Ledger, VAT Rewrite,
Amendments, Corporate Restructure
Assisted in the analysis of the programs required to reflect the changes in Forward Trusts company structure.
This consisted of program specifications for both new and amended programs as well as liasing with operations in
regards to laser printer templates.
Assisted in the analysis of the requirements necessary to process the General Ledger rewrite. This included client
interface as well as program specifications.
Responsibilities at FT also included writing specifications, writing and testing batch, online and SCOBOL programs
for many of the minor projects and enhancements.
1988–1989 - Pirelli Ltd UK
Senior Programmer - Project: Automated Warehouse
Programmed and tested all areas of on-line and batch programs relating to the installation of a completely
automated tyre warehouse.
1986–1988 - Forward Trust Group UK
Senior Programmer - Project: Automated Collection Systems
Responsible for all aspects of default tracking including maintenance and trouble shooting on existing programs
as well as analysis and program writing on three phases of ACS enhancements.
1981–1985 - Inland Financial Co. Ltd. Canada
Senior Programmer - Project: In-house General Insurance Applications
Solely responsible for the upkeep of existing in-house general insurance applications. This included liaison with
users to discuss amendments to existing programs and requirements for new ones.
Programmer - Project: PMS Package
Responsible for writing new programs, maintenance and trouble-shooting.
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