Developer Management

Nick Litten

IBMi AS*** iSeries Developer

Location

Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina Area)

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Nick Litten

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Nick Litten's Overview

Current

IBMi AS00/iSERIES Developer at IT Consultant [USA]

Past

IBM AS00/iSERIES Developer at IT Consultant [UK]

IT Architect at Computer Medix

AS400 Team Leader at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW)

Freelance IT Consultant [AS400/iSeries/JBA] at Software Projex

Technical Consultant at JBA Software

Programmer Analyst at Toshiba Corporation

Trainee Programmer at Allergan Pharmaceuticals

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Education

Farnborough College of Technology

Farnborough 6th Form College

Recommendations

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Connections

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Websites

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Portfolio

Nick Litten's Summary

I'm an IBM-i specialist, analyst programmer and web developer. I have many years of

Freelance IT experience and thoroughly enjoy the fact that one day I'm wearing an RPG

programmers hat, the next day could be iSeries system administration tasks, the next maybe

designing e-commerce websites or migrating data between different platforms.

My specialties:

IBMi (the artist formerly known as AS400 and iSeries)

RPG Code development

JBA ERP System

Change Management and SDLC

Data Transfer and Migration

iSeries System Administration

Data interchange between different systems

Website Design and CMS (Drupal) Support

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing

IBM AS400 / RPG EXPERIENCE:

I ve worked with the IBM AS400 (iSeries, IBMi) since its inception in the late 80 s. I

specialize in all variants of RPG/CL programming and working with data interfaces and

migration solutions. I have a detailed knowledge of systems infrastructure, connectivity,

change management, security, disaster recovery, database design and much more.

WEB EXPERIENCE:

I have extensive ecommerce experience and have built websites with most of the common CMS

applications (Drupal, Magento, Joomla, Wordpress, Sharepoint, etc). I manage several

websites specifically focusing on Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.

http://www.projex.com

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Specialties

IBMi on Power Systems, iSeries, AS/400, DB2/uDB, IFS (Integrated File System), security

management, network infrastructure, inter-system communications, data exchange and

conversion.

Languages: RPG All versions, CL, JAVA, XML, SQL, HTML, PHP.

iSeries Applications: JBA/GEAC/INFOR System21, Turnover, Hawkeye, ROBOT.

Nick Litten's Experience

IBMi AS00/iSERIES Developer

IT Consultant [USA]

Computer Software industry

September 2008 Present (4 years 1 month) Charleston, South Carolina Area

Since relocating to the USA I've been fortunate to work with a number of high profile

clients:

SANDS CORP [2012-Current]

On contract as IBMi Technical consultant reponsibilities include Turnover Change

Configuration Management, RPG/CL programming, software implementation, upgrades and

supporting project teams as a technical resource. I'm writing software tools to aid

ongoing development and documenting guidelines for clients Best Practice model of the

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

INFINITY COLORWORKS [2011-Current]

Designed and Implemented an eCommerce website based on the Drupal CMS platform. Web

SEO/SEM and Facebook Social marketing increased product sales over 500% in the first

month.

TEXTRON E-Z-GO [2008-2011]

Application Support Team maintaining a heavily modified version of JBA System21

(Manufacturing, Warehousing Distribution, Financials and Bespoke Interfaces). I was Change

Management Administrator and Senior Programmer maintaining RPG2/3/SQL and writing new code

in RPG4. Application development in the arena of Data Migration, Archiving and Data export

to other platforms.

Search Engine Optimization and Adwords Marketing for the eCommerce website (web orders

are passed to JBA using XML via BizTalk)

JBA Support and preparation on project migrate and upgrade from JBA System/21 to INFOR

AURORA. Applications included - INFOR System 21 Style, EDI Data Interfaces, WMS and design

and development of new applications

IBM AS00/iSERIES Developer

IT Consultant [UK]

Computer Software industry

September 2004July 2008 (3 years 11 months) London, United Kingdom

During my final years in England I worked for clients ranging from London Investment

Banks to Spanish Property Developers.

AS400-RPG-CL Developer

JBA-GEAC ERP Support and Development

IBM-i System Administration

Data Migration and Interfaces

eCommerce Website SEO/SEM

Drupal Website Design, Implementation and Support

I love the technical diversity of working on systems ranging from IBMi (AS400) to

Microsoft web servers. It's an interesting and challenging role - programming with legacy

procedural languages while mixing it up with object oriented program code and Web

processes.

IT Architect

Computer Medix

January 2003August 2004 (1 year 8 months) London, United Kingdom

Designed and implemented websites of many startup businesses, ranging from static HTML

Fanzine sites to web2.0 Content Management Systems: Drupal, Joomla, Data Migration,

Application and Website Design, SEO/SEM, Server Support.

AS400 Team Leader

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CBK; Banking industry

October 1999November 2002 (3 years 2 months) London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities ranged from RPG development to OS400 support with a heavy involvement

with the bank MQ messaging infrastructure across a wide range of platforms. Core role was

ensuring that the latest AS400 e-Business technologies were evaluated and installed if

they offered a tactical advantage to the Bank. This was a diverse role with new challenges

on a day by day basis; working with systems including iSeries (AS400), xSeries Servers,

Unix, Mainframe and of course, NT Server.

Freelance IT Consultant [AS400/iSeries/JBA]

Software Projex

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 1994September 1999 (5 years 9 months) London, United Kingdom

My first experience of Freelance Consulting was mainly offering my services as a JBA

Technical Consultant and this led me to contracts with companies such as American Express,

British American Tobacco, Invensys, United Biscuits, Origin, Bullworker Europe, Parker Pen

and IBM. I worked on AS400, Unix, VAX and S390 platforms. Projects as diverse as JBA

modifications, Y2K coding, network restructures, data migration, financials,

manufacturing, SOP and distribution systems, OS Installs and desktop support.

Technical ConsultantJBA SoftwareMarch 1990October 1993 (3 years 8 months) London, United Kingdom

Technical Consultant and Applications Programmer for JBA working on everything from core

product (System21) to bespoke design work for customers worldwide. During my tenure at JBA

I worked on most of the System/21 Applications.

Programmer AnalystToshiba Corporation

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry

January 1988March 1990 (2 years 3 months) London, United Kingdom

Programming on the System/38 and my first exposure to the AS400 as it was launched during

my time at Tosh. Working mainly in RPG3 on an inhouse distribution system.

Trainee ProgrammerAllergan Pharmaceuticals

Public Company; 5001-10,

000 employees; AGN; Pharmaceuticals industry

June 1986January 1988 (1 year 8 months) London, United Kingdom

Back in the grey dim and distant mists of time.. I started programming on this big new

box called the System38. With huge terminals that buzzed and clanked and was mentored by a

pony tailed programmer who mumbled a lot and wore sandals: In a bizarre twist of fate...

twenty years later I have metamorphosed into that same programmer ;)

Nick Litten's Skills & Expertise

IBM iSeries / AS400 / IBM-i

RPG

RPG II

RPG III

RPG ILE

RPG /FreeForm

CLP

CLLE

SQL

Drupal

Java

XML

HTML

Web Developer

SEO

SEM

Data Migration

Data Integration

Data Archiving

PHP

Turnover

Windows

Web Development

IBM iSeries

JBA / GEAC / INFOR - System 21

WDSC

IBM Rational Developer

Aldon

AS400

EDI

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Nick Litten's Education

Farnborough College of Technology

Computer Science, Electronics

1983 1985

Farnborough 6th Form College

A Level, Physics, Computer Science and History

1983 1983

Nick Litten's Additional Information

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Interests:

tinkering with websites, social technology, programming,, science fiction, motorcycles,

fishing and a quiet evening with a good bottle of wine

Groups and Associations:

AS/400 Professionals

AS/400 SQL

AS/400 i5 Jobs

AS/400-iSeries-i5

AS400 specialists

Association of IT Professionals - Las Vegas

DISYS Chicago

Drupal

IBM AS400 Blog

IBM i (unofficial)

IBM i Applications and Technologies

IBM i Enterprise Mobility

IBM i professionals

Infor ERP System21 (JBA System21, Geac System21)

JBA

LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group

Open Source

Porsche People: Owners, Global Employees & Admirers

RPG - AS400 Job Seekers

RPG OFF-SITE

RPG Programmers

RPG/AS400 Developers

RPGLANGUAGE.com

SAP Community

The IT Developer Network

Young i Professionals

iPro Developer Website & Magazine Forum

iSeries Contractor

iSeries Professionals

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