Pty

Ltd, November **** - Current

Location: Sydney

(Australia)

Positions: Senior Application Developer,

Environment: iSeries, Windows, LANSA AD (iSeries), Visual LANSA

(Windows), LANSA Integrator, LANSA WAMs (Web), RPG & CL

Company Brief

Lansa Pty Ltd is an R & D company who

develop their own 4GL multi-platform programming language (Lansa)

Experience

I was hired by LANSA to provide "real

world" application development experience for their Quality Assurance

department. My previous experience in multiple business areas

developing a variety of applications solutions is been applied to

testing LANSA via real business example solutions. As

LANSA is enhanced, incorporating new technologies such as interfaces to XML,

SOAP and .NET, I

develop application test cases to incorporate these features in the

testing suite. This is in

addition to the standard regression and function verification

testing. Additionally I provide design input into new features and

also source examples for inclusion into the Technical Help &

Tutorials.

I have developed various applications concentrating

on Windows using Visual LANSA, which is an object oriented component

based derivative of the LANSA product suite, also LANSA Integrator to

provide XML/SOAP integration and integration with .NET.

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Company:

(now ACBS), February 1997- June 2000

Location: San Diego and New York (USA)

Positions: Senior Application Developer, Senior

Analyst, Project Lead, On-site Consultant

Environment: AS/400,

Windows NT, LANSA for the AS/400, LANSA for Windows, RPG IV & CL

Company Brief

AIR is a business solutions company. Its products and services are

industry leaders in the design, development, service and support of

high-end wholesale and commercial banking software. Their main

package is called ACBS (Advanced Credit Banking System) which runs on the

AS/400 and NT platforms. The primary language used is Lansa for the

AS/400 although

new modules are developed using Visual Lansa and Delphi. Alltel

Information Systems acquired AIR in 1999, followed by Fidelity

Information Systems in 2003.

Experience

My initial period of employment for AIR was spent gaining experience in the commercial loan package, ACBS.

My role was a senior developer in a site-specific development team.

Subsequently I moved into a role as a technical team leader. This involved

analysis and development, documentation and review.

My role involved managing from 3 to 15 developers.

The tasks I performed included version control, management of resources in

4 separate locations, design and development.

The development involved LANSA for the AS/400 and some CL and RPG.

Applications developed:

Generic file transfer application using FTP

Auto-Debit/Payoff

Enhancement to core Notification and Fax application

Production of client specific Invoices.

Following this project I spent one year on a client site in New York

acting as the ACBS technical consultant. This involved liaising

with AIR business consultants, client personnel and other vendor

consultants. My main task was to analyse, design and write

specifications for client specific integration and enhancements to the

core ACBS product.

After my return to the head office in San Diego I was transferred

into the ACBS product development team as a senior developer. I

helped to produce a new module written

in Visual Lansa, running on NT with an Oracle database.

Company:, July 1996-

December 1996

Location: Los Angeles (USA)

Positions: Consultant

Environment: AS/400, LANSA, RPG IV, CL

Company Brief

Intec developed a commercial shipping package called Horizons that ran

on an AS/400 platform.

Experience

I assisted them in designing and developing enhancements to their

product. One such application used DDM to interface between

two AS/400 machines. I also assisted them in tuning and an upgrade

of their AS/400.

Company: Hyundai & Chrysler Distributors

Australia, 1994 to 1996

Location: Sydney (Australia)

Positions: Systems Development Manager

Environment: AS/400, RPG III & CL, LANSA & Progress

Company Brief

The company is a franchise operation importing into Australia and New Zealand both Hyundai

vehicles from Korea and Chrysler vehicles from the US. Since 1993 the company

saw a rapid growth

to become the largest Hyundai passenger vehicle importer in Australia and the largest independent Hyundai

importer in the world. Hyundai expanded taking on the Chrysler franchise

when it was re-introduced into Australia in 1994.

Client Server Seminar, March 1994

Prepared and presented a seminar to the Australian Society of Practicing

Accountants.

Experience

I joined the company with only 3 members in the IS team. It grew to 13, complemented with additional

contractors when required.

My role was to develop new systems and interfaces to add to the existing RPG based Vehicle Tracking software.

I introduced standards and object methodology into the department and was responsible for recommending

solutions to the IS manager who was from a non-technical background. As there was limited previous

LANSA

(AS/400 case tool) experience I mentored team members and maintained Lansa functions when required.

The major tasks I performed were:

Client/Server Dealer Connect System.

Interface to Vehicle

Preparer.

Re-develop existing Vehicle system to incorporate introduction of new Chrysler franchise into Australia and subsequently NZ.

Develop EDI link to Customs Agent.

Advise on hardware and software purchases and various technical issues.

Feasibility studies, development plans, project reports and schedules for management.

Dealer connect system

The main objective of this project was to bring all the dealers selling Hyundai vehicles on-line.

The manual system of using the phone and fax being inefficient and restrictive as well as not showing

current stock levels. Additionally to set up the dealer network to allow

future enhancement and growth.

The initial requirements were to provide a standalone terminal that performed most dealer intensive

functions then later to integrate into their current systems so as to re-use existing hardware.

Following a requirements study the following business functions were developed:

Vehicle Tracking - Enquiries, Ordering and Retail Delivery Advice.

Parts Enquiry and Ordering.

Warranty Enquiry, Claims and Approvals..

We chose Progress (4gl tool) to develop a DOS/Windows (later to include

Unix) client/server application that could run off-line i.e. from it s own database

on the client, or connected to both the client and the AS/400 server

database. Various other solutions were investigated and trialed.

Following the initial implementation we introduced a SCO/Unix version running from the same

(recompiled) source programs. This allowed the integration of the majority of the Unix based

dealer systems to integrate with our Windows/AS400 solution.

This project was my most demanding and interesting and took a major portion of my time at Hyundai.

I was involved from the inception in this client/server development.

It was successfully implemented in 1995 and phase II was in progress

when I left Hyundai.

During this project I performed the following tasks:

Feasibility Study - including comparing and selecting development tools & IT partners.

Systems Development Plan -

this incorporated such items as project resources, requirements

analysis, environments and standards.

Development -

analysis, specification, coding & unit testing.

I was also involved with the following processes:

QA -

developing test plans, performing reviews and change control procedures.

Hardware Implementation - Devising a communications strategy for low and high volume

clients (rural/metro),

building the Client PC, setting up communications.

Education -

Demonstration and national training.Vehicle Preparer Interface

This development involved integrating a DEC with an AS/400 computer

system. I designed, documented and, with the aid of my

team, developed and implemented a seamless interface into our existing server (AS/400). Files were transferred at

regular intervals via TCP/IP over an ISDN connection.

This application was successfully implemented nationwide across

Australia

Company:, 1989 to 1994

Location: Sydney (Australia)

Positions: Technical Consultant, Lansa Help Support, Technical

Pre-Sales Support, Trainer

Environment: AS/400, Windows, LANSA & RPG

Company Brief

Aspect Computing is an Australian Software company providing

consultancy services. In 1987 Aspect

developed a CASE tool for the mid-range marketplace called LANSA. This product is now sold

worldwide and also provides a Windows and WEB version.

Head Office, 1992 to 1994

During the time I was based in Aspects head office I performed

various roles:

AS/400 and Lansa Technical Consulting & Support

Lansa Help support

Technical Pre-sales Support

Training

I was technical support for the NSW sales team of 3. In this capacity I was responsible for:

Demonstrations to prospective clients including

Benchmarks over multiple days.

AS/400 configurations such as machine upgrades.

AS/400 System Audits

AS/400 System Tuning

AS/400 Installation & environment configuration

Technical Proposals for

prospects and existing customers

Participation in Conferences and User groups

In addition to sales support for 2 years I performed the role of Lansa NSW Help Support.

I worked with the following Lansa products while based at the head

office: Lansa Server,

GUI, PCX, Client, RUOM (Rapid User Object Method), Task Tracking (Change Control System)

and Multi-Lingual Support.

During this time I redeveloped a module of MainPac (a distribution

application written in Lansa) to run on an OS/2 platform.

I worked on modifications

to the Respect (file registry system) application. During this project I was

a senior consultant gathering user requirements, design documents, program specifications and delegating

work to a team of analyst/programmers.

I designed and developed a Spool Archiving system that automated

saving and restoring spool files produced overnight. This required using AS/400 User Space

API's.

Conducted Lansa & RPG training. These were accredited courses as well as tailored specifically to clients needs. The courses

included Advanced RPG 3 Programming Workshop, Lansa Programming Workshop and

a

CL and RPG Concepts Workshop.

Additionally I:

Published a quarterly nationwide Lansa Newsletter

Performed on-site consulting including Lansa Installation &

upgrades

Performed functional design and development

On-Site Consulting, 1989 to 1992 Board of Studies

This project was to completely replace the existing Higher School Certificate

and School Certificate batch systems, integrating and enhancing the system function

to include current manual and PC system tasks as well as new business requirements.

The examinations system handles such functions as; the administration of student enrolments

in courses, conduct of examinations and assessment of students performance in these courses also

examination scheduling i.e. ensuring students arrive at the appropriate destination at the correct time.

I developed and tested Lansa & RPG programs from specifications. Also I worked in the Performance team

to measure and improve the throughput of key batch programs.

On-Site Consulting, 1989 to 1992 Arabian Horse Society

The prime function of AHS is the registration and maintenance of all

records pertaining to Purebred Arabian horses in Australia. Aspect

was asked to re-write the existing software, written on a System 36 to

run on newly purchased AS/400 hardware.

The Stud Registration system comprised of four major modules:

Membership Register

Stud Register

Cash Receipting

Reporting and Enquiries

Aspect approached the design with the view of developing a flexible, packaged system

that could be marketed to any other organization involved in registrations and

stud breeding. The system would be appropriate to organizations such as Horse

Racing, Greyhound Racing, Cattle Breeding and Dog Breeding.

I was involved in the development of the Registry

System from the initial stages, (using the Lansa Data Modeller) right through

to implementation. A System 36 Analyst gathered the initial requirements; I then followed this with

LANSA design and

coding. During this project I was in charge of delegating work to programmers.

Company:, 1988 to 1989

Location: Manchester (UK)

Positions: Technical Consultant

Environment: System 38 & AS/400, RPG III, CL

Company Brief

Bluebird was an agent for PRMS, an application used for the manufacturing industry,

they also performed ad-hoc consultancy and development projects.

Experience

Contract Control was a bespoke package written to interface with PRMS. My

involvement was from the beginning of development until final

implementation under the supervision of a project leader. I

performed design, development and user training.

This specific client manufactured coin and slot machines.

The employee hours were recorded via their clock cards.

PC software registered the hours then passed this information

through to the S/38 to update Payroll and Job Scheduling information.

My role in the Labour Reporting System was to amend existing and

develop new software using information gathered by data collection

terminals (PC's). I had sole responsibility for this project.

Within MAPICS, I was involved in programming Work-in-Progress and Selective

Item Costing Software.

Company:, 1986 to 1988

Location: Manchester (UK)

Positions: Analyst/Programmer

Environment: System 36 & 38, RPGIII

Company Brief

Emerald Business Systems was a small software

company that had one client.

On-site Consulting, Ian Anthony

Ian Anthony is a franchise that deals in exotic

vehicles such as Porsche and BMW.

My involvement with Payroll was to investigate the requirements of the department,

specifying the functionality of a package that would meets its needs and evaluating

various vendors packages. I liaised with users, software vendors also writing specifications

and implementing the package. The Personnel system was similar but on a smaller scale.

I was also

given the task of emulating an existing system running on a PC that involved

Sales Administration and Analysis and where possible making improvements on it

on the System 38. The sales team used the PC system to interactively build and order vehicles

from the factory. Accessories could be

selected and added to the base vehicle.

Other duties included, installing hardware at remote

sites, bespoke marketing software (graphing utilities etc), data conversion

from S/36.

Company:, 1984 to 1986

Location: Blackburn (UK)

Positions: Analyst/Programmer

Environment: System 38, RPG III & CL

Company Brief

Walker Steel is a large steel stockholder with offices around the

UK.

Work Experience

My duties were to work from brief program specifications developing programs

and testing.

I was involved

in remote site installation covering hardware and software commissioning and

user training.

I was solely

responsible for the rewrite of a Stock Control/Invoicing interface taking it

from feasibility to implementation.

I fully evaluated a programming aid/utility called Pathfinder for use by the

development department.

Company:, 1983 to 1984

Location: Leigh (UK)

Positions: Programmer

Environment: System 38, RPG III & CL

Company Brief

Broseley Homes is a large house builder.

Work Experience

I was initially a Junior Programmer, working from detailed program specifications

written by an Analyst.

The main application being Fixed Assets, but other

work included General and Sales Ledger.

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