RESUME of Henry Edward Keown

** ****** ********, ********, ****, SOUTH AFRICA

+27-21-939**** / +27-82-775**** (cell)

adk1i5@r.postjobfree.com

IT Professional with more than 25 years experience. Expert developer within mainframe applications with full SDLC. Extensive skills in MVS Assembler and COBOL development with CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, etc. Also 3 years SAP ABAP/4 programming R2 and R3 (not recent). Good verbal and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LANGUAGES: COBOL, Assembler, ABAP4, (PL1, Easytrieve limited)

TOOLS: JCL, SQL, CICS, MVS, Unix, TSO

DATABASES: DB2, (Sybase limited)

OPERATING SYSTEMS: z/OS, Windows et al, OSX

WORK PERMIT STATUS: None – need visa

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Metropolitan Holdings Limited (now MMI Holdings) Cape Town, ZAR

Senior Analyst Developer Jan 2008 – May 2009 & Jan 2012 – Present

Maintenance of legacy system

Day to day functions, queries and users support

Integration support of multiple other systems

New projects due to legislative changes or new book take-on projects

Migration to new platform mid 2021 relating to several pre-migration tasks and projects

Metropolitan Health Group (now MMI Holdings) Cape Town, ZAR

Senior COBOL Developer Sep 2010 – Dec 2011

New development and maintenance on the Membership and Finance team’s COBOL code

Day to day functions, queries and users support using Linux, QTP and QZ scripts

Migrationware Pty Ltd Cape Town, ZAR

Senior Analyst Programmer Jun 2007 – Jul 2007 & Mar 2010 – Sep 2010

Conversion of several languages into COBOL via tools or per hand

Developed conversion tools and streamlined & improved others

Pic Solutions Pty Ltd & ACET Processing Cape Town, ZAR

Software Consultant Oct 2003 – Jun 2007 & Sep 2007 – Dec 2007

Worked on VisionPLUS and specialized in the batch running and installation of VisionPLUS.

Did upgrades at Woolworths and FNB, the latter from Vision21 to VisionPLUS 8.17. Upgrade tools does not exist for this size upgrade and I had to write them all.

Prumerica Systems Ireland Letterkenny, Ireland

Senior Mainframe Programmer Mar 2001 – May 2003

Maintaining Vantage adapters and automation projects

Mentored junior programmers into mainframe programming and provided JCL training

ENGEN Petroleum Ltd Cape Town, ZAR

Analyst Programmer May 1998 – Feb 2001

Wrote new programs in ABAP4/R3 for the EDC System (Engen Diesel Club) from COBOL, Easytrieve, SAS and ABAP4/R2

Did the standby roto for the EDC System and maintained the R2 version till replaced mid 1999.

South West Electricity Board Plc Plymouth, England

Analyst Programmer Apr 1996 – Dec 1996 & Aug 1997 – Mar 1998

New program coding for 2 mayor projects, CROESO and the Deregulation Project in COBOL and Assembler with DB2, CICS and VSAM

Mentored junior programmers

Ross Labs Columbus, Ohio

Technical Consultant for COMSYS USA (J1 Visa) Jan 1997 – Aug 1997

Y2K project using home grown tools for analysis and streamlined the total process.

Designed documentation for the signoff process per business unit.

Liaised with IBM on error in the new COBOL compiler (was able to identify it reading the Assembler code)

SANLAM Life Assurance Cape Town, ZAR

Junior to Senior Programmer Jan 1993 – Mar 1996

As a new junior wrote new programs for the New Deluxe Hospital Claims system in Assembler

After promotion wrote the Disability Claims system in COBOL and DB2 (first in the company)

Wrote various statistical programs for the team due to speed and accuracy.

EDUCATION

PRESIDENT HIGH SCHOOL 1988 Cape Town, ZAR

High School Diploma

SANLAM LIFE / ENGEN / MMI Cape Town, ZAR

Programming certificates

Assembler 1993 COBOL 1994 DB2 1994

ABAP4 1998 Kanban I 2018 Kanban II 2018

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