RICK JONES
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
CONTACT INFO
Purcell, OK
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EXPERIENCE
CICS
Developed a virtualized CICS system product while at Compuware to allow a single CICS address space to have 999 virtual instances. Made use of new interfaces for CICS as well as enginerred around the CICS Exployer for Bundles. When I left the product was in a Alpha testing state. Have written several CICS products over the years. ProScreen, CICS Juggler, CICS Windows, CICS FCTD, Help- Windows, CrossPlex, CICS-RDO/EC
Have installed most versions of CICS over the years and supported the application stack for internal applications, tuning and problem determination.
VTAM
Developed 3 different VTAM Session Managers. Two that were marketed under the names VTAM-Windows and STSGATE.
Developed a 3270 data stream optimization product called VTAM-Express which performed 3270 data stream compression for any VTAM Application (i.e. TSO, IMS CICS etc) IMS
Co-developed COPE a virtualzation product that you can run up to 256 IMS Systems in a single set of IMS address spaces. Required extensive IMS and z/OS internals. TIMELINE POSITIONS
January 2021 - Present
Founder and CEO Iconium Software
Responsible for all aspects of running a software company and lead developer of software product DataLenz. December 2016 - December 2020
Technical Consultant III Compuware Inc
Development Team lead for the software product COPE December 2008 – November 2016
CTO Standardware
CTO and lead developer for the software product COPE. April 2005 – April 2007
Vice President Rocket/Seagull Software
Ran development lab for CICS team.
June 1983 – March 2005
President CEO SofTouch Systems
Developed 8 products for the IBM mainframe for VTAM, CICS REFERENCES
Available upon request