[plug] The Tennyson Group

wvovil at fundi.com.au wvovil at fundi.com.au
Thu Oct 12 09:42:30 WST 2000



Hi

Here is my cv as below:


Name:               Wayne VOVIL

Education:          Bachelor of Arts (Computing - Canberra CAE) (incomplete)
               Graduate Certificate in Applied Science (Info Tech - Charles
Sturt University)
               Master of Information Technology (Charles Sturt University)
current
               Introductory Chinese Mandarin I (Perth TAFE)
               Java for Distributed Systems Using CORBA (MIT above)
               OOP & OOD using Java (MIT above)
               Data Structures using Java (MIT above)
               Applied Neural Networks (MIT above)
               OO Databases (MIT above)
               C / C++ (Canberra Tafe)
               B Comp (UNE) - C++
               Japanese I (Japan-Australia Foundation)
               Chinese (Mandarin) Certificate (3 Yr) Perth TAFE (Current)

Professional:  Member Australian Computer Society (since 1981)
               Member National Systems Programming Assoc. USA
               Licensed SAS Consultant
               Registered Oracle Developer
               ADABAS / NATURAL Business Partner with Software AG

Key features:

*    Over 31 years experience in programming (began April 1969);

*    Very skilled in capacity planning, performance tuning of IBM Large
Systems, support of  SAS, MVS, OS/390, CICS, DB2,  ADABAS / NATURAL, COBOL,
Storage Management and Computer Centre Operations in both RACF and ACF2
environments;

*    Experience with installation and implementation of a large number of
software products (Mainframe and PC);

*    Substantial experience in systems and technical support, including
IBM, FUJITSU and HITACHI, PC  LAN and WAN NETWORK systems, and in a number
of 24 hour, 7 days a week computer bureau environments;

*    Key roles in large benchmark testing performed in the USA for the
Australian Government, involving management, installation and tuning of the
communication network and CICS environment, establishing a test network for
4,000 terminals using TPNS, and setting up a large  database test system;

*    Extensive experience in the design, programming and performance
tuning of large online database systems including DB2,  ADABAS, IDMS\R ,
AIM\DB, and Oracle;

*    Extensive experience in the design and presentation of over 100
training courses world-wide;

*    Ability to work alone, as a member of a team or as a project
leader/manager, as well as liase with the highest levels of management;

*    Extensive analysis, design and programming experience using SAS/AF,
COBOL, PL/I, ALGOL, FORTRAN, various assembler languages, REXX, and CLISTS;

*    Experience with various products such as SAS, with Data Warehousing
and Data Mining (OLAP);

*    Have prepared Disaster Recovery Plans, Performance Tuning and
Capacity Planning models and Operational guidelines for a number of
organisations including Fujitsu;

*    Involved in OOA / OOD using Rational Rose, Smalltalk and Java;

*    A wealth of experience in PC's and PC software and hardware
including SAS PC (Windows, OS/2 and Unix); C/C++, MS BASIC,  Smalltalk,
DBASE, Microsoft Access, Excel, Word,  various 4GL's and UNIX;

*    .Founder and former president of the WA OS/2 User Group.


Career Summary

Sept 2000 - Present: Contracting to Fundi, Perth

Duties include VA Java programming and system design (OOA/OOD) for NT / Unix /
IBM OS390. XML/MS SQL and Delphi programming.

July 2000 - Sept 2000: Contracting to IBM GSA Perth

Duties included VA Java development using XML, UDB2 on NT and OS/390. Database
conversions from Oracle to DB2.

Mar 2000 - July 2000: Contracting at Imagemation, Perth

OO Design and Analysis of e-commerce systems, programming in VB and MS SQL,
creating web site with ASP, Visual Interdev, Dreamweaver 3 etc.

Nov 
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?99 - Feb 2000: Freelance programming

Unix / Linux system administration and installation. VB / MS SQL and C++/C
programming and tutoring university students in C++ (Unix). Developing an
in-house expenses system using SAS/AF. Learning Perl scripting.

Sept ?99 - Nov ?99: IBM GSA, Melbourne

IT Architect for Online Ordering Transaction e-commerce project for Telstra.
Involved OOD / OOA, Dreamweaver 2 (HTML), Java (IBM VisualAge for Java) and
CORBA (Orbix Web).

Sept '98 - Sept '99: Iona Technologies Asia Pacific, Perth

OS/390 Senior Customer Engineer / Team Leader. Products CORBA, Java, perl,
C++, Unix (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), Windows NT, IBM OS/390, COBOL, PL/I, CICS,
REXX, TSO, JCL.

Lead Technical OS/390 Team.

Overseas trips to Dublin (twice). Gave technical presentations in Dublin and
Amsterdam, and installed Orbix for OS/390 at Telenor in Oslo.

Wrote COBOL manual and documentation for Orbix for OS/390.

Cross platform support for COBOL, PL/1, C++, Java (OS/390, Unix, NT) and
perl.

Writing 'Teach Yourself PL/I in 21 Days' for Sams Publishing.

Writing 'COBOL Programming with CORBA' for Sams Publishing.

May ?98 - Aug ?98: AAT Contract through Computer Power, Canberra

Y2K Project using ADABAS/NATURAL.

Dec '97 - May '98: Consulting at Long Island Lighting Company, NY USA

Programming in DB2 / SQL / CICS / COBOL and CoolGen for Data Warehousing and
Customer Billing systems.

Programming in REXX / CLISTS / ISPF\PDF Dialogues.

Programming in MS Access, Visual Basic & Java.

Using MS Project for project management of the capacity planning and
performance tuning of the Customer Billing System.

CICS & MVS and DB2 System programming, capacity planning and performance
tuning.

NT 4.0 LAN Administration.


Mar '97 - Dec '97: Contracting at Dept Health, Canberra

ADABAS / NATURAL programming on the National Respite Carer system and fully
implemented a Year 2000 (Y2K) upgrade to a major application system.

Attended SAS User Days.
Attended SAS Data Warehouse Seminar

Writing 'SAS Unleashed' for SAMS Publishing (including chapters on Data
Warehousing and Data Mining).

Dec ?96 - Mar ?97: WA Police, Perth

Maintenance and enhancements to application systems  using NATURAL / DB2.

Jul ?96 - Dec ?96:  Contracting at Dept Social Security, Canberra (through
Paxus)

M204 programming.

Dec '95 - June ?96: Contracting Dept Employment, Education, Training & Youth
Affairs, Canberra

Maintain CORCODES (Corporate System Codes) database using ADABAS / NATURAL,
write NATURAL programs, extract data from ADABAS and load into new CORCODES
database in DB2. Write programs using SAS, SAS/AF, SAS/CONNECT (DB2 /
ADABAS), NATURAL and QMF SQL.

Set up production JCL and document system for automated database migrations.

Design Global Data Warehouse to Abbreviated Global Data Warehouse Migration
Strategy across DB2 and ADABAS environments using OOD methodologies.

Migration of databases and Data Warehouses between DB2, ADABAS and Oracle
platforms. Develop  extraction and online query applications using NATURAL
(ADABAS platform), QMF/SQL (DB2 platform) and FORMS 4.5 (Oracle platform).

CICS, PL\1, DB2 and SAS programming for Data Warehousing.

Apr '94 - Dec '95: Contracting SECWA (Western Power), Perth

Conversion of application systems from SAS V5 to V6, including redoing
analysis and design. Converted many systems from SAS batch mode into online
systems using SAS/AF. Some minor Ingress (UNIX & Windows 4GL) hands on,
mainly using SQL and SAS (SQL Proc) under Solaris 2..

CICS Systems Programming, performance tuning and capacity planning of the
Customer Information System and Trouble Call system by tuning CICS systems,
CICS/COBOL/DB2/VSAM applications systems, and DB2 databases. Used SAS for
performance tuning of MVS and CICS and was able to improve the performance
by over 200%.

CICS/COBOL/DB2/VSAM/SAS programming as required.

Systems integration using OS/2 REXX. Conversion of LAN\WAN from OS\2 LAN to
NETWARE. Installed PC hardware and software.

Attended 3 day Smalltalk Workshop conducted by Object Training in Sydney.

Attended SAS User Day (and won prize - dinner for 2)

July '93 - Apr '94: Contracting King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women &
Sexual Assault Referral Centre

Programming using SAS, DB2/QMF/SQL, COBOL and PL\1.

Aug '92 - June '93: Contracting Fujitsu

Involved in producing reports and documenting FMIS policy and methodology
guidelines for Fujitsu Australia. Areas that I covered were:

     * Disaster Recovery Planning

     * Operations

     * Performance Monitoring & Capacity Planning

     * Job Scheduling

     * Security Considerations of RACF & ACF2

Also I have been providing freelance relational database design and
programming for small businesses. This involved writing in C++ under Windows
3.1 and using Microsoft Access and Visual Basic and installation of PCs and
Novell Netware.

May '92 - Aug '92: Contracting Brisbane City Council

Contracting to Brisbane City Council through Computer People.  Duties for
the first 6 weeks were to undertake a Technical Evaluation of the responses
received to a tender for Application packages. The two platforms evaluated
were IBM and Unisys. Particular regard was given to OSI. In an-house project
management tool and methodology were used for this project.

At the end of the initial eight week period, I was responsible for providing
CICS/ESA systems programming expertise, including performance tuning and
capacity planning.

Feb '91 - May '92: Contracting Sydney Electricity

Contracting to Sydney Electricity through Phoenix Contracting.  Duties were
to install, maintain and tune IDMS/R DB/DC systems and provide other
technical assistance as required, including writing ACF2/IDMS interfaces in
assembler. System performance tuning and capacity planning (CICS/DB2/MVS).
Also SAS programming..

Oct '89 - Feb '91: Contracting Australian Dept Customs, Canberra

Contracting at Australian Customs Service in Canberra through Computer
People.  Duties were:

  (i)     Manage the CICS system (including CICS performance and capacity
planning);

  (ii)    Advise on Storage Management;

  (iii)   Implement ACF2 exits and interfaces;

  (iv)    Set up PC DOS based Office Systems;

  (v)     Overall project management;

  (vi)     Using SAS to extract SMF performance data;

  (vii)   Train staff.

Also at this time was responsible for giving a number of IBM courses on
behalf of IBM to the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra.  These courses
were:

     * IBM Large Systems

     * MVS/XA/ESA Overview

     * MVS Concepts & Facilities

     * CICS for System Programmers


June '86 - Oct '89: Contracting Northern Territory Treasury, Darwin

Contracting to the Northern Territory Computer Centre (NCOM) in Darwin.
Tasks included CICS systems programming and performance tuning / capacity
planning using OMEGAMON and SAS, supervising and training subordinates,
implementation of MVS/XA and DFP, DFHSM management, Data and Storage
Administration, DASD management, DASD performance tuning using SAS and
OMEGAMON and setting up the sections PC systems. Extensive use was made of
Anderson's Method/1 methodology and both CA Super Project and Microsoft
Project as PC based project management tools. I utilised Lotus 123 and
Borland Quattro 1.0 for Budgeting, Forecasting and Costing.


Dec '85 - Jun '86
: Contracting Dept Social Security, Canberra

Contracting to the Federal Dept Social Security in Canberra.  Develop
strategies and methodologies in testing and debugging a conversion to
MVS/XA. Project management was also one of my duties. Utilised SAS for data
extraction and performance tuning. Extensive M204 User Language programming.

March '85 - Dec '85: Contracting Hospital Benefit Fund Perth

Various freelance consultant positions which included:

     (i)  MANTIS/TIS database analysis and design for Health Benefit
Fund of WA;

     (ii) AIM/DC database analysis and design for WA Water Authority;

     (iii)     Design, development and programming of systems in C / C++
under UNIX (ZENIX) on an Altos 286 at the Burswood Casino for Genting
Berhad;

     (iv)      Troubleshooting and assisting the WA Treasury Dept. in an
IBM MVS/XA conversion (from NCR) with Garry Riddel.

Nov '84 - March '85: Contracting Australian National, Adelaide

Contracted to the Australian National (Railways) Adelaide.  Duties were to
design, analyse and program a national online real-time train monitoring
system utilising ADABAS/NATURAL on a FACOM M180 II AD running OSIV/F4. I
utilised PA Consultants Methodologies for this project.

July '84 - Nov '84: Contracting Dept Of Computing Information Technology,
Perth

Contracting to the WA Government.  Performed an extensive 4GL/DBMS
evaluation for all of the current and future WA Government computing
requirements.  ADABAS/NATURAL was the product finally selected. Intensive
usage of Project Management Tools was necessary in co-ordinating this large
project; SDM70 was the product used.

Nov '83 - July '84: Contracting Dept Special Minister of State, Canberra

Contracting as a Consultant through Computer People. CICS System Programming
and Performance Tuning / Capacity Planning at the Dept.  Special Minister of
State, Canberra.  This included ADABAS/NATURAL programming and tuning. This
position also required me to supervise and train a number of technical
staff. Amongst the production CICS systems were The Costigan Commission, The
Hope Royal Commission, and The Stuart Commission.


Aug '81 - Nov '83: Senior Systems Engineer, National Advanced Systems, Perth

SSE for National Advance Systems.  Responsible for providing high level
consulting services and on-site support to NAS customers.  Support of NAS
processors.  Involved in capacity planning, performance tuning (SAS) and
configuration management of Large Scale IBM Systems.  Support of IBM
software (e.g. CICS/VS, VSAM, STAIRS, MVS) and various database management
systems (e.g. ADABAS, M204, IMS/DB). Specific projects undertaken during
this time were:

Aug 81 - Aug 82     Account Manager for WATAB
          Marketing for new accounts
          Acted as Customer Engineering Manager
          Acting Branch Manager
          Set up WA Branch from scratch

Aug 82 - Jan 83     MVS Performance Tuning NZFP NZ (SAS, MF1 etc.)

Jan 83 - Mar 83     DSS Benchmark NAS USA

Mar 83 - May 83     Computer Centre Manager SYD

May 83 - Sept 83    MVS/CICS Performance Tuning HKSBC Hong Kong
          CICS Education HKSBC
          China Light & Power (CICS/ADABAS Tuning)
          Sun Hang Khai Hong Kong (DOS/VS, CICS Tuning)

Sept 83 - Nov 83    Systems Engineering Manager Perth Office


Feb '79 - Aug '81: Senior Systems Engineer, Fujitsu, Canberra

FACOM Senior Systems Engineer.  Responsible for hardware and software
support and education of Australian Bureau of Statistics. systems personnel.
Products mainly responsible for were SAS (installed and supported),
ADABAS/NATURAL, AIM/DB/DC, GEM, SAS, Job Accounting software etc. Wrote
pilot CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) system for Dept
Immigration / ASIO / CIB / Customs using ADABAS/NATURAL. This system was
used prior to and subsequent to the HILTON Bombing incident to track
possible terrorists.

July '77 - Feb '79: CICS Systems Programmer, Medibank, Canberra

CICS System Programmer and DC Administrator with Medibank, Canberra. Set up
the first Medibank major online system throughout Australia. This initially
involved more than 1300 terminals.

Oct '76 - July '77: Chief Programmer (Insurance), Wesfarmers Perth

Project Leader / Senior Programmer (Insurance System) at Wesfarmers in
Perth. The Insurance System was Wesfarmers' biggest system.

Apr '69 - Oct '76: Australian Government Departments (Canberra & Sydney)

Application programming with various federal government departments
(Australian Tax Office in particular). Main roles were Database
Administrator, Senior Analyst / Programmer and Project Leadership.

Strengths (not in any order):

Capacity Planning
Performance Tuning
Systems Programming
CICS/VS
ADABAS/NATURAL
DASD Subsystem Tuning
Storage Management
Programming (COBOL, PL/I)
SAS
Software Installation & Testing
Windows 95/98/NT & OS/2
Project Management
Database Administration and Management
OOA / OOD
HTML
CORBA

 Computer Courses Attended

IBM

IBM OS2 2.0 Development Seminar
CICS INSTALLATION
Professional Software Development  Seminar
MVS INSTALLATION
ISP ASSEMBLER
ISP VSAM
CICS CONCEPTS
CAPACITY PLANING: BASIC MODELS
OMEGAMON/CICS

Control Data

SCOPE
UPDATE
COBOL
COMPASS Assembler

Burroughs

MCP SYSTEM PROGRAMMING
DC ALGOL
DMS II Database

ICL

PERT 1902 PACKAGE
FORTRAN IV

FACOM

OSIV/F4 E40
VSAM/INTENALS
AIM/DB/DC

Microsoft

Windows NT Overview

General

DASD CAPACITY PLANNING
HOUSLEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS
BIS/SCHRAPNEL - DATABASE DESIGN & ANALYSIS
SPL - ADABAS & NATURAL
Australian Institute of Management - Presentation Skills
Australian Institute of Management - Being a Manager
Australian Institute of Management - Supervision
Advanced C Programming (Canberra TAFE)
NATURAL V2 Programming & Performance
Professional seminars by Yourdon, Weinberg, Constantine
ACS presentations
Smalltalk Workshop
Windows NT Introduction
Windows NT Installation & Management
GUPTA SQL Database Development
Oracle PCL Introduction
JAVA Scripting
Oracle Developers' Forum
Rational Rose BOOCH/OMT 4 day workshop
CORBA Programming with Orbix (Dublin)
MTE Customer Training
Quality Service Skills

Computer Courses (I was the presenter / designer)

Introduction to MVS ( 5 times)
MVS for Systems Programmers  ( 12 times)
MVS Concepts & Facilities ( gave this for IBM )
CICS Overview  ( lost count of how many)
CICS Concepts & facilities (about 12 times)
CICS Internals  ( 4 times)
GEM (Fujitsu about 15 times)
C/SMF
TESTMANAGER
AIM/DC/DB  (about 10 times)
EasyTrieve  (3 times)
ADABAS Introduction  ( about 25 times )
NATURAL Introduction ( about 40 times )
ADABAS/NATURAL Programming  ( about 20 times )
ADABAS DBA Management  (3 times)
COBOL Programming
VSAM Concepts (4 times)
DB2  & Relational Database Overview
CORBA for OS/390

Other Studies

Italian I (Canberra TAFE)
Japanese I (Darwin TAFE)
Japanese II (Darwin TAFE)
C/C++ Programming (Canberra TAFE)
Beginning Mandarin
Irish (Irish Club)
General Linguistics
Chinese (Mandarin) Perth TAFE

Regards

Wayne

PS I am sorry about the lack of formatting.






"David Byers" <dbyers at ttg.com.au> on 11/10/2000 16:42:42

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Hi Folks,

It was good to meet many of you again last night and thanks for coping with
the cramped conditions. I got asked again
what The Tennyson Group ( www.ttg.com.au ) does so thought it was time to
give ourselves a plug (pun intended!).

We recruit IT people for permanent and contract positions - mainly but not
exclusively in WA and SA. We deal with all the major and most of the minor
IT groups around town. We also do quite a bit of international recruitment
via our alliance with Compuware. We are different from all the other
recruiters in that our primary focus is on the candidate (worker) rather
than on the client (employer).

We are always looking for good people so if you are considering the next
step in your career, talk to us and we will help you if we can.

Thanks for your time - looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting,

David
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The Tennyson Group - WA
Recruitment and Consultancy Services in IT & Telecommunications
Ph:  (08) 9322 2338
Direct: (08) 9226 0593
Mobile:  041 992 7580
Fax:  (08) 9226 1553
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