[plug] The Tennyson Group

[Mike]

<hrrrm> Nice (long) CV suitably formatted for detail..~`:)

The question rises why on earth you'd want to work for someone
else at all and rather not work for yurself (like the best of us) ?

*grin*

Rgds

Mike


At 09:42 AM 12/10/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>
>
>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 
>?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.
>
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>"David Byers" <dbyers at ttg.com.au> on 11/10/2000 16:42:42
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>Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au
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>To:   plug at plug.linux.org.au
>cc:    (bcc: Wayne J Vovil/FUNDI)
>
>Subject:  [plug] The Tennyson Group
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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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>David Byers   MACS
>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
><mailto:dbyers at ttg.com.au>
>http://www.ttg.com.au
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