London, England, United Kingdom
I have been out from IT since 2011. I was made redundant from my last IT job in 2011. This was a time when jobs were hard to find. So since 2011 I have been working at Heathrow. I want to continue adding value to your company and it's processes using my IBM AS400 / RPG400 & COBOL 400 skills. I have very good customer facing skills gained over many years of experiences in addition to the solid IBM AS/400 RPG/400 & COBOL/400 technical skills already documented. I work and integrate equally well in to a team or when appropriate, I work well autonomously. Happy to do whatever is required. I can provide first class professional references. I am CRB checked and cleared in late 2011. I work for HSBC, so all my background checks are up to date and I will seamlessly fit in to another financial organisation and complete all FSA background checks without a problem anywhere. I am used to an early start, so if you want someone who can reliably start work early in the morning when others are just getting out of bed, I’m one of the best professionals you can get. I last developed using IBM AS400 RPG400 just before I joined HSBC, and I’m always happy to re-familiarise myself with IBM RPG/400 or COBOL/400 Development when required – a pleasure. Seeking a new challenge transferring my breadth and depth of IBM AS/400 RPG400 & COBOL400 skills and experiences. You are actively encouraged to contact me with any new career opportunities that will add value to your departments or to your clients. Thanks, Avtar. Specialties: IBM AS/400 RPG/400 & COBOL/400 Application Support Specialist. I am passionate about providing users with the best support that they can get. I am reliable, personable honest, ethical and very hardworking, and I will always go that extra mile to ensure all is completed. I possess and demonstrate superb written and oral communication skills. I am happy to commute reasonable distances. For HSBC, I regularly drive to Sheffield and Birmingham. I previously commuted long distances to various sites.
• Translating business needs & requirements into successful IT deliveries on time & to budget • Strong customer service focus • Bridging ‘the gap’ between the Business and IT be it in a development or support role. • Understanding criticalities and providing creative solutions within the stringent timelines. • Working with people and teams providing inspirational leadership • Leading from the front with a 'can do attitude' • Ability to communicate at all levels from trainee to board level.
Working with the conversion team on IBM AS400, RPG400 & RPGIV; • Converting data from third party companies into existing package called FAST200 • Set up of data files and queries • Running conversion routines • Testing Data converted against original data • Setting counts on spreadsheets for reconciliation
Project Manager and Hands-on IBM AS400, RPG400 Developer: Managed and developed a ‘Sell off system’ for Ricoh, to facilitate leasing of photocopiers. After holding meetings with the Finance Director and the accounts department I outlined a system for successfully automating their manual Direct Debit collection system. Developed and implemented files and programs, also performed historic data capture for Direct debits already captured by the manual system.
IBM AS400 RPG400 Development: · Working on a new project for developing a Disposals system for their fleet cars. · Started the project from the start, held meetings with users to outline the main requirements. Analysed the feedback from the users and created data models. · Used the data models to create file requirements and data entities. Used the entities to create program modules again having constant feedback with user meetings. · Created physical/logical files and profiled linkage against files. · Created RPG400 program modules to link with web pages designed by my colleague. · Set up test data to verify data flow between modules. · Created report programs (in RPGIV) interactive programs requiring user entry. · Also wrote interactive screen programs with sub-file handling for statistical purpose. · Also embedded MQseries commands within the RPG400 coding for data flow between AS400 and the web ASP’s.. · For each program I had to set ‘ field mappings’ per file, using Start/End positions for each field. I set the mappings in the Data Structure part of the RPG400 program and by use of the MQseries we were able to pass data across from the AS400 to the Web page. Set up the various queues, channels and processes for the MQSeries to function.
· Joined the company on a three month contract which was extended for a further three months · Worked with the support team fixing user logs. · The work involved working with a package called FAST2000 (Fund Administration Systems and Technology). · The package was used for dealing with various Funds for customers. · The system was written in COBOL400 ON IBM AS400 with Embedded SQL.