J. B. (Bruce) Van Wely

2210 East Lombard St.

Baltimore, MD  21231

Cell: (410) 908-1714

Email: bvanwely@myself.com

 

 

SUMMARY:

 

A senior data processing professional with over 30 years experience emphasizing full project life cycle: analysis, design, development and implementation of financial and government systems in the IBM enterprise environment. Specializing in architecture and conversion of legacy database systems.

 

 

OS's:

IBM z/OS, z/Linux, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows.

 

 

SOFTWARE:

DB2 (SPUFI, QMF, embedded and dynamic SQL, DB2 utilities), Stored Procedures, CICS Command, BMS, SDF II, MQ Series, COBOL II, MVS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, Intertest, Syncsort, Datacom DB, IDMS,  ENDEVOR, FileAid, Xpeditor, Platinum, IMS/DB ,  SWIFT Messages, CASE tools: PC based development using APS/PC, XDB, MicroFocus COBOL, Bash Shell, MySQL, Perl, Oracle (Stored Procedures, SQLPlus, PL/SQL)

 

EXPERIENCE:

Independent Consultant

 

4/11 to Present

Time-Warner Corporation, New York, New York

 

 

·         Developed Windows web-enabled transactions for an employee benefits/payroll system using MicroFocus Cobol, Net Express, HTML, Oracle and Rexx

·        Produced developer tools using Perl in Windows

·        Created Oracle metadata mining tools in Perl and SQLPlus

·        Wrote Cobol and SQLPlus Orade-to-Excel, and Excel-to-Oracle data extract, conversion, and reporting tools

·        Developed batch configuration management tools using Perl and SourceSafe.

·        Developed Business Intelligence Recovery tools using Perl and Oracle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/10 to 4/11

Marriott International, Bethesda, Maryland

 

 

·        z/OS architect in a major batch processing restructuring effort to provide 24/7 data availability

·        Developed business rules recovery tools in Perl for Windows

 

03/10 to 06/10

Jefferies International, Ltd., Jersey City, New Jersey

 

 

 

·    Participated in a planning study for the conversion of Datacom to DB2

·    Developed Business Rules Recovery processes in Perl to convert Cobol and DATACOM libraries into analyzable metadata

·    Developed processes in Perl for generating DB2 artifacts and process jcl from the above metadata

·    Developed processes in Perl to generate ETL programs for migrating from DATACOM to DB2

 

 

09/08 to 12/09

RXR Consulting,  Branchville, New Jersey

 

 

 

·    Site support for Social Security Administration Connect:Direct to CyberFusion migration in z/OS, Unix, Windows environment

·    Consultant on CyberFusion z/OS installation

·    Developed NDM:Connect to CyberFusion script translator in Perl

 

 

02/08 to 06/08

SAIC, Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

·    Consultant on Medicare, Medicaid proposal preparation.

 

 

03/07 to 01/08

Lowes Hardware, Wilkesboro, NC

 

 

 

·    Developer, toolmaker, Configuration Manager in an AIX environment supporting a SyBase to UDB/DB2 conversion.

 

 

08/06 to 03/07

CMS, Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

·    Developer, toolmaker, MQ architect developing a support infrastructure to convert a batch application to a multi-threaded background CICS/DB2 application.

 

 

03/06 to 08/06

CitiGroup, NEW YORK, NY

 

 

 

·    Member of large team that identified mainframe resources and owners as part of a corporate-wide audit requirement.  Work involved categorizing resource types, preparing resource glossaries, meeting with business contacts and reporting results.

 

 

03/05 to 03/06

CMS, Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

 

 

·    Developer, toolmaker, MQ architect developing a support infrastructure to convert a batch application to a multi-threaded background CICS/DB2 application.

 

 

11/03 to 03/05

DHS, Springfield, VA

 

 

 

·    Developer, toolmaker, architect developing international interagency integration solutions using COBOL, DATACOM, CICS, XML, and MQ Series.

·    Evaluated DATACOM to DB2 conversion methodologies

 

 

02/02 to 09/03

OMADA Technology Solutions,Washington, DC

 

 

 

·    Business management consultant, developing rate schedules, employment management, and project management policies and procedures in the realm of Federal Government services contracting

·    Technical marketing lead, developing technical solutions in the federal government arena

·    Project manager on a web site upgrade project at Department of Transportation

·    Project manager on a Cobol/SAS legacy recovery project at the Bureau of the Census.

 

 

02/01 to 01/02

Prudential Securities, New York, NY

 

 

 

·    Designing and developing applications to extract global position and securities data from a mainframe DB/2 database and transmit it via MQ and XML to a server-side Oracle database.

 

 

02/00 to 02/01

Metlife, Hauppauge, NY

 

 

 

·    Provide DB/2 DBA , data mining, and data cleansing/data integrity services on a large-scale pension and benefits system preparatory to migration from DB/2-Cobol-CICS to Oracle-Peoplesoft.

 

 

11/99 to 12/99

Stimpson, Bayport, NY

 

 

 

·    Consulting to a manufacturing company on designing, selecting, and installing an ERP solution.

 

 

07/99 to 10/99

SAIC, Falls Church, VA

 

 

 

·    Designing and implementing an internal web-based "Knowledge Management Center" to collect and coordinate the corporate IT experience base

 

 

1997 to 1999

MCI, Colorado Springs, CO

 

 

 

·    Project lead developing a specification-driven high-volume telecommunications billing system. The specifications were encoded in XML, while the batch processing used COBOL/DB2. The resulting batch processor reduced execution time from the existing hand-coded COBOL system by two orders of magnitude.

 

 

1994 to 1997

MDOT, Glen Burnie, MD

 

 

 

·    Acting as System Architect for the conversion of the MDOT computer system from Unisys DMS1100 to IBM CICS/DB2

·    Designed and implemented the common transaction interface to provide the features of the Unisys transaction system within the constraints of CICS/3270, thereby minimizing the learning curve for the terminal operators. All of the existing code was ported into Merant (Intersolv) APS, with the database and TP conversions implemented into macros. The conversion included Y2K upgrade and certification. All development and testing was done on the PC using MicroFocus COBOL and APS, and then ported to the mainframe using MicroFocus COBOL and APS.

 

 

1994

Peregrine Systems, Purcellville, VA

 

 

 

·    Developed a PC-based emulator using MicroFocus COBOL for UNISYS DMS, IDMS and Honeywell IDS as a proprietary product. The emulator was used in testing for the project immediately above and is sold as a stand-alone product

 

 

1992 to 1994

J. P. Morgan, New York, NY

 

 

 

·    Developed APS Online Express programming standards for ISDS, along with supporting macros

·    Supported ISDS application development in APS, both on-line and batch

·    Trained ISDS personnel in APS ReportWriter

·    Designed and coded screen scrolling procedures in APS macros

·    Developed asynchronous transaction methodology for batch CICS processing

 

 

Prior to 1992

·    Architect for Lockheed Martin Highway Fuel Tax System

·    Supported a proprietary CASE tool and applications development environment product for a number of end clients, using the macro processor that is the core of the APS system. This support involved design and implementation, customized re-engineering services, technical support, and training on a variety of hardware and software for on-line systems such as IBM CICS/DB2, IDMS/ADSO, Honeywell-Bull DMIV-TP/IDSII,and others

·    Designed and implemented several on-line K-12 educational administration systems. Applications included scheduling, special education, accounting, human resources, and payroll

·    Designed and implemented several division-wide on-line systems for General Electric using COBOL and ADSO/IDMS. Systems included vendor quality assurance, vendor tracking, EEO compliance reporting, and project tracking

·    Acted as DBA and database designer for several major commercial and governmental on-line database systems. Applications included payables, receivables, fixed assets, general ledger, order entry, subscription fulfillment, inventory management, and payroll

·    Designed a commodities trading system for the Reserve Fund using TPS-6 on a DPS-6

·    Worked for several years as a database design consultant, trainer, and implementer in the WWMCCS community

·    Taught computer concepts and programming for the U.S. Government

 

CERTIFICATION: Certified Computer Professional: ICCP

 

VISA STATUS: U.S. Citizen

 

SECURITY CLEARANCE: SSA, last active 2009; CMS, last active 2008; DHS, last active 2005, Top Secret, last active 1974.