Cobol Developer

• Jan 2023 - Present

IT Consultant

• Mar 2022 - Nov 2022

Release management for Deutsche Bank IPB projects, liaison Geneva and Frankfurt back-offices. IT application owner for Euroclear Fundsettle CH, ClearStream Switzerland projects, L2 tech Support. Application and release controls (SDLC), risk assessment, contract management, application onboarding tasks. Release management for Deutsche Bank IPB projects, liaison Geneva and Frankfurt back-offices. IT application owner for Euroclear Fundsettle CH, ClearStream Switzerland projects, L2 tech Support. Application and release controls (SDLC), risk assessment, contract management, application onboarding tasks.

Cobol Developer

• Jul 2021 - Oct 2021

Consultant for R+V german insurer. Providing implementation and bugfixes for the BLU project (life insurance) in Cobol and CICS. Technical Environment: z/OS, Cobol, CICS, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, SCLM, XPediter, Jira. Consultant for R+V german insurer. Providing implementation and bugfixes for the BLU project (life insurance) in Cobol and CICS. Technical Environment: z/OS, Cobol, CICS, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, SCLM, XPediter, Jira.

Associate IT System Engineer

• Jul 2020 - Jan 2021

Group Technology Services - Windows server design, automation and orchestration services. Providing the clearing and settlement units with automated custom server builds in the data centers using SCCM, in-house tools and Ansible. Application support to end-users related to builds, orchestration troubleshooting. 2nd line stand-by support on a rotation basis. Development of internal tools to assist the server build and monitoring tasks (using ASP.NET, Entity Framework, web services, .NET core, SQL Server). Technical environment: Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, desktop and core editions, Cisco Process Orchestrator, DB2 LUW, IBM MQ, SCCM, Ansible, PowerShell, T-SQL, C#, VMWare ESX, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL. Show less

Information Technology Consultant

• Nov 2019 - Jun 2020

IBM Partner. Self-employed, specializing in IBM z/OS . Oracle support. Production support engineer for Directorate Général informatique - pension rights and mission reimbursements. Drosbach, Luxembourg. IBM Partner. Self-employed, specializing in IBM z/OS . Oracle support. Production support engineer for Directorate Général informatique - pension rights and mission reimbursements. Drosbach, Luxembourg.

Oracle Database Developer

• Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

IT Consultant for DG EAC (Education, Youth, Sport and Culture), European Commission.Database developer and 2nd line technical support for the Erasmus+ student and staff Mobility Tool.

Technical Designer

• Jul 2017 - Sep 2018

IT Consultant for DG FISMA (Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union), European Commission.Knowledge Online on European Legislation (KOEL) project and EMT applications - development and 3rd line technical support.

Advisory Technical Analyst

• Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

Advisory Technical Analyst - Domestic Application Services: Core Banking, SYS/ATM/Cash at St. Michielswarande Data Center. In my role as technical analyst I have been in several teams during my employment: middleware, ATM and cash applications. Application owner responsible for coordination between external provider and internal entities for the OpenCertSign (OCS) ID card based digital signature project. Printer fleet management implementation from scratch using HPWebJetAdmin and in-house developed tools. ATM park monitoring and system upgrade. Maintenance of the middle-layer for communication between branch office servers, central systems (mainframe - Unisys Libra) and ATM network (Diebold & NCR MF types). Technical environment: C/C++/C# Visual studio, COM/DCOM, Informix, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL server, Virtualization. Show less

Application Architect / Senior Analyst-Programmer

• Oct 2007 - Sep 2015

In the role of IT consultant for the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) I have been involved in several projects as Oracle Developer, Full-Stack Developer and IT support. • Analysis of Anti-Fraud operations and processes and design of technical solutions for the Case Management System and Intelligence Applications in support of the anti-fraud and anti-corruption activities of the Office. • Provided expertise in technologies used in-house such as Oracle, ColdFusion, Microsoft .NET, C/C++, ZyLAB. • Fulfilled the role of technical analyst, back-end developer and application integrator on the OLAF Case Management System (CMS), Core Business Information System (CBIS), Fraud Notification System (FNS), Budget-Web, The OLAF registry (ThOR) and OLAF Content Management (OCM). IT Consultant for DG COMPETITION (European Commission) - IT service support for Anti-trust, state aid, mergers & acquisitions. Show less

Software Engineer

• Jul 2004 - Oct 2007

My activities within the IT Department were focused on development of custom software tools for document management and scanned image/meta-data management. Other tasks involved design and implementation of web-based system for job, client and order management, custom batch image processing tools (C/C++, MFC, C#) and ZyLAB customization (using Windows services, Java servlets, DTS, bespoke application etc.) and integration with existing systems (SQL Server, Lotus Domino, Oracle, AS/400 or custom client setup). Show less

Research Assistant

• Oct 2000 - Jun 2004

Main responsibilities included image and video analysis for indexing and retrieval, automatic face detection and recognition in video and development of software products for multimedia asset management. My teaching duties within the School of Electronic Engineering consisted in preparation of tutorials and laboratory demonstrations for undergraduate programmes and taught masters modules on the subjects: Digital Electronics (Level I), C programming (Level I and II), web design and image and video compression (masters lab). Show less

Network technician

• Sep 1999 - Jan 2000

Applying software patches to Windows NT servers and workstations for various clients (Jacobs-Suchard, Brasov County Council) as part of the maintenance contracts. Physical network installation, cabling, hubs, routers etc. Maintenance of ATM devices for BCR (Romanian Commercial Bank): cloning OS/2 images for faulty hardware. Applying software patches to Windows NT servers and workstations for various clients (Jacobs-Suchard, Brasov County Council) as part of the maintenance contracts. Physical network installation, cabling, hubs, routers etc. Maintenance of ATM devices for BCR (Romanian Commercial Bank): cloning OS/2 images for faulty hardware.

Church Organist

• Jun 1995 - Jan 2000

Church organist. Church organist.

Teacher

• Oct 1998 - Jun 1999

Teaching Pascal and C programming languages. Numerical methods in computing for final year students. Teaching Pascal and C programming languages. Numerical methods in computing for final year students.