Experience

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  Ensono

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Solutions Architect, Mainframe

    • Oct 2017 - May 2022
    • London, United Kingdom

    Ensono helps enterprise across the globe operate for today and optimise for tomorrow with a breadth and depth of mission-critical Hybrid IT experience, including everything from managed mainframe to managed public cloud.

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  Computacenter

  • Principal Consultant

    • Aug 1999 - Apr 2017

    I spent over 17 years of my career at Computacenter, including 10 years in the acquired consultancy Thesaurus. Taking me from a Technical Specialist through to Consultant, finally to a Principal Consultant within the professional services division. I took opportunity in my stride and delivered to...

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  Reader's Digest Association

  • Wiltshire

  • Senior Systems Programmer

    • 1992 - 1999
    • Wiltshire

    Responsibilities:I performed a z Systems SME role during the period when Reader’s Digest consolidated MVS systems from across Europe into the UK.Key Achievements Include:- Engaged with European stakeholders to deliver proof of concept and implementation of a cross platform 3rd party vendor produc...

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  Dun & Bradstreet Software Services

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Senior Support Consultant

    • Dec 1991 - Aug 1992
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities:I provided second level problem diagnosis and fix for a range of multi-platform financial software products based upon COBOL and 4GL technologies.Key Achievements Include:- Successfully built customer support relationships.- Developed code fixes for large programs that resolved c...

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  Inference Europe

  • Slough, United Kingdom

  • Senior Support Engineer

    • Apr 1991 - Sep 1991
    • Slough, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities:Provided software technical support to customers of the Artificial Intelligence software product set. Platforms included Windows, UNIX and Mainframe. Key Achievements Include:- Acquired vendor side customer relationship skills.

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  NEM Insurance

  • Swindon, United Kingdom

  • Chief Systems Programmer

    • 1978 - 1991
    • Swindon, United Kingdom

    I developed my underpinning technical and interpersonal skills across a broad range of projects and activities on the IBM mainframe and distributed environments.Responsibilities:I maintained and supported a software portfolio with a disciplined approach to provide system stability to the benefit ...