Myron Edwards Full CV

EDUCATION:
1969-1973 : Stanwell Comprehensive School, Penarth, S. Glamorgan. "O" Levels: Biology, English Language, Maths, Physics, French, Welsh, Latin, Russian, English Lit. 1983-1990 : Open University. BA (Honours) 1997-1998 : Open University Diploma in Music
TRAINING:
1982 : ICL Training College, Old Windsor. 10-week TOPS COBOL Programming 1988 : 4GL Systems, Wilmslow. Quickbuild/Application Master 200 1993 : ICL (In-house) Introduction to UNIX 1993 : INGRES INGRES QBF/ReportWriter/SQL/ABF 1998 : CINCOM MANTIS Programming 1999 : @MRAF MCSE
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Nov 1999 : MCP Jan 2000 : MCP+I Feb 2000 : MCSE
FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
French
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
July 2002 - January 2010	Employer: RDF Consulting Ltd Deer Park Business Park Deer Park Road Knightsridge LIVINGSTON EH54 Reference: Owen McMahon
Job Title: Analyst/Programmer (contract) Duties: New development for the Northern Rock Together Flexible Mortgage System. Data migration for ex-Legal and General Mortgages. Maintenance and enhancement of existing system for all Mortage Schemes. Design and implementation of improvements to mortgage scheme completions processing. Analysis, design, coding, testing and quality assurance. (2005-2006) Developing a new Management Information/Data Warehouse system for Insurance Sales on an Oracle platform. Coding & testing (with some input into database design) in PL/SQL. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, TPMS Oracle, PL/SQL, SQLPlus, TOAD
March-July 2002	Employer: Cranford Computers Ltd / Self Employed
Job Title: Consultant Duties: Web design, PC configuration/troubleshooting; Music Tuition; Landscape Gardening. Skills used: HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows (various versions).
March 2000 - February 2002	Employer: RDF Consulting Ltd Deer Park Business Park Deer Park Road Knightsridge LIVINGSTON EH54 Reference: Owen McMahon
Job Title: Analyst/Programmer (contract) Duties: New development for the Northern Rock Together Flexible Mortgage System. Maintenance and enhancement of existing system for all Mortage Schemes. Design and implementation of improvements to mortgage scheme completions processing. Coding, testing and quality assurance. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, TPMS
July 1999 - March 2000	Employer: Cranford Computers Ltd
Job Title: Consultant Duties: Providing consultancy and web site design services to local small businesses. Retraining in Windows and Internet technologies (MCSE/ MCP+I gained, currently studying for MCSD & MCDBA). Pursuing numerous personal projects, in particular further studies in music ( composition and performance). Skills Used: Web site design using Web Express and Microsoft Publisher, Windows NT 4.0, IIS 4.0, TCP/IP
July 1998 - July 1999	Employer: HYDER Trafalgar House Fitzalan Place CARDIFF Reference: John Davies
Job Title: Software Developer (contract) Duties: Developing new batch and on/line programs for the Work Planning system in COBOL/IDMS and MANTIS. Writing amendments/enhancements and bug fixes for existing COBOL and MANTIS code. Conversion of one major on-line process from MANTIS to COBOL. Testing of changes for Y2K compliance. Producing ad-hoc reports for users via Querymaster. Day-to-day maintenance of the Work Planning system. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, TPMS, MANTIS, Querymaster, Windows 95.
April 1997 - June 1998	Employer: British Gas 17 London Road Staines Middlesex Reference: Larry McCoy/Ivan Wood
Job Title: Support Analyst (contract) Duties: 24-hour fix-on-fail support of batch processes of the Tariff Gas Billing system. Diagnosis of new failures and recommendation/application of solutions. Liaison with operations, development and technical support teams. Collection of failure statistics and preparation of management reports. Creation and maintenance of packaged solutions to known errors. Conversion of database of error correction packages and procedures from Lotus Approach to Windows Help File format. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, Windows 95, Maestro, Lotus Approach, ForeHelp.
September 1996 - March 1997	Employer: Lusis Longcross Court Newport Road CARDIFF Reference: John Davies (see HYDER above)
Job Title: Software Developer (contract) Duties: Developing interfaces between the IDMS-based Welsh Water Work Planning system and a new SAP accounting system. Adapting existing code for compatibility with the new system. System testing new and amended code. Day-to-day maintenance of the Work Planning system. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, Querymaster, Windows 95.
March 1996 - September 1996	Employer: AG Solutions 51 Homer Road SOLIHULL West Midlands Reference: Michael Phillip
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Enhancements and new development for the British Gas Tariff Gas Billing system. Coding and testing VME COBOL/IDMS batch programs using the Maestro II CASE environment. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, ALTADATA, SCL, DDS, Maestro.
May 1992 - March 1996	Employer: ICL (UK) Ltd London Street READING Reference: David Jukes
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Coding, testing and maintaining extract and report programs, using COBOL and Application Master 300, for the management statistics element of the Council Tax project. Coding, testing and maintaining subroutines for maintaining and retrieving management information on the Council Tax database. Maintaining and enhancing existing software for the Housing Benefit (HBIS) system. Developing new software for interfacing HBIS system with a UNIX document image system. Developing new software for HBIS performance monitoring. Undergoing training in, and familiarisation with, the UNIX operating system, INGRES relational database software and C programming language. Designing, coding and testing VME and UNIX programs and procedures for the conversion of IDMS Business Rates databases to INGRES tables. Carrying out testing of, and corrections and enhancements to, the UNIX-based Open Business Rates (OBRATES) system using INGRES ABF/RBF, SQL and UNIX shell scripts. Designing, coding and testing programs to extract information from the INGRES database to the PC-based Gentium management information system. Skills Used: COBOL, IDMSX, AM300, ALTADATA, Officepower, SCL, INGRES, Shell Scripts, C.
October 1991 - May 1992	Self-Employed
Job Title: Consultant Duties: Providing advice on micro computing requirements to small businesses and trade associations. Producing reports and detailed recommendations for hardware and software purchasers. Training clients in the use of a variety of PC software. Creating and maintaining custom database applications. Writing, co-writing and conducting training courses for PC users and adult education classes.
April 1991 - Sept 1991	Employer: Scottish Hydro-Electric Ashgrove Road West ABERDEEN Grampian
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Coding TPMS and batch COBOL programs for new Direct Debit billing systems on an IDMSX database. Designing and implementing procedures for transfer of data to BACS. Preparation of training material for users, using Freelance Graphics.
March 1991 - April 1991	Employer: United Friendly Insurance 42, Southwark Bridge Road, LONDON SE1 9HE
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Specifying and coding COBOL batch programs and SCL to format database extract files for input to the Valuation suite of Life Assurance system.
January 1991 - March 1991	Employer: Chelsea Girl West World West Gate Nr Hanger Lane LONDON
Job Title: Programmer (contract) Duties: Coding and Testing COBOL/IDMSX batch programs for a Warehouse Picking system.
January - November 1990	Employer: Yellow Pages Queens Walk READING
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Design/coding/testing of batch and on-line COBOL/TPMS/IDMSX programs for a Direct Debit billing system.
July 1988 - January 1990	Employer: ICL Crown Street READING
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Specification, coding, testing and maintaining batch COBOL/IDMSX programs for the Scottish Community Charge system.
April - July 1988	Employer: Automobile Association Queen Street, CARDIFF
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Maintaining and developing various COBOL/TPMS/IDMSX programs for customer accounting.
October 1987 - April 1988	Employer: HMSO Sovereign House, Anglia Square, NORWICH
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Design, coding and testing of IDMS/COBOL/TPMS programs for the HMSO Phase 2 supply system.
December 1986 - October 1987	Employer: Civil Aviation Authority Aviation House, Kingsway, LONDON WC2B 6NN
Job Title: Analyst Programmer (contract) Duties: Maintenance and enhancements to existing airline and airport statistics and ad-hoc enquiry systems. Development and implementation of a survey questionnaire as a suite of BASIC programs on Husky Hawk portable microcomputers.
1984 - 1985	Employer: British Telecom plc Therese House, Glasshouse Yard, LONDON EC1A 4JY
Job Title: Programmer (staff) Duties: Maintaining IDMS batch subsystem of accounting system, writing, implementing and running of interfaces to feeder systems, conversion of system from ICL/VME to IBV/MVS, operational support, customer liaison.
1983 - 1984 Employer: British Telecom plc Job Title: Operator 1982 - 1983 Employer: C/WP Computers Job Title: Engineering Coordinator. 1977 - 1982 Employer: City Link - Reading Job Title: General Manager 1975 - 1977 The Welsh Office Job Title: Clerical Officer 1974 - 1975 Alliance Cash and Carry Job Title: Warehouseman

Cranford Computers Ltd

Myron Edwards - Full CV