C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E

Name - Alun HARRIES Address - (postal address available by request)
Current availability - Immediate.
Date of birth - 19/8/56 Status - Single
Nationality - British Driver - No

WORK EXPERIENCE (in reverse chronological order)

6/97 - 3/99 ITnet, Gordon House, Greencoat Place, LONDON.

Hardware - as below.
Software - as below.

Initially a one year contract, extended a number of times, converting several systems to be compliant with dates approaching and subsequent to 2000.

3/97 - 6/97 Performing Right Society, LONDON.

Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME.
Software - SCL, Cobol, TPS, Helmsman.

Contract, testing changes to procedures which distribute money to members of the society.

11/96 - 2/97 ITnet, Gordon House, Greencoat Place, LONDON.

Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME.
Software - SCL, Cobol, TPMS, Millennium AP 5.2.2I, PDL, M:SDT, Jobwatch.

Contract, supporting and enhancing GEAC Accounts Payable in a four way multi-mill service for the British Airports Authority.

7/96 - 9/96 London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, 275-281 King Street, LONDON.

Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME, ICL DRS 6000, Sequent.
Software - SCL, Cobol, IDMSX, TPMS, Millennium GL 2.0.3, Helmsman, and Officepower.

Contract, I was involved in writing a number of Cobol programs for the conversion of GL, Creditors, and Sales data to OLAS a unix based ledger system.

1/96 - 4/96 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Oldbury,West Midlands.

Hardware - ICL running VME.
Software - SCL, Cobol, TPMS, Millennium GL 2.0.3, Helmsman.

Employed on contract, I assessed and implemented a D&B document suggesting improvements to the Millennium service, and also worked on support and development. During the contract my major achievements included the implementation of append mode GL History filters.

6/94 - 3/95 North West Thames Regional Health Authority I.T. Services, Villa 3, Friern Barnet Hospital, Colney Hatch Lane, LONDON.

Hardware - ICL running VME and Unix.
Software - SCL, Cobol, TPMS, Millennium AP 5.2.2, GL 2.0.3, Debtors Billing 2.0, and SDT.

Employed on contract, originally for 3 months, extended for a further 6 months. I was involved in the day to day support of 13 Millennium services providing financial information for the customers of the RHA.

Additionally, I worked on converting programs, written in COBOL running under DRS/NX on a DRS3000, from accessing files to using an Oracle database.

7/93 - 4/94 Scottish Power, Cathcart House, Spean Street, GLASGOW. G44 4BE.

Hardware - ICL 3980 running VME.
Software - SCL, TPMS, Cobol, Millennium AP 5.3.2, GL 3, and SDT.

Employed on a contract basis, supporting and developing Accounts Payable and General Ledger. During the time of my contract the major projects I was responsible for included the payment of invoices by direct transfer to BACS, and the processing of invoices for Customer Billing.

7/90 - 7/93 BBC Enterprises, 80 Wood Lane, LONDON. W12 0TT.

Hardware - ICL 3965 running VME.
Software - SCL, Cobol, AM, IDMSX, TPMS, Helmsman, Millennium AP, PO, GL and SDT.

Senior/Consultant Programmer in charge of support and amendments to Financial Systems including Bought Ledger, Sales Ledger, Investment Ledger and Corporate Reporting. From August 1991 I was a member of the Millennium support team involved in upgrading to Millennium 2.1, GL:M 2.3, from TPS to TPMS, and AP:M 5.2 to 5.3.

7/86 - 7/90 Milk Marketing Board, Thames Ditton, SURREY. KT7 0EL.
 
Hardware - ICL 3980 running VME.
ICL DRS models 50E, 155 running DRX.
ICL DRS 300 running Unix.
Software - Mainframe - SCL, Cobol, Cobol Manager, IDMSX, TPMS, and Quickbuild Tools.
Micros - CIS Cobol, Microfocus Cobol/2, and unix shell.

Senior Programmer/Programming Team Leader writing and maintaining mainframe and micro systems with groups of up to 3 people. In addition I took part in the support of mainframe/micro systems, analysis, and user contact.

1/84 - 6/86 Wales Gas, Helmont House, Churchill Way, Cardiff, S. GLAMORGAN.

Hardware - Dual ICL 2966 running VME.
Software - SCL, Cobol, Reportmaster, Altadata, IDMSX Database, and TPMS.

Programmer writing, testing, and implementing a number of programs in both batch and Database/TPMS environments, using Jackson Structured Methodology. Also the maintenance and support of an existing stores system, and user training.

2/83 - 11/83 Newport Borough Council, Civic Centre, Newport, GWENT.

Hardware - ICL ME29 running TME.
Software - Range Cobol, Filetab, Cincom Systems Total Database.

Employed, by the Council in association with the Manpower Services Commission, as a Programmer controlling the collection and analysis of data from a Household Survey. My duties included liaison with end users and the specification and production of programs to meet their requirements.

10/78 - 12/80 Standard Telephones & Cables, Wednesbury Street, Newport, GWENT.

Technical Graduate. Worked in the laboratory as a Technician, and on the shop floor as a Process Engineer in charge of production machinery.

OTHER SKILLS

In addition, I am conversant with Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Excel, Word, Wordperfect, Exchange, and HTML.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

1969 - 73 Sidcot School, Winscombe, AVON. BS25 1PD.
7 GCE "O" Levels.
1973 - 75 Gwent College Of Technology, Allt-yr-yn Ave., Newport, GWENT.
GCE "A" Levels - Physics, Mathematics.
1975 - 78 Leicester University. BSc Physics with Astrophysics.
1981 - 82 18 week TOPS sponsored computer programming course, covering IBM Assembler, Cobol (with an associated project), and RPG 2.
1984 - 88 Courses at ICL Beaumont on VME Conversion, SCL, IDMS Cobol, AM Programming, IDMS Database Design, and First Steps in Systems Supervision.
1989 3 day course at ICL Manchester - Introduction to Unix.
1990 2 week course from ICL on Systems Analysis and Logical Design.
1991 2 separate, week long, courses at Dun & Bradstreet Bristol on Millennium Basic Concepts, and M:SDT.

This document was last updated 20th May 2001.

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