Career Objective
A challenging career in the field of Software Engineering.
Summary of Experience
Result oriented, well educated professional programmer with more than 15 years of high level experience in design and development of Data Management Systems, using such tools as:
Adabas/Natural - 17 years, Cobol - 9 years, Fortran - 8 years, Assembler MainFrame - 2 years, dBase, Clipper - 2 years, MS-Access and Access Basic - 1 year, PowerBuilder (training), Visual Basic (training)
Computer Skills
Hardware: IBM MainFrame, PC.
Operating Systems: MVS(MainFrame), Windows 98/NT.
Databases: Adabas, dBase, Clipper, Oracle, MS-Access, PowerBuilder.
Programming Languages: Natural2 (+ Predict and Construct), Cobol,
Assembler MainFrame, PL/1, Fortran, C.
Education
MS in Applied Mathematics, Kazan State University,
Dept. of Mathematics, Russia, 1977.
Languages: Hebrew, English, Russian.
Employment History
May 2000 - June 2001:
Sr. Programmer/Analyst, Brambles Industries. Orlando Florida USA
Making enhancements (optimization and failures preventing) in the corporate Adabas/Natural business applications. Responsibilities include: - update on-line and batch Natural modules, DDM, JCL; Quality Assurer for changes that are made in all Natural modules. Responsibilities include: - review and analysis all changes that have been made in Natural modules before their migration to PRODUCTION, - management of Migration process with SYSPAC.
July 1998 - April 2000:
Q Data Consulting, Miami, FL, USA, Consultant,
Development and support Community Colleges
information systems (Students, Inventory, Personnel/Payroll).
MainFrame - MVS - JCL - Adabas/Natural, Construct
Dec 1997 - June 1998:
Information Management Resources, Clearwater, FL, USA, Consultant,
Analysis and planning updating COBOL and NATURAL codes (Y2K).
May 1992 - Dec 1997:
ForSoft (Group Formula), Hertzliya, Israel, Programmer
Customer: Israel Electric Corp., Haifa
Project "Purchase-Storage-Warehouses":Design and development of on-line and batch Natural programs for Adabas data processing and printing reports. Coding and testing batch Natural programs for export the Adabas data to SAS. Writing and editing specifications. (MainFrame - MVS - Adabas/Natural2). Project "Simulator for Prediction and Planning Company Stock":
Design and development of MS-Access and Access Basic applications for graphic representation of the Adabas data and statistical simulations with it.
(PC - Windows NT - Access 2.0 ).
Nov. 1983 - Oct. 1990:
The Research Institute of Electrical Nets,
Vilnius, Lithuania - Programmer.Project "Registration of Electricity Consumption" (IBM-370 - OS - Cobol, Adabas/Natural). Project "Information System of Underground Electrical Nets" (PC - MS-DOS - dBase III+/ IV, Clipper).
May 1981 - Nov. 1983:
Clothes Factory, Automation Division, Vilnius, Lithuania - Programmer.
Project "Information System of the Factory".
Maintenance and development of Cobol applications (batch programs for data processing and writing reports).
(IBM 360 - DOS - Cobol).
Jun 1979 - May 1981:
Radio Electronics Research Institute,
Automation Division, Vilnius, Lithuania - Programmer.Project "Computers Aided Drawing".
Design and development of Fortran and Assembler applications for generating machine codes for drawing plotters.
Project "Computers Aided Design of Plugboards".
Design and development of Fortran and Assembler applications for optimal layout of elements and tracing of interconnections on plugboards.
(IBM 360/370 - OS - Fortran, Assembler).
Jan 1978 - May 1979:
Research Institute of Aviation Technologies,
Automation Division, Kazan, Russia - Programmer.Project "Computer Aided Design of Technological Processes".
Design and development of Fortran applications for CNC equipment programming.
(IBM 360/370 - OS - Fortran).
Other Professional Training
Jun 1997: Course "Fast Track to PowerBuilder" (40 hours), Advanced Technology Ltd, Tel Aviv, Israel.
May 1992: Course "Adabas-Natural2" (140 hours), Israel Electric Corp., Haifa., Israel.
Aug. 1991: Course "SQL/ORACLE", including VMS/VAX, Unix, C (200 hours), "John Bryce", Ramat-Gan, Israel.
References
available upon request.
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