IT Specialist

I have over 10 years of IT experience, most of it from banks and insurance companies in Ireland.

Mainframe COBOL, batch/online programs, PL/1, JCL, CICS, FILEAID, VSAM, MVS, TSO, ISPF, Ideal, Natural
Database: DB2 SQL, MS SQL server, ADABAS, IBM TableBase, Business Objects (BO)
Version Control: ENDEVOR, ChangeMan, PacMan, SYSPAC
Debuggers: XPED, CEDF, Bug Tracker
Schedulers: CA7, OPC
IT Specialist at IBM Global Services Istanbul
Serving at AKBANK, Kocaeli / TURKEY
Oct, 2010 – May, 2011 (8 months) and Oct, 2012 – at present (5 months)
• Technical Lead in AMS project at Corporate Loans as of Oct, 2012 for IBM Global Services Turkey
• Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) & Remittance Projects between Oct, 2010 and May, 2011
• Batch and online applications in Core Banking, CICS, COBOL, JCL, Fileaid, CEDX, XPED, DB2 SQL, mainframe, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, SPUFI, AQT
• Analysis, design, coding, testing, maintenance and Coordination with off-shore team based in India


IT Specialist at HSBC Bank
Software Delivery – Istanbul / TURKEY
Jun, 2011 – Oct, 2012 (1.5 year)
• HSBC Group projects SCDM, FATCA (extracting customer details & setting up batch flows with JCL)
• Preparing and presenting Architecture Review of the projects above
• Core Banking: Loans and Foreign Trade Applications Coding Batch JCL and Online Natural ADABAS on IBM mainframe platforms
• Data Warehouse – MIS projects with Business Objects (BO), ETL, SQL Server, Datastage and Universe Designer







Programmer and Quality Assurance at AXA Insurance
IT Development – Dublin / IRELAND
Mar, 2008 – Dec, 2009 (1 year 9 months)
• Insurance projects, analysis, design, coding, peer-review, unit testing and maintenance
• Working with users and business account managers based in Dublin and Belfast
• Received CMMI Assessment training and conducted assessments in IT projects
• Involved in Quality Assurance Team and conducted reviews for IT projects
• Awarded with Qualitas: Quality Assurance Award nominated by Business Department for my performance in IT
• IBM mainframe, JCL, Language IDEAL, Pacman for version control


Cobol Applications Consultant at ELAVON (USBANK Subsidiary),
Arklow / IRELAND
Jun, 2007 – Mar, 2008 (9 months)
• Writing Analysis and Technical Design, Unit testing, Coding with COBOL, Db2, SQL, Mainframe Utilities Endevor, FileAid, VSAM, TSO, JCL, CA7 scheduler
• Batch processing of VISA incoming files
• Attended at a two-week-training at the head office of the parent company USBank in USA
• Conducting the user acceptance tests in co-operation with the US team remotely
• On-Call Production Support responsibilities


Software Engineer at AIB Bank (Allied Irish Banks)
IT Development Dublin / IRELAND
Dec, 2004 – May, 2007 (2.5 years)
• Tech. Analysis, coding, testing, prod. support of Credits Management & Collections Batch System
• Mainframe, DB2 SQL, PL/1, JCL, TSO, CHANGEMAN, TableBase
• Monitoring Lending Development’s Support Mail Box


Programmer Analyst at Cognizant IT Solutions (Formerly United HealthCare Ireland)
Limerick / IRELAND
Jan, 2001 – Jul, 2004 (3.5 years)
• Coding, Testing and Maintenance of the tasks assigned by the US head office
• Received training about CMMI level 5 and involved in the compliance process of level 5
• Peer-reviews, documentation of analysis and technical design
• COBOL, Mainframe, JCL, TSO, Endevor


Junior Applications Developer at Garanti Teknoloji - Garanti Bank IT
IT Development Istanbul / TURKEY
Jul, 1999 – Nov, 2000 (1.5 year)
• Full Software Development Life Cycle for Volkswagen Dogus Automobiles Purchase Lending Project
• PL/1, DB2, SQL, COOLGEN, JCL, CICS, FILEAID