DAVID MATTHEWS B.Sc.(ECON), FIAP
David is a highly experienced IT professional with over 22 years in the business. During this
time he has mainly worked in the banking sector, and has an in-depth knowledge of IBM
MVS/OS390 plus experience of AS/400 systems. His work has involved systems analysis,
software design, development, evaluation and implementation. He also has significant team
leading and technical systems management experience. His principal skills are:
- team leading and technical team management
- analysis, design and development in banking environments
- MVS mainframe development using CICS COBOL DL/1 and DB2
- CICS/ESA & /400 and TSO/ISPF system administration and support
- MVS to AS/400 conversion
Summary:
Experience of a wide range of financial applications covering back-office FX and MM deal processing, Nostro (Due From) reconciliation, Deal Confirmation matching, Accounting & General Ledger, BACS processing, SWIFT message generation and processing and central bank and taxation reporting. He has also implemented and supported payroll systems and MERVA/2 SWIFT interface software.
Technical management, with experience of building/implementing system software such as Change Management, Source Code Management and code generating software. General development and maintenance of ISPF development environments. CICS (both MVS and AS/400 based) system administration.
Wide ranging general experience of IBM MVS (OS/390) environments including TSO/ISPF, JES2 JCL, and all MVS utilities. Fuller breakdown of Hardware/Software experience on last page.
Detailed employment history:
Contract
June 1999 - December 1999 (7 months) Client: Bank of America
Job function:Team leader/Systems Designer
Software:OS/390, IMS/DB-DC, COBOL, FileAid, MicroFocus COBOL, Intersolv Maintenance
Workbench
Project:Management of a 7 month project to increase size of a sequence number field used for
tracking transactions through-out systems. Developments across 16 IMS databases and over 700 programs, with a team of three developers.
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December 1998 - May 1999 (6 months) Client: Bank of America
Job function:Senior Systems Designer
Software:OS/390, IMS/DB-DC, COBOL, FileAid, MicroFocus COBOL, Intersolv Maintenance
Workbench
Project:Analysis and programming of extensive modifications across a number of
systems to incorporate changes for Spanish central bank reporting.
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March 1998 - November 1998 (9 months) Client: Bank of America
Job function:Senior Systems Designer/Developer
Software:OS/390, IMS/DB-DC, COBOL, FileAid, MicroFocus COBOL, Intersolv Maintenance
Workbench
Project:Design and implementation of extensive modifications to an existing IMS based
Customer Accounts system to facilitate the opening of new branches in South America.
Development primarily on MicroFocus Workbench under Windows NT 4.0.
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April 1996 - February 1998 (23 months) Client: Citibank
Job function:Team Leader
Software:MVS/ESA, CICS/ESA, COBOL II, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, REXX, FileAid, INTERTEST,
LIBRARIAN LIB/CCF
Project:Team leading the development of data extraction/formatting/transfer interfaces
from mainframe CICS accounting application to Windows NT application to facilitate
cross-branch account sweeping. Utilised CICS LU6.2 and TCP/IP based protocols.
Implementation and support of production system.
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January 1996 - March 1996 (3 months) Client: CIRCLE Consultants at Citibank
Job function:Senior Analyst/Programmer
Software:MVS/ESA, CICS/VS & /ESA, COBOL II, VSAM, FileAid, HIPERSTATION
Project:Converting a Bonds Admin system for 3rd party client from OS/VS COBOL and
CICS/MVS 2.1.2 to VS COBOL II and CICS/ESA 4.1. and implementing Year 2000
date handling.
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September 1995 - December 1995 (4 months) Client: FBSC Ltd
Job function:Chief Analyst/Programmer
Software:MicroFocus Workbench, FileAid/PC
Tasks:Enhancing an FX deal processing system in CICS/COBOL/DL/1 for a 3rd party
financial institution client. Development under MicroFocus COBOL Workbench
During this period he also undertook a DB2 refresher course.
Permanent
May 1986 - August 1995 Employer: Westpac Banking Corporation
A breakdown of this period follows:
December 1994 - August 1995
Job Function:Project Management/Senior Developer
Tasks:Programming team management on major project to replace MVS based processing
with an AS/400.
Centred on MIDAS and a CICS/400 FX&MM system ported from CICS/MVS.
Undertook COBOL/400 and CL development, CICS/400 systems programming and
general AS/400 system administration roles.
Negotiations with s/ware suppliers and FM company over licence cancellations and
transfers.
Cut-over to new systems was completed ahead of schedule, to full user satisfaction.
Implementation of OS/2 based MERVA/2 V3 system as back-up SWIFT interface.
July 1994 - November 1994
Job Function:Systems Manager
Tasks:Systems management of Human Resources departmental AS/400. Implemented and
upgraded OS/400 operating system and payroll system.
Design and development of COBOL/400 and Query/400 interfaces for AS/400 payroll
system and implementation of BACS transmission software on AS/400.
General on-going MVS application support, and ad-hoc enhancements to CICS/COBOL VSAM and DL1 and batch applications.
August 1990 - June 1994
Job Function:Chief Analyst/Programmer
Tasks:Design and programming of amendments to existing FX/MM back-office system to incorporate processing for dates with century portion. (Year 2000 compliance).
Designing and building, using REXX and CLISTs, ISPF based Change Management and
Security Access Request systems.
Technical evaluation of CICS/400 under the auspices of an IBM Early Support Program
System design/team leading on four major batch and CICS/COBOL/VSAM and DL/1 system developments. These were FX/MM back-office deal processing, automated deal confirmation matching, nostro reconciliation and BRT calculation/reporting systems.
May 1986 - July 1990
Job Function:Senior Analyst/Programmer
Tasks:Implemented APS/MVS code generation software resulting in major increases in
programmer productivity.
General application development and support, both batch and CICS.
Technical team leader for CICS conversions from 1.6.1 to 1.7 to 2.1.2, implementation
of CICS RDO, DOS/VSE to MVS conversion and TSO/ISPF environment set-up and
support.
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February 1977 - April 1986
A range of programmer, analyst/programmer and lead programmer roles with a software house in UK (1977-79), a software house in Australia (1980-84), and Legal and General Assurance (1984-86).
Working primarily on IBM OS/VS and MVS running TSO/ISPF using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DL/1, and FileAid. Some IMS-DB/DC(18 months) and some PL/1(18 months).
Systems were mainly financial or insurance. In particular I worked on system design and programming for the National Australia Bank developing two major systems (Term Deposits admin and Automated Branch Merger) both lasting approx. 18months each, from 1982 to 1984.
September 1972 - January 1977
From August 1976 until January 1977 I spent time living and working in USA and Canada.
From September 1972 until July 1976 I was a Sixth Form College lecturer. Lecturing in ‘A’ level Geography, Economics and Sociology.
Personal details:
David Lawrence Matthews.
Date of birth :3rd March 1950Nationality: BritishMarried, with 2 children
Qualifications:- B. Sc. (ECON) Honours in Geography and Sociology
University College, Swansea. 1971.
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Education., University of Warwick. 1972.
- NCC/BCS - Diploma in Systems Analysis 1988
- Fellow of Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP) 1996
Contact:
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Hardware/software experience:DurationLast Used
Hardware:IBM mainframes22 years 2000
IBM AS/400 4 years 1995
Operating Systems:
MVS/XA, /ESA & OS/39019 years 2000
TSO/ISPF/PDF (to V4.2)14 years 2000
OS/400 4 years 1995
OS/2 4 years 1998
DOS/Windows/NT 3 years 2000
VM/CMS 2 years 2000
Languages:
COBOL, /II, /370, & /MVS22 years 2000
COBOL/400 2 years 1995
MicroFocus COBOL 3 years 2000
ISPF/REXX/Clist13 years 1999
APS/MVS & PC 4 years 1994
CL/400 3 years 1995
Query/400 2 years 1995
JCL (JES2)22 years 2000
HTML 4 3 years 2000
Databases:
VSAM18 years 1998
DL/1, IMS/DB 7 years 2000
DB2 1 year 1995
TP s/ware:
CICS/ESA & /VS 17 years 1998
CICS/400 3 years 1995
IMS/DC 3 years 1998
Comms:
LU6.2/APPC (CICS) 5 years 1998
XCOM62/MVS, /400 & /OS2 5 years 1995
TCP/IP (OS/2, AS400 & MVS) 2 years 1998
CONNECT:Direct (NDM) 2 years 1998
Other s/ware:
FILEAID/MVS & /PC15 years 2000
INTERTEST 3 years 1997
HIPERSTATION 1 year 1996
MERVA/370 & MERVA/2 V3 2 years 1995 Intersolv Maintenance Workbench 2 years 2000
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