CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: /
Jan Thorslund
/ Title as independent consultant: / IT Business Information Technology Consultant and Senior Project Manager
Private address: / Halmtorvet 28
DK –1700 Copenhagen V.
Denmark / DK cell phone: / +45 40 60 74 03
Companyname + address: / openwhenopen
Skovbovej 7
DK – 4500 Nykøbing Sjælland - Denmark / DK cell phone:
DK Tax CVR#: / +45 40 60 74 03
34986274
e-mail: / / Skype: / janthorslund
Languages: / Danish (native)
English, German, Norwegian and Swedish / Nationality:
Marital status: / Danish with EU passport
Married

Summary of key Skills and Experience (alphabetic order):

  • Asset Management
  • BPO - Business Process Outsourcing consultant (Internal Processes)
  • Business Compliance Consultant, Integrator and project Executive for making Cloud software compliant to company internal- and new ECB regulations
  • Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) experience
  • Deployment Management
  • Batch and Online Development and Test in i.e. IBM RBD/EGL, COBOL, PL/1 and Assembler with CICS, DB2/SQL, IMS/DB, DL/1, MQ and VSAM
  • Facilitating IT Work Shops
  • HR experience from job as IT Manager, Department Manager with >30 employees, Project and people manager in several projects
  • IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) education and work experience
  • IBM System Engineer (SE) with SDLC (System Development Life Cycle)
  • IPC – Incident, Problem- and Change Management within IBM mainframe, Client/Server (Midrange) and Middleware systems i.e. HP NonStop systems (former Tandem) and SUN UNIX systems
  • IT Solution Architect, Business Analyst, Functional/Technical and traditional Application/Program/System Design based on SOA
  • IT Risk Manager with strategy, tactic and execution experience
  • ITIL Project Manager education from IBM Denmark
  • ITSM (System Management)
  • KPO – Knowledge Process Outsourcing consultant (Internal knowledge)
  • Migration, Transition, Decommissioning, Implementation/Deployment, In/Out Sourcing, Remediation, Offloading and Knowledge Transfer (KT)
  • Operational Integrator
  • Password Policy compliance project manager for IBM mainframe, HPE Midrange and Storage + Data Protection (Backup/Disaster/Recovery) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) according to company internal, EU and ECB regulations
  • Primary Office Manager (POM)
  • Process Engineer and System Engineer
  • Project Managementexperience according to Waterfall and Agile and Scrum methods
  • Release Management Systems i.e. Serena Changeman, CA Endevor and HP Quality & System Center
  • Segregation of Duty (SoD) consultant
  • Service Delivery Manager (ITIL)
  • SLA, OLA and KPI education and project experience
  • SSC – Shared Service Centre consultant
  • Technical and Infrastructure Project Manager
  • Transition & Transformation Project & Programme Manager for big IBM z/OS-, HPE NonStop- & Midrange Data Centre move

Job- and Project experience

From / To / Company / Job and Project Description
March
2016 / August2017 / Nordea Bank Nordic
Høje-Taastrup, Amager, Copenhagen and Helsinki / Senior Project Manager for project I&O Vizier #21 Password Policy for HP NonStop, IBM z/OS, Storage and Data Protection, Active Directory (AD), BMC Remedy, Segregation of Duty (SoD), Production Gate.
Part of GDPR start up team according to Nordea internal, EU and ECB regulations. Danish regulation not ready for implementation.
Senior Project Manager for Nordea Password Policy compliance for servers connected to i.e.NINJAGO, Weblogic, Clarity, BMC Remedy, MIDAS and AD.
Senior Project Manager for project I&O Vizier #13 Cloud Governance and Transformation.
Securing Business Legal & Compliance in use of software Cloud Services to Nordea internal- , local authority- and ECB regulations i.e. DPA (Data Protection Agency), FSA (Financial Supervisory Authority), PUL (Person Uplysning Register in Sweden). Nordea use Skyhigh as cloud access security network tool and BMC Remedy for Service Management andIPC ticket system.
In all aspects of work Nordea use an ITIL Framework and Agile/Scrum work methods with use of Jira and Confluence.
Cooperation with Suppliers/Vendors, Stakeholders, IT Legal and IT Security in all projects.Temporary SME – Small Matter Expert for several internal products.
March
2015 / Dec. 2015 / Nordea Bank Nordic
Copenhagen, Høje-Taastrup,Brøndby, Ballerup and Helsinki / Transition Project Tutankhamen, ITSM (System-, Service-, Delivery-, Migration- and Deployment Management).
I was Transition and Transformation Project Manager for Operations.
Also Responsible for Release and Change and Problem Management, Service- and Delivery management (SDM), Asset Managementand KT (Knowledge Transfer) for the IBM mainframe z/OS and HP NonStop system (old Tandem) Migration/Decommission, Remediation andOffloadingof old software and databases.Deploymentof new software and Insourcing of databases and applications from Nordic Processor (NP) in Sweden to Nordea new Data Centre in Denmark.
In all aspects of work Nordea use an ITIL Framework and Agile/Scrum work methods with use of Jira and Confluence.
Liaison manager between Nordea IT, Nordea stakeholders and Nordea/IBM Executive programme board.
Also working with IPC – Incident/Problem/Change Management, Business Continuity, Clarity, SharePoint, BMC Remedy for Service Management, new SLA, OLA and KPI´s (Key Performance Indicator). Also participating in Disaster/Recovery, BCM setup and Facilitating Project Work Shops.
My project also handled the planning and administrative move and rollout of >120 employees from NP to Nordea in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway with new laptops, other equipment and all other related administrative task.
Sept. 2014 / Dec. 2014 / VW
Wolfsburg
Germany / Transition project updating/test/maintenanceof IBM mainframe VW applicationsand Outsourcing of IBM mainframe Support Centre to TechMahindra in India.Documentation and Test of all system and applications before the move. German government decided that several vital systems had to stay in Germany.
I worked as System Engineer with Transition/Transformation, Online and Batch Development-, Release and Change/ProblemManagement, Service- and Delivery manager (SDM), Decommission, Deployment and Infrastructure Project Management.
Also responsible for IPC – Incident/ Problem/Change Management and Business Continuity.
I also worked as HR person and hired skilled IBM mainframe staff to the project.Introducing new SLA, OLA and KPI´s for the whole Transition Project.
Coordination of meetings for Knowledge Transfer and translation from VW employees and suppliers like T-Systems, H&D and other.
As part of the team I also made knowledge transfer to SharePoint, translation from German to English, quality assurance and Facilitating Project Work Shops.
IBM mainframe VW system with i.e. z/OS, MVS, TSO/ISPF, Cobol, DB2, SQL, IMS and CICS. Some SAP applications were part of the task.
Jan. 2014 / April 2014 / BankData
Silkeborg
Denmark / Project named ”Kredit Erhverv”. My function: Business Analyst withProgram Design, Batch and Online Cobol Development, Test and Deployment/Implemen-tation of new systems and changes in existing systems.
Bankdata use Agile project work process methods with use of Jira.
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture for IBM host and XML based services).
Debugging with Xpediter and IBM Problem Determination (PD) Tools.
IBM mainframe host system with i.e. z/OS, MVS, TSO/ISPF, Cobol, DB2, SQL and CICS. Internaly developed Release Management System called „Boks“.
April 2013 / Sept. 2013 / BEC A/S
Roskilde Denmark / Business Analyst withSolution Program Design, Online and Batch Cobol Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation of the new mainframe part delivering data through MQ to Capital Market system „Calypso“ for Trading Securities and Market Risk evaluation to fulfil new EU regulations fort the Financial Market including BASEL III and EMIR (European Markets Infrastructure Regulation).
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture for IBM host and XML based services).
Systems used were Cobol, Eclipse, JCL, JES, DB2/SQL, CICS, Endevor, Xpediter, FileAid, Librarian and CICS on IBM z/OS mainframe System with TSO/ISPF.
Endevor mainly used as Release Management System, but also as a Problem and Change Management system.
Sept. 2012 / Feb. 2013 / IBM
Hamburg Germany / Client DAK / Bitmarck with project DAKIDIS, DAKISS and iskv_21c.
DAK is one of the biggest Insurance companies for illness in Germany.
I was responsible for the mainframe as Team Test Engineer and Cobol Developer in Batch and Online environment.
Also responsible for IPC - Incident/Problem/Change management related to the projects.
Systems used were Cobol, SWT Cobol Generator, JCL, JES, DB2/SQL, CICS, FileAid, Beta91, QRM, FileAid and CICS on IBM z/OS mainframe System with TSO/ISPF. Release Management System is Internally developed and also used for Incident, Problem and Change Management.
June
2011 / March 2012 / H&M
Borås
Sweden / I had 5 different task:
  • Technical Solution Architect/Designer and responsible Business Analyst, Design, PL/1 Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation of a new Card, Financial and Accounting Batch and Online system based on DB2. Design, creation and execution of Perl test scripts
  • Technical Solution Architect/Designer responsible for Analyzing, Design and Batch + Online Developing of a new web based system for the US marked based on Card payment
  • Responsible for all Incident/Change/Problem issues reported All incidents were logged in HP Service Centre and HP QC and QM
  • Responsible for migration of an old DL/1 and IMS/DB system and data to DB2/SQL and PL/1 applications
  • Making QlikView SQL “standard” BI reports for the end-users
H&M use Agile, Jira, ITIL and SDLC (System Development Life Circle) work methods for the IBM host work.
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture for IBM host and XML based services).
System used: PL/1, JCL, OPC, DB2/SQL, AQT/DB2, DL/1, IMS/DB and CICS on IBM z/OS mainframe System with TSO/ISPF.
Endevor as Release and Change/ProblemManagement system.
July 2010 / Mai 2011 / Danske Bank
Copenhagen Denmark / Project 1: GFS (Global Financial System). Review of an Batch and Online existing system and make Technical Solution Architect/DesignerandBusiness Analystwork with Documentation, PL/1 and EGL Development, Test and Deployment/ Implementation of legal maintenance- and internal needed changes.
Design, creation and execution of test scripts.
Responsible for all Incident/Change/Problem issues reported.
Project 2: SofGen RegReporter used as a financial reporting and mapping solution, providing reports to i.e. central banks, NY stock exchange, public authorities and regulatory agencies in the US. I made the Mapping and Conversion of Danske Bank data to conform to the US requirements. General Ledger (GL) in US is different from GL in Europe.
Incident/Change/Problem systems were HP Service Manager and HP Quality Manager.
Disciplines used were ITIL and SDLC (System Development Life Circle).
Systems used were IBM RBD/EGL, Codewright, PL/1, Eclipse, JCL, OPC, DB2/SQL, MQ and CICS on IBM z/OS mainframe System with TSO/ISPF. FTP to Microsoft SQL server installation and user setup. Endevor as release and change management system.
Danske Bank project working method is Agile with SCRUM (Step and Sprint).
Jan.
2010 / June
2010 / SEB Bank
Frankfurt Germany / Team lead,Technical Solution Architect/Designer andBusiness Analyst with Design, Cobol Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation of a new Batch based DWH (DataWareHouse) System.
Development in Cobol, DB2/SQL, VSAM on IBM z/OS mainframe System with TSO/ISPF. Endevor as Release Management System.
Oct. 2009 / Dec. 2009 / Commerz-Bank
Frankfurt Germany / Project: “FSA Transaction Monitoring and Reporting”. Reporting all stock exchange and MiFiD1 transactions to German- and UK public authorities.
In Germany report to the so-called §9 WpHG BaFIN system and in UK to the FSA system in London.
Batch and Online Development on traditional IBM Host MVS z/OS-platform with TSO/ISPF and Cobol, DB2/SQL, IMS/DB, CA-Panvalet, File-Aid and Xpediter.
March
2009 / July 2009 / Readers Digest
Stuttgart Germany / Project manager and Development manager for project Transition.
Updating and maintenanceof old Batch and online IBM mainframe RD applicationsfor Translation, Delivery, Decommission/Deployment and Outsourcing plan (incl. Incident / Change / Problem / Release management) to HCL Tech corp. in USA and India.
Administrative Business Analyst, Documentation and Outsourcing of IT department from Readers Digest in Germany to HCL Tech corp. in USA and India.
Acting Service Delivery Manager (SDM) and responsible for the team Reading, Maintain and Document several hundred IBM Assembler, Cobol and DB2/SQL programs on the IBM AS400 so that the call centre in India could answer and help end-users with their questions and problems.
April 2008 / March
2009 / KBC Bank &
Insurance
Brussels Belgium / Project SIS (Synergy Insurance System) and Party Risk Commissions.
Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst, Designer, Batch and Online Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation.
Tools used: RBD + RAD/EGL EGL (IBM's 4GL COBOL generator), Codewright, ClearCase, Eclipse, COBOL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, IMS/DB, MQ, UNICODE and CICS.
Release management with Serena Changeman ZMF and other products from BMC i.e. Catalog Manager and CA products on IBM z/OS system with TSO/ISPF, Quickref, Xpediter, File-Aid (MVS and DB2) and CMETA.
June 2007 / March
2008 / IBM A/S
Glostrup
Brøndby
Denmark / System Engineer, Service Delivery Manager (SDM) and Technical ITIL Project Manager in merge of Sampo Bank into Danske Bank.
Responsible for IBM mainframe and C/S Midrange Hardware, Data and Software scaling-, migration of data, merge, transition and decommission incl. Incident/Change/ Problem/Release management and installation from Sampo Bank (Finland) into Danske Bank and IBM.
My team also migrated data and many small legacy systems to HP Server with Citrix routers.
Responsible for >25 people and consultants allocated to the project from 20% to 60% of their time.
Dec. 2006 / March
2007 / BEC A/S
Roskilde
Denmark / Project SSI. Updating- and Optimizing an old SWIFT and stock exchange Batch system. Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst with Design, Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation. Development in COBOL, DB2/SQL and CICS on traditional IBM z/OS system with TSO/ISPF.
June
2006 / Nov.
2006 / KMD A/S
Aalborg
Denmark / Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst, Design, Development, Test Deployment/Implementation. Online and Batch Development in PL/1, COBOL, DB2/SQL, VSAM, MQ and CICS on IBM z/OS system with TSO/ISPF. Release management as Serena ChangeMan ZMF administrator. Convert all program Output to a new IBM OnDemand system.
May 2006 / May 2006 / MultiData
Ballerup
Denmark / Business Analystfor some very big Salary and Accounting systems with focus on DB2 performance optimizing tools and installation of new tuning tools. Programming language COBOL with extensive use of DB2/SQL and Stored Procedures.
July
2005 / April
2006 / Zürcher Kantonal Bank
Zürich
Switzerland / Team lead forMigration and new Development SAS systems. Also work as Business Analyst with Design, Development, Test and Deployment/ Implementation. Online and Batch Development in DB2/SQL and SAS on IBM z/OS system. Migration of 800 SAS programs from FastTrack Filesystem to DataStore DB with access (SAS/SQL and DB2/SQL) to Trade system Avaloq.
Traditional IBM Host MVS z/OS-platform with TSO/ISPF and Cobol.
Febr.
2005 / June
2005 / Silkeborg Data
Silkeborg
Denmark / Salary Batch systems for clients all over Denmark. Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst with Design, Development, Deployment/Implementation and Test.
Development in COBOL, DB2, MQ and CICS on IBM z/OS system with TSO/ISPF.
Silkeborg Data is a subsidiary of Jyske Bank.
March
2002 / June
2004 / UBS AG
Zürich Switzerland /
  • Project SSP group BD/BTX (A new Securities- and Stock Trade System). Online and Batch Development in COBOL, DB2 and CICS on IBM z/OS system with TSO/ISPF.
  • Beside Development I worked as Test- and Release Manager. UBS use TestDirector, Senera ChangeMan ZMF and ApplConFlow. The funcion as Release Manager included use of standard ITIL procedures like Software Configuration (SCM), Package Implementation, DB2 Configuration Management, Problem Control- and Change Control Management.
  • Project GFD, related to the SSP project (maintenance of the old Securities- and Stock Trade System with input from 13 Trade systems). Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst with Development, Testing and Deployment/Implementationto Production. Batch Development in MicroFocus COBOL on Sun Unix with related MicroFocus and Sun products and MQ gateway to IBM mainframe systems.

March2001 / Dec.
2001 / HypoVereins
Bank AG
Munich
Hamburg
Germany / I worked on an Advising project at HypoVereinsbank in Munich and Hamburg. The system was Batch and Online web-based and made for bank advisers in the Mortgage, Loan and Securities area.
IBM mainframe with TSO/ISPF. Development in COBOL and DB2/SQL and IMS/DB and a new IBM MQ interface.
Aug.
2000 / Febr.
2001 / MIGROS AG
Bern Switzerland / Business Analyst with Design, Batch Development and Test. The new system was then installed as the new system to handle all goods to be delivered to all MIGROS shops in Switzerland.
This system was developed in MicroFocus COBOL on Sun Unix systems with related MicroFocus and Sun products.
Mai
1999 / July 2000 / Unibank (today Nordea)
Høje-Taastrup
Denmark
EDC Group
Red Barnet /
  • In Unibank the task was a Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst with Batch and Online Design, Development, Test and Deployment/Implementation on IBM mainframe OS/390 and z/OS MVS systems with TSO/ISPF and COBOL, DB2, SQL, JCL and VSAM.
  • The old Batch and Online trade system would be replaced by a new “standard” trade system which was bought from Front Capital System. Then in the same project at Unibank project management and also Technical Solution Architect role andBusiness Analyst with Design and Development of MQ interface between the old trade system and the new trade system. This system and interface was developed in COBOL85, Delta Cobol and SQL on Tandem, now HP, with TAL and TACL and on IBM systems using SQL and DB2. MQ/Series was also used as interface between the system in Copenhagen and the system in Stockholm
  • In this period I also worked as part of a project management team to install and Y2K secure 3.600 PC and servers at Unibank
Project Manager for a new web based system used by 250 real estate agencies (EDC group Denmark A/S) and for public use. Also here MS-Project was used
Project Manager and SQL developer in the organisation Red Barnet for a new web system and a fundraising system based on NT and NT-WS on Exchange Server and SQL Server. MS-Project was used for project management
Product experience
Specifikation / Knowledge / Years experience / Last
Type: / Name /

Low

/
Middle
/ High / 0-3 / 4-6 / 7 + / Used
CPU system: / IBM 390 / X / X / 2005
IBM z/900 and z/9 / X / X / 2017
IBM AS400 / X / X / 2009
Host Operativ System: / OS/390 MVS / X / x / 2005
z/OS MVS / X / X / 2016
Unix Operativ System: / SUN Solaris Unix / X / X / 2005
SuSE Linux / X / X / 2008
HP / NonStop / X / X / 2017
Development Lang: / Assembler - IBM / X / X / 2009
Cobol / IBM / X / X / 2015
Cobol CodeWright / Unix / X / X / 2004
Cobol Generator SWT / X / X / 2013
Cobol MicroFocus / Unix / x / x / 2004
Cobol on LINUX PC / X / X / 2017
Cobol85 / Tandem / HP / X / X / 2015
Codewright (Borland PC) / X / X / 2013
C++ / X / x / 2004
Delta Cobol HP / X / X / 2000
DL/1 / X / X / 2013
JAVA (private use) / X / x / 2004
MS SQL / X / X / 2012
PL/1 / x / x / 2012
RBD v.7.1 + RAD/EGL / x / x / 2010
REXX / X / X / 2013
SAS Base / X / X / 2006
Script/GML/HTML/Perl / X / X / 2011
SQL – IBM / X / X / 2014
Database and File / DB2 / x / x / 2014
Systems: / IMS/DB / X / X / 2013
ISAM / X / X / 2002
MS SQL server / X / X / 2016
MS-Access / X / X / 2002
VSAM / X / X / 2014
Other products and / Abend-Aid - Compuware / X / X / 2009
Systems: / Access DB2 / X / X / 2001
ApplConView (Serena) / X / x / 2004
Active Directory (AD) / X / X / 2017
AQT/DB2 / X / X / 2012
Avaloq Stocktrade System / X / x / 2006
Beta91 / X / X / 2013
Beta92 - Jobmonitor / X / X / 2015
BOKS (Bankdata) / X / X / 2014
Calypso Capital Market / X / X / 2013
Catalog Manager – BMC / X / X / 2011
ChangeMan ZMF / X / X / 2009
CICS / X / X / 2014
Clarity / X / X / 2017
CrossRef / X / X / 2009
Data Manager / X / X / 2011
DB2 Admin (IBM) / X / X / 2013
DB2 QMF (IBM) / X / X / 2014
Eclipse / X / X / 2013
Endevor - Allfusion / X / X / 2013
ERWIN fra CA / X / X / 2013
File Manager / x / x / 2011
FileAid MVS/DB2 / x / x / 2014
HP Quality Center - QC / X / X / 2012
HP Service Centre / X / X / 2012
IBM PD Tools / X / X / 2014
IBM QRM / X / X / 2012
JCL / X / X / 2015
JES II / X / X / 2014
Jira and Confluence / X / X / 2017
Librarian / X / X / 2013
MIDAS / X / X / 2017
MQ/Series / X / X / 2013
NINJAGO and NINJA / X / X / 2017
OnDemand (IBM) / X / X / 2006
OPC – TWS (Tivoli) - WS / X / X / 2015
Panvalet (Allfusion) - CA / X / X / 2009
QlikView for SQL/DB2 / X / X / 2012
Quickref / X / x / 2009
Remedy - bmcsoftware / X / X / 2017
SharePoint / X / X / 2015
Skyhigh network tool / X / X / 2016
Spufi / X / X / 2014
StarTool FDM 7.3.0 / X / X / 2004
SWIFT Transactions / X / X / 2007
Syncsort / DFSORT / X / X / 2006
TACL + TAL (Tandem) / X / x / 2000
TSO/ISPF og CA/TPX / X / X / 2014
UNICODE (UTF8) / X / X / 2009
Visio Design tool / X / X / 2012
Weblogic / X / X / 2017
XINFO – Horizont GmbH / X / X / 2014
Xpediter/TSO – Debug / X / x / 2014
PC Office Systems: / Lotus Notes / X / X / 2015
MS-Office / X / X / 2017
MS-Project / X / X / 2016
StarOffice / X / X / 2015
PC Operativ Systems: / DOS / X / X / 2016
Windows NT / X / X / 2007
Windows VISTA / X / X / 2011
Windows XP / X / X / 2014
Windows 7 / X / X / 2014
Windows 10 / X / X / 2017
Job roles
Specifikation / Knowledge / Years experience / Last
Type: / Name /

Low

/
Middle
/ High / 0-3 / 4-6 / 7 + / Used
Job roles: / Application Designer / X / X / 2014
Application Developer / X / X / 2014
Business Analyst - BA / X / X / 2016
Cloud Compliance PM / X / X / 2016
Compliance Analyst / PM / X / X / 2017
DWH Mgm + Developer / X / X / 2010
Independent Consultant / X / X / 2017
IT Solution Architect / X / X / 2014
IT HR Consultant / Req. / X / X / 2015
System Engineer (SE) / X / X / 2014
Test and Test responsible / X / X / 2017
Project Manager and / Asset Management / X / X / 2015
ITIL related job roles: / Change Management / X / X / 2015
Delivery Manager / X / X / 2015
Deployment Management / X / X / 2016
Incident Management / X / X / 2015
Infrastructure Project Mgr. / X / X / 2017
Knowledge Transfer Mgr. / X / X / 2016
Operational Integrator / X / X / 2017
Password Security PM / X / X / 2017
Problem Management / X / X / 2015
Process Engineer / X / X / 2017
Programm Manager / X / X / 2015
Project Manager - ITIL / X / X / 2017
Release Management / X / X / 2015
Senior Project Manager / X / X / 2017
Service Delivery Manager –SDM and ITSM / X / X / 2016
Transformation Manager / X / X / 2015
Transition Manager / X / X / 2015

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