Resume for
Gary Perry
Current as of 01/29/2009
Summary
Mr. Perry is a British National who has over 28 years of experience in the I.T.
industry, including nearly seven years as a Senior Programmer Analyst in America.
His experience has been both in financial and manufacturing applications. He has
a solid hands-on approach, along with the experience to manage a team lead
responsibility. He has been issued an I-5 Immigrant Visa and is available for
immediate employment in the United States with a green card.
Skills List
COBOL/ COBOL2/ COBOL3270
Connect Direct/NDM FTP
Connect Express IFM
DB2 OPC
File-Aid Abend-Aid
SyncSort SQL
Lotus Notes Omegamon
IMS DB/DC CICS
DL1 Endevor
TELON PSB
JCL EDI (Expedite & Interbridge)
Easytrieve Test Director
MS Excel Xpediter
MS Access VSAM
MS Word Quikjob
Small exposure to STROBE IFA
Marval CA-7
Professional Experiences
United Kingdom
02/2005 – 12/2008
Certegy – now part of Fidelity National Information Services
I.T. Support Analyst
Mr. Perry was taken on in the Leicester office to fill a support role for a
credit card processing company. Mr. Perry‘s position entails fault-finding, job
submission, program/application analysis and fire-fighting under tight production
deadlines and rotating support on a 24/7 basis. This includes intensive support,
including 12-hour shifts, over any given days including weekends for both
client-critical testing and production implementations. The job entails liaising
on support issues with both domestic and international clients at differing
support levels, management through users. Mr Perry has also assisted in
interviewing potential job candidates and has chaired weekly progress meetings
with both internal and external clients.
United States of America
04/2000 – 10/2004
ACS (Affiliated Computer Services)
(Senior Programmer Analyst)
Mr. Perry was taken on as an International hiring, under an H1-B visa, to
continue to work on the Finance Legacy system for Motorola, at their Semi
Conductor site in Tempe, Arizona. A change in Motorola policy meant ACS relocated
and the support continued off-site. In addition to the programming and analysis
skills, Mr. Perry was given the role of Sub Team Lead with 5/6 Programmer
Analysts reporting to him. As well as the normal skills he had acquired before,
Mr. Perry attended several sessions to learn Management and organizational
skills. In July 2002, Mr. Perry transferred internally to Austin, Texas and
continued in the role of Senior Programmer Analyst until he was laid off in
October 2004 as part of a company RIF exercise. The work involved support of the
life cycle of the project, from functional specification to handing the tested
product over to the Systems Testing team. Software used was primarily Cobol, with
a greater emphasis on use of DB2 and SQL. This role included 24/7 support on a 1
week in 3 rotation.
02/1998 - 01/2000
PKS Information Services
(Senior Programmer Analyst)
Mr. Perry was taken on as an International hiring, under an H1-B visa, to
tackle Y2K projects and was assigned to work on such a project for a large,
Oregon based, Medical Insurance company. The project lasted about one year and
was successful in meeting its objectives. During this time he was using
analytical and programming skills, including maintenance of Transform generated
programs, as well as supporting 24 hour testing. From this, and through to the
start of 2000, Mr. Perry was assigned to work on a Finance Legacy system for
Motorola, at their Semi Conductor site in Tempe, Arizona. Working on-site, he
carried out both analysis and maintenance of the old COBOL and Transform based
Vendor Stocking and Purchasing systems. A split of this company meant supporting
24 hour testing again, and he maintained both primary and secondary on-call
support of these systems.
United Kingdom
10/1994 - 11/1997
Logica
(Programmer/Analyst)
Mr. Perry was immediately assigned to work on-site at the head office of one
of the world’s largest Automobile manufacturers. He worked on UK/USA/European
Financial projects using COBOL II in batch and TELON in on-line environments.
During his time with Logica, Mr. Perry attended a one week course in DB2 run by
Platinum, but was re-assigned to a different project where this knowledge was not
required. This second project put Mr. Perry in charge of the development and
maintenance of the Fleet Billing system, written in Microsoft Access and used in
conjunction with an outside agency.
04/1993 - 10/1994
Texas Homecare
(Senior Analyst Programmer)
Mr. Perry was employed to assist on the mainframe COBOL base Finance system,
including payroll. Soon after starting, he was assigned to control the E.D.I.
system for this large Home Improvements company. The support of this system put
Mr. Perry in daily contact with both stores and the suppliers, and gave him
experience using the appropriate software required to run an electronically based
order and supply system.
08/1988 – 04/1993
Renault Trucks (United Kingdom)
(System Specialist/Analyst Programmer)
Mr. Perry started his career at this European Truck manufacturer producing and
acting on specifications for the development and maintenance of the Manufacturing
system, then moved to supporting the Finance systems when the opportunity arose.
His work involved using an in-house 4th generation language and he made full use
of the software used at this company, for production of one-off reports and for
debugging. Later, Mr. Perry was promoted to a Systems Specialist role where, as
well as working with customers, he produced work for a small team of programmers.
Testing and implementation of this team’s work was also under control of Mr.
Perry.
02/1985 – 08/1988
British Aerospace
(Programming Team Leader/Programmer)
This company is one of the leaders in the U.K. for designing, building and
supplying weapons for the armed forces and, as such, this meant security checks
were carried out on Mr. Perry and he had to sign Britain’s Official Secrets Act.
The site he worked at was the Army Weapons Division. Mr. Perry started his career
at this company as a programmer on a small Planning team, using COBOL on an IBM
mainframe. The work involved design, development and maintenance of the team’s
systems, including use of the TELON 4GL program generator and prototyping system.
With time, Mr. Perry moved to a Team Leader role and had three junior trainee
programmers working for him.
08/1980 – 11/1984
Merchant Investors Assurance
(Programmer/Ops Shift Leader)
This started Mr. Perry into the computer industry when he was taken on as a
trainee operator. Within a year he had progressed to a Shift Leader, looking
after up to 2 trainee operators on an ICL mainframe, then the company naturally
progressed him to a programmer role. This involved developing, maintaining,
testing and debugging financial systems from analyst-produced specifications.
Tel: [Send email to request phone number] 69 2310 (Home)
(602) 790 0085 (Cell)
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