Jeffrey H Celander
207 Meadow Wood Drive
Joliet, IL 60431
Phone:  [Send email to request phone number] 44-2401 • Email:  jeff.celander@EGSInnovations.com


SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEADER / SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
Proven Technical & Leadership Expertise in a Career Spanning 25+ years


Experienced commercial software architect/developer and team-savy management
professional with a career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled
with software development expertise. Maintain focus on bottom line on achieving
results while implementing advanced technology and solutions to meet corporate
and customer needs. Superior record of delivering simultaneous large-scale,
mission critical projects on time and under budget. Team based management style
and excellent interpersonal/communications skills.  Managed multi development
group projects consisting of software development teams located all across the
globe. Experienced teleworker.  

Software Architect / Software Design / Team Leadership/ Project Management /
Planning


Professional Experience

EGS Innovations, Joliet IL			 			May 2009 – Present

Contract Software Developer 

Maintain and add new features to commercial software vendor products. Worked
remotely as teleworker. Worked with project teams and executives in USA and
Canada.

•	Created product enhancement designs
•	Created new product ideas and designs
•	Quality assurance testing
•	Upgraded product ISPF user interface from Rexx to IBM Assembler.
•	Created ISPF SCLM source control project definitions for new and existing
products.
•	Worked with company owners, CTOs, and senior developers. Project leader for
various product projects.
•	Upgraded products to handle character encoding between differing CCSIDs.

President/Owner

Started EGS Innovations, Inc. Currently the president and owner of this
successful company. 

 
Rocket Software, Newton MA			 			2001 – May 2009

SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, MainStar Storage Management Tools

Teleworker. Recruited to upgrade and replace existing IBM Tivoli Interface
Server with a newer enhanced and more efficient version. This server was being
used by 6 Mainstar OEM IBM software products as data transport manager for the
IBM Tivoli user interfaces (GUI).

SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

Teleworker. Principle Architect, Developer and Product Development Team Leader.
Recruited to create this new product. This product is IBM’s DB2 Tool to provide
the DB2 DBA’s a tool that would generate DB2 data recoveries that were guaranteed
to work with a return of zero using recovery assets such as image copies, VSAM
backups, UNLOAD backups, volume based backups, and logs. This product provided a
user friendly GUI and “wizard” to guide non-technical DB2 staff in the generation
of accurate object/data recoveries. Product has 400+ customers.

Hire, train, develop and lead 20+ person technical team. Worked with CTO and IBM
DB2 Tools software management to create product design. Scope of position is
extensive and includes full design, software development, implementation,
testing, technical writing, training, customer relations, and product management.
Worked with development teams located in all time zones of the USA, Europe, and
Russia. Travelled across USA and Europe to work with development teams, QA teams,
and technical writers.

Product z/OS components were written in IBM High-Level Assembler, C++, PL/1,
complex SQL queries (dynamic and static), complex shadow DB2 system catalog
repository, multi tasking programming, and a large complex Java Swing interface.

Key achievements:

•	Designed and developed complex commercial DB2 Tools software product for IBM.
•	Completed ahead of schedule.
•	Completed with minimal problems. Passed QA testing certification on first
attempt.
•	Drafted user guides and product specification documents for technical
writers.
•	Trained offshore development and testing teams. Travelled to Russia to train
development and test teams.
•	Contributor to IBM Redbook produced and published for this product.
•	Worked with customers across the globe.

 
SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, IBM DB2 Object Restore for z/OS

Teleworker. Principle Developer and Product Development Team Leader. Recruited
to finish this incomplete product. This product was created on request of an IBM
customer that wanted to replace another competitor’s product that did not fit.
This product allowed the user to recover dropped DB2 objects, DDL and data.
Product was written in IBM High-Level Assembler, complex SQL queries (dynamic and
static), complex shadow DB2 system catalog repository, multi tasking programming,
and a large complex ISPF dialog user interface. This product grew from a 1
customer product to an 800+ customer product.

I was initially the sole product developer and designer. As the product matured
I trained, develop and lead 4+ person technical team. Worked with IBM DB2 Tools
software management to create a product design that met customer expectations.
Scope of position is extensive and includes full design, software development,
implementation, testing, technical writing, training, customer relations, and
product management. Worked with development teams located in the USA and Russia.
Travelled across USA and Russia to work with development teams, customers, QA
teams, and technical writers.

Key achievements:

•	Designed and developed complex commercial DB2 Tools software product for IBM.
•	Completed product development and deployment targets on schedule.
•	Product has very few customer issues. Passed IBM QA testing certifications on
first attempts. 
•	Drafted product user guides and product specification documents for technical
writers.
•	Upgraded product development environment to use SCLM source/build control.
•	Trained junior development and testing team members. 
•	Travelled to customer sites to get design feedback and enhancement feedback.
•	Primary contributor to IBM Redbook produced and published for this product.


SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, Additional Duties

In addition to my product management duties I also:

•	Researched and prototyped new products.
•	Created in-house testing utility software.
•	Created “common code” software used by all Rocket Software z/OS products.
•	Earn recognition by IBM and Rocket Software CEO for creating outstanding
product function specifications. Some of these product specification formats are
now being used by IBM.
•	Attended IDUG user conferences.
 

Exelon Energy, Chicago IL			 			1999 – 2001

PROGRAMMING TEAM LEADER, Meter Billing Systems

Programming group Team Leader for meter data gathering system. Lead a team of 4
contract programmers. Scope of position included providing direction,
engineering, implementation, support, and administration. Development was done in
COBOL, complex SQL (dynamic and static), batch JCL, CICS, and using VSAM and DB2
repositories.

Platinum Technologies (now CA), Oakbrook Terrace IL				1993 – 1999

SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, Product Packaging

Office and Teleworker. Recruited to upgrade and replace product SMP/E
installation manager software that was shipped with each product. Worked with
product packaging group to create this software installation manager software.
This software was a complex REXX based ISPF dialog that generated the product
SMP/E installation JCL based on installation environment and existing installed
software versions.

SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, Product Common Services

Office and Teleworker. Recruited to maintain existing common/general services
software used by all of the Platinum Technologies z/OS products. This software
was considered a product unto itself and was installed and maintained as such.
Product consisted of complex IBM High-Level Assembler, ISPF, REXX, CLIST, SQL,
and DB2 interfaces.

SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, Various Platinum DB2 Tools Products

•	Created updates to fix reported software problems.
•	Researched and prototyped new products.
•	Created in-house testing utility software.
•	Worked on various DB2 Tools product projects as a developer.

 
May & Speh, Inc. (now Axciom), Downers Grove IL				1988 – 1993

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, Research and Development Department

Recruited to manage research and development group. Hire, train, develop, and
lead 5+ person research and development team. Scope of position is expansive and
includes department direction, design, engineering, implementation, support,
training, administration, and management authority for:

•	Marketing analysis software products.
•	Printing software. Includes bar coding software certifications by USPS.
•	Address correction software services. Includes USPS testing and certification
of the software.
•	USPS mail sorting and optimization software. Includes USPS testing and
certification of the software.
•	Data modeling and manipulation software.


SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER, Address Correction Services

Recruited to build and maintain high performance address correction and
validation software products. Products written in IBM High-Level Assembler,
COBOL, PL/1, and REXX. ISPF dialogs and batch JCL interfaces for all products.

Key Achievements:

•	Designed and developed complex high performance software.
•	Created software that built, updated, and accessed databases stored in VSAM,
Linear Data Sets, BDAM, tableBASE, and DB2.
•	This software received very high test scores from USPS certifications.
•	Worked with University of Chicago Professors to build marketing and
demographics analysis algorithms for use in customer data profiling software. 

LPC, Inc. (now Pitney Bowes Software), Downers Grove IL			1986 – 1988

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, FINALIST and Mailers Choice Products

Recruited to develop CICS and ISPF user interfaces for batch FINALIST address
correction product written in IBM High-Level Assembler. Product development lead
for Mailers choice product written in COBOL. Software products were multi-million
dollar revenue generators.

Key Achievements:

•	Worked with product marketing to design user interfaces.
•	Wrote product user guides for user interfaces.
•	Performed USPS software certification tests.
•	Travelled to customer sites to demo software and resolve problems.

Official Airline Guides, Oakbrook IL			1980 – 1986

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, OAG Electronic Edition and Air Cargo/Passenger Systems

Recruited to convert DOS VSE COBOL programs to MVS COBOL.  Became Air Cargo
database/print system programming group leader. Recruited to work on writing the
OAG EE Product which had a CICS teletype VTAM user interface for PC user access
(tymnet, telnet, CompuServe, … prior to the internet or PC GUI’s). 

Key Achievements:

•	Worked with databases in BDAM, VSAM, and IMS.
•	Worked with CICS VTAM user interfaces.
•	Received intensive IBM CICS training and IBM CICS certification.
•	Received intensive IBM Assembler language and Macro language training at IBM
training center in Los Angeles, CA. IBM Assembler/Macro language certifications.
•	Wrote extensive documentation and product specifications.



Skills

•	IBM Pcomm, Vista, Bluezone
•	ISPF, Tachyon (T.I.D.E), SPF PC, Rational, Eclipse, FTP, XMIT
•	SCLM user, SCLM administrator, SMP/E, Librarian, Panvalet
•	JCL, REXX, CLIST, ISPF programming (functions, panels, messages, skeletons,
DTL, tables, dynamic area displays), IBM High-Level Assembler (HLASM), COBOL,
PL/1,  Java, C, HTML, XML, SQL, DDL, DML
•	DB2 for z/OS, DB2 LUW, VSAM, BDAM, BSAM, PDS(E)
•	CICS
•	Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Power Point, Project, Publisher, Outlook,
Visio)
•	Draft User Guides, Product specification documents, Data flow diagrams,
Quality Assurance testing


Education

•	Lewis University, Computer Science
•	University of St. Francis, Computer Science
•	Joliet Junior College, Computer Science
•	IBM advanced training in CICS
•	IBM advanced training in MVS Assembler Language and Macro Language


Publications

•	IBM Redbook IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS, contributor
•	IBM Redbook IBM DB2 Object Restore for z/OS. Contributor
•	Naspa magazine, authored several articles on MVS control blocks.