CONTACT:
J. B. (Bruce) Van Wely, CDP
2210 East Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21231
(410) 908-1714
Voice Mail/Fax (888) 646-8753
e-mail: bvanwely@myself.com

SUMMARY:
Over 30 years experience in information technology, largely consulting
to the large systems world. Specializing for the past 15 years in rapid
application development and conversions for legacy systems using
PC-based tools. Areas of expertise include DB/2, COBOL, PL/1, CICS, MQ,
SWIFT, XML, HTML, APS, APS/GUI, Client Express, CICS, IMS, IDMS, CA-DataCom, Assembler, JCL, Rexx, ISPF, Unix, AIX, Perl.

Recent positions include Database Designer, System
Architect, Tool Builder, Knowledge Engineer, Application Developer, Configuration Managaer.

INDUSTRIES:
Brokerage and finance; banking; telecommunications; local, state, and
federal government; health care; libraries; education; insurance; subscription fulfillment; utilities; manufacturing.

PREFERRED TERMS:
Corporate Billed, Any location, Travel OK, Short term OK

RECENT EXPERIENCE:

Worked as customer liaison, test coordinator, configuration manager, and developer on conversion of AIX Sybase to UDB/DB2. Used Perl to extract information from the code base, and shell scripts backed by MySQL to control the process.

Acted as MQ Architect and developer on a high-volume medical insurance system operating in an OS/390-zos environment using Cobol, DB2, and CICS.

Acted as Technical Liaison and lead developer in an international data-sharing project, using Cobol to extract data from DataCom, format it in XML, and transmit it via MQ.

Performed business-rule recovery on a mixed SAS/Cobol system for Bureau of Census

Working at a NYC securities firm feeding its IBM mainframe database to
its Global Systems client/servers in xml via MQ Series message
processing. Also developed Cobol import/export facilities for SWIFT messages.

Provided DB/2 DBA and data cleansing/data integrity services to a major
insurance company preparatory to migration from DB/2-Cobol-CICS to
Oracle-Peoplesoft.

Consulted to a mid-sized manufacturing company on designing, selecting,
and installing an ERP solution.

Worked for a large, multi-national consulting firm designing and
implementing an internal "Knowledge Management Center" web site to
collect and coordinate the corporate IT experience base.

Worked as project lead with a small consulting firm developing a
specification-driven high-volume telecommunications (CABS) billing
system program generator. The specifications were encoded in XML, while
the generator produced COBOL. The resulting batch processor reduced
execution times from the existing hand-coded COBOL system by two orders
of magnitude.

Worked with a small consulting firm developing a proprietary Y2K
maintenance and update product in COBOL, Rexx, and ISPF for IBM
mainframe users. The product has since been sold into several major
corporations. While the target environment was IBM mainframe systems,
all development was done on a PC using MicroFocus COBOL.

Acted as System Architect for the conversion of the Maryland Department
of Transportation computer system from Unisys to IBM. Helped design the
port from Unisys DMS (an IDMS-like database) to DB2. Designed and
implemented the common transaction interface to provide the features of
the Unisys transaction system within the constraints of CICS/3270,
thereby minimizing the learning curve for the terminal operators. All of
the existing code was ported into Merant (InterSolve) APS, with the
database and tp conversions implemented in macros. The conversion
included Y2K upgrade and certification. All development and testing was
done on the PC using MicroFocus COBOL and APS and then ported to the
mainframe.

Worked as configuration manager for a Unix/Win3 GUI client/server
welfare accounting application using PVCS. Designed and implemented
field-level database security via APS macros within APS Client(Net)
Express.

Developed a pc-based emulator using MicroFocus COBOL for Unisys DMS (and
IDMS and Honeywell IDS) as a proprietary product. The emulator was used
in testing for the MDOT above and is sold as a stand-alone product.

Worked as an APS architect for a large financial house, designing and
implementing a 'common-look-and-feel' interface via APS macros for their
on-line CICS/DB2 securities processing systems.

Worked as System Architect on a multi-state fuel tax system. That system
may still hold the record for PC-based mainframe RAD development: start
to finish (design to deployment) in six months (100+ CICS transactions,
100+ batch programs) with an average staff of 8 programmers using APS
and MicroFocus COBOL on the PC.

Designed and implemented the batch printing and mailing architecture for
a major insurance company using mainframe APS and COBOL.

1/65 - 8/90:
A number of varied consulting positions in both IBM and Honeywell
mainframe environments. Details available on request.