. Including the following skills –
Cobol (39 years’ experience) Micro Focus Cobol (16 Years experience 1984 to 1999) IBM Cobol (23 Years experience 2000 – 2023)
IBM Mainframe JCL,DB2,CICS,MQ,TWS,ISPW,FileAid and various IBM MVS Mainframe utilities. Including JSON XML, API’s (IBM & DotNet) & REST protocol’s (busy studying).
[Work Experience]
Subject Matter Expert
Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd
Jan 2000 - January 2023 (Retirement)
- Designed, programmed and implemented various major projects. Examples include -
- Cross border transactions with Namibia, eSwatini and Lesotho.
- Supplementary Data for CMA countries, to satisfy the South African Reserve Bank regulations (FATF etc).
- Value transactions between Bankserv and the wider value chain within the South African banking industry.
- Designed, programmed, Implemented and maintained an automated GL balancing System for all EFT entries (Internal, external (Bankserv/SARB) and cross border).
- Designed, programmed, Implemented and maintained a EFT Miss-post (i.e. Credit EFT’s been posted to the incorrect account). This saved the bank a huge amount of money and reputational risk.
- Maintained the bank systems both Online and Batch which included "high pressure" investigations and bug fixes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features.
Developer
Standard Bank of South Africa
Jan 1984 - Dec 1999
- Micro Branch Accounting - System design, programming, implementation and support of System Software and the applications for our branches.
- Helped implement application additions to a banking package BankMaster used by Standard Bank throughout Africa.
- Cheque Processing.
Bank Clerk
Standard Bank of SA Ltd
Nov 1976 - Dec 1983
- Worked in various branches and was involved in implementing the banks' computer systems into non-computerized branches.. Including the following skills –
Cobol (39 years’ experience) Micro Focus Cobol (16 Years experience 1984 to 1999) IBM Cobol (23 Years experience 2000 – 2023)
IBM Mainframe JCL,DB2,CICS,MQ,TWS,ISPW,FileAid and various IBM MVS Mainframe utilities. Including JSON XML, API’s (IBM & DotNet) & REST protocol’s (busy studying).
[Work Experience]
Subject Matter Expert
Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd
Jan 2000 - January 2023 (Retirement)
- Designed, programmed and implemented various major projects. Examples include -
- Cross border transactions with Namibia, eSwatini and Lesotho.
- Supplementary Data for CMA countries, to satisfy the South African Reserve Bank regulations (FATF etc).
- Value transactions between Bankserv and the wider value chain within the South African banking industry.
- Designed, programmed, Implemented and maintained an automated GL balancing System for all EFT entries (Internal, external (Bankserv/SARB) and cross border).
- Designed, programmed, Implemented and maintained a EFT Miss-post (i.e. Credit EFT’s been posted to the incorrect account). This saved the bank a huge amount of money and reputational risk.
- Maintained the bank systems both Online and Batch which included "high pressure" investigations and bug fixes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features.
Developer
Standard Bank of South Africa
Jan 1984 - Dec 1999
- Micro Branch Accounting - System design, programming, implementation and support of System Software and the applications for our branches.
- Helped implement application additions to a banking package BankMaster used by Standard Bank throughout Africa.
- Cheque Processing.
Bank Clerk
Standard Bank of SA Ltd
Nov 1976 - Dec 1983
- Worked in various branches and was involved in implementing the banks' computer systems into non-computerized branches.
