Bank. TSB - First On-line Real-Time banking system (in Europe?) which replaced me as, effectively, a direct access disk drive updating account cards in a huge rolodex behind the scenes. I could have done it in £.s.d. too. First IT job. IBM Series III computer operator on 96 column punched cards. RPG III. Technical Director HP 3000 Software House. Cobol. Image DB. Package Software - Manufacturing. User Site. Accounting Systems Project Manager. Software House. Retail software. Cobol, PROTOS. Contracting. COBOL, Cognos, Quiz, Quick, QTP, QDesign. User Site. Software Development Manager. Software House. Retail software. C++, SQL Server 7 through 2008. VB6, VB.Net, ASP.Net, OOP, Data Warehouse package design and development, ETL-SSIS, SSRS, Transact-SQL, Customer implementation and support. XML, XSLT. DB design. HTML. Acquired by Oracle. Oracle DB12c-19c, PL/SQL, packages, OBIEE, RPD design, ETL on Oracle. DB design, Partitioning, Indexing, optimization, DBA, Oracle Retail GBU. JET/Java. Cloud. Jackson Structured Programming, De Marco, Gane & Sarson, Kernighan and Pflauger, Ralph Kimball, Dickinson method, At Oracle: Connor MacDonald, Steven Feuerstein, That Jeff Smith, That Philip Howe :-) Still going; nothing changes; nothing seems to improve; still bean counters breathing down your neck and the ever-present myth of "process". Agile? Seriously? I`ve been agile since I wrote out my first COBOL program on coding sheets and sent it off for punching, verification and compiling at a bureau.
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