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SM Computer Consulting is a small company that prides itself on its ability to provide innovative software solutions for all your mainframe needs. Being small means that SM Computer Consulting is flexible in its approach and is totally focused on client satisfaction. SM Computer Consulting is based in Cardiff - the gateway of Wales - but has the ability to integrate its services into the client premises anywhere in the Country or throughout Europe. Our staff has extensive experience of providing software consultancy on multiple mainframe platforms for a variety of blue chip companies.
These include:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Telecommunications
British Gas
SW Water
G. E.
ICC Bank (Ireland)
Corus - formerly British Steel
SM computer Consulting also has experience in working within local government and the newly deregulated power industries for water, gas and electricity.
SM Computer Consulting has a well-defined software development process that has been followed successfully for many years. All staff sent to the client site will be fully conversant with ISO 9001 and will produce full documentation for all deliverables to the client's requirements and standards.
Software consultancy services provided by SM Computer Consulting include
* Custom development and re-engineering.
* Application Maintenance.
* Production support.
* Application conversion and enhancements.
* Year 2000 services.
* System testing.
* Package evaluation
* Documentation services
The technologies covering these services are:
* IBM mainframe
* ICL mainframe
* IMS
* DB2
* IDMS
* Flat file architecture
* COBOL
* Easytrieve
* Mantis
* PASCAL
* FORTRAN
* BASIC
SM Computer Consulting has over 14 years experience of project based support and development, and has direct knowledge in the following system areas :-
* Payroll
* Pensions
* Accounting (accounts payable and receivable)
* General Ledger
* Order Handling
* Cash-less transactions
* Billing
* Banking
* Manufacturing
Further information concerning any information contained in this document can be obtained from
SM Computer Consulting
95 Beale Close
Danescourt
Cardiff
CF5 2RU
Or by phoning (029) 2030 6733
Current availability is from April 2002
Overview of recent contracts
Oct 2001- April 2002
South West Water, Exeter
Pos. Analyst / Programmer
4 month Contract + 2 month extension
South West Water are currently preparing to migrate their Customer System from the ICL mainframe onto a bespoke package from Rapid Systems Ltd
To date approximately 20+ programs and sub-routines, file handlers have been written to download data into CSV files for upload onto the new package.
Machines Used : ICL Mainframe under VME
Languages : COBOL, SCL
Others : Flat files
May 2001 - Sept. 2001
GE Capital, Leeds
Pos. Analyst / Programmer 3 month Contract + 1 month extension
The main task on the e-payables banking project was to automate a General Ledger postings procedure.
On the clients books clawback entries had to be made to reflect the differences between the actual and estimated book amounts for each invoice (The difference in currency movements between when an order was placed & when the invoice was paid). On GE Capitals shared services ledger entries had to be made to debit invoice amounts from the client, credit & debit the relevant currency clearing accounts, initiate funding payments between clearing accounts and account for any currency movements with balancing entries.
'T-account' reports were produced to show the net effect on each account.
Machines Used : IBM Mainframe under VSE
Languages : COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL
Others : VSAM
Nov 2000 - April. 2001
Tyco Electronics, Stanmore, London
Pos. Analyst / Programmer
5 month Contract
Worked on the Tyco GEARBOX project. This was an automated cross-company ordering system. It allowed for the real time raising of orders on the buying site, automatically generate the inter-co purchase order, send it to the supply site and book automatically into the receiving sales system.
Machines Used : IBM Mainframe under VM
Languages : COBOL, JCL
Databases : DL/1
Others : CICS, VSAM, Selcopy
May 2000 - Oct. 2000
ICC Bank, Dublin
Pos. Analyst / Programmer 5 month Contract
Initially worked to produce management print reports in COBOL and Easytrieve that were downloaded via Monarch into Excel. There the data was merged with data from other sources to produced a statistical analysis of the banking executives performance - complete with graphs, etc.
Also wrote and amended on-line and batch transactions in the banks main enquiry system - OSCER - that encompassed the full range of banking activities from client requests, through disbursement and releasing of funds to cheque production or credit transfer.
Machines Used : IBM Mainframe under VM
Languages : COBOL, Easytrieve + , JCL, MANTIS
Databases : DL/1
Others : CICS, VSAM, VMLIB
Nov 1997 - Nov 1999 HYDER
Pos. Analyst / Programmer 4 x sixth month Contracts.
Worked on HCS(E) Electricity system, initially working on Accounts receivable (ARC) process. My responsibilities included:-
1) The analysis of input from 14 tapes (Tokens, Midland Bank, DHSS, Post Office, etc) then wrote specifications for 14 suites of programs to allocate financial activity to a customer account or allocate to suspense. All suites allocated activity via one central process and then reported on errors / warnings and produced a proof list. Consulted with the appropriate team’s business representatives to produce High Level Design & Physical Design documents.
2) Leading and mentoring a team of 6 programmers to code and unit test and finally link test each suite before passing to system test and user acceptance test. I was also responsible for writing and testing some application suites myself.
3) Writing multiple interface programs between IDMS DB and GUI front end (VB and sequel 7 server Unix box) to extract and update data for customer services (HCS(E)) system. The back end processing was all COBOL and maintained on IDMS Data Base.
4) Performing maintenance for all general problems reported from system test
Machines Used : ICL Mainframe under VME
Languages : COBOL, Application Master (AM), SCL
Databases : IDMS
Others : DDS, Alta-data, T-plan
Aug. 1995 - Nov 1997 LOGICA PLC
Pos. Consultant
Worked on Colossus Project based at BT, Cardiff. The project objective was to speed up the clearing of over 1000 faults on the main Customer Services System (CSS). This system is the largest IDMS database in Europe.
Had some exposure to RAD methodologies. Ran separate project doing same task for Marketing system. Eventually took over maintenance and development control of Cashless (Phone Chargecard system) adding new functionality to the existing system as well as rationalising some existing functionality.
Machines Used : IBM Mainframe under VSE
Languages : COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL
Databases : IDMS
Others : CICS, VSAM, T-plan, Xpeditor, Infoman, DML, TSO, ISPF
Courses : DSDM, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, TSO, ISPF, JCL, VIASOFT year 2000 software tools and methods
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