John Barrett
Edinburgh, Scotland
Overview
John Barrett is an Infrastructure Engineer at NatWest Banking Group in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a background that includes roles at Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows, and Littlewoods Shop Direct Group. He has expertise in z/OS Connect EE, COBOL II, USS, RACF, JOSE, RESTful WebServices, and various other mainframe technologies, as well as experience in business and systems analysis, web services, SQL DB2, and data modeling.
Work Experience
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist
2022 - Current
Technical Specialist
2004
NWB Grp COBOL / LE lead. Strong CICS TS skills as well as expert knowledge in z/OS Connect EE. Strong understanding and use of Broadcom products including SYSVIEW.
Technical Specialist
1998
Fulfilled both development and support roles. In addition ran the centre of excellence for developers.
Technical Specialist
2008 - 2010
Implemented solutions to address business needs for a a raft of large and medium sized projects principally for Retail Banking.
Systems Analyst - Contractor
1998 - 1999
Joined the Imaging and Archiving team as a Contractor. Great fun building a CICS interface to IMS used by PEGAVIEW.
Analyst Programmer
1990 - 1998
Worked on PAS (Policy Admin System), Commission systems and Sales Force Management systems.
Programmer
1985 - 1989
Joined as part of the Graduate Recruitment Scheme and trained as a programmer on the wonderful (??) Honeywell/Bull mainframes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BS
1982 - 1985
Desmond !
1982 - 1985
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1980 - 1982
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1975 - 1980