1990 to 1991 :

The Software Partnership
Wingate House, Northway,
Runcorn, Cheshire,
United Kingdom. WA7 2SX 
(previously Norton House)
(now Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) in
Daresbury, Warrington (2007),
formerly EFD eFUNDS (2000) from Deluxe Data International Operations (1994) )

Area :

sp/ARCHITECT-BANK
Batch Host Interface / Reports Development, Design, Code, Test & Implementation

Website :

www.fidelityinfoservices.com

Position :

Junior Programmer

Programming Languages
(HP NonStop):

COBOL85, ENSCRIBE, TACL, NONSTOP SQL
Various NSK Utilities – PUP, SPOOLCOM,
PATHCOM, INSPECT, EMS etc.

Operating
Systems :

HP NonStop (formerly TANDEM COMPUTERS) CLX,
GUARDIAN with PATHWAY on K series
MS-DOS

Software
Packages :

CrystalPoint OutsideView
Microsoft Word

Other :

N/A

Responsible for the design, coding and testing of a number of report programs. These reports output formatted registration data set up by System Administration software on the hp NonStop platform and also provide information about end user system and facility usage. Three of these report programs used programmatic interaction with the Event Management System (EMS). This involved using a Distributor and a Filter coded and linked into the report programs in order to extract all of the appropriate event messages tagged with a tailored billing token, to produce the reports.

Also responsible for the design, coding and testing of a number of Batch Host Interface processes which form an interface between the hp NonStop platform and IBM systems running software for a major clearing bank in Holland. Work was carried out in-house.