1. TTADHGADHG RRYANYAN
18B Clonskeagh Road, Mobile: 086 834 5716
Dublin 6. Email: ryantadhg@gmail.com
I am an experienced mainframe developer who has worked for 14 years
in financial services. I have a proven track record of delivering high
quality development to deadline and of showing the flexibility, reliability
and consistency needed in an application support role. I have a broad
range of skills in testing, analysis, problem solving, administration and
production support. I am a team player and I work well independently.
TTECHNICALECHNICAL SSKILLSKILLS
Computer Languages/Skills Applications
PL/1 (3GL) HP Quality Centre
Adabas Natural (4GL) TestDirector
JCL TeamTrack
SQL, COBOL CPI – Agile type methodology
ROSCOE Competent in Microsoft Office
CICS
SAR, TSO, Predict
Testing (CDP, Functional)
EEDUCATIONDUCATION ANDAND TTRAININGRAINING
Course College/Institution Year
B.Sc. Mathematical Sc. &
Computing
University College Galway. 1994 -1997
Certificate in Software Testing
Systems Development Essentials
SQL Queries for Beginners
ISEB
ISEB
Irish Computer Society
2006
2007
2015
CCAREERAREER HHISTORYISTORY
FBD Insurance

2. Test Analyst Jun 2015 –
Present
- Planning, development, preparation and execution of customer documentation
test cases and scripts based on agreed technical specifications.
- Identification of defects within the delivered functionality and documentations and
ensuring all test cases and defects are accurate and up to date.
- Working collaboratively with Test lead and Testers in delivering work to deadline.
Job seeking Aug 2014 –
May 2015
Gap Year Aug 2013 –
Jul 2014
- Personal projects including travel, writing, running and farming.
Aviva Insurance (General)
Mainframe Analyst Programmer Feb 2002 – Jul
2013
- Development/Maintenance of the Aviva Insurance (General) core batch system.
Development
- Design, development and promotion of business critical rate changes and
discount amendments on a monthly basis to a strict deadline.
- Worked with Business Analysts and others in determining requirements.
- Strong programming skills in Adabas Natural and PL/1 in both batch and
online environments.
- Excellent JCL skills in the development of new and existing overnight
procedures. This demanded a keen eye for detail to avoid batch failures.
- Unit and system testing of all development work.
- Preparation of technical, system test and release documentation.
- Development of new customer documentation with relevant IT teams. This
included providing data in various formats such as XML string data.
- Assisted internal finance customers (Accounts/Agency departments) in
finding and developing solutions to various reporting issues.
- Generation of reports for the Revenue Commissioners office based on their
technical specifications on a monthly / yearly basis.
Application / Production support
- Excellent systems analysis skills to know and understand the batch system.
- Proactive problem solver with extensive experience of finding solutions.
- Flexibility to adapt and prioritise BAU and production support needs.

3. - Clear decision making under pressure as demanded by production support.
- Administration work in the creation/maintenance of support documentation.
- Day to day interaction with the IT team responsible for the printing of
customer documentation ensuring what the customer received was accurate.
- Provided telephone and email support to underwriters and other customers.
- Signoff responsibilities for overnight parameters in event of major batch runs.
- Close interdependent working relations with DBAs and Operators.
- On call support including at weekends.
- Assigned full responsibility for support of the overnight batch cycle processing
in 2012. I received internal recognition for this. This demanded leadership,
planning and resourcefulness in balancing production and BAU issues.
- Training and supervision in the handover of my role to outsourcing company.
QA Support
- Strong general insurance knowledge across all products to aid in testing.
- Worked with QA team and business in defining the scope of testing required.
- Active participation in day to day update meetings with the QA team.
- Logging issues on Quality Centre, follow up with QA team and developers.
- Organised the logistics of a UAT (test environment etc.) with QA team lead.
- Replication of production processing (batch runs) on a UAT environment.
- Proactive attitude to fixing and re-testing bugs throughout the UAT.
- Documentation of the UAT, changes made and issues raised.
- Promotion of signed off development to strict deadlines.
Gap Year 2001
- Travelled in Far East and in Australia working in part time / temporary roles.
Hibernian Insurance (General)
Programmer 1998 - 2000
- Delivered a large amount of coding changes as part of a successful Y2K project.
- Development and maintenance of the customer documentation coding suite.
- Provided support for BAU issues upon which quick turnaround was expected.
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Leisure Interests: Running (incl. 5 marathons), Reading, Writing, Travel, Outdoors.
Other: Holder of a Full Clean Driving Licence.