Curriculum Vitae

Stephen Archer

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Personal details:

Full name: Stephen John Walter Archer

I.D. number: 5712075013081

Nationality: South African

Residential area: Northcliff

Current position: Analyst Programmer / Systems Analyst

Cell number: 083 307 6314

Email address: sa8746872.gmail.com

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Skills Summary:

Hardware Months Software MonthsIBM Mainframe 354 TSO 354Languages Months Databases MonthsCobol Natural/Natural 2MQ

4835418

AdabasDB2

35448

Operating Systems MonthsMVS/TSO 354

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Work Experience:

STANDARD BANK July 2015 – December 2016

Software: ADABAS, NATURAL, NATURAL 2, CICS, TSO, CONNECT DIRECTPosition: PROGRAMMER / ANALYST PROGRAMMER / SYSTEM ANALYST

‘BOL’ – BUSINESS ONLINE

The project worked on was written in-house at SBSA. It caters for all Corporate clients Banking requirements including Payments, Collections and Statements in various formats. I assisted with various enhancements and with the preparation of data for conversion to SAP.

Coding Testing – Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptable Maintenance of and enhancement to the system as required by the unit

KANSAI PLASCON February 2012 – July 2015

Software: ADABAS, NATURAL 2, CICS, TSOPosition: ANALYST PROGRAMMER / SYSTEM ANALYST

This project was the rewrite of the existing Natural/Adabas system again using Natural/Adabas. The sections completed to date were the Creditors sub-system and a new General Ledger sub-system.

Business Analysis System design Specifications Coding Testing – Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Enhancements as required by the Business

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STANDARD BANK June 1986 – June 2012

Software: ADABAS, NATURAL, NATURAL 2, CICS, TSO, LTC, EASYTRIEVE+, MQ, UNIX SCRIPTING, CONNECT DIRECT

Position: PROGRAMMER / ANALYST PROGRAMMER / SYSTEM ANALYST / TEAM LEADER

Projects worked on:

‘ATG’ – AFRICAN TRANSACTIONAL GATEWAY

The system was written in-house at SBSA to facilitate Corporate clients who require a means of payment and collection on the African Continent. Utilises propertary products CIG (Customer Information Gateway) and SFI / DAPP (File payment system). Caters for cross-border and cross currency functionality and MT940/MT942 Swift statements.

Coding Testing – Unit, System Integration and User Acceptance Maintenance of and enhancement to the system as required by the

business unit

BASEL2

The system was written in-house at SBSA to track Corporate clients take-up of the facilities they have negotiated with the bank. This included SARB requirements.

Coding Testing – Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptance. Maintenance of and enhancement to the system as required by the

business unit

‘EODF’ – END OF DAY FORECASTING

The system was written in-house at SBSA to assist SB Treasury Division in determining liquidity requirements overnight.

Coding Testing – Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptance.

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Maintenance of and enhancement to the system as required by the business unit.

‘CUPL’ – CASH UPLOAD

This system was written in-house at SBSA to handle the automatic crediting of corporate client’s accounts before the actual cash in the deposit is verified by the Bulk Cash Deposit.

Coding Testing – Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptance. Maintenance of and enhancement to the system as required by the

business unit

‘SBUT’ – STANDARD BANK UNIT TRUSTS

This system was written in-house at SBSA to handle the Standard Bank Unit Trust business and was implemented in July 1990. It interfaced with 18 other Standard Bank systems. After the amalgamation of the Standard Bank and the Liberty Life Unit Trust businesses in 2001, the new business unit converted to the ‘SILICA’ system by Liberty Life.

Coding Testing – Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptance. Maintenance of and enhancement to the system required by the

business by the business unit. Production Support (Standby / Callout for the overnight batch

processing) User Liaison – up to Director level Business Analysis Project Management Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Plan

‘PPAS’ – PERFORMANCE AND PROFITABILITY SYSTEM

Part of a development team coding online capture programs. I had minimal exposure to Cobol batch programs.

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‘CCCS’ – CORPORATE CREDIT CONTROL SYSTEM

This is an accounting system showing details, limits and balances of corporate customers within certain risk groups using hierarchies. I was part of a development team coding and implementing NATURAL online and batch programs.

NON IT 1976 – May 1986

I initially worked in Standard Bank branches in the different departments e.g. Telling, Foreign Exchange, etc. For the last 2 ½ ears in this position I was part of a team travelling around the country converting SBSA branches from manual systems on to the SBSA computer systems.

Achievement Institution Date

Matric Durban High School 1975

I.T. COURSES AND TRAINING:

Courses Institution Date

Natural 1 SPL 1983

Advanced Natural SPL 1983

Cobol Van Zyl & Pritchard 1986

Advanced Natural 2 SPL 1991

Project Management Part 1 and 2 Standard Bank 1992Systems Analysis and Design SPL 1995

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