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Colin Greene

28 Christopher Ct Apt 4
Saint John, NB
E2K 4L5

(506)642-6226 (H)
(506)632-4616 (W)

cgreen@nb.sympatico.ca

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Joint Major in Pure Math and Computer Science
    Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, 1996
  • Certificate of Completion for the program in the Fundamentals of Art,
    Art Instruction School (by correspondence), Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Work Experience

ZeddComm, Inc., St.John's, NF

Position Systems Analyst and Programmer
Duration 2.5 Years
Project: Smart Fleet
Client: Irving Oil Ltd., Saint John, NB, Canada
Worked on billing system known as Smart Fleet to replace the current CreditManagement System for Irving Oil Limited and CCP System for Irving Oil Corporationbuilt to support Irving Oil's customers into the year 2000. Smart Fleet offers enhancedfunctionality and is in the process of preparing for a parallel run.
Responsibilities as a Systems Analyst & Programmer included:
  • Participate in meetings regarding assignment specifications and time lines.
  • Running of Mainframe schedules for user testing.
  • Developed process to simulate creation of S28 forms using Smart Fleet information to feed old CM process and avoid duplicate data entry during the parallel run.
  • Data transfer and re-formatting of data from Irving Corp (US) to Irving Oil Limited.
  • Unit/functional testing and ongoing documentation process.
  • Use of C language, SQLPlus, UNIX batch scripts, JCL and COBOL.
Project: Customer Contact Centre
Client: Irving Oil Ltd., Saint John, NB, Canada
Worked on new release of the Customer Contact Centre intendedto deliver expanded functionality for the customer entry and retrieval system, improvement in mailing address accuracy, as well various other enhancements.
Responsibilities as a Systems Analyst & Programmer included:
  • Data re-synchronization comparing data from Oracle tables on a UNIX system to data in VSAM files on the Mainframe system.
  • Create programs to update Mainframe data from the prime UNIX data as required.
  • Functionally testing the CCC project along with the ongoing documentation process.
  • Scheduling and implementation of the re-synchronization process.
  • Use of SQLPlus, UNIX batch scripts, automated file transfers from UNIX to Mainframe, JCL and COBOL.
Project: Environment for Commercial Line Premium Support System (ECLIPSE)
Client: Allstate Insurance, South Barrington, IL, USA
Responsibilities as Systems Analyst included:
  • Analysis, research, programming and testing of maintenance and audit projects for Allstate's Environment for Commercial Line Premium Support system (ECLIPSE).
  • Interaction with the business community to develop project requirements.
  • Ensure documentation and workflow procedures being completed correctly.
  • Perform Balancing duties to verify that money on the ECLIPSE system balanced with money on the accounting system.
  • Train and assist new/less experienced employees.

NATI/NISL Training Program, St. John's, NF, Canada

Position Job Training
Duration 4 months
Topics covered included:
  • TSO and SPF
  • JCL and IBM Utilities
  • COBOL II (Syntax, Semantics and Case Studies)
  • Structured Programming
  • Testing Procedures
  • Endeavor and Smarttest
  • DB2 and SQL
  • IMS DB/DC

Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St. John's, NF, Canada

Position Scientific Programmer & System Administrator
Duration 4 months
Responsibilities included:
  • Designed computer programs to perform data processing, statistical analysis, simulations, and graphing using S-Plus and C.
  • Administered a network of 10 Sun SPARCstations, set up accounts, and installed new hardware for the entire system.
Position Scientific Programmer
Duration 8 months
Responsibilities included:
  • Designed computer programs to perform data processing, statistical analysis, simulations, and graphing using S-Plus and C.
  • Created software to simulate catch rate estimation in a roving creel survey of anglers.

Computer Science Department, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada

Position Marker & Laboratory Assistant
Duration 3 years
Responsibilities included:
  • Mark weekly assignments involving Assembler and Pascal programming, in addition to more abstract computing topics.
  • Assist in grading of term projects.
  • Monitoring laboratory for a first year computer science course.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems IBM mainframe, Unix, Windows 95/NT and MS-DOS
Development Tools/Languages Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, Perl, COBOL II, Assembler, JCL, Fortran, Pascal,BASIC, Scheme, Lisp, Prolog and HTML
Mathematical/Statistical Maple, Derive, S-Plus and SAS

Academic Achievments

  • Faculty of Science, Dean's List (1993-1994)
    Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland.
  • Atlantic Accord Career Development Award (1994)
    Canada/Newfoundland Offshore Development Fund.

Publications

  • C. J. Greene, J. M. Hoenig, N. J. Barrowman and K. H. Pollock. (1995).
    Programs to simulate catch rate estimation in a roving creel survey of anglers (21 p.), DFO Atlantic Fisheries Research Documents, No. 95/99.
  • K. H. Pollock, J. M. Hoenig, C. M. Jones, D. S. Robson and C. J. Greene. (in press).
    Catch rate estimation for roving and access point surveys of anglers, North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

References

Available upon request.
Please send comments, questions, suggestions or just a general hello to:
Colin at cgreene@nb.sympatico.ca
AND/OR
Lori at lorithorne@hotmail.com

This page last updated October 17, 1999.