Shane McGuinness

Experience

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  DELPHI SOFTWARE SERVICES LIMITED

  Jul 1996 - Jul 1997

  System Programmer

  ‘Y2K’ Conversion Team (mainframe Y2K conversions for clients of Delphi) – 1 year• Design, implementation of software solutions for business systems that were not 2000-compliant.• General exposure to clients various insurance & banking systems• Daily usage of COBOL (RM & Microfocus), IBM PL/1 (Programming Language) on MVS mainframe platform, TSO• Analysis, design and implementation of major Change Control System for tracking status of program changes by the ‘Y2K team’ for Delphi Software in Visual Basic & MS-Access• Day to day use of OS/2 Warp 3.0, IBM Works, Windows and MS Office & Lotus Notes• Delphi End of Training Certificate (COBOL, PL/1, Y2K compliancy)Delphi have since been acquired by US software group SunGard in 2008 and cease to exist Show less

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  Standard Life Assurance: part of Phoenix Group Careers

  Jun 1997 - now

  Dual role of Development Team Manager & Application Delivery Manager (IT Project Manager)• Responsible for the delivery of all IT-related activity in projects/programmes in all stages incl. planning, mobilization & resourcing, delivery of software to test, documentation & artefacts, implementations & release mgt, change mgt, transition to BAU & warrantee. Proven track record of delivering quality, extensible solutions across projects/programmes with no rework on time & budget, regardless of complexity or scale across multiple platforms• Responsible for leading, developing, maintaining & managing a high-performing, flexible dev team across mainframe & iSeries (aka AS/400) platforms; people mgt incl. personal development, talent mgt, goal setting, performance reviews & recruitment• Proven in the delivery of high volumes of variety of projects incl. regulatory projects (e.g. RoI Finance Acts, SEPA & banking regulation, Solvency II & EU Directives), strategic programmes (e.g. Brexit), operational improvement programmes (large/medium/small enhancements), technical projects (upgrades, migrations, business continuity & disaster recovery, costing/reducing technical debt, replacing components in containment/out-of-support & others); managing multiple projects in parallel• Experienced in waterfall and Agile methodologies. Acted as ScrumMaster facilitating Sprints & working with product owners• Proven in providing direction, quality high-level systems analysis & steer, influencing, acting in a consultative role & communicating at all levels• Providing overnight/on-call support team to do out-of-hours implementations & production support, rota mgt• Involved in procurement & onboarding of 3rd party apps & ongoing relationship mgt, legal contracts & agreements• Continuous process improvement: Evaluated & on-boarded modern toolsets (e.g. RAD for iSeries); instigation of tech forums & others Show less • Lead CIRVIE/iSeries (AS/400) developer within Standard Life Ireland for 8 years. 14+ years total experience in and expert knowledge of iSeries o/s, COBOL/400 & CL Control Language, DB/2 Database for iSeries, Websphere/RAD for iSeries, Query/400, SQL/400, DB2 UDB Query Manager, Extermin8 (debug tool), See/Change (change control), Access for iSeries (aka Ops Navigator)• Extensive experience in tech analysis, design, build, implementation & support of large scale components in CIRVIE, a principal multi-user life assurance & pensions admin system in Standard Life Ireland• Also responsible for work allocation & resource planning for dev resources across group/domestic/international projects & monitoring/ensuring delivery of same• Proven track record coding quality/extensible solutions with no rework & on time/budget, regardless of complexity/scale. Acted as the lead in many critical & sensitive projects including demutualisation, platform migrations, regulatory projects, porting of services offshore etc.• Experienced in systems analysis & steer, influencing, communicating & acting in a consultative role & in providing estimates/costing of small/medium/large scale projects. Strong communication, presentation & interpersonal skills. Record of establishing & maintaining lasting relationships• Involved in numerous cross-platform developments, such as client/server technologies & mainframe. Substantial exposure to SOA i.e. business/data/web services• Experience in strategic IS exercises such as current & future state assessments using best practice tools. Formulated standards & controls. Proactively introduced continuous improvements• Worked in SLDC, SSADM & LEAN & Agile (Scrum) frameworks. Knowledge of UML.• Demonstrated creative thinking & pragmatic solutions. Written ‘white paper’ reports & was involved in the submission for R&D tax incentives - I secured a significant tax rebate from Enterprise Ireland.Please refer to the attached document for more details. Show less 1. International Business Systems Support Team2. Production Support Team1. International Business Systems Support Team - 6 months (mainframe application development & support)• Support to the business area involved in using mainframe applications• Conducting analysis of business requirements within IT and business operational areas• Documenting detailed business requirements and software solutions, • Proactively identifying continuous improvement for the Irish operation and again buy-in and approval for recommendations made from RoI and UK• Networking in the UK and RoI to maintain an awareness of improvement activities and sharing best practice• Preparing project plans and reporting on project progress• Designing, building testing and implementing software solutions• Maintaining mainframe applications, MVS Workbench & TSO• Also worked as a developer within a PC Development Team for 3 months, primarily Visual Basic 62. Production Support Team - 2 years (iSeries application support)• Role involved providing high-quality support to the business area of both a technical & business operational nature• Effected good communication and interpersonal skills between development team and customer service representatives • Promoting awareness of improvements to the business operational areas • Identifying genuine problems and liaising with the development team for solution derivation & delivery• Ensuring the following of best practice and handling change control of software solutions and functionality into the test & live environments• Ensuring the integrity of data in the live database & production software• Ability to work on own initiative with good organisational skills in a high delivery-intensive environment• Maintaining & effecting continuous improvement of the production support processes.• Working closely with developers, business analysts, testers and technical services • Business-as-usual type solutions design and development Show less

  • Information Technology Development Manager

    Dec 2011 - now

  • Senior Analyst/Programmer (iSeries application development & support)

    Jan 2003 - Nov 2011

  • Analyst Programmer

    Jun 1997 - Jan 2003