DERRICK G. WALSH, I.S.P., ITCP

5 Colonsay Place

Rothesay, New Brunswick E2E 3H8 Email: DJWalsh@nbnet.nb.ca

Phone : (506) 645-0224 Skype ID: derrickw65

PROFILE

Strategic, focused and business oriented Senior IT resource with twenty-five years of progressive IT

experience. extensive skills in areas of systems design, quality control, and financial systems. Varied

technical experience using modern frameworks, proven methodologies and best practice with recent

specializations in Legacy.Net Migration. Highly proficient operating as a senior resource involving

client engagements. Broad range of senior technical experiences understanding customer

requirements and the content development/documentation environment of large enterprise clients.

CORE COMPETENCIES / TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experience with telecommunications, oil & gas industry, government/public and financial sectors

Specializations in Legacy. Net Migration (using Fujitsu PROGRESSION), Application Management,

IT Service & Strategy

Expert in Mainframe Technologies – COBOL , PL/1 DB2-IMS, JCL, CA-Ideal, CA-Datacom,

Easytrieve, System2000, Endevor. RPG II, Gener/OL, File-AID, SPUFI/SQL, FTP, VSAM,

Assembler

Strong SQL skills (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL, IBM DB2)

Architecture: IT Risk Assessments and Architecture Design and Integration

Systems Analysis which includes: Functional specification creation, Development & Testing

Business Analysis which includes: Business Case, Business Requirements creation.

.Net & Web Technologies Cobol.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net , Visual Studio 2005, HTML, VBScript,

JavaScript

Utilities : Reporting: Crystal Reports, Cognos, Project Management: MS Project, MS Office, Visio

WORK EXPERIENCE

2013- Present CGI Group, Halifax, Nova Scotia

- As a Consultant – Technical Analyst, develops and documents a detailed statement of requirements for the

proposed solution in the Technical Requirements Document.

- Works in a collaborative manner with the Business Account Manager (BAM) to define technical requirements, as

well as the business rules for data population/transformations.

- Performed preliminary business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures, decision

flows and/or corrective actions.

Environment: Unix, Informatica ETL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Tibco, Cognos

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2012- 2013 Fujitsu Consulting, Calgary, Alberta

- As a Senior Consultant, supported the TYES Application system a highly integrated Train Management system for

CP Rail

Environment: Unix, COBOL, VB.Net, Tuxedo & Sybase Database

2007 - 2011 Irving Oil Limited

Saint John, New Brunswick

- As a Senior Solutions Architect, facilitated solutions for Refinery business groups and acted as a

liaison/coordinator for Irving Oil’s IT related vendors.

- Managed and assisted in service level effectiveness, corporate identified infrastructure and security projects.

- Provided leadership and direction in implementation of approved IT initiatives within the Refinery Business Unit.

- Maintained an effective steady state operation of existing Refining IT solutions.

-Completed due diligence on IT Risk associated with new IT business projects.

- Created Business Requirements documenting Current State, Future State, Functional and Non-functional

requirements, reporting specifications and traceability.

- Created Business Cases including cost benefit analysis process documentation.

1995 – 2007 DMR Consulting Group / Fujitsu Consulting Saint John, New Brunswick

Clients: WCB (NB) , Irving Oil, NBTel, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, Washington DOL, Boeing contracts

- As a Senior APM Analyst, directly interfaced with Boeing's management performing analysis required to create

estimates of effort and solutions. Documented analysis in Macroscope format as used by Boeing.

Environment: HP3000, ECL and COBOL

- As a Senior Legacy Migration Analyst for the State of Washington Department of Licensing (DOL), converted

HP3000 Transact and VPlus formspecs to VB.Net and ASP.Net. Created various analysis documents and RFP

required client deliverables. Using client provided test scripts, tested, verified and delivered converted software to

Functional Test Group. Created training documentation and provided hands-on training session to DOL HP 3000

systems support staff.

Environment: Windows Server, VB.Net, ASP.Net.

- As a Senior Legacy Migration Analyst for the State of Washington Department of Licensing (DOL), converted

Unisys programs, maps, and Batch ECLs to NetCobol and VBScripts. Using client provided test scripts, tested,

verified and delivered converted software to Functional Test Group. Created training documentation and provided

multiple hands-on training sessions to DOL Unisys systems support staff.

Environment: Windows Server, NetCobol and VBScripts.

- As a Senior APM Analyst, directly interfaced with the Merrill Lynch’s management performing analysis required to

create estimates of effort and solutions. Documented analysis and findings in Fujitsu Consulting and Client supplied

formats. Created design and testing specifications for enhancement requests. Responsible for creating client CMM

and RUP deliverables and mainframe development. Also coached/mentored team members in IBM mainframe

technology.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & DB2, SPUFI/SQL, FTP, CICS, VSAM, Assembler

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DMR Consulting Group / Fujitsu Consulting …

- As a Team Lead/Functional Analyst, Coded the current release of AT&T SNOW-R Service Now Routing(SNOW-

R). SNOW-R is a family of applications that provides automated routing support for the AT&T Switched Network.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & Teradata Database

- As a Systems Analyst/Team Lead at NBTel, supervised the construction of Account Receivable and various other

conversion modules for the CSM 2000 project, a pre-merger Aliant joint venture for service provisioning and billing.

Remotely managed the construction of the dozen + AR conversion modules which were constructed at Systemhouse

remote development site in Montreal.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & IMS & DB2, IMS DC, VSAM

- As a Systems Analyst/Team Lead at NBTel Mobility, analyzed functional requirements and supervised the

construction of NBTel Mobility’s commissioning and reporting Dealer Settlement System (DSS), as well as

performing quality assurance testing.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & & DB2, IMS DC, VSAM

1994 – 1995 CGI Ottawa, Ontario

CDFS- PWGSC Contract

- As a Senior Functional Analyst, participated as a member of the analyst team of the Common Departmental Finance System (CDFS) project, an Object Oriented/Client Server based governmental finance system being developed for Public Works and Government Services Canada.

- Analyzed and documented functional requirements and performed Quality Assurance testing for change requests and problem logs. - Provided detailed cost estimates for large individual change request contracts.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & DB2

1992 - 1994 ISM - Information System Management Corporation Ottawa, Ontario

NISA - Agriculture Canada Contract

- As a Functional Analyst collected and analyzed user requirements for relational mainframe CA Datacom database

system. Utilized tabulated information to prepare functional requirements, analysis, design, and program specification

documents.

-Assisted programmers in writing CA Ideal programs and assisted end-users in identifying and understanding system

requirements. Designed and tested CA Datacom/Ideal SQL based application software.

- Prepared time estimates for analysis, programming and quality assurance testing.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, CA-IDEAL & CA-Datacom

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1992 - 1992 CompuCollege School of Business Halifax, Nova Scotia

- As a Computer Instructor taught two four hour computer courses daily. Responsible for preparing lesson plans

and record keeping.

- Courses taught included MS-DOS, Lotus 123, dBASE IV, and Bedford Accounting.

1991 – 1991 Maritime Tel and Tel Halifax, Nova Scotia

- As Programmer/Analyst modified and implemented COBOL programs and batch JCL jobs in half of the estimated time required by contract.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & DB2, VSAM 1988 - 1991 Maritime Life Assurance Company Halifax, Nova Scotia

- As a member of the Application Support team responsible for the successful completion of the nightly batch flow

including daily on-line systems availability as well as systems enhancements.

- Designed and implemented batch JCL jobs and programs (in PL/1, Ideal, S2K) using structured analysis while

following the Systems Life Cycle Methodology.

- Participated in the development of Annuities, Group, Electronic Funds Transfer, and Archiving systems.

Environment: IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL & Ca-Ideal, CA-Datacom, DB2, S2K . RPG II, Gener/OL, FTP, CICS, VSAM

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EDUCATION

University of New Brunswick - 1983 - 1988. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Degree, Co-op

Program. Specialization - Information Systems.

PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION

Information Technology Certified Professional (ITCP) CIPS - April 17 2009

COBIT Foundation Certificate, ISACA, January 2008

ITIL® V3 Foundation Certificate, APM Group EXIN December 2007

Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.), CIPS October 1994

Fellow of Life Management Institute (FLMI), LOMA –. June 1990

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Comprehensive Project Management Seminar, Procept June 2010

Implementing IT Governance Using Cobit® And Val IT, Deloitte, October 2009

The COBIT Foundation Course, Deloitte January 2008

ITIL® V3 Foundation in IT Service Management Course, Deloitte, December 2007

Introduction to Powerbuilder, Online Business Systems September 1995

MACROSCOPE COURSES

Planning and Architecting Legacy Modernization Solutions – ALAB and AVA 2006

Legacy Modernization Delivery – Productivity Centre 2006

Familiarization with LM Tools for .NET developers 2006

Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET Training Series 2003

Coaching and Performance Feedback for Career Advisors 2002

Workshop Facilitation 2002

Introduction to Change Realization 2002

Presentation Techniques Workshop 2001

Intro to Quality Assurance 1998

Interpreting the Architecture 1997

Project Leadership Seminar 1997

Functional Design 1996

Project Management Techniques 1996

Familiarization with Maintenance 1996

Introduction to P+ OnLine 1995

ASSOCIATIONS

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Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Member 1991 - Present

President, CIPS Loyalist (Saint John) section 2000-2010

Treasurer, CIPS New Brunswick 2004-2011

JA Advisor, Junior Achievement, Company Program, 1998-1999

Vice President, Halifax Metro Junior Chamber of Commerce 1991