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Solution Designer · Mainframe Modernization Specialist
I design the path from mainframe to modern — parsers, platforms, and the products teams actually run.

Dublin · MFA Center of Excellence
About
Dynamic, solution-driven, and still happiest in the gap between a COBOL estate and a platform a customer can operate.
I have spent eighteen years modernising, designing, and delivering systems that banks, insurers, telcos, and manufacturers actually run. The work sits between legacy and the next architecture: reverse-engineering, risk-based testing, data migration, APIfication, and the tooling that makes a conversion factory repeatable.
At HPE’s Mainframe Alternative CoE I build and maintain Flyway — the backbone used across mainframe-to-Micro Focus programmes. Before that I led digital transformation work in Capgemini’s Legacy Modernization CoE, and spent a decade at TCS designing and delivering for banking, insurance, retail, and telecom clients.
Self-motivated · Hard working · Innovative · A leader · A team player
Products
Five Capgemini products, one for TCS, and Flyway at HPE — analysis, conversion, coverage, and the factory around them.
HPE MFA CoE
The backbone for mainframe-to-Micro Focus programmes. Parsers and transformers for COBOL, JCL and CICS; Spring Boot APIs; a Svelte inventory dashboard; Ant rebuilt on Gradle for CI/CD.
Capgemini
Static and dynamic source analysis with a digital-transformation roadmap. Deployed across customer estates totalling 200M+ lines of code, with a MongoDB core designed to hold a billion.
Capgemini
Data Convert and Comparison — migrate and validate IMS-DB, DB2, VSAM, tape and flat files onto SQL or MongoDB. The factory behind EBCDIC-to-ASCII dual-run testing.
Capgemini
Business Rules Extractor, Aggregator and Documenter. Pattern matching that tags applications and turns buried rules into the documentation modernization actually needs.
Capgemini
DevOps application monitoring — views on progress, spend, and where effort concentrates. One of five finalists for a DevOps Industry award.
Capgemini
Code coverage for large rehosting programmes. Traces test data through converted code and reports into DAMM so coverage is visible across the estate.
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Selected work
HPE MFA CoE / Telefónica
Jun 2024 – Present
Tools specialist · Full-stack · UI/UX
Exposed Flyway’s findings as Spring Boot APIs and built a Svelte frontend so Telefónica can review legacy inventory at artefact level and send feedback into the conversion loop. Moved the transformer build from Ant to Gradle.
Telefónica
Jun 2022 – Present
Mainframe migration specialist
Customise Flyway so Telefónica can leave the mainframe footprint while keeping the same codebase and business logic on Windows via Micro Focus. Conversion of COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2 is fully automated.
AG Insurance
Apr 2019 – Jun 2022
Modernization consultant · Data migration analyst
Designed a cost-effective, automated way to prove the batch heart of a core insurance estate on Windows. Dual-run: each batch fires on mainframe and Micro Focus; files convert EBCDIC to ASCII; results validate without a room full of checkers.
The Hartford
Nov 2018 – Mar 2019
Technical architect
Peak-time CPU and MIPS utilisation on personal-lines applications. The brief: spend less on the box without touching the business.
Aegon
May 2018 – Oct 2018
Modernization consultant · Data migration analyst
EBCDIC-to-ASCII file conversion so an aging, still-growing mainframe estate could run the same logic on LUW. Each file migrates independently; JCLs written in development reuse through test, pre-prod, and prod.
DealerTrack
Oct 2017 – May 2018
Modernization consultant · Integration architect
Roadmap from a tightly coupled AS400 estate toward microservices, extracting business rules and integration points for Cox Auto’s dealer and vehicle platforms.
Barclays
Mar 2017 – Sep 2017
Modernization consultant
Componentised the central cards system to shrink mainframe footprint and size the modernization. Governance so debt and boundaries stay visible.
Royal Bank of Scotland
Aug 2015 – Feb 2017
IBM BPM developer · Integration architect
Built from scratch so relationship teams could take a lending request through the full customer lifecycle — personal and commercial — across the bank’s brands. A UK client trusted the move from mainframe work onto mission-critical IBM BPM.
Boeing
Jun 2014 – Jul 2015
Technical lead · Project manager · Automation consultant
System of record for electrical wiring on commercial airplane models. Configuration management of wiring information across the life of the airframe.
Eircom
Aug 2008 – Jun 2014
Mainframe developer · Technical lead · Project manager
The billing system for retail and wholesale switched services — order through to payment. TIS billed about €1.25 billion a year to 1.5 million residential and business customers.
Nielsen
Feb 2010 – Jan 2011
Mainframe developer · Technical lead · Project manager
Television audience measurement — national and local ratings in the U.S. and in 30 countries.
Expertise
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Anna University. 2002 – 2006.
Experience
2022 – Present
Technology Consultant
2017 – 2022
Modernization Consultant · Digital Transformation Lead
2007 – 2017
Solution Designer
Recognition
Cut post-deployment file creation from 80 hours to 4 by designing a DMADV tool that stopped the failures after every release.
Recognition for deliveries and initiatives while modernising Flyway in the MFA CoE.
Awards in 2019 and 2020 for the mainframe-to-Micro Focus re-platforming programme and product work.
One of five finalists. Visibility on where a DevOps implementation spends time — and where that spend can fall.
Six On the Spot awards for delivery and team development. Three Best Team awards for parallel programmes, on time and on budget.
Interviewed 50+ people for college partner connect and mainframe practice drives. Flying-squad cover for legacy delivery issues across the organisation.
Contact
Dublin-based. Available for consulting, CoE build-out, and conversion-factory design across insurance, banking, and telecom.