Brian Jones

Current

• Tax Preparer at Liberty Tax Service
• Sales / Customer Service at Terminix
• Standardized Patient at Emory University School of Medicine

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Past

• Senior Programmer Analyst at Atlanta Journal Constitution
• RAOC Spec at US Army National Guard

Education

• Georgia State University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Brian

Connections

44 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Brian Jones’s Summary

MVS, COBOL, IDMS, JCL, Xpediter, TCP/IP, XML

Brian Jones’s Specialties:

MVS, COBOL, IDMS, JCL, Xpediter, TCP/IP, XML

Brian Jones’s Experience

• Tax Preparer

  Liberty Tax Service

  (Privately Held; Accounting industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  This is my part time job. I haven't had any (paid) hours yet but I've gone through the 1-week training and gotten my certification. Bring it on!

• Sales / Customer Service

  Terminix

  (Privately Held; SVM; Consumer Services industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  I start training on February 2.

• Standardized Patient

  Emory University School of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  I love this gig but I've only had one day of work so far. Bring it on, Connie!

• Senior Programmer Analyst

  Atlanta Journal Constitution

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  August 1984 — August 2008 (24 years 1 month)

  Development and maintenance of web content processes from both MVS Mainframe (IDMS) and Unix server (Oracle SQL) environments to a variety of platforms in various formats; development and maintenance of tcp/ip socket interfaces for ad entry, credit card authorization processing, and other functions, development, troubleshooting, and maintenance on large CICS application, development and maintenance of batch processes on MVS and Unix systems.

• RAOC Spec

  US Army National Guard

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1982 — 1983 (1 year )

Brian Jones’s Education

• Georgia State University

  Computer Science, Mathematics, English 1984 — 1994

  3.0GPA; stopped short of degree when my AJC career started taking off

Additional Information

Brian Jones’s Websites:

• My Blog

Brian Jones’s Interests:

Music, Acting, Literature, Movies, Exercise, Diet, Spirituality (Christian), Disc Golf, Playing Piano, Playing Guitar

Brian Jones’s Groups:

Christ The King Episcopal Church (Music Director), New London Theatre (Performer/Writer/Director), New Dawn Theatre (Performer/Director), County Seat Players

•    Mainframe Experts Network
•    COBOL Programmers

Brian Jones’s Honors:

2008 Buddy Award (New London Theatre)

Brian Jones’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
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