John W Boushka

Past

• Senior Programmer-Analyst at ING

Education

• University of Kansas

Connections

1 connection

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

John W Boushka’s Summary

My expertise focuses in two major areas.

The first area is mainframe business systems, particularly in areas like life insurance, health care, accounting and credit reporting. I spent over thirty years in the “bread and butter” mainframe culture of batch cycles with careful testing, implementation, and capability for on-call production support. A lot of emphasis in my career focused on absolutely accuracy, recovery, production scheduling, and reliability. Most of this experience was on IBM mainframes with a heavy emphasis on MVS JCL and some of the common databases (IMS. IDMS, DB2) and teleprocessing monitors (including CICS, mostly command level). Toward the end, I migrated into “client server” with a heavy emphasis on end user telephone support.

I “retired” from this 31-year career at the end of 2001, as part of a corporate downsizing.

I have also spent, since retirement and actually dating back a few years before retirement, a lot of attention on web publishing, particularly researching the novel legal and ethical issues posed by the Internet and the World Wide Web. There are many unresolved and developing problems including security, censorship (and protection of minors), labeling, online reputation, spam, and political participation. Technological developments including the semantic web and social networking present both challenges and solutions.

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John W Boushka’s Specialties:

Programming languages: COBOL, JCL, DB2, other databases;
Web: many public policy areas related to law and technology

John W Boushka’s Experience

• Senior Programmer-Analyst

  ING

  (Public Company; ING; Financial Services industry)

  January 1990 — December 2001 (12 years )

  Retired from ING on Dec 31, 2001.
  
  Used these skills: (for large projects): COBOL II, COBOLMVS, CICS (Command and Macro), XPEDITER, IBM mainframe Assembler, SAS, Easytrieve, DYL280, Syncsort, DB2 (with COBOL II and SQL on MVS), IMS, IDMS, Sybase, MVS JCL with procs, TSO/ISPF, ChangeMan and CA-Librarian, CMS (Client Management System), Group-1 Software (for NCOA); Life legacy systems: CFO, ISSU-COMM, VLN, Vantage One (for gateways and replication), MSA with Information Expert, ACS (commissions), salary deduction (EPIX in-house system);
  (for support only): Unix, Java (with Visual Café), PowerBuilder, VSAM, HTML, Sybase with SQL and stored procedures, Test Director; did on-call support for both mainframe and mid-tier
  
  For details please visit resume site http://www.johnwboushka.com/professionalresume.html

John W Boushka’s Education

• University of Kansas

  MA , Mathematics , 1966 — 1968

  B.S., Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington DC, 1966
  
  Military service: US Army: 1968-1970

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information

John W Boushka’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

John W Boushka’s Interests:

Public policy, especially Internet and law issues

John W Boushka’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

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