Need COBOL expertise?
Hi, welcome to the website. I am Jurgen Michorius, working in COBOL since 1998 and the owner of this website.
-
Functional Designer
- Tester
-
Technical Designer
- Developer
- COBOL Developer
- Functional Designer
- Technical Designer
- Tester
- Test Coordinator
- Team Leader
- COBOL
- IDMS
- IDMSX
- DB2
- Mainframe
- Endevor
- JCL
- TSO-ISPF
- Roscoe
- CICS
- T-map
- Microfocus COBOL
- ADS
- MAID
- XML
- XSD
- Bizzdesign Enterprise Architect
- Harvest
- Scaled Agile environments
- Scrum
- Confluence
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Jira
Let me introduce myself...
I was born on June 1, 1968, raised in Haaksbergen, and after obtaining my VWO diploma, I moved to Wageningen to study Environmental Hygiene at the Agricultural University. I graduated in 1993 and worked for 3 years in the field of environmental research and policy, lastly at Tennet, which then operated under the name SEP (Collaborating Electricity Production Companies). At SEP, I was involved in setting up an automated system that had to provide environmental data required as input for the annual mandatory environmental report. After the implementation, I took on the role of functional administrator for this system.
Expertise
-
Tax Authorities - March 2018 to present
- Functional Designer
Responsibilities
- Analyzing questions from the business and showing the pros and cons of possible scenarios
- Identifying requirements, processes, and information needs
- Working on innovations and modifications of applications and systems
- Phasing out existing systems and implementing new robust solutions
- Collaborating with stakeholders, functional administrators, and colleagues in the scrum teams
-
Achmea - April 2007 to February 2018
- Functional Designer
- Technical Designer
- Tester
- COBOL Developer
Responsibilities
- Advising on both functional and technical aspects to the department and clients.
- Independently conducting impact analyses, preliminary studies, and quotes according to set standards and guidelines.
- Responsible for issuing indicative hours, preliminary studies, and quotes within established guidelines and standards.
- Independently creating release plans
- Responsible for the progress of Bank releases according to agreed time, quality, and budget
- Ensuring workload distribution and provision for the team in collaboration with the Team Coordinator
- Independently creating functional designs according to established standards and guidelines
- Responsible for delivered functionalities towards acceptance
- Identifying bottlenecks and proposing potential solutions
- Escalating when necessary to the Team Coordinator
- Reporting to the Team Coordinator
- Ensuring the continuity of systems (proactive action)
- Analyzing and advising on technical aspects of software applications
- Independently resolving production issues
- Identifying technical bottlenecks and proposing potential solutions
- Responsible for the progress of production issues
- Escalating when necessary to the Application Coordinator
- Reporting to the Application Coordinator
- Acting as a substitute for the Application Coordinator as a liaison with other external departments
- Translating preliminary studies from the Functional Designer to technical designs
- Supporting developers during implementation
- System testing and chain testing of adjustments according to the T-map method
- Providing support during functional acceptance tests (FAT) and user acceptance tests (UAT)
- Developing in COBOL, ADS, IDMS
-
Tax Authorities - November 2006 to March 2007
- Functional Designer
- Technical Designer
Responsibilities
- Generating and modifying functional and technical designs in the Tax Authority's Money Traffic System (GVS)
- Supporting developers and testers during development and testing processes
Education
-
Wageningen University
1987-1993
-
Atheneum
1980-1987
Language Skills
-
Dutch
-
German
-
English