# Totally oxidized COBOL / PL1 IMS etc. retired guy

**URL:** <https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/totally-oxidized-cobol-pl1-ims-etc-retired-guy/5953>\
**Category:** Calling all COBOL Programmers\
**Created:** [August 4, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/totally-oxidized-cobol-pl1-ims-etc-retired-guy/5953 "2020-08-04T20:27:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Criticatlarge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@Criticatlarge](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/Criticatlarge)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/totally-oxidized-cobol-pl1-ims-etc-retired-guy/5953/1 "2020-08-04T20:27:11Z")

</div>

Name: Terry (Terrence) Bakowski  
Experience: Expert, once, BITD. Long list of acronyms.  
Desired: part-time contract, local Chicago only, within 5 miles of 60618  
Previous: banking, insurance, government, commercial. both FTE and consultant  
Sites: Sears; Signature Group; IL BC/BS; State of Illinois.  
E.g.: EFT master (1970’s); PL/1 (love it) and COBOL.  
Acronyms: JCL, IMS, DB2, BTS, REXX, SPUFI, CULPRIT, SYNC/MAXSORT, IEHPRGM, SPF DIALOG MGR design /. construction…  
Instituted prefix-notation variable names, enforced same (no WS-…not best practices) to provide  
pseudo-types…easier maintenance & debug; ditto program / JCL standards.

Thank you.