User:Cicero Oliveira

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RGB 247, 174, 98

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HSV 31°, 60%, 97%

HSL 22, 230, 173

NCS 0359-Y33R

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= About me = I was born in Brazil, lived in Portugal for almost ten years and now I live in Canada.

During my second year in college, a state's bank was recruiting college students to work for them as a mainframe developer. After a battery of tests I was one of the selected to be part of a group with twenty other students. We were trained in COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and a few other mainframe tools.

Eight months after I started, the bank was sold to a private group. As uncertainty reached employees started looking for other alternatives and that was when I found out about some former employees who had moved to Portugal and were looking for more programmers to move there. There were many new projects starting across Portugal like the Y2K and the Euro conversion.

I always wanted to live abroad and this was the perfect opportunity. I sent my resume to the recruiters in Portugal and weeks later was invited to work in Lisbon. I had five days to move so I packed my stuff, kissed goodbye to my family and embarked in my adventure.

Luckily, when I got there, I was placed in an Insurance company, in a project not related to the temporary Y2K and Euro. This company had bought COGEN--an Insurance system developed in Australia and owned by an English company--and they needed people to integrate their legacy system and the new one. That's how my career as a mainframe developer started.

My webpage: CiceroOliveira.com

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= Contributions = I've created some userbox templates, mainly related to IBM Mainframe tools: Userboxes

= WikiTasks = Maiframe Developer WikiBook COBOL WP:UPDC

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