John Yingling

I was interviewed by 4 LMS consultants and programmers and the supervisor of Labor Management Systems at AMTRAK. I was an expert in Cobol and CICS on the IBM mainframe and was Microsoft Certified for .Net. I knew SQL but not DB2 specifically.

The position was supposed to be for .Net Web Server only but I was hired because I had extensive Cobol expertise that would be useful on the mainframe side of the Paperless Time Ticket sytem.

Progressed as an Assistant Data Processing Officer, Data Processing Officer, Assistant Vice President, and Vice President while remaining as a Senior/System programmer working directly under the Senior Vice President in charge of Management Information Systems and having staff only for the time the bank converted NCR-315 systems over to IBM Assemble Language and Cobol Systems in 1972. I would rewrite parts of systems that were not operating optimally. I was "Mr. Fixit" for many projects during and after development. I would be a technical advisor on installing new systems developed by Riggs or bought from others like our M&I Deposit Systems. I was a Vice President from 1977 to 2005 when PNC bought the bank.

Assigned to Base Data Processing unit based on results of USAF test for programmers.

IBM 1401 Computer with accompanying tabulating equipment for handling punched cards.

Discharged from active duty in June 1969 at Andrews AFB, MD

Recalled to active duty in response to the "Pueblo Incident".

Assigned to the IBM 407 Tabulating section based on my civilian experience as a programmer and an excess of Supply personnel.

Responsible for supervising 4 programmers to write IBM Report Program Generator and IBM Assembly Language code for a Personal Trust system that would run on an IBM 360 Model 20 with 32K of memory and four tape drives.

Miscellaneous maintenance then junior partner in two-man team that programmed a batch Corporate Trust System to handle records of stocks and bonds trades for the bank's corporate customers.

On Job Training for Supply

Basic Training

Attended NCR 315 Programmer Course

Wrote Card Entry program for an Account Reconciliation System