Jack Boyce is a Senior Programmer Analyst with 15 years of experience delivering robust mainframe and ETL solutions, specializing in COBOL, Informatica PowerCenter, DB2/Oracle, and OS JCL. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy processes and supporting cloud migrations—helping T. Rowe Price transition mainframe workflows to AWS by documenting COBOL/JCL logic and building Informatica objects to bridge DB2, Oracle, and sequential files. Jack combines hands-on development, production troubleshooting, and customer-facing support, having resolved persistent batch-performance issues and created interfaces for vendor integrations and retirement-plan data flows. He also contributes to open-source, porting and refactoring classic BASIC games into Python, demonstrating attention to readable, well-documented code beyond his day job. Based in Cockeysville, MD, he pairs practical mainframe expertise with an appetite for modernization and clear technical documentation.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Franklin Pierce University
An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Python implementation of the "Super Star Trek" game, translating and refactoring the original BASIC code. They focused on cleaning up and documenting the code, fixing bugs, and improving the game's overall readability and functionality. Their work included refactoring the direction/distance calculator and making minor adjustments to the game's logic and user interface.
Contributions:280 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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Jack Boyce - Senior Programmer Analyst at T. Rowe Price