Software Engineer | Legacy Modernization & Applied AIYpsilanti, Michigan

Travis Jones

Eight years building and supporting manufacturing ERP at Global Shop Solutions. My strongest production work is in COBOL and VB.NET, with a focus on preserving business rules through legacy modernization and practical AI tooling.

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Production experience

Global Shop Solutions

Software Engineer

Sep 2018 - Sep 2026

Built and supported the business software manufacturing teams depend on, working with system owners across engineering, shipping, sales, payroll, and accounting.

Modernization. Contributed to DataLayer modernization across ACU/Fujitsu COBOL, VB.NET, C#/.NET integration, and PSQL while preserving established behavior.
Production quality. Traced defects across legacy and modern code, built regression and integration tooling, and validated fixes before release.
Applied AI. Built a security-filtered, read-only MCP interface to COBOL business logic for QA, Support, and engineering.

Full experience and education

Selected work

Three project stories.

My contribution, what you can verify, and the scope of each project.

Browse tools and experiments

Team hackathon project
M-Local
Problem
Help U-M students discover local business offers and take an offer through redemption.
My role
Contributed UI and QR redemption workflows on a four-person, 24-hour team.
Evidence
Local Impact Grand Prize at JacHacks a2Tech, awarded to our team and recorded on Devpost.
Scope
Hackathon prototype. The award establishes team recognition; production onboarding and adoption remain outside this case study.
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Production contribution / synthetic illustration
MCP-to-COBOL bridge
Problem
Help QA, Support, and engineering investigate business behavior held in COBOL.
My role
Built a security-filtered, read-only MCP interface at Global Shop Solutions, with training and documentation.
Evidence
The public companion checks a fictional rule lookup and rejects an unknown rule ID.
Scope
Public code, data, and architecture examples are synthetic. They illustrate the problem; the original implementation remains private.
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Working engineering prototype
TravOS
Problem
Keep a worker's success claim separate from evidence that the required artifact exists and passes checks.
My role
Built a Python prototype and a reproducible synthetic demo with independent artifact verification.
Evidence
A three-dispatch fixture rejects false success, verifies an explicit correction, and retains the failed receipts.
Scope
Scripted, simulated workers; zero model calls. Compounding learning and broader autonomous operation remain future work.
Inspect the TravOS prototype

About

“I like figuring out how a system really works, then making it easier for the next person to use, understand, or change.”

Outside work, I’m a dad settling into Michigan, an electronics tinkerer, and someone who tends to learn by taking things apart and building them back up.

More about me

Open to roles in Michigan or remote

Hiring for software engineering or modernization? Let’s talk.

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Travis Jones

Open to roles in Michigan or remote

Travis Jones

Global Shop Solutions

M-Local

MCP-to-COBOL bridge

TravOS

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Hiring for software engineering or modernization? Let’s talk.

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Travis Jones

Global Shop Solutions

M-Local

MCP-to-COBOL bridge

TravOS

About

Hiring for software engineering or modernization? Let’s talk.

More to explore