Experience: Operating systems design and development, Client Server architecture and design, business and financial process analysis and implementation, technology assessment, hardware and software integrated strategy definition and planning, large project management, security systems design and implementation.

Technical Skills: C, C++, OOP, OSF/DCE, Rogue Wave, Encina, CASE, Visual and ACCESS BASIC, FOXPRO, ALC, MVS, UNIX, OS/2, DOS, AS/400

Work History:

The SABRE Group, American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas 1993-1995

Principal Architect, SABRE 2000. Defined the system architectural requirements of a SABRE infrastructure to support future needs of AMR and the SABRE group through the next 20 years. Originated and sold the key concepts of a device independent front end support and application independence from data source. Defined the concept and attributes of independent data and functional managers. Supplied technology direction as part of the business requirements team and produced business change factor analysis which drove basic system requirements for flexibility and quick time to market. Defined a distributed systems architecture to support the business flow and industry data model which the team had developed. Translated systems architecture to a product specific server centric systems architecture, mapped the design to vendor alternative resulting in choosing a DCE, Encina message based design for prototype effort. Defined the basic business scenario for the prototype effort and defined the application architecture to support the specific scenario and validate the architecture principles.

The prototype applications provide business logic control while navigating through an industry relevant object model. Used OMT-Rumbaugh to produce an object oriented design and then implemented the C++ object oriented programming applications, consisting of approximately 15,000 lines of code. Wrote the overall specification for end to end message traffic as a benchmark for the prototype integration test. The development environment is three heterogeneous UNIX platforms, GNU C++, DCE, Encina. The system provides coexistence with heterogeneous legacy systems and future data suppliers as well as end user paradigm and device independence with rapid time to market as a key objective.

Jordan-DeLaurenti Inc., Dallas Texas 1992-1993

General Manager, General Manager, Software Operations Support Inc. Ran a commercial subsidiary supplying contract programming, data processing services, database design, development and service offerings and digital imaging storage and retrieval offerings. Defined and developed an image archiving product and a customer data oriented legal document archiving product using CD ROM technology and tailoring a front end for an RDBMS.

International Business Machines, Westlake Laboratory, Texas 1990-1992

Program Manager Program Manager Westlake Programming Laboratory representative to Open Distributed Systems Design Council. Lead effort to redefine Westlake product plan for distributed environment. Educated lead designers and developers in distributed computing environments and product requirements. Ensured Westlake products were built to coexist and exploit distributed environments.

Design and Planning Manager managed 40 person groups providing design and product planning support of large, multi-laboratory OS/2 application. Defined and sold product rollout plan when development schedules started slipping. Lead small team to define technical alternatives when development schedules continue to erode, assessment resulted in major product realignment using small team RAD development techniques.

MVS Project Office Manager, Poughkeepsie NY 1988-1990

Manager of 60 person organization providing project management and product planning to 600 person MVS Systems Development organization with 1989 revenues in excess of one billion dollars and an annual development budget in excess of $278 million. Managed 12 major software releases in excess of 500,000 lines of code through the development process, ensuring projects met schedules and quality goals. The organization managed all vending and subcontracting. Product planning understood and communicated customer requirements, product descriptions, value assessments, and announcements. The organization build and maintained a database describing the content and technical assessment of the 5 Year product plan. It supported litigation efforts with technical assessments especially software copying issues.

Senior Strategy Planner, Data Systems Division White Plains, New York 1986 - 1988

Developed the software portions of the Business Area Strategy, a formal assessment of 5 year strategy and opportunities for Large Systems, presented to the IBM Executive Management Committee resulting in identification of key application, software and hardware system perspectives and a clearer executive perception of Large System issues.

Manager Technical Assessment, Poughkeepsie NY 1981 - 1986

Manager of group that created and maintained a 5 year product plan commitment document. Defined and implemented process to ensure technical completeness, accuracy and realistic competitive assessment of the plan.

Advisory Programmer, Programming Laboratory Poughkeepsie NY 1973-1981

Worked as a programmer, programming designer, project team leader on a variety of projects including MVS Supervisor, TSO an interactive general purpose interface to large mainframe operating systems and RACF, a security product. Lead teams, designed code using CASE pseudocode languages, wrote code using a variety of programming languages including BAL and PL/S. Tested code using VM and TSO/ISPF. Worked on programming security system for early version of AS/400 system.

Technical Writer, Programming Publications Poughkeepsie NY 1968-1973

Education and Professional Development:

BS Philosophy with a minor in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh 1967
Numerous management and technical development training programs including Managing Technical Professionals, Presidents Class, and the IBM Systems Research Institute