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A Series Experience

May 98-Nov 98 A series system support at MerseySide Police, Liverpool.
Mar 97-Apr 98 Short term consultancy work at various NAP sites throughout Europe.
Jul 96-Feb 97 As consultant to "Orange plc" in Bristol,UK I was responsible for building a NAP support team which would operate 2 unattended A18s. Also implemented a TCP/IP port based A series to Unix exception reporting for NAP on top of Metalogic Supervisor (ALGOL, DCALGOL).
Nov 93-Sep 94 Moved to the NAP Expansion project at NYNEX (for Unisys) as an architect, where I was responsible for all aspects of making a network of A11 mains run largely unattended; and for providing an integrated view of the Internet on state-of-the art Macintosh and PC compatible workstations, to operators at a central site. NAP is the Unisys Telephone Network Application Platform.
Jun 93-Oct 93 Contract member of the Unisys team that operated and supported a NAP system at NYNEX in Cambridge, Massachussetts. Primary employer was Prism, based in Watchung, NJ. I was also involved in the planning for a network of unattended A11 mains.
Feb 92-Jul 92 Seconded to Unisys Engineering in Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania as Software architect OA&M (Operations, Administration & Management) in NAP.
  • I was required to develop the specifications for Unisys OA&M and proposals for its implementation; along with recommendations for making NAP more user friendly, easier to support and operationally efficient.
  • I also led a task force on Supportability and Ease of Use of the NAP product.
Mar 91-Jan 92 System Consultant at Skill Centre Mains (Software and Services) for Unisys (Schweiz) AG.
  • Developed Swiss version of a service package called the A Series Starter Plan.
  • Studied the Bancos package and showed how it could be installed and run more efficiently.
  • Performed various systems consulting duties for Unisys customers, third party houses and internally.
  • Performed a one month site audit at the showcase NAP site (in California) as consultant to Unisys Engineering in Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania.
Sep 86-Nov 86 Contracted to Burroughs Belgium to design and implement ZISCC, a package to manage file transfers on a BNA network. Part of this work was to design and implement a BNA agent.
Aug 78-Nov 85 Co-founded Metalogic, a software house specialising in performance consultancies and operations software for Burroughs Large Systems.
  • Personally designed, wrote and documented several complex commercial packages
    Supervisor II
    a tool to automate Operations of an A Series main
    FLEX
    an implementation of disk file archiving known as Virtual Disk
    METATAPELIB
    a real time updated tape library package
    LPMCS
    a print file spooling utility
  • I also spent serious effort on change control, both procedural and implementation (the FILED package).
  • Implemented automation of the process of system software generation
  • Created CASE tools for in house use.
  • Consulted at University of Genoa for Burroughs Italy, and at a number of other large system sites on behalf of Burroughs and numerous customers.
  • Gave many courses on efficient operation of large computer systems throughout Europe, Africa and the US.
  • Installed a number of machines (B6800, B6900 and B7900) for Burroughs customers.
  • Supported system software at a number of sites.
Apr 77-Jul 79 Consultant to Norwegian site NKL, as Systems Programmer.
  • Handled MCP and systems support at the site.
  • Designed and wrote datacom software (in DCALGOL and NDL) for a distributed system (B6700 and B700).
  • Oversaw rewrite of their major COBOL application, a warehouse management system.
  • Developed utility software to make use of large system Cataloging.
  • Installed strict security protocol at the site.
  • Developed a package to certify program suites based on analysis of the code files, which later became the FILED package described above.
Nov 76-Mar 77 Consultant to Burroughs East Division based in Vienna; was project leader for the Moscow sites, VNTITS and Ministry of Oil.
Feb 75-Oct 76 Systems Programmer for Arbed Steel in Luxembourg.
  • Installed first B7700 in Europe, handling MCP and datacom areas.
  • Developed NDL TD800 and TD700 request sets, which were subsequently used at sites throughout Europe.
  • Developed an interest in automating the operation of a Burroughs large system, and implemented a general purpose Supervisor program to do that.
  • Installed a strict security protocol.
  • Supported Systems software and scientific packages in use at Arbed.
  • Was briefly Operations Manager for the purpose of restructuring the Operations Department.
Jul 74-Dec 74 Systems Analyst at Burroughs Large Systems Support Group at Ruislip, London, a third level support group. Supported European and African sites in Data Communications, writing terminal drivers using NDL I .
Sep 72-May 74 Systems Analyst for Burroughs Australia at the Canberra Branch.
  • Specialised in Datacom and DMS I.
  • Wrote a generalised MCS for customers at Canberra Data Centre.
  • Shared MCP and compiler support.
  • Also did presales and benchmark work.