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Paul F. Mikichak 416-962-... ...@hotmail.com
• Canadian by birth, University of Toronto, B. Sc. 1973, eligible to work in the United States with a NAFTA TN1 visa.
• Excels at prototyping and implementation of ad hoc solutions defined by casual discussion
• Works well within teams from formal specifications under SDLC guidelines
• Designed, debugged and/or participated in the development of:
Compilers Operating Systems Electronic Mail Systems Accounting/Budget Systems
Simulators NonStop Applications Debit/Credit Card Systems Stock Exchange Software
Screen Formatters Multi Threaded Software Message Switching Systems Inventory/Distribution Systems
Report Generators Point of Sale Software Fourth Generation Products
HP Nonstop Tandem Expertise
• Extremely fluent in TAL, C, COBOL, SCOBOL, and JAVA (working knowledge) (All learned from manuals.)
• Extensive knowledge of TACL, INSPECT, PATHWAY, FUP, DDL, ENSCRIBE, SQL, and TMF
• ATM/POS device protocols
• BASE24 expertise
• Inter-process messaging
• Non-stop processes
• Multi-threading
• Process control
• Extensive debugging of multi-process systems
• Many versions of Guardian and Tandem hardware starting with TNS1
• Extensive testing, both manual and with simulators
IBM/HERTZ (Oklahoma City, Contract) July 2016 to August 2016
• Resolved a BASE24 problem that had been in limbo for eleven months with five intense days in INSPECT
• Testing involved repeated submission of a three transaction set: charge, charge increase, and reversal
• Modified a TAL program per user requirements
• Modified a C program with ENSCRIBE files per user requirements
• Modified a Cobol program by adding multiple SQL Selects and Updates per user requirements
• Found that the Nonstop development environment was basically unchanged after a fifteen year absence
Various January 2001 to June 2016
• Monitored HP publications/manuals for changes in the Nonstop environment
• Programmed simulation software in C with the Bloodshed IDE
• Provided small business clients with financial analysis via spreadsheet and database software
• Returned a near bankrupt Chinese restaurant to profitability
• Created files of more than 100K records for a car rental agency from accounting records to claim $2M in reductions to government audit claims
• Tutored private ESL students in English grammar and pronunciation
• Taught ESL in South Korea, China and Syria for several years.
Bottomline Technologies (Long Island, Contract) February 2000 to December 2000
• TAL and C with ENSCRIBE files
• Eliminated a backlog of user requests from clients of banking software (Royal Bank of Canada and State Street Bank)
• Investigated and resolved production problems
• Implemented performance enhancements
• Developed new facilities according to client requests
• Formalized procedures for handling such requests
• Tested the download functions of the new Internet version extensively
Chase Manhattan Bank (Manhattan, Contract) July 1999 to December 1999
• Designed, (SDLC guidelines) the migration of processing of email questions from Online Banking users from the TANDEM platform to a KANA email server, including formatting inquiries for the KANA server, retrieving the replies from a general mailbox, and reformatting the replies, all under XPNET, the Base24 control umbrella
• Responsible for data conversion and the processing of responses from the email server
• After downsizing of team from four to two, supported all programs, in TAL and COBOL with ENSCRIBE files.
• Tested the communications processes, which used SMTP and POP3 protocols with high volumes via a simulator running overnight
• Numerous faults were discovered (and corrected) thereby
• Installation was error free.
NASDAQ (Connecticut, Contract) January 1999 to June 1999
• Participated in the software amalgamation of the AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges
• Responsible for several processes, all written in TAL, with ENSCRIBE files
• PREOPENING process was the first to successfully return messages to a work station
• Developed a table driven text message generator.
Wright Express (Portland, Maine, Contract) October 1996 to September 1998
• Converted a month-end single process job to multiple parallel processes with buffered output, improving job and data integrity, ultimately reducing the runtime from 28 hours to 2 hours
• Tested and fixed buffering problems in OLTP SNAX, X25, TCP/IP, and BISYNC line handlers with high volumes via simulators, often running overnight
• Replaced many inefficient Enform reports with a smart COBOL process with ENSCRIBE files, with report parameters maintained by a requestor-server pair
• Report requests could include any combination of thirteen selection criteria. Output could be directed to any combination of printer, disc and email
• Significantly reduced runtime of nightly financial posting job by distributing transactions evenly over all CPUs
• Conducted lunch time seminars to improve programmer knowledge and skills
Vienna Stock Exchange (Toronto/Vienna, Contract) September 1995 to August 1996
• TAL, COBOL and SCOBOL, with ENSCRIBE files
• Supported Vienna Stock Exchange, in both Toronto and Vienna
• Resolved many deficiencies discovered during acceptance testing
• Enhanced the software as required by design changes
• Tested batch entry process exhaustively, identified and corrected numerous deficiencies
• Resolved the three most serious and long outstanding problems:
o Auction Price logic
o Phase changes (preopen, open, close, etc.)
o Making it possible for the system to handle an unlimited number of listings, as required by the client and the system specifications, simply by assigning each stock issue to a named process..
Bell Canada (Ottawa, Contract) April 1994 to August 1995
• TAL and C with ENSCRIBE files
• Responsible for multi-threaded process for binary, paged data files for FAX transmission
• Implemented a new INTERNET addressing protocol in Bell’s email software
• Implemented automated delivery of EDI data to remote systems
• Enhanced encryption/authentication of EDI messages to and from foreign domains
• Created a file maintenance utility to display and modify fields based on DDL record definitions
• Reduced three programs in C of 25K lines of code to one program of 8K lines
McDonald’s Canada (Toronto, Contract) March 1993 to March 1994
• TAL, COBOL, SCOBOL, ENSCRIBE, PATHWAY, X3PAD, on a linked VLX/CLX system
• Responsible for multiple new reports
• Substantially enhanced several existing reports such as Inventory, and Daily Sales
• Developed utility to recover slack space Edit files automatically
Toronto Stock Exchange (Toronto, Contract) April 1992 to December 1992
• Responsible for analysis of memory needs of the major components of the Equity Trading System
• Implemented most of the recommendations of the report
• Greatly improved source library utilization and reduced the total code space of a number of the programs by over 40%
• Created a runtime object library, a feature previously unknown to the software development group
Various Clients (May 1986 to February 1995)
• Desktop Publishing, Word Processing, Data Base, Spreadsheet software, and C programming on Macintosh hardware
• Satisfied client requirements for typesetting, advertising, and printing;
• Financial reporting for client billing, budget projections, sales and purchase analysis
• Agent booking analysis for productivity reporting
Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto, Contract) March 1984 to April 1986
• TAL and COBOL with ENSCRIBE files
• Developed several processes in the first delivery of POS software
• Created an interactive POS device simulator with forty commands over a weekend with no specs
• Finalized the nonstop functions of a Dialup Line Handler
• Created a multi-threaded nonstop pair interface to a department store mainframe with logging (pre TMF)
• Tested extensively with high volumes via simulator
• Restructured the existing SNAX protocol Host Interface to improve the context node, buffer handling and multi-threading
• Added pass-thru support to Interac with a mere fifty lines of TAL (other banks implemented two new processes!)
• Eliminated bugs and deficiencies in several existing Visa authorization components
• Improved the consistency, reliability, and nonstop functioning of the control process, Watchdog, which started, stopped, and monitored the execution of all other processes
• Conducted lunch time seminars to improve programmer knowledge and skills
Standard Software (Toronto) January 1980 to December 1983
• TAL, ENSCRIBE
• Developed screen handler/formatter (a PATHWAY/SCOBOL alternative) for which he received royalties
• Compiler of free format screen definitions with automatic positioning of items, nested boxes, table lookups and ranges
• Block mode support for multiple terminal types, switching to character mode
• Dynamic utilization of terminal memory
• Implemented procedure name breakpoints (pre INSPECT), and runtime trace routines to display procedure names
• Dynamic disk swapping
• Program was a multi-threaded nonstop process pair
Various Clients (July 1974 to December 1979)
• Developed several report generators, a municipal tax billing system, and an inventory system
• Created an integrated Financial and Client Profitability System
• Created the prototype versions of the screen formatting and reporting components of what became the COGNOS package
• Implemented a more efficient terminal servicing algorithm for an order entry system reducing CPU usage by 75%;
• Created a system to record and administer group health insurance premium payments and claim eligibility.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Toronto) July 1970 to June 1974
• Computer Aided Instruction project on Dec (Digital Equipment) and Burroughs B6700 hardware
• Supervised a group of ten programmers of instructional lessons for High School Mathematics and Physics in the languge (CAN, Completely Arbitrary Name)
• Specified program structure and the format of recorded data
• Maintained the reliability and quality of lessons
• Implemented program to control the dynamic paths of students through a hierarchy of tests and lessons
• Implemented a complete data analysis and reporting system in COBOL
• Defined and developed: a BNF grammar which formalized the definition of CAN; an intermediate language for execution; a compiler to translate instructional lessons to that code; an interpreter to execute the compiled lessons; and a multi-user, multi-threaded operating system to service student users.
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