Honeywell Electronic Data Processing Division

Systems Representative: Education Specialist
Responsible for software installation and customer technical support of small - medium size Honeywell mainframe computers on Long Island.
Specialized in computer systems operated by schools for both administrative and educational applications. Some of these client systems included:
> St. Johns University,
> Long Island University,
> Dartmouth College (DTSS),
> Great Neck School District,
> BOCES/Nassau,
> BOCES/Suffolk,
> Floral Park School District,
> US Merchant Marine Academy

Application Development Teacher
> COBOL programming	> Business Systems Design	> Data Management
> Debug & Dump Analysis	> JCL	> File Design & Management

Computer Programmer: COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Assembler (Easycoder/Autocoder), BASIC

Jerome Garfunkel Associates, inc.

Design/Develop/Present course syllabus, curriculum and teaching materials - (supervise others to do the same).

ANSI/ISO IT Standards Development
Member of various international and American IT industry Standards committees (please see below)
COBOL language development. This is a collaboative group effort driven by concensus, by Roberts rules of order and by politics.

Presenter, Teacher, Lecturer, Workshop/Seminar leader:

Audiences:

a) Technical systems/applications developers

b) Management IT personnel

c) Teachers ("train the trainers")

d) Non-technical public

Corporate Staff Development - Creating skills assessment, skills enhancement programs & merit systems

Course development and presentation (Product usability, IT career programs, computer programming & systems)
IT Systems Development
Corporate Conferences & Facilitations,
Corporate job skills assessment and development

Adult Computer Education - created multi-course syllabus, curriculum, lesson plans:
Lyndenhurst Schools
Northport Schools
BOCES Suffolk Dix Hills
BOCES Nassau Jericho
Great Neck School District

Director of Training
Managed staff responsible for employee skills assessment, corporate needs, training development, training acquisition, employee mental health facilitation for the Colonial Penn Data Corporation (div of Colonial Penn Insurance)

High school Computer teacher
Vocatiional high school seniors ( 17 to 20 years old)
BOCES, Suffolk, Dix Hills, New York

Micro Focus, Ltd.

Created the Academic Grant Program. A merit society of Academic institutions teaching COBOL. Created Staff Development programs (IT) for teachers - high school and college.

Created global user group network. Presented state-of-the-art application development technology to software engineers and managment.

Training application development
Developed beta CBI training (computer based instruction) application, with code generation language.

Frequent guest speaker at Micro Focus User Groups around the world as corporate representative.
Created the Academic Grant program for educational users of Micro Focus's COBOL-based application development tools

Guest Speaker, keynote, panelist at IT industry events
> Conferences: IBM Users conference GUIDE (US, Latin America, Europe), SHARE, DPMA, et al
> British Computer Society
> Unisys International User Conference,
> Honeywell International User Conference (HLSUA),
> Oracle International User Conference,
> Johannesburg/Capetown - Software Educational Conference
> California Polytechnic, Pamona, Cal Poly Costa Mesa, Purdue, Colorado State Univ, Univ of Colorado, Wayne State Univer, Weber Univ, UC Davis, Utah State Provo, et al

Conference on Data Systems Languages

WG11

Accomplishments

• Honorary Doctorate of Technology degree, De Montfort University, Leicester England, 1992

• Editorial Board - Computer Standards and Interfaces, Excelscior Publishing

• Advisory Board - Santa Fe Photographic Workshop

• US delegate to International Standards Organization committees

• (private) US Delegation of Computer Scientists in China, 1979

• Perfect attendance award, Ninth grade, Parsons Junior High School, Queens, New York

• See Published Works

Christopher Richardson (Legacy COBOL Integration on the Net)
Carol Berouli (Mastering COBOL )
Robert Grauer
Nancy and Robert Stern
Phillip Brown, NCC, Manchester UK, COBOL 85
COBOL Wheel, (verify authors)
et al

IT Press
Dutch, English, German, Finish, Romanian, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Hindi, Urdu, etc.

Frequent contributor, source and subject
- many English translated articles,
- many pre and post local speech/seminar pieces
- many personal interviews