SYSTEMS ANALYST
In these positions I was responsible for finding out what my client
wanted from its data. I defined those data then flow-charted the
various steps needed to produce the desired results. But not only
flow-charts, but PERT charts, project plans, and definitions of the
deliverables. When I was done, the programmer could take my work
product and write the code from A to Z in a computer language of his
choice. Here are some of my biggest clients.
- GreenTree Computer, a bank.
I documented and analyzed the data flow
through the accounting department as my job was to detail the flow of
financial data.
- On-line, Inc. A regional data center for savings and loan
associations.
My first task was to develop their new Customer Service
department and write department’s teller manual. Then, as a programmer,
I coded and maintained the data center’s key applications.
- General Ledger
- Fixed Assets
- Savings Accounts.
Key programs I designed used On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP),
the programming method that lets banks process thousands of deposits and
withdrawals each day without errors. (When was the last time an ATM made
an error in your account?)
When the totals didn’t balance [on conversion] the president of the
company called me “PLAN A”. I was the one he sent out to identify the
problem.
- Host Interface International,Inc.
I was retained under contract to
interface the 7x24 Fault Tolerant ATM system (cash machines) to the
related accounts on the banks’ data base. My job was to figure out and
define all the financial activity between the ATM and the bank’s
database of accounts. I personally wrote over 100,000 lines of code in
just one of three applications over a 4 year period to accomplish this
task. Again, I coded my applications using OLTP.
- Professional Resource Management, Inc.
Here I designed a new and
novel OLTP applications under contract. My program replaced trained
(and expensive) technicians to manage large and complex office telephone
systems. It was so well and thought out that one IT department
complained it was too easy to use (a nice complement). Some of my
customers had large, multi-node, networked telephone systems.
A second application, using the same OLTP technology, was to send to
the local Emergency Response Center, the specific location of telephones
within a campus from which a 9-1-1 call had been placed.
The telephone systems with which my code interfaced were:
- Rolm (now IBM)
- Nortel Networks (Nortel)
- Lucent (AT&T)
- Intecom
(click here for a partial client
list)