SENIOR SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Alan Egan
29 Roslyn Road
Grosse Pointe Shores
Michigan 48236-1320
(313) 881-7694
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01/99 to Present - STERLING SOLUTIONS & SYSTEMS, INC., PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN. Technical director. Project manager installing mobile computing for public safety.

01/90 to Present - EGAN SYSTEMS, GROSSE POINTE SHORES, MICHIGAN. Unisys ClearPath and A Series consulting and training. Design and maintain PerfMon (a performance monitoring tool).

• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (S.W.I.F.T.) (Unisys ClearPath): Performance design consulting, planning, tracking (using Visual Basic for Applications), benchmarking, analysis and reporting.

• Metalogic S.à r.l. (Unisys ClearPath and A Series): Provide ongoing development, documentation and support for a range of Unisys A Series tools.

• Unisys Corporation (Unisys A Series): Helped convert GSA PBS's Infonet system to A Series. This conversion succeeded after five prior attempts had failed.

• Lynx Networking, Inc. (Unisys A Series): Instructor for:
  • A Series Architecture and Basic System Support
  • A Series BNAv2 Network Implementation
  • Data Communications and Networking: Making the Connection
  • A Series Operations

07/80 to 12/89 - HOLDER, EGAN & COMPANY, INC., MIDLAND, MICHIGAN. Provide consulting services, including: system, application and data communications (NDL and NDLII) software design and development for microcomputers and mainframes; performance analysis; throughput and response time enhancements; use of and modifications to operating systems, GEMCOS, COMS, and custom MCSs; restart, recovery, and reliability methodologies for critical on-line applications; instruction in NDLII and advanced NSP data communications.

• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( S.W.I.F.T.) (multiple Unisys A Series, CP2000, and CP9500 connected with BNAv1 and BNAv2): Helped increase performance of various applications up to 500 percent. Designed and implemented ALGOL compiler patches to allow collection of statistics in an asynchronous environment with much less overhead, and to pinpoint uses of expensive constructs; MCP patches to help find performance problem areas. Gave performance seminars.

• Ford Motor Company (Burroughs B7900): Converted various terminal and computer-to-computer data communications protocols from NDL to NDLII.

• Syntech (providers of the second Michigan Daily Lottery system) (multiple Z80 microcomputer configuration): Designed and implemented on-line redundant tape audit system including device drivers for tape controller; off-line sort/reformat system which processes 750,000 transactions per hour (a single microcomputer (Z80) version of this system processes 480,000 transactions per hour). Developed hardware modifications for the tape controller.

• Datatrol (providers of the first Michigan Daily Lottery system) (Burroughs B6700): Improved throughput from 330,000 to 420,000 transactions per hour, including changes to the operating system. Implemented new terminal protocol, increasing data communications throughput 150 percent.

06/77 to 06/80 - DATATROL, INC., SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN. (Providers of the first Michigan Daily Lottery system) (Burroughs B6700): Helped design and implement database software which reduced accounting errors from 20-60 per hardware failure to one known in two years; master/slave software and hardware which recovers from a single hardware or software failure within two minutes, without operator intervention. Designed and implemented terminal and computer-to-computer data communications software. Improved throughput from 140,000 to 300,000 transactions per hour. Wrote operations procedure documentation.

• Digital Resources Corporation (Perkin-Elmer 7/32): Helped implement a store and forward message switching system with master/slave capability, including data communications device drivers and modifications to the operating system. Helped debug hardware problems with disk pack and data communications subsystems.

• Albion College (Z80 microcomputer system): Helped design and finished implementation of a data communications concentrator.

09/75 to 05/77 - ACADEMIC COMPUTER SERVICE, ALBION COLLEGE, ALBION, MICHIGAN. (Burroughs B5700): While a student, designed and implemented several utility programs and changes to the MCP; a stand-alone MCP to handle a non-standard tape.

01/71 to 12/74 - UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. Maintained and operated digital and analog flight simulators.

09/75 to 05/77 - ALBION COLLEGE, ALBION, MICHIGAN. Bachelor of Arts in Computational Mathematics. Hours: Computer/Mathematics 24, Accounting 8, Physics 12. Directed studies: Mathematical Theory of Computing, Computer Systems Security, Compilers, Computer Operating Systems and Architecture.

04/71 to 08/71 - U.S.A.F. TECHNICAL TRAINING SCHOOL. Completed 8 month Flight Simulator Course in 4 months with 98% average, at top of class.

09/67 to 06/70 - LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN. Hours: Math 30, Chemistry 30, Physics 10, Economics 9.

Unisys:

• ClearPath, A Series, B5700, B6700, B7900, CP2000, CP9500, NX4800
• MCP
• ALGOL, ESPOL, TSPOL, NEWP, DCALGOL, DMALGOL, BDMSALGOL, NDL, NDLII, Pascal, COBOL, DMSII, FORTRAN, BASIC, CPGL, MPLII
• SMFII, COMS, GEMCOS, BNAv1, BNAv2, performance (throughput and response time), data communications, reliability, restart, recovery, on-line real-time applications, custom MCS, MCP patches, ALGOL compiler patches

Motorola:

• 68000, 68020, 68030
• MacOS
• Pascal, assembler, Modula-2, FORTRAN, BASIC, Visual Basic for Applications, HyperTalk
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, HyperCard

Intel (Zilog):

• Z80, 8080, 8086, 80286
• CP/M (1, 2, and 3), MP/M, CP/M-86, Concurrent-DOS, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, NT
• Pascal, assembler, Modula-2, FORTRAN, BASIC, Visual Basic for Applications
• Custom BIOS, data communications, reliability, restart, recovery, on-line real-time applications
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

Qantel:

• Best
• QBASIC
• QMRP

General Precision (Singer-Link):

• GP-4, GP-4B

Perkin-Elmer:

• 7/32