Air Canada

September 1985 to March 1989 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

TPNS Specialist, Performance/Regression Testing Analyst, Database Analyst, PC Analyst

Define, develop and coordinate test environment
Test, Tune, Debug and provide "path length" numbers for AIR CANADA's high availability Software including IMS Applications, Data Bases, MVS and Network Software
Develop IMS DB/DC PL/I programs
Develop Custom IMS Fast Path Analysis program
Configure, analyse and tune CRUISE application Databases
Develop project/cost tracking programs on PC's

Highlight:
Responsible for the building of a new IBM based testing environment for Air Canada. This environment was used during the migration of Flight movement/planning software from Unisys/Honeywell to an IBM platform. This system had two major components: base scripts and additional scripts. Base scripts were generated, with minimal user intervention, from a NPM data capture of actual flight activity. Additional scripts were added as a part of weekly change control. This system was expanded to test all IBM application software. This system was still being used in 1993.

Tools/Systems/Communication

MVS, Netview, VTAM, TPNS, PL/I, TSO, ReXX, ISPF, IMS, CICS, SNA, 3745, UNISYS, Honeywell, RMF, JCL, Assembler, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, IMS Fast path, DOS, Batch files, DBASE, 3270, LU0, NCP gens, IMS gens, MVS gens, Cross Domain simulation

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