1995 to 1996 :

Insider Technologies Limited (ITL)
Spinnaker Court, Chandlers Point,
37 Broadway, Salford Quays,
Manchester, United Kingdom.
M50 2YR

Area :

Reflex 80:20 Development
Team Leading, Design, Coding and Testing

Website :

www.insidertech.co.uk

Position :

Senior Programmer

Programming Languages
(HP NonStop):

TAL, COBOL85, SCOBOL, ENSCRIBE, TACL,
Various NSK Utilities – PUP, SPOOLCOM, PATHCOM, INSPECT, EMS etc.

Operating
Systems :

HP NonStop Server (formerly TANDEM) GUARDIAN with 
PATHWAY on K series
WINDOWS 3.1

Software
Packages :

CrystalPoint OutsideView
Microsoft Project
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft SourceSafe
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word

Other :

SUN Based Workstations

My first tasks at Insider Technologies involved the design and production of a number of SCOBOL Requesters and the modification of the appropriate COBOL85 Pathway Servers. These requesters polled at a configurable rate for the latest performance and status details of HP NonStop systems. The details comprised of CPU, various Disk and Process metrics. At each poll the performance data is displayed to the operator within a Pathway Green-screen. A GUI front-end was also produced and it was my task to convey the necessary Inter-Process Message and format information to the GUI team assigned to produce the PC front-end.

I also developed two SCOBOL Requesters and a Pathway Server to secure Reflex tasks so that only authorised Guardian users could execute them via the Reflex GUI interface. This layer was developed so that another level of security could be introduced into the Reflex product.

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