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Technical
Manager
Remote Communications
Interface
Senior Designer
TAL Programming
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Worked for 12 months
as Technical Manager on a project for Central Trustee Savings Bank
(London), designing and implementing
an extension to the bank's existing CHAPS system.
The new software enabled CTSB to connect their existing network
of branch offices to their Central London Tandem, and from there into
the CHAPS network. This
enhancement required building an IBM 2780 communications interface,
automatic message authentication, remote/offsite logging and additional
screen handling for the user interface.
An
initial 3 month period exited during which 4 Logica staff defined the the Branch Network Access (BNA) sub-system and a following phase
involved 6 Logica staff and 2 client staff on the design,coding and
testing of the new software.
As technical manager,
was responsible for the overall design approach for incorporating the
new software, ensuring a consistent approach on overlapping areas
between old/new software. Responsible
for the conducting of system integration and testing. Assisted the
project manager with planning & Quality Assurance, system design
reviews and evaluation of client change requests. Supervised the
conducting of systems integration testing and the production of
'ad-hock; testing tools.
Also acted as
team leader for the development of the new communications
interface and the formulation of an application level "link
protocol" to control the data traffic between the branch offices
and the host CHAPS system.
Was
responsible for the over-all design of the IBM 2780 communication link. The
design implemented a single-threaded dialogue to the branches and a
multi-threaded one from them, incorporating time-out/reporting,
inter-process message management, internal
consistency checking, and
data flow tracing.
Personally designed, coded and tested the
communication link's state driven kernel module, its 2780 BISYNC driver
and its CHAPS inward message processing module. The software was written
in TAL
Supervised
system integration and testing. Coordinated
the production of ad-hoc software & testing tools
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