— Professional Accomplishments —
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Dan Pernokis, BSc
President
Dan Pernokis is a software developer, programmer, and web designer — with a
diverse background in business, government, and academic applications. Dan's expertise has been applied
to natural resources management, point-of-sale systems, the hospitality industry (reservations & property management),
on-line banking, payroll & human resources, and developing ANSI language standards. He is versed in business
information needs of both large and small enterprises. Dan holds a BSc from the University of Toronto and has
over 30 years of experience in various aspects of information technology.
Below are listed some of the major accomplishments of his career.
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- Private sector (Software training)
- Designed and taught software & hardware courses for a large mini-computer vendor.
- Developed training aids, various demo programs, and a multi-user text editor program.
- Trained & assisted co-op students on their work terms.
- Private sector (Software development – banking & retail)
- Helped supervise and train co-op students on their work terms.
- Performed system & quality-assurance testing on one of Canada's first on-line
teller systems, and wrote the systems support guide for it.
- Wrote a few system utilities and worked on system plug-ins for applications packages.
- Programmed electronic point-of-sale cash registers, developed interfaces for them, and trained retail staff.
- Private sector (Hospitality)
- Wrote system utilities and operating system plug-ins for applications packages.
- Developed & maintained a restaurant point-of-sale system.
- Developed & maintained telephone call accounting system interfaces.
- Designed & implemented print spoolers, communications interface drivers, and various system interfaces.
- Installed hotel computer systems, trained management & staff, and provided on-call support for these installations.
- Private sector (Broadcasting)
- Worked as on-air broadcast technician (operator) at a popular Toronto radio station, and did the final production mixes
on a few of their public affairs programs.
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| Data Conversions & Warehousing |
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- Government sector (Natural Resources – Forest inventory)
- Conversion of licence & registration data and population of database for "live" system.
- Warehousing of expired and non-current licence & registration data into a parallel archive database.
- Government sector (Lottery)
- Conversion of existing mainframe payroll database to on-line PC-based application.
- Developed prototype interface utilities and wrote system documentation, user guides, and procedure manuals for them.
- Government sector (Education)
- Converted an existing unsupported Accounts Payable & General Ledger database to a current product
(ACCPAC).
- Private sector (Miscellaneous)
- Created a job skills database for a high-end recruitment ("headhunter") company.
- Converted hospitality, retail, and accounting & payroll applications from a mini-based
system to PC-based networks.
- Co-developed a cost maintenance package for a local automotive shop.
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- Government sector (Lottery)
- Human Resources Infrastructure Project – Helped plot the course for
future development, including analysis of existing problems, cost-benefit analysis of proposed solutions,
and writing significant portions of the Final Project Report.
- Government sector (Education)
- Helped establish a "SMART" Lab for high school students so they could learn
AutoCad, multimedia software, and robotics.
- Private sector (Forest inventory)
- Researched capabilities & potential for a proposed GPS-based
asset tracking package for a GPS vendor.
- Private sector (Broadcasting)
- Designed a "remote broadcast" facility for a Toronto professional hockey franchise owner.
- Community sector (Broadcasting)
- Served as advisor during the successful start-up of a commercial FM community radio station in
Kelowna BC.
- Served on the Board of Directors (as advisor) during the attempted start-up
of a non-commercial FM community radio station in
Sault Ste Marie ON, and developed their web site.
- Community sector (Publishing)
- Taught a few seminars on self-publishing.
- Provided assistance to several local authors on the process of self-publishing.
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| Other Major Accomplishments |
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- Co-author of the ANSI language standard for
PL/B (formerly known as
DATABUS).
- Served as a member of X3J15, the ANSI technical commitee that developed the standard.
- Held the position of Vocabulary Officer (responsible for proper & precise wording).
- Invented verbs and list controls for the PL/B language.
- Contributor to
The American National Standard Dictionary for Information Systems
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| Awards and Special Honours |
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- Rotary Club of Sault Ste Marie – in recognition of service to Rotary Science Fair (2008).
- Valedictorian – Western Technical-Commercial School, Toronto (1971).
- KIWANIS Club of Toronto Award of Merit – for my involvement as
founder and 3-year term as managing editor of my high school's weekly newspaper (1971).
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