— 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, developing ANSI language standards – and even to space research, science
fairs, and Mozilla projects. He is versed in business information needs of both large and small enterprises.
Dan holds a BSc from the University of Toronto and he has more than 45 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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| Consulting & Advisory Work |
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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.
- International sector (Space science)
- Project science team member and webmaster in research studies for the European Space Agency (ESA).
- International sector (Journal paper)
- Helped to edit and proofread a retrospective review paper for a major science journal.
- Private sector (Forest inventory)
- Researched capabilities & potential for a proposed GPS-based
asset tracking package for a GPS vendor.
- Private sector (Wildlife)
- Data modelling & analysis in support of product development for wildlife research & tracking.
- 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.
- Non-profit sector (Internet)
- One of many who contribute time to an organization that designs, builds, tests, and debugs a popular
Internet web browser and email program.
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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 date to Algoma 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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