DAN PERNOKIS - Professional Profile

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Dan Pernokis is President here at P & M Technologies. He has been a software professional for more than 45 years, with work in industry, private enterprise, government, research, academia, and non-profit organizations.

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"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
– George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher

Programming & Technical Expertise

Dan's areas of specialty include:

Data conversion and data migration from legacy systems
Data warehousing & archiving
Web site design and programming
Technical writing & technical editing
Self-publishing

Education and Experience

Mr. Pernokis graduated with a B.Sc. in earth sciences from the University of Toronto (1975). He has been a computer professional for over 45 years, with experience in the private and public sectors — specifically, TRW Data Systems in Toronto, Hospitality Data Systems in British Columbia, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ontario Lottery Corporation. Dan has also worked with several smaller organizations and private companies & individuals in Northern
Ontario and elsewhere.

Dan Pernokis has worked with several programming and scripting languages, including assembler & machine code, PL/B (Databus), ORACLE database scripts, HTML & CSS, and JavaScript.

Although primarily a systems and applications programmer, Dan has worked as a systems analyst, network administrator, software instructor, and customer support representative. He has performed systems integration, data conversions, confidence testing, systems testing, quality assurance, software evaluations, cost-benefit analysis, business analysis, hardware and software installation & configuration, and general trouble-shooting. He also developed a few device drivers. Dan has first-hand end-user experience on many applications, and he has written systems manuals, user guides, and training aids. He is co-author of the ANSI programming language standard for PL/B (formerly known as DATABUS).

A Broad Spectrum of Technical Expertise

Dan's fields of expertise include hospitality, reservations, point-of-sale, telephone systems, property management, A/R, A/P, G/L, inventory, payroll, HR/HRIS, and forms design. He has experience with on-line banking, robotics, GPS/GIS, image processing, multimedia authoring, and database work.

Dan enjoys the challenge of working with new technologies, mastering most of them quite quickly. His eclectic background includes a bachelor's degree in earth sciences, with interests in astronomy, natural science, and aviation & space. In addition, he has eight years' experience in professional broadcasting in Toronto and he has done some audio-visual production work. His latest projects have been in web design, digital & stock photography, and book publishing. Dan has even helped to edit & proofread journal papers for publication.

Recently he has worked on research projects for the European Space Agency (ESA) and has helped to administer judging for our local Rotary Science Fair. He presently contributes time to Mozilla projects like Firefox and Thunderbird

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