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Our COBOL Expert
Our
founder, software architect Jonathan Beit-Aharon, is a graduate
of Brandeis University. While he went to college, he worked nights
as a computer operator and programmer at Barry Controls, and later
as a Programmer/Analyst at TurningPoint Systems, where he participated in
the development of a prescription drug tracking and distribution package.
He was thrilled when his name was listed in their copyright filing.
Wang Laboratories
R&D was Jonathan's third computer industry employer. He worked
ten years for Wang, starting as an SE2, and rising quickly to a
Principal SE. In addition to supporting conversions, and developing
compilers and tools for VS and UNIX systems, Jonathan served as
Wang's representative on the CODASYL and ANSI COBOL committees.
Jonathan also served as a US delegate to the international COBOL
standard committee (ISO / IEC JTC1-WG4).
The experience
gained in the COBOL Standard committees, as well as years as a conversions
specialist, guided Jonathan in designing cross-compilers and a Code
Generator that produce a highly portable subset of the Standard
COBOL. The J & C Migrations readable, self documenting, structured
and portable code is supported on Mainframes and Minicomputers,
Unix and NT Servers, and on PCs. Converted legacy code can be used to upload
database schema repositories, utilize multi tier architectures, and used to
encapsulate Objects for OOD/OOP reuse.
Other projects in which Jonathan participated included:
- Applying data-mining statistical techniques in developing database
relationship definitions
- Technical lead addressing Source Controls and Data Security as well
as Project Measurement and Compliance Audits.
- Migrating a network security product from 32-bit FreeBSD UNIX to
64-bit Linux
Jonathan is
used to working hard, having grown up on a farm. Software husbandry
is different in many ways from raising sheep. However, laboring
to help a product develop and thrive yields similar satisfaction,
with the gentle hum of well engineered applications replacing the
sound of bleating lambs.
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