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Mel Kirshin
SAS Quality Partner
2113 Rosehill Dr.
Oakville, Ontario
L6M 3N5
Education
University of Toronto
: Graduated class of 1969 with BASc - Industrial
Engineering
Ryerson Polytechnic Institute: 1973 Organizational Behavior
Numerous management training and computer courses 1969 - present DeVry
Tech: 1993 C Programming
SAS/SCL 1993
Introduction to PowerBuilder 1994
SAS/AF 1994
Papers Published
The use of Regression Analysis in the determination of Capture Ratios
presented at CMG Conference and published in proceedings December,
1987
Capacity Planning Primer - article published in Datamation March 1993-
2000 reprints purchased by BGS Inc.
Keywords
MVS, VM/CMS, VMS, UNIX, Windows NT/98/95, ISPF/TSO SAS, Fortran,
Basic, GPSS, C, COBOL, SQL
Recent Work Experience
Qualex Consulting Contract
(telecommuting)
Oct/98
- Present
Providing SAS programming services to LTV Steel. The assignment is to
convert several COBOL reports to SAS as well as use a new data
repository in SAS. The work includes obtaining program specs for
nearly 200 programs which are divided among a team of programmers.
Some reports are written by providing relatively cryptic
specifications to a SAS/AF application that produces a proc report.
Others are written form scratch.
Ceridian Canada Contract
(Mississauga)
June/98
- Sept/98
Provided support to major Payroll Services customers. The work
involved some ad hoc SAS programming as well as operational support.
Manulife Canada Contract
(Waterloo)
March/98
- May/98
Produced ad hoc reports for the legal and actuarial departments to
assist in the demutualization project. These reports provided the data
necessary to determine legal requirements for and the number of shares
to be issued to policy holders.
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale Contract
(Scottsdale Arizona)
Feb/96
- Feb/98
Provided support directly to users. This involved establishing a
relationship with each user wherein I developed an understanding of
their systems and provided them with an understanding of what
automation could do for them. Developed new reports to assist
Financial Services/Patient Accounts in revenue reporting and
enhancement. These reports ensured that Medicare claims did not breach
medical necessity policies, and provided an opportunity to adjust the
claim prior to submission to ensure compliance. Provided reports to
Systems and Procedures to track chart locations. Modified
Cycare/Decision Support Interface to provide encounter based
information and improve efficiency. Provided support for existing
production SAS jobs on MVS.
Intel Inc
. Contract (Chandler Arizona)
Aug/95
- Feb/96
Maintained yield analysis and modified Yield analysis programs.
Modifications reduced maintenance in some programs by 80 per cent.
Developing Graphic based SAS/AF application with drill down
capabilities to report throughput times for Industrial Engineering,
Planning, and Manufacturing. This included a data warehouse component
which provided data summarized at various levels and for which tabular
graphs could be produced.
Microchip Technology Inc
. Contract (Chandler Arizona)
Sep/94
- Jul/95
Developed Workload Tracking System to report lot movement, ships, and
yield. All programs were designed to be totally self-maintaining with
the exception of small tables which are updated by the users. Provided
ad hoc reports as required.
Motorola Corp
. Contract (Phoenix Arizona)
Feb/94
- Aug/94
As Configuration Manager for development of Marketing Frame entry
application, established naming conventions, screen design guidelines,
coding standards, and designed forms to facilitate migration through
test and production. Authorized migration to production of team
written modules. Designed, programmed, and implemented the main menu
from which all frame entry EIS applications, present and future are
accessed. Developed Marketing EIS component in SAS/AF which provided
access to sales data by region, department, and salesman.
Union Gas Contract
(Chatham, Ontario)
Aug/93
- Dec/93
Developed Human Resources Management system using SCL. The application
provided interactive management of job progression of all employees
through all Haye levels, automatic salary increase notification
letters, automatic salary schedule change notification letters, and
various control table maintenance modules. The application involved
access to DB2 data bases via SAS/ACCESS, and SAS views of these data
bases via PROC SQL.
Bank of Nova Scotia Contract
(Toronto)
July/93
- Aug/93
Produced small test versions of the banks six major product data bases
as required by Marketing to test selection criteria used to match
customers with the appropriate product promotion. Used SAS to read
subset of the production VSAM files and recreate identical test files.
Included logic to ensure that the correct customer profile was used as
well as a sufficient number of "wrong customers" to check Marketing's
selection logic
Bank of Montreal Contract
(Toronto)
Oct/92
- July/93
Enlarged and refined user specifications for audit trails. Retrofitted
audit trails to existing mainframe feeder system for PC-based
financial reporting system. Audit reports consisted of hash totals and
variances of strategic balances. Using PROC REPORT, developed
comprehensive financial reports for each of ten Created history file
of hash totals and developed associated SAS program to provide
month-over-month comparisons.
Canadian Tire Acceptance Ltd
. Capacity Planner (permanent Welland
Ont.)
May/89
-Apr/92
Designed, developed(using SAS) and implemented graphic load tracking
reports depicting CPU time consumed by workload group. These reports
were distributed at the Vice President and CEO levels. Designed and
implemented a lotus computer model to forecast CPU load based on
relationships to business volumes which were derived using SAS
regression analysis. These forecasts had sufficient accuracy to allow
us to order the correct capacity levels to reduce excess capacity and
provide sufficient performance for critical applications. Initiated
and implemented changes to production control procedures which allowed
sufficient load to be offloaded from prime shift to significantly
delay a planned upgrade. Provided numerous techniques and tools for
monitoring and tuning computer performance.
Prior Work Experience Summary (Toronto
4/69
- 4/88
) ICI Canada
(
September 1982
- April 1988)
Supervisor, Capacity Planning Developed and implemented interactive
IMS response time reports for use by user managers. Written in SAS/AF,
the application provided graphic depiction of user response times by
application, site, and department.
Workers Compensation Board
(
contractMarch/80-April 81) Designed
terminal coax patch panel system for the Workers Compensation Board
headquarters building. The system consisted of a main patch panel
located on the data center floor, and six sub-panels on each of six
floors. Devised coax numbering and location scheme using SAS.
Coordinated the implementation of the system among the electrical
sub-contractor, building services, computer operations, and IBM.
Bell Canada
(November 1974 - July 1979) Sized new applications, and
selected optimal hardware platform between IBM/IMS and PDP/11.
Coordinated implementation of new applications among Quality
Assurance, Customer Services, Computer Operations, and application
analysts.
Toronto Dominion Bank
(May 1973 - November 1974) Examined all data
entry methods being used, which included paper tape, keypunch, and
keytape. Proposed that replacement with computerized key-disk system
would save $1.5 million (current dollars) annually by eliminating
unnecessary keystrokes and media handling. Evaluated alternatives
available on the market, led an evaluation team from the data entry
department, and negotiated the best price from the selected vendor.4
Shell Canada Ltd
.(April 1969 - May 1973) Tuned the performance of the
IBM 360/65 by acquiring faster tape drives and adjusting blocking
factors. This relieved an IO bottleneck allowing CPU utilization to
increase from 55% to 80%.
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