was a corporate startup attempting to raise funds via private placement or venture capital. The firm was founded with 1 technology and 5 professional service personell and quickly grown to 5 technology and 7 professional service personell.

In August 1994, Mr. Lancaster was a founder, Chief Technology Officer, Secretary of the Corporation, and member of the Board of Directors. As such he sponsored development and technical facilities, kept minutes of the board, and issued stock certificates.

was founded to build a multi-platform n-tiered client/server accounting software suite. Mr. Lancaster built a talented team of four and lead the implementation through, analysis, design, and the team's choice of the Forte' Integrated Development Environment.

accomplished the object-oriented design deliverables: Use Cases, Class Diagram, Object Diagrams, Infrastructure Deployment, and Data Model. The team prototyped several key GUI forms and created a consistent user-interface style. Construction was postponed pending fundraising.

Consulting through affiliation with   became a temporary lifeline before closing shop in May 1996.

1996 I/T Consulting

Mr. Lancasters performed the following service engagements using CICS, IMS/db, DB2, COBOL, Assembler (BAL), JCL, MVS Utilities, JCL, and TSO/ISPF on MVS S/390.

Bristol-Myers Squibb

  • (January – April) Price Waterhouse SAP/R3 engagement
    • Migrate Mead Johnson subsidiary A/R from in-house [S/390 IMS/db/dc] to centralized CARMS V16R5 [S/390 CICS VSAM]
    • Design and Code chain-account hierarchy reconciliation between old and new system to assist cleanup before conversion
    • Assist design and support of debugging of SAP/R3 Customer and Invoice interfaces to CARMS

Farmland

  • (January) Acceptance Testing
    • Troubleshoot inability to start On-line CARMS V16R5 [S/390 CICS VSAM]
      • Traced to non-upward compatible customizations from Front End Screen Table ARSGST01 were migrated to the new Environment Management Screen Table ARSGST01
      • Code fix by applying customizations to new version of Screen Table

Rohm and Haas

  • (March) Port BAL CICS Macro to Command Level
    • Design and code remediation of CARMS V4R0 [CICS VSAM] assembler Front End that was using CICS Macros to use "EXEC CICS" syntax instead

Moore Business Forms

  • (May) DB2 Performance Tuning
    • Analyze and design DB2 Performance improvements for CARMS V16R5 [S/390 CICS DB2]
1995 Executive Sponsor (staff of 5)

Technology Vision
Technology Presentation
Corporate Partnerships
Employee Recruitment, Development, & Training
Product Content and Development

Vendor Liaison

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Forte’ Incorporated
Sybase
Ameritech
Compass Management

Accounts Receivable Information Engineering System (ARIES)

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Project Planning
Architecture Design
OO Methodology and Training
Client/Server Object-Oriented Product Development
Construction with Forte' CASE development environment

Budgeting

Technical Services
Development

Technical Services

Network Operations
Desktop support
Telecommunications

1994 Budgeting

Technical Services
Development

Technical Services

Office Buildout
Technical Environment
Telephone
Networking
Electrical
Hardware
 Office Preparation
Furniture procurement



From: "The Star" February, 1995