Vladimir Stepanoff
v5234647@v5234647.com
Profile
As a dynamic hands-on leader and innovator, he has skills and experience in all
aspects of computer application software development and maintenance throughout
the life-cycle, with particular emphasis on re-hosting and modernizing or
transforming computer applications to achieve greater flexibility and
scalability by enabling the selection of alternate computing platforms, and to
provide better access to data, reduction of hardware costs and improvement in
end-user interfaces. To this end, he has designed and implemented a large
variety of language and data translators, code generators, run-time libraries
and tools for application analysis and enhancement, and is an expert in the
development of automated techniques to ensure controlled and efficient software
development, testing and maintenance. He has extensive experience in the
application of these, and other computer techniques such as mathematical
optimization algorithms and computer simulation in the solution of industrial
probelms in real-world situations, on five continents.
Curriculum Vitae
Early Computing
IBM 1401 Autocoder language programming instructor
Disassembly of 1401 object code into COBOL
Translator for IBM 1401 Autocoder language into COBOL
Translation of railway train movement simulator from IBM 7074 Autocoder
language into COBOL
Translation of ALGOL programs into FORTRAN
Data Analysis
Statistical studies of EEG data for genetics of epilepsy research
Statistical studies of psycho-pharmaceutical experimental data
Database for quality control of a continuous steel billet casting machine
Information systems
Nurses payroll system for a hospital
Universal account translator for production of world-wide financial reports for
a multi-national
Annual rail transportation expenses spreadsheet, similar to Visicalc, which was
to come 6 years later
Design of the Press Agency System for the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
Graphical system for cataloguing and geographical mapping of Brazilian Federal
Railway (RFFSA) physical assets
Customs Agent application installed at all ports of entry in the Bahamas and using
a centralized DB/2 database
Hardware and operating systems
Built and programmed Polymorphic 88 computer with Z80 CPU and S-100 bus
Integrated operating system and application language for Data General Nova 2
Printer spooling system for RCA Spectra 70
Application language for a prototype ARM based handheld inventory scanning device
Argent IBM AS/400 Agent system activity monitor prototype
Software and Data Re-engineering
COBGEN™ Code generator to produce COBOL programs from a macro language
COBOL code generation from decision tables using DETAB-65
Translation of FORTRAN programs into PL/1
WB4™ Migration tools to convert MAI Basic/Four applications into PL/1 and Wang VS
execution environment for converted applications
Migration tools to convert IBM System/36 COBOL applications to Wang VS COBOL
with PL/1 block-mode displays
PL/1 function library to emulate Wang VS command language
U36™ Migration tools to convert IBM System/36 RPG applications into the C language
Migration tools to convert IBM System/36 Basic applications into the C language
under OS/2 using CISAM
Migration tools to convert IBM System/36 Basic applications into the C language
using Informix databases
Migration tools to convert System/36 COBOL applications to Acucobol, to operate
under UNIX
C function library for execution-time data translation between Oracle database and
a COBOL application
U400™ Migration tools to convert IBM AS/400 RPG applications into C and C++ under
Windows and UNIX using SQL Server, Informix, Oracle, Sybase and DB/2 databases with
client/server graphical user interface
IBM System i Data Migration Toolkit
Migration tools to convert IBM AS/400 RPG applications into Informix 4GL
Migration tools to convert IBM AS/400 RPG applications into Oracle PL/SQL
Migration tools to convert IBM AS/400 block-mode displays to Java client/server
graphical user interfaces
Migration tools to convert IBM AS/400 databases into SAP Oracle databases
Reverse engineering of Orcad EDA library and electronic schematic database formats
and the development of schematic and component translators
Migration of IBM MVS COBOL applications to Micro Focus on Sun Solaris.
Automation of analysis for IBM MVS and VSE application source and job logs to produce
cross-reference lists of JCL, programs, subroutines and copycode, and data files
Translators for IBM MVS and VSE JCL and COBOL into UNIX shell scripts and
Micro Focus COBOL programs
Translator for IBM Selector into C and Perl.
Translator of IBM VSE SyncSort parameters into UNIX equivalents
Translation of IBM MVS Easytrieve programs into COBOL and Perl
Analysis and generation of UNIX AFP configurations from IBM MVS print resources.
Tools to refactor COBOL programs into structured COBOL code eliminating GOTO
dbCOBOL™ is a COBOL (or C/C++) programmer's aid that incorporates a relational
database system into existing applications
WinRun™ tools and libraries for extending capabilities of MicroFocus COBOL
on Microsoft Windows
Migration tools to convert IBM VisualAge Generator applications with DB/2 databases
into Microsoft Access
Simulation and Optimization
Simulation of railway train dispatching and movement using interactive graphics
Amalgamation of several Brazilian railway companies historical transportation data
Train movement routing model of Brazilian railway systems
Rail transportation forecasting model for the Brazilian Federal Railway
Rail transportation forecasting model for the State of São Paulo Railway
and integration with the State economic input/output model
Optimizing network flow model for capital planning of soybean production and distribution
in central Brazil
Casino floor staff scheduler using an optimizing network flow model of requirements
versus availability
Publications and Awards
"Interactive Graphics Help Simulate Train Movement", Griffiths and Stepanoff, Canadian
Datasystems, October 1975
“Bibliography of railway train movement control systems”, Stepanoff, Canadian National
Railway (unpublished), 1975
Runner-up in the Software Development Tools competition as the 1991 SCO Open Desktop
Product of the Year at Santa Cruz, CA, with "System/36 Environment for UNIX" .
“Protecting legacy software investments: options for migrating to client/server platforms”,
Stepanoff, Storage Management Solutions, January 1997
Alma Mater
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
Quebec registration
2264865702
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