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Instructor Biography

Frank Tozier

Education

  • Pomona College, Claremont, California;  BA in Philosophy, 1967

Experience

  • 8 years of full-time application development, including COBOL and Assembler in IBM MVS, VM, and DOS/VSE environments
  • 4 years of tech support in an IBM MVS environment, including CICS, IMS, and a wide variety of hardware and software
  • 5 years of management in large corporations, including managing projects in a tech support area, and managing instructors in a training group
  • 15 years of running own companies
  • 25 years of teaching experience, including course design and development, computer-based training development, and delivery of classes in the classroom, on video-tape, and via live satellite

Technical credentials

  • IBM MVS environment: 35 years of experience, involving most major languages (COBOL, Assembler, PL/I), most software (CICS, IMS, DB2), TSO, JCL, hardware and software installs
  • Windows: 15 years of experience in application development tools such as Visual Studio.NET, C#, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, ODBC and ADO
  • Relational databases: 10 to 20 years of experience in DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, and Access, and the SQL language
  • Web development, using ASP.NET and ASP, Microsoft Visual InterDev, VBScript and JavaScript

Employers

Years

Company

Industry

Job

1996-present Acorn Software Training, Carrboro, NC Consulting, training Independent consultant, trainer
1994-96 Tech Resource Group, Raleigh, NC Consulting, training Senior consultant
1988-93 Cardinal Technical Services, Inc; West Hartford, CT Consulting, training President, consultant, trainer
1983-87 Data Base Management, Inc (DBMI); Manchester, CT Consulting, training Senior consultant
1977-83 Connecticut General Life Insurance (now CIGNA); Bloomfield, CT Insurance Tech support; trainer; training manager
1974-77 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York NY Banking Tech support
1973-74 Emery Air Freight, Wilton, CT Transportation Application developer
1970-73 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York NY Banking Application developer
1968-70 US Army   MP Sgt.