Paul Bandler @ Unisys 87–92

 

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Experience

 

Unisys established Australian Centre for Unisys Software (ACUS) in late 1987 with a mission to develop new open distributed software products.  It established new offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and grew to over 150 people in 18 months.  I joined as the very first external recruit to the Melbourne office to lead an ISDN prototype project.  Member of the Networking Products management team throughout my time at Unisys.

 

 

 

Achievements

 

For 2.5 years I was, as once described by my manager, the technical backbone of a project to introduce ISDN communication capabilities to Unisys mainframe computers.  Initially this entailed an investigation into the requirements to translate a vague wish into a specific project scope and plan.  I visited Unisys engineering and sales sites in the US and Europe and the ITU 1987 Telecom exhibition in Geneva to gather information on ISDN technology, industry trends and requirements.

 

After nearly a year of investigation, planning and recruitment of a team of 6 engineers we then executed an implementation project that developed an ISDN interface for a Unisys CP2000 Communication Processor.  This entailed the development of layer 2 data link (LAPD), layer 3 signalling (Q.931) and device-driver software and their integration into the Unisys network architecture called BNA.  Custom media access and line interface hardware was developed at a Unisys engineering plant in Philadelphia. The software was written in C using a cross-development tool-chain on PCs to an 80186 embedded system.

During the course of this project I received achievement awards at both the local national and international level.

 

Joined an Open Systems Security product project as its so-called technical director.  The product provided a cryptographic toolset and keystore, an X.509 compliant Certification Authority management application and an implementation of X.400 security.  This project was already 2 years into its development cycle so my main role was more of a technical caretaker.  I attended security workshops in the US and presented at a Unisys conference in Canberra.

 

Joined a large multi-site client-server product development whose goal was to provide tools to enable Unisys mainframe customers to modernise existing transaction processing application by re-factoring their functionality as a set of re-usable service components and then building Graphical Front end applications that integrated a set of back-end application services.  It was an early example of what today is called a Service Oriented Environment.  Again the project was in an advanced stage of development when I joined it as its technical director.

 

Conducted an investigation into the potential to deploy OSI applications such as X.400 mail and X.500 directory services user-agent on a Personal Computer.  I visited OSI stack vendors in the US, Canada and the UK, Unisys engineering plants across the US and Unisys sales divisions in Europe.

 

 

Conducted an investigation into the application of EDI software for the Australian Customs Service in Canberra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-mail: mailto:pbandler@cseuk.co.uk | Tel: 07770 921231