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Daniel Farkas has been a consultant to Mentor for over ten years, providing UNIX education to Mentor's clients. He personally developed the Operating UNIX class exclusively for computer operations personnel. Because Dan comes from a mainframe background, he makes the transition from mainframe to UNIX for employees with a background in legacy systems. Dan has been involved in computing, technology and education for the past 30 years. He is currently the Chairman of the Information Systems Department at Pace University in Westchester, New York. His early experience was as a systems programmer on IBM mainframe computers in the financial industry gaining expertise in a spectrum of operating environments from the initial releases of OS/360 through MVS and VM. While staying current with the latest large systems technology, Dan began devoting his energy to smaller systems, becoming involved with the automation of foreign exchange operations and trading. Later, as a consultant, Dan was part of the original team which developed the technology plan for the new Chemical Bank, Delaware. After completing a MS degree in Computer Science from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dan joined the Information Systems Department at Pace University. For almost 24 years he has been involved with the development and teaching of graduate and undergraduate curriculum. During this time he continued to work as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies primarily developing courses for mainframe application development. In 1984, Dan got involved with the UNIX operating system developing and delivering courses to professional audiences in all aspects of UNIX including C Programming. This led to the publication of a book, UNIX for Programmers in 1988, and a major training effort at IBM on Data Communications, AIX and TCP/IP. Since the mid 1980s, Dan has been actively involved in the telecommunications field, developing and delivering seminars on data communications, TCP/IP, networking and digital telephony. He currently is involved in a Pace University professional development program teaching basic UNIX, UNIX Internals, System Administration, C/C++, UNIX Systems Programming in C, and Networking with TCP/IP. In addition to teaching and consulting, Dan is involved in a number of professional activities including the latest developments in multimedia and internetworking. He has given presentations on these projects in the United States, and Leeds and Oxford Universities in England. Dan is completing a Ph.D. in Educational Technology at NYU. |
