Mary Abdill

Mary has been a subcontractor to Mentor Services for over fifteen years. She is the founder and president of Creative Data Movers, and brings to her company rich and diverse technical and training experience. A skilled instructor, Mary teaches a wide variety of mainframe and distributed application development workshops for IT developers, support personnel and end users. New York University's School of Continuing Education, recognized Mary's outstanding ability as an educator by presenting to her the School's Award for Teaching Excellence and promoting her to Assistant Professor. Mary also has taught a number of courses at Columbia University.

Mary's courseware design skills are evident in the unique style she has developed for Creative Data Movers' instructional materials. She displayed similar expertise as co-author of four versions of Fast Access LOTUS 1-2-3, a Simon & Schuster self-study text on business applications of PC software.

Prior to forming her own company. Mary managed the Advanced Programming curriculum and developed the PC curriculum for a major communications company. These programs addressed the training needs of more than 1,500 systems personnel and 4,000 end users. Her area of expertise focuses on application development and programming, with strong abilities in the areas of systems and operations support.
As an application developer and technical consultant, Mary has developed systems from bookstore query and order systems to telephone data capture systems, registration systems, art-history database systems, and numerous report and update systems. She has provided consulting and training support for many major financial institutions including many banks and brokerage firms, utilities, insurance firms, retail industry companies, and nonprofit institutions.

This background makes Mary an excellent instructor whose areas of expertise include on the z/OS and MVS side: IMS, COBOL, PL/1, CLIST, Dialog Manager, JCL, Debugging, QMF, SyncSORT, File-AID, CompareX, REXX, ISPF, DB2, VSAM/IDCAMS, Xpediter, InterTest, Abend AID, and CICS. And on the distributed side, her expertise includes: Java, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC, JSF, HTML, XML, JavaScript, remote computing concepts and Internet, as well as tools such as Microsoft Office, Visio, and Rational tools.