1. SAT PAL  (517) 256-3037
 satpal01@live.com
 971 Harrington Lane, East Lansing,MI 48823
» HIGHLIGHTS
 Leading the mainframe technical team at Michigan State University (MSU) on the migration of the Student Financial Aid
(SFA) system from ClassicSAM (mainframe) to ProSAM (clientserver).
 Project lead for the acquisition and deployment of an enterprise wide Application PerformanceManagement (APM)
across all systems atMSU.
 Designingand facilitatingtheconversion of research administration data frommultiplelegacy systems to Kuali Research
Administration (KRA) system.
 Manager of the performance testing team at MSU, which was responsiblefor establishingperformancetesting across the
institution.Over 12 departments and 30 applicationshaveintegrated the service,which has been responsiblefor
identifyingcritical,launch blockingperformanceissues in 10 major applications,including HR and Kuali financial systems.
 Architected the design to modernize the mainframe(CA-IDMS) platformat MSU and led a cross-departmental team to
select, evaluate and deploy key technologies for the initiativesuch as replication (IDMS to SQL Server – DARSTRAN),
messaging(MQ-Series) and mainframe web-enablement (Shadow).
 Enterprise application architectatMSU responsiblefor selecting,evaluatingand deployingmultiplecross-institution
systems such as SAP-HR/Payroll,Kuali Financial System, Cognos, IBM Info Sphere, Kuali Research Administration,
Organization of Interest (OOI) and Clinical Research Management System (CRMS).
 Technical lead on implementation of the Student Information System (SIS) at MSU, responsiblefor leading a jointteam
from Coopers & Lybrand, MSU and several external vendors.
» TECHNOLOGIES AND SKILLS
 Applications and Databases
Experienced in application and databasearchitecture,analysis,design,development, deployment and support.
o CA IDMS DB/DC R19: ADS/O, OLM, ADSA, COBOL, IDMS Stored Procedures, IDMS Web Services, DARSTRAN
(Replication),MVS/TSO.
o MS SQL Server, T-SQL, troubleshootingand performance tuning.
o Oracle,PL/SQL, troubleshootingand performance tuning.
o Classic ASP,DYL, SHADOW
 Performance Testing
Experienced in performance testing design, development, workload modelling,execution and analysis.
o HP Load Runner suite.
o App MON and Synthetics from DynaTrace.
 Other
o Familiarwith concepts of object oriented programming and Web Services.
o Familiarwith integration tools such as SSIS, Data Stage etc. and Messaging.
» EXPERIENCE
Michigan State University
Senior Software Engineer (July 2009 – Present)
 Leading the mainframe technical team on the Student Financial Aid (SFA) upgrade project. The SFA software by Sigma
Systems is being migrated from Classic SAM (CA-IDMS/COBOL on mainframe) to ProSAM (Linux/Oracle/MicroFocus
COBOL/Visual Studio on clientserver platform).The mainframetechnical team is responsiblefor all integrations to and
from mainframe.
 Leading the project for the acquisition and deployment of an enterprise wide Application PerformanceManagement
(APM) solution.
 Managingthe performance testing team, which provides performance testing services to all of MSU.
 Designingand facilitatingtheconversion of research administration data frommultiplelegacy systems to Kuali Research
Administration (KRA) system.

2.  Technical lead planningthereplacement of the Student Information System (SIS). Responsiblefor the development and
deployment of CA-IDMS (ADS/O, COBOL, OLM, ADSA) based SIS runningon Mainframeduring the early 1990’s.
 Established the practiceof performance testing at MSU that includes baseline,load,stress,endurance,regression and
high-availability testing.
 Led strategic planningof key business initiatives such astheSQL server landscapeplanning,testingguidelines, and
planningand performance improvements of student enrollment and financial aid applications.
 Enterprise application architect responsiblefor selecting,evaluatingand deployingmultiplecross-institution systems such
as SAP-HR/Payroll,Kuali Financial System,Cognos, IBM Info Sphere, Kuali Research Administration,Organization of
Interest (OOI) and Clinical Research Management System (CRMS).
 Architected and designed the University Organization of Interest (OOI) system to manage the organization structures and
interface to all the EBS systems.
 Technical lead for the acquisition and deployment of the Academic Profiles systems (Activity Insight) from Digital
Measures.
Michigan State University
Technical Lead and Solution Architect (July 1993 – June 2009)
 Defined the vision and goal for modernizingthe mainframe (CA-IDMS) platform.Led a cross-departmental team to select,
evaluate and deploy key technologies at MSU such as replication (IDMS to SQL Server – DARSTRAN), messaging(MQ-
Series) and mainframeweb-enablement (Shadow) etc. Conducted market research and executed RFPs.
 Project lead for the development and deployment of mainframeweb-enablement of student enrollment usingDARSTRAN,
Shadow, MQ-Series and CA-IDMS; the firstmainframeweb-enabled application deployed at MSU.
 Led and assisted with RFP, vendor presentation, product selection,contractnegotiations and proof of concept of several
products such as SAP-HR/Payroll,OracleDB site license,Cognos,IBM Info Sphere, Kuali Finacial System, and Toad etc.
 Technical lead on cross-department implementation of the Alumni Development System (ADIS) from Banner.
 Established the firstdata warehouse and the firstadministrativeweb application atMSU usingMS SQL Server and classic
ASP in mid-1990’s.The data warehouse and the web application isstill in extensiveuse at MSU.
 Led a team to develop firstadministrativeweb based application (CourseLoad Instructor Management) at MSU using
classicASP and MS SQL Server.
 Team lead for architecting,design and buildingof the firstdata warehouse (MSUDATA) at MSU.
Consulting (SSI)
Principal (1993-2004)
 Support of Student Financial Aid package(CA-IDMS/COBOL) on mainframe at Eastern Michigan University.
 Support of Student Financial Aid package(VSAM/COBOL) on mainframe atWestern Michigan University.
 Assisted Coopers & Lybrand in managingthe conversion of a financial softwarepackageby Dun & Bradstreet from
mainframe to clientserver for Chicago TransitAuthority,Chicago.
 Software developer (MS-SQL Server, T-SQL) for Foremost Insurance,Grand Rapids.
 Software developer (MS-SQL Server, MS-Access) for McKinley Properties,Ann Arbor.
Coopers and Lybrand
Technical Project Lead (July 1989 – March 1993)
 Technical lead of a projectto architect,redesign and rewrite the Account Receivable (AR) module of the Student
Information System (SIS). Significantchanges were done to the disbursement (DB) and financial aid (FA) modules of SIS.
 Technical lead on implementation of Student Information System (SIS) at Michigan State University in early 1990’s.Led a
jointteam from Coopers & Lybrand, MSU and several vendors (SIS is still in useatMSU).
Data Assistance (Norway), DS Computing (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland), & Air India (India)
Lead Developer, Project Lead & Systems Analyst (1978 – June 1989)
 Lead developer on the firstonlineapplication atthe Norwegian Telecommunication, Oslo duringthe mid-1980’s usingCA-
IDMS DB/DC and ADS/Online. The application was decommissioned around 2012.
 Databasedesign and internals design for several BBS (Bank in Norway) applications.
 Systems Analystfor outstation accountingsystem for Air India.
» EDUCATION
Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
M.S. in Computer Science, 1976 - 1978
Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh
B.S in Electronic & Communication, 1972 - 1976