Expo development team profiles
03 - EXPO Development Team Profiles
Glen Read has been with the EXPO project since it began in 1988. For nearly 30 years, he has been specializing in editing and estimation methods. Glen has worked with many of the batch and CICS applications in EXPO. He has developed and maintained most of the system documentation, adding hyperlinks and other features for easier accessibility.
He has participated in several of the iQ specification development teams, primarily involved with establishing new editing methods, scoring algorithms, and imputation techniques. Many of these he coded on the mainframe, so they could be tested to ensure that they were fully functional with real data.
Glen has also set up most of the data selection features of the 040D job, with the inclusion/exclusion of a data value range, multiple single-position values, comparisons between two fields, with the addition of optional offsets (both absolute and percentage-based), and the development of a “linked-or” connector.
On the iQ side, in addition to developing the initial build programs on the mainframe, Glen has established the “Stitcher” application on the PC to combine the partial files produced for large states due to the size limit for mainframe output files. These methods are considered obsolete, however, with the advent of the QUEST system.
Mark Rock has been with the EXPO team since 1996. In those over 20 years, his primary area of mainframe expertise has been in report formats, publications and other user-requested reports. One of his predominant achievements has been the development of complex processing in publication report production with the ES2U screen. He has also spearheaded the development of p-percent-based disclosure masking in several processes.
During the iQ phase, Mark became a specialist in writing use case reports, which were technical reworking of specifications. His coding became much more diverse during this time as well, since he developed skills in Oracle, test case writing, and general C# code writing. Mark’s understanding of the existing EXPO and WIN systems has been invaluable in setting the course for iQ coding standards.
With his quick wit and congenial temperament, Mark has been a favorite with the QCEW staffs of many states. His unrushed manner belies the fact that he can track down the solution to most problems in very short order. He has extensive experience with the ES2V, ES2X, and ES2F screens, as well as with micro selection and macro roll-up parameter processing.
Previously, we had included Rick Newman and Jim Hall in these personnel lists; both of these gentlemen have retired after many years of service. Jim had been our expert at forms processing and the refiling system; Rick had been most people’s first contact when they had a problem to report.
Originally, the iQ system (i.e., the Integrated QCEW) would eventually replace both the EXPO and WIN systems. However, this has fallen to the QUEST development software now, even though their progress has been slow at best. The QUEST system is supposed to be an on-line system for processing all of the QCEW requests.
Stacey Joos (pronounced “Joes”) is the manager of BLS programs. As such, she also manages the funding of our program. Originally, she worked on the QCEW program and was trained by Jim Hall, who was the manager of the system at the time, before he joined our programming team. Stacey is able to remain calm under pressure and get the job done, figuring out contracts and all of the in’s and out’s that are related to them.
Brett Judd will be the back-up for Mark and Glen. He has primarily PC experience, but has knowledge of how to work with the EXPO system as well. He has a great deal of experience in Projections Suite project. His skill in COBOL and CICS leave something to be desired, but he is only going to be filling in when both Glen and Mark are absent, which should be fairly rare. It occurred on December 11 and 12 of 2017, and on the afternoon of January 12, 2018. Otherwise Glen or Mark has been around all of the time since 2014.
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