Mary Abdill is the founder and president of Creative Data Movers, Inc., and brings to her company rich and diverse technical and training experience. Mary is a consultant, IT instructor, courseware developer, and popular stand-up instructor with specialized skills in the area of application design and development. She brings to her students a rich and diverse technical and training experience. A skilled and enthusiastic instructor, Mary teaches a wide variety of mainframe and web application development courses and 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 Adjunct Assistant Professor. Mary also has taught a number of courses at Columbia University.

Extended Boot Camps are one of Mary's specialties. She has designed, developed and taught numerous highly successful web application developer and mainframe application developer bootcamps of a few to many months long (5 days/week). The student audiences have ranged from C/C++ programmers learning COBOL, to mainframers enhancing their skills by learning web development, as well as recent IT graduates and students new to programming who learn to develop business applications.

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 in 1984, Mary managed the Advanced Programming curriculum and developed the PC curriculum for a major communications company, addressing the training needs of system developers, programmers, operations and 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 financial institutions, banks and brokerage firms, utilities, insurance firms, retail industry companies, and nonprofit institutions.

Mary Abdill is an excellent instructor! -- Areas of expertise include the following.

z/OS, OS/390, and MVS

COBOL

Enterprise COBOL

PL/I

Assembler

CLIST

REXX

ISPF Dialog Manager

JCL and Utilities

DB2

QMF

Stored Procedures

WebSphere MQ

CICS

SDF

SDF II

IMS DB

IMS TM

IMS MFS

Debugging

SyncSORT

SyncTOOL

ICEMan

File-AID

CompareX

ChangeMan

TSO/ISPF

VSAM/IDCAMS

Xpediter

InterTest

Abend-AID

Debug Tool for z/OS

OMVS/ISHELL (z/OS Unix System Services)

Batch Mainframe JAVA and related JCL

Web Development

Java

Servlets

JSPs

Struts

Spring

JDBC

JSFs

HTML

XHTML

XML

JavaScript

Expression Language and the JSTL

Advanced Core Java

Java Design Patterns and Best Practices

UNIX

Web Servers (WebSphere, Apache)

Remote Computing Concepts

Internet Web Application Development, as well as many associated design and development tools, such as Visio and RAD

Process and Planning

UML

OOAD Software Testing

A variety of testing and development tools

Microsoft Office

Bootcamps

Mary has taught 9 extensive, 7-month mainframe bootcamps for a major financial corporation. Students were primarily new hires with degrees in some area of computer development. For the same corporation, she has taught an in-depth bootcamp to reskill experienced mainframers as distributed developers.

She has also taught numerous mainframe bootcamps at a major car rental corporation and telecommunications corporation. Her courseware is licensed and used by many other instructors in their bootcamps and stand-alone presentations.