Biography
Stephen Skarlatos has over 25 years of software development expertise. He began by writing transaction based systems on Unisys mainframes to support State Medicaid programs. In the early 1980’s, Mr. Skarlatos joined a fledgling software consultancy that focused on transaction processing. During the next 23 years, the company grew to 150 consultants. In 1990 he led the research & development group that created the first ODBC based client solution for Unisys Mainframes. This product has gone on to support OLE-DB and two phase commit transactions using Microsoft’s distributed transaction system (MS MTS/DTC). This software is still in use across the world and is a Unisys OEM product which is shipped with OS2200 based ClearPath mainframes. Mr. Skarlatos’ responsibilities included supporting customer projects by providing: development methodology support, software development framework tool sets, architectural guidance and corporate infrastructure support. He has spoken at mainframe user conferences as well as at Microsoft’s Teched, and PDC conferences. Mr. Skarlatos also served on the Microsoft Architectural Advisory Board. His articles about two phase commit technologies and client/server computing have been published in trade journals. He publishes a personal blog, mydigitallife.us, which discusses issues and methods related to maximizing the use of the technology to enhance daily life. He is a contributing editor for the pocketnow.com website.
In 2006, Mr. Skarlatos started A&S Consulting, LLC to focus on providing management and architecture support to development, as well as infrastructure projects that require mobile solutions. He has recently been presented with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award (MVP) in the Visual Developer – Solutions Architect category for his expertise and community participation in the use of Microsoft technologies.
Publications & Presentations
•“The Emergence of an 1100 Client-Server Architecture”, Unisphere, July 1989
•“Client/Server Computing in an Open/OLTP world”, Unisys World, March 1991
•“UniAccess Product Suite for Sybase – a Technical Overview”, Unisys World, April 1992
•“A Step-by-Step Guide to Modernizing 1100/2200 Applications to the Client/Server Architecture”, USE conference, best paper award, June 1992
•“Modernizing Mainframe Applications Using Client/Server Architecture”, Microsoft Tech Ed Conference, June 1995.
•“Factoring in a Service Oriented World”, Microsoft TechEd Conference", 400 level presentation, June 2004.
He can be contacted at steve(at)mydigitallife.us
