Michael Erichsen Email & Phone Number

Nationality Danish. Reads, writes and speaks Danish, English, some German and some French. First came into contact with a computer at a visit to an IBM 1410 installed at Kjøbenhavns Handelsbank in Holmens Kanal in Copenhagen in 1962. At that very same address the first Erichsen worked as a coachman in 1814. So his computing career seems to have been predestined.However, having dropped out of a University study in Astrophysics, he worked for 15 years in the manufacturing and utilities sector before acquiring a technical diploma in computing from the Copenhagen Business School. Has specialized in connecting everything possible to mainframe systems, ranging from RS-232 laboratory equipment, complete sugar factories, radio directed unmanned warehouse trucks and distributed newspaper distribution systems over Web Enablement to Service Oriented architectures, using a broad range of technologies, platforms and protocols. His role has both been technical icebreaker and prototype developer as well as infrastructure designer and architect and application developer mentor, based on a combination of deep technical experience and a solid business perspective.Wrote the chapter on Mainframe Web Enablement in the CSC Catalyst methodology, received a 2001 CSC Nordic President’s Award, and has received honorable mention from the CSC Leading Edge Forum Papers Programme 2003 for a position paper to an Australian public authority.Was for many years chairman of the GSE Nordic CICS user group and still frequently gives presentations in user groups and at Technical Conferences.Has been an expert witness on technical issues in security in the Electronic Patient Journal in a hearing in the Health Committee of the Danish Parliament.In 2011 one of his projects for a utility company was nominated by IBM Denmark for an innovation award. It combined a legacy application with a cloud system through a CastIron ESB appliance.Wrote the hard core assembler part of the market leading product Xatester, later acquired by Compuware. it.

Listed skills include Cics, Soa, Mainframe, Integration, and 42 others.