His plan, among other milestones, called for development of a new network, hardware, applications, and migration of all the data on GIP’s mainframes to a microcomputer environ- ment. As the team leader, he also had to compose training programs for the department specialists before any changes could take place. It took time but, at the end, the process of transferring all mission critical database and applications from the old computers to the modern ones was a success and was carried out without any data loss.
