Quondam used in a sentence

Quondam in a sentence as an adjective

Well doing it on a white board in the same room as the interviewer allows you to see how some one approaches a problem - which is more important than the quondam task of coding.

I am Danish, into coding, and living sort of just down the road from the quondam HQ of Regnecentralen where PBH worked, and yet I barely knew about the man, and much less his writings.