Over fifteen years of computer experience working in system design and management, technical support, programming, and as a principal developer. Extensive OpenVMS experience with VAX, Alpha, and IA64 platforms. Other proficiencies include C, Java, Apache (CSWS), HTML, DCL, Perl, SAS, BASIC, Macro, Bliss, FORTRAN, DECdocument, CMS (code management), MMS (make utility), SDA (system dump analyser), DECnet, and TCP/IP (UCX and Multinet).

Also worked on Mac OS X, Fedora Core, Solaris and Windows projects.

Extensive experience with software development, product testing, software maintainence, and technical support for commercial products. Management experience with software development, technical support, and IT departments.

To find a creative and intellectually stimulating position where I can leverage my diverse background to the benefit of all involved.

Formed the LLC to buy a training aircraft to lease back to a flying club.

Help others form LLCs and buy aircraft for leaseback. Also consult on software and web services for aviation businesses.

Consult on software and hardware configuration, web design and implementation for a diverse set of clients. Currently hosting a half dozen client websites on Apache, including a winery, fine arts, and a movie site.

I am currently consulting with this company to help with their online technical support for the Path Finder product. Path Finder is a file management tool written in Objective-C for the Cocoa environment on OS X; Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger.

Consulted with this startup to try and get their revolutionary payment system to the demo stage. Worked with Fedora Core, MySQL, J2EE, JBoss and Apache.

OpenVMS point man for the POSIT institutional stock market trading system. Configured, built, deployed, monitored and maintained high availability, disaster tolerant, clusters in New York, New Jersey, Boston, London, England, and Dublin, Ireland. Configured, built and deployed a POSIT cluster in Toronto, Canada. POSIT on VMS used IBM MQ Series to communicate to Sun trading desks.

Ran a number of standalone nodes and a VMS cluster in Berkeley that monitored the BarraOne and BarraCredit ASP webservers for proper operation, and various environmental monitoring systems for the computer centers.

Spearheaded the team that migrated all of the VAX based production to the Alpha platform during the Y2K compliance project. This was done in parallel to the original project plan without having to add additional staff.

Initiated and completed a project to migrate the main production data center away from an outsourcer to in-house, saving the company millions per year. Created a duplicate cluster that ran in parallel to the main outsource cluster, and reverse engineered programs that were proprietary to the outsourcer.

Also configured StorageWorks products for VMS and Sun platform storage needs.

Helped the IT (Information Technology) Department support hundreds of Windows desktops and Windows servers.

Wrote packages to monitor numerous webservers and services, display uptimes, page support personnel on downtime, and gather other statistics. The package utilized CGI programs written in DEC C and Apache (CSWS) to allow web-based access to the monitoring services.

For a short time held the record for the widest VMS Cluster in the world, from Boston to New York City.

Wrote a disk and tape archive and restore program to replace a product that had been retired by a vendor. Reversed engineered a replacement product using the documentation and help files.

Also was active in the VMS ports of the Uptimes client and the cURL open source tools.

• During Y2K code verification set up parallel project to successfully port main production code from VAX to Alpha with no additional manpower. Also setup code management and verification via CMS, MMS and regression testing with DTM.
• Headed up projects to get the computer room on generator, upgrade UPSs, and add additional power and air conditioning.
• Moved main production data center from Boston to Alpharetta after Barra bought itself back from Ziff/Davis.
• Moved main production data center from Alpharetta to Berkeley (in-house), saving the company millions in outsourcing costs.
• Specified, configured, programmed and deployed Meridian Intergrated Call Director (MIPCD) system for in-house Nortel phone switch to track, and connect our IT Support personnel based on time of day and availability.
• Installed and configured a number of video conference systems.

Principal developer and programmer for the Manager series, a set of VMS, network-wide, system management tools written primarily in VAX/DEC C. Technical support analyst for over 20 VMS system software products. Duties also include maintaining the mail system and other system management tasks. The last project was developing a Windows NT front end client for one of their VMS management tools using Visual C++, Windows NT and various TCP/IP functions.

Researched market potential for VMS system software products. Wrote parts of the upgrades and enhancements for existing products; Diskeeper (disk defragmenter and file system tool) and I/O Express (cluster-wide data caching product) the largest selling third-party software products in the VMS market.

From the cURL FAQ, "Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks." See http://curl.haxx.se/ for more information.

I've been working with the VMS parts of this project for the last few years making sure the changes to the base code stay compatible with clean VMS compilation. I also ported the code to the Itanium (IA64) platform when a machine became available.

From the Uptimes FAQ, "The Uptimes Project is an attempt to collect data on system uptimes from various operating system and hardware configurations. This data is then made public via nifty tables and graphs and statistics."

See http://uptimes.hostingwired.com/ for more information. (update: ironically, it seems uptimes is no longer up)

I helped with the port of the client and added cluster foundation time consideration into the client output.

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 3D Computer Graphics and Animation courses.
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Java Certification Track and Perl courses.
DECUS (et al) Training, OpenVMS Bootcamp, Disaster Tolerant Clusters, Middleware with Weblogic, CSWS (Apache), BridgeWorks and NetBeans IDE.
Oakland Flyers, Oakland, CA, PPASEL, Private Pilot Aircraft Single Engine Land, FAA certificate.

Upon request.