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Employment Details

January 1992 to Present

DNA Pty. Ltd.
Computer Consulting
PC's, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Unix
TCP/IP, Tuxedo, Informix SQL, C, C++

Since January 1992, I have been practicing as a computer consultant and contract programmer.  Projects include:

• Installation of Lan Manager for Unix server.
• Installation of distributed PC data-base.  Data is stored on two PC's at geographically remote locations, and exchanged, automatically, each night.
• Installation of Unix dial-up terminal.  The terminal and modem were configured so that simply turning on the terminal caused the Unix system to be dialed.
• Support of a number of Unix systems including system administration (kernel tuning, load balancing, etc.)
• Writing programs to allow printing from Unix SVR4 on printers connected to terminal servers.
• Optus FEWs project.  This project utilised Tuxedo, Unix Software Laboratories' transaction monitoring package, running on twin 486 computers, with Informix SQL data base.  The purpose of the project was to provide Optus's customer support representatives with a history of notes and commitments relating to any customer, and to provide them with integrated access to Optus's billing systems.  The support reps. access the system via Macintosh work-stations.

  It is interesting to note that the FEWs project included integrating applications residing on IBM main-frames, even though those applications were not designed to be and had no support for integration.  I achieved integration by designing and writing a component which allowed FEWs to operate the IBM resident application.

  My parts of the project included: designing and writing the Unix interface between the Macintoshes and Tuxedo; designing and implementing the computer language which was used to interface Tuxedo with the billing system (via 3270 terminal emulation); writing programs in that language to provide specific services; writing Tuxedo services to provide notes and commitments services; and tuning & configuring Tuxedo and Unix.

• Providing 24 hour support for Optus's FEWs system.

February 1991 to January 1992

Olivetti Australia
Unix & Network Support
PC's, MS-DOS, UNIX
Lan Manager, TCP/IP, NFS, CAP

My duties at Olivetti included:-

• Pre sales support: assisting sales personnel writing tenders; discussing and analysing customer requirements; and assembling and demonstrating systems
• Post sales support including installing systems; solving telephone queries; providing on-going software maintenance; assisting with hardware fault diagnosis; consulting on software design; and programming as required.
• Administering Olivetti's office Lan Manager network

The products for which I provide support include Olivetti's complete range of ISA and EISA PC's running MS-DOS, OS/2 and UNIX; Networks based on Lan Manager, Lan Manager for Unix, Novell and TCP/IP; and ODIS (Olivetti's document imaging system.)

I have written, in C, a program to aid with the diagnosis of faults in an Olivetti betting terminal.

July 1990 to November 1990

Unique Software Centre
Contractor
NCR Tower, PC-386
Unix, Xenix, MS-Dos
C, C++, Pascal, Informix C-ISAM, Today

My main duties included:

• technical design and development of new software
• maintenance of a telepaging system written in Today and C
• UNIX support as required, including repairing corrupt file systems, configuring security features, installing network software, fixing printer cables, etc.

Projects included:

• Extended precision arithmetic package (C++)
• WYSIWYG report writer (C/Unix and C++/MS-DOS)

August 1987 to July 1990

South Australian Institute of Technology
Unix Systems Programmer
VAX, Sun, NCR Tower
VMS, SunOS, Unix
TCP/IP, NFS, DECnet
C

I was responsible for support of all Institute academic Unix systems which variously included NCR Tower 32/600's, diskless and diskfull SUN 3/60's, a SUN Sparcstation 1 and a SUN 4/490.  A multi-protocol network interconnected the machines.

My duties included preparation of benchmarks for selection of new systems; participation in hardware selection committees; installation of new systems; periodic maintenance of systems; design and preparation of operator facilities; design and development of student accounting; installation, support and maintenance of networking software; installation, support and maintenance of electronic mail systems; registration of users; monitoring and maintenance of system security.  Although not part of my official duties, I also assisted with configuration and maintenance of Macintosh networking facilities.

Networking facilities included NFS, TCP/IP and ACSnet (SUN III).  Electronic mail software used was Elm and Sendmail.

I developed a disk and usage accounting system for the Unix systems, which integrated with the Institute's VMS accounting system.

I was a member of the Elm development group, which develops and maintains Elm, a publicly owned e-mail user agent.  The members of the development group are spread over a number of continents and so this project represents a major undertaking in collaborative computing.

July 1985 to August 1987

DNA Pty. Ltd.
Self Employed
MS-DOS, Unix, UCSD p-System
Pascal, C, Today

I was responsible for all aspects of operating my company, and particularly of software design, development and support.

For six months I researched 4GL's and CASE tools, resulting in a comprehensive array of tools which I used for my major project.

The major project, written in Pascal, was a multi-user insurance broking package; essentially an accounting package for insurance brokers.  One of the most important design goals was system reliability and I am proud to report that the system, which is currently installed in five insurance broking offices, has had less than 0.1% downtime in over 35,000 hours cumulative operation.

I helped produce a telemarketing systems, written in C for Unix System V, which provided for central telephone ordering.  Orders were dispatched by modem to regional delivery centres (pizza kitchens).

I was invited to lecture at Elizabeth TAFE.  Subjects were Programming Fundamentals which included problem solving, NS charts, pseudo-code, flow-charts, Boolean logic and structured programming; and Information Processing Concepts which included computer literacy, hardware, operating systems, languages and office automation.

A summary of additional projects:

• Relational data base manager (Pascal and C, Unix)
• Terminal independent window manager (Pascal and C, Unix)
• Protocol driver to interface telepaging system to Telecom Telefinder paging network (Unix, C, Informix/CISAM)
• Protocol driver to interface telepaging system to PET paging network (Unix, C, Informix/CISAM)
• Database shadowing daemon (Unix, C, Informix/CISAM)
• Conversion of sporting club membership ledger from single user Apple /// to MS-DOS network
• Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet to handle importing (customs & duties)

I ceased working for myself to take a 3 year contract with the South Australian Institute of Technology.  The major motivation for this move was the security of a regular income.

August 1983 to July 1985

Associated Computer Service
Development Manager
UCSD p-System, Apple ///, MS-DOS
Pascal, 6502, 8086 assembly

My duties included:

• Design, programming, maintenance, installation and training in the company's main product, a multi-user insurance broking package written in Pascal and assembler.
• Managing the company’s four programmers and over-seeing their various projects.
• Design and development of CASE tools.
• Design and programming of a multi user real estate system, also in Pascal. I produced system modules to handle terminals, printers and files.

March 1983 to August 1983

Syntax Systems Pty. Ltd.
Contract Programmer
Apple ///, Pascal

At Syntax Systems I designed and wrote the payroll and petty cash modules of an integrated general accounting system written in Pascal for the Apple ///.

Following this I was seconded to ACS.  That secondment became permanent.

March 1982 to February 1983

Canon Australia (Vic) Pty. Ltd.
Victorian State Programmer
Canon CX-1, BX-1, AX-1, SX-320
BASIC

My duties at Canon included support of all of Victorian and Tasmanian sites.  This largely involved providing operational assistance via telephone; and locating and correcting bugs in Canon's software.

While at Canon I also wrote a hospital billing program for use in a group of private nursing homes.  The system requirements were determined in conjunction with the group's manager and with the account salesman.  The program was written in BASIC for the CX-1 microcomputer.

March 1981 to March 1982

Cadzow Schleuter Pty Ltd
Programmer
Altos, Archives
CP/M, Pascal

At Cadzow's I worked with one other programmer and a chartered accountant, designing and implementing modules for a general accounting package which was written in Pascal for CP/M.  My duties included design of data and reporting requirements, and researching legal responsibilities for stock and payroll modules.

September 1979 to February 1981

Various Contracts
Apple ][, Cromenco, Canon BX-1
BASIC, CP/M

I undertook a number of short term contracts including:

• Localising a US accounting package written for the Apple ][
• Writing a job costing program in BASIC
• Writing a stock module to integrate with I.M.S.'s debtors and creditors program
• Completing a public bar stock system.

September 1978 to October 1978

CASSR, Flinders University
Contract
DEC-10, Tops-10, Fortran

During the year of my matriculation, I wrote a program for the Centre for Applied Social Science Research at Flinders University.  The program, written in FORTRAN on the DEC-10, provided graphical analysis of census data.