[LA.pm] Available for work
dallas kincyb
dallasii at kincyb.com
Wed Oct 16 15:42:06 CDT 2002
Best:
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/resume.html
For the MS Word crippled:
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/resume.doc
Otherwise:
-- DALLAS LEGAN --
P.O. Box 2015, Downey, CA 90242
Home (562) 862-4854 ext. *
mailto:legan at acm.org
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585
-- SUMMARY --
Senior programmer with over ten years experience. Perl scripted or
evaluated, installed, and configured network management tools for a major
metropolitan utility. Provided analytical support for the multi-billion
dollar high technology Space Shuttle project.
Programming/Software Skills:
Work: Perl, Kermit, SNMP, FORTRAN, ReXX, JCL & CLIST, UNIX, VOS,
Forth, MRTG,
Trained in: C/C++, UNIX, Linux, MS ACCESS & SQL, TCP/IP Client/Server (BSD
Sockets), UNIX system programming (POSIX API), X86 Assembly,
Forth, Ada.
Platforms: IBM Mainframes (370), CDC, Cray, PC, Sun Solaris
Nortel Baystack 450 networking switch
Daily Personal Use: Bash, Korn shell, DOS & OS/2/Batch, ReXX, Kermit, PERL,
Debian Gnu/Linux, EMX, Email protocols (SMTP, POP, MIME, QWIK),
ipchains
-- EMPLOYMENT HISTORY --
SRP, Scottsdale, AZ 06/1999-05/2000
(via Thor)
Programmer
* Developed Kermit/serial port and Perl/SNMP/IP software for
configuring Nortel Baystack 450 networking switches.
Appware Corp., West Hills, CA 03-04/1998
(via Axiom Solutions Technology Inc.)
Programmer
* Worked on Interactive Voice Response (IVR) business solution systems
Rockwell Int., Space Systems Division, Downey, CA 1980-1993
(Now part of Boeing)
Programmer/Engineer - Aerosciences Gasdynamics Unit
At Rockwell developed, documented and used:
* Major revisions of software used in planning and evaluation of
Space Shuttle missions.
* Software filters
* Programming language preprocessor
* User directory manipulation tools
* Automated program user interfaces with scripts
* Scripts coordinating complex sequences of application software
* Evaluated and critiqued software for Space Shuttle flight planning.
* Ported software to platforms ranging from PC compatibles to Cray
supercomputers
* Pioneered corporate division use of macro processing, text formating,
scripting language and data storage protocol tools and techniques
* Application software using complicated mathematics and advanced physical
laws of mechanical, chemical, thermal and aerodynamic science to solve
real world problems. (I used to go into more detail on these projects,
but it seemed to go past everyone.)
University of Houston, Victoria Campus, Victoria, TX 1976-1978
Teaching Assistant
-- References --
Available on request
(If you will actually contact them.)
-- Coding Examples --
Available on request
(Academic examples include a simple UNIX shell and
IRC & FTP client/server emulators using TCP/IP Sockets.
Daily use includes SMTP and POP interfacing e-mail software written
purely in Korn shell, Kermit etc.)
-- EDUCATION --
* University of Houston, Victoria Campus MS Mechanical Engineering
Emphasis: Thermal Sciences and Mechanics
* University of Houston, Victoria Campus BS Mechanical Engineering
* California State University, Long Beach, Certificates C and UNIX
programming, Courses in computer networking with TCP/IP
(BSD sockets), Unix system call programming (POSIX),
database programming with ACCESS and SQL, C++ (and Ada).
Certificates HVAC Direct Digital Controls, HVAC System Design
* California State University, Dominguez Hills,
Course Computer Architecture and Assembly Language
* Rockwell Courses: C, ReXX, Automata Theory, DOS, Excel
* UNIX courses through Rockwell from Hewlett Packard and Cray
* FORTH Inc. Courses: Certificate, polyFORTH Application Techniques
* UCLA, USC, Northrup University, Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Miscellaneous courses Elasticity, structural mechanics, theoretical
mechanics, orbital mechanics, aeroelasticity, Nuclear Plant Engineering
-- PERSONAL --
* Certificate of Acheivement, SRP
* Member ACM, C Users Group, ReXX Language Association,
Forth Interest Group (FIG), Orange County Linux User's Group (OCLUG),
Southern California OS/2 User's Group Board of Dirctors (SCOUG), Mensa
* Gave presentations on development of R65C02 assembler, Kernal interface
commands and a simple terminal program to Orange County chapter of FIG.
* Biology Award, Victoria High School
* Chemistry Award, Victoria College
* Assembled from modular components my own Intel/IBM compatible computer
* Have also on occasion used CP/M, two or three versions of CDC NOS,
UNIVAC and TOPS 20 operating systems.
* Engineer in Training, Idaho
* Volunteer Mentor for Los Angeles FreeNet
* Volunteer work for World Space Foundation cited in "Project Solar Sail"
edited by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sir Arthur C. Clarke
* Organized National Space Society phone tree for Southwestern
United States for over 5 years
* Lifetime member of League of American Bicyclists
-- PUBLICATIONS --
Full texts available on request.
* UNIX Users Association of So. CA (local UseNIX chapters), speaker
Los Angeles, 2 May 2002, 'Bash, the Bourne Again Shell'
http://www.bolthole.com/uuala/past.html
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/bash.html
Orange County, 8 Oct. 2001, 'Forth',
http://www.uuasc.org/p0109.html
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/forth.html
Orange County, 9 Sept. 2001, 'Kermit',
http://www.uuasc.org/p0109.html
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/kermit.html
Los Angeles, 5 April 2001, 'Intro to SNMP',
http://www.uuasc.org/uuala/past.html
http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/snmp2.html
Video:
http://www.lpbn.org:8080/ramgen/snmp1-lilax-04-13-2002.rm?usehostname
http://www.lpbn.org:8080/ramgen/snmp2-lilax-04-13-2002.rm?usehostname
* Kermit Center, Columbia University, 'Lynx/Kermit Coordination Part I'
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case20.html
* Kermit Center, Columbia University, 'Lynx/Kermit Coordination Part II'
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case24.html
* "Lynx on OS/2: Straight Answers and Keen Tricks"
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug210.lynx1.html
* "Some Tools for Conversion of Plain Text to HTML"
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug208.htmltools.html
* "Poor Man's WGet",
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug205.pmwget.html
* 'CountStr and ChangeStr for Classic REXX',
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug202.changestr.html
* 'A Simple, General Command Line Filter In REXX',
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug010.parsetool.html
* 'Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2',
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug009.textbrowsers.html
* ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/gunixio_os2.c
* Forth Dimensions, Volume XVIII, Number 2, July 1996 August,
p.4, "dot-quote" (column)
* Forth Dimensions, Volume XVIII, Number 2, July 1996 August,
p.5, "Java Learns from Forth, Forth May Benefit, Too" ("Letters" column)
* OS/2 For You (So. CA OS/2 User's Group), April, 1998,
(with J. Rash & P. Wirtz) "Watch OS/2 on TV"
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1998/scoug804.2.scanconverter.html
* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0123390958/9432-3000375-030480,
author solicited review of "Efficient C/C++ Programming", by Steve Heller
* http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools-3.9.7-20000XXX.diff.gz,
~lines 1108-1109:
+ inq_data.product, sizeof inq_data.product) &&
+ strncasecmp("ZIP 250 ",
* OS/2 For You (So. CA OS/2 User's Group), October, 2000,
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2000/scoug009.altf2patch.html
'Bootup Patch for OS/2'
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