• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Mankato State University.
• 13+ years of Unisys 1100/2200 mainframe batch and transaction system experience including:
  • 2 years of Fortran and MASM as a Unisys contractor at Northwest Airlines.
  • 2+ years of Fortran, COBOL, and CALL at the Unisys Airline Center.
  • 8+ years of Fortran, COBOL, CALL, and MASM at Northwest Airlines.
• 18 months of C/Solaris/Sybase/T-SQL and Tuxedo/OpenOLTP at NWA.
• 8 months of Unisys A-Series COBOL/DMSII/WFL mainframe experience.

In addition, I have:

• 10+ years using IBM mainframe-based tools (ISPF, DCF, InfoMan, ChangeMan).
• 10+ years using Windows applications (Word, ABS Flowcharter, Visio).
• 8+ years of experience with HTML doing static web page design.
• 6 months of experience with Perl, awk, shell scripting, and REXX.
• Experience with MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux, and VAX/VMS programming environments.
• 15 years of experience building, configuring, networking, and using PCs (see my home LAN) including:
  • 15 years with Windows (Windows/286 2.1 through Windows XP Pro).
  • 12 years with OS/2 (OS/2 2.0 through eComStation 1.1).
  • 12 years with Linux (SLS Linux 0.98 through Mandrake 8.2).
  • 10 years with MacOS (MacOS 6.x through MacOS 9.x)
  • Experience configuring file sharing in a mixed environment including
    • Mac filesharing (MacOS 7.x, 8.x, 9.x)
    • Windows 95/98/NT/XP file and printer sharing
    • OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation (both nfs and peer-to-peer)
    • Linux filesharing (both nfs and Samba).
  • Experience configuring various X servers such as XFree86 (Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2), Hummingbird Exceed (Windows, OS/2), MI/X (Windows), MacX (MacOS), HOBLink X11 (OS/2), as well as VNC servers and clients on Windows, OS/2, and Linux.
• Currently learning Java using the NetBeans\Forte and BlueJ Java environments, and also learning Javascript.

During my 14-year career I've done many things, including:

• Software design work
  • by myself (solo projects)
  • as part of a team with one or more other programmers, and
  • cooperatively with various end-users and business analysts

• Software coding/testing/implementation
  • of interactive applications used by end users/customers
  • of interactive utilities and editors for programmers/teammates
  • of batch software and controlling runstreams and scripts, and
  • of "real-time" data-driven software (weather feeds, flight times, etc.)

• Production software support, including
  • support of customer applications while working at Unisys
  • support of systems critical to the continued operation of an airline
  • carrying a pager 24x7 and providing direct support to the help desk and phone support to customers in the field
  • support of highly complex multi-system applications and data feeds

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