kurt@sunup.UUCP (Kurt Cockrum) (09/02/85)
Dear friends: Here's my resume. I'm an experienced and creative
programmer looking for greener pastures than FORTRAN, PL/M, etc.
I'm a relative novice as far as c and Unix go, so I'm willing to
compromise in the salary department (I'd rather have a low-salary
Unix job using a Sun workstation than a guru job on an Intel Blue
Box). I live in the South end, and so I'd prefer not to go across
the bridges each day.
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Kurt Cockrum
10015 2nd. Ave. S.
Seattle WA 98168
(206)762-6417
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objective:
I'm looking for a challenging software development po-
sition with a progressive company located in the Seat-
tle area.
special interests:
Realtime programming, LISP, Smalltalk, Unix, C
language, graphics, user interface
memberships:
Association for Computing Machinery, Seattle Unix User
Group
education:
1973-1976:
University of California at Riverside, Riverside,
CA; Mathematics/computer science major.
o Languages:
FORTRAN, LISP, APL, PL/I, COBOL, 360 Assem-
bler, JCL
o Student consultant:
Wrote several disk maintenance (SVC19MOD,
PROFILE) and debugging (TRACE) utilities for
IBM OS/360/MVT installation. SVC19MOD main-
tained a use count in an unused part of the
directory entry for each disk file. PROFILE
collected and reinitialized the use counts
and generated a report. TRACE was an intel-
ligent in-line assembly-language macro that
gave a TRUE (i. e. user-transparent and unaf-
fected by TRACE itself) dump of all 360 re-
gisters at the invocation point to the system
output (believe it or not, one from IBM did
not exist). This was a boon to assembler
language students.
o Part-time application programmer
(PL/I) at the UCR Computation Center.
o Home-brewed an early 8080 machine from
scratch.
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education, cont'd:
1971-1973:
Canada College, Redwood City, CA.; Mathematics up
thru differential equations.
1965:
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, RCA Ser-
vice Co, Riverton, NJ.; Heavy ground radar mainte-
nance school.
1962:
US Navy, Great Lakes, IL.; Communication Mainte-
nance school.
l961:
US Navy, San Francisco, CA.; Electronics school.
experience:
1984-1985:
Software Engineer, Systematix Controls, Seattle;
242-3800.
Software development using PL/M language for small
embedded systems using 8088 microprocessors in a
Multibus environment. Debugging & troubleshooting
of software & hardware using an in-circuit emula-
tor and oscilloscope.
Typical accomplishments:
o Designed, implemented software systems for
the Model SX7820 wood pulp delignification
controller, the Model SX7840 wood pulp
brightness controller, and the Model SX7846
multi-stream brightness controller.
o Organized corporate software archives;
introduced rational procedures for management
of Intel NDS-II local area network (regular
backups of file server, keeping track of
floppies, etc.)
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experience, cont'd:
1983-1984:
Scientific Analyst/Programmer, Spectra-Physics
(nee Mathematical Sciences Northwest), Bellevue;
827-0460.
As member of Computing Services Group, provided
software services to community of energy research-
ers using VAX/VMS and RT-11 systems.
Typical accomplishments:
o Design, implementation of real-time software
system for the WINDVAN laser-based meteoro-
logical data acquisition system for NOAA, us-
ing RT-11 and a "Parallel PASCAL".
o Modification of VAX/VMS RX02 floppy disk
driver to handle double-density floppies.
o Take-over of porting, debugging and system
integration of WATSIM, a large hydraulic
simulator written in FORTRAN, from VAX to a
client's remotely located RSX-11M, saving
employer's contract from default.
1980-1982:
Senior Programmer, Higher Order Software, Cam-
bridge, MA.
As member of software support group at Transporta-
tion Systems Center, a DOT research facility,
designed, implemented, debugged software for vari-
ous FAA and DOT projects on an RSX-11/IAS system
(DEC). Languages were mainly FORTRAN & TECO (a
powerful text editor - think of awk, grep & ex
combined).
Typical accomplishments:
o Designed, implemented serial communication
link between a PDP-11/70 and a 6502 micropro-
cessor used as gateway to a polled network.
o Analysis of graphic subsystem for Intel
RMX-86 based transit scheduling and dispatch-
ing system for a dial-a-ride application.
o Wrote a magtape utility REDTAP in FORTRAN to
extract files from "foreign" & "funny" tapes.
REDTAP handled a variety of parities, densi-
ties and blocksizes.
1978-1980:
Part-time consultant, R. A. I. R., Mountain View,
CA.
Implemented "Software Tools" (Kernighan & Plauger,
1976) on a proprietary virtual machine running on
an Alpha Microsystems host.
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experience, cont'd:
1976-1978:
Independent consulting, University of California
at Riverside.
Design, fabrication of custom interfaces. A seri-
ally driven analog plotter controller was a par-
ticularly successful item.
1971-1976:
See "education" above.
1960-1970:
Electronic technician in military, industry.kurt@sunup.UUCP (Kurt Cockrum) (09/03/85)
In <126@sunup.UUCP> DATA I/O is mentioned (not by me). Apparently postnews got confused somehow. I have no connection whatever with Data I/O in Redmond. They're WAY too far away!