donn@sdchema.UUCP (04/08/84)
Since the article I posted to WorkS describing the demise of the UCSD
Chemistry workstation project has been circulating again thanks to one
of the recent Usenet or ARPAnet time-warps, people have been phoning me
asking if I really am looking for work.
I am, but I don't want people to get the wrong impression from the
WorkS article -- some people who have contacted me seem to think that
I'm an array-processing genius, for example, just because I said our
workstation was going to have an array processor. Other callers have
assumed that I have a Chemistry background (I don't -- I majored in
Computer Science and Linguistics). I was just the Unix systems hacker
on our team. Other people with valuable backgrounds in engineering,
chemistry, graphics and array processing are also leaving the
now-defunct grant, so if you are looking for that kind of talent you
should get in touch with them. (I will do referrals, if people ask for
them.)
In case you ARE looking for someone like me, I'm including a copy of my
resume with this note. If you like what you see, give me a call. I
got my job here at UCSD Chemistry by posting my resume to the net, back
in the Dark Ages when Usenet wasn't called that and everyone ran A news
and there were so few machines, you could keep all the mail paths in
your head... I'm willing to try it again.
Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn
32 52' 30"N 117 14' 25"W (619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn@nosc.ARPA
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Donn M. Seeley
8742 Caminito Abrazo
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 457-4659
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CAPABILITIES
Languages I have programmed in ALGOL 60, AWK, BASIC, C,
DAL, FORTRAN, ICON, LISP, PAL, PASCAL, PDP
assembly, and VAX assembly; currently I work
mainly in C.
Systems I have programmed on the UNIVAC 1106/1108, IBM
1130, 360 and 370, the Data General Eclipse
S/200,220,230 under a custom multi-user RDOS, a
Burroughs system so old I can't even remember
its number, and a variety of DEC equipment,
including PDP-11/34,40,44,45,70 and VAX-
11/750,780, running V6, V7, and 2.8, 3, 4.0, 4.1
and 4.2 BSD UNIX. My principal systems and
applications experience is on the DEC machines,
however; I have worked on DEC computers running
UNIX since 1977.
Experience I have worked on device drivers, boot ROMs and
other system software; compiler projects,
including work with the UNIX tools YACC and LEX;
artificial intelligence programming, with an
emphasis on natural language; interactive com-
puter graphics; accounting packages; print and
batch servers; tape- and disk- reading utili-
ties; lab equipment monitoring software; text
processing macro files; and scientific and com-
mercial applications packages. I have also
written introductory documentation for various
pieces of UNIX system software.
Societies I am currently a member of the ACM and SIGPLAN.
EDUCATION
o B.A. in Information Science and Linguistics with
highest honors, University of California at
Santa Cruz. Specialized in compiler construc-
tion, formal language theory, artificial intel-
ligence and natural language processing.
o M.A. in Linguistics, University of California at
San Diego; received Regents' Fellowship.
2
Specialized in psychology of language and
linguistic theory.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1978 Summer and Christmas student intern at Calma
Corp., Sunnyvale, California. I was a computer
operator and gopher for the Vector Memory
Display project, with minor programming tasks.
1979 Summer and Christmas student intern at Calma
Corp., Sunnyvale, California. I was a program-
mer on a project for producing interactive
graphics systems to be used in architectural
drafting and design, and contract construction
work.
1980 Summer intern at Informatics, Inc., Palo Alto,
California. I was a programmer at the NASA Life
Sciences contract at Ames Research, Moffett
Field. I did system maintenance under UNIX V6
and V7, also some technical writing.
1981-pres. Programmer at UC San Diego Chemistry Department
NIH Research Resource. I have undertaken a wide
range of systems and applications programming
while at UCSD Chemistry, including work on the
2.8 BSD UNIX kernel and C compiler for the PDP-
11/34 that led to a paper which I gave at the
1983 Winter UNICOM (Usenix) conference. Partic-
ular projects I have worked on include an effort
to produce a fault-tolerant version of the UNIX
tape archiver 'tar'; the 'grab' program which
interprets the disk formats of different UNIX
systems; an ICON-based accounting package which
manages to compile all the distinct accounting
programs for different items such as login time,
cpu time and printer use, into one piece; an
improved and debugged version of the 4.2 BSD
Unix f77 compiler produced in conjunction with
bringing up a very large application program;
and additions to the Multi-Device Queueing sys-
tem from the Ballistic Research Laboratory to
improve the functionality and user interface,
and to add accounting.