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South Placer Municipal Utility District
Nationwide Posting and Publication, Inc.
Team Research Institute
QuikNet, Inc.
Oracle
The Fair Oaks Voice

Hicks Consulting Group
Intel
Electric Media Magazine
Intel
PASSAR
Pacific Bell
Sacramento Fire Department
T. H. Richards Processing Company
Sacramento Blood Bank
General Electric
 

 

Software

Delphi
Advantage Database
Clipper
Oracle
Cold Fusion
Microsoft Front Page
Microsoft Access
PowerBuilder 4 and Microsoft SQL Server
PowerBuilder 3 and Microsoft SQL Server
Clipper
Novell Netware
Turbodos
UNIX
 
Hardware

IBM compatible PCs
Televideo systems
HP 3000
IBM System 34
DEC PDP 11/34
Data General
IBM 370
Honeywell 6000
GE 600
 

 

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Education

Glendale College --- Engineering
U.C. Santa Barbara --- Electrical Engineering BS
U.C. Santa Barbara --- Electrical Engineering MS
 

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Work History

CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Continued support and upgrades to Waste Water Management System for South Placer M.U.D. Provided programming support for Nationwide Posting and Publication, Inc. for Clipper and Delphi programs. Converted system to use Advantage Database, a client server system for Novell Netware and Windows NT. Also supported Nationwide’s network consisting of multiple servers running Novell Netware and now including Windows 2000 servers.

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Team Research Institute
Partner in a business providing training to managers on how to form and manage software development teams. The training was designed to put individuals in touch with their information processing talents and the special contribution they can make to group performance. Also, training was designed for team leaders in how to identify each member's talents. We were developing training in four areas -- Individuals, Team Leaders, Teams and Organizations.

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QuikNet, Inc.
Developed marketing application for Internet Service Provider using Oracle's Internet server and Oracle database. Installed and maintained Windows NT, Oracle Database and Oracle Internet server. In this environment Web pages are written as stored procedures.

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The Fair Oaks Voice
Published a community newspaper for Fair Oaks California in print and on the Internet. Wrote HTML pages with a text editor and MS Front Page. Used Cold Fusion to develop data driven pages from a MS Access database. Community Calendar allowed subscribers to add and update calendar items.

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Hicks Consulting Group
Consulting and programming for Intel Corporation. Conversion of a work in progress system from PowerBuilder 3 to PowerBuilder 4. The system used Microsoft SQL Server on an NT server as the database and PowerTools core library was the foundation for the PowerBuilder user interface. Transact SQL was used to write stored procedures to reduce transaction times.

CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Consulting and programming for South Placer Utility District. Developed a Waste Water Management System to keep track of manholes, sewer and service lines. The system allows updates from both the field laptop and office terminals to be consolidated into the office database.

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CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Consulting and programming for Intel Corporation. Conversion of a system from Clipper on a Banyan Vines system to a SQL Server with a PowerBuilder user interface. Used Transact SQL to reduce transaction time from 10 seconds locally and 60 seconds remotely to 3 seconds both locally and remotely. Used PowerTools for table maintenance. Participated in PowerBuilder user group, SQL user group and Full Security Review Group. Attended PowerBuilder training at Orlando Conference in Spring of 1994.

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CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Programmer for Electric Media Magazine (a magazine on diskette). Developed the article reading program. This routine made it easy to put together an article with the appropriate animation, audio and pictures for the magazine. Developed the code that allowed the integration of sound into the cover animation.

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CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Consulting and programming for Intel Corporation. Conversion of a system from FoxPro on a Unix system to Clipper on a Banyan Vines system. Over 50 users now accessing system. System has a data logging capability on a backup server and the ability to update a backup of the databases from the log.

PASSAR SOFTWARE, INC.
President of software development company specializing in software for psychiatric assessment. Hardware: Acer and IBM compatible PCs using MS-DOS and Novell Netware.

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CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Consulting, training and programming to support custom software systems including a mental health reporting system for El Dorado County, a doctor office management system for Dr. Michael Adelberg, revenue reporting system for SAMISSA, a psychiatric hospital corporation, an inspection tracking system for South Placer M.U.D., and a scheduling, tracking and reporting system for PASARR evaluations for PASSAR Corporation.
System for PASSAR included software design of multi-user database system, hardware specification and procurement of 3 network servers and 15 terminals, software development and maintenance, hardware installation and system support. The system received evaluation requests and sent evaluation results to the State of California via modem twice a day. The evaluations were tracked through many stages from receipt to assignment to completed. The system had a real time display showing the status of all evaluation in the system and identified the overdue evaluations. Hardware: Acer and IBM compatible PCs using MS-DOS and Novell Netware; Altos and Tandy using Xenix.

GATEWAY COMPUTER INC.
Technical Support Consultant for a retail computer company specializing in large corporate accounts and high technology applications of microcomputers. Specialized in computer networks and Unix-based systems. Hardware: IBM PC, XT, AT and compatibles. AT&T minicomputers.

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CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Consulting and programming for Sacramento Fire Department, Lortnoc Inc., El Dorado County and Pacific Bell. Hardware: IBM PC, IBM XT, Eagle IIE4, Altos and Televideo 806

CLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Computer dealer selling Televideo systems. Sold, installed and trained customers in the use of single-user CPM systems and multi-user Turbodos systems.

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T. H. RICHARDS PROCESSING COMPANY
Data Processing manager for a company that doubled in size each of its first two years. The company's growth required an increase in DP staff from three to eight and the acquisition of a larger/faster computer system. Hardware: IBM System 34 and HP 3000

R.K.A.
My major role was as project manager for software development for a Health Maintenance Organization. This organization was formed by the former business director of the Sacramento Blood Bank to provide computer systems for blood banks and other related businesses. Hardware: DEC PDP 11/34 - UNIX operating system

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SACRAMENTO BLOOD BANK
Data Processing manager for a small organization where I performed many functions. My major projects were the improvement of hardware maintenance to reduce down time and systems analysis work to define future needs. Hardware: Data General Nova 800

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GENERAL ELECTRIC
Account representative in the Santa Barbara office responsible for assisting customers in the use of GE's timesharing service. In 1974 I was promoted to Technical Manager of the Los Angeles Branch. Hardware: GE 600, Honeywell 6000 and IBM 370/158
 

 

 

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