From: CCFR003@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: VM expert, Man User Serv, UNIX/PS2/PC/Mac, Any lead-edge
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:25:29 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin


                                    RESUME
                             ROBERT WAYNE JOHNSON
 
              1000 Country Place #246   (713) 589-6043 (home)
              Houston, Texas    77079
 
OBJECTIVE     Computer work on either a contract or permanent basis.
                   Offering.  Twelve years experience as computer professional
              executing the following functions:  System Administrator (IBM
              mainframe), Systems Programmer, Systems Analyst, Programmer
              Analyst, User Support Analyst, Software Development Specialist,
              Technical Writer, Computer Instructor, Text-processing
              Programmer, and Technical Specialist (IBM VM) on number of
              platforms.  Heavy experience, all aspects, on IBM mainframes.
              Willingness to branch out into AS/400.  Desire to make a
              networked Unix/AIX/PC/PS2/Macintosh/MVS/VM platform (or some
              combination) usable in a business, research, or educational
              environment.
                   Demonstrated specialties.  Making computers easy to use for
              people with non-computer personalities.  Taking brief proposals
              and producing what was wanted plus all the bells and whistles,
              quickly, usually with no errors, structured, and logically
              sound.  Software enhancement.  Able to design and develop very
              large software packages.  Recognizing and anticipating problems
              and needs.  Learn new concepts/software easily from
              manuals/examples/asking/doing.  Work well helping non-computer
              people trying to use computers.  Constantly far exceed industry
              standard for producing lines of verified code.  Able to reduce
              the complicated to basic underlying principals, and apply this
              to understanding.  Very associative and transferable skills and
              understanding.  Hard worker, sociable, congienial, well
              developed interpersonal skills, high personal values, know what
              it is to be under authority.
                   Personal requirements.  Healthy working atmosphere.  Work
              that will, or eventually, will lead to application of the
              following talents:  inspiration (ideas), cogitation, cognition,
              synthesis, intuition (experiential and spiritual), and vision.
              Like doing the tough things.
 
SUMMARY       SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST -- IBM 3033 (VM/SP 5.3), VAX 6340 (VMS
OF            5.3), AND SUN OS (BSD 4.1.1).  Computer Center, University of
EXPERIENCE    Turku, Turku, Finland.  (1989-91)
                   System administrator responsible for operating system,
              system software, and peripherals of VM system -- main computer
              used for research and administration on 11,500 student/faculty
              campus.  Helped with migration from IBM 3033 to VAX 6340.
              Modified Script/VS and GML to support Finnish language (required
              modifications to Script/VS Assembler code).
                   System software maintenance of networked VAX and SUN
              server/client configuration (NEWS, MAIL, printer on
              Internet/Ethernet).  A little C (to support system software).
 
              SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST -- IBM 3081-D (VM/SP 5.3).  Computation
              Center, The University of Texas at Austin.  (1982-89)
                   Consultant to user community of 5,000
              faculty/staff/graduate student accounts.  Computer instructor
              for Computation Center classes on basics and text-processing.
              Manned help desk:  consulting, debugging, troubleshooting.
              Promoted as VM technical support expert.
                   Software development specialist.  One project was a large
              virtual machine product (comparable to VMBACKUP, VMARCHIVE,
              etc.).
                   Text-processing specialist.  Created/developed/revised 460
              member GML macro library for producing dissertations, books, and
              other publications.  This supported a multiplicity of output
              devices.  Wrote seven extensive manuals supporting this
              software, Script/VS, and the Script Mathematical Formula
              Formatter (SMFF).  Taught classes, individual consulting,
              extensive documentation.  Personally helped many students and
              faculty produce their manuscripts, numbering somewhere in the
              low hundreds.  Developed set of math and science fonts for IBM
              3820/3812 using the FLSF.  Made IBM laser and typographical
              printers usable.  Installed TeX software.
              Evaluation/recommendation/bench-marking of text-processing
              packages.
                   Found interesting software packages at numerous networked
              locations around the globe:  ported, documented, and installed.
                   Some cross systems work (IBM/CDC CYBER/DEC).  One project
              was enhancement of distributed processing on this platform link
              connection (links were used before networks arrived).
 
              REXX, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, GDDM, PASCAL, APL, SNOBOL4, RPG
              I/II, EXEC2, XEDIT Macro, DMS panels, SAS, SAS/GRAPH, Script/VS
              (DCF), GML, BookMaster, TeX, LaTeX, FLSF, GDDM.
 
              PROGRAMMER -- AMDAHL V6II (MVS/TSO/COMPLETE).  Dean's Office,
              College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin.
              (1980-82)
                   Conception/analysis/design/development of application
              software, including some multi-program software systems, to
              support administration of Dean's Office.  Some were menu driven,
              supporting local/host printing, for use by office personnel
              unfamiliar with computers.  Developed databases using SDfiles as
              base (simple version of DB2 concept).  Converted former
              programmer's software from FORTRAN to COBOL.
 
              COBOL, FORTRAN, ADABASE, VSAM, JCL.
 
              PROGRAMMER -- CDC CYBER 170/750'S (UT-2D), DEC-10 (TOPS), IBM
              370 (VM/CMS).  Department of General Business (now MSIS), The
              University of Texas at Austin.  (1979-80)
                   Worked for Dr. Eleanor Jordan, MSIS/statistics expert.
              Data entry and cleaning.  Ran statistical programs.  Wrote
              computer programs for support of research, such as a three-key
              sort.  Graded/consulted COBOL class.  Worked with Dr. Jordan on
              non-academic related statistical consulting.
 
              COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC, SPSS.
 
              CONSULTANT/CONTRACTOR -- SEVERAL PLATFORMS.  (1979-89)
                   Many short-term projects on The University of Texas campus,
              such as:  text-processing of dissertations, software
              installation/testing/evaluation for faculty, software
              development and work with data for research projects.  Hired by
              law firm for converting of extensive amount of information on
              paper to database for computer analysis used in court cases.
 
              Script/VS, GML, FORTRAN, COBOL, EXEC2, SPSS.
 
PERSONAL      Birthplace:  Billings, Montana    Citizenship:  U.S.A.
              Marital Status:  Married          Health:  Excellent
              Foreign Language:  French         Christian
 
EDUCATION     The University of Texas at Austin.  B.A. (1984), major in
              Computer Science.  Many hours toward B.S.E.E (Computer Block) at
              UT Austin.
 
AVAILABILITY  Immediate availability.  Willing to relocate.  Prefer
AND           Boulder or Western Colorado, Eastern Washington, or
RELOCATION    Wyoming.
 
REFERENCES    Mr. Bill Hays (former supervisor)
              Director, Vanderbilt Computer Center
              P.O. Box 1577, Station B
              Nashville, TN  37235
              (615) 322-2951
 
              Ms. Roxanne Nematollahi (former supervisor)
              Senior Systems Analyst
              Computation Center
              COM 1
              The University of Texas at Austin
              Austin, TX  78712
              (512) 471-3241
 
              Mr. Gary Terrell (former associate)
              Associate Director / IBM Site Manager
              Computation Center
              COM 1
              The University of Texas at Austin
              Austin, Texas  78712
              (512) 471-3241
 
              For others, please ask.