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From: GIDEN@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Robert Giden N7KCG)
Subject: AI (PROLOG) <-> PC-DB Interfacing @ Telecommutin, WA, USA
Organization: SYSTEMS & COMPUTING
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:11:54 PST

Objective: To offer specialized computer programming services for accessing
PC DB data using PROLOG.  Data available on PC DB's that are not defined as
related, included in other DB's (not cross referenced) or not adaptable
to new ar existing data and/or definitions might be more easily defined and
used using a declarative programming language such as PROLOG.
 
With over 20 years computer experience, a degree in philosophy and
graduate work in linguistics, PROLOG, AI and computer techniques in
molecular biology (mainly as a study in an AI application subject) I'm
wondering how long it will take for commericial interests to benefit from
declarative programming.  I know some do, but the field should be wide open
to many businesses that can benefit from this technique.
 
Robert Giden, POB 53, Colton, WA 99113  Home: (509) 229-3472
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,misc.jobs.offered
From: tms@netcom.com (Taos Mountain Software)
Subject: Unix Networking Internals, San Fran Bay Area; TMS
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Port FDDI driver; MP; STREAMS; SVR4
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ca
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:23:24 GMT




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Taos Mountain Software,	a Mountain View, CA based Unix	Contract-
ing and	Training company, has several Unix contract openings.

Taos Mountain offers its W2 contractors	Health Insurance,  Educa-
tional	Reimbursement,	business  cards,  Internet access, and we
work hard to keep our  contractors  busy  from	one  contract  to
another.  Contact us for details.

When replying, please indicate	req  number  and  job  title.  If
emailing us a resume, please send only ascii resumes.

============================ REQ 260 ===========================


Job Title:		Network	Software Engineer



Geographic Location:	Santa Clara, Ca. Area



Likely Duration:	3+ Months

Job Description:	FDDI driver developer

	Port FDDI driver to Multi-Processor Intel based	platform.


Candidate Qualifications:

	- Solid	knowledge of TCP/IP internals
	- Solid	knowledge of porting to	MP environments
	- Solid	knowledge of STREAMS
	- FDDI experience a plus
	- Knowledge of SVR4, Device Drivers, etc.


USMail:	Technical Staffing		Voice:	(415) 961-2100
	Taos Mountain Software		Fax:	(415) 961-6668
	415 Clyde Ave.,	Suite 105	Email:	tms@netcom.com
	Mountain View, CA  94043


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From: seek@world.std.com
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:02:03 CDT
Subject: TANDEM C SQL CONTRACT IN BOSTON AREA refTANDEM+recruiter+

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From: cshaver@informix.com (Craig Shaver)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:19:54 CDT
Subject: Re: contract payment methods question

In article <bobert.724629938@godzilla> bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy)
writes:
................
.....
>
>Speaking of this kind of thing, my partner and I are having a problem which
>perhaps somebody here has an answer for.  We're working on a project
>which is basically to write an interface layer so that the client's
>proprietary library code can be called from an Windows Excel spreadsheet.
>These libraries had previously been ported to Lotus 123 for DOS and Unix,
>and Wingz for the Sun, and also sold as independent libraries, so we
>assumed they'd been thoroughly tested... heh heh...
>
>Well, over 80% of the bugs that have been reported against our project
>have turned out to be in the client's libraries.  Fixing these libraries
>is both outside the scope of the contract and far outside our expertise.
>I'd guess we've spent an aggregate of 2-3 man-weeks on these bugs, and
>the whole project was only supposed to take 2-3 man-weeks.  I can also
>honestly say that there was no way at the beginning of the project that
>we could have expected this kind of overrun.
>
>Right now, we're just eating the extra time.  In the future, though, what
>should we do?  Should we build an automatic price increase into our
>contracts for extra work caused by client screw-ups?  Are there other,
>better ways of dealing with this sort of thing?
>
>Bob Murphy
>

You should anticipate client related problems.  Break the job into parts
and be specific about what you are going to deliver.  You should be able
to just deliver a finished interface library with minimal testing.  The 
contract should be broken into building the library and then specific
amounts of testing.  You may have under bid at 2-3 weeks by the way.

I saw something similar recently involving a c++ class lib.  The testing
was to go so far as to point out bugs but not to fix them.

-- 
Craig Shaver  (cshaver@informix.com for now) (415)390-0654 (415)926-6407
Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA  94088


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From: cshaver@informix.com (Craig Shaver)
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Subject: Re: contract payment methods question
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:36:44 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:04:19 CDT
Subject: Contract opportunities outside the US

Hi all,

I recently received my BS in Computer Science and am interested in
six month to two year contracts outside the US.  I am especially
interested in using and enhancing my Unix/C skills.  English is my
only language. 

What does the market look like for this type of position, and where
might I look for such work?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

-- 
* James L. Henrickson  |  Looking for Unix/C work in upstate New
* BSCS, December 1992  |  York, southeastern Pennsylvania, or
* ujlh@sunyit.edu      |  outside the US.
*


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From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Contract opportunities outside the US
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:15:04 GMT


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From: shin@mitsar.voronezh.su (Shingarev Sergey Anatolievich)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,misc.jobs.misc,misc.jobs.offered,misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: Suggestion on cooperation (Russia)
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:41:52 GMT
Reply-To: shin@mitsar.voronezh.su
Organization: Joint Stock Common Carrier MITSAR


                         "InterMitsar" Company

                      Suggestion on cooperation.

    Our  company is engaged in collection and processing information
on the base of computer nets of PIE net and RELCOM types.
    Now we have begun solving a social problem of employment.
    Would you be so kind as to inform us about possible  cooperation
with  related  organizations  and  respond  those  who needs workers
including season workers.
    We shall greatly  appreciate  your  assistance  in  establishing
relations  with  those  who  needs  labour  power,  including season
workers. We would be  very  glad  to  develop  mutally  beneficially
cooperations.

    Sinclery yours
                   Y. Blednykh
                   Manager of InterMitsar Company.
-- 
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"InterMitsar" ,p/o box 7, zip code 394006, Voronezh, Russia
phone: (0732)64-79-16  
E-mail: shin@mitsar.voronezh.su  (InterNet)
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From: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:00:03 CDT
Subject: Novell CNA vs. CNE

Novell has long had a "Certified Netware Engineer" (CNE) program which
they seem to use as a cash cow -- it is very hard to find an inexpensive
way to learn the material needed to pass the exams -- it costs on the
order of $5000 for the couple/three weeks of training classes through a 
Novell authorized training center, plus another $500 or so for the exams. 

This cost and scarcity of alternative information sources seems to be a 
substantial barrier to entry into the world of Novell consulting [more so 
than the level of difficulty inherrent in the technical topics].

Novell has recently introduced a "Certified Netware Administrator" (CNA)
program which seems to distinguish itself from the CNE primarily as being
about one third the cost and material.

So the question arises -- is the CNA worth-while to obtain? Who would
utilize a CNA as opposed to a CNE, and what would the typical billing rates
be for each? If the CNA is viewed as an "entry-level" type skill expected
primarily of second-tier grunts working under the supervision of a CNE
in a employer-employee relationship for $15 to $20 hour, it would seem to
be pretty worthless for a consultant to waste time/money on.

Are these Novell-authorized training centers a rip-off? Maybe not for
a company that needs to bring their staff up to speed quickly in Novell.
But they are certainly NOT cost-effective for a consultant who has the
academic training to dig in and learn what they need to know and then just
do it. I.e., someone with a Masters or Ph.D. in a technical area may or
may not have a lot of "real-world" common-sense [I don't want to get into
a flame-war over that!], but they CERTAINLY have demonstrated that they can
dig out information and learn it on their own without much help from 
teachers. And consultants CERTAINLY have periods of "bench-time" to devote
to such studies.

So what does the net think?

[As a side-question, does anyone know of an inexpensive outline of topics
with a reading list of references that could be used to prepare for the
CNE or CNA exams without paying through the nose for training at a rate of
a couple/three hundred dollars per day? Does anyone have used training
materials for sale?]


orville

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Orville R. Weyrich, Jr., Ph.D.                     Weyrich Computer Consulting
Certified Data Processor                         POB 5782, Scottsdale, AZ 85261
Certified Systems Professional                        Voice: (602) 391-0821
Certified Computer Programmer
Internet: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net                Fax:   (602) 661-0660
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Subject: Novell CNA vs. CNE
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Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:45:13 GMT
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Distribution: world
From: jbocts@teal.csn.org (John Becker)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:17:44 CDT
Subject: SPICE simulation


SIMULATION, ASIC CMOS devices
SPICE, VERILOG, MENTOR or simlar platform.
Experience: 2 to 5 years, (industrial)
LOCATION: Fort Collins, Colorado  (50 miles north of Denver)
CONTRACT TYPE:  Temporary, 9 month assignment
PAY: DOE

CONTACT: Steve Luce, John Becker

ON CALL Technical Services
BOX 2125
Loveland, Co 80539
Tel: (303) 667-6222
Fax: (303) 667-8966

Fax, Telephone, or US Post contact only 


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Subject: SPICE simulation
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:45:44 GMT
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Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
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From: tms@netcom.com (Taos Mountain Software)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:39:33 CDT
Subject: S. SF Bay i486/SVR4 Network Sysadm Contract Oppty


                   === Taos Req Number 270 ===

Job Title:              UNIX Sysadmin

Geographic Location:    South San Francisco Bay Area

Likely Duration:        3-6 months

Job Description:        i486 SVR4 Network Setup

        Perform UNIX and network administration duties in a heterogeneous
        environment consisting of primarily i486 systems running SVR4.
        This client-site project involves getting a department running
        in a UNIX environment.  The successful candidate will have
        extensive UNIX sys admin experience, be able to do a lot of the
        initial set-up work --- partitions, backup schemes, etc. --- and
        should therefore, be a strong shell scripter.

Candidate Qualifications:
        - 5+ years relevant experience
        - SVR4 experience a big plus
        - Experience with network products (tcp, nfs, nis, etc.)
        - Strong communication skills


          == End of Taos Mountain Software Posting. ==
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Taos Mountain Software, a Mountain View, CA based Unix  Contract-
ing and Training company, has several Unix contract openings.

Taos Mountain offers its W2 contractors Health Insurance,  Educa-
tional  Reimbursement,  business  cards,  Internet access, and we
work hard to keep our  contractors  busy  from  one  contract  to
another.  Contact us for details.

   When replying, please indicate req number and job title.
    If emailing us a resume, please send only ascii resumes.

USMail: Dave Clark                      Voice:  (415) 961-2100
        Taos Mountain Software          Fax:    (415) 961-6668
        415 Clyde Ave., Suite 105       Email:  tms@netcom.com
        Mountain View, CA  94043

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From: tms@netcom.com (Taos Mountain Software)
Subject: S. SF Bay i486/SVR4 Network Sysadm Contract Oppty
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: SVR4 Unix Sysadm job jobs contract Taos
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:17:18 GMT
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From: btansill@netcom.com (Sequent Associates)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:09:39 CDT
Subject: Software Engineering - Contract (recruiter)



	Sequent Associates, a leader in the placement of engineering
	talent, has immediate openings for consulting and contracting 
	engineers with backgrounds in software development, software 
	quality assurance, hardware design/QA, and technical writing. 
	Our clients are the leaders in technology, and are located 
	throughout the bay area.

	If you have industry experience, will work as a W-2 employee
	and are looking for a career enhancing contract position, contact
	us today.

		WE CURRENTLY HAVE A NEED FOR THE FOLLOWING
		******************************************
	
	                Senior Software Engineer  
			      Job # E2LJ 


	PROJECT      - Design inverse multiplexor using M56K DSP chip 

	REQUIREMENTS - DSP expertise 
                       M56K DSP chip experiencee
                       Telecom experience

	LENGTH       - 6 months  

	RATE         - To $65/hr 	

	START DATE   - ASAPe

	LOCATION     - Palo Alto, CA 


	Sequent Associates              Phone (408) 436-0111 
	2107 N. First Street            Fax   (408) 436-1842 
	Suite 530                       email btansill@netcom.com 
	San Jose, CA  95131 


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From: btansill@netcom.com (Sequent Associates)
Subject: Software Engineering - Contract (recruiter)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:24:27 GMT


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From: Lance_Charles_Rowan@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Autocad Drafter needed in the San Diego area(employment agency)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:12:38 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

WPCD 




Mini Systems Associates is looking for a drafter who is
familiar with autocad release 11. This is an indefinite
contract position , available immediately , in the San
Diego area. We would like to select candidates from the
Southern California region only. If you feel you are
qualified for this position , please give Jodi a call
@ 619 675 7896 or fax @ 619 675 7899.
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From: bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:19:20 CDT
Subject: Re: Method of payment for contract jobs.

symfourn@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Sharon M. Fournier) writes:

>I have just started a computer consulting firm in the Toronto, Ontario area,
>and I have been wondering about a couple of things.

>The main question I have right now is this.  How should I arrange payment?
>Should I agree to receiving just one cheque for the entire amount of the 
>contract when the work is complete since this is just a three week contract? 

>Or should I ask for half of the payment at the beginning, and the balance 
>when the job is finished?  Otherwise, I could ask for weekly installments.
>I don't know which option is standard for contractors these days.

My partner and I always make sure to get some money up front, partly to
cover any up-front costs like special software tools we have to buy, but 
mostly to make sure the customer will take the contract seriously, which
they sometimes won't until they've put some money into it.  

The up-front payment doesn't have to be a *lot* - we ask for 1/4 the total
amount on short contracts, and as little as 1/10 on long ones.  On a three
week contract, I'd ask for perhaps 1/3 up front and the balance on completion.
(Generally, we do firm-fixed-price contracts with progress payments spaced
so that we get a check every month or so, and a big check at the end.)

>I know what the acceptable rate is (the $salary/1000 rule, and the double
your
>usual hourly rate rule).  But does this rate cover expenses such as long-   
>distance phone calls?  I assume the calls will cost a minimal amount, so I
>am not really too worried about it, but I was just wondering what is recom-
>mended.

It depends on what you're doing.  I figure that, say, support calls to
compiler vendors come out of my pocket, and also some reasonably small amount
of other long-distance calls.  However, we recently had a client ask us to
talk on a frequent basis to one of their customers in London (we're in
California), and so we're planning to say that's fine as long as we don't
pay the long distance bill.

Good luck,
Bob Murphy


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From: bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract
Subject: Re: Method of payment for contract jobs.
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:38:48 GMT
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Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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From: cisml@world.std.com (Marty Lebowitz)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:23:16 CDT
Subject: Sr. Software Consultants - UNIX/AIX OS (MA/TX/FL)  CIS (Recruiter)

#122302 - Sr. Software Consultants (3) - UNIX/AIX OS

Will be responsible for assisting in porting UNIX System 5.4 to 
RISC architecture. Requires 3+ years industry experience with 
specialties in UNIX internals, OS interfacing, performance tuning, 
kernal enhancements, software engineering, AIX and Micro-channel 
device drivers. Location: MA, TX, FL. Other intermediate and senior 
level openings exits (contract & direct) both locally and nationally. 
Referrals encouraged.

For immediate confidential consideration call or fax resume to:

Marty Lebowitz, President
CIS; Box 456
Brookline 02146 
Tel: 617- 232-8300
Fax: 617- 232-6240



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From: cisml@world.std.com (Marty Lebowitz)
Subject: Sr. Software Consultants - UNIX/AIX OS (MA/TX/FL)  CIS (Recruiter)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:45:19 GMT


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From: tms@netcom.com (Taos Mountain Software)
Subject: Unix SQE; X_windows; Motif
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Unix X_Windows; contract
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ca
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:12:19 GMT


* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* * * *	* *
Taos Mountain Software,	a Mountain View, CA based Unix	Contract-
ing and	Training company, has several Unix contract openings.

Taos Mountain offers its W2 contractors	Health Insurance,  Educa-
tional	Reimbursement,	business  cards,  Internet access, and we
work hard to keep our  contractors  busy  from	one  contract  to
another.  Contact us for details.

   When	replying, please indicate req number and job title.
    If emailing	us a resume, please send only ascii resumes.

USMail:	David Clark			Voice:	(415) 961-2100
	Taos Mountain Software		Fax:	(415) 961-6668
	415 Clyde Ave.,	Suite 105	Email:	tms@netcom.com
	Mountain View, CA  94043

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		     === Req Number 268	===

Job Title:		Senior SQA Engineer

Geographic Location:	San Francisco Bay Area

Likely Duration:	3-6+ months

Job Description:	SQA Group Lead

	Software Quality Engineer to test an X-windows based imaging
	software application.  Testing of complex X-windows based
	application using automated methods.  Ability to perform
	debugging of both UUT and automated testing application.

Candidate Qualifications:

	- BSCS/EE with 3-6 years Software Quality Engineering work
	  experience focusing on the automated testing of
	  Xwindows-based applications.
	- Proven ability to find bugs and to debug applications.
	- Strong C programming experience.

	  == End of Taos Mountain Software Posting. ==