From: mcw@cs.rice.edu (Michael Wirth)
Subject: PhD, VP of (Object-Oriented) Development seeks next OO Opportunity
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:34:02 GMT

                                             Contents:  Cover letter:  43 lines
                                                        Resume:       143 lines

Dear Reader:

Object technology is bringing about sweeping changes in the software industry.
Not only does it enhance programmer productivity, but, more importantly, its a
fundamental advance in our ability to deal with multiple levels of abstraction
in complex systems and to effectively model the real world.  As David Taylor
cogently notes in his new book ("ObjectOriented Information Systems: Planning
and Implementation", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1992), object technology
allows us to handle the relentless change not only in our raw information but
also in its structure and how we use it.

If youre still not convinced of the profound value of object technology, I
recommend you run, not walk, to your local bookstore and get a copy of Taylors
book.  Read it.  And when you do, note the case study on Petroleum Informations
Sorcerers Apprentice class library and application framework (pages 326 to
328), a fundamentally new approach to solving the data integration and access
problems of the petroleum industry.  I invented, championed and directed the
development of Sorcerers Apprentice.  My teams technical results were out-
standing.  By the end of the project, we were achieving over 90% code reuse, not
the earlier 80% that Taylor quotes.  And we were able to put together a substan-
tial data browsing application built on SA with one personweek of effort.  But,
alas, the recent rapid decline in the domestic oil business and PIs fortunes
made victims out of even such a promising effort.  Our team was disbanded and
further development of SA halted (even though one of the applications built with
SA is critical to PIs new business ventures).

But PIs loss may be your gain.  I would like to apply the same vision, initia-
tive, leadership, intelligence and hard work which I devoted to creating Sorcer-
ers Apprentice to solving your problems.  In examining my resume below, I think
you will find that my background is unique in its combination of breadth and
depth, with over two decades of demonstrated leadership in both developing and
applying information system technology.  Our intense effort of the last four
years has convinced me that we are entering a revolutionary period in informa-
tion systems.  Others may be recent converts to objects, but Ive already done
the work and demonstrated the results.  Please contact me if you share this
vision and zeal for creating a new world of objectbased computing.

Sincerely,

Michael C. Wirth

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                    JOB TITLES, DUTIES AND KEY TECHNOLOGIES
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Apr 92present:  Consultant/Software Developer, Houston, Texas.
  * Macintosh Common Lisp, Think C (C++ subset), objectoriented analysis and
    design.

Mar 88Apr 92:  Vice President, Technical Development, Petroleum Information
    Corp. (formerly GeoQuest International), Houston, Texas.
  * Visionary, champion, director and programmer in the development of the
    Sorcerer's Apprentice objectbased class library and application framework
    (written in CLOS and C) for Macintosh and Motif/XWindows/Unix platforms.
  * Directed and codeveloped several applications based on the SA framework,
    all of which used the Oracle RDBMS as a backing store for attribute data and
    provided mapbased pointandclick access to data.  Applications included:
    - GRID Connection:  Mapbased entry of natural gas pipeline nodes, pipes and
      facilities, with automatic update of an Oracle data base.
    - Executive Information System:  Multimedia display and editing of maps,
      seismic images, daily drilling reports, timedepth curves, etc., from an
      Oracle server.
    - Risk Analysis System:  Map and textbased browser selection of historical
      drilling data from approximately 700 basins and 17,000 fields worldwide,
      followed by the creation of over one dozen different statistical analysis
      charts.
    - Seismic and Well Information System:  Mapbased pointandclick access to
      seismic lines, wells, pipelines, geopolitical entities, etc.  Supported by
      an object mapping facility which allows easy adaptation to different
      relational data models.  Maps provide variable detail based on map scale
      and user preference.  Supplemented by a data dictionary browser for PI's
      Well History data.  Provides both generic and specialized object browsers.
      Capable of handling tens of thousands of objects on a Mac II.
  * Common Lisp, CLOS, Oracle client/server RDBMS, SQL, objectoriented analysis
    and design, data modeling, GIS, Macintosh and Sun workstations, Unix, TCP/IP
    networking, image processing, multimedia, Itasca object data base.

Oct 87Mar 88:  Consultant, Houston Texas and Livermore, California.
  * Scientific visualization, computer graphics, organization of research
    consortia.

Jan 87Oct 87:  Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Whitney/Demos
    Productions, Culver City, California.
  * Corporate leadership and management, business plan development, investor
    relations, joint ventures, scientific visualization, computer graphics,
    parallel computation (Connection Machine), Lisp and objectoriented
    programming (Symbolics workstations).

May 85Jan 87:  Director of Planning and Telecommunications (and other titles),
    Information Technology Dept., Sohio Petroleum Company (now British Petroleum
    Exploration), Houston, Texas.
  * Corporate information system planning, staff and computer facility
    restructuring, staff development, standards for PCs and Macs, desktop
    computing, wide area and local area networks, digital PBXs.

Aug 84May 85:  Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman, SPC, Houston, Texas.
  * Training assignment for executive development, international trade and
    economics, Apple Lisa, desktop publishing, executive presentations.

Aug 82Aug 84:  Manager of Scientific Systems Division, SPC, San Francisco,
    California.
  * Scientific computer center management (staff of 50, two CDC mainframes, $14
    million/yr. budget), engineering software development, high performance LANs
    (Hyperchannel).

Nov 81Aug 82:  Supervisor of Technical Support, Exploration Group, SPC, San
    Francisco.
  * VAX system engineering for 6 sites, system programming and operations
    management.

Jan 80Nov 81:  Asst. Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science,
    Dept. of Mathematics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson
    AFB, Ohio; Major, US Air Force.
  * Graduate level teaching and research, programming languages, graphics, Unix
    (installation and kernel mods), C, scientific visualization, algebraic
    manipulation (Lisp and MACSYMA).

Mar 78Jan 80:  Computational Physicist/Branch Chief, AF Flight Dynamics
    Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio; Major, USAF.
  * Computational fluid dynamics on Cray and CDC supercomputers, FORTRAN,
    information system planning, computer support team management, scientific
    visualization, algebraic manipulation (Lisp and MACSYMA).

Sep 75Mar 78:  Physicist, AF Logistics Command, WPAFB, Ohio; Captain, USAF.
  * Information system planning, microcode development for intelligent
    terminals, scientific visualization, algebraic manipulation (Lisp and
    MACSYMA).

Dec 70Aug 75:  Technical Staff Assistant, Vulnerability Task Force of the
    Defense Science Board, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore,
    California; Captain, USAF.
  * Strategic weapon system analyses, computational physics, pattern
    recognition, algorithm development.
  * Directed DARPA contract on digital image processing and system development,
    network interface hardware & software, embedded microprocessors, PDP11s,
    Intel 8008s, FORTRAN, BLISS11, assembly code.
  * Scientific visualization, graphics, Lisp system implementation.


                           PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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Association for Computing Machinery and SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGMOD, SIGPLAN and
    SIGSAM special interest groups.

IEEE Computer Society, affiliate membership.


                                   EDUCATION
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BS in Physics, 1967, USAF Academy, Colorado
  * Additional studies in mathematics, electrical engineering and computer
    science.

MS and PhD in Applied Science, 1968/1980, Dept. of Applied Science, University
    of CaliforniaDavis, Livermore, California.
  * Thesis: "On the Automation of Computational Physics," use of MACSYMA and
    Lisp to automate vector and dyadic calculus, finite difference method
    generation and analysis, and FORTRAN code generation for the solution of
    partial differential equations on computers such as the Cray-1.


                                    HONORS
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Distinguished Graduate, US Air Force Academy, 1967, Academic rank:  5th out of
    525, Outstanding Cadet in Physics.

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow, 1967-70.


                    FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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  * Extended resume.
  * List of publications.
  * Technical synopsis of the Sorcerers Apprentice class library and framework.
  * Two brochures (with screen images) on applications built with Sorcerers
    Apprentice.
  * References.
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