From: salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem)
Subject: Bruce B. Salem UNIX SysAdmin/Apps Progrmer.
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:28:04 GMT



                  B R U C E  B.  S A L E M
                      237 Willow Road,
                Menlo Park, California 94305
                  Telephone (415) 326-1442

   APPLICATIONS/SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

                Summary of Technical Skills

o C, C++, Csh, Awk, Sed   o Sun, Pyramid      o UNIX, DBMS: Informix, Ingres
o Fortran IV, Pascal      o DEC VAX, PDP-11   o VMS, RSX-11-M
o Fortran IV, Pascal      o DecSystem 20      o TOPS-20
o Fortran IV, PL/1        o IBM 3084          o VM, Wylbur, DBMS: Spires
o Basic, Fortran, C       o Macintosh         o  MacOS, Excel
o Basic, Pascal, C        o IBM-PC            o MS-DOS
o Basic, Pascal           o Apple II          o DOS 3.3, ProDos, CP/M

                  Professional Experience

Stanford University, Gyro Probe B Project.
UNIX System Administrator -- Jan. to Feb. 1992

System Administrator for a heterogeneous  network  of  SPARC
Stations,  IBM/PC  and  Machintoshes  on  the  Internet. Did
installs of software (Autocad, Mathematica, Matlab) and  day
to day maintenence and user assistance. Part-time, temporary
assignment.   Unemployed  Oct  1991-Jan  1992;  Mar  1992  -
present.

SPARC International, Menlo Park Ca.
UNIX System Administrator -- May to Sept. 1991

System Administrator for a network of about 40  SPARC  based
workstations.  Installed hardware, OS and applications. Per-
formed daily maintenence. Helped users  with  a  variety  of
backgrounds  and  needs  from  novice  to expert. Maintained
UUCP, Mail, News, Fax Modem and Internetwork where the  con-
figuration  underwent  rapid changes.  Full time, permanent.
Non-adverse termination due to fiancial problems in company.

SRI INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Park Ca.
Computer Applications Analyst -- Apr. 1987- May 1991

System Manager (1990-1) and assistant  Sys  Admin  (1989-90)
for  a  network  of  15  Sun  workstations, Installed OS and
applications (Gnuemacs,Tex,nn); performed daily  maintenance
tasks  (fixed  crashes, system problems, mail, and performed
backups).  Maintained Ingres  database  of  backup  records.
Non adverse layoff due to lack of work.

Worked for a year  (May  1989-  Apr.  1990)  as  part  of  a
development  team  on  a distributed database and monitoring
system based on remote procedure calls (RPC) for Sun and  HP
workstations  using TCP/IP. This included embedded SQL under
Informix.

For Engineering Division UNIX  applications  for  OTH  radar
analysis  in  C  (Oct 1987 to May 1989).  Wrote Fortarn code
for an engineering project  using  VAX/VMS  (Apr-Oct  1987).
Also  developed  applications code and installed third party
software on Macintosh and IBM-PC  at  various  times  during
this period.

Computer Applications Analyst -- Mar 1985- Apr 1987

Provided user assistance for VMS, TOPS-20, UNIX  mainframes,
and  IBM-PC  and  Macintosh  micros. This included manning a
hotline for user questions  from  a  diverse  technical  and
clerical  community.   Wrote  parts of a moderate sized UNIX
application in C, CSH, AWK, SED and TROFF to typeset the SRI
Telephone  Directory.  Assisted with the typesetting task in
1987-1991 editions of the phonebook.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford California
Administrative and Scientific  Applications  Programmer   --
1983-1985

Wrote a research application in FORTRAN for a  professor  in
Anthropology  Dept  (Oct 1984 - Feb 1985).  Worked in a team
developing a student records database in SPIRES, a DBMS,  in
Information  Technology  Services  for  Network  for Student
Information (Jan 1983- Oct 1984).  SPIRES  is  a  hierarchal
database  in  which the owner has a great deal of control of
the physical and logical design. I had experience  with  its
report  and  full  screen  programming in 1983-4, as well as
data definition and database administration for SPIRES data-
bases from 1974-82.


Scientific Programmer -- intermittently 1974-1984

For Applied Earth Science Department, reading  LANDSAT  data
tapes  and doing image processing. Later wrote an accounting
utility in FORTRAN on a PDP 11/34 This included a year (Sept
1973 to June 1974) of full time employment.  Unemployed (Jul
- Aug 1974)

MS Thesis 1970-73:

Worked on thesis project  in  Geology  Department,  involved
devlelopment  of  a  geophysical simulation in FORTRAN on an
IBM mainframe.

U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Menlo Park, California
Operational Geologist -- Aug 1974 - Dec 1982

Installed PDP 11/70 and 11/34  systems  running  RSX-11  and
UNIX  (1979).  Developed applications in FORTRAN, PL/1 and C
(1977-82), as well as projects running on MULTICS  and  DBMS
applications in SPIRES at Stanford University (1974-6).

                         Education
MS Degree - Geology Stanford University 1973
BS Degree - Earth Science California State University, Hayward 1969