From: salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem)
Subject: UNIX appl. prog. Sys. Admin, Bruce Salem
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:12:11 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

Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Ca.
UNIX System Administrator -- May 1992 Sept. 1992

For Sun Microsystems. contract  support  for  per  building
System Administrators with SunOS,  Open  Windows,  Internet
Domain, hardware and applications  maintenence,  filesystem
backups.  User Assistance and corporate  tasks  related  to
system administration. Modem Server  administration:  Dial-
Back server with TermServ product of QualTark Inc.

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  -
May 1992.

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