Summary
Twenty-five years' experience in all aspects of software development, including
internal and external functional specification, design, programming, testing,
configuration management, factory acceptance testing, troubleshooting,
installation, user support, system administration, technical writing,
training and presentations to customers.
Languages, H/W, S/W, OS
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Web publishing
(professional
and
avocational)
HTML, CSS, Java, .asp, .php
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MS Developer Studio
C++ programming (MSVC2.1,...,6.0)
Select OMT for OOA & OOD
C, FORTRAN, Pascal, PL/M
Assembly Language
Script: C & Bourne & bash shells, WRQ, MS92
Version Control: MSVC, PVCS, CVS
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MIIS API
Netscape Communications/Fasttrack servers & API
Client/server: Z39.50,.70, SQL
MS-DOS, Windows: 3x,WfW,W9x,NT,W2K, Cygwin,...
RMX, UNIX, XENIX, CP/M, MP/M, RSX-11M, VAX/VMS
Intel 80XX,..., Motorola 68XX, Zilog Z-80, RCA 1802
Sun (SunOS 5.7)
DEC PDP-11, VAX-11/785
HP-3000 (HP-UX)
IBM 360, MODELS 20 & 40
Univac 1108
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Education
University of California at Santa Cruz,
Bachelor's (w/honors): Math & Computer
Science, 1976
COMPAQ Computer Corporation: 80286/80386 Microprocessor Architecture
COMPAQ Computer Corporation: ISA/EISA Bus Architecture
INTEL: 8080/8085 Microprocessor Architecture
Interesting, Exciting & Always Challenging Professional Experiences
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2007 - present Webmaster, West Sacramento, CA
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2012 - present Haustyle Custom Motorcycles - Rancho Cordova, CA
A full on custom motorcycle builder, website residing at
www.haustyle.net implemented with HTML, php and some Java.
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2011 - present Sharon Holder - Lyon Real Estate - greater Sacramento area, CA
A local Realtor (real estate agent) since 2001, website residing at
sholder.golyon.com implemented with Agent Achieve and framed in pages
from Sharon's personal website residing at www.sharonholder.com;
personal website implemented with HTML with some Java.
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2011 - present Irongate Motorcycle Apparel, Woodland, CA
A motorcycle apparel and helmet retail business, website residing at
www.irongatemcapparel.com implemented with straight
HTML with some Java with the following pages: Home, About Us, Products (with sub-pages), Photos, Links, Location, Contact Us.
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2011 - present Slabsides Motorcycle Service, Campbell, CA
A (south) bay area motorcycle service shop, website residing at
www.slabsidesmc.com implemented with straight
HTML with some Java with the following pages: Home, About Us, Service, Parts, For Sale, Events, Photos, Links, Hours, Location, Contact Us.
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2011 - present Mid-Cal Cycle, West Sacramento, CA
A local motorcycle service shop, website residing at
www.mid-calcycle.com implemented with straight
HTML with some Java with the following pages: Home, About Us, Service, Parts, For Sale, Events, Photos, Links, Hours, Location, Contact Us.
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2010 - present Sunset Design Company Tattoo Parlor, Sacramento, CA
A local tattoo parlor, website residing at
www.sunsetdesigncompany.com implemented with straight
HTML with some Java with the following pages: Home, Menu, Events, Photos, Links, About Us, Contact Us.
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2010 - 2011 Motorcycle Consignments Plus Sacramento, CA
A local business (out of business April 2011), the website was straight HTML with some java; site provided a home page and pages for
consignments (motorcycle descriptions and pictures (thumbnails and large pictures), contact us, events (e.g., anniversary party flyer),
faq, location (including map), parts (manufacturers MCCP was a distributor for), pictures (e.g., Christmas party), service (description
of services for American and metric motorcycles), staff (photos, job descriptions, contact info), toa (terms of agreement (for a consignment sale)),
April 2010 through April 2011.
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2010 - present Hog Wild Bar-B-Que, Placeerville, CA
A local restaurant featuring Hot Rod Nights and Cool Bike Nights, website residing at
www.hogwildbbqca.com implemented with straight
HTML with some Java with the following pages: Home, Portfolios, Events & Specials, T-Shirts, Contact Us.
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2010 - 2011 Thunder Roads Magazine NorCal
Performed website maintenance and enhancement from September 2010 through June 2011.
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2009 - present John A. Sutter Outpost 1841 Sacramento, CA
John A. Sutter Outpost 1841, a local historical preservation organization,
is a local Non-Profit Organization residing at www.ecv1841.com, the web site is implemented with
.php and uses CSS, java, common include files, and a SQL database for member only areas
and for administrative forms created for board members; this sights also uses analytics.
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2007 - present River City Harley Riders Sacramento, CA
River City Harley Riders was formerly Sacramento Harley Owners Group www.sachog.com until 31DEC2008,
now, a local Non-Profit Organization residing at www.rivercityharleyriders.com, the web site is implemented with
.php and uses CSS, java, common include files, and a SQL database for member only areas
and for administrative forms created for board members; this sights also uses analytics.
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2010 - present
Thunder Roads Magazine NorCal
Sacramento, CA
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Advertising Sales Representative, article and story contributor,
photographer for the fastest growing "biker publication" in the nation; contacts
and distribution locations in all the northern California Harley dealerships,
many motorcycle shops, bars, restaurants, tattoo parlors, etc., and, attend events
on the weekends to provide magazines directly to to riders; area of travel covers
Monterey through Fresno to Nevada north to the Oregon Border with contacts in western
Nevada and Southern Oregon.
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2004 - 2009
ADT Security Services
Sacramento, CA
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ADT Security Services provides residential and commercial security services from installation to
monitoring and maintenance. Responsibilities included ordering, receiving, distributing, returning,
costing product that came into and went out of the Sacramento branch warehouse which contained approximately
one million dollars worth of standard and custom ordered product for installation and maintenance technicians.
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2000 - 2003
Foresight Systems, Inc.
Austin, TX
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Foresight Systems, Inc. is a manufacturer of the SavanSys and Foresight tool
suites. Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of SavanSys, a
software application providing our consultants and
customers the ability to build and analyze virtual prototypes of today's leading edge
electronic products. In 1992, initial development began for Multi-Chip-Module
(MCM) and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) virtual prototyping in a UNIX environment;
the tool has since been ported to Windows NT and expanded to model all aspects
of substrate fabrication, module assembly, and chip preparation. The SavanSys
tool produces a multitude of analysis Size, Routability, Placement, Partitioning,
Critical Net, Electrical, Thermal, Cost, Yield and Reliability. Information can
be imported and exported in a variety of formats appropriate for other software
applications, e.g., Mentor Graphics' Board Station and Microsoft's Excel. Use
of this tool, depending on unit cost, unit life, and per-unit savings, literally
saves customers
millions of dollars!
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1999 - 2000
Polycom, Inc.
Austin, TX
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Polycom, Inc. is a manufacturer of audio and televideo conferencing
equipment. Polycom recently began developing a PC based product that
operates via the USB on a Windows 98 or a Windows 2000 operating system.
A few of my contributions follow. Produced the first draft InstallShield
for Windows Installer for the application. Coded a Filter Graph Manager,
including a parser which accepts a file that defines how the filters will
be connected. Produced the Ring-3 code that retrieves data from the USB
driver and concatenates it into data packets which can be sent to an audio
or a video decoder. Interfaced Apple's Quicktime libraries to the
application. Have also produced a variety of methods which interrogate
the system and/or registry to determine the suitability for the application
such as display, driver and USB chip set capabilities, and, which process
device state change messages.
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1994 - 1999
Data Research Associates
Monterey, CA
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The Monterey office is a branch of DRA
a St. Louis based Corporation, is a leading provider of client/server library
automation systems, networking services and other related services. Libraries
have been an information source for a long time, and, (in my opinion) DRA is
contributing greatly to making said wealth of information available not only within
libraries
for
libraries and their patrons, but, for other networked libraries via
DRANET
and including other libraries on the world wide web via
DRAWEB,
and, DRA's newest product,
Taos,
is a three-tiered, object-oriented (C++ and Java), standards-based system,
WISRD. multi-component package, combining
DRA Web2,
Circulation, and Cataloging.
DRA Web2
is a web-based client/server application enabling patrons to obtain information
and status via the World Wide Web. My task is customizing the standard
DRA Web2
product to interface with a non-standard system letting
users access any Z39.50-compatible database from any World Wide Web browser
such as Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx or Internet Explorer, for example, the
Tempe Public Library
uses Web2 as released for web based online catalog access
(guest login),
and, the
Millburn Free Public Library
customized the released Web2
guest login).
DRA Web2
functionality includes: portability to multiple server platforms (including Open VMS,
UNIX and Windows NT), simultaneous searching of multiple resources, merging of such
search results into a single display, saving of search results, and, ability
to provide patron self-service functions via PIN access -- such as placing
requests, reviewing checked-out materials and changing personal address
information. This requires customized HTML supported by CGI programs which
communicate with a Z39.50 compliant server. Internet development work also
includes Application Programming Interface (API) for Netscape's Communications
and Fasttrack servers, and, the Microsoft Internet Information Server.
Other responsibilities include enhancing and maintaining PC based products (the MARC Editor,
DRAFind
- a Z39.50-compliant and Microsoft Windows-based reference workstation,
DRAKids
- a Z39.50-compliant interface designed specially to alleviate
problems children might have with other, more complicated, user interfaces.
and, a
CGI/API/HTML client/server application for patrons to obtain information and status via the world
wide web.
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1991 - 1993
AQUASTRADA INTERNATIONAL CORP
Monterey, CA
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One of the four co-patent holders for an amphibious vehicle:
P/N5,590,617
[ full text ]
- land motive device and a marine motive device.
P/N5,570,653
[ full text ]
- wheels are retracted and secured during marine operation.
P/N5,562,066
[ full text ]
- detection of sufficient thrust to . . .
Project Engineer responsible for
an onboard computer system for an amphibious craft
, viz., an
amphibious special operations craft (ASOC) (17Kb
sketch). This includes craft and
system diagnostics, and, interfaces with various OEM components, for example, GPS, fluxgate
compass, radar, touch screen video monitor.
There was much hands on work in the ground up construction of the prototype from
conceptualization and modeling through shake down cruises,
sea trials and
sales presentations
to the military and interested manufacturers and investors during which time it became
obvious that there were, in addition to the obvious military applications, many other uses
ranging from civil to recreational.
This exciting craft has been featured in the Monterey Herald,
Popular Mechanics
(corrected local copy),
CNN
(corrected local copy)
and numerous TV and boat shows.
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1989 - 1991
COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION
Houston, Texas
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Senior Software Engineer - Advanced Architecture Department,
tested current and future products to verify the integrity and systems level compatibility
of integrated circuits (IC), and, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). Worked closely
with hardware engineers to design and implement software and hardware to test ICs and
ASICs. Some ICs, for example, a real time clock or an interrupt controller, were testable
with a self driven test run on the system. Some ASICs, for example, a disk array controller,
required the development of device specific emulators including onboard firmware and host
resident user interface software. All software was written in C and maintained under
version control.
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1987 - 1989
FERRANTI INTERNATIONAL
CONTROLS (Formerly TRW Controls)
Sugarland, Texas
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Lead Software Engineer, designed, documented, coded and integrated tasks for
electrical utility Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
PL/M code for the Intel executive was developed on an Intel based XENIX system via an
IBM-PC/AT and targeted for an Intel 80386 multi-processor environment.
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1985 - 1987
HHH Company
Houston, Texas
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Consulting company (owner):
- Most of this time was spent with NL Industries
in the explorational drilling R&D department as follows:
- Worked on a VAX-11/785 enhancing and resolving problems in existing Fortran software
targeted for a PDP-11, and in existing RCA1802 assembly language software.
- Developed custom data acquisition systems also targeted for a PDP-11.
- Performed PDP-11 system generations.
- Developed a data acquisition system to run on an 8086 in assembly language and 'C'.
- Other short term work includes
Micro Link,
Reliability Incorporated.,
and
Daniels Incorporated, respectively:
- Developed an operating system to run on an 8096 SBC.
- Developed a system monitor to run on an 8085 single board computer (SBC).
- Customized natural gas SCADA systems on an 8086 SBC and performed in house factory
acceptance testing (and code fixes as needed) for Pacific Gas
& Electric, Moss Landing Facility.
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1983 - 1985
Exploration Logging (EXLOG)
Sacramento, CA
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| October 1986: Baker merged Exploration Logging (a division of "Baker"
a.k.a. "Baker Hughes" as in Hughes Tools)
with Technical Oil Tool Corporation (TOTCO) producing EXLOG/TOTCO.
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Senior Software Engineer
Resolved existing problems and incorporated enhancements to both of Exlog's
RCA 1802 microprocessor down hole tools used to sample, average, store and transmit
sensor data in real time, viz., the "downhole logging while drilling" (DLWD)
and the "downhole measurement while drilling" (DMWD)
tools. Work was in close association with hardware and mechanical engineers.
Other responsibilities included preliminary design and specification of the
next generation 16-bit DLWD tool as well as selection of its development system.
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1984
Advanced Wilderness First Aid
Sacramento, CA
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Completed a course in Advanced Wilderness First Aid offered by an in house
EMT. Each class consisted of lecture time, hands on training and a practical
(complete with moulage kit). The mid-term included working with the local fire
department in extrication and rappelling exercises. The final was in two parts,
written (with brief practicals), and, an all-day practical in the field consisting
of many scenarios (complete with an army medevac helicopter).
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1982 - 1983
Unique Motorcars, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
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Partner in this company building 427 reporduction Cobras.
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email me: russellholder@earthlink.net
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1979 - 1983
GOULD/MILLENNIUM
Santa Clara, CA
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| update: eventually, the combination of Gould/Millennium
and Gould/Biomation to form Gould Test Instruments was completed; and "Gould" has,
apparently, continued to acquire smaller companies, e.g., Nicolet Instrument
Technologies and Bakker Electronics; and, Gould Test Instruments has since become
Gould Instrument Systems.
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Millennium Systems, Inc. was purchased by
Gould and combined with Biomation (which Gould also purchased) and the
transition from Millennium (in Cupertino) to Gould Test Instruments (in Santa Clara) began. Functioned as lead engineer responsible for incorporating a logic analyzer option, including wave form graphics, into a microprocessor development system. Created and integrated loadable modules written in C to interface the user to a CP/M based Human Interface Processor (HIP) to support various displays and to communicate with an Emulator Subsystem (ESS). Additionally created and integrated a module written in Z80 assembly language to interface the logic analyzer hardware with the existing ESS software (HIP and ESS ran on separate CPUs and communicated via a high speed bus). Also modified a Televideo 950 PROM set to support the defined waveform graphics.
Senior Software Engineer; Responsible for maintenance and production release
the extended I/O system for Digital Research's multitasking operating system,
MP/M. Developed the basic I/O system for Digital Research's single-user,
single-tasking operating system, CP/M. Developed a customized version of
Word Star, a screen editor (on a Z80) for use on Millennium's Microprocessor Development System Model 9520. Developed a basic I/O system for Digital Research's singly-user, single-tasking operating system, CP/M. Also programmed in 8085 assembly language.
Software Engineer; Responsible for the maintenance and production release of
the software for a MicroSystem Analyzer (µSA) with signature analysis and
for a MicroSystem Emulator (µSE) with real-time trace, both coded in 6800 assembly language. Both the µSA and the µSE emulation capabilities include support for a variety of microprocessors, for example, Intel (8048 family, 8080, 8085), Motorola (6800), Zilog (Z80), etc. Also, for both units, implemented a COMM/RAM option which supports full duplex communications and has 8K-bytes of mappable RAM. Also designed, implemented and released the following:
- A host resident, on-line, file driven software acceptance test driver for the µSA and both µSE's.
- A communications link for the OEM version of the µSE (6800 assembly language).
- A universal disassembler and keyboard command line processor.
- A remote terminal and 8K RAM expansion board.
- A line printer interface.
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1976 - 1978
MOORE SYSTEMS
San Jose, CA
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Programmer Analyst. Later Moore Systems was bought by
Landis & Gyr.
Designed, programmed, debugged and documented
Moore's first micro-processor- based product, a data logger, a highly
sequential, duplex system which monitored a master/remote communication
line and logged indication changes, abnormal and telemetry data.
Implemented this product on an Intel SBC 80/10 with a GE Terminet using 80/80 assembly language. Additionally designed, programmed, debugged and documented a second microprocessor based product, a "Smart Remote" for use
with a Standard Energy Management SCADA System using 8085 assembly
language. Wrote Fortran diagnostics for these remotes which ran on the front end processors for the system, multiply DEC PDP 11/34s.
Prepared and presented oral/written lectures to clients. Wrote functional
specifications of various client specific software modules, and, if
appropriate, their associated data base structures to be incorporated
into the Standard Energy Management System. Worked closely with hardware
R&D engineers to guarantee the successful outcome of joint hardware/software projects. Prepared functional specifications for small microprocessor projects to be coded by junior programmers.
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1971 - 1973
MOORE SYSTEMS
Sunnyvale, CA
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Electrical Technician. In these days, Moore Systems was owned by Rucker.
The company was a SCADA house with a complete manufacturing department including
everything from component stuffing in PCB's to RTU assembly. My responsibilities
primarily included installing rack mounted assemblies and following schematics to
wire them. Customers primarily included electric utilities companies, e.g., Florida
Lighting & Power.
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