RV-Nomadic, somewhere in the Western Hemisphere
email - Lindy@arcanamavens.com
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. I am smiling in the picture below, because
when it was taken, Lisa and I had just hauled our bodies up to the Harding
icefield near
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EXPERIENCE:
1995-May 28, 1999:
Senior Network Specialist, Technical Support Group, Telecommunications, Global
Information Systems Department, Texaco Inc.
Note: I am now retired from Texaco Inc. I spend my time
playing. My motto is, "Capital should work. People should play."
Lead engineer in a group supporting a corporate Wide-Area
Network composed of 350+ routers connected by ATM switches, frame-relay
switches, and conventional digital circuits, as well as LANs based on both
shared and switched infrastructures. Extranet connections to 45+ other
companies. Configuration of firewall routers on inter-company networks as
well as the dual-homed company Internet connection.
Network-specific
training courses, all from American Research Group: Introduction to Cisco
Router Configuration, Advanced Cisco Router Configuration, Introduction to
SNMP, Internetwork Design, Cisco Router Security and Performance Tuning,
Advanced Border Gateway Protocol, LAN Switching (Cisco 5500, 5000), ATM.
Relevant
buzzwords: Cisco routers, ATM, frame-relay, Cisco LAN switches, Catalyst 5500,
VLANs, EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF, BGP, RIP, Novell IPX, TCP/IP.
1993 -
1995: Consulting Systems Engineer, Information Technology Department, Texaco
Inc.
Application of computer technology to real-time
instrumentation systems, including the following:
A
graphics display package for a custom NEC Class-I display terminal used on
Texaco production platforms, written in 80X86 assembler.
A
DDE-server to acquire data from Elliott Gas Flow Computers and make it
available to network clients, written in Microsoft Visual Basic.
1977 -
1993: Senior Research Electrical Engineer, Bellaire Research Laboratory, Texaco
Inc.
Development of microprocessor-based instrumentation and
control systems, including the design of interface hardware as well as software
development using structured analysis and design techniques and CASE
technology, including the following:
An
X.25 packet-radio-based data acquisition and control system for remote natural
gas pipeline compressor stations, including programming of an RTU-board to act
as a router/controller for the packet radios, and development of Modbus
protocol software for the RTU.
Real-time
process control and data acquisition systems utilizing PLCs interfaced to PCs
using Windows DDE drivers, with display and control applications written using
the Intouch Man-Machine Interface and Excel spreadsheets.
A
marine geophysical data acquisition system utilizing a multiport time-division
multiplexor and custom TTL-I/O to acquire, store, reformat, process, and output
data to other onboard computer systems. Software written in Pascal, with
interrupt and console drivers written in assembler.
A
laboratory data acquisition system to acquire analog and digital data from instruments,
perform calculations and store the results for in-system processing and remote
transmission.
A
HASP-synchronous/asynchronous protocol translator to allow a graphics terminal
to be connected to a CDC mainframe as a high-speed batch terminal device.
Hardware
Design Experience:
80X86, 6800, 8085, VAX, TTL, Multibus, PC-ISA, Intel &
Tektronix development systems with In-Circuit Emulators, modems, packet radio
data systems.
Software
Experience:
Most recently: HTML Web page construction, Visio, Microsoft
Project, Microsoft Office. Less recently: Pascal, C, C++, FORTH, PL/M, Fortran,
Assembler, Basic, Unix, MSDOS, Visual Basic, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, RBase 5000,
Focus, Oracle, Accelerator CASE, EasyCASE, synchronous and asynchronous
communication protocols (including asynchronous file-transfer protocols),
Pagemaker, AutoCAD, TurboCAD, Windows, Word-for-Windows, Lotus Notes,
Wonderware Intouch MMI. Unix, including not-recent experience as a Unix
sysadmin.
Education:
Professional
Associations:
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Member, International
Hoplology Society. Member, Space Access Society. Member, International
Defensive Pistol Association. Member,
Personal:
Radio Amateur, Extra Class Station License AK5N. Interests:
antenna design, packet radio. Sea-kayaking, backpacking, scuba diving, sailing.
Also iaido, aikido, long-distance rifle and pistol shooting. We live in an RV
parked somewhere in the western hemisphere.
Email
contact: lindy@arcanamavens.com