JGO

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Macintosh / UNIX / Linux Software Product Developer
Objective	Target	Experience	Skills

OBJECTIVE

I am a software product developer seeking a long-term Mac OS X or iOS or UNIX software product/app development and maintenance position in less-over-crowded middle USA.   Experienced on the Macintosh and UNIX platforms and with the following technologies: Fortran, C / C++ / Objective-C, HTML, data-base analysis & design using Nijssen/NIAM/Halpin Object-Role Modeling, SIR analysis and tuning, SQL, PHP, Pascal, Perl, and Python.   Interested primarily in developing apps for science, engineering, CAD/CAM/CAE, electricity utilities, and economics. (Not custom software development, not gig/ temp/ contract/ consulting, not tech support, not SQA, not privacy violation schemes (CRM, EHR). Not coastal, not Chicago nor Cleveland.)

TARGET JOB	Target Job Titles:	Software Engineer, Analyst, Software Product Developer, Feature-Set Development Manager, Release Manager, Technical Writer
	Desired Job Type:	Employee (i.e. NOT contract, contingent, consulting, gig)
	Desired Status:	Full-Time, Long-Term
	Location:	Heartland USA (corn-belt, lake states, Eastern prairie, +KY +TN, roughly 35°N-44°N, 79.5°W-97°W; NOT DC (DelMarVa), NOT NYC, NOT Chicagoland, NOT California, NOT Portland, NOT Seattle).
	Willing to Be Relocated:	Yes
	Career Level	Mid Career (10+ years of experience)
	Date of Availability:	Immediately
	Description of my perfect job: I would like to develop cutting edge, ethical applications for scientific and engineering fields, working with other bright, talented individuals in a dynamic, collegial environment.

TARGET COMPANY TYPE	Company Size:	3-12 person teams, 64 employees to 100,000 employees
	Category:	Computers, Software Products, Software Publishers
	Description of my ideal company: An organization with highly motivated employees who are developing ethical, leading edge software products (COTS/click-wrap/shrink-wrap) that are used and enjoyed by many people to improve our lives.

USA Citizen

I am "authorized" to work in the USA with any employer, and eligible for security clearance (have held DoD Confidential & Secret, and DoE Q but they have expired).

 

EXPERIENCE			San Diego, CA
	Software Engineer
	Developed text editors and word processors for Mac OS 7, 8, 9 and OS X (C, C++, Objective-C, assembly language). Helped write and manage the distribution of the company e-newsletter. Miscellaneous system administration. Occasional tech support (back-up). Occasional mentoring of other software developers.   Added this: more document analysis statistics reporting   Improved that: HTML generation. Support for import of sounds, images, and multi-media into word processing documents. Search & Replace. Greatly expanded size limits on search specifications. Improved handling of general expressions (a la GREP) in search. Foot-notes. File catalog. Rich-Text import-export. File difference / comparison.   Best aspects of the work: good products constant learning bright co-workers flexible schedule multi-lingual customer-base and application support
			Tallahassee, FL
	Consultant
	Helped individuals and small businesses set up and configure their new micro-computers. Researched and advised on network access options. Anayzed and enhanced data-bases and added standard reports.   Best aspects of the work: flexible schedule interesting people
			Tallahassee, FL
	Lead Hot-Line Consultant
	Trained and mentored other consultants. Analyzed, located and solved problems using computers and networks. Wrote small programs for data analysis (Fortran, C). Helped professors & graduate students run statistical analyses (SPSS, SAS, Minitab). Miscellaneous minor system administration. Enhanced and maintained system for tracking hardware problems.   Best aspects of the work: mentoring others access to many different brands & kinds of systems
		Control Data	Kansas City, KS;
		Corporation	St. Louis, MO;
	Senior Analyst	⋐⋑	Arden Hills, MN
	System administration, functionality demonstration, performace testing, customer support, software quality assurance, software development (held Department of Energy Q security clearance).   Developed this: CAD/CAM design file translator product (Fortran, assembly language, French/English/German) system usage / accounting analysis and report generation (Fortran, shell script, system administration), cross-platform SQA test library & testing system (Fortran, C, assembly language, shell scripts, source code library), small programs and shell script equivalents to define relational data bases and load engineering data into them (Fortran, assembly language, shell script equivalent)   Improved that: Wrote functions to improve time-stamp handling in system accounting report generator and CAD/CAM/CAE software.   Activity Areas: helped engineering customers develop and maintain their shell scripts (and shell script equivalents) prepared & ran custom demonstrations and tests for major customers to provide proof of functionality & performance prepared multi-millon dollar system sales proposal bid packages helped engineering customers with their programming problems assisted mechanical engineers in use of our CAD/CAM/CAE systems improved communications between customers and developers through liaison activities taught mechanical & electronics engineers the use of relational data bases helped software developers and SQA testers in programming and use of shell scripts (and shell script equivalents)   Special Training: System Installation, Analysis & Administration (for super-computers; module 3 of 3-part sequence) Data-base Analysis & Design (NIAM/Halpin Object-Role Modeling, SIR analysis and tuning) Data-base Tuning Mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE - Advanced Design TQM   Best aspects of the work: team-work, collegiality (working with some top-12 people in the field) great products speeded development being a respected member of a great huge conglomerate
		NASA/Langley Research Center, Florida State Government	Virginia, Florida
	Programmer/Analyst (held DoD confidential and Secret clearances)
	Programmer and mentor to programmers & analysts at state Public Utility Commission. System Administrator and Programming Consultant at NASA Langley Research Center (Secret clearance, Fortran, assembly language, machine language on RISC systems). SQA (Fortran, assembly language, source code library management). Ported Minitab from IBM mainframe to Cyber super-computer (Fortran and assembly language). Assisted professors and students in use of statistical packages (SPSS, Minitab). Custom programming and consulting (Fortran, assembly language). Mentored university computer consultants (Fortran, Pascal, assembly language, APL, SNOBOL, BASIC, SPSS...). Econometric programming (Fortran, Pascal). Tutored Fortran & assembly language. Taught short seminars on using text editors, back-up utilities.   Best aspects of the work: team-work mentoring flexible schedule interesting, worthwhile projects research puzzle solving

studies & readings in computer science, software development, project management, etc.

studies & readings in sciences

studies & readings in economics
 

SKILLS
	Skill Name	Skill Level	Experience
	Macintosh	Advanced	10+ years
	Fortran	Advanced	10+ years
	Metrowerks CodeWarrior	Advanced	5+ years
	C	Advanced	10+ years
	Pascal	Advanced	5+ years
	COMPASS assembly language	Advanced	3+ years
	SQL	Advanced	10+ years
	HTML	Advanced	10+ years
	UNIX (AT&T, BSD, Irix, Solaris, AIX, Linux)	Advanced	10+ years
	Xcode	Intermediate	10+ years
	C++	Intermediate	4+ years
	Mac OS X	Intermediate	10+ years
	C++	Intermediate	5+ years
	Perl	Intermediate	2 years
	Apache	Intermediate	rusty
	SPSS & SAS & Minitab	Intermediate	10+ years
	User Interface Design	Intermediate	10+ years
	PHP	Intermediate	rusty
	Objective-C	Intermediate	10 years
	Cocoa	Intermediate	10 years
	iOS/Cocoa Touch	Novice	2 months
	Python	Beginner	months
	POWER assembly language	Beginner	rusty
	Java	Novice	Negligible
	PL/SQL	Novice	Negligible
	XML	Intermediate	Negligible
	Swift	Beginner	Negligible
	NIAM/ORML/ERWin	Intermediate	2+ years
	Update (source code library/configuration management/version control)	Advanced	3+ years
	Modify (SCL/CM/VC)	Expert	8+ years
	CIM/ICEM Development Environment (SCU/SCL/CM/VC)	Expert	2 years
	CIM/ICEM Software QA environment	Expert	invented & developed

"Plenty of profiles of individual businesses were written in support of congruence.   But in the first study that systematically examined a broad swath of organizations across an industry, researchers who studied cultural congruence at 334 institutions of higher education found that it had no influence on any measure of organizational success whatsoever.   Administrators, department heads, and trustees in strongly congruent institutions did have an easier time classifying the culture when asked, but there was no impact at all on performance, from the academic and career development of students to the satisfaction of faculty and the financial health of the college.   The researcher who led that work went on to study thousands of businesses.   She found that the most effective leaders and organizations had range; they were, in effect, paradoxical.   They could be demanding and nurturing, orderly and entrepreneurial, even hierarchical and individualistic all at once." --- David J. Epstein 2019 _Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World_ pg255   (citing K.S. Cameron & S.J. Freeman 1991 "Cultural Congruence, Strength, and Type: Relationships to Effectiveness" _Research in Organizational Change and Development_ vol5 pp23-58;   K.S. Cameron & R.E. Quinn 2011 _Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture_)

LINKS

Nisus Software ICEM/Dassault Systemes spin-offs of Control Data Corporation

Example job search specification in conjunctive normal form:

INDUSTRY: ("SIC 7372" OR "NAICS 511210" OR "NAICS 5132" OR "software publisher" OR "software publishing") AND JOB-TITLES: ("Software Developer" OR "Software Product Developer" OR "Software Engineer" OR "Computer Systems Analyst" OR "Computer Programmer" OR "Technical Writer" OR "Research Assistant") AND PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES: ("Fortran" OR "Objective-C" OR "C" OR "Python" OR "Perl" OR "Pascal" OR "PHP" OR "C++" OR "SQL" OR "Object-role modeling") AND TOOLS: ("Update" OR "Modify" OR "NOS/VE SCU" OR "NOS/VE Source Code Utility" OR "ICEM Development Environment" OR "CodeWarrior" OR "Xcode" OR "Cyber Debugger") AND APPLICATION-FIELDS: ("science" OR "scientific" OR "engineering" OR "CAD/CAM" OR "CAD/CAM/CAE" OR "economics" OR "economist" OR "economic analysis" OR "defense" OR "manufacturing" OR "mechanical design" OR "mechanical engineering" OR "additive manufacturing" OR "3D printing" OR "privacy" OR "algorithms" OR "network analysis" OR "GIS" OR "mapping" OR "machine learning" OR "artificial intelligence") AND PREFERRED-LOCATIONS: ("Ohio" OR "OH" OR "Kansas" OR "KS" OR "Kentucky" OR "KY" OR "Missouri" OR "MO" OR "Minneapolis" OR "St. Paul" OR "Bloomington" OR "Arden Hills" OR "Ham Lake" OR "White Bear Lake" OR "Pittsburgh" OR "Western Pennsylvania" OR "Arizona" OR "AZ" OR "Iowa" OR "IA" OR "Nebraska" OR "NB" OR "Indiana" OR "IN" OR "Montana" OR "MT" OR "New Mexico" OR "NM" OR "Tennessee" OR "TN" OR "West Virginia" OR "WV" OR "Michigan" OR "MI" OR "Wisconsin" OR "WI" OR "Missouri" OR "MO" OR "Dayton" OR "Cincinnati" OR "Circleville" OR "Chillicothe" OR "Hamilton" OR "Oxford" OR "MiamiTown" OR "Middletown" OR "Eaton" OR "Camden" OR "Springfield" OR "Shawnee" OR "Olathe" OR "Lexington" OR "Frankfort" OR "Florence" OR "Erlanger" OR "Harrodsburg") AND ("relocation assistance" OR "relo assist") AND NOT ("consultant" OR "consulting" OR "contract" OR "contractor" OR "contingent" OR "temporary" OR "services" OR "support" OR "bodyshop" OR "gig" OR "SAAS" OR "custom software" OR "New York" OR "NY" OR "New Jersey" OR "NJ" OR "Massachusetts" OR "MA" OR "Vermont" OR "VT" OR "Virginia" OR "VA" OR "Maryland" OR "MD" OR "Delaware" OR "California" OR "Carolina" OR "CA" OR "Oregon" OR "Washington" OR "WA")

Systems Analysis/ SysAdmin Cert.

NIAM/Nijssen/Halpin/ORM data-base analysis & design Cert.

Hobbies & Interests: reading, books, maps, wood-working, walking/hiking, studying ethics, the Enlightenment, law, economics, operating systems (particularly aspects at the edge of hardware & software), neuro-physiology, weight-lifting, gardening, biology, bio-chemistry, bio-chemical path-ways & regulation & mis-regulation, medicine, physiology, genetics, epigenetics, nutrition, physics, human languages, applied mathematics, history of mathematics, structural engineering/architecture, mechanical engineering, CAD/CAM/CAE, product design & re-design, printing, manufacturing, SF, music, history, criminology, movie-making, screen-writing, genealogy.

BSA Order of the Arrow	Eagle Scout	Past Master Councilor	Alpha Chi Sigma professional chemistry fratsority
BSA Order of the Arrow patches	BSA rank patches	DeMolay PMC, Representative pins & knighthood baldric	Alpha Chi Sigma pin
BSA Order of the Arrow neckerchief slide & Brotherhood baldric	BSA patrol & rank patches	BSA Philmont patches	BSA pins

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