• Web-based order entry  and accounts receivable system using Webkit and Webware, python, php, mysql, apache, XML, XSL etc. for a local business (designer);
• Java/Tomcat/XStreamDB application builder (software designer);
• J2EE order entry application (designer);
• Xenix/c/pascal order entry and sales system (technical support, designer);
• Telecom carrier-class network simulation tool (architect, team lead, designer, web-master, integration tester);
• On call/emergency linux and mswindows system administration (troubleshooter).
  
• plankroad.ca web server and domain (in the role of a system administrator); This is my home/office network web server, now with an official Internet name. It is providing world wide web, email and domain name services to my local network and on the Internet. The server and gateway run Linux, on rather old (and as such, essentially free) hardware. Go here for more details;

• I trained engineers and system administratiors in Prism Systems and Nortel Networks telecom network management systems;
  
• I worked on a variety of SCADA, Switched telephony, and hybrid network management applications with Prism Systems Inc. and then Nortel Networks, through 2001;
• Wrote WAN network managment applications, perfomed network administrator, trouble-shooter and ISDN device driver debugging with Digital Courier, Inc.
  
• Desktop publishing introduction project with VAX, SunOS, Macintoshes, Quark Express, etc., Pacific Press (designer);
  
• Updated systems for y2k complience, GST tax tracking (designer).
  

• Performed gopher duties for a contractor who built the first LAN for students and staff at the (then) new Simon Fraser University Engineering science department. including the authoring of all types of system administration scripts and tools and troubleshooting new workstation installation, etc;
  
• Photo Typesetting data conversion application on VAX and even a part on a PDP/11, Pacific Press;
  
• Z-80 device driver and application software for AMX and CP/M microprocessor operating systems, various clients;
• Managed a conversion project, 2 other designers, an embedded telephone call costing system. ported from home-rolled RTOS, to AMX;
• Wrote floppy and hard disk drivers, memory back swaping drivers, disk caching routines, optimized many other drivers;
  
• Business applications, softwood forestry re-manufacturers, accountants, trade unions, distributors, etc.
  

• Based on the TI-97 programmable calculator, I designed a system to automate the calculation of product demand forecasts and reorder points for a food distribution company. These programs and forms were in daily production into the 90s;
• As a BCIT student, built my own equipment: first a display terminal (glass tty, dumb terminal, what-have-you), acoustic-coupler modem, and then the first of several 8 bit computers, including a "Big Board " and an S100 bus-based Cromemco.
  

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