Lecturer Resume: Technical Posts

• Allairion Information Counselors, (Est. 1971)

  Consulting to:

  • Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  • The Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, CT
  • The Equitable Life Assurance Society, NYC
  • The Prudential, (Reinsurance Division), Newark, NJ
  • Pr1me Computers, Framingham (home office), MS and elsewhere
  • Scientific Process & Research, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Chase-Manhattan Bank, NYC
  • Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
    • Total responsibility for design and implementation of SWOR project
  • NJ Court
    • Recognized as Database expert in credit bureau case
  • and others

• RCA, Cinnaminson, NJ (1966-1971)

  Positions

  • Systems Analyst
  • Technical Manager DBMS Development
  • Long-Range DBMS Planning Senior Task Force

  Projects

  • Macro searcher

    Total responsibility for software to analyze assembler code for repetitive sequences of any length, to be used to design a library of macros and also to design future machines. Co-designed with Marvin L. Graham.

    Result:

    Solutions posited by management were expected to run for 3 days on 40,000 instructions -- my version ran in 48 minutes.

  • DBMS

    Total responsibility for I/O (co-designed with Maxim Smith) and Criterion Interpreter.

    Result:

    I/O so efficient it was used by another group to implement an ultrafast sort

    Criterion Interpreter generalized to standardize interface for 6 different parts of the DBMS.

  • Long Range (Senior) DBMS Task Force

    Comprising only senior technical staff with substantial DBMS experience, team studied current systems and state-of-the-art, and theory.

    Result:

    Create long-range (5-year) documents for planning RCA's approach to DBMS on-going product implementation and support.

  • "Foreman" diagnostic OS

    Total responsibility for creating an Operating System to diagnose CPU failures.

    Result:

    Created system more efficient than standard OS, often replacing 3 pages of proposed code with 3 lines of code.

• Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ (1963-1966)
  • MTS, Automatic Maintenance

  Projects:

  • Shortest Path in Graph

    Use any algorithm to find shortest path in a graph. 

    Result:

    Using my own, I found all shortest paths simultaneously, after which any could be printed out in O(n) time, "n" being the length of the path.

  • Automatic Maintenance, PBX

    Total responsibility for software to diagnose/correct hardware failures in a series of PBX (private switchboard) electronic switches. 

    Result:

    My re-design (in a severely limited memory environment)

    • reduced space requirements by 1/3, allowing all other projects additional space so they could finish their code
    • provided a software alternative (at 1/1000 of the cost) to the only previously possible (hardware-based) proposal for a previously unimplemented test.