First Electronic Calculator LICONIX(?) Silicon Valley 74
First Programming Experience BASIC- HP 3000 undergrad De Anza College 83
Variable / array assignments, if / then, for / next /while, coded procedures punch cards
Computerized Financial Progressions, Operations 160 workstation simulation, SJSU 84
First Scientific Calculator Texas Instruments 55II
SERIOUS USAGE First & Last Financial Calculator Hewlett Packard 12C , the calculator w/ no EQUAL!
Meet employees and had access to all HP and Apple products 78 on
First Progression to PC, HP 110 laptop, DOS 2.0, w/ memomaker & SERIOUS USAGE Lotus 123 1.1 needed to learn application (L123) as in array of financial relations across cell for real estate business
Apple trained in inhouse desktop suite and all drawing programs thru primary venders to company
Adobe / Aldus / MS thru 1988. Demo for in house only remitted to me.
Consulted w/ HP on turnkey support for outside vender products prior to “Adoption of All Inclusive HP Service” and replacement of One megabit proprietary network protocol.
MOVED TO LA CA 1986 managing information systems for real estate limited partnerships of large office complexes. Marketing and financial materials FIRST TIME COMPUTER GENERATED. Pagemaker , PostScript, SERIOUS USAGE MS Word & Excel, heavy budgets and templates, superpaint, freehand, illustrator. Two copy offset printing in house. Early Image scans 256 gray scale 150 dpi 8.5 X 11. Mechanical Blue Lines of tenant builds outs. Color rendering reproduced as 4 color process
Went freelance 1988 Efficient Business Solutions Inc. MDR CA , partner
Desktop integration for ad agencies, typesetting and layout plus stat camera mechanical half tones.
SERIOUS USAGE IBM PC / APPLE Macintosh AppleTalk (Sun T.O.P.S.) bridges of content / conversions. Novell server setups up to 3.11. Began database processes w/ dbase II when it came across from CPM to early DOS. Converted spreadsheet arrays (500 records) to database , then made processing change to SERIOUS USAGE - ANSA, -later Borland Paradox 2.0 (4.5 and regrettably Paradox Windows & Access) multiusers on novell w/ explicit record locking and multiply users updates. Began Aerospace and Airline -network and database work. Hughes Space * Com, Rockwell Recreation AID subdivision, SAS internal TA database (3650 agencies serviced by 14 in house and 8 outside, posting directly and remotely) / Australian / Thai / British Air / Catha Pacific / ANA Goldpass Frequent Flyer (45,000 trans pacific members, posted by 6 in house, hard wired) Financial recordkeeping w/ Quicken from spreadsheet and finally to module based chart of accounts processing
POST 90 full service continually w/ two ad agencies, two primary airlines, sports association w/ 22,000 member database “SCVA”
Turn key Project management thruout 90’s ,
interior design firm for Sultan Of Bunei & later Saudi Royal family,
Clothing Line for Bodybuilder Dorian Yates W. Champion 92-98(?)
Medical Marketing - Spinal /Orthopod, Chiropractor and Dental practices
VITAMIN & Food Supplements
Tea Business
Model Railroad E-Commerce
Post 96 , imaging and internet publishing plus extended digital proofing and 4 color process preparation.
Sound and video since 98, w/ limited sequencing and midi control.
Video streaming and sound compression and publishing since 99
SERIOUS USAGE -Cuteftp, Paint Shop Pro and Norton commander since 1.0 , previously Lotus Magellan, for file management and organization to/from WINTEL / MAC / UNIX
MAC Typestyler 2.0 to generate basic initial logos & buttons, Adobe Illustrator to generate postcript line art for high res elements.
Hard Code html w/ simple editor CuteHtml and Html Note. Cold Fusion 4.5 and Pagemaker 6.5 primarily to arrange tables and Image maps and Mouse hold overs
PhotoShop 4.0 for individual image enhancement, Paint Shop Pro for wholesale crops / sizing /renaming and final disk location.
I setup and maintain Macintosh from 6.07 on, Microsoft WWG, NT 3.51/4.0 WS & Server, Win 95/98, ATT UNIX SVR4 2.X w/ starlan then MS lan manager, BSDI 3.0/4.0/ Apache 1.3.9 /Sendmail, Linux Redhat Pro 6.1 w/ Apache 1.3.9 /Sendmail. SERIOUS USAGE Hardware technical AMD & Intel & Motorola. Colombia AppleTalk package on a SPARC 20. gnu package Compiler under UNIX. Permissions and security w/ firewalls and viral scans, secure shell/ SSL / SQL in process. CGI/perl shopping cart and sytem administration scripting.
Original Digital Video capture Sony Hi-8 and Digital 8 systems, MACINTOSH FEATURE DV editing- Radius System. Wet Process 35MM, Canon A-1 , Seconix metering. 110v AC remote slave triggering STUDIO lighting w/ incandesant high K fill plus natural diffused. Portrait and Hot Rod plus table top ad work. Nikon 35MM slide scanner, plus MicroTek then Agfa and assorted drum and flatbed scanners.
No / luck or experience scanning negatives OUTSOURCED. Limited BW darkroom developing prints only. Medium experience production offset and digital printing and boarding/lamination. Canon Fiery and RIP, HP pen and color plotters.
System analysis and configuartion recommendations plus training of relevant staff and /or principals Thruout entire run in LA as freelance