G. DONALD PURDY, JR. 136 Chestnut Street Post Office Box 190 Rutherford, New Jersey 07070-0190 201 438 2993 purdy@alumni.fdu.edu http://alpha.fdu.edu/~purdy SKILLS: Assemblers (VAX, PDP-8, PDP-11, Nova, 8086, IBM BAL), C, ForTran, FoCal (used by MUMPS), Pascal, PL/M (PL/1 for micros), BASIC, Autologic ICL, DCL, JCL, SQL, VB, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, .NET, UNIX, UNIX Shells, Windows, DOS SportsTicker Enterprises, Inc., Jersey City, NJ, Dec 1996 to June 2002 "THE INSTANT TOTAL SPORTS NEWS SERVICE FROM ESPN" Senior Programmer/Analyst - Applications on VAX Wrote and modified programs in VAX/VMS C and BASIC. Did all the applications coding for the VAX/VMS Y2K conversion; also did most of the analysis. Reengineered software to speed processing and to enhance performance, including major rework in the Major League Baseball Pitch-by-pitch Data-entry and Reporting System using an Oracle database. Took on a systems role for recovery when a VAX disc subsystem failed, later took the entire systems support function. Information Technology Partners, Inc., New York, NY, Sept 1995 to June 1996 a consulting and technical staffing company Consultant - Applications on VAX and Alpha. Created specification and program designs, and wrote VAX/VMS assembler, and VAX and Alpha VMS C, programs to process Kids "R" Us point-of- sale data for statistical loss-prevention evaluation. Wrote DCL to run same. Volt Information Sciences, Inc., New York, NY, Oct 1979 to Oct 1994 Volt Directory Services, Inc., Blue Bell, PA, a provider of publishing systems and services Programmer - Feb 1994 to Oct 1994 Wrote in IBM M/f assembler to output HIDL (an encapsulation of "almost- postscript") in place of ICL, and adapt same to a vendor's program. Volt Delta Resources, Inc., New York, NY, an "OEM/VAR" primarily involved in telephone-related computer applications Senior Member of Technical Staff - April 1993 to Feb 1994 Member of Technical Staff - Oct 1986 to April 1993 Senior Consultant - Oct 1983 to Oct 1986 Consultant - Sept 1982 to Oct 1983 Systems Analyst - Oct 1979 to Sept 1982 Shut-down of BELL GRAFX project in Dec 1993. Charge of BELL GRAFX project in project manager's absence, 9 people. Supervision of BELL GRAFX art sub-system software. Consultation services to, and interface with, NYNEX management. Designed, coded, and coordinated PDP-11/70-side conversion of BELL GRAFX yellow pages database to IBM mainframe-based system. Designed and coded BELL GRAFX PDP-11/70 programs for network to perform on-line ad transaction processing. Technical coordination of effort of 16 people, some from NYNEX, for all software aspects of the network ad transaction process. Derived specification designs and test plans. Created Rainbow typesetter to drive laser printer. Reengineered software to speed processing, occasionally by up to 96%, and to enhance performance. Invented the APS-22 graphics terminal screen/unscreen and outline/drop- shadow features in Autologic GM1 compaction code to replace the Bell Labs BELL GRAFX feature specifications, eliminating expensive data- format converters while reducing intolerable processing times by more than 50%, 98% for screen/unscreen. Concurrently devised the means to resize features and apply bendey, also in GM1. Wrote applications for the Photac II (PDP-11/70 based) white pages publishing systems, parts of conversion from Photac I (Spectra/70 based) to Photac II, and some reorganization of Photac II files. BELL GRAFX was used by Southwest Bell as "ADS GRAFX" and by NYNEX as "NYNEX GRAFX" to photo-typeset the yellow pages on Autologic APS-5s. Photac I and II were New York Telephone Company computer-based white pages systems that output to Autologic APS-5s. Chas. P. Young Co., Inc./ Redaction Systems, Inc., New York, NY, May 1977 to Oct 1979 a financial printer, Chas. P. Young's research and development department became Redaction Systems Systems Analyst - Systems and applications on PDP-11/70s. Systems generation, device-drivers, general system consultation, accounting consultation, and tele-communications programming. Developed program to receive, and markup for computerized composition, text-files from various computers and word-processors. Created stand-alone program to recover data from crashed discs. Trained printers union typesetters. Closed the NYC R&D operation when Redaction was moved to California. American Export Lines, New York, NY, June 1975 to May 1977 a steamship line now merged with Farrel Lines Programmer Analyst - Systems and applications on PDP-11s. System generation, general systems consultation, a special device- driver, and tele-communications programming. Developed dock-receipt entry, arrival-notice and manifest entry, and mass-change booking transaction processing functions. Trained arrival-notice clerks in system usage. Ultimacc Systems, Inc., Maywood, NJ, April 1973 to May 1975 a "DG OEM" providing bookkeeping systems Application Programmer - Applications development on Nova computers. Wrote programs for general ledger, customer files, inventory, order- entry, statements and invoicing, and purchasing for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of diverse products. Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, May 1969 to Dec 1972 Programmer - Program and run PDP-8s for the world's first computerized cardiac pacemaker clinic. Systems generation, tele-communications, and device-drivers. Extended the clinic computer service to seven other hospitals. Trained clinic personnel from the seven hospitals to use the service. Wrote a blood-gas analysis program for pulmonary functions. Hardware: DEC Alpha, VAX, PDP-11, PDP-8, Rainbow; DG Nova; IBM PC, M/F; Autologic APS-5&6 Typesetters, APS-22/Convergent Technologies Workstation/Intel 8086; HP LaserJet; Harris Graphics System; WE dataspeed-40 Affiliations: Association for Computer Machinery - Regular Member since Apr 1975 The New York Academy of Sciences - Inaugural Charles Darwin Associate, Sept 1992 Life Member since Jan 1988 Member since Jan 1983 Upsilon Pi Epsilon - At Fairleigh Dickinson University, April 2004 Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. Master of Science in Computer Science - Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ.