BURTON G. SMITH

32 Chancery Lane
Waynesville, NC 28786
(828) 452-9609

Education:

High School: Woodbury High School, College Course, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1960-1964.
University: Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, January 1969, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

Professional Experience:

March 1993 to June 1996, Independent Professional Computer Consultant. Waynesville, NC.

Solicited and Maintained customer services in:

• Setup and training on IBM PC's (spec. Windows systems and associated software such as PageMaker, WordPerfect, Quicken, Lotus, CD packages, etc.)
  
  Macintosh systems (spec. Excel, QuickDraw, PageMaker, Quark, and many other software packages as requested.

• Business Desktop Publishing (Created and produced numerous brochures, magazines, newsletters, catalogs and other publications using a combination of PageMaker 5 & 6 plus Corel and Aldus [now Adobe] PhotoStyler.)

• Customer Software Programming using C, Basic, FoxPro or database programming languages (as requested.)

August 1973 to March 1993, Computer Systems Specialist, New Vrindaban Community, Moundsville, WV.

• Responsible for implementation and training on all computer systems for a large (1,000 people) community living organization from early CP/M systems up to IBM PC/AT's and networks of PC's, I guided, trained and installed systems used by hundreds in the organization. (Informal title: Computer Guru.) I used all forms of programming languages from lowest-level assembler to high-level Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, C, Basic, and then into the PC application packages, spreadsheets, database, word-processors. And of course, switching boards and boxes to keep thirty-five IBM PC and MAC systems fully operational.

April 1971 to August 1973, Computer Systems Programmer, National Computer Software Systems, Stanford, CT.

• BAL (Basic Assembler Language) Systems Programmer on an IBM 360/67 mainframe working with a group of 50 expert systems programmers offering a proprietary national time-sharing terminal for business offices (in the days before PC's.) My responsibility included designing, debugging and maintaining all aspects of debugging software for all languages and applications on the large mainframe. (A FORTRAN programmer, for example, would be told exactly which line of code his program crashed on, and the contents of all variables at the time. Quite sophisticated for that time period.)
  
• Training and oversight of new employees at the National Headquarters of NCSS in Stamford (since gone out of business.)

February 1969 to April 1971, Computer Systems Programmer, Norden Division of United Aircraft, Norwalk, CT.

• (Defense job.) Designed and maintained aircraft simulation studies using (newly developed) graphics display tubes (now commonplace, of course.) Wrote GPSS (General Purpose System Simulation) programs to study aircraft behavior. My specialty was writing BAL (Basic Assembler Language) subroutines to effect aircraft behavior in ways not available with the GPSS language itself. Norden is a huge civilian "defense plant" in southwestern CT.

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