Brent D. Chivers
Princeton, N.J.

• Educational Background:
  • Graduate of Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Employment Experience:
  • Sep. 1986 – June 1989 — Senior Programmer at Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc. in Princeton, N.J.
    • Designed and implemented flexible, color raster-printing support for PGT's IMIX (Integrated Microanalyzer for Imaging and X-Ray) system.
    • Designed, wrote, tested, debugged, and/or documented software for other PGT analysis systems including the System 900 (real-time monitoring and analysis of gold-plating baths) and the interim ColorLogic (image analysis) system.
    • Evaluated new hardware and perpherals including printers, Ethernet port servers, and SCSI disk and tape subsystems.
    • Provided tools for enhancing product documentation, including image-processing tools for manual illustrations.
    • Responsible for system administration of several small Unix systems.
    • Maintained uucp and mail, and installed News.
    • Supported PC-NFS installations.
    • Provided UNIX training and assistance to other programmers.
  • Oct. 1982 – Aug. 1986 — Software Engineer at ORS Automation, Inc. in Princeton, N.J.
    • M.I.S. Administrator responsible for two DEC Vax 11-750 computers and a third VAX at ORS's Troy, Mich. branch.
    • Designed, wrote, tested, debugged, and/or documented software for various ORS inspection systems including the ScanSystem 100 (simple presence-absence detector), i-tect (CRT faceplate defect detection, measurement, and classification), i-lign (screen-print alignment), and i-bot (robot guidance). Code was mostly in "C", with some Pascal and 8086 Assembly Language.
    • Provided UNIX training and assistance to technical and administrative users of the VAX computers.
  • June 1981 – Oct. 1982 — Independent Consultant specializing in IBM's MAPICS applications software on the IBM System/34.
    • Produced custom programming and modifications to the MAPICS package as requested by clients.
  • Sep. 1978 – Jan. 1981 — Programmer and System Operator at Sonic Instruments, Inc. in Ewing, N.J.
    • Served as sole operator and programmer on IBM System/32 (9/78-12/78) and System/34 (12/78-1/81).
    • Instructed users on the operation of IBM's MMAS and MAPICS applications packages (general-purpose manufacturing, production-control, and accounting packages).
    • Wrote many reports and data entry/update procedures (in RPG II) to enhance and supplement the MAPICS package.
• Programming Experience:
  • Languages:
    • C
    • Pascal
    • RPG II
    • BASIC
    • various Assemblers (8086, 6800, Z-80, 6502);
    • FORTRAN
    • APL
    • PL/I
    • ALGOL
    • SNOBOL
  • Operating Systems:
    • UNIX (BSD and System V)
    • AmigaDOS
    • IBM – S/32 and S/34 System Control Product and OCL; CMS
  • Hardware:
    • Sun 3/60
    • Commodore Amiga
    • DEC VAX 11/750
    • IBM System/34 and System/32
  • Leisure Pursuits:
    • Renaissance and Baroque music
    • Choral singing
    • bicycling
    • photography
    • Recreational computing (Commodore Amiga)
  
  

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