Revised September 2008

This leprechaun needs a job. I'm skilled, eager, smart, flexible, helpful, and old. Here's my current resume. Write when you find work for me, especially paid work. . . . |=|:-}=
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Richard Karpinski
USPS: 6521 Raymond St.,Oakland, CA 94609-1126
email: Dick@CFCL.com or DickKarpinski@gmail.com
phone: (510) 984-3472

EXPERIENCE
University of California San Francisco
Manager, Minicomputer Services - Unix, VMS, NeXT
. o Supported over 5,000 light-usage campus users on AIX (RISC/6000).
. o Doubled capacity of AIX system by synching password files.
. o Brought low cost interactive computing to UCSF with PWB Unix.
. o Installed the first campus Ethernet backbone.
. o Connected campus computers to BITNET and Internet.
Chief Systems Programmer - access to computing on campus
. o Supported campus programmers using FORTRAN and PL/I.
. o Built the first PILOT Computer Assisted Instruction system.
. o Supported timesharing on IBM 360 mainframe computers.

University of California, Berkeley
Programmer, Department of Physics - solar magnetohydrodynamics
. o Built data reduction tools for I.M.P. satelite research
Systems Programmer, Computer Center
. o Supported student and research programmers using IBM 7094 IBSYS.
. o Wrote the assembler of the "$TUDENT" quick FORTRAN compiler.
. o Enhanced FORTRAN's calling sequence to support traceback analysis
. o Designed the IBM 360 FORTRAN Extended Error Handling facility.

Apple Computer: Revised Inside Mac
Volition Systems: Built back end of a screen-oriented database system
Plessey Systems of Germany: Federal health insurance database system.
International Math. and Stat. Libraries: Reviewed code and standards.
Standard Oil of Calif.: General Ledger master-file update and report.
Burroughs Corporation: Consulted on design of their first PL/I compiler.
Syntex Corporation: Taught "Introduction to PL/I".
UC Extension: "Software Engineering", "Reducing Computer Costs".
IEEE Standards: 1154 PILOT Language, 754 Floating-Point Arithmetic.
ACM Nat. Lecturer: PL/I History, Language Design, Natural Lang. Pgming.
SHARE: PL/I Project, Database Project Mgr, Director of SHARE.

PUBLICATIONS
Modula-2 News (later MODUS Quarterly): Editor
Sorehand (RSI, CTS, ...) email mailing list: Creator, list owner
Byte Magazine: "Paranoia - A Floating-Point Benchmark"
Unix Review: "Interview with Bob Marsh", "Security Roundtable"
SIGPLAN Notices: "An Unstructured View of Structured Programming"
SHARE Program Library Agency: "Report Writer Facility for PL/I"