Joined WordRight when it was a two-person company providing technical publishing systems for UNIX users.

Directly involved in bringing the company to a dozen strong who provided sales and support for the UNIX community in W.A.

Maintained direct contact with the management and sales forces of Mitsui, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Directly involved in WordRight achieving the Best Sun Microsystems VAR in WA for two years running.

Involved in the pre-sale, sale, installation and support of UNIX intra and internets.

Directly installed two ISP systems including sale, configuration and postsale support. This involved DNS, Firewalling, Email, Anonymous FTP as well as web serving.

Directly involved in the creation and maintenance of http://www.resnet.com.au which is a web server (25,000 pages) dedicated to providing quality and timely information to the resource industry. This involved Oracle, Ingres, SQL, C, C++, Perl, Java, Javascript issues as well as direct connection to such wire services such as AAP/Reuters.

Directly involved in the sale, support and installation of 50 Ascend P50s, 2 Ascend 1800s and 2 Ascend Max 4000s for a government department. This involved such things as creating automated scripts to create and download configuration profiles for these devices.

Solved a statewide communications issue for a government department which involved performing hand decoding of protocol traces. The network has several mainframes, high end Sun servers, dozens of routers and some 2,000 PCs.

Directly involved in the sale of a large amount of Sun Microsystems machines to a large construction company and created the first version of a complete virtual network spanning Australia and S.E. Asia. Also created the first version of a full extranet to allow remote users to tunnel to the main server and create quotes, modify accounting information and handle email, news, spreadsheets and word processing within Microsoft Internet Explorer browser window. This involved handling remote PC and server connections and the creation of an extensive Oracle based Web service to provide all this functionality. (The email and news services were not the IE extensions)

Created a 600 page book detailing all aspects of SunOS systems administration covering such issues as Hardware, File Systems, System Directories, System Files, Kernel Configuration, Startup and Shutdown, NFS, NIS, Network Commands, Backups, Printing, Email, PC-NFS, Users, Crontabs, Automounting, System Modules, Modems, Ongoing Maintenance, Tuning, Security, AWK, Perl and others in such detail that it was purchased by several large organisations and used as the primary reference for SunOS administration for two years. Tim O'Reilly requested that when the manuscript was finished to send it to him for publication. Unfortunately the pressure of work and the gradual acceptance of Solaris stopped this.

Provided expertise to MIS and remote sites in the development of their network in the UNIX area.

Had extensive user contact to resolve problems and advise on requirements both via telephone and on-site mine visits at the technical level.

Provided networking needs at the managerial level to establish standards for machine and network configurations. This created the first Standard Operating Environment (SOE) for all Sun Microsystems workstations across the corporation.

Designed and implemented security solutions at the site and machine level.

Established and trained users in the use of Internet email and news systems.

Maintained contact with other professionals on the Internet to advise managers on products and developments in the system and mining/resources areas.

One of the major tasks performed was to produce documentation and guidelines such as the following:

• Security on UNIX workstainstallation procedures
• Client/Server Installations. A guideline to a standard operating environment
• WMC Network Redesign A personal perspective
• Users and Accounts "Herding Cats". A workable system for managing users and their accounts
• A short tutorial on AWK
• Cron Jobs Creating crontab entries
• Networking Automounting in a minesite Client/Server environment

Many of these (and other documents) became the standards for documentation within the mining/resource UNIX arena.

Provided first line software support for users of Sun Microsystems workstations.

Required both telephone and on-site visits in Perth and across the state.

Provided extensive administration assistance and advice to customers.

Directly aided the WA branch customer satisfaction rating to be the second highest in Australia.

Travelled extensively to remote minesites to install and maintain customer hardware and software.

Setup UUCP and Internet connections for a Sun customer user group.

Provided direct support for over 650 machines across the state.

Wrote customer contract software for customers in X11/C.

Rewrote the new version of Intelligence Support Services Local Government Accounting package in C under AIX.

Required to supervise the conversion and extension of the existing package from IBM Series I to C under AIX on RT/RS6000s.

Supervised two other programmers and was directly responsible to the director of the company.

Converted the General Ledger, Creditors, Debtors and minor components such as Dog Licensing from IBM Series I to C under AIX on IBM RT and RS6000.

In conjunction with the manager, enabled the installation of the first version of the software at Souther Cross Shire Council on time.

In conjunction with the manager and one other programmer enabled the installation of the software at Cockburn Shire Council which comprised 4 IBM RTs, 100 terminals and 30 printers on time.

Designed and built BTREE+ extended package.

Designed and built full terminal windowing package as a plug in replacement for curses.

Designed and built application generator.

Setup UUCP and networked transfers to all sites of programs and email.

Provided consulting and programming services to a variety of businesses in Perth.

Wrote linen counting package to interface to IBM System 36 accounting package. Machine directly accessed production line.

Customised physiotherapy package written in Dataflex.

Designed and built extensions to various accounting systems.

Aided installations of networked accounting systems for MicroData.

Provided techincal support for an existing Point-Of-Sale package written in Basic for users across Australia with one subordinate programmer. Required to port this package to C under UNIX.

Wrote Pascal to C Translator.

Wrote Basic to C Translator.

Designed and built library to access and update DBase files seamlessly.

Wrote customised versions of Point-OfSale system to interface directly to an IBM System 36 and its accounting package.

Wrote terminal emulators for proprietory executive.

I was approached by Kim Sadleir, with whom I had previously worked, to jointly create a new company to create and market a fourth generation language. I agreed to undertake the design and building of the product while Kim was to perform the business operations.

This language was to have many unique features, some of which became patented worldwide.

Designed and built the first version of the product.

Supervised further versions with three other programmers.

Aided in the establishment of the first international office in Detroit Michigan.

Travelled across S.E. Asia and the U.S. performing demonstrations of the product to CEO's.

Directly involved in the creation and listing of the public company.

Helped in the creation of the manuals and marketting material.

Provided consulting services for businesses on the far north coast of New South Wales. Wrote cash management software for farm management and accounting packages for businesses in the area.

Provided maintenance and support services to E&W offices across Australia running tax management tools. Required to supervise the day to day running of the system with two trainees.

Wrote extensive report generator for tax reports resulting in significant savings in paper costs for company.

Required to aid in the design and building of a suite of fully integrated accounting packages for CP/M and MP/M based microcomputers using MBasic. Responsible directly to the managing director.

Examined issues regarding the porting of the software to UNIX.

With no knowledge of computing became senior programmer within six months.

Designed and built a small modular computer with 16K, floppy and modular bus architecture.