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ChefFrank · 04-13-2006, 05:52 AM

Stating the obvious, when I'm not at home, I'm the banquet chef at a resort in Western Connecticut.

However, my IT background is long and varied. I started in the operations of a Fortune 5 company (at that time, that is) in 1978, and got into the Operating Systems group from there. I moved to the 2nd largest US bank in 1980, and was one of the designers of the first home banking systems. My management there was really into building new technology, and while I was there designed one of the first practical RSA-based public key encryption systems for email. I also designed the computer center and developed one of the first concentrated operations center for all systems in our network (spread out over many states). I jumped ship after 4 years and went to a large financial information provider and earned a couple of patents on some innovative network testing hardware. After that, I consulted for about 15 years, working on some leading edge projects, including the first real-time stock trade clearing system for NASDAQ, and a fully automated AI-based COW (Cash On Wire) and accounting system for a major brokerage. I ended up going back to the bank where I started and managed a development group maintaining the same homebanking system I designed some 20 years earlier (my name was still in a lot of comments in the code). I retired in mid 2001 and started doing something that I really liked.

I worked in many languages, and on many platforms - some of which are actually in museums now - LOL!! Let's see - BASIC, COBOL, JOVIAL,FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, LISP, and several ALGOL derivatives and most recently (2000), JAVA. I designed several languages myself, including something called "Jaberwok" which was a scripting language for system testing.

I actually own and understand the "Red Dragon" book.

I learned HTML about 1999, and now is starting to learn PHP and Javascript (which has no relationship to JAVA, so I found out).

Any questions?

Frank

04-13-2006, 05:52 AM	#56 (permalink)
ChefFrank Code Monkey Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Woodbury, CT Posts: 38	Stating the obvious, when I'm not at home, I'm the banquet chef at a resort in Western Connecticut. However, my IT background is long and varied. I started in the operations of a Fortune 5 company (at that time, that is) in 1978, and got into the Operating Systems group from there. I moved to the 2nd largest US bank in 1980, and was one of the designers of the first home banking systems. My management there was really into building new technology, and while I was there designed one of the first practical RSA-based public key encryption systems for email. I also designed the computer center and developed one of the first concentrated operations center for all systems in our network (spread out over many states). I jumped ship after 4 years and went to a large financial information provider and earned a couple of patents on some innovative network testing hardware. After that, I consulted for about 15 years, working on some leading edge projects, including the first real-time stock trade clearing system for NASDAQ, and a fully automated AI-based COW (Cash On Wire) and accounting system for a major brokerage. I ended up going back to the bank where I started and managed a development group maintaining the same homebanking system I designed some 20 years earlier (my name was still in a lot of comments in the code). I retired in mid 2001 and started doing something that I really liked. I worked in many languages, and on many platforms - some of which are actually in museums now - LOL!! Let's see - BASIC, COBOL, JOVIAL,FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, LISP, and several ALGOL derivatives and most recently (2000), JAVA. I designed several languages myself, including something called "Jaberwok" which was a scripting language for system testing. I actually own and understand the "Red Dragon" book. I learned HTML about 1999, and now is starting to learn PHP and Javascript (which has no relationship to JAVA, so I found out). Any questions? Frank __________________