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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt
I have extensive experience in solving a variety of problems. With a math degree and decades of experience as a software engineer, I am now expanding my skill set to include technical writing, web site design and implementation, web graphics, photography, and powerful presentations. I have recent certificates from CU in web graphics, web design, HTML, Dreamweaver and accessibility, and am proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, JavaScript, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and Apple’s Keynote, Motion, Final Cut and Studio Pro. I am at ease on PCs, Macs, and Unix platforms.
I bring maturity, experience and a relentless, honed curiosity to every job. To each new challenge, I bring the same creative energy that takes me to the top of Earth’s great peaks. I particularly enjoy jobs that take me to intellectual heights.
Authoring over fifteen books, CDs, DVDs and shows has given me ample opportunity to organize complex
information sets and present them in a palatable way. Also, working as a professional photographer
and videographer has given me a keen sense of how to balance words, images, and video for a specific impact.
Please visit my websites for samples of my web and graphics work:
climb.mountains.com
www.transcendent-summits.com
Syzygistic Gallery
I created and executed a comprehensive test strategy for the company’s developing product.
I created, populated and maintained an internal test web site parallel to NetLibrary’s live site.
My system was in compliable Perl, and utilized some of NetLibrary’s proprietary Web tools.
I worked with the Editors who used my system to ensure that their e-books were publishable.
I rewrote the software control and build processes for REELS, which is a backup product.
The processes were based on UNIX make, Codemanager, Perl and Bourne shell scripts. My system successfully built
and tested multiple products on 30 different UNIX platforms every night. Some of the builds were at remote sites.
I was also a technical lead for the code improvement team.
I rewrote a large database application from Borland Owl to the MFC under Visual C++. I was in charge of the
application’s communications software.
I ported the Iceberg software simulator from DOS to UNIX. The simulator allowed application code developers
to test their code before Iceberg hardware was fully developed. The simulator consisted of 130,000 lines of C code,
and the porting effort was a large, exacting job. The simulator made heavy use of the UNIX tools LEX, YACC and Curses.
In addition to the port, I created a large battery of C shell scripts to control and monitor simulator execution
on a variety of UNIX platforms. I also ported the Iceberg software control and build process to Perl scripts under
ClearCase configuration management.
I managed a team of software engineers developing in C. We created, installed and maintained custom application
software for the archival storage and retrieval of diverse data sets.
I designed, wrote, tested and maintained FORTRAN code for PVI’s graphic software products.
I worked on their flagship product PicSure Plus that layered a user-friendly interface on top of PVI’s
graphic subroutine package DI-3000. I was also the support engineer for five PVI products.
I taught three-day UNIX and C courses nationwide. I also taught courses in Data Structures,
Pascal and Software Testing.
I designed, wrote, tested and maintained word processing software for the company that defined word processing standards.
I maintained 64K of terse assembler code that fueled NBI’s original workstation, the 3000.
I also designed a spell checker.
I maintained and ported Cibar’s custom report writer package for Morgan Guarantee and Trust of New York. This report writer consisted of three Pascal programs. One program translated the user’s report, coded in our special fourth-generation language RDL, to assembler. My main responsibility was the data translator that extracted data from the database. I rewrote the highly recursive data translator in COBOL—a challenging task. A third program provided a high-level quick-look facility into the database. I also designed a system monitor program for an on-line transaction system.
B.S. in Mathematics, University of Washington
M.S. Graduate studies in Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
Famous Photographers School - Still Photography program
Creative writing at CU; Certificates from CU in Graphics, HTML and Accessibility
Certificate from The Art Institute of Colorado in Broadcast Video Design
I am the 12th American to climb Mount Everest, the 2nd person to climb the highest peak on all seven continents, the 1st person to climb North America’s 13 highest peaks and the 7th person to climb the three crowning summits in Denali National Park—Denali, Foraker and Hunter. I have authored more than 12 mountaineering books, CDs and DVDs.