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Intergraph UK, Swindon, Dec. 1989 - Sep. 1990
Application Engineer for the Electrical section
I gave pre and post support for the EE schematics package on Intergraph's UNIX workstations.   
I got involved with; UNIX shell programming, and Intergraph's own product range (Microstation, RIS, 
EE schematics, EE Power, microcsl, I/forms). 

EB National Transformers, Drammen Norway, Feb 1986 - Sep. 1989
CAD application programmer and systems programmer.
Employed initially as an Electrical Engineer designing protection circuitry for Power transformers.  I was quickly transferred to their CAD / I.T. support department as I was the only one able to read the manuals printed in English!   
The company's "in-house" 2D CAD package was modeled on Computervision's CADDS ver. 3.0.  It was written in FORTRAN 77 and made extensive use of the system library routines in VMS. 
I wrote parametric programs in F77 to expand the package and automatically create drawings from an internal database.   I was involved in system work, programming in VAX DCL and general support and evaluation of the department's equipment and software.    I converted a large number of programs, written in different development languages, to FORTRAN 77 (e.g. PC Basic, CV Varpro & Newvar, VAX DCL).   
I was elected the local PC guru, even though I did not use a PC and because of this I gained a great deal of knowledge about PC "office-ware".    I was also responsible for translating the Norwegian CAD user manuals into English.

General information

My knowledge of computers has been gained mainly by reading manuals, by talking to more experienced programmers, and by the age-old method of  "Trial and Error".
Although I do a lot of programming, I do not see myself as a programmer, but more of a "trouble shooter" who uses programming to solve problems and customize other people's programs.
My main asset is that I can accumulate new information easily and enjoy communicating with people.   This enables me to solve a wide range of problems (technical and political ;-), and to be able to customize different software/programs easily and relatively quickly. 

Some of the application, device protocols, program libraries, and languages I have used are;

(on the PC / win95/ WinNT platform)
Intergraph's PDS,  CADcentre's PDMS,  Microstation SE, MDL, PERL, HTML, Omnipipe, Isogen, PS-CASS, Autocad,  AutoLisp, PATHWORKS, Novell, PC NFS, Sun Soltice, WordPerfect, Word, Excel , Dbase, PowerPoint, Frontpage Express, Netscape 4.7 and  general PC software.

(on the UNIX platform CLIX, Solaris, SG , Linux)
"C", Microstation, Intergraph's PDS software, CADcentre's PDMS, EE schematics, EE Raceway, RIS, Microcsl, I/Forms, I/NFM, MDL programming, EDEN programming, Lookingglass, WordPerfect, Korn shell programming, INN news, Apache, Bind,DNS, Sendmail, metaHTML.

(on the VAX platform)
DCL, SMARTSTAR, Intergraph's IGDS, WordPerfect, S2020,  PATHWORKS, NICAD (2D CAD package),  FORTRAN77,  TEKTRONIX 4207 protocol, VAXTPU,  FMS,  SMG$ and  LIB$ system routines, and  Postscript (ver. 1.0).

Brief description of utilities/program previously developed