Engineer Software

John W. Shipman 575-***-****

*** ***** ****** ** abpom4@r.postjobfree.com

Socorro, NM 87801 http://www.nmt.edu/ shipman

Experience

New Mexico Tech Computer Center, Socorro, NM, Sep. 1994 present; Applications Spe-

cialist.

Write and organize external and internal documentation.

Build internal applications.

Teach informal user classes: Python, XML, software design, database administration.

Software technology evangelism.

New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, Sep. 1987 present; Adjunct Professor of Computer Sci-

ence. Courses taught include software construction, Cleanroom software development,

operating systems, and practica in Python, C, L TEX, and TEX.

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Self-employed, dba Zoological Data Processing, 1982 present. Software tools for wildlife

science; database creation including data entry; book typesetting. Clients include:

National Audubon Society.

U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, CA.

New Mexico Department of Game & Fish.

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

Princeton University Press.

New Mexico Tech Physics Department.

Pen Pal Associates, Los Altos, CA, Jan. 1991 June 1993; Software Engineer. Wrote a script-

ing language used for rapid development of forms-based applications for the GRiDpad.

Pyramid Technology, Mountain View, CA, June 1981 July 1982; Sofware Engineer. In-

struction set design, processor speci cation, interactive emulator, Portable C Compiler.

Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA, Mar. 1975 May 1981; Software Engineer. Employee

#17.

Multi-language symbolic debugger.

Automated software release and distribution.

ANSI COBOL runtime library.

External sort-merge utility.

Linkage editor.

Text editor.

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Tandemulator: emulated the hardware for operating system checkout; emulated the

operating system for application checkout.

Hewlett-Packard (Data Systems), Cupertino, CA, May 1971 Mar. 1975.

APL interpreter for the HP 300 engineering workstation.

BASIC COMPILER/3000.

BASIC/3000, shipped with the rst HP3000.

New Mexico Tech Computer Center, Socorro, NM, June 1966 May 1971.

Wrote an APL interpreter for the System/360.

Implemented L6, Bell Labs Low Level Linked List Language.

Automated payroll and registration for the college administration.

Systems programming, user consulting, service programming.

First computer and keypunch operator, trained replacements.

Skills

Lightweight literate programming.

Cleanroom software development.

Teaching and public speaking.

Technical writing, editing, and typesetting.

Publications

Lightweight Literate Programming: A Documentation Practice. Technical Communi-

cation, Feb. 2008.

Numerous publications for the NMT Computer Center; see http://www.nmt.

edu/tcc/help/pubs/index/.

An L6 Interpreter. CSR 102, New Mexico Tech Computer Science Dept.

Education

15 hours coursework toward an M. S. in Computer Science, New Mexico Tech.

B. S. in Computer Science, 1970, New Mexico Tech.

Hobbs High School, Hobbs, NM; National Merit Finalist.

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