RESUME, long form, of Peter Van Wazer UPDATED, May 5, 2000 South Fork Software "Java client/server enterprise programming" F. Peter Van Wazer Peterson, MN 55962 fpvw@sfsw.com 507 875 2428 www.sfsw.com Sirs, 5/7/00 This is the resume of Peter Van Wazer. I am interested in Java client/server application development contracts or employment. South Fork Software is my company. My computer interest started with a course in Fortran programming at the U of MN in 1966. I began BASIC programming when my first home computer was purchased in 1979. Purchased a PC AT in the mid 80's to write BASIC applications for my farming operation. Decided to program professionally in 1989 and purchased dBase and CA Clipper to rewrite my farm database applications for distribution. I understand relational data structure. I understand that a successful application flows from 40% programming skill and 60% comprehending what is required. I understand what it takes to develop finnished user ready applications. I was hired by IBM AS/400 Partners In Development in Mar 1996 to teach PC database programmers how to connect their applications to AS/400 data. The development environments and connection tools worked with include; Clipper, Java, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Visual Objects, Delphi, C, JDBC, ODBC, Clipper RDD's, Delphi400. I originated and authored the AS/400 Partners in Development Client/Server homepage (www.softmall.ibm.com/as400/client) in May 1996. (NOTE: the PID softmall web site has been moved to http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/client/ The .../client/ site remains as this author left it in May 1998 and is still an often visited and useful guide to AS/400 - PC client server programming.) This web site is a quick index to the knowledge PC database programmers (all languages) need to connect their PC networked applications to AS/400 data. An expanded ODBC section was added to the site in January 1998 written by two other programmers, except for this section all content on this web site until March 1998 was authored by myself. ACS400, a replaceable database driver for Clipper is one of the AS/400 connection tools I worked with and wrote about on the web site. Acsis Technologies (the owners of ACS400) liked the instructions for their product I placed on the web site and (after asking) published those instructions as the user manual for ACS400. I also wrote the Clipper / AS/400 data transfer utility and demo program that is distributed with ACS400. I taught the 'Delphi for RPG Programmers' class at AS/400 PID Advantage. I worked with database migration (MS SQL Server to DB2/400 and others). Tools I wrote for this purpose are posted on the web site. I began Java programming in December 1996. I authored and posted a web class on Java client/server programming. I wrote several Java client/server demonstration applications (not applets). I wrote Java speed tests for the IBM Network Station to test the speed of the network station JVM (will test all Java Virtual Machines) and to test client/server performance (works with all servers, JDBC driver required). I have written an application to demonstrate using the Internet as a private network. That is, starting a Java application (not applet) from any web connected server on any web connected PC without using a browser. Java client/server application development is the future I intend to pursue. My employment at IBM PID ended March 1998. I enjoyed working with the people in PID and IBM Business Partners both in Rochester and at other locations. IBM called in May 1998 and I accepted a job writing Java for the Network Client Division. I wrote the 'Export Utility' for 'Orion' now called IBM Secure Server. I was the only designer and author of the IBM Network Station Manager Command Line Interface. CLI is a command line or scripted way of managing configuration settings for IBM Network Stations. CLI is a Java application that runs on IBM Network Stations, PC's running Windows, AS/400, AIX and NT servers. CLI will manage network station configurations on the server booted from, the server where CLI is running and any number of remote AS/400's all from the same script. The data managed by CLI is in XML format. In addition to XML I am experienced in Java sockets, SSL, RMI and SNMP programming. As of May 2000 I am still employed by IBM Network Client Division Rochester, MN. The next section of this resume is a personal history including; education, work history, military service, volunteer service and some points of view in time line format. I was born in Minneapolis MN on 2/15/46. Attended grade school and high school at Edina MN, graduating in 1964. Studied three years of advanced placement science in high school. Studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of MN starting in the fall of 1964. Joined the Marine Corps Reserve based at the Minneapolis naval air station in the fall of 1965. I was in a motor cycle accident that resulted in two operations on my right leg, several months in a cast and an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps. Returned to engineering studies spring of 66 through 1967 and 68. My first employment was for the Edina park board, as a skating rink and warming house attendant (baby sitter and bruise soother for 60 neighborhood kids). Held this job in the winter of 62-63 and 63-64 and again in 65-66 with my leg in a cast. Coached cub (third-fourth grade) softball, summers for the parkboard. Coach both teams, umpire the game, control the parents. Paid for my college and living expenses from Feb. 67 to June 68 with a job at Zipps Liquors working 5pm to 9pm daily and 8am to 11pm Saturdays delivering liquor. Delivered cases of Johnny Walker to the largest homes in Minneapolis and gallons of Mission Bell Muscatell to elderly ladies in small apartments above store fronts. This job allowed me to step briefly into the lives of many people and see the side of life not included in an engineering education. Minneapolis Honeywell Ordinance Division gave me a job in June 1968 as an evaluation technician in special weapons research and development. I collected data (super slow motion photography and telemetry) about detonations of fusing systems under development. I received a high security clearance for this work. This was some of the most technically interesting work I've done, with a thoughtful and dedicated group of people. Left Honeywell after one year planning to return to school in the fall of 69. I am remain about 10 credits short of a BSME. Spent the summer of 69 traveling the western USA on a BMW R50S motorcycle that I had purchased inexpensively and rebuilt from the ground up. This trip had a major influence on me and I decided that most of my life would be spent in a rural rather than an urban area. Returned to school fall of 69 and worked nights for the MTC as a bus mechanic. Purchased a '62 Land Rover 109 12 passenger station wagon with 200,000 miles on it, rebuilt it and spent the summer of 70 exploring North America from Mexico to the NW Territories. Spent the next 3 years renting in the country and working at Washington Scientific Industries in Long Lake MN, as a machinist making computer parts. In March of 1974 I purchased the farm where I still live 50 miles SE of Rochester MN. My first job in this area was as a welder in Jim Humbles welding shop in Rushford MN. I was the stove welder putting together two wood burning heaters a day. This was the time of the oil embargo and demand for wood heaters increased rapidly. More space was built, more people were hired, Jim and I agreed that more distribution was needed. A few weeks after starting as salesman I offered to become a distributor and purchase all the stoves Humble Mfg. could produce in the next year at a set price per unit. This agreement continued for three years and South Fork Distributing sold, shipped and collected for (not one penny lost in bad accounts) 3000 Humble wood heaters. They were sold to 100 stove dealers (small town hardware stores, chainsaw shops, fireplace shops) I established in MN, IA and WI. I sold South Fork Distributing to Jim Humble in the fall of 1978. Worked for Mabel Lumber Co. Mabel MN in 1979 as farm building designer, contractor and farm equipment salesman. Many hog buildings were being built in 1979 and I learned a lot about the hog industry. I started South Fork Construction in 1980 specializing in hog buildings. Started a purebred Berkshire hog seedstock herd in 1982. Raised more hogs and built fewer buildings until about 1987 when the hog business took all my time. The 400 members of the Fillmore County Pork Producers Asn. elected me to their board of directors in 1988. That board elected me to be their representative on the board of directors of the Minnesota Pork Producers Asn. in 1989. The MPPA board elected me to their executive board in 93 and 94. I was one of nine people to represent Minnesota at the National Pork Forum in 93 and 94. For those two years I was also one of five people on the MPPA budget committee setting a 700,000 a year budget. Also served as chairman of the MPPA Evaluation Station Committee in 93 and 94. This committee has a separate 150,000 a year budget and does much of the important hog / pork quality evaluation in the USA. I ended the hog business and sold the herd in 1994. I formed and led a group of six hog farmers (we went as a delegation from the MPPA) to Russia where we lived in the homes of (newly legal) private hog farmers in Sept 92. We toured large state farms had very straightforward discussions with farm managers and state officials ( the same there ). Still in touch with friends in Russia. Have a faster cheaper mail connection to friends in Russia than to friends in Rushford 10 miles away. Spent two weeks in England in 87 talking to hog farmers and learning how they farm. I enclose a copy of an article I wrote for The Purebred Picture about that trip. I was on the board of directors, and the finance chairman of the Fillmore County Republican party from 1990 till 1996. Served as (4/22/98) chairman of the Fillmore Co. Joann Benson for Governor committee. Precinct, county and state Republican deligate for ten years. Sincerely, F. Peter Van Wazer