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Brian's Resume |
| The
Computer Connection |
| Brian Curtiss is the webmaster of this site, and he has been involved
in the computer industry for 20 years - both for his occupation and his
hobby. After starting out in 1975 programming FORTRAN on the University
of Nebraska IBM 360/65, Brian became involved in the infancy of the microcomputer
revolution - soldering together his first ALTAIR 8800 computer (based on
the 2 Mhz INTEL 8080 processor) in 1976. While Brian was in engineering
school at the University, he worked as a research programmer for the Industrial
Engineering deparment, using 8080 and Z80 microprocessors for high-speed
data acquisition and analysis. His speciality was data communications using
RS232, bisynch, and SNA. From there, he moved on to a job in Georgia using
VAX, and later IBM AS/400 computers, NOVELL netware, and TCP/IP wide-area
communications. In his current job with Brown & Williamson Tobacco,
he is a manufacturing systems project guru, and has the opportunity to
work with HP Unix systems, Windows NT, and LINUX systems. |
| The computer industry has made one
complete revolution in Brian's time, migrating from centralized computing,
to distributed computing, and back to centralized computing. However, the
skills required have changed drastically in that time, from JCL and FORTRAN,
to 8080 and Z80 assembler, to DEC BASIC, AS/400 CL, and on to HTML, Java,
and relational databases. Brian has continued to keep his skill base current
and has a solid understanding of the implementation of WEB technology. |
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