User:Joel Kruissink

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JOEL KRUISSINK. BORN 10/21/1937 CHICAGO ILLINOIS. BSC DEGREE FROM DE PAUL UNIVERSITY 1961. MY AREA OF SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE IS THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY FROM BOTH A TECHNICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.

I JOINED GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPUTER IN 1963, WIITH 5YEARS TENURE INITIALLY IN FIELD OPERATIONS, TRANSFERRING TO HOME OFFICE FOR THE FINAL1.5 YEARS. PLEASE NOTE THAT AT THAT TIME THERE WAS NO FORMAL EDUCATION OR TRAINING AVAILABLE. LEARNING COMPUTER FUNDAMETALS WAS AN OJT ACTIVITY. THE HIGH LIGHTS ARE: - EXPERIENCES IN SELF ACQUIRED EXPERTISE IN BASIC LEVEL PROGRAMMING DEVELOPMENT BEST PRACTICES WITH THE TOOLS AVAILABLE AT THE DAY - PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND DIRECT PARTICAPTION IN THE NEGOTIATION, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST DIGITAL COMPUTER IN SEVERAL WELL KNOWN COMPANIES. (BILLY GRAHM. GREEN GIANT, A LARGE FARM COOP, A FULL SERVICE BANK SERVICE BUREAU) ALL FROM SCRATCH. REQUIREMENTS GATHERNG, SPECIFICATIONS, DESIGN, CODING AND IMPLEMENTATION THAT WERE THE EQUIVALENT OF A UNIQUE CUSTOM SYSTEM FOR EACH. - EXPERINCE WITH THE TOOLS AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME AND THE GROWTH OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF OPERATING SYSTEMS, HARDWARE DESIGN, EVOLUTION OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES AS WELL AS SOME EXPERIENCE WITH FIRST GENERATION TIME SHARING SYSTEMS (DARTMOUTH BASIC AND MULTICS) STANDARDIZED DATABASE MANAGEMENT ( CODASYL) AND EARLY REAL TIME CONTINUOUS FLOW APPLICATIONS.

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION FOR 2+ YEARS IN VARIOUS ROLES THAT WERE ADDITIVE TO ACCUMULATING AND ADDITION OF NEW ADVANCES IN THE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. EXAMPLES: DEVELOPING A MIGRATION STRATEGY THAT INVOLVED THE USE OF MANUFACTURER SUPPLIED TOOLE THAT TOOK THE ORIGINAL CODE DEVELOPED ON A TUBE COMPUTER THROUGH EMULATION AN D SIMULATION PHASES ON 2 GENERATIONS OF VENDOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS'; WORK WITH IBM SPECIALISTS IN THE USE OF A UNIQUE HARDWARE BASED SYSYEN THAT GATHER DIRECT DIGITAL GATA THAT COULD BE USED TOPRECISELY EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS (MFT).

REVELATIONS ON OS ARCHITURE DESIGN AND THE OS DEPENDENCE ON HUMAN APPLICATION FLOW TO PROVIDE MULTIPROGRAMMING PROMISES OF PERFORMANCE PROMISED BY THE USE OF MORE POWERFUL AND SOPHISTICATED HARDWARE, MULTIPROGRAMMING PERFORMANCE IS RESOURCE DEPEN DENT, NOT CPU POWER DENDENT.

XEROX CORPORTION-33 YEARS IN COMPUTER DESIGN AND APPLICATION (XDS), THE DESIGN AND EVOLUTION OF HIGH SPEED LASER PRINTING. DIRECT INVOLVE MENT IN THE APPLICATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF XEROX PARC FROM THE ALTO THROUGH THE STAR INCLUDING THE ETHERNET LAUNCH TEAM, INITIAL USES OF SMALLTALK AND HYPER CARDS, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (BCPL. MESA) AND FULL SRVICE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS--FAILURES ANS SUCCESSES FIRIST USE OF COMPUTER TYPOGRAPHY (BRAVOX--PRE MS WORD PROTOTYPE) FULLY INTEGRATED DOCUMENTATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS USING NETWORKED WORKSTATIONS, LAB ETHERNET, FILE AN D PRINT SERVERS AS WILL AS WORLDWIDE ELECTRONIC MAIL (A FIRST) PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS THAT WERE THE FIRST USERS OF UNIX, COTS BASED APPLICATION DESIGN, FIRST USE OF ADOBE COMPUTER BASED DECOMPOSITION SYSTEMS, PROPITIATORY HARDWARE COMPRESSION , AN EXTENSION STRATEGY THAT EXTENDED THE PRIMITIVE UNIX LP PRINTER INTERFACE TO ACCOMMODATE VERY RICH TYPOGRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES, FIRST USE OF REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL CAPABILITY FOR USER INTERFACE AND MODULAR EXTENSIONS TO TCP/IP FOR APPLETALK AND DECNET. THE ENHANCED COMMAND LINE LP CAPABILITY WAS BUILT INTO CUSTOM USER INTERFACE COTS APPLICATIONS, THE LAST 15 YEARS WAS IN XWEOX RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS OR THE CUSTOM SYSTEMS DIVISION,

MY CONTRIBUTION WOULD BE IN HANDS ON EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, ANALYSIS OF OS/HARDWARE POTENTIAL, SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPLIED TO SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND CUSTEM SYSTEMS, MIGRATION OF THE XEROX PARC SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERIES TO THE TOTAL NETWORKED, INTERENETWORKED, WEB BASED SYSTEMS IN USE TODAY. MY LAST ASIGNMENT INVOLVED THE MIGRATION OF A DOCUMENT SEARCH AND USING JAVA VIRTUAL SYSTENS ARCHITECTURE AND FLEXIBLE AND MANAGEABLE USE OF COTS SYSTEMS.