John A. Reder’s Professional Experience
Document date 2003
Total Experience in Electronics/Computers
(23 years / 19 professional)
- 1st program written in Assembler on an Intel 8048 Single-Chip Microcomputer, 1980.
- 1st Homemade circuit designed, etched and soldered in 1981
- 1st BASIC language program written on a TRS-80, 1981.
- 1st Shareware program written on a C-64 and sold on Q-Link (AOL), 1988.
- 1st WEB Site published and opened to sell my software in 1997
- 1st Program published and released on CD – 1998 (Europe), 2002 (Asia).
- 1st Magazine article written about my software 1988.
Professional Electronics Experience
Aviation Electronics Technician (AT) U.S. Navy (4 years – Highest Rank attained: Petty Officer 3rd Class - AT3 – repaired most systems on A3, A4, A6, A7 and P3 aircraft types)
Radio Antenna / Base Station Systems Installer (1/2 year - involved climbing radio towers up to 750 feet high)
Closed Circuit TV / Security System Installer and component level repair technician (1/2 year)
Point of Sale (POS) Systems Repair (5 years - trained on over 40 NCR proprietary systems)
PC Repair (12 years)
Network Installation and cabling (12 years)
Professional Customer Support Experience
Major Account Customer Hardware/Software support Help Desk - (3 years - account support manager of 3 accounts, I averaged 100+ calls a day out of 3000+ calls received)
SVR4 Unix Support Help Desk - (1 year - account support manager)
Field Engineer - traveling repairman (2 years)
Professional Server Systems Support
SVR2, SVR3, SVR4 and SVR4 MP-RAS Unix Systems Administrator (4 1/2 years, 20+ servers)
NT Systems Administrator (3 years, 3 servers)
Lotus Notes Server Administrator (1 year, 1 server)
Novell Server 3.12 Administrator (CNE/CNA Certified) (4 years, 3 servers)
Professional Server Systems Programming
NT Batch and AT job programming (5 years)
UNIX Shell script (6 years)
Professional Network Cable Building
Token Ring (2 years)
DLC (3 years)
EitherNet Thin Net (1 year)
EitherNet Cat5 (RJ45) (3 years)
RS232 most varieties (7 years)
Professional Database Support
Progress Database Administrator (3 years)
Oracle Database Administrator (4 1/2 years)
Informix Database Administration (2 years)
SQL Server (Local Development – 1 year)
Professional Database Programming
MS SQL Server Database programming (5 years)
Oracle Database Programming (1 years)
Paradox Application Programming (2 years)
MS Access Database Programming - Using VB (4 years)
Programming Experience
Aspect (4 years)
DOS Batch (14 years)
BASIC, GWBASIC, QBASIC (20 years)
Visual Basic, VBA, COM+ (9 years)
C (8 years)
PAL (2 years)
HTML (7 years)
DHTML (4 years)
XML (2 years)
ASP - VB Script (5 years)
Java (1 year)
J Script (4 years)
Assembler (1980 through 1989)
Visual Source Safe (2 years)
Rational Rose – UML Design (2 years)
Telcom Systems Support
Phone Switch Administrator & BCMS reporting (2 G3R switches, 400 phones) (2 years)
Call Management System (CMS) Support & custom reporting (2 years)
ACD Support and programming (5 years)
Telcom Related Programming
Call vs. user resource monitoring systems (1 year)
Custom automated phone switch management report applications (3 years)
Professional Networking Experience
Hub administration and programming (4 1/2 years, AT&T Starlan based)
CISCO administration (4 years)
Network General Sniffer operator (3 years)
Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) 1994
Certified Netware Administrator (CNA) 1994
NCR Corporation Network Engineer Certification 1995
NavTel Network Analyzer Certification 1995
Network General (Dolsh) Sniffer Certification 1996
Operating Systems
TRS-80 (1981 - 1983) - Not sure if you classify this as actually having an OS since it booted to BASIC.
C64 since (1984 -1991)
NCR DOS (1988 – 1990)
DOS 2 through 6.2 since 1988
IBM OS2 (1992 – 1993)
UNIX 5.2 through 5.4 + MP-RAS (AT&T System 5) Since 1991
DESQVIEW 2.x 1992
Windows 2.0 through 3.11 Since 1993
Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP Since 1995
PC/Software Rollouts where I played a large or managing role
Managed rollout of 400+ 486/66 PC's (1 month)
Managed rollout 400+ Pentium 166 PC's and conducted PC Basics training for every user who received one (2 months)
Developed CHMC's Y2k automated PC upgrade CD and process, managed weekend shift group of contractors performing process. (process performed on approximately 2800+ PC's. in one month)
Major enterprise level programs written primarily by self
NCR's Help Desk database and support / training tools + automated customer feedback fax server system. NCR's North American Division Network Navigation Tool
NCR/AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS) North American Central Dispatch call center activity monitoring system
NCR's Wal-Mart account management and support system
NCR's Americas Call Center and Central Education Training Center's Time Management System
CHMC's Discharge Summary System with automated fax and print servers
CHMC's intranet based Alpha Paging system
Large amounts of work on CHMC's CHMCOnline Intranet infrastructure
CHMC's Outpatient Clinical Notes System
Supervision of development and general design of CHMC's Clinical Policy Management System
Major programs written as part of a development team
- CHMC’s LiverPortal System (associated with CHMC’s winning of the 2003 Davies Award)
- CHMC’s Unified Physician Information Repository
Notable departmental level systems developed
CHMC Gastro Liver SPLIT (Pediatric Transplants Study) program/database
CHMC I.S. / Human Genetics Time Management System
CHMC I.S. Project Management System
CHMC I.S. Change Control System
CHMC's Online Bulletin Board System
Web Application Generation Utility
CHMC’s I.S. Capital Budget Project Request System
CHMC’s I.S. Operations Overview Portal
Professional Awards / Recognition
Meritorious Advancement for outstanding service - U.S. Navy 1984
U.S. Military Good Conduct Medal 1988
U.S. Cold War Service Citation 1999
Letter of recognition from Commander Naval Aviation Training Technical Center Memphis Tennessee for superior scholastic achievement 1984
Letter of recognition from Commanding officer VAQ-33 Key West Florida for development of autonomous maintenance aircraft support unit 1987
Board certified A-4 plane captain 1985
Consistent Achiever award and letter from Vice President of U.S. Group NCR Corporation 1990
Outstanding Achievement award from Assistant Vice President U.S. Group NCR Corporation 1991
Year of Improvement award from Vice President Americas Group AT&T Corporation 1994
Great Performance Award Nomination from Assistant Vice President Americas Group AT&T Corporation 1995
Great Performance Award Nomination from Assistant Vice President Americas Group AT&T Corporation 1996
CHMC Whatever It Takes Award Winner Winter 2002
CHMC Unsung Hero Award Winner 2004
Other notable achievements
President of Tactical Neuronics - a web based computer game development company.
Author of Published video game - A.I. Wars the (Insect Mind) Published by Crystal Interactive Software Incorporated with distribution in 27 countries worldwide. Over 250,000 downloads of shareware version online and mentions in several computer related magazines including Computer Gaming World, Computer Shopper and PC World. A booth dedicated A.I. Wars was sponsored by Johns Hopkins University at the Boston Artificial Intelligence Conference in April of 1998.
Hobbies other than writing software
- Robotics including various Lego MindStorms design projects
- Arcade Cabinet Design and Construction
- Playing and collecting vintage and new video games and studying arcade and video game history.
Note: Most jobs held required multiple responsibilities, therefore experience years overlap in many cases.