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Study of electrical engineering at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
(focal areas communications engineering and data processing)
Completed with German degree "Diplom Ingenieur" in 1989

            

English
German

            

Ascii/X - Terminals: HP 239x, HP 700/9x
Hardware developed: for Apple II long ago ;-)
HP: mainly HP 3000, but also HP 9000
Modem: MultiTech, SmartLink (AT commands)
PC
Printer: various HP models (HP-IB, RS-232, JetDirect)
School/University: TI-59, TRS-80, Apple II, Amiga 500

            

HPUX: 9.x through 11.x
MPE: MPE/XL 2.1 through MPE/iX 7.5
MPE V: V-Delta-9 and above
Unix: Linux (SuSE, Debian, Knoppix)
Windows: 3.1 through XP
Solaris 8 for x86: basics
School/University: Amiga OS, Apollo Domain, VAX VMS

            

Assembler: Z-80, 6502, 68000, PA-RISC
Basic: TRS-80, Apple II, HP 3000
C: HP C/iX, GNU gcc (ported various Open Source packages to MPE)
Cobol: HP 3000, as well as AcuCorp, MicroFocus, LegacyJ
Fortran: Apollo Domain, HP 3000
HPGL, HP PCL
Java, JavaScript: JAVA as of JDK 1.1.7 and Swing 1.1
Modula-2: MS-DOS, Amiga 500
Pascal: VAX VMS, HP 3000
RPG: basics
Shell: MPE CI and Posix Shell, HP-UX ksh, Linux bash
SPL: basics
Transact: basics
MPE CI: batch jobs, command files, UDCs
j2ee: basics

            

JDBC: programming
ODBC: setup & usage
SQL
Turbo-Image: Intrinsics, Query, Image/SQL, BRW
KSAM
Eloquence: HP-UX, Linux, Windows

            

Ethernet: basics
Internet, Intranet: Apache, Tomcat, cgi, servlets, jsp
NetBios: ported Samba software to MPE/iX
Parallel Interfaces: basics hardware
RS232: basics hardware + protocol
SMTP: basics protocol + sendmail
SNMP: basics
TCP/IP: basics, services, socket API's, inetd, telnet, ftp, nfs, samba, ...
Windows Network: from Windows 3.11 to XP due to Samba software
NS/3000: remote hello, DSCOPY, RFA, RDBA, NetIPC, Berkeley Sockets
SharePlex/NetBase: HP 3000 shadowing, Network File Access (NFA)

            

Employed in customer support for HP 3000, HP 9000 computer
systems for 13+ years after completing university and german
military services. Customer support was mainly by phone and
modem, but also onsite, depending on needs.

Job functions and experiences:

- HP 3000 MPE/V and MPE/iX software support and (internal) sys admin
  . operating system
     (Update,Patch,Config,Admin,Spooler,Backup,Jobs,UDCs...)
  . programming languages
     (COBOL,Pascal,Basic,Fortran,C,RPG,Transact,Java)
  . database systems
     (KSAM,TurboIMAGE,Image/SQL,Allbase/SQL,ODBC,JDBC)
  . network services
     (TCP/IP,NS/3000,NetIPC,sockets,NS/VT,inetd,telnet,ftp...)
  . performance tools
     (Glance,Scope,PerfView)
  . high availability
     (RAID,Mirrored Disk,SwitchOver,NetBase)
  . system debugging
     (PA-RISC Assembler)
  . memory dump analysis
     (up to source code)

- HP 9000 HP-UX software support
  . operating system
  . MicroFocus Cobol
  . performance tools

- Interoperability
  . MPE/iX Shell & Utilities, GNU gcc & tools
  . Porting Open Source software to MPE/iX (e.g. Samba)
  . Apache web server, Java web technologies (e.g. servlets)
  . Windows, Linux (SuSE,Debian), Solaris/x86

- Consulting & training
  . Classroom training e.g. on operating and system management
  . Seminars/presentations e.g. on features of new OS releases
  . custom workshops e.g. on Samba, Apache, Java
  . Onsite consulting e.g. on performance tools or programming

- Migration tool evaluation
  . for TurboImage
     (eloquence, ti2sql)
  . for programming languages
     (acucobol, mf cobol, percobol)
  . for API emulation
     (denkart mpux, neartek amxw)
  . for VPLUS user interface
     (edwin, screenjet, lookvp)