Computer Work
My LinkedIn profile
is mostly about my computer work.
My
GitHub repositories
of computer programs and sample applications.
Now my computer work is focused on the website's content. I started creating websites in 1995, four years after the first release of HTML, after the first websites. There wasn't much to view and there wasn't any search engines.
Personal Work
My pandemic project was building an
Altair 8800 computer emulator.
The Altair 8800 computer was first released in 1975.
It has switches for input, LED lights for output.
The Altair can run standalone or connect to my laptop.
I designed the hardware configuration and built the machine.
I wrote the
software to run the machine.
Innovations: I added a real time clock and MP3 player. I wanted it to be more useful.
Website program samples: Google Maps basics, torpedo fish game, and drag and drop.
Google Maps basics application demonstrates basic map features.
I wrote the application before Google Maps was popular and before smart phones.
The application was part of a web developer course I created and taught at Sun Microsystems events
in the US, India, and south east Asia.
My Computer Work
I work from home doing customer support, working through ticket queues. I help customer go through registration steps so that their applications can exchange SMS and WhatsApp messages with people, such as doctor or dentist appointment reminders. I also give application development guidance. Most interactivity is mostly through an email application, and occasionally through Zoom.
Career Highlights
It's been remarkable,
remarkable in that I've had interesting times and had outstanding accomplishments.
+ Instead of just passing the
Java developer certification exam,
I was on the team that developed the questions for the certification.
+ Instead of just working with people that write Java programs, I worked with the people that wrote the Java programming language.
+ Instead of teaching online, I traveled and taught computer courses in over a dozen countries.
+ I presented at the DoD's yearly high tech conference.
I am an ORACLE Certified Professional.
I'm on the left, in the left photo.
I was fortunate to have worked a bit with James Gosling, the inventor of the Java language.
Mr. Gosling was my co-presenter at the Sun Microsystems pre-day Java One Learning event in San Francisco.
I'm in the center of the photo. Mr. Gosling to my left. Chris Atwood to my right.
600 in the audience.
The year before Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics, I presented 2 lectures at Beijing University. It was a great honor.
A student was assigned to show me around the campus.
I was a co-founder of Peer Sites.
I demonstrated how our technology could circumvent the DoD firewall.
A US Army colonel comment to the room, "Doesn't this scare you?"
Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital, Sandhill Road venture capital company,
supported my attending and presenting Peer Sites's technology at the US Department of Defense's Venture Catalyst Initiative.
Other training and Presentation Highlights
Sun Tech Days, one day seminar to 100 students in Hyderabad, India.
Kula Lumpur lecture at a large Southeast Asia bank developer site.
Comment, "Good sized audience. Other presenters also got a good size. The difference is that when people came to watch you, they stayed through to the end."
Hong Kong presentation.
I won the Collaboration award from the leaders of the Sun Microsystems Learning department team
because I'm known as a positive helpful person.
Course Developer
I designed and developed technical training courses for customers, partners, and employees, who were administrators, developers, architects, implementers.
2016, me at Oracle headquarters wearing my Netscape jacket.
2010, Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, California offices, where I had an office
before Oracle bought Sun.
Now, it's a Meta building, was the Facebook headquarters.
1998, Netscape's company fountain, Mountain View, CA.