  [John Baker Rose]

    President, Rose Business Systems Inc.
     511 Head-of-Pond Road, P.O. Box 630
          Water Mill, NY 11976-0630
                (516) 726-4911               [IMAGE] (The hair is real.)]
             cables@hamptons.com

            A mature professional
  seeking offsite teleconsulting contracts.

SKILLS SUMMARY

A data processing professional since 1969.

System analysis, design, implementation and problem solving using a wide
variety of computing hardware, operating systems and languages including
IBM mainframe JCL, DOS, OS/2, Windows 95, C, C++, assembler, Clipper, and
dBase III.

Communications systems design, programming and support involving
asynchronous, binary synchronous, TCP/IP, Ethernet and token-ring LAN, and
various non-standard protocols.

Internet and World-Wide Web (WWW) design and implementation including
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts.

Applications programming and user support in multiple industries including
distribution, brokerage, broadcasting, science, and engineering.

EDUCATION

A.B. in engineering from Brown University, 1970.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

   * Data General AOS/VS & RDOS
   * Microsoft MS-DOS
   * IBM MVS
   * IBM OS/2
   * Microsoft Windows NT/95

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

   * 370 BAL
   * 80x86 Assembler
   * C
   * C++
   * COBOL
   * dBase & Clipper
   * FORTRAN
   * JavaScript
   * JCL

OTHER

   * Brooktrout
   * CGI Scripting
   * Dialogic
   * Front Page
   * PC Quote
   * User Documentation
   * Sendmail / Blat
   * Winsock / Gensock

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

   * English
   * French
   * German
   * Portuguese
   * Spanish
   * Swedish

SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Fax and voice quote applications — Main technical resource in developing a
mixed DOS, OS/2 and Novell Netware system that accepts voice-prompted touch
keypad commands over the telephone, and generates and faxes company reports
to the requesting party. The system assembles reports and price/volume
graphs in real time from multiple sources including a Disclosure database
and Comtex wire service. Led a project team that developed a system that
speaks current stock prices in response to telephone keypad commands. This
system uses Dialogic voice components and a PC Quote data feed.

TurboFAX — Designed, implemented, debugged, documented, and supported
through numerous software and hardware revisions a turnkey multi-tasking
fax management product that receives and broadcasts over as many as twelve
lines at a time, edits, forwards, displays on screen, and laser prints fax
documents. The product also optionally answers selected telephone lines
with a voice menu and provides fax-related services to a remote user in
response to telephone keypad commands. Completely documented the system,
with numerous screen snapshot examples, for an audience of users with
widely differing levels of familiarity with computer systems.

Webmaster, multiple WWW sites. Implemented various on-line CGI catalog,
quotation, order confirmation, and miscellaneous systems in C.

DATA GENERAL PROPRIETARY

Numerous, involving Nova, Micronova, Eclipse S- and C-series, and MV-series
hardware; DOS, RDOS, ICOS, AOS, and AOS/VS operating systems; assembler,
Business Basic, C, COBOL, and Fortran 4, 5, and 77 compilers; device
drivers for console, diskette, tape, communications controllers, and a
proprietary xerographic printer; and a wide range of technical, scientific,
and business applications.

MISCELLANEOUS

Programming projects relating to a variety of hardware, including IBM
370-series mainframes, Spectra 70, 8080, Z-80, PDP-8, 9, and 11; many at
the device level.

Served as the main interface between applications-oriented COBOL
programmers and systems group at a Fortune 500 manufacturing corporation.
Authored a systems newsletter; taught several in-person and video courses
on IBM mainframe operating system fundamentals, job control language, and
troubleshooting techniques.

NOTE TO RECRUITERS

I am currently seeking contracts for offsite work.

Some limited onsite contract work in the NYC/Long Island area is possible;
please call and let's discuss.
