Richard Karpinski
NOW READY TO PROVIDE
Coaching to handle project management problems. ProjectCoaching
and
Discovery and repair of user interface problems for pages and products. InterfaceIssues
USPS: 148 Sequoia Circle, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Permanent: 6521 Raymond St., Oakland, CA 94609
email: Dick@CFCL.com or DickKarpinski@gmail.com
phone: (707) 546-6760 cell: (707) 228-9716
EXPERIENCE
Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces
o Helped review and revise "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin.
o Worked on designing and developing Archy (from RCHI)
o Worked with a small team on innovative cell phones for Samsung
o Designed easily learnable zooming user interface frameworks
o Scanned 8500 slides and negatives from Raskin's entire photo career
o Absorbed philosophy and techniques from a user interface master
University of California San Francisco
Manager, Minicomputer Services - Unix, VMS, NeXT
o Supported over 5,000 light-usage campus users on AIX (RISC/6000).
o Doubled capacity of AIX system by keeping password files in synchrony.
o Brought low cost interactive computing to UCSF with PWB Unix.
o Installed the first campus Ethernet backbone.
o Connected campus computers to BITNET and Internet.
Chief Systems Programmer - access to computing on campus
o Supported campus programmers using FORTRAN and PL/I.
o Built the first PILOT Computer Assisted Instruction system.
o Supported timesharing on IBM 360 mainframe computers.
University of California, Berkeley
Programmer, Department of Physics - solar magnetohydrodynamics
o Built data reduction tools for I.M.P. satelite research
Systems Programmer, Computer Center
o Supported student and research programmers using IBM 7094 IBSYS.
o Wrote the assembler of the "$TUDENT" quick FORTRAN compiler.
o Enhanced FORTRAN's calling sequence to support traceback analysis
o Designed the IBM 360 FORTRAN Extended Error Handling facility.
Apple Computer: Revised Inside Mac
Volition Systems: Built back end of a screen-oriented database system
Plessey Systems of Germany: Federal health insurance database system.
International Math. and Stat. Libraries: Reviewed code and standards.
Standard Oil of Calif.: General Ledger master-file update and report.
Burroughs Corporation: Consulted on design of their first PL/I compiler.
Syntex Corporation: Taught "Introduction to PL/I".
UC Extension: "Software Engineering", "Reducing Computer Costs".
IEEE Standards: 1154 PILOT Language, 754 Floating-Point Arithmetic.
ACM Nat. Lecturer: PL/I History, Language Design, Nat. Language Pgming.
SHARE: PL/I Project, Database Project Mgr, Director of SHARE.
PUBLICATIONS
Modula-2 News (later MODUS Quarterly): Editor
Sorehand (RSI, CTS, ...) email mailing list: Creator, list owner
Byte Magazine: "Paranoia - A Floating-Point Benchmark"
Unix Review: "Interview with Bob Marsh", "Security Roundtable"
SIGPLAN Notices: "An Unstructured View of Structured Programming"
SHARE Program Library Agency: "Report Writer Facility for PL/I"
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