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2003
to Present
President
Kilbride
Connectivity is a small company based on the principle that we need to merge
our home and business environments into one simple and functional
environment. To that end if you need to be in touch with your house when
you are not there, or access to your business on the road, we'll connect it
all together.
GSI
Inc
1991
to 2003
Systems
Analyst
I
moved to the US and worked as a systems integrator for PC's Mac's, and Unix
boxes. I tied together Novell, Microsoft, Sun and IBM networks through
switches, routers, and bridges. Large corporations that I have done work
with include the local power utility in Missouri called Ameren, and MacDonald
Douglas (now Boeing) as well as others. Those two projects specifically
were to design the directory tree and to migrate the corporation from NetWare
3 to NetWare 4, and to coordinate and secure the worldwide e-mail system for
the Harpoon Missile division. Small Office Home Office (SOHO) is where
most of the growth and market is; for instance Lawyers, Doctors offices, and
in general just a wide variety of small businesses make up the core of my
consulting. I worked with a variety of very large to very small
companies. The smallest system I worked on was a "retired"
Opthamologist, who in 1992, was trying to become a day trader on the stock
market. He needed what was called a "neural network" or
"expert system". I built it using 100 Mb ARCnet (before 100 Mb
Ethernet) and when he wound up paying millions in taxes on capital gains he
really retired, himself and the system.
JJ
Computer Consultants
1989
to 1991
Vice
President
I
felt it was time to move on so I found a partner and we started our own
consulting company in 1989. I wanted to build a company that specialized
in 24/7 connectivity to any type of data you as a client needed. I
integrated analog cell phones with regular phone devices to simplify the
interface for the client. I built a Ram 350 Van into an office with
regular phones and a regular fax machine. I installed a furnace with AC,
a conference area, a porta potty (with phone), a TV, and a VCR; A Laptop
connected to CompuServe but it just as easily could have been any modem bank
of your choice. It was very easy to use; it looked and functioned just
like an office in a building, except it was on wheels. As long as there
was cellular service it was totally functional and working. I showed it
at RV shows and to some corporations.
Canada
Packers
1985
to 1989
Lab
Technician/Line Foreman/Systems Analyst
I
worked at Canada Packers until 1989. I was hired on the basis of my
experience with the food industry from Canadian Canners, and my University
degree. My official job was as a Quality Assurance Supervisor but when
they needed a night shift Production Foreman I often pulled a second shift.
In my spare time I built software models of their main plants production
lines to aid myself as a Production Foreman. As the model tuned itself
during the day, it predicted raw materials required until a shift change or on
a finite resource like freezer capacity, or labels left in the warehouse.
They system was accurate to within a hundred finished units off the end
of the line. As my shift neared completion I could enter in my stop
time, or number of batches or pre-assemblies I wanted and match all other
quantities of pre-assemblies perfectly. The waste from my shift
disappeared and the night shift became far more efficient than the day shift.
Head office found out about the program and asked me to build a standard
costing system. The only resource they gave me was Lotus 123, so using
dynamic cell formulas, I did. That shocked the Lotus help desk back in
Cambridge Massachusetts. I had phoned in for some direction on a
particularly thorny problem and got escalated right to Mitch Kapor. Later,
when I met him he remembered the crazy Canadian that made a standard costing/mrp program
out of his spreadsheet program. The program kicked out the raw data
sheets to be entered all the way to full variance reports. On an IBM AT
286 with 1 MB RAM and a 20 MB HD it tapped out at about 200 SKUs. I also
implemented a Material Resource Planning system in four plants for $80,000.
The corporate budget which was sub contracted to IBM was for $26
million. Sometimes bigger isn't better because in the end IBM MRP system
was stopped after spending $39 million. IBM eventually sold the bones to
Computer Associates who killed it totally.
Mohawk
College
1986
to 1991
Instructor
This
was the mid-eighties so I taught courses on DOS and Word Perfect and Dbase IV
as well as general computer knowledge. I taught one or two courses per
semester as a second job as I was still working full time for Canada Packers.
I have always been a good public speaker and have an easy way of making
an analogy to make my point. This experience turned out to be very
advantageous as I now have lectured a fair amount at trade shows and taught
for several international training companies. I also developed the
manuals for Wave technologies for its courses to migrate a NetWare 4 CNE to a
NetWare 5 CNE. These manuals were printed in student and instructor
versions for both the 5-day accelerated course, and the full 20-day course.
Canadian
Canners
1980
to 1985
General
Labour to Night Shift Foreman
I
worked in the summers for Canadian Canners. Canadian Canners had a rule
that they only used students as temporary workers. After a few months
working for them they broke the rule and hired me on as a Foreman. I
worked the night shift with the cleaning crew with my major responsibility
being getting the plant ready for the next day. I already knew the plant
and it's processes inside out. I took the job, implemented new
procedures, and during my first summer moved the plant from a food grade
“C” rating to food grade “A” rating. This changed the frequency
of Government inspections from once a week to once a product (corn, peas or
carrots). The management at Canadian Canners was very pleased.
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