Smart Goldfish to Donate: Houston (Northwest Area)

Hi,

I may have two goldfish to donate in case I have to move. One of them is
relatively aware and friendly, for a goldfish. So I did not just want
to put them in a nearby pond or lake. They are both around three inches
at present.

If someone has experience taking gentle care of goldfish: please let me
know in advance if you'd like to have them. Assuming I do have to move
to get a software contract.

Thanks,

Gerard Gold, MSCS


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When you read my resume, please can you do this?

Could you tell me which skill areas
close to my experience, are commanding
the highest demand recently?

I would like to focus most on those areas
when I use new features, while I'm looking for
a contract.

Thanks for your time,


GERARD A. GOLD, MSCS, MBA

Mobile: 1-832-858-6797


Primary Experience
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Software QA Development & Tools Maintenance


Skills
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* QA specifications, test scenario development, test design &
coding.

* Test execution & problem resolution. Test tools &
shell script development. UNIX, Windows & Guardian. C,
C++, Java.

Also Competent In
=================
* System Administration

* Development of Investment Analysis, Portfolio & Risk
Management Software Systems




Software Consultant in Test Development: 10+ years

Sample clients: Tandem (HP), Sun Microsystems

* Performed functional, positive, negative, and boundary test
development and
automation within test harnesses. Designed and developed 100,000+ lines of
programs in "C" and TAL programming languages, as well as OSS (UNIX)
scripts, to
test Tandem fault-tolerant (hardware + software redundant)
transaction-assured
systems – especially Enscribe FS using TAL test code with TACL scripts;
and prior to
that OSS FS system calls using C and Tandems UNIX emulation tools. The
primary
objective was to verify compliance of multiple releases with POSIX and
other open-
system/UNIX standards, as well as to check fault-tolerance (Tandem's
strength) and
performance. Used TET (Test Environment Toolkit) as the main harness for
UNIX-
related testing. Performed code reviews, white-box testing and
functional testing.
Executed test suites over several releases for regression testing.

* Used Tandem Guardian, SCF, Tandem subsystems and utilities. Booted
systems with
new OS Images. Reviewed system code and reported problems. Some Perl
evaluation
for test scripting. Used code coverage tools to indicate where more test
code had to
be added.

* Planned, tracked, and reported on progress of multiple projects.
Helped select and
train new software engineers.

* Designed, developed, fixed and upgraded 100,000+ lines of test program
systems in
"C" language to verify X/Motif graphical interface implementation on
Sun's Solaris
(UNIX) OS running on Intel & Sparc hardware-based desktop workstations.
Tested
several releases, assisted system developers with problem identification
and
debugging. Substantial personal responsibility for UNIX system
administration at Sun.


Taos Mountain Software, Mountain View, California: 4 years
Software Engineering Consultant

* Worked as software consultant on assignments to various companies, for
contracts ranging from a few months to over a year in duration;
Mindcraft, Palo
Alto; Digital Equipment Western Research Labs: Palo Alto; Sony Microsystems
UNIX workstation group: San Jose; Sun Microsystems: Mountain View; Kubota
Systems high-powered workstation group: Santa Clara.

* Designed and developed software programs, mainly to test (operating)
system
calls, and related software libraries: totaling over 200,000+ lines of
code written
in "C," Objective C, UNIX shell scripts, on AIX, NextStep and other
variants of
UNIX; some of it sold commercially to other companies. Also performed some
manual and programmatically recorded point-and-click testing of graphically
oriented software packages. Assisted with analysis and debugging of systems
software and other software packages. Lots of POSIX conformance work,
especially for file system, at both the system call and shell level.
Also used
capture & playback test harnesses for some GUI-centric applications. Learnt
Objective-C and programmed on the job.



EDUCATION & Certification Exams
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* CFA: Chartered Financial Analyst Exams, Levels 1-3: Passed from 2003-2006

* Finance & investments: Optimizing financing structure between common
stock,
preferred, and bonds. Hedging oil & other input prices.

* Bond portfolio management: duration management.

* Insurance investment management: cash flow matching, surplus
investment.

* Hedging of fuel & other raw material and input expenses.

* FRM: Financial Risk Manager exam: Passed in 2004

*Managing financial risk related to markets and operations within units
and
company-wide. Integrated asset risk reduction using covariance projection
based on historical and predicted variances and correlations under
normal and
extreme market situations.

* MBA, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA: 2001
* Business Decision Analysis & Forecasting, Corporate Financial
Analysis, Cost
Accounting, Financial Accounting, Investments, Managerial Accounting,
Marketing & Sales Management, Operations Management.

* Budgeting, forecasting, working capital management.

* Used MS Excel & add-ins, Power Point, and Project.

* Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
* Data Structures, Graphical Methods, Numerical Methods, Algorithms,
Programming Languages.

* Programmed in Ada, Algol, BASIC, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP,
Pascal, Prolog; SQL for DB course.

* Used operating systems: UNIX, PRIME/OS.

* Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in BASIC & Pascal.

* Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Inst. Of Tech.,
Madras
* Drafting, Fluid Mechanics, Metrology, Queuing Simulations,
Thermodynamics, Ultrasound Machining.
* Alternative energy overview including nuclear and solar energy systems
design.

* University of California Extension Classes:
* UNIX Kernel, Java, Marketing, Accounting, Networking.




ADDENDA
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DEVELOPMENT-RELATED SKILLS
==========================
* System-level source code review / white-box test for early bug detection
and fixes.

* Automated test software planning, design, scenario development,
implementation, execution, debugging and reporting.

* Types of dynamic tests developed: Functional/positive, negative,
boundary,
error and performance testing.


OPERATING SYSTEMS
=================
* UNIX applications programming: am familiar with UNIX system calls from
several hundred invocations for POSIX 1003.1 automated test suite
development, and other coding involving system call invocation.

* UNIX file system-calls: access, chmod, chown, chroot, close, creat,
close,
dup, dup2, fcntl, fstat, lseek, mknod, open, pipe, read, stat, write.

* UNIX process control system-calls: alarm, fork, exec, exit, getpid,
getppid,
getuid, kill, setpgrp, setuid, signal, wait.

* Underlying UNIX variant: AIX, HP-UX, OSS, Solaris, Ultrix, UTS, and
others.

* Used Tandem Guardian when working at Tandem/HP.

* Used MS Windows for some C++ & Java programming coursework.

* Used Access for POS work.

* Used Prime on minicomputer systems at University of Kentucky.

* Used other operating systems, including a mainframe for Ada coursework at
University of Kentucky, and a batch-programming system with cards for
FORTRAN coursework at IIT, Madras.

* Have most recently (June 2009) used UNIX system calls on a free UNIX
shell account at Arbornet.


PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
=====================
* Most recently used: C, Tandem Transaction Application Language (TAL).

* Recently used: C++, Java.

* Previously used: Objective-C, Pascal, FORTRAN, Prolog, LISP, Ada,
COBOL, and other languages.

* Have most recently (June 2009) programmed in C on a free UNIX shell
account at Arbornet.


SHELL SCRIPTING
===============
* Korn, Bourne, and C shell scripting.
* Some shell scripting on other operating systems.
* Some previous use of Perl.

DEBUGGERS
=========
* Source level debugging with sdb and adb, as well as Tandem debugging,
primarily using conditional in-code debugger activation.

* Some previous debugging of C++ and Java code using a debugger
installed on Windows.

Other skills
============
* System code coverage tools for test-ware improvement.

* Tandem Subsystem Control Facility for hardware and subsystem control for
Tandem machine administration.

* Installed updated operating system images on Tandem fault-tolerant
systems.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
======================
* U.S. citizen.

* Relocation: Will handle by myself.

* References at offer.