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I am responding to your web page which lists several positions for which I
may be qualified.  The most interesting of these seems to be the position
for an Applications System Architect.

In this position, you request someone to take a leading technical role in
building the architecture for ICD and for Novell to maximize it's
opportunities in the emerging network-access applications marketplace,
especially as it pertains to the internet and related world wide
communications.

I have been a technical supporter of the internet infrastructure since
1983 and have been an active leader in the commercialization of the
internet since 1990.  My efforts included leading Federal Express in it's
adoption of TCP/IP and the Unix Operating system, Writing proposals for
the chairman LOMA Insurance Industry's Architecture and Infrastructure
committee, making reccomendations and providing "success stories" within
Great West Life.  I also provided support for IBM's transition to Opens
Systems architecture both for OS/2 and AIX/ESA.

I helped develop one of the first "Internet for non-technical users"
packages.  In 1992, I had a conversation with the Director of MCI's Frame
Relay Sales department which led to their sponsorship of the National
Science Foundation telecommunications in a manner which made NSF databases
available to commercial users.  This was the beginning of the exponential
growth of the commercial internet.

I have also advised 4500 publishers including Dow Jones, the New York
Times, Meckler Media, the Los Angeles Times, and McGraw-Hill on internet
strategy since 1991.  I have also been responsible for private corporate
use of TCP/IP for corporate distribution of news feeds throughout the
wire-services industry.  Some of this has been through employment, and
some of this has been through internet Mailing lists.

The Dow Jones' "DowVision on the Internet" demonstration was frequently
used by spokesmen such as Brewster Kale (Of WAIS Inc.) on national
media to promote the concept of commercial use of the internet.  I have
also served as ghost-writer to Greg Gerdy, Phil Sanderson, and Walt Arvin,
leaders in the product management of commercial internet products.

My experience with Novell goes back to 1981, when they sold workstations
running CP/M and servers programmed in FORTH and later Unix.  I have also
reccomended Novell to Federal Express and devised several strategies to
support interoperability between NetWare and TCP/IP.

	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
	http://cnj.digex.net/~rballard
	ballardr@mgh.com (alternate e-mail)

  Rex Ballard: Director of Electronic Distribution
  Over 17 years Engineering & Management Experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  SOFTWARE: Web, Internet, NetScape, Mosaic, Oracle, DB/2, Sybase, C, Perl, CGI, HTML, C++, Java
  TECHNIQUES:	Structured Methodology,  CASE, ISO 9000, Object Oriented Design, Real-Time.
		Project Managers (Microsoft, MacIntosh, Sun, CA).
  O/S:	UNIX(SysVR4, BSD, AIX, SunOS, OSF/1, Ultrix, Linux)   MS-DOS, Windows (3.1,NT)
	OS/2, Forth,  VMS, MVS/XA, VM/CMS.

HUMAN RELATIONS/LEADERSHIP:
	Vendors/Purchasing & Evaluations.  Customer support, Sales support.
	Managing technical projects and teams. Leading Management teams.


EXPERIENCE:
3/95 To Present  MAJOR PUBLISHER - DIRECTOR of ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION.
Responsible for project management of over 60  projects to provide
electronic news services including MarketScope, Index Alert, and  Stock
Reports real-time feeds, along with supporting tape and dial-up
services.   Responsible for initiating and causing McGraw-Hill
participation on the Internet and  World Wide Web. Provided support to
several of the other McGraw-Hill companies to  aid in their
participation on the McGraw-Hill home pages.

1/93-3/94  PUBLISHER - PROJECT MANAGER of ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION
Responsible for technical Project Management of over 40 Joint Venture
projects used to distribute  electronic news including CD-ROM, TCP/IP,
X.25, Internet, Satellite, and Dial-up Services.  Lead team of Managers
to develop telecommunications protocols and support for Internet
Protocols, a predecessor to JAVA. Developed point to point protocol for
supporting TCP/IP over, Async RS232, V.32/MNP, X.3 PAD, X.25, and LU-1
(flip-flop) networks.  These were ported to MVS, VMS, UNIX, and
Microsoft Windows.  Responsible for providing information on Internet,
WAIS, MOSAIC, and Markup Languages  (HTML, SGML) for use with other Dow
Jones Products. Generated new clients, alliance  developers, and
customers through dialogues on Internet Mailing Lists and News
Groups.

Hosts supported included UNIX (Hewlett Packard, SUN, and DEC), VMS (DEC),
MVS/ESA (IBM), Microsoft Windows (3.0, NT,  Chicago/Windows 95), Tandem.

7/92 - 1/93 MAJOR COMPUTER VENDOR - CONSULTANT.
Responsible for port of X11R5 to IBM AIX-ESA for 3090 and ES9000
Mainframes running Native and under  VM/CMS. Responsible for Migration
into IBM Production Control System.  Responsible for
Internationalization extensions to X11R5, Motif, and various
applications.

2/92 - 7/92 SMALL SOFTWARE COMPANY -DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & ARCHITECTURE (Consulting).
Plan, organize, direct and guide teams of software engineers in the
development of a new workstation package intended to make the Internet
available to non-technical users, on Windows and OS/2.  Responsible for
Internet Site administration and development including; UNIX system
procurement, installation, and integration. Served as primary contact
for Internet coordination. Strategic participation in production work.

10/91-2/92 MAJOR COMPUTER VENDOR - MANAGER/CONSULTANT.
Site Manager for Vendor on Premise contract at IBM. Lead a team of
engineers in the development of a client/server  architecture on an
OS/2 platform. Utilized OS/2, C, and VM/CMS and LU6.2/APPC.   Found
ways to save the company $30 Million in development costs.

4/90-10/91 MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANY - SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER.
Member of the technical infrastructure team of the Group Pension
Division. Designed systems to monitor  and configure networks of Sun,
Solbourn, MVS, and MS-DOS computers and workstations. Proactive
approach  used to justify, order, and upgrade systems before situations
became critical. Provided direction and training for C programmers in
X11, System V IPC, RPC, sockets and other advanced programming skills.
Saved company  $30 Million through reallocation from Propriatary to
Open systems.

SENIOR TECHNICAL SPECIALIST. Worked in the architecture and planning
group. Performed analysis,  design, specification, and implementation
of PC/MS-DOS, SUN/UNIX, and 3090/MVS integration software  and
hardware.

  11/87 - 12/89 MAJOR AIR COURIER - PROGRAMMER/ANALYST.
Part of the Tracker development team developing firmware and software
for the package tracking system  (COSMOS-IIB). Was also part of a task
force formed to integrate PC/MS-DOS, APOLLO, SUN, VAX/VMS, MVS/TSO,
MVS/IMS, and VM/CMS systems. Responsible for the planning, vendor
contact, coordination,  staging, and testing of vendor's integration
products. The Tracker is the PDA used by couriers in the field.
Received 3 achievment awards for innovations that saved the company
over $300 Million/year.   COSMOS Project received the Malcolm Baldridge
Award in 1990.

  6/82 - 11/87 TELEPHONY INFORMATION SERVICE PROVIDER - SOFTWARE ENGINEER.
Worked on fault tolerant systems development including; directory
assistance, customer name and address,  audio response, direct audio
intercept, emergency assistance (911) dispatch among others. Developed
inter-system communications processes and UNIX system interfaces to
OLTP, keyboard display update client  and server, audit trails,
tape/network update. Created cluster controller software for UNIX,
front end  processors, distributed processing systems, and virtual
calls (RPC).  Also worked with UNIX Kernel group on  porting effort (to
Motorola 68010 and TAHOE/RISC). Familiar with UNIX internals.
Throughout, I was "Special Forces", moved directly into critical-path
projects to resolve crises with average of $30 Million/Quarter at stake.

Data Law Corp. Denver, CO
  9/81 - 6/82 SMALL SOFTWARE COMPANY - SOFTWARE DESIGNER.
Wrote emulation of networked relational and ISAM database, user
interfaces and on-line help for legal  office automation and accounting
packages. Did a port from IBM Series 1 / EDX to CP/M using Microsoft
BASIC and Assembler.  Work included patches to CP/M BDOS to optimize
network traffic. One of Novell's first  customers.

1979 - 1981
  Taught programming  (Basic, Pascal, Forth)
  Sold micro computers in a retail environment.
  1974-1979
  Sold consumer electronics products often at the leading edge of a trend.
  	CB radios (74-75)
  	Stereos and VCRs (77-78)
  	VCRs and Video Games (78-79)
  	Home Computers(79-80)
  	Business Computers (80-81)

  General class Ham Radio License since 1969.
  Computer Hobbyist/Programmer since 1975.
  	Built computer from 8080 in 1975.


Education and Training Programs
  Dale Carnagie - Public Speaking, Human Relations
  Landmark Education - Human Relations, Communication, Team building, Project Management, Leadership.
  Loretto Heights College - BA Music/Theater-Directing, Business Management (1974-1979).
  Arapahoe Community College - Business Management Courses (1977).
  College Level Examination Program (CLEP) general science, humanities, math -  2 year equivalency (1978).
  Volunteer activities - Leadership roles, board of directors on NPO since 1970.
  City, State, National accountabilities in organizations of over 2 million people.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Sat Apr  6 20:11:05 1996