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Dennis,
As per our phone conversation at 11:00 A.M. onFriday,
attached is a text-only version of my resume.

Rexford E Ballard
60 Green Ave, Madison NJ, 07940-2538
212-748-6508 (W) 201-660-0878 (H)

Objective:
A position as an Information Systems Architect.  Provide tecnical leadership
 in the development of strategic information systems solution such as Internet,
 Intranet, and real-time information processing using UNIX, PC, and specialized
 servers (Mainframes, Minis, WindowsNT).

Functional summary:
Over 17 years in strategic information systems such as Directory Assistance Systems,
 Package Tracking Systems, Financial Management Systems, and Financial Information
 Publishing Systems.  Over 6 years of leadership in defining standards used by the
 insurance industry, the publishing industry, and the financial information services
 industries, including  the Commercialization of the Internet, development of the
 World Wide Web, and adoption of Intranet technologies.

Summary of qualifications:
 UNIX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux - 16 years.
 MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95 - 10 years
 Internet/Intranet technologies (TCP/IP, SMTP, WWW, HTML, CGI) - 10 years
 MS-Office, Project Managers (Mac, Sun, Microsoft, Computer Associates, Teamwork).
 CASE (Teamwork, PowerBuilder, Irwin, Oracle, Visio) 
 Rapid Application Development  (PERL, UNIX tools, SQL, lex, yacc, awk, RPC, TCL/TK), 
 Real-time applications (Directory Assistance (cluster controllers, routers, LANs, WANs), Package tracking (imbedded systems, bar code scanning, communications, download/upload),  Financial Newsfeed Distribution (LAN, WAN, controllers, server performance,
 notification systems, alerts)
 Information Systems Architecture (UNIX, MS-Windows, MVS, VM/CMS, VMS, Windows NT, OS/2, SNA, APPC, TCP/IP, LANs, WANs, cross-platform integration).

Employment
2/1995 - 8/1996 Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill New York, NY
Director of Distribution.  Hands-on Project Management and overall responsibility
 for distribution of all electronic products, including MarketScope, Stock Reports,
 and custom databases.  Wrote specifications and utilities for these functions. 
 Utilized UNIX (Solaris, Ultrix, OSF1, Linux), Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT,
 VMS, OS/2, and customer Mainframes.  Programmed in PERL, C, C++, HTML, CGI, SQL, DCL,
 Basic, and Visual Basic.  Used Office, Excell, Access, and Visio.  Trained Network
 Administrator for transition from DecNet to TCP/IP and T1 Frame Relay, including IP
 Routing/Filtering, Firewalls, TN3270, NIS, DNS, NFS, LAN/WAN, routers (Cisco, WellFleet),
 CSU, DSU, FRADs, and ISDN/Routers.

1/1993 - 2/1995 Dow Jones Information Services Princeton, NJ
Responsible for developing new distribution strategies to support new product development.
 Projects included multicasted news feeds, satellite distribution and CD-ROM distribution
 of  DowVision news feeds.  Led the effort to put Dow Jones on the Internet.  Used UNIX
 (HP/UX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, OSF/1, Linux), Windows (3.1, NT 3.51), C, PERL, HTML,
 CGI, Sockets.  Used DataScopes and statistical tools.  Used Office, Excel, Access, and
 Visio.  Trained Staff and Management in TCP/IP, Transistioning from X.25 to TCP/IP,
 Routers, FireWalls, Filtering, Proxies, Kerberos, HTML, CGI, and Object Oriented Stream
 protocols (JAVA).  Introduced Winsock, Trumpet (Winsock Implementation), Cello, Mosaic,
 and NetScape to Dow Jones management and staff.

1/1992-12/1992 Open Systems & Internet Consulting Colorado and New York
Consulted for IBM and Softronics on projects based on the adoption of Open Systems. 
 Projects included development of Remote Procedure Calls, adoption of General Public
 License Software by IBM, and implementation of X11/R4 on IBM ESA Mainframes (3090 and
 ES9000) running AIX in Native and VM environments.   Led development of "Internet For
 the Rest Of Us" package, including discussions which led to HTML browsers (predecessors
 of Mosaic and Netscape).  Programmed in C, C++, imake, SQL, PERL.  Used Sockets, RPC,
 DCE, Threads, Motif, and client/server tools.

1/1990 - 1/1992 Great West Life Insurance Englewood, Colorado
Responsible for technical infrastructure and architecture of 5 divisions, including 100
 Sun Workstations and 500 Windows Personal Computers.  Responsibilities included
 development of system integration facilities using Sockets, PERL, C, C++, JCL, RPC,
 NIS,  development, audio response systems, and performance management including use
 of Sun Net Manager, SNMP, Sniffers, Lan Analysers, and Oracle Statistics.

11/1987 - 1/1990 Federal Express Corporation Colorado Springs, CO
As a senior programmer/analyst and engineer, led the effort to make the "SuperTracker"
 hand-held computer (predecessor to PDAs) reliable and fault tolerant.  Also helped to
 design and implement strategic information systems that made it possible to predict
 and manage resource allocation in real-time.  Contributions of my teams ultimately
 led to savings of $2 million/day and a Malcolm Baldridge award for Federal Express. 
 Lead comprehensive evaluation of LAN/WAN strategies to integrate Mainframes, Minis,
 Workstations, and Personal Computers.  Programmed in FORTH, C, C++, BASIC, DCL, JCL,
 and Shells.  Used DataScopes, Logic Analysers, Oscilliscopes, static guns.  Used
 CADRE TEAMWORK for system analysis and design.  Used VAX, VM/CMS 3090-400, X.25,
 Ethernet, TCP/IP, PC, MacIntosh, Apollo, Sun.

6/1982 - 11/1987  Computer Consoles (Now British Telecom)  Rochester, NY
As a Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, performed analysis, design,
 implementation, testing, support, and integration of directory assistance systems
 on proprietary systems based on IMS and on Open Systems based on UNIX and Intranet
 technology.  Developed databases, operating systems, and applications for distributed
 processing systems of up to 1000 CPUs in fault tolerant (99.997% uptime) configurations.
  This work led to many of the standards which are now used on the Internet and Intranet.
  Part of a "special forces" unit dedicated to quickly resolving breakdowns resulting
 from capacities that doubled every 6 months.  Programmed in C, FORTH, Assembler (PDP-11,
 8085, 8086).  Used DataScopes, Logic Analysers, Test Data Generators, Stiffers, X.25,
 TCP/IP, Sockets.  Designed Routers and Terminal Servers.  Used PDP-11, VAX, TAHOE (RISC
 Processor), PC, MacIntosh, SUN(1).

Education
1974 - 1979 Loretto Heights College Denver, CO
BA in Music/Theater Management.  Trained in management and coordination of teams consisting
 of diverse skill sets ranging from Actors, Dancers, Musicians and Artists to Stage Hands,
 Ticket Sellers and Investors.  4 years equivalency.

1977 - 1978  Arapaho Community College  Littleton, CO
Business Management Classes,  College Level Examination Program (CLEP).  About 3 years
 equivalency.

Other Education

1991 - 1996  Landmark Education Denver CO, Edison NJ, New York NY
Leadership Training Programs including Cirriculum for Living (Forum, Advanced Course,
 Self Expression and Leadership Program), Introduction to the Forum Leaders Program
 (training in enrollment and empowering others),  Team Management Leadership Program
 (team building, project management, team leadership, training and development,
 enrollment).  Team Leadership Program (accountability, enrollment, team creation,
 team management, and empowerment). 

Seminars on Integrity, Commitment, Leadership, Excellence, and Power and Achievement.
 Assisting on Production, Registration, Enrollment, and Management teams.

Other Business & Technical Courses
Denver  CO, Rochester NY, Colorado Springs
Dale Carnagie Course, Yourdon/Demarco System Analysis & Design,
 Ward/Mellor Real-Time Analysis & Design,  CACI Network Modelling,
 Project Management (Microsoft Project).

References
Available on Request

Volunteer experience
  1968-1970 Amateur Radio License (General Class WA0WMY)- President of Radio Club
  1970-1978 - Deacon, Elder in Church., Theater Productions, Concert Choir,
              National Honor Society.
  1992 - present - Assist at Landmark training people to lead communities.

Publications
 Regular Contributor to Internet news groups.  Helped build on-line-newspapers mailing
 list from 40 subscribers to over 4500 subscribers.  Wrote 700 pages worth of postings
 to help commercialize the Internet.

Contributor to General Public License (GPL) software pool, including work-for-hire that
 lead to JAVA (Dow Data Protocol), Client/Server computing (RPC), and Linux.

Introduced TCP/IP, Internet, Intranet, and Linux for Corporate use.  Promoted and
 supported their commercial acceptance in the face of no paid advertising.

Web Pages @ http://cnj.digex.net/rballard

Awards received
Malcolm Baldridge Award (Received by Federal Express team 4 months after I left).
Participated in ISO-9000 certification of IBM.



	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
	http://cnj.digex.net/~rballard




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