-About:

• Born June 5th, 1942 at Montreal, PQ, Canada
• Raised at Winnipeg, MB, Canada
• Current resident of Calgary, AB, Canada.
• Canadian citizen with a validCanadian passport.

-Work:

I have been involved in seismic surveying since early 1960's. I have worked from coast (British Columbia) to coast (Quebec) to coast (Arctic Islands) and all parts of Canada in between. I also worked in various locations in the United States from Michigan to Louisiana.

I started programming since late 1960's with programmable calculators and since early 1970's on computers. I was programming mostly seismic surveying applications. I started with BASIC on IBM main frame with a teletype machine as the user interface and for data entry. I moved on to various mini-computers (Wang, PDP-8) and later personal computers. I developed mostly seismic survey software. During this period I kept my 'hand in' with a lot of survey field work.

I co-foundedSignal Computing Service Ltd. in the early 1980's. I developed seismic survey applications for 'in-house' survey processing and mapping and for retail consumers. I was programming in BASIC on Commodore PET's and later in QuickBasic (structured, compiled BASIC) on IBM-PC's and compatibles. I started programming in 'C' (Microsoft, Borland, Sun) in the mid 1980's and C++ (Microsoft, Borland, Inprise) in the early 1990's. In the late 1990's I developed some Java applications/applets. with both Microsoft's Visual J++ and Inprise's JBuilder, and some C++ applications with Inprise's C++Builder. I have extensive experience with 'data collectors' for the seismic survey industry, both programming them (BASIC, C) and actual field 'hands on' operations.

I spent the last twenty five years alternating between retirement and doing 'program maintenance' for various seismic survey processing companies as well as some survey consulting work for a major energy company. I find that I have a real 'knack' for 'program maintenance' and find that I enjoy the challenge. I read, somewhere, that the majority of programmers consider themselves 'developers' and don't like 'maintenance'.

Currently, I'm retired but available for any 'interesting' tasks... programming and/or surveying related.

-Play:

• Bicycling and walking.
• Traveling.
• Auctions.
• Friends and Family.
• Fooling with the computer.