I have been on the ARPANET since January 1979:
       From Jan 1979 to March 1980 as a MIT ITS Tourist
From March 1980 to September 1980 as a Research assistant in AI at Rutgers
 From September 1980 to December 1981 as a Systems Programmer for Rutgers
    From January 1982 to January 1983 as a Systems Programmer for USC-ECL
	From January 1983 to January 1984 as a Systems Programmer for
		BBN Communications
	From January 1984 to June 1989 as a systems programmer for
		Boston University
	I have been disabled since June 1989 until the present.
	While being disabled: I worked for XKL Systems LLC

			Accomplishments:

Stevens Institute of Technology:
	Maintained REMECH (a Reaction Mechanism program) for Dr.
	Van Der Veen (from the Chemistry Department). Also helped
	maintain the chemistry disks. I did some studenty things
	on the college's TOPS-10 system.

MIT: 
     Maintained mail software (arpanet wide), mailing lists, digests
     (WORKS, POLI-SCI, TELECOM.)
     Helped bring up MIT-OZ (TOPS-20), act as consultant for systems
programming staff .
     Helped maintain EMACS (Arpanet wide) 
     Driving force to keep network-wide mailing list resources running
smoothly. 
     All this without compensation from MIT in any way (except to let
me use their computing facilities without charge, for which I am
eternally grateful).


Rutgers: 

As a research assistant:
     Translated AIMDS (AI Medical Design System), a knowledge based
system originally written in Rutgers/UCI lisp, into Xlisp, an extended
lisp for TOPS-20 using tops-20 display and jsys utilities. The project
was scrapped when XLISP development stopped.

As a Systems Programmer:
     Maintained TOPS-20 MACLISP (LISP Interpreter), EMACS (Screen
Editor).
     Installed XMAILR as network mailer program.
     Wrote customized EXEC based on CMU's "Strawberry Computer Club
Exec", the MIT TOPS-20 Exec, and the Rutgers Exec. This exec has been
distributed on the EMACS distribution tape, and I have found this exec
running on alot of systems which I had never known about. This was
done on my own time as a learning exercise.
     Brought up and maintained a TOPS-20 system and three VAX/VMS
systems.
     Responsible for all software work on two VAX systems and some
software work on TOPS-20 systems.
     Installed SPSS, SCSS, other statistical packages, and maintained
correspondences with maintainers of them to report and fix bugs. User
consultant for non trivial problems, mostly Fortran (sigh).
     Attended DEC VMS Internals Course, Device Driver Course, and
simple programming (yawn) course.

ISI: 
     Helped them bring up a VAX/VMS system. Wrote part of their
ARPANET driver, and network print spooler. Assisting their effort to
improve ARPANET mail service (all unofficially, and without
compensation of course).

ECL:
     Brought up XMAILR as the new TOPS-20 network mailer.
     Installed DECNET channel in XMAILR.
     Added mail server to DECNET spool server (DCNSRV)
     Rewrote DCNSRV to handle multi forking.
     Enhanced both DCNSRV and XMAILR to handle unreliable DN20
hardware and DECNET software which is uncooperative, example: When a
DECNET node goes down, connections to other hosts are not aborted at
the foreign host end.
     Installed ZSLAVE channel (phone line mail server) and interface to
XMAILR, so UNIX hosts running MMDF can become part of our local
network and send mail to each other.
     Consulting: customized EMACS and HERMES to support client needs
(Client = Garrett, Contact = Jim Mchugh - reference if needed).
     Wrote software to control remote printer port on various terminal
types from host (trivia).
     Installed Rutgers' BBOARD program, CMU's BABYL BBoard library,
and set up a self maintaining bulletin board system receiving ARPANET
mailing list traffic in a place accessible to users.

MISC:
     Regular contributor of ideas to discussions relating to new
projects being worked on around the network, and to informal discussions.
     Extensive knowledge of mail system, user mail programs, servers,
user interaction with mail system.

UNIX:

Unix started at MIT on the Project ATHENA sites and EECS sites as
a guest doing some minor maintainence chores.

BBN communications: Fixed mail system which was out of control.
Specifics on request .

Boston University: Worked on unix sites from Sun Microsystems.
Worked on Sendmail Configuration files school wide.

Extensive UNIX training as an administrator and a programmer at
BBN Communications, and at Boston University.

Work for XKL Systems LLC, made changes to the TOPS-20 Exec
and the TOPS-20 MM mail system....

--jsol