L. Adrian Griffis

Software developer with 30 years of experience designing and programming systems, solving problems, teaching/mentoring, and leading other team members.

Programming experience includes the following:

Programming Languages: 8080/8085/Z-80, 6502, 6800, 6805, 6809, 6811, 8048, 68000 family, 8086/8088, 360/370/4381 Assembly Languages and Architectures; BASIC (various dialects); FORTRAN (various dialects); PL/I; Unix Shells; C; awk; PERL; TCL (expect); m4; SQL; Java (mainly Servlets under Apache JServ and Tomcat w/JDBC); REXX; JCL;

Platforms: VM/SP CMS; OS/360-MVT with HASP; OS/VS1; Unix (Linux, System V, Solaris, AIX, etc...); Internet Utilities (telnet, ftp, etc...); TCP/IP suite and network problem resolution; uucp; IBM 370/4381; AT&T 3B2, 3B15; Sun; UseNet/Internet Services (C-News; inn; Gopher; http; DNS; sendmail);

Professional Experience

Unix System Admin/System Programmer - August 1997 to February 2010

DST, Kansas City, Missouri (as consultant for first 9 months). Unix system administration, security, and networking issues.

• Solved political issues with web infrastructure updates by writing WRAS (Web Request Automation System), a Java based web application (final size was ~120,000 lines). WRAS usage grew to ~300 request per business day.
• Used WRAS to automate collection of security audit data.
• Automated various file transfers by writing ~20,000 lines of code in Perl. Eventually, more than 250 customers used this system.
• Manage group's source code by establishing instance of Subversion.
• Established system to help track hundreds of Unix-like systems by adding appropriate capabilities to WRAS.
• Added user account management capabilities to WRAS.
• Investigated and documented our responses to Y2K concerns.
• Investigated various conflicts beween our group and other groups and made recommendations for resolving them.

Consultant (Unix Support/Networking) - September 1995 to July 1997

Hewlett Packard, Bentonville Arkansas. On HP's Wal-Mart account support team.

• Fixed customer problems at home office and stores.
• Wrote a Backup/Disaster Recovery System where system could be restored by booting from the backup tape.
• Documented disaster recover process, so help desk personel could more easily coach stores through such recoveries.
• Wrote diagnostic log monitoring tool.

Consultant (Unix/C Programming) - March 1995 to August 1995

Pizza Hut HQ, Wichita Kansas, via Enterprise Systems Associates.

• Symplified, debugged, and corrected store management software.

Instructor/Consultant (Networking and Unix System Administration and Security) - May 1992 to March 1995

Edwards Air Force Base, California, via Control Data Systems, via NorthStar Consulting.

• Taught classes in:
  • Unix Basics;
  • C Programming;
  • X-Windows;
  • Networking;
  • Advanced Unix;
  • Advanced C Programming.
• Assisted/advised in admin of a number of Unix machines. Wrote custom utilities.
• Investigated various freeware tools for potential use by the Air Force.

Consultant (Unix System Administration) - September 1991 to March 1992

AT&T, Kansas City Data Center, Kansas City Missouri, via Enterprise Systems Associates Inc.

• Managed 15 Unix machines and assisted with many others.
• Set up chroot() environment to give developers access to system dump analysis tool.
• Wrote utility to allow us to manipulate processes managed by init.
• Set up automatic paging system.

System Designer and Programmer - October 1989 to April 1991

Electromap, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

• Added HP ThinkJet driver to old atlas program.
• Developed version 2.x of World Atlas Driver (also used in US Atlas).
  NOTE: This product is marketed under the name "The Software Toolworks World Atlas".

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville