Career Summary

KARL STAHMER 2411 Midway Blvd. Wausau, WI 54403-7051 (715) 842-3265 [email protected]

CAREER SUMMARY

Highly experienced Senior Programmer Analyst with strong background in mathematics and physics combined with extensive background in UNIX System Administration. Now seeking to refocus professional efforts on creating original, innovative programs as an integral member of a cutting-edge organization committed to challenging pure research and advanced technical development.

C++ proc Java Perl FORTRAN tcsh Pascal COBOL ksh sh PL/SQL rsh HTML Lua Net.Data WebSphere csh JCL AIX SP Solaris HPUX SCO UNICOS UNIX CMOS MVS VM/SP Pentium III MSDOS LINUX RSTS/E TOPS-20 Terak Marmot Harris XCAL CAL2 FASM PDP-1170 MACRO-11 Sequent Symmetry

 Gained more than seven years experience through completion of progressively more complex projects as a Senior Programmer Analyst with the offline diagnostics division of a leading-edge developer of supercomputing systems.  Have been involved in finding/implementing practical solutions for high volume e-business clients.  Have compiled a record of bringing about improvements in diagnostic and application tools and procedures that have contributed to efficiency, customer satisfaction, and bottom-line profitability.  Demonstrated consistent effectiveness in making incompatible systems compatible and producing efficiencies by distributing tasks among different languages and operating systems.  Regularly exhibited ability to create innovative, versatile, and portable programs that are fast, maintainable, and efficient.  Will work for professional satisfaction by seeking, identifying, and meeting new challenges in producing complex, functional system designs that are exact, efficient, and elegant.  Made contributions that have earned both formal and informal recognition from top-level executive management.  Can draw on academic background that includes substantial PhD work with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. Proficient in German and familiar with Spanish.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Berbee Information Networks Corporation, Madison, WI Since 1993, Berbee has delivered appropriate computer networking and Internet business-driven solutions that satisfy three essential needs: innovation, integration and management.

Software Engineer, E-Business Group January 2000 – Present

 Wrote an innovative, versatile C++ program, with embedded PL/SQL, that automatically created Picking Truck reports for a multibillion-dollar industrial and safety supply company. This program extracted its information from several databases and wrote collated reports that saved the company hundreds of man-hours of work per year.  Took two intensive courses to become a fluent user of IBM's WebSphere in order to work with Lands' End's Corporate Sales Division and IBM's IGS Group to add enhancements to the sales function on Lands' End's web site, landsend.com. Modified a C++ overrideable function to eliminate a 10K size limit on the same SKU unit. This modification will bring millions of dollars in new sales to the site each year. Karl Stahmer - Page Two

 Added general admission sales capability to Ticket King-supported sites, which previously handled only reserved seating events. Edited AET files along with their Lua scripts to give a distinct presentation for general admission events.  Also, greatly simplified the season ticket renewal purchasing process for Daytona customers by creating CGIs written in ANSI C.

Wausau Insurance Companies (WIC), Wausau, WI Founded Sept. 1, 1911, this outstanding company has provided products and services that are at the forefront of the commercial insurance industry.

Senior Technical Analyst December 1996 – January 2000

 Developed monitor, a robust and broadly applicable tool, to check the OCR/ICR integrity of FileNET. It is an efficient UNIX daemon that finds failures, takes corrective actions, and informs operators of problems and implemented solutions via email or pager. Its reports include all FileNET (fnsw) batch processing errors and the precise identification of batches that failed to commit as well as their times of occurrence.  Wrote monitor that reports errors and crashes on WIC's 17 Lotus Notes servers, which handle all company email. Its use has resulted in a significant reduction of Notes downtime, cutting annual dollar losses from tens of thousands to mere hundreds.  Created a proc command called subnet. This C++ program describes, at a user-specified level of detail, any collection of nodes on a subnet for any combination of subnets. It takes only milliseconds to provide needed, precise, and current configuration files describing all primary servers, routers, switches, and hubs for each subnet on the network. This efficient compiled program was particularly indispensable during WIC's implementation of SNMP.  Developed decode, a C++ program that insures attorney/client privilege by encrypting legal documents that are transferred between UNIX and Windows NT servers. Decode prompts originators for 32 digit keys, which, along with certain Algebraic Number and Group Theory concepts and C++ bit manipulation techniques, encrypt documents on source servers. The same source code is used for decode on AIX, Solaris, and NT servers.

CRAY Research, Inc., Diagnostic Systems Department, Chippewa Falls, WI This premier high-end supercomputer company is dedicated to helping customers solve the most demanding, crucial computing problems on the planet.

Senior Programmer Analyst (final position held) March 1985 - March 1992

 Designed, tested, and implemented the C program crinet, the CRAY Research, Inc. (CRI) network, configuration, and installation program.  Developed a series of C programs to read and write FLOAD @ and INITIALIZED tapes from a Sequent Symmetry server, simulating DSS commands. Moreover, this software package permitted a Diagnostic Release tape to be comprised of any collection of binaries.  Wrote a UNIX command utility program called bins46, which translated binary code into a format, that YMP simulator could interpret. Previously CRI engineers and developers performed the laborious and time consuming work of manually entering all simulator code, which could range from ten thousand to several million lines of assembly code each.  Completed a major mathematical modelling project that provided a valuable planning and evaluation tool for field engineers and managers known as the Hardware Index Formula. It produced global ratings determined by the management objectives established by the Hardware Product Support Department. EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin – Madison Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate) Bachelor of Science MAJOR: Mathematics MAJOR: Mathematics MINOR: Computer Science GPA: 3.75 / 4.00