Alan Richmond's Employment History
Curious Minds, EncycloZine, internet.com (WDVL), CyberWeb SoftWare, NASA/GSFC HEASARC, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Space Telescope Science Institute, Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Joint European Torus, Doel nuclear power, Wimpey Laboratories.
| Employer: | Self | Location: | Herefordshire, UK | Dates: | 8.2004 - present |
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| Duties | Created Curious Minds. Located suppliers. Developed and maintained website using osCommerce. Selected, priced, and added new products to website. Created graphics, took product photos as necessary Advertising and promotion, esp. Google AdWords, magazine ads. Developed new products, e.g. Rainbow Spectrum Kit. Planned business. | ||||
| Employer: | Self | Location: | Charlottesville, VA | Dates: | 3.99 - present |
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| Duties | Editor and webmaster. Development of EncycloZine - a concise illustrated encyclopedia comprising 3 subsites: Artzia (arts, history, and humanities), Eluzions (games, illusions, and puzzles), and Kosmoi (then science, nature, & technology, now photograph album). Wrote and commissioned articles on educational topics. Developed maintenance utilities, style sheets, and other web support. Integrated XML feeds. | ||||
| Employer: | internet.com | Location: | Charlottesville, VA | Dates: | 3.98 - 3.99 |
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| Duties | Operated WDVL.com - one of the web's most popular web developer sites; articles and links (internet.com). Wrote and commissioned articles on web development. Coordinated remote staff and authors from home office. Liaised with head office in Westport, CT. Grew site's monthly page views from 1 to 3 million, resulting in much-increased advertising revenue. | ||||
| Employer: | Self | Location: | Lanham, Washington DC | Dates: | 2.95 - 2.98 |
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Designed and built web sites for clients. Founded Web Developer's Virtual Library (WDVL.com). Wrote and commissioned articles on web development. Developed content, maintenance utilities, style sheets, and other web support. Presented advanced HTML & CGI tutorials at many conferences, including two tutorials in the International World Wide Web Conferences series. Sold WDVL to Mecklermedia (now internet.com). |
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| Employer: | Hughes/STX (Raytheon) | Location: | NASA/GSFC, Washington DC | Dates: | 3.93 - 8.95 |
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Research and development of heterogeneous analysis and data base environments to provide generic software tools for astronomers, esp. an interactive web site to query astronomical satellite data. Group leader for 6 programmers. Monitored the technical performance of staff in the group; reviewed deliverables & enforced applicable standards & procedures; provided presentation of the group's activity in the monthly review meetings; performed annual reviews & recommended salary actions. Web projects: W3Browse Query astrophysics satellite data and deliver products (e.g. images). RPS Remote Proposal Submission system. WebStars Astrophysics in Cyberspace (paper). StarChild A Learning Center for Young Astronomers (proposal). Gatewayed several astronomical tools to the WWW. Founded & led Space Science Web Group. Created A Basic HTML Style Guide. Presented work on XVT & WWW at the ADASS conferences (III and IV). Made several presentations about the WWW at GSFC. |
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| Employer: | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Location: | Grenoble, France | Dates: | 11.90 - 3.93 |
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| Duties | Allocated and monitored tasks of 4 programmers. Developed GUIs for beamline experiments, attenuator, & slit control. Implemented software & documentation standards; developed documentation utilities & a standard ESRF style. Founded Software Practices Group & led the development of General Programming Standards. Wrote Software Development Manual. Introduced SPR (Software Problem Reporting) system. Developed an application framework to support GUI development. Rewrote Proteus user interface toolkit to facilitate porting classical applications to X-windows on UNIX workstations. | ||||
| Employer: | Space Telescope Science Institute | Location: | Baltimore, USA | Dates: | 8.88 - 5.90 |
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| Duties | Developed user interfaces for HST scientific operations. Enhanced the Proposal Entry Processor software, e.g. addition of Solar System Target List. This system is the astronomer's primary interface for specifying proposed observations & ensuring that the proposals are syntactically correct & apparently feasible. Wrote HST Resource Usage Tool. Attended US National Conference on Software Reusability. Liaised with European colleagues. | ||||
| Employer: | Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility | Location: | Garching-bei-München, Germany | Dates: | 7.85 - 7.88 |
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| Duties | Developed user interfaces for HST scientific operations. Designed and developed STARCAT to allow astronomers to browse the HST Archive and to request images stored on optical disks. Developed a user interface toolkit, Proteus, to support STARCAT & other applications worldwide. Led ESO working group on software standards, & the European Space Information System (ESIS) working group on User Interface Requirements. | ||||
| Employer: | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | Location: | Garching-bei-München, Germany | Dates: | 6.83 - 6.86 |
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JET was the world's largest magnetic confinement fusion experiment which aimed at confirming the scientific theory of fusion and the scientific feasibility of nuclear fusion for power generation. Designed and developed user interfaces and control and data acquisition software for plasma diagnostics; installed and commissioned at JET. |
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| Employer: | Tractebel | Locations: | Brussels, Belgium, and JET, Culham, UK | Dates: | 4.78 - 5.83 |
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| Duties | Extended display management, database, & monitoring systems for Doel 3 nuclear power stations [FORTRAN on Gould SEL with RTM OS]. Transferred to JET, Culham, where I designed and developed real-time and interactive components of the control and data acquisition database system (CODAS). | ||||
| Employer: | Wimpey Laboratories | Location: | Hayes, MX, UK | Dates: | 9.75 - 3. 78 |
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| Duties | Supported users, specified requirements, designed, documented & programmed civil engineering applications. Constructed scientific laboratory database systems, e.g. off-line storage of test results for graphics plot. [FORTRAN on PDP 11's with RSX/11M OS, & on ICL 1900's with GEORGE 3 OS]. | ||||
