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       JOHN-ALBERT EADIE   
       


       HIGHLIGHTS of Qualifications    

         o Recently 100% recovered from Major Depressive Episode, 
           via genius doctor who allowed me to self prescribe

           - Congratulated for working grueling day as Electoral Officer:
             manned endlessly busy polling booth (18 hours) May 2, 2011

           - Programmer (various languages) / System Administrator 1979-2011
           - Medical clerical skills - MOA background (see BOTTOM of page)
           - Intending now to return to the workplace

         o Strong Sales & technical experience with Enterprise XML publishing 
           customers, with Graphic Art sales, US & European vendors 

           - Tech support Unix, XML, and Graphic Art tools
           - Good writing & editorial skills
           - Fine Art Sensibilities

         o "First Class" degree (overall average 80%) Queen's University, Kingston ON

           - C & Is (Bachelor of Computing & Information Science) - included Fine Art
             and post-graduate courses in computer graphics, digital electronics
             Best Mark: Assembly Language programming, #1 out of 150 students 
       
           - SAT Scores:  99 Percentile English, 95 Percentile Math


       Software VAR - COMPUTING ART Inc
       
       1988-2004 President, Computing Art Inc, Toronto / Vancouver BC

           o Sales of XML Publishing / XML Transformation / ECMS (Enterprise Content 
             Management) software; also sales of XML consulting and training 
             (customers include Intel, Schlumberger, Microsoft Press)

             Customers: North America

             - Large sales (e.g. single $2.5M sale) to Nortel

             - ECMS sales:  HaL (Fujitsu) OLIAS, INSO/EBT DynaText, 
               Active ActiveServer, XNE (Xerox New Enterprises) Astoria,
               to Nortel, Newbridge, Westinghouse, and OLA (Open 
               Learning Agency), respectively. 

           o Technical support of FrameMaker (since FrameMaker 0.96b, I think)


       AS CONSULTANCY

           o 1986-1989 Technical Manager, AGS Associated Graphic Systems, Toronto

             - Solaris support, shell scripting, NeWS (postscript) programming
             - Hardware & Software support of high-end (and desktop) Graphic Art
               products (e.g. Lightspeed Colour Layout System, FrameMaker)
    
             - Support for Hyphen (Diss, UK) hi-res RIP startup

           o 1985 DCIEM Defense Research Establishment Toronto

             - Design & `C' coding of real-time human (Canadian Astronaut) 
               centrifuge controller 

           o 1984 "Co-Founder" / Technical Director ALIAS Research 
             (now ALIAS / Wavefront:  Created MAYA animation software)

             - "Lightpainter" Canada Council proposal precipitated founding
             - SGI workstation choice (1984 - Alias was first serious SGI customer)
             - Purchase of `Contour' UIMS (User Interface Management System)
             - Recruitment of all original technical personnel
             - Ownership of Alias "paint" software

               [ Legal inquiries: Morris Cooper, 99 Yorkville Ave. Toronto ]

           o 1984 Co-Wrote V-Shell, NAPLPS (Videotex) DB Server 

             - Sold V-Shell to Hyundai, S.Korea (Computing Art, prop.)


       Salaried PROFESSIONAL

           o 1979-1984 Member of Technical Staff HCR, (now SCO Canada, Toronto)
    
             - Real-time, UNIX Systems Programming
             - Animation and military research programming
             - Interface to Mike Tilson RT-11 emulator
             - 1982 First B & W Paint (rasterop) program ever written, possibly !
               (`C' code on Three Rivers Computer PERQ, traded to Lucasfilm)



       FINANCED Queen's University working in Kingston ON

            o 1974-1979 MOA Medical Office Assistant Dr. D.W. Richardson

              - Paediatric practice

              - Typing, Filing, Telephone management, Transcription
              - Counselling methamphetamine addicted adolescents 
              - Weighing of infants, preparation of specimens

              - 100% mark in Queen's pharmacy course.


       TECHNICAL skills

           o Operating Systems / Skills

             - Solaris; Linux Ubuntu (debian); XP Windows;
             - Assembly, C, UNIX shell, Java, CGI, PHP, etc.
             - Handcoding HTML, XHTML, CSS, XSL - since '94
             - Adobe Photoshop, Linux Gimp, etc.

           o Document design / Demo programming
          
             - FrameMaker+SGML course (Microsoft Press)
             - Alias sales demo: `mote animation'
             - HCR Paint / `Unix' animation


       Specialized TRAINING & Trade Shows

           o SGML Architectural Forms (Con O'Connell, HaL / Fujitsu Austin TX)
           o FrameMaker / XMetaL / Astoria / INSO DynaText - training by Vendors
           o 1987 Adobe PostScript Programming & Drivers courses
    
           o Trade Shows / booth duty: XML '99, '98; SGML '97, '96, '95, '92

           o 1982 Lecturer OCA (Ontario College of Art) - Digital Electronics
           o Fine Art (summers) 1965, '64, '63 - Mount Allison University


             - Current Painting: