from the resume of:
Phillips V. Bradford, Sc.D.
Specific Achievements in Computer Literacy
My achievements in computer literacy date back to my formal engineering education where I learned the elements of machine language programming and the use of fundamental logic circuits.
Early days with Computers and Computer Languages
I learned FORTRAN at Columbia University prior to joining Bell Labs where my knowledge of FORTRAN was used for engineering calculations.
Upon the advent of the personal computer, in about 1975, I was an early adopter of BASIC and have kept reasonably up-to-date in the more advanced versions, such as Future BASIC, and Visual BASIC. Most of the programs that I have written in BASIC are used for investment analysis and derivative risk/reward calculations.
Just prior to joining Phelps Dodge Industries, I took a proprietary course in the machine language programming of a micropressor chip. I was motivated by the need to learn how to incorporate microprocessors into new products. This has also been very useful in understanding the basic properties and cababilities of microprocessors, even though the specific course content and the particular microprocessor used have long since become obsolete except in obscure industrial applications.
How I learned UNIX
During my tenure as the Director of the CATCIS program at Columbia University in 1988-89, I took advantage of the readily available resources of Columbia's Computer Science Department to learn UNIX and some early telecommunications protocols. Since that time I have maintained a presence on the Internet and have kept up-to-date with many subsequent developments.
My role as a Webmaster
Upon the introduction of the first web browsers, I quickly learned HTML and became the webmaster for the first web page ever produced for a state agency in Colorado. This page [http://www.cati.org/cati] is still in use and has had features such as FRAMES, Animated GIFs, Ticker-Tape, and Order Forms. These require CGI scripting and JAVA, the elements of which I readily learned. I also wrote the initial web pages for the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI), the Science and Technology Council of the States (STCS), the Aerospace States Association (ASA) and many other non-profit organizations. Subsequently, I took a proprietary course in PERL. I now also maintain a personal web page: [http://www.concentric.net/index.html] where this resume is posted, along with pages on topics of interest to me, and three other pages which are electronic commerce pages for commercial purposes.
Summary Statement
In summary, I have kept pace with the fast moving art of computer technology and I feel that there is no computer language (from machine language to the higher level programming languages) that I could not learn to master in a short time, nor is there any electronic chip application that I could not implement into a product design.
Taught a course in "Electronics for non-EE science majors"
I am also mechanically adept and can find myself able to function well in a laboratory or shop setting where hands-on work is needed. At Rutgers University, I taught a course in "Electronics for non-EE science majors" specifically to teach graduate students what they would need to know in order to use the wide variety of electrical instruments and apparatus that appears in the laboratories of biologists, chemists, materials science researchers, and the like.
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