RESUME

Bradford R. McCormick:
My current website: https://www.bmccedd.org.
19 Stanwood Road
Mount Kisco, NY 10549-4206

914-471-7570

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OVERVIEW

ursue problems in depth, with integrated focus on both context ("the big picture") and details. Cultivate long-term involvement with individuals and organizations, to diagnose needs and appreciate potentials. Effective communicator, adept at helping a diverse spectrum of persons clarify their own situations, to enhance their powers of further self-development. Diversified technical and academic background, to iteratively elaborate computer mediated communication (CMC) solutions that open up new opportunities.

ver thirty years experience in computer programming, system design and development. Earned doctorate in human communication dynamics. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, combined with innovating, creative ability. Thorough in executing tasks; empathic and patient working with people. Effective teacher, public speaker, and "translator" between technical experts and non-technically oriented users.

KEYWORD SUMMARY

Computer Programming and Analysis

Current skills: Java+Swing and servlets, Perl, XML, HTML, CGI scripting. UNIX, Windows 2000/XP.... Prior experience: SGML, OmniMark. JavaScript, ASP scripting. C/C++. MS/DOS, 8086 Assembler. MVS/370 internals, S/370 Assembler, PL/S. JCL, VM/370, TSO. COBOL, APL, Smalltalk....

Graphical User Interface[fn.61] (GUI) and website development. Usability analysis. Educational software research. Publishing technology. Technical training and documentation. Systems programming....

Academic Background (Problem solving methodology)

Dialogical Communication and Communication Media theory. Phenomenology. Hermeneutics. Social Impact of Technology. Object-Relations psychoanalysis....

EDUCATION

Columbia University, Teachers College

Ed.D. in Communication in Education (Dissertation: Communication: The Social Matrix of Supervision of Psychotherapy, UMI #9511056).
Ed.M. in Communication.
M.A. in Computing in Education.

Yale University

B.A. "Honors with Exceptional Distinction" in Philosophy and "Summa cum Laude". Phi Beta Kappa.

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION

Pace University

UNIX/C/C++ certificate program. 1996

EMPLOYMENT

DELL/EMC | SMARTS (System Management Arts), White Plains NY. 1999-

Senior Software Engineer (2007-2018).
Software Engineer (1999-2007).

Develop and maintain "Pure Java" multi-platform (UNIX; Windows) Graphical User Interface (GUI), for network connectivity / service availability management product.
Analyze and fix problems from customers and internal Testing group (QA).

Grolier Educational, Danbury CT. 1997-99

Systems Administrator.

Develop and support SGML-based editorial production processes, including Internet delivery of encyclopedia products, using Perl and AdeptEditor to manage SGML data, and OmniMark to convert SGML to HTML, in a mixed UNIX and Windows95/NT environment.
Design and implement web browser-based (HTML user interface) project management system and photo archive system, using Perl CGI scripts.

Teachers College Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies, New York NY. 1996-97

WEB Developer.

Implement and maintain web site for Digital Library in the Classroom project. Design and explore user interface alternatives, using frames and popup auxiliary windows. Use JavaScript to extend HTML functionality to include, e.g., "multi-link" hyperlinks (when the user clicks on a link, they get an annotated menu of places to go to, instead of simply going directly to one specific target location). Write Perl scripts to automate generation of HTML pages by gathering information from other web pages and translating it from other formats.
Webmaster for Institute for Learning Technologies ILTweb. Maintain web site; respond to user inquiries.

IBM Corporation, Research Division, Yorktown Heights NY. 1978-96

Staff Programmer. 1981-96

Implemented pioneering PC-DOS based (C, 8086 assembler) authoring system which enabled children and non-computer oriented adults to create multi-media presentations.
- Used system to research how the computer could facilitate creativity, social learning and affective growth of children, psychiatric patients and other non-computer oriented end users.
- Presented system to public audiences, including Maryland Public Television, and IBM System Engineers Symposium at La Hulpe, Belgium.
Designed and implemented MVS linear data in virtual storage functionality for General Motors Research, to replace TSS function customer was using, for which IBM had dropped support.
Designed and implemented hypertext text management application for HP-95 (PC-DOS; C) to explore potential of palm-top computers / personal digital assistants (PDAs); included RS-232 linkage to up/down load data to DOS, OS/2 text editors, and Smalltalk applications on desktop "host" PC.
Developed and tested Internet-protocol compliant electronic mail programs, in OS/2 and Windows95, using Visual and Visual Age C/C++.
Developed and taught S/370 Assembly Language course.
Initiated ongoing collaboration between IBM Research Exploratory Education Software department and Department of Communication, Computing and Technology at Teachers College Columbia University.

Associate / Senior Associate Programmer (System Products Division, Poughkeepsie NY). 1978-81

Designed and implemented enhancements to MVS Storage Management, to make 3033/MP a viable business product by supporting more than 16 megabytes of real storage. Received two awards for this work.
Designed and implemented software simulator to enable developers to test code for MVS/XA before availability of hardware.
Maintained and rewrote large portions of MVS Real Storage Management component.

PRIOR DATA PROCESSING EXPERIENCE

Maryland National Bank, Baltimore MD. 1977-78
Planning Research Corp., McLean VA. 1975-77
Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co., Baltimore MD. 1974-75
United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., Baltimore MD. 1972-74

Analyst and systems programmer positions of increasing responsibility. Installed and maintained MVS, OS/MVT, VS/1, CICS, and miscellaneous software packages (TSO, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, COBOL compiler...). Wrote assembly language extensions and modifications to the operating system (SMF exits, user SVCs...). Provided technical support to operations and applications programming staff.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD. 1969-72

Museum Shop Manager. 1970-72

Purchased merchandise for resale (books, art prints, jewelry, contemporary crafts, etc.).
Designed merchandise displays.
Supervised staff of 3 part-time sales clerks and varying number of volunteers.
Organized Xmas Craft Fair (1971) in cooperation with Maryland Crafts Council.

Assistant to Registrar. 1969-70

PUBLICATIONS

[Reflecting on technology.] Science and Public Policy, 2007, 34(1), 75.

Review of Technology Matters: Questions to Live With, David E. Nye (2006).

Understanding who we conceive ourselves to be. Science and Public Policy, 2003, 30(5), 382-383.

Review of Publics and Counterpublics, Michael Warner (2002).

Towards a self-reflexive society. Science and Public Policy, 2002, 29(3), 237-238.

Review of A Sociological Theory of Communication: the self-organization of the Knowledge-Based Society, Loet Leydesdorff (2001).

The Envelope as an Art Form: Computer-Aided Images. LEONARDO: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 1984, 17(1), 20-23.

Introduction to my computer graphic art.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY

COMPEER (Westchester Jewish Community Services), Hartsdale NY. 1989-90

Provided companionship to schizophrenic patient in weekly visits.

Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Mt. Kisco NY

Psychoanalytic training and internship (440 client hrs). 1990-94
Student representative on Institute Board of Trustees. 1990-93

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