Resume as a Developer

A brief resume for Ron Beatty as systems developer.

Since my first application for systems development work will be to Google to do knowledge acquisition development, this resume is oriented directly towards that effort. Searches for Ron Beatty or the Rambo genealogy show my sites first.

My dream job would be to brainstorm and code Knowledge acquisition systems in UML and J2EE.

My favorite challenge is solving knotty problems which require ingenious solutions.

I enjoy highly technical computer work that involves a great deal of planning and brainstorming, either solo or as a member of a motivated and enthusiastic team. My extensive network of unusual people is a gold mine for productive brainstorming.

Language and operating system are non-problems because I learn extremely quickly and am usually up to speed and productive within a month.

MIT granted me an SB in theoretical mathematics in 1970.

In most environments I rapidly become the resident expert in the language or application being used.

I have excellent communication skills and an overdose of the Protestant work ethic. If there is a need, it is not unusual for me to work 60 to 80 hours a week. My stamina and attention span support those long hours, and my productivity and focus benefit from them. I am also a very effective public speaker, and enjoy making presentations and teaching.

"Recently" I telecommuted as consultant using Unified Modeling Language and JAVA to prototype and document a global criminal justice information system. UNIX, JAVA, and UML are favorites although I still like C and C++, and yes, I do Windows and build websites.

My twenty years of professional experience includes work as a computer programmer, applications programmer, systems programmer, systems analyst, system administrator and rapid prototyping systems developer. I've written assembler language I/O handlers, real time systems components, and time sharing features.

Here is a link to my six-page, detailed resume covering my 35-year career. Professional references can be provided.

My "finest" accomplishment was single-handedly designing and implementing a data storage and retrieval facility with edit, search and report generation capabilities for the Nature Conservancy in 1974: Bob Jenkin's Natural Areas Inventory System.

Here's the alphabet soup from previous jobs. Most of the "soup" and skills are obsolete, but required leading edge skills once when. Those of us who enjoy being at the bleeding edge do not mind the effort it takes to discover and use new stuff. Windows, BAL, BASIC, C, CDL, CICS, COBOL, COGO, DECAL, FAP, FORTRAN, HTML, ICETRAN, JAVA, JCL, MAD, MS-DOS, MULTICS, OS-360, OS/MVT, OS/VS1, PL1, RPG, SPSS, UML, UNIX, VM, VIDEO/370, XENIX and assembler languages for PDP, Tempo, GE and IBM computers.

Personal information: I was born on May 12, 1947 in Ames, Iowa and am now 60 years old. Here is a recent photo.

My health has always been good, a fact that I attribute partially to good genes and partially to a love of exercise. I am not married. My favorite hobbies are athletics, genealogy and travel.

You can read more about me on my home page at http://sites.google.com/site/rsbeatty.

The following links are of personal interest:

Eve's Garden Organic Bed and Breakfast, a wonderful, eclectic, artistic papercrete alternative living learning mecca in Marathon, Texas

Rambo family genealogy, Bankston & Bankson family genealogy, the Camblin family genealogy, the Dorsey Overturff family, cousin Jean's Schenck and Hageman genealogy, and

Eric's RPM coins.