Professional Information about Trent A. Fisher

I haven't (yet) figured out a way to convert my resume from troff to html in a satisfactory way, so here is a postscript version of my resume. Some operating systems cannot cope with Postscript, and, for them here is an acrobat version of my resume.

Here is a list of programs/documents and accomplishments over the years (some of them are not freely redistributable, sorry):

• Perl msgs -- The old BSD "msgs" program rewritten (in perl) to read messages off a USENET newsgroup.
• GIPR -- an email-based task system, similar to REQ. I presented it as a work-in-progress at the USENIX LISA conference in late '93.
• Sysgroup Handbook -- the policies and procedures of the group I managed at PSU It contains one of the few bits of documentation on GIPR (q.v.)
• System Administration Class info -- I taught this class many years ago, and haven't touched the pages since.
• Groklog, a perl module which can detect and extract error messages from a build log (NT and many Unix platforms). This was the first component of...
• Buildmaster -- A nightly build automation system (ClearCase view automation, web interface, &c.) used at Informix.
• A suite of tools to gather system info (disk space, VOB size, Multisite queue sizes and other metrics) over time, preserve this history in data files, and analyze and graph data.
• I am currently working on a rewrite/redesign of the last three items. Partially because of design shortcomings, but also because of a change of employers. The new ones are much better.
• I was the webmaster for Technocracy, Inc. from 1994 to 2000. I Scanned and converted a variety of articles from a variety of sources including Atari floppy disks (eeek!), I ran several mailing lists, and did some web site promotion.
• I ran one of the primary GNU Project web sites from 1993 to 1996 when the FSF set up their own web site (sadly, personal commitments kept me from contributing to the new site)
• A recursive-descent parser generator written in awk (old awk, mind you!). I wrote this in college... It only generates the function skeletons, and is pretty rough, but it saved me a lot of tedium. (Sadly I seem to have lost this...)
• One of my first Sysadmin projects when I was in college was to run the Disksort Project for the Operating Systems Class (the first year Mark Mason set it up, and I maintained it; the next year I re-did what Mark had done). During the second year, I was taking that class, so I evaluated the benchmarks Mark and wrote: Disksort Project -- Final Report. (sorry if the formatting isn't quite right, but I used a different troff back then)
• I wrote a manual for a new type of headspace gauge (for gunsmithing), which was in use until the inventor's (and company's) death.