RESUME

 

Gerald Marcel Richer

38 Barry Avenue

Tupper Lake, NY   12986

Phone: 518-359-8538

Fax:   518-359-8538

Email: jerry@ChirpingBat.Com

WWW:   http://www.ChirpingBat.Com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

     Continuing formal and informal education in computer related technologies have included or include Pascal, ADA, C++, Java, CGI, WWW, PC hardware, Multi-Media, LAN, WAN, Client Server, UNIX, Linux, PERL.

 

     During the summer and fall of 1999 I took a series of six week, online not for credit classes.  Topics included CGI Programming, Java Script Programming, Java Programming, Advanced Web Page Design, PC Repair and Maintenance and Grant Writing.

 

Fall 1998: Java Programming (3 credit hours)

Spring 1997: Advanced C++ Programming (3 credit hours)

             Local Area Networking (3 credit hours)

             Computer Hardware (Problems and Solutions) (2 credit hours)

Fall 1996: C++ Programming (3 credit hours)

Spring 1996: Advanced Pascal Programming (3 credit hours)

Spring 1983: General College Biology (3 credit hours)

Fall 1982: Machine Shop 1 (3 credit hours)

 

May 1979 Graduated, BA, Physics, Magna Cum Laude, State University College Potsdam, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

 

     Other college level undergraduate work included general music and organ classes at SUNY Potsdam and beginning electronics engineering courses circuit design and analysis, logic design and computer programming at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Hawaii at Honolulu.

 

June 1973 Graduated, New York State Regents diploma, Tupper Lake High School, Tupper Lake, NY

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

     Currently I am working part time for the North Country Center for Independence of Plattsburgh as an outreach peer counselor in the Tri-Lakes region of New York State where I am currently living.  For the past eighteen months I have been working for the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped as an Access Technology Vendor giving private instruction to blind individuals on the use of the personal computer and Internet configured with adaptive software and/or hardware.  Eighteen months ago I started working in a voluntary capacity as a director of the North Country Association for the Visually Impaired.  Fourteen months ago I started working in a voluntary capacity as a member on an advisory committee to draft guidelines by which New York State will secure accessible Information Systems as part of the Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities(TRAID) project.

    

November 1993-present: Founder/Manager, BA Software, Tupper Lake, NY

     BA Software is a business and scientific software developer/provider and retailer of adaptive computer based hardware and software solutions to blindness related problems.  Currently we are marketing a data base management system and complete point of sales programs for use in general retail sales and the lounge/restaurant business.  Development software used includes Borland's Pascal, Symantec's C++ and HTML.

 

January 1987-January 1997: Founder/Manager, Richer's Digital Audio, Ridgecrest, CA

     Richer's Digital Audio was a full service retail music store, which I founded in 1987.  I was responsible for all sales, advertising, purchasing, shipping, repair, demonstrations, accounting, customer complaints, hiring, dismissing, and all other duties associated with a typical retail sales and service operation.

 

September 1981-July 1988: Operations Research Analyst Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA

     Duties included the development, composition, and implementation of computer systems assisting in the development and evaluation of military weapons systems and tactics.  All software development was done in Fortran and Pascal on either VAX / VMS or PC / DOS systems.

 

September 1979-July 1981: Assistant Staff Physicist MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Lexington, MA

     Designed, developed, tested, and evaluated computer programs used in data reduction for evaluating radar system performance.  Programs included routines used in data retrieval and validation, testing and evaluating tracking and imaging algorithms, and data plotting for radar systems.  All software development was done in Fortran and PL1 (PLI) on either IBM 360, Amdahl 470 / CMS or CDC 6600 / Unix systems.