Walt Perko                     SSN: 469-62-7853
          P.O. Box  640608
       San Francisco,  CA.  94164-0608        (415)  885-6218
                                              modem  771-1788



     Today I am looking for a job with IBM as a customer engineer.  My varied background along with a keen interest in computers and their associated peripheral devices provides me with a insatiable lust to work in the computer industry.  This along with my desire to work with the "Cadillac" of the computer industry brings me to IBM.
     Every job I've had has provided me with new experiences with computers.  Every time I hear about how the IBM system is the best and I am working on number two.  My computer interests have been IBM starved and so my focus is in the world of IBM.

HARDWARE:

 CDC    Cyber-74, 7600, 6000, 5600, 3000       IBM    3300
 DEC    VAX 750, VAX 780                      Gould  32/77
 Intel  iSBC-8088  Link/Miles  Image II      Honeywell 
 MITS   Altair 8800                         Apple II, II+
 Processor Technology Sol-20            Motorola  MEK-6800-D1
 Hewlet Packard  HP9816                 IBM PC, XT, AT
 Tandy  Model 100/102

Operating Systems:

       CDC      KRONOS, NOS/BE       PASCAL, PL/1, BASIC,                                      SNOBOL
       IBM         ?                 COBOL
       DEC        VMS                BASIC,  C
       Gould       ?
       Intel/Link Miles  iSBX-80     Image II
       MITS     8080 machine code via front panel switches.
       Motorola MIKBUG, machine code
       Processor Tech.               Cassette BASIC
       Apple    6502 machine code,   AppleSoft BASIC
       IBM PC/XT/AT  PC-DOS, MS-DOS, BASIC, 4th GL's
















     My studies at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology included a major in computer science as well as I managed the Deans list a couple of times during 3 years of study.  My computer science studies with PASCAL, MIX, COMPASS, ENCOMPASS, BASIC, and SNOBOL all under KRONOS OS, followed by COBOL in the business school.  The school computers were a CDC Cyber 74, 6000, and an IBM 3300 at the business school.
     In the computer science department we were required to punch our own input cards (Hollerith Code) as well as input our programs and data via a card reader/printer I/O device in the computer labs.  While in college I began building microcomputers with the MITS Altair 8800 and graduated through a Sol-20, a Motorola, to my present IBM AT compatible.
     While working at Magnetic Peripherals Inc. a subsidiary of CDC, my work involved using the 5600 32-bit super-micro for testing and evaluation of pre-production and production 14" hard disc systems (12/24 80/160 MByte SMD).  Again front panel switches were the programming technique used for short immediate programs written in machine code.  I used the 7600 system with NOS/BE for mostly personal use learning more about the CDC systems and software.  Playing with BASIC, PASCAL, and PL/1.
     While working at CDC a friend and I began a small business as microcomputer consultants for the Apple II, II+ systems (Minnesota Microcomputer Consultants).  We helped a local store (Audio King/Computer King) build their cables and other peripheral devices, we instructed customers, and business's with their respective software products, word processors, financial, and other programs.
     While working at NASA AMES I used Z-80 machine code and C subroutines to test portions of flight simulators for hardware development.  I attended school for, and used Image II graphics language to develope airport scenes on the flight simulators.  I evaluated and repaired Gould 32/77 super-mini's, and DEC VAX 750/780's.
     While at Multi Metrics I wrote the I/F software going from the software product Multi Metrics sold to the customers CMM after installing a HP9816 hardware/software package to the CMM.
     While working at Bay Alarm company I developed a digital fire retransmission system using the Tandy model 102 laptop microcomputer.  I designed and built the hardware interface and wrote the software.  I installed the first two systems training the company alarm installers on the system.
     While working at Per Madsen Design, besides my regular duties, I coached the president who built an IBM XT compatible, and I evaluated several software packages which would help the company with its fundamental accounting/order operations.  I installed and taught the "Mail Order Wizard" software package.