Conference 7.286::digital

    Now cut... that.... out.....
    
    If I hadn't seen your name at the bottom of .0, I'da sworn it was KO
    who wrote that.....
    
    You know it ain't PC to sound like KO anymore.....!
    
    

Goodbye Greg, 

We'll miss you. Now We have no one to handle Our LOR's.

And also GOOD LUCK in your future postions. I know you will find something fast

Steve

    I hooked up with compuserve today and figured out how to send a mail
    message to myself at DEC and it made it through the internet.  I
    haven't tried to send anything back to myself at home yet - I suppose I
    should probably try to reply to this thing to see if it can do a round
    trip.  
        
    But anyway, here is how to get me in cyberspace after this week.
    
    I really think I am going to miss the late night notes and mail the
    most.
    
    - Greg
    
From:	US1RMC::"[email protected]" "Greg Scott" 25-JAN-1994 13:32:48.63
To:	<anglin::scottg>
CC:	
Subj:	Test message to myself at DEC

This is a test message to Greg Scott at DEC


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    re: .0
    
    amen brother. amen.

    Well, they haven't turned off my account yet.  So in a shameless act of
    self promotion, here's a copy of my resume.  I am interested in short
    term consulting for a while.  Maybe you have a customer who is
    considering putting together an RFP and needs the services of an
    independent consultant.  Maybe you have a customer who needs someone to 
    evaluate their IS strategy.  Maybe you need someone to deliver an
    uplifting, high quality seminar. 
    
    Think of me!  Well, do more than think of me - give me a call at
    (612) 452-3935.  Or send me mail on Compuserve at
    
    		[email protected]
    
    I did all that and more as a DEC employee.  I'll do it for you now as
    an independent consultant.
    
    - Greg Scott
    OpenVMS Partner emeritus
    Newly independent consultant





                                  D. Gregory Scott
                                 3968 Westbury Way
                               Eagan, Minnesota 55123
                                phone: (612)452-3935

          Goal: provide a significant contribution to an innovative
          organization interested in using leading edge information
          technology to gain a competitive advantage.


                                Employment History:
    
          (Nov 1992 - Feb 1994 ) District Software Product Services
          Consultant and OpenVMS Partner, Digital Equipment Corp.,
          Bloomington, Minnesota.  Serves as an expert in the district for
          these software  products.  Takes the lead in defining and
          resolving complex technical issues within the District, provides
          training for district engineers, and partners with the Support
          Centers for timely undefined problem resolution; responsible for
          all problem escalations in the  District; ensures that technical
          problems are defined to a level that Engineering groups can
          focus on them without additional follow-up  information.

          (Jan 1991 - Nov 1992 ) Software Consultant and VMS Partner,
          Digital Equipment Corp, Bloomington, Minnesota. Provide high
          level sales support consulting to customer decision makers;
          deliver non-disclosure presentations about Digital's future
          product directions; represent Digital at local and regional
          industry forums including the IEEE, industry trade shows, and
          user group meetings; provide customer feedback on product
          directions to Digital Engineering and product management. Winner
          of FY 1991 Digital Circle of Excellence award.  Winner of FY
          1992 VMS Partner Excellence award; partnered with one other
          consultant to plan, set up, and run the e-mail room at the 1992
          Minneapolis Supercomputer show, to rave reviews.

          (Jan 1988 - Jan 1991) Principle Software Specialist, Digital
          Equipment Corp., Bloomington, Minnesota. Provided strategic
          sales support consulting to Digital's customers and potential
          customers in Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and
          Wisconsin; also delivered technical and management consulting
          when required.

          (May 1985 - Jan 1988) MAPP MCCS-II Project Leader, Digital
          Equipment Corp, Bloomington, Minnesota. MAPP (Mid-continent Area
          Power Pool) is a group of electric utility companies across the
          upper midwest United States and Canada who cooperate to provide
          the most cost effective and reliable electric service possible.
          I led the team to build a communication network and several
          distributed applications among MAPP member companies to enhance
          this cooperation. The system has provided better than 99.96
          percent uptime since going live in October, 1987.

          (Aug 1981 - May 1985) Principle Software Specialist, Digital



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          Equipment Corp, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Supported the
          RSTS/E and VAX/VMS operating systems as a team leader with the
          Central Region Technical Backup Support Unit. Duties included
          answering "hotline" calls from Digital Software Specialists in
          the field, delivering highly technical consulting to customers,
          "fighting fires" in difficult customer situations, giving
          seminars and other informal tutoring to other Digital Software
          Specialists, and assisting the field in any other way possible;
          also assisted our manager with the day-to-day running of the
          unit and mentored less senior members of the group. Promoted to
          Senior Software Specialist April, 1983, Principal Software
          Specialist October, 1984. Winner of the FY 1983 and 1984 Digital
          Software Services Excellence Award.

          (March 1984 - Aug 1984) On loan to Chicago District as a member
          of  the National Association of Realtors INSITE product
          development team. Took over as a team leader to implement the
          General Ledger subsystem; redesigned much of it to meet new
          customer requirements.

          (June 1979 - Aug, 1981) Assistant Director Computing Center,
          Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana.
          Responsibilities included the maintenance and development of all
          administrative software, excluding the Business Office, and
          managing the administrative computer system. Was also in charge
          of the smooth operation of the Computing Center when the
          Director was away. Designed, coded, and implemented software to
          prepare financial-aid packages for students, resulting in a
          savings of several thousand dollars. Successfully managed the
          installation of the new PDP 11/44 administrative computer;
          proposed, designed, coded, and  implemented RHIS (Rose Hulman
          Information System), an on-line data management system which
          formed the base for all the other administrative software
          throughout the college. This included the Alumni, Registrar's,
          Admissions, Student Affairs, and Financial Aid offices.

                                    Education:
          Bachelor of Arts (1979) from Wabash College,     Crawfordsville,
          Indiana, with a double major of Math and Speech.

          Major Accomplishments during College: Attended DePauw
          Undergraduate Honors Conference to present my lecture, "The Use
          of Mathematics in the Study of Speech - Journey to Magicland."
          Developed and implemented software to perform multi-precision
          arithmetic to any desired degree of accuracy. "Numeral" in
          Swimming, spring 1975-76.

          Currently pursuing an M.B.A. degree at the University of St.
          Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    OK OK, I'm a dynamite consultant but lousy speller.  Paul Beck sent me
    mail and said it's "Principal", not "principle".  I always thought it
    was "principle" - have I been nuts all these years?
    
    - Greg

    Principal is the "head honcho" in grammer/elementary/high school. 
    Principle is on of those things you usually stand on and cut your nose
    off to spite your face (not always, but most times).
    
    Toodles.....JP
    

    I think spelling nits are justified when it's your resume.

    Principal: One who takes a leading part in some action.

    Principle: A general truth or law, basic to other truths.

    (Top level definitions from my Funk and Wagnalls.)

    
    resume = restart or begin again
    
    resume(') = not possible on this particular device.... ;-)
    
    

If we're getting really nitty, it's

	r�sum�

For the 8-bit-impaired, there's an acute accent over
the second and sixth letters.

I always remember it as:

The Principal is your 'pal'......

Dave

	Mr. Romeo, my 2nd grade principal always said "It's
	PrinciPAL because I'm your pal". Amazing the things
	one retains..

						mike

	Doh! Notes collision!

						mike

    i agree with \Dave on this one as far as how it "should" be written, but 
    i always wondered what the purpose of these little accents on top of the 
    e's for? it seems just a waste of extra typing to me, and it dont 
    change the meaning of the word resume also.

    i think in communication skills, we should strive to be efficient,
    to the point, short, and direct, and to try to avoid extra wording
    if at all necessary, and any extra characters (like the accents
    in resume) so to avoid confusions on the part of the readers.

    there are many words in English that need to be cleaned out and
    put in proper form, and resume and principle is only few of them.

    iam working on a list on words that easily confused between each others
    and i intend to make it public once it is over.

    please, let all be careful out there.

    \nasser
    ps. i also agree with \Paul \Beck on his outline of the differences
    on the word priciple.

    ... :-)
    
    ... but I hasten to add that there is ONE character whose words are
        always welcome on MY screen...  \nasser!
    

    Ok, enough ratholing - this is my goodbye note after all.  I'll fix it. 
    I already left 60 copies on people's desks all over the office and
    blasted it electronically everywhere I could think of - while I can
    still blast it.  Now thousands of people around the world will know I'm
    a lousy speller.
    
    So anybody got any work or what?
    
    - Greg (probably one of the last notes I'll ever enter)

re: nits

I'll be happy if more than 50% of the writers here stop spelling "lose" as
"loose".

Good luck, Greg!
								- paul

    re: nits
    
    And I'll be happy if at least some people stop using "then" when they mean
    "than" and vice-versa.
    
    Jim

>    i always wondered what the purpose of these little accents on top of the 
>    e's for? it seems just a waste of extra typing to me, and it dont 
>    change the meaning of the word resume also.

	Er, it does chasnge the meaning, without the accent, the word is 
	English, and means to re-start.  With the accent, the word is Fench,
	and means an overall description.

>    there are many words in English that need to be cleaned out and
>    put in proper form, and resume and principle is only few of them.

	Nasser, resume means restart in English.
	For career history, American uses a french word with an accent
		       and  Engilsh uses the Latin; Curriculum Vitae


	Heather

    
    We could always switch to calling them Curriculum Vita, then there's
    no accent involved.  When I was in France people always use to talk
    about CV's and at first I had no idea what they were talking about.
    
    

Re: .21

No good - it's really Curriculum Vit�, so you still need the compose key!

				Steve

re Note 2870.21 by ZOLA::AHACHE:

>     about CV's and at first I had no idea what they were talking about.
  
        ...a kind of propeller shaft joint common in
        front-wheel-drive cars?

    
    It's Latin for "Here are my credentials".  Unfortunately, the business
    world quit using Latin because of bad press with the crucifixion thing,
    thus causing the subsequent unemployment and fall of the Roman empire.
    
    This might also explain the high unemployment rate in Britain, by the
    by, except in the propeller shaft manufacture/repair business.
    
    Glad to clear all this up.
    
    					Brent

    Doesn,t the French version of "CV" imply a nose-down attitude with a
    high rear (and a tendency to swing wildly on corners) ?
    
    :-)
    
    John

    
    > We could always switch to calling them Curriculum Vita, then there's
    > no accent involved.  
    
    If you heard it in France, wasn't it still pronounced with
    an accent?   %-)
    
    2CV, my first car.....
    
    Colin
    

    
    Thanks .22 I didn't know how to do the combination at the end.  If
    using Curriculum Vita (don't know how to make the combination)
    is tied into the downfall of the Roman empire then it might be only too
    appropriate for someone leaving DEC (oops Digital).  
    
    ^   ^
      ^
      v

    Re .27 a lot of the compose charaters are rather intuitive. For
    example, � is compose a e. � (degree symbol) is compose ^ 0 or ^ o. 
    
    ;-)
    
    Harry
    

    
    	Re.25/26
    
    	"Swinging wildly on corners."  It isn't so much that it swings
    wildly on corners as the fact that it leans over at the most incredible
    angles on corners!  You think that it couldn't possibly get round the
    corner, but it does!!!!
    
    	2CV Deux Chevaux, Citro�n's finest!  Your first car maybe, Colin,
    but my wife's present car.  My own car is also a Citro�n - Xantia VSX
    turbo D.  Very pleased with it too.  Xantia is properly pronounced
    ZANTIA.
    
    				Malcolm.

    There is a 3/4: �
    
    You just have to have a terminal that supports it.