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Fax: (801)587-9210
Phone: (801)581-8814
Office: Rm 2751 Mariott Library

Joseph Buchanan
UOnline Administrator & Technical Support

Education
B.S. Computer Science, 1975. University of Utah

Employment
1980-present University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah- including work for the Computer Center and the Marriott Library
1979-'80 Marshall Field and Co., Chicago, Ill.
1977-'79 United Airlines, Inc, Chicago, Ill.
1975-'77 (part-time from 1968) University of Utah Computer Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

Professional Skills
I am knowledgeable in a number of computer programming languages and learn new environments quickly. I have an extensive background in developing software, especially tools for problem solving. I have extensive experience in Internet access, including providing information on the World-Wide Web (WWW). This includes web page generation, graphics work and scripting. I am qualified for general and technical computer problem solving and instruction. I work well with people and can see things from their viewpoint and can relate to their level of understanding. I can write understandable documentation and material for training and reference.

Management
I served as assistant director of Academic Computing and Library Information Systems for 2 years, including the creation of the organization (the merger of the Computer Center with the marriott Library) and worked to coordinate and strengthen customer service in the organization. I also worked as the assistant head of the Multimedia Center at the Marriott Library for about a year.

Experience (programming)
I have experience in generating web pages using HTML, also using a number of HTML generating programs. I have written scripting tools in Perl and JavaScript. I have received the Sun training for the Java Programming Language. I work with Photoshop and other graphics tools in producing images for the web. I also have experience with graphics scanners. My traditional computer programming experience is mainly with the Macintosh in Pascal, C, 6800 assebler, Fortranand HyperTalk (Hypercard) including the development of some external commands for HyperCard. I have also written HTML in producing information for the Internet, including image maps, forms and CGI. I have worked a little bit in JavaScript as well.

My applications development work include a disk archival system in C (low level disk I/O), nutrition analysis, music (sound) generation, simple graphics, Laserwriter printing and a calendar system, also file I/O programs including interpretation of MacWrite documents and recovering ASCII from damaged files and disks. I have developed several useful Hypercard XCMDs including: Sorter (for sorting lines in a field), PrFlds (for general purpose printing of Hyperard information) and TBxFile (for doing low level File I/O from within HyperCard.