If you've landed here, it was probably the result of a search. You'll probably want to proceed immediately to
a)
my home page,
b)
the resume of my work to date in English,
c)
my gulp.de-Profile for id 7708 in German,
or
d)
my gulp.de-Profile in English.
The rest of this document is not interesting for humans; it is meant for search engines.
It is formulated so that when combinations of keywords which are relevant to me are entered, then this page appears relatively high on the list of matches.
Without further ado, I'll proceed.
The first thing I need to do is to get all of my keywords into this paragraph, still the first paragraph of the document.
So, I'll start out with my name, it's James Gray Walker, but people call me Jim.
I was born in 1961 and live now in Munich, Germany, also known as München.
My post code is 80796, part of the 807xx grouping.
I use the userid walkerj, or walkerj200a on Amazon and Ebay.
I'm also known as JW21-RIPE.
I've worked with the products FrontArena and Kondor+, also written as Front Arena and Kondor, primarily on Solaris machines.
I've done lots of database (DBMS) work, primarily with Sybase, Informix and Access, but also some with Oracle.
Other computing elements I'm good at include C, perl, cvs, SQL, shell, cygwin, VBA.
I've worked on projects in the areas of CRM, EDI, EDIFACT, Bank and Banking, among others.
I grew up in Arlington, Virginia and attended Yorktown High School until 1979, the University of Pennsylvania until 1983 where I earned a BS or BSc in Computer Science and Imperial College in 1992 and 1993 where I earned an MBA.
Places I've worked for include, in no particular order, Cirrus Logic, the Federal Judicial Center, Infosoft, SBS, Siemens Business Services, Epcos, HVB, HVBSystems, HVB Systems, PAR Technology Corporation, the US Air Force, NASA, Buckaroo Steak Ranch!, Planning Research Corporation, PRC.
My company is called Walker Informatics GmbH and is registered as HRB 107036.
My telephone numbers are 46137150 or 46 13 71 50 and 46137152 or 46 13 71 52.
Earlier relevant numbers were 18912155 or 18 91 21 55, 18912157 or 18 91 21 57, 69708525 or 69 70 85 25 and 400424 or 40 04 24.
Now that I've got all of the keywords near the top, I need some filler in the document, wherein the keywords are scattered. My birth year is 1961. I know lots of people with birthdays in the end of September and beginning of October, like me.
My city of residence is Munich, Germany, or München. I moved here to experience something other than the average American life and decided to stay. There are certainly advantages and disadvantages, but, on balance, the perceived advantages outweigh, or I wouldn't still be here. Lots of people who return get reverse culture shock. I knew one couple who were back in Europe right quick after moving back to the states.
My post code here is 80796. I've lived in five different flats, three of them in my previous zip code. An advantage of this is that I was able to keep my same PO Box from 1994 to 2005, until the dastardly Deutsche Post moved the whole set of Postboxes for 81541 to a completely unreachable location in the middle of an industrial area. A related search token I'm also trying to capture is 807xx.
I don't know exactly how long I've used the userid walkerj. Surely a lot longer than most. It was probably originally assigned to me either in 1973 or 1979, and I've used it ever since wherever I had the choice. As part of my email address, it also used to be in my eBay id. But then they got smart and changed all cleartext email addresses to aliases, and that's how I ended up with walkerj200a. I figured it would make sense for me to use the same alias on Amazon. By the way, I'm also known as JW21-RIPE. That's certainly a low number; the JW series is now at 1537.
As of this writing, my most recent projects dealt with the risk management systems FrontArena (or Front Arena) and Kondor+ (or Kondor). They run on Sun Solaris machines and we accessed them from PCs using X-terminals. I did everything on the projects, and not a little of everything, but a lot of everything. I'm the one who can dig into the nitty-gritty details and make damned sure it works right.
I've been interested in database systems, both theoretically and practically for a long time now. One of my optional CS courses at university was a graduate DB-design course and I haven't lost my interest since. Back then, relational was "new" and there weren't may products implementing it. In 1992, I did a DBMS selection study for Infosoft and found that the newest thing then, triggers, was only offered in rudimentary form by Sybase. Now that is standard equipment. Some other work I've done used Informix and Access. By the way, the 2000 update to Access broke the automatic replication which worked fine in Access98. But why should I complain? I booked additional billable hours determining that it was broken in a way which could not be repaired, so the customer was forced back to using manual replication kickoffs. Thanks Microsoft. Oh, I have taken a couple of DBA courses for Oracle lately. I figured that would teach me all I needed to know to be technically competent with the product. I was right, but try explaining that to a potential project manager.
Other computing elements I'm good at include C, perl, cvs, SQL, shell, cygwin, VBA.
And here at the bottom of the document, my keywords need to appear one more time. Please excuse me if this is getting tedious, but you don't have to read it.