B.A. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1964

Patricia T. Douglass

(512) 913-0567

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Education:

B.A. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1964.

Associates Degree in Computer Programming, AustinCommunity College, May 2008

Experience:

Keypuncher & Coder, HarvardBusinessSchool, BostonMassachusetts, February 1964 to May 1964.

Research Assistant & Engineer Scientist, Applied Sciences, Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, 1964-1968.

Financial Applications Programmer, Tracor Computing Corporation, Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, 1968-1970.

Engineer Scientist I, Applied Sciences, Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas (Part Time) 1970-1974.

Programmer, Columbia Scientific Industries, Austin, Texas (Part Time), 1974 to 1977.

Systems Programmer, Tracor, Inc., Austin Aerospace, Austin, Texas, 1977 to 1981.

Education and Training Coordinator for Data Processing, Tracor, Inc., Austin Aerospace, Austin, Texas, March 1981 to June 1988.

Manager, Application Support, Tracor, Inc., Austin Aerospace, Austin, Texas, June 1988 to December 1989.

Adjunct Faculty, AustinCommunity College, (Part Time), January 1990 to 2003

Computer Consultant, Rudd and Wisdom, Inc., May 1991 to May 1992.

Programmer and Network Administrator, Rudd and Wisdom, Inc., May 1992 to March 2007.

Computer Studies Tutor, AustinCommunity College, October 2007 – August 2008.

Adjunct Faculty, Austin Community College, August 2008 – present.

Fields of Experience:

Ms. Douglass’ first job was keypuncher and coder for the Alumni Office of Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. She helped transfer the alumni records from an addressograph plate system to an IBM 1401 computer.

At Tracor, Ms. Douglass was an Engineer/Scientist in the Applied Sciences Department and programmed in FORTRAN on problems in signal processing for various sonar systems on Navy projects. She worked on the TIMFAX computer program which was developed at Tracor to process time series data using various correlations, fourier transforms and displays on plotters.

At Tracor Computing Corporation, Ms. Douglass continued working on scientific projects for Tracor’s Applied Sciences Department and expanded into Business Applications. She learned COBOL and worked on projects to help an Austin bank convert to a new Burroughs computer, and to develop an accounting system for a state agency on their new Burroughs computer.

At Columbia Scientific Industries, Ms. Douglass was responsible for an Infotronic minicomputer. She ran and modified accounting, inventory and bill of materials programs written in BASIC. This computer was one of three in the world. CSI bought the company that had manufactured the computer. CSI maintained and used this computer for their accounting needs.

Ms. Douglass became Education and Training Coordinator for the Data Processing Department at Tracor. Her responsibilities included providing training on the Unisys 1100/63 and 1100/72 computers, the CDC Cyber 172 computer and the NEC and IBM-compatible microcomputers at Tracor. She provided user support for the Unisys computers and helped with user support on the microcomputers. Organizing classes, preparing schedules and conducting some of the classes were her responsibilities. Classes offered on the microcomputers were CP/M-86 and MS-DOS Operating Systems, Benchmark and Wordstar and OK-Editor word processing programs, DbaseII and DbaseIII database, DRGRAPH, Multiplan and Supercalc2 spreadsheet programs. She became manager of the Application Support Department and added support of Mapper on the Unisys computer and Dbase II, III and IV applications on the microcomputers to her job responsibilities. The new IBM 3090 computer training and 4th GL applications also became part of the job. She helped data processing personnel find and enroll in classes and seminars to help them in their jobs. She published Dataline:Tracor, the quarterly Data Processing newsletter.

FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are computer languages Ms. Douglass has used. She has also programmed in Unisys assembly language. She has installed and used Calcomp plotting routines. As a systems programmer, her main duties were user support – helping users with their computer problems. She also converted Tracor written programs from a Univac 1108 system to the Unisys 1100/63 and 1100/72 systems.

In 1987, Ms. Douglass formed a company CompuDesign to continue her computer training and consulting activities. CompuDesign provided computer expertise to two transportation engineering companies. In December 1989, Ms. Douglass quit her Tracor job to devote full-time to her company.

In 1990, Ms. Douglass began teaching at AustinCommunity College as an adjunct faculty member. She had taught Introduction to Computers, Personal Computing, Fortran, Microdatabase, Spreadsheet Design and Applications, Database Programming in Oracle. In 1999, she won an Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

In 1991, Rudd and Wisdom needed a programmer to convert programs written in Fortran for an NCR mainframe computer to a Novell network of PC computers. Ms. Douglass took the job and continued working for them full time after the conversion was finished. She became network administrator and programmer for the 50 person company. She programs in Fortran, Dbase, Clipper, Visual Basic. She also knows and uses Microsoft Office programs – Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access. She retired from Rudd and Wisdom, Inc. in March 2007.

Her work at ACC and Rudd and Wisdom keeps her up to date with the computer business. She also has taken classes at AustinCommunity College. She has taken Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net, ASP.Net, C, Java, Fundamentals of Networking Technologies, Installing and Administering Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems, Router and Routing Basics, Operating System Security, Computer Forensics, and Systems Analysis and Design. In May 2008, she received an Associate Degree in Computer Programming.