Norm Rhett
UCB Physics BA, progammer (35 yrs), runner/jogger/par courser (15 mi/wk), near zero energy homeowner
| Headline: | Investor |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Biotech, Computing, Health |
| Next step: | Retire and get serious about promoting EVs and green building |
| Location: | 544 Santander Dr., San Ramon, CA |
| Groups: | Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference |
| Interested in: | Giving back, Helping friends, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | Fitness, pv, rav4ev, zero energy homes |
| Schools: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California System - Berkeley |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Lab Vision Corporation (sold to Apogent … Fisher…Thermo) |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1994 - Present |
| Description: | * Designed and developed user interface and robotic control of instrument to run time-critical, multi-step treatment of slides, primarily for research and diagnosis of cancer. The system is fully open to user design of protocols, choice of reagents, and selection of reports on all major steps in treatment of up to 84 slides. Prints and scans 2D Data Matrix bar codes for various degrees of automation to single click initiation of multi-hour process. Automated build of translations of software in major European languages, Chinese, and Japanese.
* Added major enhancements to usability of instrument for controlled heating of slide mounted tissues. |
| Employer: | IBM, Oakland, CA |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | * DP assistance to IBM customers (programming, literature, education, etc.), technical assistance to IBM salesmen. |
| Employer: | International Computers Limited (ICL) California |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1982 - December 2000 |
| Description: | * On-site support and maintenance of Mervyn's Unix-based In Store Processor applications. Corrected several errors including one that intermittently set the price of, for example, fine jewelry to a few cents.
* Development of a stock taking application linking hand-held terminals to the mainframe database using MQSeries. * Designed and developed a dual PC-based POS controller. Up to 32 terminals (potentially up to 128) on 386SX running OS/2. More than 100K SKUs (128 Mbytes total), more than 15 PLU/sec. * Developed and supported customized Point of Sale systems for about twenty home centers, office suppliers, and state universities. These systems include real-time, multi-user database access, and both online and dialup communications. * Designed and developed a multipoint communications network to support an online credit authorization and E-mail system for Orchard Supply Hardware with a single network-wide message interface. Wrote software tools for system and fault diagnosis. * Coordinated design and development of POS Application Programming Interface. * Assembly language, "C", OS/2, database design, data communications, Unix. |
| Employer: | International Computers Limited (ICL) New York |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1979 - December 1981 |
| Description: | * Managed small group in development of Point of Sale and Visual Display Unit terminals. Wrote diagnostic test programs for those terminals.
* Managed quotes and development of various POS related special products. * Was offered a double promotion to head of development. Declined because we had already decided not to settle in Utica, NY |
| Employer: | International Computers Limited (ICL) England |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1976 - December 1979 |
| Description: | * Proposed, designed and managed a small group in development of Retail IV, ICL's main Point of Sale system software worldwide. Two of these systems ran Marks & Spencer's Marble Arch (London) store, the world's busiest. |
| Employer: | Singer Business Machines, San Leandro, CA |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1975 - December 1976 |
| Description: | * Redesigned and installed Singer's last and only fully interactive POS system of 100+ terminals on each of 4 minicomputers. Saved Singer from a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
* Designed and wrote error tracking and reporting for system software. * Assembly language, database design, real-time response analysis. |
| Employer: | I. Magnin, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1973 - December 1975 |
| Description: | * Wrote retail analysis and reporting programs.
* Designed and wrote a tape library monitor system integrated into IBM DOS Open/Close transients. * COBOL, assembly language. |
| Employer: | Educational Testing Service, Berkeley, CA |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1970 - December 1971 |
| Description: | * Designed and wrote test scoring and financial need analysis systems.
* Wrote administrative (payroll, cost accounting) programs. * COBOL, assembly language. |
| Employer: | (Kaiser) Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 1970 |
| Description: | * Wrote remote data editing, formatting, storage, and retrieval modules for a large medical database.
* IBM assembly language, PL/1, OS/MVT (early MVS) |
EDUCATION
| University: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Time period: | 1980 - 1981 |
| Degree: | 4 courses in MBA program |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Degree: | Physics, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | #5839091 Method and apparatus for automatic tissue staining,
and four other follow-on patents |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Jogging, juggling |
