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Biography

John Matrow (pronounced may-trow)

Email me [after removing spaces] at john . matrow @ wichita . edu or personal email at jmatrow @ juno . com

Visit me in the south basement hallway of Jabara in room 011

Call me at 316-WSU-5306

Video conference with me at 156.26.8.193

Fax me at 316-WSU-3350

Mail me at WSU, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0032

See me here in my office.
 

Professional Background

Experience:

9/00-now        Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
                        System Administrator/Trainer, High Performance Computing Center
                        Director, High Performance Computing Center
                        Lecturer, Computer Science
                        Lecturer, Finance, Real Estate & Decision Sciences

5/00-9/00        Corporate Lodging Consultants, Wichita, KS
                        System Analyst/Programmer

8/98-5/99        LSI Logic, Storage Systems Division, Wichita, KS
                        Systems Engineer IV
                        Activities:
                            Network Attached Storage (NAS)
                            Systems integration, training & support

1/95-8/98        Symbios Logic , Wichita, KS
                        Consulting Engineer V
                        Activities:
                            Network Attached Storage (NAS)
                            Systems integration, training & support

6/79-1/95        NCR, Wichita, KS
                        Sr. Principal Programmer Analyst,
                        Consulting Analyst V,
                        Consulting Engineer V
                        Activities:
                            1980: Designed data management system
                            1982: Designed portable software development environment
                            1986: Introduced Ethernet, email and news to facility
                            1987: Researched client/server DBMS
                            1988: Researched distributed databases
                            1989: Designed printed circuit board Third Normal Form schema
                            1992: First Novell certified RAID controller
                            1993: First PCI SCSI host adapter team
                            1994: Total of 36 Novell certified products

12/77-5/79      Iowa Dept. of Transportation, Ames, IA
                        Research Assistantship
                        Activities:
                            Computer cartography

9/77-11/77      Iowa State University, Ames, IA
                        Research Assistantship

10/75-8/77      Iowa Department of Social Services, Des Moines, IA
                        Programmer/Analyst
 

Professional Activities:

          NetWare Users of Wichita
               Activities:
                  Vice President: 1993-1994
                     President: 1995-1998
                     Webmaster: 2000-2001

Education:

M.S. in Computer Science       Iowa State University, Ames, IA which is the

                                               Birthplace of the Electronic Digital Computer

                                                where I worked on The Graph Isomorphism Problem

B.S. in Computer Science        Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO
 
H.S. Diploma                            Excelsior Springs High School, Excelsior Springs, MO

Jr.H. Diploma                            Kennett Junior High School, Kennett, MO

 

Programming:

COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, IBM Assembler, SNOBOL, LISP, Pascal, NCRL, C, C++, Java, PL/SQL
 
 

Networking:

TCP/IP (email, UUCP, TELNET, FTP, DNS, NIS, NFS), Novell NetWare, NT Networking (SMB/CIFS)
 
 

Classes Taught:

WSU: CS 212 Pascal Programming, Spring 1980

WSU: CS 720 Theoretical Foundations, Fall 1980

NCR: NCRL Programming, 1982

NCR: Using email & news on UNIX, 1986

Symbios Logic: Installing & Configuring the MetaStor Intelligent Storage Hub, 1997

WSU: CS 497F  Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL, Spring 2001 (now CS465)

WSU: Short Workshops: FORTRAN 90, Parallel Programming (APO/OpenMP)

WSU: MIS 600 Database Management Systems, Fall 2001/Fall 2003

WSU: CS 465  Oracle Development Environment, Spring 2002/Spring 2003/Spring 2004/Spring 2005/Spring 2007

WSU: CS 497P Advanced Oracle, Fall 2002

WSU: CS 210 Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2005

WSU: CS 665 Introduction to Database Systems, Fall 2007/Fall 2008

WSU: CS 444 Introduction to UNIX, Spring 2009
 

Guest Lectures:

Friends University: Genealogy

Wichita Heights High School, WSU ACM Chapter, Society of Physics Students: Technology

Society of Physics Students, Faculty Senate, Desktop Support Team, Project Discovery/Talent Search, IEEE Student Chapter, FA310 Arts & Technology class, New Faculty/Staff Orientation, Music Education Faculty: Internet2
 

Hobbies & Interests

Family

   My grandson: Jordan Marshall Beaumont Glenn, born 7/2/01 9:37am, 5 lb-5.5oz, 17 3/4".

    My granddaughter: Areilla Meriel Glenn, born 3/6/07.
 

Trains

    NTRAK: Founder of Kansas Area NTRAKers

    Rock Island Technical Society: Former Newsletter Editor & Director

Cars

    Mustangs: I have a 1967 2+2

Church

    Fairmont United Church of Christ, Wichita

    A Virtual Labyrinth using VRML (viewer required)

Music

    Senseney Music Community Band: I play trombone

    Midian Shrine Million Dollar Band

    WSU Basketball Band: With over 30 homes games (men & women) there are actually two bands.

    Instrument Jokes

Genealogy

    My Family Tree

Dinosaurs

    The Dinosaur Mailing List: I founded it

    Here is my own summary of Bakker's 1986 book including three open questions

    The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

    Dinosaur Extinction: Actually, I feel that the Volcano-Greenhouse Theory is responsible for the K-T boundary but that NEITHER the Volcano-Greenhouse Theory NOR the Asteroid Impact Theory were responsible for the dinosaur extinction. Moreover, you should read The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy and find out what "pathological science" is. Here are some interesting reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4.

    "What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?" [DISCOVER June, 2002]

    Oceans of Kansas Paleontology

Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

   SETI@home

History

    Kansas State Historical Society

Naturism

    The Naturist Society

    Lake Edun

Finally

    I GUARANTEE that you'll have a good time by calling 303-499-7111. (It's a joke, alright?)
 
 

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