These web pages are currently being renovated.
They will be prettier and more complete as time passes - just like me.
- GarethHarris.com is the main entry point for these sites and information about me.
- PenRes.com is the main information and documentation site about computing and systems.
- WorkerBeeComputing.com - is about modular computing.
- BeehivePortal.com - is for tests and demonstrations. It often requires a login/password.
- SentimentalStargazer.com is my personal site about life beyond religion.
ON THE LEFT MENU:
- My Resumé first page. Please contact me for more details.
- A recent factory example
- A recent warehouse example
- Pure fun. Remember Lucy and Ethel in the Chocolate Factory?
- Here I am with my Saluki Sighthounds in the desert
SUMMARY:
I know it is missing in today's beancounter business world, but I still do business based on my word and a handshake. Along with my handshake comes a promise to deliver a product with the maximum achievable quality. I am in business to do a job that will satisfy not only you, but also me -- and I have extremely high standards with a proven track record.
Some milestones on the road of life:
As
I look it over, this list surprises me and reminds me
of when I went to my friend Jim Browne [then head of
the University of Texas Computer Science department]
and told him I wanted to do the requirements for a PhD.
Jim said "What the hell do you want to do a PhD with us
for? We are just going to teach about what you have
been doing!" So I sailed on. I think that was at about
item 7 below. Well,
tempus fugit.
- Unwillingly drove bulldozers for $0.50/hr 50 years ago for my father.
- Created automated machinery for textile industry as teenager.
- Created electronic and radiation instrumentation while at Lockheed Research.
- Created major modules of the first successful database management system while with University of Texas.
- Created early network communications for University of Texas.
- Created remote instrument communications network protocols for Navy Applied Research Labs.
- Created R&D organization, new operating system with new hardware for Computer Automation, on beyond UNIX system - PROTOS.
- Created company, designed and manufactured UNIX minicomputers as CYB systems, including installations for competitors such as IBM, Data General, ... and major users such as Lawrence Livermore, Texas A&M, Uzzi ... etc.
- Created early nationwide frame relay networks for Courier Dispatch
- Created large middleware system for major corporation [ Savannah Foods] during legacy replacement.
- Created large legacy replacement design for IBM/Spartan Foods.
- Rescued campus network from chaos for Berry College.
- Created international private web database access tracking high seas shipping for Rogers & Brown Customs Brokers.
- Created internal planning database accessible privately via web for BellSouth.
- Created control system design for new radio telescope array for National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
- Created planetary search system for Radio Astronomy Institute.
- Created automated factory scheduling and control system middleware for wheel factory with large robots, CNC machines and automatic guided vehicles.
- Created automated planning and control middleware for major warehouse - coordinating mainnframes with clients' trucks, parcels and conveyors including putaway allocation planning in real time for warehouse optimization.