Education
1987-1988 M.Sc. (Computation), Dept. of Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University. Thesis: “Towards Object-Oriented FORTH”
1982-1987 B.Sc. Honours (Computer Science), Queen’s University.
Thesis: “Partitioning the 1981 Canadian Census Database”
Work Experience
Present Member of the Applied Computersystems Group, Dept. Computer Science and Systems; Dr. W.F.S. (Skip) Poehlman, Principal Investigator. Research involves development of an artificial intelligence-based performance enhancement and real-time control system for a particle accelerator; funded by the Dept. of National Defence.
5/91-Present Self-employment as computer systems consultant and software engineer.
5/91-Present Design and development of a patient database and analysis system, Palliative Care Team, Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals, Hamilton, Ontario. Presentation of system at the Ninth International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, Montréal, Québec, October 31, 1992; Presentation at the First National Workshop for the Establishment of a Nation-wide Palliative Care Database, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 22, 1993.
5/87-12/87 Member of the Reactor Safety Group, Dept. of Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Ontario Hydro (Dr. C. Young, supervisor). Responsibilities included: (i) developing, implementing and modifying a computerized work management and scheduling system (WMS) using dBASE III+; (ii) development of a user-friendly interface to WMS for a department of 100 people.
9/87-Present Marking and tutoring for undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science and electrical engineering (data structures, compiler design, software engineering, scientific computing, assembly language programming, processor design), McMaster University.
5/85-12/87 Compilation of a 1981 Canadian Census database and design of a support program to be used in business site location optimization; supervised by Dr. R. Turner, School of Business, Queen’s University.
6/84-8/86 Development of computerized tutorial programs for the Dept. of Nursing Science and Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University, and a nutritional analysis program for use in local hospitals and health centers; supervised by Dr. T. Spencer, Dept. of Biochemistry, Queen’s University.
9/83-5/87 Marking and tutoring for first and second year computer courses, Queen’s University.
5/83 Simulation analysis and research under Dr. N.C. Lind, Risk Research Institute, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo.
9/81-6/83 Installation and programming of a small micro-computer system for the Dept. of Biology for tutoring and testing of students; Design and implementation of support software for annual rowing regatta; Development of a student records file management system for the Office of the Registrar. Shawnigan Lake School, Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
Practical Experience
Programming Languages and Software Systems Familiarity
This list includes all programming languages and software systems with which I have limited to extensive experience. Entries marked in italics are those with which I have a high degree of competency.
Ada Kappa-PC Q’NIAL
APL LISP Rexx
BASIC Logo SAS
C, C++ Lotus 123, Quattro SQL
Pro
CLU Lucid S/SL
COBOL Matlab SSPF
dBASE IV, dbFast, Minitab
Clipper
Euclid (SE, CE) Occam 1802 Machine language
FORTH Paradox 6502 Machine Language
FORTRAN Pascal (OOP) 8051, 8096 Machine
Language
FP PC Scheme, PC+, PC 80x86 Machine Language
Online
GPSS Pilot NS 16032 Machine
Language
Ingres Prolog MC68000 Machine
Language
Computer Systems Familiarity
Mainframes
IBM 3081G (VM/CMS) HCR NS16032 (UNIX) VAX 11/780 and /750 (VM/SMS and SUN 3/4/IPC (UNIX) UNIX)Micro-Computers
IBM PC/XT/AT, 286, TI Explorer, MicroExplorer 386, 486 Apple II, II+, IIe, IIc NS DB-16000 Development Board Apple Macintosh, Intel 8051, 8096 Micro-controller Macintosh II Development Systems
Academic Record
Graduate: Please see attached photocopy of transcript. (Official
original upon request.)
Undergraduate: Official original available upon
request.
Publications
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Technology Insertion and Performance Enhancement for a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator”, Proc. First Workshop on Performance Support Systems in Nuclear Power Plants, Dept. of Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 15-17, 1994.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Application of Fuzzy Logic to Control of a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator”, submitted for review for publication, IEEE Special Proceedings on Fuzzy Systems, 1995. [Submitted: May 4, 1994]
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Fuzzy Control of a Particle Accelerator’s Analyzing Magnet”, Abstract accepted for publication in upcoming Proc. Fifth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May, 1994.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., “The KN-3000 Particle Accelerator Control Expert System (PACES)”, IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, vol. 40, no. 6, December, 1993.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Fuzzy Logic for Particle Accelerator Control”, Proc. Fifth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November, 1993.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., and Cousins, T., “Knowledge Engineering for PACES: The KN-3000 Particle Accelerator Control Expert System”, Proc. Fourth Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, April 27-28, 1992, p. 133.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., “Design of an Expert-System-based Real-Time Control System for a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator,” Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, eds. D.E. Grierson, G. Rzevski, and R.A. Adey, Elsevier Applied Science, NY, 1992.
Lind, P.C., Poehlman, W.F.S., Stark, J.W., “Implementation Considerations for PACES: the Particle Accelerator Control Expert System”, Proc. Third Symp. on Applications of Expert Systems in the Dept. of National Defence, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON., May 2-3, 1991, p. 17.
Lind, P.C., Solntseff, N.S., “A Debugging Environment for FORTH”, Accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied FORTH, September 1992.
Turner, R., Lind, P., “Locating the Demand for Church Facilities”, ASAC Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6, Part 1, 1986.
Turner, R., Lind, P., “Factors for Evaluating Branch Bank Locations”, Internal publication, Toronto Dominion Bank, 1987.
Academic Awards
1990-1992 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($11,300).
1988-1994 Departmental Scholarship, Electrical and Computer Engineering ($5000).
1988 Departmental Scholarship, Computer Science and Systems ($1750).
Areas of Academic Interest and Experience
Aerospace Science and Engineering Nanocomputers and Nanomachines
Astronomy, Astrophysics Numerical/Scientific Computation
Compiler, Programming Language, Operating Systems, Distributed
Database Design Computing, Networks
Computer Graphics Real-time Process Control
Conventional, Parallel Computer Robotics
Architectures
Discrete and Dynamic System Simulation Software Engineering, Object-oriented
Programming
Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Virtual reality
Machine Learning, Fuzzy logic
Spoken
Languages
English (Mother French (Highschool Japanese (University level, tongue) level) Years 1, 2 and 3)References
Upon request.