Background

I started working for the University as a Programmer for the User Services group at Academic Computing in June, 1984. One year later I found myself in a Programmer Analyst slot working with mini-computers and some "new" AT&T UNIX machines. One of the projects in which I involved myself was the task of introducing the UNIX operating system to selected University departments through what was known as the Sun Loaner program. Through this project I learned the joys of UNIX system administration which helped me prepare for a switch to the department of Electrical Engineering as their Computer Systems Engineer in April of 1991. After working in this capacity I moved back to Academic Computing (now known as ITC) as the Computer Systems Engineer for the Engineering School. I now find myself working under the title of Computer Systems Senior Engineer for the department of Computer Science, in charge of a hard working computing support staff. In the midst of all this, I started and finished a masters in Systems Engineering. I graduated in December, 1995.

vsm@virginia.edu