John Rumsey

1977: Graduated B.Sc. (hons) in Information Science, Victoria University of Wellington.

1978-1984: Systems Programmer, Computing Services Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.

• Managed systems used for undergraduate teaching.
• System Manager of New Zealand's first VAX computer (from May 1979).

1984-1987: Senior Systems Programmer, New Zealand Forest Service.

• Part of the team implementing the NZFS nationwide network.

1987-1988: Operations Manager, New Zealand Forestry Corporation.

1988-1992: Operations Manager, Computertime Ltd.

• Operational responsibility for Forestry Corporation Facilities Management contract, including:
  • responsibility for all computer systems
  • responsibility for nationwide network connecting more than 50 sites.
• Successfully interfaced a satellite ground station to a VAX computer system, for capturing satellite imagery.

1992-2003: Shareholder/Director/Consultant, Quorum Computing Limited

• Facilities Management for several clients, including:
  • OpenVMS, AIX and Open Source system management.
  • Oracle and Rdb DBA
• Software development in Pascal, Fortran, TPU, C, Perl, DCL and shell scripting.
• Extensive Y2K testing and remedial coding.

2003-present: Shareholder/Director/Consultant, Knossos Networks Limited.