When did I do what?

Created May 26, 1995; Updated October 28, 2009, revision 2.7 (Moved to Rump.dk!).
©1995-2009 Leif Andrew Rump.

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Here some information about what happened when in my life - I've left out quite a few details - and nothing has been added - I hope! :-)

2. August 1963 I was born - no there is no picture from that event. :-)
1970-1979 Went to school - nothing special here!
1979-1984 Went to Gymnasium - if my father haven't brought a programmable calculator (TI-59 from Texas Instruments) home from work maybe things would have turned out different! Now I spent a lot of time in the schools computer room programming COMAL & UCSD Pascal programs!
August 1983 I went to the University in Aarhus to study computer science - and spent most of the time in the computer terminal room programming using all kinds of different programming languages including Pascal, Prolog, COMAL, BASIC, etc.!
September 1984 Bought my first own home computer: an Amstrad CPC464
1984-1986 I became a freelance journalist for the Danish version of the Amstrad computer magazine.
1985-1996 I also became a sysop on a Fido BBS system where the readers could dial in and exchange E-mail and files - that was quite something at that time!
August 1985 I switched education to Aarhus Business College to take the Datamatician course (Datamatiker).
1986 Developed a computer interface in Z80 assembler for Lego which made it possible to control a Lego model from a computer - I've never laughed so much in my life!
December 1987 I finished the Datamatician course and moved back to Sealand.
February 1988 I got a job at AmbraSoft A/S as a software engineer.
Worked with PC's making software for one of the Danish saving banks and got the first real contact to the Internet.
January 1989 Started on the EEC RACE project at Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) as a consultant (still employed by AmbraSoft A/S).
Worked with Sun Sparc workstations making multi-media, -user, -tasking, -database, -server, -client, ... applications for RESAM (Remote Expert Support for Aircraft Maintenance) !
August 1991 Finished the EEC project and returned to AmbraSoft A/S.
March 1992 Got a job at UNIRAS A/S.
Worked with Sun Sparc workstations integrating the UNIRAS graphics library with UIM/X - a X-Window System GUI builder from Visual Edge.
May 1993 Got a job at ScanView A/S (the Danish HQ never get around to make their web-site!).
Worked with a software RIP (ScriptWorks from Harlequin) under Windows NT.
We used all kinds af languages to implement our projects including: C, C++, assembler and PostScript.
1995 I created the first version of these homepages at GeoCities after making an intranet web-site a ScanView A/S.
May 1996 Got a job at Blik og Rørarbejderforbundet (Blik og Rør) as software developer.
Work with Windows NT and Linux to implement and run Blik og Rør's internal and external services which include:
  • Mail servers and services running on MS Windows 2000
    • Microsoft Exchange mailserver
    • MAILSweeper mail gateway including
      • SECRETSweeper for encrypting and decrypting mails for secure communication
  • All kinds of internal programs programmed using:
    • MicroSoft Visual Studio
      • VC++
        • ISAPI - plugin for the IIS
      • VB (don't make me do it again!)
    • PHP
    • ASP (urgh!)
    • ...
  • Webservers running on Linux (Apache) and MS Windows 2000 (IIS)
    • Using PostNuke (on Linux) to support our internet and intranet webservers.
    • PHP for webdevelopment
  • Databases
  • ...
September 2006 Got a job at FOA (Fag og Arbejde) as software developer.
Work with Unix to implement and run FOA's internal and external services which include:
  • Member service
    • member cards
    • statistics
    • ...
  • All kinds of programs using:
    • Ingres Vision
    • Urgh - Perl!!!
  • Database
February 2008 Got a job at pulz8 Communications as system administrator/software developer.
I take care of the internal systems including homepage, network, servers while my colleagues program a great system which allows mobile units, e.g., trains , to have contact with earth for: internet on board, TV, train control, ...
My main responsibility are:

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