Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
7115 N. Division St. #B-354
Spokane 99208
WASHINGTON, USA
email: Contact Us
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Present Founder, Internet Webmaster, and Distance
Learning Specialist:
Supreme Law Library (SLL), School (SLS), and
Publishers (SLP)
1991 to Present
Counselor at Law, Federal Witness, and Private Attorney General:
Supreme Law Firm, Tucson, Arizona, San Rafael, California and
San Diego, California
1982 to 1991 Founder and Systems Development
Consultant:
Mitchell Associates, Inc., San Rafael, California
1979 to 1982 Director of Computing and Systems
Development:
Systems Applications, Inc., San Rafael, California
1978 to 1979 Systems Analyst and Customer
Training Specialist:
Prime Computer, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. and Natick, Mass.
1976 to 1977 Geographic Database
Coordinator and Computer Mapping
Specialist: Association of Bay Area Governments, Berkeley
1971 to 1976 University Research
Associate: Public Policy
Research Organization, University of California, Irvine
EDUCATION SUMMARY:
Self-educated via "distance learning" in American history, constitutional law, federal statutes
Published author: The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of Internal Revenue (1992); and "Mini-Gridding a Large Region: The Bay Area Spatial Information System," paper and lecture in Harvard Papers on Geographic Information Systems (1978)
Graduate M.A. studies, Program in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine (1974-75); GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 (completed 5 of 7 required courses, before moving to Berkeley, California)
M.S., management, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine (1973); GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
B.A., political science, University of California, Los Angeles (1970); GPA: 3.0 / 4.0
5½ years of study as a candidate for the Catholic priesthood, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California
Continuing education in MS-DOS, Windows XP/98/95/3.11, Internet Explorer, Office 2003, WORD 2003, WORD for DOS 5.0b, Fortran/Pascal/C programming, remote sensing, graph topology, Novell System Manager certification, artificial intelligence, Netscape/Explorer, Eudora Mail, FTP, HTML
EXPERIENCE DETAILS:
Internet Website Developer for law firm and law school: inventor, manager, designer, and file development programmer for Supreme Law Library of court pleadings and related exhibits, to speed public access to all documents filed in state and federal courts, in numerous states; wrote a batch sequence for automating HTML edits to text, preformatted to fit uniform file format, and a QBASIC program to structure a large e-mail archive into HTML indexed directories.
Counselor at Law, Federal Witness, Private Attorney General : performed extensive judicial activism and expert testimony on behalf of victims of criminal rackets perpetrated by IRS and U.S. Department of Justice; Vice President for Legal Affairs in defense of Arizona trust, in major confrontation over federal tax policies; qualified Federal Witness under federal criminal Code at 18 U.S.C. 4, 1512, 1513; conceived and litigated People v. United States in Billings, Montana; litigated 50 State and federal cases, all published in the Supreme Law Library on the Internet.
Systems Development Consultant for investment bank: senior programmer of interactive dial-in package for lending securities to investment brokers worldwide; coded and tested the complete system on a large WAN of Prime super minicomputers; wrote and documented numerous database tasks, such as a RAM disk cache prototype, portfolio database reformatting, and a CHECKOUT utility for software quality control and code library management.
Software Development and Marketing Consultant : wrote and sold high-performance system software for Prime super minicomputers, including robust system accounting, input-output accelerator library, 4GL database concurrency management, and systems & applications performance optimizations; also founded and hosted an annual trade show of Prime compatible hardware/software/services; on-call consultant to network users at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.
Computer Analyst Trainer : developed and delivered lectures to Prime CPU users ranging from first-time thru advanced levels; specialized in program and system optimizations, virtual memory management, code development and debugging methodologies, shared resource scheduling, network database management, data structures, I/O acceleration.
Systems Optimization Consultant : advised commercial, academic, and government organizations on cost-effective techniques for improving Prime systems throughput; developed and applied a unique economic model of page-fault efficiencies on systems with insufficient RAM; also delivered technical papers to Prime Users Group ("PUG") conferences annually.
Director of Computing : small environmental engineering firm with unique dynamic model of air basin pollutant chemistry; trained 45 Ph.D.-level scientists in PRIMOS operating system; converted data and source Fortran files from CDC and IBM mainframes to Prime minicomputer; installed revision updates; conceived and programmed a HELP database; managed the development of a project accounting application using a 4GL relational database package.
Systems Analyst : district sales office of Prime Computer, Inc.; provided technical support to sales staff, with emphasis on program conversion and optimization; trained new customers on all aspects of computer usage, system administration, and database management.
Geographic Database Coordinator : developed an image-based mapping system for 9-county Bay Area region on Varian 76 minicomputer; authored specs for vendor-supplied application programs; assisted in design and coding of run-length algorithm for matrix compression and disk space conservation; installed page-buffered I/O scheme to support large record counts; wrote electrostatic mapping software, with gray-scale, zoom, windowing and annotation; delivered and published a paper and lecture at Harvard Conference on Geographic Information Systems.
Research Associate : university research project to investigate computer usage in the largest city and county governments in United States; provided administrative support to faculty and graduate student research; assisted in formulating methods for measuring utilization of findings by city and county staff.
PERSONAL DATA:
Qualified Federal Witness, Judicial Council, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal circuit Judge Alex Kozinski (supervising)
Born in Massachusetts to American parents; excellent health; types 140 words per minute
REFERENCES:
available upon request
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