Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
7115 N. Division St. #B-354
Spokane 99208
WASHINGTON, USA

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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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