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Resume
Andrew H. Carver
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andy@andycarverconsulting.com; database@andycarverconsulting.com
U.S.
Citizen; married; two children.
Overview:
Experienced
engineer, problem-analyzer and -solver.
Accomplished graduate and researcher
with
wide-ranging educational base in both humanities and technical studies. Avid pursuer of IT skills,
with good grasp of
computer science, database design, C, C++, Java, VB, HTML, ORM, and
SQL. Experienced
teacher at the university level. Specialist in information systems
design, ORM,
business rules.
Publications
(in chronological order):
Contributor
to the
OMG standard on the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR),
2003-2007 (http://www.omg.org/spec/SBVR/1.0).
Balsters,
H., Carver, A., Halpin, T., and Morgan, T. 2006,
‘Modeling Dynamic Rules in ORM’, On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, eds.
R.
Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al., Montpellier. Springer LNCS 4278,
pp.
1201-10.
Halpin,
T., Carver, A., and Owen, K. 2007, ‘Reduction
Transforms in ORM’, On the Move to
Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops, eds.
R. Meersman, Z.
Tari, P. Herrero et al., Vilamoura, Springer LNCS 4805, pp. 699-708.
Carver,
A., and
Halpin, T., 2008,
‘Atomicity and Normalization’,
presented at the EMMSAD
Workshop, 20th International CAiSE Conference,
Montpellier, France,
June 2008.
Carver,
A., 2008,
‘How To Avoid Redundant Object-References’, On
the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2008: OTM 2008 Workshops,
eds. R.
Meersman, Z. Tari, and P. Herrero, Springer LNCS 5333, pp. 770–779.
Carver,
A., and Halpin, T., in press (2010), ‘Atomicity and Semantic
Normalization’, International
Journal of Information System Modeling and Design.
Distinctions and Skills:
Distinctions:
Technical
editor of Halpin & Morgan, Information
Modeling and Relational Databases, 2d
ed. (2008)
Member
of Program Committee, last several years, for the
EMMSAD Workshop and the ORM Workshop
IBM
Certified in DB2 Business Intelligence Solutions V8.1
(2008)
IBM
Certified Database Associate, DB2 V8.1 Family (2006)
Sun
Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (2002)
Technical
skills:
Some
Languages learned:
SQL; ORM; C; Java
(SDK 1.3.1); Delphi;
VB; HTML; Tcl; XML.
Some
Languages still learning:
C++
(intermediate); JavaScript (beginner).
OS’s/protocols
used: Windows
XP; Unix;
ftp; intermediate understanding of TCP/IP.
Some
other software used:
Visual Studio,
IBM DB2 (certf’d.); Visio (advanced); SQL Server
Other skills:
Read
German, biblical Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic, some French
(demonstrating language aptitude).
Can
use, and train others in, formal deductive logic (useful
in any rigorous intellectual discipline).
Can
relate IT concepts and issues to semantics areas, e.g.
speech act theory and cognitional theory.
Education
(in
chronological order):
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1973-74
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Oklahoma Baptist University
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(Music and
humanities)
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1974-76
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Austin College
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(Music and
humanities)
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1976-79
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University of Oklahoma
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B.S.E.E.
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Electrical
engineering
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1989
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Southern Ore. State College
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(2 economics
courses)
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1990-95
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Westminster Theological
Seminary
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M.Div.
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Theological
studies
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1995-2001
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University of Durham (in the U.K.)
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Ph.D.
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New Testament
studies
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2007-2009
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Neumont University
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M.S.C.S.
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Computer
Science
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Employment-History, Selected (in chronological order):
KGMC-TV
(which is now
KOCB, channel 34), Okla. City Aug.
1980-May 1985
Last
position held: Maintenance
supervisor.
Responsibilities:
Upkeep and repair of all
the station's broadcast and studio equipment (shared responsibility for
transmitter,); eliciting information about equipment problems and
solving them.
Various
part-time jobs (lumber,
security, newspaper
delivery), from 1986 through 1995, while pursuing both informal and
formal
philosophical and theological studies. From Aug 1995-Apr 2001 I lived
and
studied in England,
and was legally forbidden to work.
Neumont
University,
Salt
Lake City,
Utah,
December
2002-June 2008.
Teacher
of information modeling (database
design); formal deductive logic; relational database systems.
Responsibilities:
Introductory- and
intermediate-level courses in information modeling, deductive logic.
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http://andycarverconsulting.com/