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Chavez, Edgar
Independent Consultant
West Chester, Pennsylvania
 
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Edgar Chavez is an independent consultant specializing in IBM mainframe computing, software quality assurance, and change management. He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on supervisory, project management, and technical assignments dealing with all phases of systems development and maintenance in finance, administration, transportation, information retrieval, and operating systems support.

Among others, Edgar’s assignments have included: change management consultation; customizing, updating, and enhancing a software configuration management system; designing and building online database maintenance and retrieval systems; designing, building, and maintaining order processing and sales reporting systems; designing and building an online system to manage technical documents; designing, building, and enhancing accounting systems; designing and building automated scripts to test order processing systems for Y2K compliance; and providing technical support to DEC-VAX system managers in more than 100 sites worldwide.

Edgar has experience with a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.

He holds a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. He enjoys reading in a wide variety of topics, listening to classical music, and gardening. He and his wife live in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

 
 
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   Programming for Computations - Python
Linge S., Langtangen H., Springer, New York, NY, 2020. 232 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319324-27-2)

True story: many years ago, while studying applied mathematics, a young man took a one credit hour course in programming. This consisted of an introduction to FORTRAN II and a single assignment: write a program to triangularize a matri...

Dec 7 2021  
   Modern Fortran explained: incorporating Fortran 2018
Metcalf M., Reid J., Cohen M., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 522 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-198811-88-6)

First introduced in 1957, FORTRAN was designed to be easier than an assembler language for writing algebraic equations on a computer. In this, FORTRAN was spectacularly successful....

Mar 19 2021  
   The Linux command line: a complete introduction (2nd ed.)
Shotts W., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2019. 504 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593279-52-3)

This is a wonderful introduction and tutorial meant to make readers comfortable and productive in the command line. It is not about system administration, Bash scripts, or any other tool, although they are all mentioned and covered at ...

Nov 1 2019  
   Interpreting Lisp: programming and data structures (2nd ed.)
Knott G., Apress, New York, NY, 2017. 150 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484227-06-0)

In writing Interpreting Lisp: programming and data structures, Knott aims to meet several goals in a concise and direct manner: first, to provide a gentle but precise introduction to Lisp; second, to illustrate the flavor of Lis...

Mar 8 2018  
   Common Lisp recipes: a problem-solution approach
Weitz E., Apress, New York, NY, 2015. 744 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484211-77-9)

Lisp, the second high-level programming language invented at the dawn of the computer age, has never been out of fashion, especially for artificial intelligence and other specialized areas. When the Lisp community recognized the benefi...

Oct 27 2016  
   The GNU make book
Graham-Cumming J., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2015. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593276-49-2)

The Unix make utility was designed to automate the building of executable files from source code files. It is especially useful in projects where changes are made to different source code files and in projects that need to build...

Aug 5 2015  
   Nine algorithms that changed the future: the ingenious ideas that drive today’s computers
MacCormick J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2012. 248 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691147-14-7)

Since the latter part of the 20th century, computers have penetrated our daily lives to the extent that without them, a modern industrialized society is practically inconceivable, as is much of the rest of daily life. But computer scie...

Mar 25 2013  
   Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard programming
Trent M., McCormack D., Wiley Publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 2010. 651 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-470577-52-3)

This book is aimed at development on the desktop, specifically in the Snow Leopard environment (OS X 10.6). Now that Lion, OS X 10.7, has been recently released, the first question is whether the book is obsolete. The answer, in short,...

Aug 29 2011  
   Geometric algebra for computer science: an object-oriented approach to geometry
Dorst L., Fontijne D., Mann S., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2009. 664 pp.  Type: Book (9780123749420)

Geometric algebra, a young field that has only caught on relatively recently, is growing rapidly and, given its potential impact, has nothing but a bright future ahead. Although the amount of material written on the subject is already ...

Apr 5 2010  
 
 
 
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