What Dave Does Around Here

Here's what Dave does....

born Sept 20, 1946 at Hutchinson, Kansas

grew up on a farm 5.75 miles west of Arlington, Kansas. Learned to grow wheat and learned that farming is hard work.

member of the last graduating class from Arlington High in 1964

finished 100 hours in a nuclear engineering program at Kansas State from June, 1964 until August, 1966

graduated from MIT in physics in 1968

drafted into the good old US Army while attending Yale in November 1968

early out from the Army with an honorable discharge on December 23, 1971, with no permanent physical or mental scars

finished Ph.D. in low energy, experimental nuclear physics in 1977

worked in nuclear physics research and in radiological physics as a Post Doc

started teaching physics at Emporia State University in 1979

learned to program in C from the White Book

began using Unix System V back when you could mail yourself a root account

first taught computer graphics using Tektronix 4014 emulator on a PC

became an advocate of RISC in 85 while teaching a computer architecture class

has taught Fortran 66, Fortran 77, BASIC, Pascal, C and Java, Korn shell scripting

taught BASIC on a TRS-80, a PET, and an Altair 8800

used to have the issue of Electronics magazine which featured the Altair kit

used to have an Altair 8800

owns 3 Cromemco systems which his wife wants disposed of

runs NT 4.0 server on his dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro system

runs RedHat Linux 5.2 on his other Pentium system

runs Windows 3.1 on his wife's system

generally dislikes NT, likes Unix in any variety or version, partial to AIX, linux, Solaris

vi is my favorite text editor

advocate of thin client/server computing as the best model for academic institutions where money and/or staff are always in very short supply

administers Winframe 1.7 server with Tektronix netstations at Mission Valley High School

developed the floor plan for Bennett Computer Center in 1987

built Washburn's first computer network using data switching in the 80's with Prime supermini computers and several hundred alphanumeric terminals

purchased first IBM RS6000 930 system used in academic in 1990

designed Washburn's fiber optic backbone with enough bandwidth to last Washburn for the next 25 years- 30 mm and 6 sm fibers-in 1994

built Washburn's second computer network using 10BaseT ethernet and stackable hubs in early 90's

built Washburn's third computer network using 100BaseT full-duplex ethernet and network switches in the mid 90's

now planning Washburn's fourth computer network using switched gigabit ethernet

can give a talk on thin client/server strategy if you want/need details

operates the family wheat farm southwest of Hutchinson, Kansas. Only known nuclear physicist/wheat farmer/computer geek in existence.

sails a boat on Lake Perry, used to ski and play tennis

drinks lots of coffee, runs to try to stay in shape, likes football

oldest daughter is a senior at KU, youngest daughter is a sophmore at KU

likes mechanical things, can repair and operate Gleaner F combine, build PC from motherboard up, repair and operate John Deere 4020D and 4440 tractors

Resume for David E. Bainum

ADDRESS email: david.bainum@washburn.edu dbainum@direcway.com home: 7150 SW Douglas Road Topeka, KS 66610 785-256-6519 office: Washburn University 1700 College Street Topeka, KS 66621 785-231-1010 ext 2389 GRADUATE EDUCATION

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
- M.S. in Physics-June, l974
- Ph. D. in Physics-March, 1977
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Physics-September, l972 to June, l973
The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
- M.S. in Management Science and Operations Research, 1972
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
- Physics-September, l968 to January, l969

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- B.S. in Physics, June, l968
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
- major in Nuclear Engineering-June, l964 to August, l966

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY POSITIONS HELD

Director, Academic Computer Center and Associate Professor of Computer Information Science, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas 66621, July 1986 to current date.

Director, Academic Computer Center, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas 66621, January 1984 to July 1986.

My primary duty is to administer the Academic Computer Center (ACC). The ACC provides computer support for academic programs and for faculty teaching, research and professional activities. Some administrative computing and institutional research activities are also carried out by the ACC. In addition to a full-time staff of 8 people, the ACC employees 10 to 15 student workers.

Located in Bennett Computer Center, the ACC operates several IBM RS/6000 AIX-based servers, SUN Microsystems Solaris-based servers and workstations, Advanced Logic Research multiprocessor servers running Microsoft NT server, and a campus-wide network built around a fiber optic backbone. The RS6000 servers use the AIX opoerating system. The largest such server is an IBM SP/2 which is used for server consolidation. A RS/6000 server is dedicated to the libraries and runs the Innovative Interfaces library automation software. Ethernet switches with 100- and 10-BaseT ports are used to connect servers, personal computers, netstations and printers to the campus network which consists of 8 class-C address spaces connected with routers. The campus ethernet is connected to the Internet via several T1 lines. The ACC serves as the point of presence in the 785 area code for Verio Inc., an Internet service provider. This requires 15 wide area network connections using T3 lines, T1 lines, frame-relay lines, and routers. The ACC extended the campus network to the Kansas Supreme Court library via a T1 connection.

I developed a maintenance lab staffed with two full-time technicians and student workers to maintain all microcomputer equipment and computer terminals and printers.

I organized a user-services group comprised of two full-time staff and several student workers to help the faculty effectively utilize all ACC computing resources, Extensive training materials, tutorials and handbooks, have been developed and made available to faculty and students and for the faculty to hand out to students in their courses.

Beginning in 1984, I participated in the planning and design of the Bennett Computer Center by working with the building architects to develop work areas, floor-plans, equipment and building materials. The building was constructed in 1986-87 at a cost of $1,800,000 dollars and occupied in January 1988.

As a faculty member in Computer Information Sciences, I have developed and taught courses on computer architecture, Unix Operating System, C Programming Language, Computer Graphics and the Java object-oriented programming language. I have taught a seminar on Science, Technology and Social Responsibility in the University Honors Program.

OTHER UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor of Physics, Physical Sciences Division, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 6680l, January 1979 to June 1984.

I taught upper-level undergraduate courses in Physics, developed an undergraduate physics/electronics program and developed an

undergraduate computer science program. While developing this computer science program I taught all the courses as they were incorporated into the program. The program was approved by the Kansas State Board of Regents to offer the B. S. Degree in computer science beginning in 1984.

Fellow, Radiological Physics, Medical Physics Department, Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital, Columbia, Mo., January l978 to December l978.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Accelerator Laboratory, Physics Department, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, August 1976 to January 1978.

Graduate Research Associate, Accelerator Laboratory, Physics Department, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, July 1973 to July 1976.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Unified School District (USD) 501 technology committee

USD 330 technology committee

USD 330 Board of Education, President and board member

City of Topeka information systems advisory committee

Kansas Research and Education Network Executive Committee

COMPUTER CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Topeka Convention and Visitors Bureau

Consolidated School District #4, Grandview, Missouri

Jackson County Water District, Grandview, Missouri

St. Francis Sleep Center, St. Francis Hospital, Topeka, KS

City Administration of Grandview, Missouri

Public School System, Grandview, Missouri

Abacus Health Care Systems

Bowden Consulting

Federal Home Loan Bank

Kansas State Board of Examiners in Optometry

Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Topeka, Kansas

Kansas Recreation and Park Association, Topeka, Kansas

Kansas Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, State of Kansas, Topeka,KS

United States Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, Topeka, KS

Kansas Committee for the Humanities, Topeka, Kansas.

City of Topeka, Topeka, Kansas.

CN Communications, International, Rahway, New Jersey.

Department of Human Services Data Center, State of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey.

Park College, Parkville, Missouri.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Association for Computing Machinery

Kansas Academy of Science

I was a Kansas Academy of Science Distinguished Lecturer in 1995-96.

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