Fred Rea Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Current/Soon personal stack includes Webflow, Finsweet Client First, Relume Library, Javascript, MongoDB, GSAP animation, SVG, GoogleMaps/Mapbox, SEO tools, Square/SquareUp. Been making and tweaking websites off and on for rational, reasonable clients since 1996 when making the first National Governors' Association website with Vermeer- transitioning to Microsoft when they gobbled up that company to "turn the giant ship" toward Internet, as was said at the time. Used a number of well known website dev tools over time and Very Pleased with Webflow, now. The tools have finally become Very sharp.

Vero Beach, Fl

Wi-Fi Penetration Testing. Write web service applications using the Python programming language.Internet of Things (IoT) development and security testing.Background in real-time systems programming for clients in aerospace, cyber security, federal law enforcement, "intel community" and computer manufacturers.

Vero Beach, Florida

AOPA Airport Support Network Contact for Vero Beach Municipal Airport.

Helped run the annual Mystery/Crime Fiction writers conference put on by the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Attended Bouchercon, et al. fiction conferences a number of years.

Lanham, Md

Consultant to several internal development groups, coaching on operating systems interface for custom hardware drivers, architecture specific real time programming and systems level debugging. Projects included US Air Force and NOAA Satellite Ground Systems using Fortran77 and Assembly Language on Data General Minicomputers.

Vienna, Va

Systems Programmer and Analyst at Bureau of Diplomatic Security, US Dept of State.Investigated Windows NT Operating System internals with debugger and source code during Beta period for issues and usage possibilities. Wrote experimental tools for monitoring runtime activity, Access Control and defeating (blocking) access to standard menu choices in standard applications based on custom user profiles. Wrote papers and influenced early Department computer security policy on internet usage of various standard communication protocols. Supported field audit personnel who visited overseas embassy and consular facilities to review computer security policy adherence.Performed computer disk forensic examination of systems taken as evidence in several Bureau investigations, working with DS Special Agents while maintaining chain of custody protocol, etc.

Bethesda, Md

Self employed Data General Corp computer systems specialist. US Federal Govt oriented work, mostly Operating Systems interfacing, custom hardware Driver Writing and Real Time or Communications oriented projects.

Wash Dc And Tucson, Az

Systems Engineer in Data General Corp's Federal Division in Washington DC. Pre-Sales Support and Field Troubleshooter. Operating System and Technical Products Specialist, worked with high volume OEM and US Govt customers on critical problem resolution, custom software and hardware interfaces and beta product support. Lots of travel to exotic Western US government test areas, lots of Real Time systems experience. Lots of 11'th Hour Do-Or-Die pressure stuff. Some interesting work with Wold Class Astronomers at University of Arizona facilities outside Tucson. Data General Nova, Eclipse and MV architectures; the days when Massachusetts Iron roamed the Earth .

Mclean, Va

Part of a three man software development team working in Assembly Language, Fortran 5 and Fortran 77. Did User Interface portion and made internal tools for a custom B-Tree product delivered to Very Large Database clients in Oil Field Cataloging and Nuclear Power Plant Construction Management fields. Learned a lot from Phil Horvitz.

Nasa Hq, Washington Dc

Maintenance programmer for most Headquarters procurement systems on IBM Mainframe system. I remember the party when the bigger of two systems was upgraded to a full meg of main memory. Batch. Dailies, Weeklies, Monthlies and Yearlies. Punch Card (Hollerith), Closed Shop 9-Track Tape environment. Argh.

Phys Ed And Computer Science

Originally a Physical Education major- switched to Information Systems Management. Left school to take an IBM Mainframe COBOL coding job.

Education record

Education record