John Fisher

Current

Author / Moderator at FisherFindings
Systems/Software Engineer at HP

Past

Sr Systems Programmer at Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company
Application Programmer at Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company
Application Programmer at Computer Dimensions

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Education

Newberry College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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John Fisher’s Summary

Focus on systems integration and complex issues with OpenVMS storage. This includes performance management, OS and storage interaction as well as ongoing proactive management of the storage infrastructure.

John Fisher’s Specialties:

OpenVMS Storage Performance Management, HP StorageWorks Performance Management, Storage Area Network (SAN) interoperability, Proactive Environment Management (through various management tools, such as HP OpenView and HP Storage Essentials)

John Fisher’s Experience

Author / Moderator

FisherFindings

(Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Creating a forum for the OpenVMS community to share "lessons learned" about OpenVMS storage.
Systems/Software Engineer

HP

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1986 — Present (23 years 9 months)

Roles include Sales Support, Systems Integration Consultant, Consultant for "Gold" OpenVMS customers in the Customer Support Center, Escalation Engineer with HP's Americas Escalation Team, Complex Problem Manager and now Systems/Software Engineer. In most of those roles, John focused on systems integration and complex issues with OpenVMS storage subsystems.
Sr Systems Programmer

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)

January 1981 — March 1986 (5 years 3 months)

Responsible for all computing at the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies. Included the production VMS cluster for the policy quotation and policywriting systems. Also managed the test VMS cluster. Sr Systems Programmer for the IBM MVS mainframe (initially a 370/158, which we upgraded to a 3090). Implemented ACF2 security and VMS security. Implemented operational manuals for backup/recovery. Performed periodic performance analysis on the MVS and VMS systems. Helped test and implement distributed PCs for the policy quotation and policy writing systems.
Application Programmer

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

June 1979 — January 1981 (1 year 8 months)

Application Programmer and project lead for the Church Insurance group within the Atlantic Companies. Led the team which did a complete redesign of a quotation and policywriting system. Due to the redesign, the Church Insurance group doubled the polices written without any increase in staff. This was implemented on RSTS/E and later on OpenVMS systems using DIBOL and RMS files.
Application Programmer

Computer Dimensions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1978 — June 1979 (1 year 1 month)

This privately held company in Florence, SC built some of the first software for church administration. Since renamed to ACS Technologies, it is one of the leading providers of church administration software. During that first year, I was an application programmer.

John Fisher’s Education

Newberry College

BA , German , 1974 — 1978

Majored in German, including study (in German) for one year at the University of Vienna. Minored in Computer Science and Speech & Theater.