Owner, Kenn Goutal Photography; Computer Software Consultant
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Owner at Kenn Goutal Photography
- Independent Computer Software Professional at self
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Availant, Inc.
- Senior Software Engineer at CLAM Associates, Inc.
- Senior Software Engineer at PC Connection
- Senior Software Engineer at WordStock, Inc.
- Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Group
- Senior Software Engineer at Cognition Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Company
- Senior Software Engineer at CIBA-CORNING Diagnostics
- Senior Software Engineer at Interbase Software Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at Software Innovations, Inc.
- Senior Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at Hendrix Electronics Incorporated
- Senior Software Engineer at Iotron Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at The Boston Systems Office, Inc.
- Contract Computer Programmer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Contract Computer Programmer at Marine Biological Laboratories
- Computer Programmer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Computer Operator at General Housewares, Inc.
- Education
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- Rivier College
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Gordon College
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Kenn Goutal’s Summary
My professional experience in computer software engineering
has focused on real-time applications (marine, maritive, newspaper, medical),
computer and data networking, and relational databases.
My new photographic career focuses on scenic, historical, and railroad photographs:
* Lakes, ponds, swamps, bogs, marshes, rivers, streams, vernal pools,
dams, spillways, waterfalls.
* Historical landmarks, local icons, endangered properties.
* Locomotives, cars, tracks, and structures of abandoned and working railways.
Kenn Goutal’s Specialties:
Computer Software:
* real-time applications
* computer and data networking
* relational databases
Photography:
* scenic
* historical
* railroad
Kenn Goutal’s Experience
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Owner
Kenn Goutal Photography
(Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
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Independent Computer Software Professional
self
(Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)
Web site creation, maintenance, and redesign.
Data migration.
Relational database table, relation, query, form, and report specification, design, development, and testing. -
Senior Software Engineer
Availant, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
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Senior Software Engineer
CLAM Associates, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 3 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
PC Connection
(Public Company; Retail industry)
October 1998 — March 1999 (6 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
WordStock, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — September 1998 (7 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Liberty Mutual Group
(Insurance industry)
October 1997 — March 1998 (6 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Cognition Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
April 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 6 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Company
(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)
March 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 10 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
CIBA-CORNING Diagnostics
(Medical Devices industry)
September 1992 — February 1993 (6 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Interbase Software Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
March 1988 — March 1992 (4 years 1 month)
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Senior Software Engineer
Software Innovations, Inc.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
August 1986 — February 1988 (1 year 7 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
December 1980 — July 1986 (5 years 8 months)
The design and implementation of distributed factory-automation, office-automation, and network management software using VAX/VMS, VAX C, VAX Pascal, VAX BASIC, VAX PL/I, and VAX Rdb and Datatrieve.
DECnet installations, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
The design and writing of training materials for, and presentation of, a one-week course to support a large, distributed factory-automation system. Presentation of one- and two-week courses in Network Troubleshooting and DECnet-VAX Support.
Occasional supervision and account management. -
Senior Software Engineer
Hendrix Electronics Incorporated
(Computer Hardware industry)
April 1978 — November 1980 (2 years 8 months)
The design and implementation of text-composition software, and event logger and retrieval utility, and an automatic regression test generator for a command-language interpreter for a large newspaper publishing system, using SAIL and MACRO-10 assembler on TOPS-10.
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Senior Software Engineer
Iotron Corporation
(Computer Hardware industry)
September 1977 — February 1978 (6 months)
Maintened and implemented new features in, an in-harbor navigation system for large tankers, using assembly language on the Lockheed DP/16.
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Senior Software Engineer
The Boston Systems Office, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
September 1976 — August 1977 (1 year )
Designed and implemented a cross assembler for the Rockwell PPS-8 microprocessor, written in MACRO-10 assembler.
Designed and implemented an SPR system using IMARS, an early relational database package, on TOPS-10. -
Contract Computer Programmer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Biotechnology industry)
May 1975 — August 1975 (4 months)
Designed and implemented signal-processing routines used in medical research, written in Data General Nova assembly language.
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Contract Computer Programmer
Marine Biological Laboratories
(Research industry)
February 1975 — May 1975 (4 months)
Instructed marine scientists in the use and programming of the DG Nova computer and its cassette-based operating system.
Design and implementated a graphic subroutine package written in PDP-8 FOCAL. -
Computer Programmer
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(Research industry)
January 1973 — April 1975 (2 years 4 months)
Designed and implementated hardware interface and diagnostic routines used in acoustic marine research, written in Data General Nova assembly language.
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Computer Operator
General Housewares, Inc.
(Wholesale industry)
August 1972 — December 1972 (5 months)
Sole responsibility for the nightly operations of an IBM 360/20:
Ran programs, edited command cards, distributed reports, ran backups, removed backup disks to offsite location.
Kenn Goutal’s Education
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Rivier College
Computer Science 1983 — 1984
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Linguistics and Computer Programming 1975 — 1976
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Gordon College
1969 — 1972
Additional Information
Kenn Goutal’s Websites:
Kenn Goutal’s Interests:
digital & film 35mm photography; medium-format film photography; software photo editing; computer software engineering; artificial intelligence; cellular automata; history; old vehicles; speculative fiction; mystery fiction, especially "cozies"; usage, history, and etymology of English; calligraphy; printing and typography
Kenn Goutal’s Groups:
PPA -- Professional Photographers of America
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Linking Nikon ® D-SLR Camera Users -
Social Media For Start Ups
Kenn Goutal’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- business deals
- reference requests
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