Kenn Goutal

Kenn Goutal

Owner, Kenn Goutal Photography; Computer Software Consultant

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Owner at Kenn Goutal Photography
  • Independent Computer Software Professional at self
Past
  • Senior Software Engineer at Availant, Inc.
  • Senior Software Engineer at CLAM Associates, Inc.
  • Senior Software Engineer at PC Connection
Education
  • Rivier College
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Gordon College
Connections
60 connections
Industry
Photography
Websites

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

  • Owner

    Kenn Goutal Photography

    (Computer Software industry)

    May 2004Present (5 years 7 months)

  • Independent Computer Software Professional

    self

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 2002Present (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)

    20002001 (1 year )

  • Senior Software Engineer

    CLAM Associates, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    October 1999December 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    PC Connection

    (Public Company; Retail industry)

    October 1998March 1999 (6 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    WordStock, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 1998September 1998 (7 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Liberty Mutual Group

    (Insurance industry)

    October 1997March 1998 (6 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Cognition Corporation

    (Computer Software industry)

    April 1996September 1997 (1 year 6 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Hewlett-Packard Company

    (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

    March 1993December 1995 (2 years 10 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    CIBA-CORNING Diagnostics

    (Medical Devices industry)

    September 1992February 1993 (6 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Interbase Software Corporation

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 1988March 1992 (4 years 1 month)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Software Innovations, Inc.

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    August 1986February 1988 (1 year 7 months)

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Digital Equipment Corporation

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    December 1980July 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 1978November 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.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Iotron Corporation

    (Computer Hardware industry)

    September 1977February 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.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    The Boston Systems Office, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 1976August 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 1975August 1975 (4 months)

    Designed and implemented signal-processing routines used in medical research, written in Data General Nova assembly language.

  • Contract Computer Programmer

    Marine Biological Laboratories

    (Research industry)

    February 1975May 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 1973April 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.

  • Computer Operator

    General Housewares, Inc.

    (Wholesale industry)

    August 1972December 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

  • Rivier College

    Computer Science 19831984

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    Linguistics and Computer Programming 19751976

  • Gordon College

    19691972


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

  •    Linking Nikon ® D-SLR Camera Users
  •    Social Media For Start Ups

Kenn Goutal’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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