User:Al Mac

Introduction to who I am.

This will be brief to minimize foot in mouth.

http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac

This photo of me is a bit dated.

Trainee Testing Area

This is a test of the addition of user name to a comment : Al Mac

My interests outside of Professional 400

I am semi-active on several discussion groups such as:

• BPCS_L;
• Yahoo's RFF TYR e-com-sec and others

A few years ago my employer found it neccessary to offer me either a severance package in a down market for other jobs, or switch from full time to part time worker. I opted to keep as much of my job as they were willing to let me have.

Prior to this, I had been active in MIDRANGE_L and other midrange.com lists, but did a bit of a reassessment to shift time to spending more on self-education about the larger computer world.

When 9/11 occurred it was a shock but not a surprise, that shifted my priorities on what I thought I should be doing from a e-civic perspective. I spent some time trying to draft suggestions to help the gov clean up its security act, and after lots of frustration there, began to drift back to what had been big interests for me prior to 9/11, such as general computer security.

Resume type data

For those peers who have an interest in

• Who is this guy
• What are his qualifications

Contemporary Reality

I currently work at [http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com/ GWT] in Evansville Indiana, and am a member of the AS/400 user group there = STAR BASE or *BASE

My employer is a manufacture of wiring harnesses whose ERP is BPCS.