Ralph Katz

Computer Consultant

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- Certified Enterprise Integrator, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

- Certified Engineering Manager, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

- Engineering Management Certification Fundamentals, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

I wrote my first computer program in 1969. In Fortran IV, it calculated and printed all the paired primes from 1 to 100. Oak Park High School sent the coding sheets to Wayne State University, where they were keypunched and processed. The program ran correctly on the first try.

In a varied career, I have worked mostly for engineering companies. A stint at the University of Michigan told me I had little affinity for research. For a year I scrambled, building theatrical scenery, working in factories, and doing data entry. Then Manpower sent me to Bechtel as clerk on a 4-week temporary assignment. When Bechtel left town 14 years later, I was a Senior Programmer Analyst and one of the last employees released, after the phone PBX and computer systems were moved to Chicago.

Since 1991, I have been a contract employee at Chrysler Corp/DaimlerChrysler/Chrysler LLC, as a Programmer Analyst until 1997, and since then as a Network Analyst in a metal stamping plant. The three of us support our copper, fiber and wireless network. We keep tabs on hundreds of applications, and about a thousand users. Good thing that there are still good, domestic support people to back us up. In addition, I am the shop-floor connectivity go-to guy: DataHighway Plus (DH+ - similar to midi), ControlNet/DeviceNet, RS422/485, TCP/IP, RoboNet, etc.

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