Paul L. Gavin - Colorado Springs

I am a committed Christian and family man. Married for 38 years, my wife and I have five children and nine grand-children. We worship at New Life Church in Colorado Springs and are occasionally active in the World Prayer Team. For more information about me, see my personal information page.

Read the Uncompahgre Trail (no frames version), a historical account of one of the early pioneer families to settle Western Colorado. My daughter, Angel, transcribed this historical account of the States and Castle families in Delta County Colorado and now I have made it available on the web.

My adoptive ancestors were Colorado pioneers as well. My adoptive mother's family settled in the Southern part of Colorado initially. She told stories of riding the Galloping-Goose, as a school-girl, from Ophir to Telluride. A fews years agao I searched for and found my birth-family, I have posted my story here.

Currently working as a software engineer at Atmel Corporation, I maintain and support manufacturing systems in Colorado Springs, Germany and Switzerland. Before Atmel, I worked as an independent consultant and contractor based in Colorado Springs Colorado. I have provided consulting services and numerous projects in a variety of computer disciplines, some of my areas of technical expertise are:

Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP based e-commerce
Relational and CODASYL database expertise
Microsoft Visual Basic, VBA, .Net and Access development
Internet/Intranet transaction processing
Web pages (HTML and ASP), CGI modules and interfaces
VAX TDMS to DECforms conversions
DECforms to Visual Basic redevelopment
OpenVMS applications, tools, solutions and migrations
Migration of legacy systems, right-sizing
ACMS, VAX BASIC, DEC BASIC, DECforms, C, COBOL, DIBOL, DBL, Training, Consulting
Here is my resume

...Digital Equipment Corporation (see Smithsonian, Timeline, or History)

A company of FIRSTS 

1964 First 'core' memory patent
1965 First computer on ARPANET (Internet)
1965 First 'real' mini-computer
1970 First version of UNIX runs on PDP-7
1977 First 'Computer' company on ARPANET (Internet)
1983 First CLUSTER
     10,000 employees have EMAIL 
1991 Desk-size VAX 4500 outperforms room-size IBM 3090
1991 First Internet tunnel product
1992 First 64-bit server
1998 Palmer sells out to COMPAQ

...not so famous quote:

   "The computer's memory is like a desk;
    the smaller the desk, the less work you can get done. 
    This is because you have to shuffle things on and off
    your desk.  Now if you have a bigger desk, you don't 
    have to shuffle as much and can get work done more
    efficiently."

          Kelly Kramer, Montrose, Colorado, USA, 1981

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