bill pierce

1st Lt developed the Population Assessment program (POPA) and the Route Assessment Program Interface (RAPI) for a global thermonuclear war game in COBOL. Served as a system administrator on 2 WWCCMS systems analyzing system crash dumps and developed software to declassify a system, dump the contents of memory to magnetic tape, convert a memory dump tape to standard dump format, and checkpoint a user's program to disk.

I worked for SAIC for 36.5 years. During that time I worked as a hardware engineer designing custom electronics for the Army and NASA. I also designed custom products which SAIC sold to U.S. nuclear power plants. I worked as a software engineer also for the Army and NASA and numerous nuclear power plants. For the Army I wrote programs to monitor the quality of ammunition. monitor Link-16 military network traffic. I was the software technical lead for the robotic work cells at NASA's Solid Rocket Refurbishment Facility at Kennedy Space Center. I was also software lead for modernization projects for 3 NASA Ames wind tunnels. I co-designed SAIC's initial nuclear power plant monitoring system and later I redesigned the data acquisition sub-system. I managed projects supplying technical support to NASA and a custom data multiplexer to Kentron International on Kwajalein for the Pacific Missile Range.

I designed 3 custom interface cards, 1 analog and 2 digital, for Rolls-Royce Plant Automation & Monitoring in Huntsville, AL. I did the printed circuit card layout for the analog card and 1 of the digital cards. I also designed some circuit prototype cards, did the PCB layout and then assembled and tested the circuits.

Activities and Societies: Chorus and Biology Lab Assistant

Activities and Societies: V.P. Men's Residence Halls Co-Chair of the Joint Residence Hall Committee Programmer & System Administrator at the Computer Center